Hacker News Highlights

Hacker News Highlights

Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.

  1. 12h ago

    6.24.26 | FUTO Swipe new swipe typing model, former Google employee fired for creating Google workspace CLI, Jerry's Map

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model (01:48) - Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI (03:02) - Jerry's Map (04:12) - In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (05:26) - Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX (06:42) - Printing Gaussian Splats (07:48) - The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated (09:12) - Vulnerability reports are not special anymore (10:36) - Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak (11:59) - Swift Package Index joins Apple (13:03) - Outro FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing modelhttps://swipe.futo.tech/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648619Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLIhttps://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649011 Jerry's Maphttp://www.jerrysmap.com/the-maphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649435 In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under wordshttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648959 Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeXhttps://tikz.dev/editor/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645437 Printing Gaussian Splatshttps://www.patreon.com/DanyBittel/posts/printing-splats-161333338https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618481 The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggeratedhttps://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647486 Vulnerability reports are not special anymorehttps://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653216 Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leakhttps://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653575 Swift Package Index joins Applehttps://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-applehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648779

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  2. 1d ago

    6.23.26 | Steam Machine launch, police using flock surveillance, Canada plans nuclear reactors

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:12) - Steam Machine launches today (01:44) - Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (02:58) - Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040 (04:22) - GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally (05:48) - Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (07:10) - My Mathematical Regression (08:42) - Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance (10:03) - VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO (11:17) - Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (12:18) - Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (13:27) - Outro Steam Machine launches todayhttps://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/685257114654870245https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632884Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Neededhttps://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-trackhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694 Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585 GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locallyhttps://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377 Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creatorshttps://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=HhTZY2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614715 My Mathematical Regressionhttps://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597221 Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performancehttps://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630171 VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPOhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639240 Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle sitehttps://puzzlelair.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629213 Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agentshttps://oak.space/oak/oakhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726

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  3. 2d ago

    6.22.26 | Identity verification on Claude, old job possibly fraud-dependent, Deno Desktop

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Identity verification on Claude (01:47) - Did my old job only exist because of fraud? (03:17) - Deno Desktop (04:59) - Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI (06:26) - Help I accidentally a wigglegram (07:40) - There is minimal downside to switching to open models (09:05) - Everything is logarithms (10:19) - JSON-LD explained for personal websites (11:39) - GLM 5.2 vs. Opus (13:11) - The minimum viable unit of saleable software (14:47) - Outro Identity verification on Claudehttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claudehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618455Did my old job only exist because of fraud?https://david.newgas.net/did-my-old-job-only-exist-because-of-fraud/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622867 Deno Desktophttps://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626137 Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AIhttps://apertvs.ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622778 Help I accidentally a wigglegramhttps://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605561 There is minimal downside to switching to open modelshttps://www.marble.onl/posts/cancel_claude.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622518 Everything is logarithmshttps://alexkritchevsky.com/2026/05/25/everything-is-logarithms.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622626 JSON-LD explained for personal websiteshttps://hawksley.dev/blog/json-ld-explained-for-personal-websites/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621517 GLM 5.2 vs. Opushttps://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626866 The minimum viable unit of saleable softwarehttps://brandur.org/minimum-viable-unithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620342

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  4. 3d ago

    6.21.26 | Loupe raises app permissions awareness SMPTE makes standards free F 15 Strike Eagle II reverse project seeks DOS test pilots

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (01:38) - SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (03:09) - DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (04:33) - Renting a sewing machine from the library (05:51) - Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (07:19) - Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (08:32) - Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (09:31) - Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (11:01) - Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (12:05) - UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (13:23) - Outro Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can seehttps://github.com/mysk-research/loupehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608645SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessiblehttps://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-communityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827 DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilotshttps://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766 Renting a sewing machine from the libraryhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finlandhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613755 Developers don't understand CORS (2019)https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-corshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614844 Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behaviorhttps://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613555 Your brain was never designed for this much bad newshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569 Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patcheshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943 Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agentshttps://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608394 UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Prohttps://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610853

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  5. 4d ago

    6.20.26 | Hyundai acquires Boston Dynamics, Norway nearly bans AI in elementary schools, Project Valhalla brings a decade of work to JDK 28

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (01:54) - Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school (03:16) - Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (04:41) - There are no instances in ATProto (06:11) - The AirPods Effect (08:15) - Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (09:12) - How many of the 170k English words do you know? (10:02) - Court Records Should Be Free (11:22) - Ten years of ClickHouse in open source (12:39) - Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research (13:55) - Outro Hyundai buys Boston Dynamicshttps://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600312Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary schoolhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093 Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595511 There are no instances in ATProtohttps://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515 The AirPods Effecthttps://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592832 Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has diedhttps://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lllhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602352 How many of the 170k English words do you know?https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586 Court Records Should Be Freehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-freehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946 Ten years of ClickHouse in open sourcehttps://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546890 Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Researchhttps://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549118

    14 min

  6. 5d ago

    6.19.26 | Ten thousand GitHub repositories with malware, Git offers more than .gitignore for ignoring files, CS 6120 online course on advanced compilers

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (01:56) - .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git (03:07) - CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (04:23) - Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (05:30) - Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (07:07) - Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost (08:23) - Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further (09:51) - W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty (11:19) - DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1) (13:01) - To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system (14:09) - Outro I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malwarehttps://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583928.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Githttps://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583356 CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583606 Show HN: Are You in the Weights?https://www.intheweights.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591348 Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFShttps://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585866 Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower costhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-costhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386 Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Furtherhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583897 W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereigntyhttps://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584497 DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553388 To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating systemhttps://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operating-system-0610https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543311

    14 min

  7. 6d ago

    6.18.26 | Lore open source version control system scalable, Midjourney Medical, Volkswagen blocks GrapheneOS users

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (01:34) - Midjourney Medical (03:14) - Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (04:26) - US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (05:32) - RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (06:44) - How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s (08:10) - Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (09:33) - Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (11:01) - DeepSeek Introduces Vision (12:20) - Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (13:42) - Outro Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalabilityhttps://lore.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081Midjourney Medicalhttps://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogposthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650 Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS usershttps://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526 US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security riskshttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498 RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Methodhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502 How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1shttps://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561 Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alonehttps://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894 Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolhttps://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209 DeepSeek Introduces Visionhttps://chat.deepseek.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458 Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CADhttps://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAMhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553

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  8. Jun 17

    6.17.26 | Running local models is good now, SpaceX to buy Cursor for 60 billion dollars, GrapheneOS ported to Android 17

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Running local models is good now (01:33) - SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (02:57) - GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (03:57) - Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (04:59) - TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP (06:29) - Stop Using JWTs (07:39) - Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (09:23) - Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (10:57) - Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures (12:05) - But yak shaving is fun (2019) (13:13) - Outro Running local models is good nowhttps://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60Bhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224 GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561654 Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrityhttps://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-ofhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079 TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCPhttps://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558018 Stop Using JWTshttps://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558147 Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558489 Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail timehttps://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563394 Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatureshttps://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564696 But yak shaving is fun (2019)https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555838

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