top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-26

U.S. government will decide who gets to use latest upgrade to ChatGPT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its-latest-ai-model/

1 month ago

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

1 month ago

Open Source Low Tech

https://opensourcelowtech.org/

1 month ago

Incident CVE-2026-LGTM

https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html

1 month ago

The US lifts its block on Mythos 5

https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/2070638481265905837

1 month ago

Om

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

1 month ago

We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme

1 month ago

We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together

https://akrites.org/letter/

1 month ago

Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted?

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted

1 month ago

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speed

1 month ago

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/

1 month ago

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013

1 month ago

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/

1 month ago

Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain

1 month ago

Jolla Phone, Over 13 500 units sold

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026

1 month ago

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm

1 month ago

Libre Barcode Project

https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/

1 month ago

AI children's books, body horror edition

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ai-childrens-books-body-horror-edition

1 month ago

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

https://github.com/workweave/router

1 month ago

★ 719 Go

AI in Mathematics Is Forcing Big Questions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics

1 month ago

'Cost Me the Election': Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash

https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327

1 month ago

Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

https://js13kgames.com/games/q1k3

1 month ago

1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller

https://www.ti.com/product/MSPM0C1104

1 month ago

How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

1 month ago

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/

1 month ago

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me

1 month ago

US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ufo0un/us_govt_to_individually_approve_who_gets_gpt_56/

1 month ago

Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/foreign-funds-help-make-housing-unaffordable/

1 month ago

The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/nps-internal-memo-deaths/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a3dae4f4d2dce00016deef8&utm_content=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

1 month ago

Waveloop: What Fable Left Me

https://neynt.ca/writing/waveloop/

1 month ago

The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition

https://shapeofthesystem.com/posts/2026/02/03/bounded-cognition

1 month ago

The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-industry-is-pouring-hundreds

1 month ago

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for-it/

1 month ago

Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party

https://mastodon.social/@raphaelrobert/116816274242387568

1 month ago

Why current LLM costs are not sustainable

https://aditya.patadia.org/p/ai-and-cloud-costs

1 month ago

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

https://github.com/Tessil/hopscotch-map

1 month ago

★ 846 C++ MIT

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692474

1 month ago

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

https://californiasciencecenter.org/about-us/samuel-oschin-air-and-space-center/go-for-stack

1 month ago

The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric-presentations-of-masayoshi-son

1 month ago

No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass

https://borretti.me/article/no-one-escapes-the-permanent-underclass

1 month ago

I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQ8c8i42VE

1 month ago

The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started

1 month ago

One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/26/one-man-two-kernels-and-a-lot-of-risc-v/5262858

1 month ago

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

https://gossamer-lang.org/

1 month ago

Scaling Laws, Carefully

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/

1 month ago

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/5261854

1 month ago

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo

1 month ago

Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

https://github.com/mondaycom/HATCHA

1 month ago

★ 95 TypeScript MIT

AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux

https://www.techpowerup.com/348723/amd-readies-full-open-source-hdmi-2-1-support-for-linux

1 month ago

Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial

https://evmar.github.io/jjtut/

1 month ago

Font-Family Recommendations

https://chrismorgan.info/font-family

1 month ago

The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-06-tool-talking/

1 month ago

Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687769

1 month ago

Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)

https://github.com/skx/slisp

1 month ago

★ 16 Go GPL-2.0

GuixPkgs: Every Guix package, as a Nix flake

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/25/guixpkgs-every-guix-package-as-a-nix-flake

1 month ago

Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html

1 month ago

SQLite improving performance with pre-sort

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/07/sqlite-improving-performance-with-pre-sort.html

1 month ago