Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

(01:48) - Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

(03:16) - HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

(04:36) - The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

(05:49) - I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

(07:25) - Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

(08:43) - Librepods: AirPods liberated

(09:59) - 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

(11:00) - Historical memory prices 1960-2026

(12:17) - Show HN: Zanagrams

(13:12) - Outro

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709670Age 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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832
The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706560
I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941
Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991
Librepods: AirPods liberated
https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710232
5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707763
Historical memory prices 1960-2026
https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710092
Show HN: Zanagrams
https://zanagrams.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708182

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

(01:40) - OpenRA

(02:57) - Fintech Engineering Handbook

(04:19) - The case for physical media ownership

(05:37) - Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

(06:38) - The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

(08:00) - Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

(09:11) - Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

(10:28) - Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

(11:51) - AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

(13:09) - Outro

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617OpenRA
https://www.openra.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697560
Fintech Engineering Handbook
https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696982
The case for physical media ownership
https://dervis.de/physical/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697335
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703759
The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703452
Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)
https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698151
Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699928
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697958
AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660021

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

(01:31) - U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

(02:59) - We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

(04:11) - Om

(05:13) - MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

(06:50) - Ultrasound imaging of the brain

(08:10) - Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

(09:20) - The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

(10:44) - Outro

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995
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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692051
Om
https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693391
MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-introduces-microvms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510
Ultrasound imaging of the brain
https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685558
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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692946
The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692058

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

(01:38) - Om Malik has died

(02:42) - The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

(04:07) - Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

(05:37) - Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

(06:51) - Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark

(08:16) - IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

(09:56) - Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

(11:04) - Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

(12:21) - Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

(13:38) - Outro

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179Om Malik has died
https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852
The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679608
Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyrocket-2026-06-25/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732
Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
https://explorer.oxide.computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631450
Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
https://twitter.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672328
IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674967
Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike
https://princechazz.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616304
Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675435
Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-m7-pro-m7-max-m7-ultra-instead?embedded-checkout=true
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676795

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

(01:40) - Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

(03:31) - RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

(05:05) - Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

(06:19) - 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

(07:36) - A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

(08:44) - Half-Life 2 in a Browser

(09:37) - The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

(10:51) - Blogging can just be stating the obvious

(12:02) - GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

(13:14) - Outro

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663324Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664814
RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers
https://rubyllm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660711
Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model
https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646659
45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660178
A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606222
Half-Life 2 in a Browser
https://hl2.slqnt.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669534
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662381
Blogging can just be stating the obvious
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666927
GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-open
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639840