top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-23

Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/

2 months ago

Fired by Google for Creating the Google Workspace CLI

https://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602

2 months ago

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

https://swipe.futo.tech/

2 months ago

F3

https://github.com/future-file-format/f3

2 months ago

★ 730 Rust MIT

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

Jerry's Map

http://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map

2 months ago

Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-targeted-gaza-children-resulting-genocide-un-inquiry-says-2026-06-23/

2 months ago

Mistral OCR 4

https://mistral.ai/news/ocr-4/

2 months ago

Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing

https://github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR

2 months ago

★ 12.3k Python MIT

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

https://tikz.dev/editor/

2 months ago

The Coming Loop

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/

2 months ago

Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/bad_place_2026/

2 months ago

Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/extreme-heat-improving-governance-and-strengthening-action-around-the-world/

2 months ago

Krea 2 Technical Report

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report

2 months ago

VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140

2 months ago

Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/

2 months ago

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

https://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/

2 months ago

Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS introduces MicroVMs

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-introduces-microvms/

2 months ago

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os

2 months ago

★ 2.5k Python GPL-3.0

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-open

2 months ago

AI's Affordability Crisis

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html

2 months ago

MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

2 months ago

Will It Mythos?

https://swelljoe.com/post/will-it-mythos/

2 months ago

California AB 2047 makes 3d printers off-limits to students, educators, business

https://www.the3dprintingnerd.com/ab2047

2 months ago

Claude Tag

https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-tag

2 months ago

In Praise of Memcached

https://jchri.st/blog/in-praise-of-memcached/

2 months ago

1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

2 months ago

Swift Package Index Joins Apple

https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple

2 months ago

Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/currencies/articles/ecb-secures-key-parliamentary-backing-102718449.html

2 months ago

OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber

https://openai.com/index/daybreak-securing-the-world/

2 months ago

The new HTTP QUERY method explained

https://kreya.app/blog/new-http-query-method-explained/

2 months ago

My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/my-steam-machine-is-a-50ft-hdmi-cable/

2 months ago

Elevated error rate across multiple models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/jbhf20wjmzrf

2 months ago

75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

https://www.thedrive.com/news/75-more-pedestrians-have-been-killed-since-2009-giant-trucks-and-suvs-are-why

2 months ago

Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

2 months ago

I built a GPU back end for Emacs

https://en.andros.dev/blog/4b707a03/how-i-built-a-gpu-backend-for-emacs/

2 months ago

Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them

https://milek7.pl/mailverifyspam/

2 months ago

German Rail Service Suspended Due to Radio Interference

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/german-rail-service-suspended-due-to-radio-interference-li.3295297

2 months ago

Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/polymarkets-viral-videos-showed-people-winning-big-but-the-bets-were-fake/

2 months ago

Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger

2 months ago

The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring

https://nega.tv/posts/low-tech-ai-of-elden-ring.html

2 months ago

San Diego Photologs from the 1970s

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-photologs-from-the-1970s/

2 months ago

AI Hiring Tools Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection; 26% Black & 15% Asian

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection

2 months ago

Underarm Bowling Incident of 1981

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_of_1981

2 months ago

Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs

https://github.com/decrazyo/anes

2 months ago

★ 94 GPL-3.0

Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines

https://werd.io/signs-youre-a-dangerous-terrorist-using-signal-moving-zines/

2 months ago

Apple Is Going to Raise Device Prices – But When?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/22/apple-device-prices-when

2 months ago

Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion

https://markdy.com

2 months ago

Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild

https://lift4d.github.io/

2 months ago

LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

https://www.swiftlatex.com/

2 months ago

New satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/a-us-military-exercise-in-space-got-underway-with-barely-anyone-noticing/

2 months ago

United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB

https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/2026-06-23-we-have-a-union

2 months ago

The truth about being a manager

https://sofiakodar.github.io/posts/becomingmanager/

2 months ago

Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644463

2 months ago

Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gy0x0j5deo

2 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg directed meta to create a prediction markets app

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/meta-prediction-markets-app.html

2 months ago

An Introduction to YOLO26

https://blog.roboflow.com/yolo26/

2 months ago

FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works

https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/2.7-FEXPR-vs.-vtable

2 months ago

★ 603 C

AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

https://www.lwilko.com/blog/i-gave-an-ai-a-civilization

2 months ago

Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web

https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/

2 months ago

Show HN: Neural Particle Automata

https://selforg-npa.github.io/

2 months ago

Prairieland Defendants Sentenced Today to Prison Terms Ranging from 30-100 Years

https://prairielanddefendants.com/press-release/eight-federal-prairieland-defendants-sentenced-today-to-prison-terms-ranging-from-30-100-years-for-common-protest-activity/

2 months ago

The "Bizarre Headgear" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum Is Incredible

https://svpow.com/2026/05/15/the-bizarre-headgear-exhibit-at-the-sam-noble-museum-is-incredible/

2 months ago

Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641160

2 months ago

Record type inference for dummies

http://haskellforall.com/2026/06/record-type-inference-for-dummies

2 months ago

Modern GPU Programming for MLSys

https://mlc.ai/modern-gpu-programming-for-mlsys/

2 months ago