top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-17

Epic Games announces Lore version control system

https://lore.org/

2 months ago

1275 upvotes – 680 comments

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

https://wpvip.com/future-of-the-web-2026/

2 months ago

1081 upvotes – 577 comments

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index

2 months ago

912 upvotes – 444 comments

U.S. Science Is in Chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/

2 months ago

881 upvotes – 1106 comments

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3

2 months ago

786 upvotes – 479 comments

Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!

https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars

2 months ago

663 upvotes – 266 comments

Hacker News but for Independent Blogs

https://bubbles.town/

2 months ago

630 upvotes – 219 comments

US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms deemed security risks

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/

2 months ago

537 upvotes – 603 comments

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline

2 months ago

428 upvotes – 213 comments

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

2 months ago

419 upvotes – 176 comments

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vmware-amid-broadcoms-abusive-conduct/

2 months ago

409 upvotes – 280 comments

Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/only-16-percent-of-americans-think-ai-will-have-a-positive-impact-on-society-a-new-study-shows/

2 months ago

399 upvotes – 502 comments

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/

2 months ago

361 upvotes – 4 comments

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/

2 months ago

361 upvotes – 330 comments

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/

2 months ago

332 upvotes – 152 comments

A Robot Is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want It Running on Claude or Grok?

https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/

2 months ago

272 upvotes – 210 comments

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 140 comments

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

https://github.com/rxi/microui

2 months ago

★ 6.4k C MIT
257 upvotes – 87 comments

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook

2 months ago

249 upvotes – 167 comments

How Madrid built its metro cheaply

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/

2 months ago

230 upvotes – 183 comments

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

https://loreline.app/en/

2 months ago

229 upvotes – 53 comments

Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors

https://storiedcolors.com/

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 55 comments

Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn

https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-leaked-financials-altman-compute-burn

2 months ago

221 upvotes – 263 comments

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM

2 months ago

★ 4.6k TypeScript GPL-3.0
212 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

https://cells2pixels.github.io/

2 months ago

208 upvotes – 54 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-26-2

2 months ago

206 upvotes – 111 comments

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=921

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 47 comments

Clojure Hosted on Go

https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure

2 months ago

★ 692 Go EPL-1.0
197 upvotes – 26 comments

Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fable.html

2 months ago

188 upvotes – 205 comments

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

https://arun.is/blog/jr-logo/

2 months ago

187 upvotes – 148 comments

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?

https://www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 248 comments

GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-2

2 months ago

164 upvotes – 48 comments

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

https://www.science.org/content/article/french-physicist-and-media-star-loses-doctorate-after-plagiarism-investigation

2 months ago

144 upvotes – 148 comments

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

https://ghostinthedata.info/posts/2026/2026-06-13-human-connection-moat/

2 months ago

142 upvotes – 123 comments

Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512

https://zeux.io/2026/06/17/zigzag-decoding-avx512/

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 22 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory – IBM

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize

2 months ago

128 upvotes – 52 comments

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

Krugman: Musk, a Human Ponzi Scheme

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-human-ponzi-scheme

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 88 comments

NetNewsWire Status

https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-mythos-safety-nicholas-carlini-20bceaa3

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 117 comments

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

https://github.com/evanklem/polypore

2 months ago

★ 75 TypeScript MIT
95 upvotes – 40 comments

DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/doj-claims-xais-unpermitted-gas-turbines-are-a-matter-of-national-economic-and-energy-security/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

https://brevio.pro

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap

https://stephantul.github.io/blog/unfence/

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-june-2026-results.html

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C

https://github.com/oraziorillo/microcrad

2 months ago

★ 55 C MIT
79 upvotes – 28 comments

The (real) dead economy theory

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pentagon-boasts-of-using-ai-to-write-reports-mandated-by-congress/

2 months ago

78 upvotes – 57 comments

Agentic Resource Discovery Specification

https://agenticresourcediscovery.org/introduction/

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout

https://flickey.site

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14806

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments
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