top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-20

Help I Accidentally a Wigglegram

https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/

2 months ago

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe

2 months ago

★ 1.2k Swift

CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/

2 months ago

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/

2 months ago

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9

2 months ago

Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/

2 months ago

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels

2 months ago

Not just books: renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland

2 months ago

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-11s-new-media-player-uses-35x-more-ram-charges-for-popular-video

2 months ago

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/

2 months ago

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vpn-ban-update-uk-households-34141063

2 months ago

Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy

2 months ago

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-community

2 months ago

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html

2 months ago

Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/

2 months ago

22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/handwritten-notebook-discovered-major-paris/

2 months ago

Epoll vs. Io_uring in Linux

https://sibexi.co/posts/epoll-vs-io_uring/

2 months ago

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/

2 months ago

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

https://startupwiki.tech/

2 months ago

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/

2 months ago

Hey, N00B, We Didn't Hire You to Complete Tasks

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete

2 months ago

Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of 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

Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/quaise-energy-achieves-100-meters-of-drilling-using-millimeter-wave-technology/

2 months ago

Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71619211/peter-thiel-dialog-club-wired-report/

2 months ago

LLMs Are Complicated Now

https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/

2 months ago

Pre-2022 Books

https://notes.lorenzogravina.com/musings/pre-2022-books

2 months ago

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine

https://glyphcss.com

2 months ago

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260617032207.htm

2 months ago

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

2 months ago

Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

https://the-criterion-closet.vercel.app

2 months ago

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellite-reveals-immense-scale-of-gps-signal-tampering

2 months ago

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-air-crash-at-age-69

2 months ago

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-will-reinstate-memory-encryption-on-ryzen-9000-cpus-through-a-bios-update-in-july-tsme-is-coming-back-after-valuable-community-feedback

2 months ago

Memory Safe Inline Assembly

https://fil-c.org/inlineasm

2 months ago

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

https://dirtylittlezine.com/

2 months ago

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/

2 months ago

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559

2 months ago

How to Feed a Dictator

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film

2 months ago

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

https://github.com/overflowy/make-look-scanned

2 months ago

★ 432 Go AGPL-3.0

Alice. Alice Is Impatient

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html

2 months ago

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/pull/249

2 months ago

★ 112 JavaScript

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/03/supermarket-giant-tesco-sues-vmware-for-breach-of-contract/1420651

2 months ago

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2965205/lithuanian-startup-launches-open-source-network-to-detect-shahed-type-drones

2 months ago

Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology

https://blog.hydroponictrash.solar/cyberdecks-going-analog-and-convivial-technology/

2 months ago

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

https://bootimus.com

2 months ago

Lisp in the Rust Type System

https://github.com/playX18/lisp-in-types/

2 months ago

★ 50 Rust MIT

Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

https://minipcs.zip

2 months ago

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgresbench

2 months ago

Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

https://media-centre.canyon.com/en-INT/266866-new-canyon-heads-up-display-helmet-could-be-a-safety-gamechanger-for-road-riding/

2 months ago

The European Social Stack

https://european.social

2 months ago

Efficient C++ Programming for Modern C++ CPUs, Chapter 4/part 2

https://6it.dev/blog/infographics-operation-costs-in-cpu-clock-cycles-take-2-80736

2 months ago

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/ember-hackernews

2 months ago

★ 123 Swift MIT

Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

https://abcnews.com/US/tesla-allegedly-autopilot-mode-crashes-texas-house-woman/story?id=134062374

2 months ago

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

https://www.argusred.com/cli

2 months ago

Epidurals Are a Miracle Technology

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wonder-of-epidurals/

2 months ago

Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon

2 months ago

Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios

https://vawaa.com/

2 months ago

US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-scientist-john-jumper-leave-google-deepmind-anthropic-2026-06-19/

2 months ago

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

https://mitchivin.com/

2 months ago

A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M

https://investors.zillowgroup.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2026/A-record-242-US-cities-now-have-starter-homes-that-cost-1M/default.aspx

2 months ago

Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?

https://dancemagazine.com/pointe-shoe-innovation/

2 months ago

Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?

https://www.ft.com/content/0f3e33d2-0b9e-481d-a911-245d8cc01a9c

2 months ago

How the Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory

https://sebastiangarren.com/2026/06/17/lending-is-meritorious-and-should-be-praised-how-the-fifth-lateran-council-unlocked-financial-theory/

2 months ago

François Englert (1932 – 2026)

https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/

2 months ago

Big Tech is borrowing like never before

https://startupfortune.com/big-tech-is-borrowing-like-never-before-and-the-fed-just-made-that-a-lot-more-expensive/

2 months ago