top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-28

Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/

1 month ago

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/

1 month ago

30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/

1 month ago

Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

1 month ago

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus

1 month ago

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University

https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html

1 month ago

GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods

1 month ago

★ 28.5k Kotlin GPL-3.0

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/

1 month ago

5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/

1 month ago

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep

1 month ago

One Million Passports Leaked Online

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html

1 month ago

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html

1 month ago

Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams

https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief

1 month ago

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/

1 month ago

Show HN: Zanagrams

https://zanagrams.com/

1 month ago

Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/

1 month ago

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

https://mechanical-pencil.com/products/car

1 month ago

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-newly-australian-ballista-spider-snare.html

1 month ago

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S

https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/

1 month ago

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html

1 month ago

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md

1 month ago

★ 455 Python

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847

1 month ago

★ 95.6k Rust Apache-2.0

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

https://decomp-academy.dev

1 month ago

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing

1 month ago

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

https://www.thedrive.com/news/feds-killed-polestar-and-spared-volvo-that-should-terrify-you

1 month ago

Daisugi the Japanese Technique of Trees Out of Trees, Making Exact Straight Wood

https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html

1 month ago

EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools

https://github.com/open-energy-transition/open-tyndp

1 month ago

★ 122 Python

Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/28/google-limits-metas-use-of-its-gemini-ai-models-ft-reports.html

1 month ago

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

https://schamper.dev/dissecting-apples-sparse-image-format-asif/

1 month ago

The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/the-us-used-to-demand-the-best-tech-now-we-ban-it

1 month ago

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260625-00/?p=112467

1 month ago

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html

1 month ago

We need tech news sources which exclude AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713041

1 month ago

California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database

https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/06/27/california-legislature-agrees-to-upload-drivers-licenses-to-national-database/

1 month ago

Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/

1 month ago

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html

1 month ago

The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about

1 month ago

TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/top500-at-isc26-we-have-a-new-number

1 month ago

Ante: A New Way to Blend Borrow Checking and Reference Counting

https://verdagon.dev/blog/ante-blending-borrowing-rc

1 month ago

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

https://github.com/itsthelore/wayfinder-router

1 month ago

★ 342 Python Apache-2.0

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013

1 month ago

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html

1 month ago

Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-28/austria-lobbies-eu-to-host-anthropic-after-us-access-curbs

1 month ago

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog

1 month ago

★ 1.9k Shell

More evidence of life on Mars but still no life

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/more-evidence-of-life-on-mars-but-still-no-life-1.7649645

1 month ago

The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/humboldt-education-system-bildung-1.7172093

1 month ago

Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI

https://adiamond.me/2026/06/software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai/

1 month ago

Mel Brooks is 100 today

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/long-live-mel-brooks/687730/

1 month ago

Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician

https://the.scapegoat.dev/turning-music-into-a-chore-is-what-made-me-an-artist/

1 month ago

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc

1 month ago

★ 23 Mathematical Programming System GPL-2.0

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html

1 month ago

WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing

https://bednars.me/blog/winpe-harness

1 month ago

Do LLMs pass the mirror test?

https://blog.pascalschuster.de/article/do-llms-pass-the-mirror-test

1 month ago

Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font

https://qr.jim.sh/

1 month ago