top 50% 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

Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/sam-altman-biopic-amazon-openai-deal-b2999321.html

2 months ago

Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885

2 months ago

John Jumper leaves Google to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106

2 months ago

Let's Encrypt has been down most of today

https://letsencrypt.status.io/#2026

2 months ago

Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html

2 months ago

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/

2 months ago

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604232

2 months ago

Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

https://eandt.theiet.org/2026/06/18/norway-greenlights-world-s-first-full-scale-ship-tunnel

2 months ago

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris

2 months ago

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/

2 months ago

Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157571/Iran-imposes-mandatory-insurance-on-ships-transiting-Strait-of-Hormuz-with-fees-likely-to-follow

2 months ago

Samsung Demonstrates 3D Stacked FETs with Triple Nanosheet Channels at 42nm

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/news-events/tech-blog/from-gaa-to-3d-stacked-fet-expanding-the-transistor-into-the-third-dimension/

2 months ago

Proportion-Integral-Derivative Controllers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

2 months ago

'We created a monster': companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

https://www.ft.com/content/1d37cc08-e0aa-45a4-a45d-4ad282529314

2 months ago

Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic

2 months ago

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?

https://natkr.com/2026-06-19-nixos-but-smol/

2 months ago

Pull request limits are cutting down the noise

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request-limits-are-cutting-down-the-noise/

2 months ago

Windows NT for GameCube/Wii

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

2 months ago

★ 790 C GPL-2.0

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

https://blog.plover.com/prog/fortran-i.html

2 months ago

The UK's New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents

2 months ago

An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

2 months ago

★ 475 Assembly CC0-1.0

Fable Converted Pylint to Rust

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/

2 months ago

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed

2 months ago

Leave a Trace

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/leave-a-trace

2 months ago

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife

2 months ago

Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored

https://github.com/wolfoo2931/linkedrecords/

2 months ago

★ 59 TypeScript MIT

EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Report-EU-to-soon-classify-AWS-and-Azure-as-gatekeepers-under-DSA-11337873.html

2 months ago

Apple A12 and A13 Chips: New Unpatchable Exploit

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/18/a12-and-a13-chips-facing-exploit/

2 months ago