top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-24

We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself

https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/

2 months ago

924 upvotes – 268 comments

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/

2 months ago

829 upvotes – 468 comments

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-illicitly-accessing-its-ai-models

2 months ago

812 upvotes – 1318 comments

Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

https://paolino.me/founding-a-company-in-germany/

2 months ago

608 upvotes – 756 comments

John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247

2 months ago

570 upvotes – 278 comments

Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/

2 months ago

485 upvotes – 429 comments

Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/

2 months ago

466 upvotes – 133 comments

RubyLLM: A single, beautiful Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/

2 months ago

446 upvotes – 82 comments

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/

2 months ago

340 upvotes – 268 comments

Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

https://www.slate.auto/en

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 512 comments

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 187 comments

You can't unit test for taste

https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 141 comments

How the war on terror primed America for autocracy

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/06/02/how-the-war-on-terror-primed-america-for-autocracy

2 months ago

292 upvotes – 287 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub

2 months ago

★ 2.5k Rust MIT
277 upvotes – 80 comments

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn't Even Imagine

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design

2 months ago

272 upvotes – 180 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

https://gitlab.com/baiyibai/pico-usb-wifi

2 months ago

★ 31 MIT
269 upvotes – 132 comments

Stealing Is a Skill

https://ben-mini.com/2026/stealing-is-a-skill

2 months ago

266 upvotes – 152 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw

2 months ago

265 upvotes – 155 comments

NSA Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/nsa-lost-access-anthropic-tool.html

2 months ago

264 upvotes – 285 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-gemini-3-5-flash/

2 months ago

242 upvotes – 168 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases/news-details/2026/Qualcomm-to-Acquire-Modular/default.aspx

2 months ago

239 upvotes – 125 comments

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

https://www.elastic.co/blog/ceo-ash-kulkarni-announcement-to-elastic-employees

2 months ago

237 upvotes – 228 comments

Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/reid-hoffman-spacex-musk-openai-anthropic-gen-z-mistake/

2 months ago

236 upvotes – 270 comments

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X26000476

2 months ago

236 upvotes – 175 comments

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward

https://techstrong.ai/articles/for-most-of-the-world-open-source-ai-is-the-only-way-forward/

2 months ago

235 upvotes – 144 comments

"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

https://gist.github.com/retroplasma/ec21767d0a8380c7ea9c2fbee1c7d6bf

2 months ago

229 upvotes – 105 comments

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116806641273303255

2 months ago

203 upvotes – 82 comments

Thomann takes legal action against Fender

https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inside/thomann-takes-legal-action-against-fender/

2 months ago

203 upvotes – 140 comments

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24597

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 55 comments

A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/deadly-fungus-cats-people-spreading

2 months ago

193 upvotes – 158 comments

Boffin claims Microsoft's "quantum leap" is invalid due to "basic Python errors"

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/5260489

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 56 comments

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 140 comments

I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code

https://posthog.com/blog/sql-parser

2 months ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

Long Island's Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/

2 months ago

151 upvotes – 108 comments

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 1 comments

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

https://edera.dev/stories/numa-part-1-cores-memory-and-the-distance-between-them

2 months ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024)

https://texashighways.com/culture/how-heb-became-texas-most-beloved-brand/

2 months ago

139 upvotes – 109 comments

Minimus container images are now free

https://images.minimus.io/

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

52-hertz whale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale

2 months ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

PostgreSQL Is Enough

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 90 comments

Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition

https://www.cwu.org/press_release/wikipedia-workers-to-seek-union-recognition/

2 months ago

118 upvotes – 281 comments

Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/terrasse-vaudreil-quebec-tree-rights-9.7243634

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 92 comments

Fusion Programming Language

https://fusion-lang.org/

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/04/03/wine-on-astral.html

2 months ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton11-1

2 months ago

★ 14.5k C++
97 upvotes – 47 comments

Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions

https://rworks.dev/posts/too-many-R-packages/

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 83 comments

Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets

https://freedom.press/issues/texas-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-transporting-pamphlets/

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 60 comments

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps

https://eaton-works.com/2026/06/24/jnj-webapp-hacks/

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

https://github.com/DDecoene/WebBaseIII

2 months ago

★ 43 TypeScript AGPL-3.0
96 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbosify-py

2 months ago

★ 185 Python MIT
91 upvotes – 19 comments

I taught a bucket to speak Git

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

https://statusdude.com/blog/zero-downtime-docker-compose

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 75 comments

Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG

https://haystack.deepset.ai/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

How to Get Your First 10 Customers

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/SF-how-to-get-your-first-10-customers

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/24/venezuela-plans-biggest-debt-restructuring-in-history-after-maduros-fall

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 105 comments

European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control

https://www.politico.eu/article/president-vs-parliament-roberta-metsola-overrides-meps-bid-force-child-abuse-law/

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments

Deciphering Basmala

https://blog.plover.com/lang/bismillah.html

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

https://lookaway.com

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage

https://ngrok.com/blog/aol-was-down-1996

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

GTA 6 will cost $80

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrg52egw1ro

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 141 comments

CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years

https://www.browserbase.com/blog/why-captchas-are-getting-harder

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

https://www.modular.com/blog/qualcomm-to-acquire-modular

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 1 comments

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 50 comments

RF Hacking My Cloud-Controlled Ceiling Fan

https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-24-rf-hacking-dreo

2 months ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/mark-zuckerberg-wants-meta-to-launch-its-own-prediction-market/

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments

The Teensy Executable Revisited

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/revisit.html

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/23/ai-stocks-sell-off-us-markets

2 months ago

55 upvotes – 40 comments

How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/youtube-video-proved-libya-sand-cat-exist-aoe

2 months ago

55 upvotes – 6 comments

Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/9a49779b-f9f8-448d-b3d1-737c78455309

2 months ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments
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