top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-29

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/

1 month ago

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats

1 month ago

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026

1 month ago

Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/

1 month ago

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party

https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358

1 month ago

Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centered-top-level-domain/

1 month ago

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision

1 month ago

RocketLab Acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium-historic-deal-creating-fully

1 month ago

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-price-fixing

1 month ago

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/

1 month ago

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html

1 month ago

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Mera Glasses

https://twitter.com/i/status/2071277885646868536

1 month ago

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/

1 month ago

Tidal AI Policy

https://tidal.com/ai-policy

1 month ago

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/

1 month ago

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1

1 month ago

★ 1.2k MIT

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-humanoid-robots/

1 month ago

Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/

1 month ago

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/

1 month ago

It's Linux, on a Sega Genesis

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/its-linux-on-a-sega-megadrive/

1 month ago

★ 225 Shell

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/why-did-this-journal-retract-two-1940s-papers-by-max-planck/

1 month ago

Working with AI

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/

1 month ago

Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]

https://www.apollo.com/content/dam/apolloaem/pdf/daily-spark/2026/jun/28/062826-Mag7.pdf

1 month ago

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/

1 month ago

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr

1 month ago

★ 12.4k Rust

AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/28/ai-boom-risks-global-financial-crash-central-bankers-warn/

1 month ago

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

https://philipbohun.com/blog/0011.html

1 month ago

CachyOS June 2026 Release

https://cachyos.org/blog/2606-june-release/

1 month ago

My Favorite Keyboards

https://fabiensanglard.net/keyboards/index.html

1 month ago

The Radiation Exposure Lie

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-lie-about-radiation/

1 month ago

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3819084

1 month ago

NixOS 26.05

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2026/nixos-2605/

1 month ago

Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

1 month ago

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/

1 month ago

Building Principia for Windows XP

https://voxelmanip.se/2026/06/28/building-principia-for-windows-xp/

1 month ago

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science/

1 month ago

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html

1 month ago

Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/asymmetric-quant

1 month ago

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74235-1

1 month ago

I Don't Maintain My Homelab

https://cleberg.net/blog/homelab-maintenance.html

1 month ago

Reading the Internals of PostgreSQL: Database Cluster, Databases, and Tables

https://www.buraksen.dev/articles/internals-of-postgresql-db-cluster-and-tables

1 month ago

The Apple Disk II Controller Card

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/11/12/the-amazing-disk-ii-controller-card/

1 month ago

How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps

https://iinteractive.com/resources/blog/read-only

1 month ago

In San Francisco, Even $180k Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/technology/san-francisco-tech-salaries.html

1 month ago

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/06/29/obfuscation1.html

1 month ago

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models

1 month ago

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver

1 month ago

★ 31k Python GPL-3.0

Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online

1 month ago

A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

https://davidpoblador.com/deep-dives/the-descent/

1 month ago

Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian

https://danielcordova.me/blog/debian-openrc/

1 month ago