It's 2026-06-20. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows | comment
VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' | comment
Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs | comment
SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible | comment
DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots | comment
Midjourney Medical | comment
Running local models is good now | comment
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | comment
Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants | comment
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics | comment
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness | comment
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer | comment
Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users | comment
Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff | comment
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis | comment
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | comment
Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access | comment
Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? | comment
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation | comment
Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless | comment
A website that lists websites to submit your website to | comment
GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 | comment
U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears | comment
Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society | comment
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks | comment
There are no instances in ATProto | comment
Mechanical Watch (2022) | comment
Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 | comment
Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool | comment
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Claude Fable 5 | comment
Open source AI must win | comment
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 | comment
Midjourney Medical | comment
Running local models is good now | comment
Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 | comment
Iroh 1.0 | comment
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers | comment
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | comment
What happened to nerds? | comment
Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants | comment
Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding? | comment
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics | comment
US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 | comment
Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026 | comment
TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed) | comment
Stop the Apple Music app from launching | comment
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness | comment
Dopamine Fracking | comment
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer | comment
Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes | comment
Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models | comment
Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones | comment
πFS | comment
MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second | comment
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know | comment
Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users | comment
Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff | comment
FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs | comment
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis | comment
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