top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-22

Steam Machine

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine

2 months ago

Deno Desktop

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/

2 months ago

Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation

https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation-2026

2 months ago

Never Give Them Your Face

https://nevergivethemyourface.com/

2 months ago

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track

2 months ago

Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2

2 months ago

Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509

2 months ago

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/

2 months ago

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224

2 months ago

★ 94.3k Rust Apache-2.0

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

https://explorer.oxide.computer/

2 months ago

Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

https://xcancel.com/LarsAnders1620/status/2068208864747540516#m

2 months ago

Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking

https://patrickmccanna.net/the-text-in-claude-codes-extended-thinking-output-is-not-authentic/

2 months ago

Jobs and Software Is Fucked

https://urflow.bearblog.dev/jobs-and-software-is-fucked/

2 months ago

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/

2 months ago

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

2 months ago

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

https://puzzlelair.com/

2 months ago

Sakana Fugu

https://sakana.ai/fugu/

2 months ago

Dostoyevsky Isn't Difficult

https://www.autodidacts.io/dostoyevsky-isnt-difficult/

2 months ago

Alan Greenspan Dies at 100; Led Fed During Boom Before 2008 Bust

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/alan-greenspan-dies-at-100-led-fed-during-boom-before-2008-bust

2 months ago

Rhombus version 1.0 is now available

https://racket.discourse.group/t/rhombus-version-1-0-is-now-available/4292

2 months ago

Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers

2 months ago

A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works

https://role-confusion.github.io

2 months ago

A Man Was Gifted His Dream Car by the Notorious Hacker He Put in Prison

https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-man-was-gifted-his-dream-car-by-the-notorious-hacker-he-put-in-prison

2 months ago

Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components

https://github.com/dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero

2 months ago

★ 596 Python

Mexico Just Showed Off a New Cheap, Government-Backed EV

https://gizmodo.com/mexico-just-showed-off-a-new-extremely-cheap-government-backed-ev-2000769080

2 months ago

Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways

https://oak.space/blog

2 months ago

Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/CWR

2 months ago

★ 691 C++

Japanese symbols that speak without words

https://arun.is/blog/japan-symbols/

2 months ago

Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

https://www.monolisa.dev/

2 months ago

Job application asked for my SAT scores

https://mrmarket.lol/job-application-asked-for-my-sat-scores/

2 months ago

National Science Foundation slashes basic science to fund new tech initiative

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-slashes-research-programs-support-new-tech-initiative-insiders-say

2 months ago

Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2026/q2/chevron-signs-20-year-power-agreement-with-microsoft-for-west-texas-data-center

2 months ago

Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/22/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-even-retro-ram-prices-are-going-to-the-moon/5259627

2 months ago

The Doom Justifies the Valuation

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/06/21/the-doom-justifies-the-valuation.html

2 months ago

British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/british-columbia-and-time-zone-changes

2 months ago

ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs

https://xenodium.com/ytr-youtube-radio-for-emacs

2 months ago

Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-06-19-best-dog-treat.html

2 months ago

Statistics that live in your SQL

https://kolistat.com/blog/the-stats-duck-v0-6-0/

2 months ago

Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5hC3PY1Yg

2 months ago

DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships

https://www.wsj.com/pro/sustainable-business/dhl-set-to-transport-goods-on-new-wind-powered-cargo-ships-eca5d5a0

2 months ago

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029767/

2 months ago

The last Romans are still around

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/

2 months ago

Bipartite Matching Is in NC

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9851

2 months ago

Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-training-data-leak-exposed-employee-activity-across-company-2026-6

2 months ago

Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

https://manualdousuario.net/en/smart-glasses-ugly-tacky/

2 months ago

DisplayMate

https://www.displaymate.com/

2 months ago

Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

https://www.patrickdomanico.com/bpm/2026/06/16/inventing-the-future-one-lisp-machine-at-a-time/

2 months ago

window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world

https://steveharrison.dev/showdirectorypicker-opens-up-a-whole-new-world/

2 months ago

Becoming a dad changes men's brains

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-becoming-a-dad-changes-mens-brains/

2 months ago

Why eval startups fail (2025)

https://thomasliao.com/eval-startups

2 months ago

Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/investors-get-real-time-view-uk-bond-market-activity-first-time

2 months ago

Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking

https://pete.design/tw-fade

2 months ago

Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

https://svpow.com/2026/06/04/genuinely-my-all-time-favourite-image-mamenchisaurus-hochuanensis/

2 months ago

Blogger Defeats Photographer's Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm vs. Messiah

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/06/blogger-defeats-photographers-copyright-claim-sokolskyfilm-v-messiah.htm

2 months ago

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451

2 months ago

Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression

https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/hellishly-slow-level-13-deflate-compression/

2 months ago

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

https://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html

2 months ago

Doing a masters while working in Spain

https://jan-herlyn.com/blog/doing-a-masters-while-working/

2 months ago

Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6HxPkrgcg

2 months ago

Nvidia Halos

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-trust-center/halos/autonomous-vehicles/

2 months ago

Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09498

2 months ago

The annotated PyTorch training loop

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/pytorch-training-loop

2 months ago

1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone

https://www.oldtelephoneroom.ca/1983-northern-telecom-commodore-phone/

2 months ago

Rhombus v1.0

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/06/rhombus-v1.0.html

2 months ago

You're probably using Agent Skills wrong

https://notes.ansonbiggs.com/youre-probably-using-agent-skills-wrong/

2 months ago

AI Has Already Killed Academia as We Know It

https://truths-and-loves.ghost.io/ai-has-already-killed-academia-as-we-know-it/

2 months ago

One Year with Codeberg

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/one-year-with-codeberg/

2 months ago

Chinas War on Female Delusion

https://mamathemagazine.com/chinas-war-on-female-delusion/

2 months ago