top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-25

A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll

1 month ago

Om Malik, 1966-2026

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

1 month ago

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet

1 month ago

Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more

https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipad-more/

1 month ago

Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

https://hackernewstrends.com

1 month ago

Half-Life 2 in a Browser

https://hl2.slqnt.dev/

1 month ago

Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ford-has-been-rehiring-quality-inspectors-after-ai-fell-short

1 month ago

You didn't vibe code it, you stole it from open source&enterprise-licensed code

https://twitter.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095

1 month ago

LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/23/lastpass-notifies-users-of-yet-another-data-breach/

1 month ago

IBM Debuts First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology

1 month ago

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

https://blog.cloudflare.com/oauth-for-all/

2 months ago

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open-source alternative to Obsidian/Notion

https://openknowledge.ai/

1 month ago

★ 1.7k TypeScript GPL-3.0

Apple to Skip High-End M6 Mac Chips in Favor of AI-Focused M7 Line

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articlehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-m7-pro-m7-max-m7-ultra-instead

1 month ago

Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/state-mass-surveillance

1 month ago

Zig's New BitCast Semantics and LLVM Back End Improvements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25

1 month ago

OS9Map

https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/

1 month ago

Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%

https://www.ft.com/content/0f067265-2baf-4b6e-8fb2-ed56daef6f3c

1 month ago

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more-year-of-support-and-updates/

1 month ago

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

https://thomasdullien.github.io/guides/entrepreneurship/

1 month ago

Why Dark Sky Lighting?

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting

1 month ago

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus-swept-through-base/

1 month ago

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

https://gchandbook.org/

1 month ago

The Doorman's Fallacy in Action

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/17

1 month ago

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1475

2 months ago

★ 5.6k C

Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/06/25/dolphin-progress-report-release-2606/

1 month ago

Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/federal-agents-track-down-syracuse-woman-demand-she-remove-instagram-post-about-ice.html

1 month ago

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

https://www.fosslinux.com/158206/linux-on-older-hardware-revival-guide.htm

2 months ago

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/boeing-747-retirement/687304/

1 month ago

The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/06/25/the-unbearable-cheapness-of-open-weight-models/

2 months ago

Ending All Respiratory Infections

https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infections

2 months ago

1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/15/1-bit-pixel-art-emojis/

1 month ago

Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition

https://utaw.tech/news/wikipedia-recognition

1 month ago

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/

1 month ago

Model Training as Code

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/model-training-as-code/

1 month ago

The BBC switches off its oldest service

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/06/25/the-bbc-switches-off-its-oldest-service

1 month ago

Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

https://www.science.org/content/article/medical-students-are-using-popular-research-tool-pump-out-misleading-studies

2 months ago

OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intelligence.html

1 month ago

Where every major LLM stands politically

https://trakkr.ai/bias

1 month ago

The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II

https://www.flutetunes.com/articles/my-flute-goes-to-war/

1 month ago

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html

1 month ago

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/21/zombie-unicorns-are-haunting-silicon-valley

2 months ago

Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668199

2 months ago

Bible as RAG Database

https://www.crosscanon.com/

2 months ago

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

https://blog.cloudflare.com/hyper-bug/

1 month ago

Deno 2.9

https://deno.com/blog/v2.9

1 month ago

Parallel Parentheses Matching

https://williamdue.github.io/blog/parallel-parentheses-matching

1 month ago

Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673194

1 month ago

Build Yourself Flowers

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/04/20/build-yourself-flowers/

1 month ago

Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?

https://devz.cl/posts/do-babies-dream-of-electric-sheep/

1 month ago

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/23/regex-everywhere/

1 month ago

Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-26

1 month ago

Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice

https://lingochunk.com/try

1 month ago

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

https://www.nijho.lt/post/proxmox-to-nixos/

1 month ago

The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming

https://thomaswc.com/blog/the_return_of_aop.html

1 month ago

Why Does Everyone Hate AI?

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-everyone-hate-ai

1 month ago

A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time

https://petapixel.com/2026/06/24/a-special-wireless-free-nikon-camera-is-publicly-available-for-the-first-time/

2 months ago

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15855

2 months ago

Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673801

1 month ago

OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government

https://velo.xyz/news/1908

1 month ago

Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-physicists-track-and-trap-the-elusive-neutrino-20260624/

1 month ago

Bringing Swift to the Apple ][

https://yeokhengmeng.com/2026/06/swift-on-apple-ii/

1 month ago

SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf]

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

1 month ago