top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-19

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics, Atlas humanoid to be used at vehicle plant by 2028

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/

2 months ago

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/

2 months ago

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a

2 months ago

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/

2 months ago

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html

2 months ago

There Are No Instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/

2 months ago

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free

2 months ago

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/

2 months ago

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll

2 months ago

Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle

https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/linear-a/

2 months ago

My Mathematical Regression

https://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/

2 months ago

A New Bill Takes Aim at Government Pressure to Silence Lawful Online Speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech

2 months ago

Plotnine

https://plotnine.org/

2 months ago

Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/

2 months ago

The room the economy can't see

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/19/the-room-the-economy-cant-see/

2 months ago

Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk

2 months ago

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

2 months ago

Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-boom-roots-munich-1991.html

2 months ago

Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/06/18/1845

2 months ago

Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/giant-banana-pulled-over-in-montana-driver-says-cops-have-stopped-him-100s-of-times/

2 months ago