top 50% 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

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/

2 months ago

Has W Social switched to closed source?

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

2 months ago

15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/17/business/lyme-disease-tick-test/

2 months ago

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/17/hpv-jabs-reduce-risk-dying-cervical-cancer-before-30-zero-study-finds

2 months ago

Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts

https://gerrymandle.cc/

2 months ago

What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html

2 months ago

SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/697641379212298072

2 months ago

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/

2 months ago

Usbliter8 an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit

https://ps.tc/pages/blog-usbliter8.html

2 months ago

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/

2 months ago

Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

https://www.realtor.com/advice/rent/wages-in-america-are-too-low-for-the-30-rule-to-work-for-renters-anymore/

2 months ago

I Hate Compilers

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-wasm-vendor-binary/

2 months ago

I Play Video Games with Spinal Muscular Atrophy

https://www.openassistivetech.org/how-i-actually-play-video-games-with-sma-the-tools-i-use-every-day/

2 months ago

The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion

https://www.acma.gov.au/sms-sender-id-register

2 months ago

I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

https://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?p=1725

2 months ago

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/

2 months ago

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wyxvqdx1zo

2 months ago

Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

https://rednafi.com/misc/chezmoi/

2 months ago

Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative

https://www.nsf.gov/news/update-ocean-observatories-initiative

2 months ago

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

https://tester.army

2 months ago

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits

2 months ago

Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb

https://www.wired.me/story/commodore-made-a-digital-detox-phone-that-isnt-dumb

2 months ago

Excessive nil pointer checks in Go

https://konradreiche.com/blog/excessive-nil-pointer-checks-in-go/

2 months ago

The AI Hate Progression

https://www.xodium.net/2026/06/the-ai-hate-progression.html

2 months ago

ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery

https://mindgard.ai/blog/chatgpt-spontaneously-generated-violent-images-from-a-viral-prompt

2 months ago

Migrate from OpenClaw

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw

2 months ago

The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

https://mroczek.dev/articles/the-token-compression-illusion-why-im-skeptical-of-rtk/

2 months ago

We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/agent-memory-elasticsearch

2 months ago

TerraPower in Deal with Meta for Eight Natrium 345 MW Advanced Nuclear Plants

https://neutronbytes.com/2026/01/09/terrapower-in-mega-deal-with-meta-for-eight-natrium-345-mw-advanced-nuclear-plants/

2 months ago

Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4

2 months ago

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

https://github.com/cajal-technologies/talos

2 months ago

★ 130 Lean AGPL-3.0

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfect-shuffles-randomize-a-deck-of-cards-but-how-many-sloppy-ones-20260617/

2 months ago

Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582679

2 months ago

Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math

https://www.devashish.me/p/two-qwen3-models-on-one-dgx-spark

2 months ago

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2#update

2 months ago

The Harajuku Moment

https://tim.blog/2024/02/09/harajuku-moment/

2 months ago

Midjourney Ultrasonic CT Scanner

https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

2 months ago

Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

https://conf.nim-lang.org/

2 months ago

Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?

https://yoebuild.org/blog/time-for-a-new-build-system/

2 months ago

TypeScript 7.0 RC

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/

2 months ago

Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/trump-surrenders-to-iran-on-virtually-every-point/

2 months ago

Wiki Spy

https://neal.fun/wiki-spy/

2 months ago