Hacker News Highlights

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 today
https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/685257114654870245
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632884Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694
Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585
GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377
Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=HhTZY2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614715
My Mathematical Regression
https://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597221
Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
https://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+GRPO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639240
Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
https://puzzlelair.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629213
Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
https://oak.space/oak/oak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726

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 Claude
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude
https://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 Desktop
https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626137
Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
https://apertvs.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622778
Help I accidentally a wigglegram
https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605561
There is minimal downside to switching to open models
https://www.marble.onl/posts/cancel_claude.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622518
Everything is logarithms
https://alexkritchevsky.com/2026/05/25/everything-is-logarithms.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622626
JSON-LD explained for personal websites
https://hawksley.dev/blog/json-ld-explained-for-personal-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621517
GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626866
The minimum viable unit of saleable software
https://brandur.org/minimum-viable-unit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620342

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 see
https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608645SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-community
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827
DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766
Renting a sewing machine from the library
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613755
Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614844
Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613555
Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569
Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943
Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608394
UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610853

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 Dynamics
https://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 school
https://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 28
https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595511
There are no instances in ATProto
https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515
The AirPods Effect
https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592832
Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
https://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 Free
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946
Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546890
Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549118

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 malware
https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583928.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
https://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 ZFS
https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585866
Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386
Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
https://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583897
W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
https://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-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553388
To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operating-system-0610
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543311