top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-18

Midjourney Medical

https://www.midjourney.com/medical

2 months ago

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/

2 months ago

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/parliament-lifts-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants-3257535.html

2 months ago

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/15/microsofts-new-outlook-takes-10-seconds-to-do-what-outlook-classic-does-instantly-on-windows/

2 months ago

.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git

https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/

2 months ago

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

https://chat.deepseek.com/

2 months ago

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/

2 months ago

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/

2 months ago

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

https://www.intheweights.com/

2 months ago

Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-31-around-the-corner

2 months ago

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-silently-removes-memory-encryption-from-consumer-ryzen-cpus-leaving-users-unaware-that-they-may-be-vulnerable-security-feature-vanishes-after-newer-agesa-firmware-amd-engineers-go-radio-silent-when-pressed-about-the-change

2 months ago

Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/

2 months ago

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect

2 months ago

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

https://www.submission.directory/

2 months ago

The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars

https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/craigslist-multimillionaire-craig-newmark-b2980681.html

2 months ago

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas

2 months ago

Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

https://twitter.com/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297

2 months ago

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

https://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitor

2 months ago

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost

2 months ago

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/

2 months ago