Hacker News Highlights

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 now
https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
https://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 17
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561654
Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558018
Stop Using JWTs
https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452
https://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 time
https://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 signatures
https://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.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555838

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

(01:32) - Iroh 1.0

(02:55) - Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

(04:35) - TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

(05:40) - Hetzner Price Adjustment

(07:02) - Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

(08:20) - John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

(09:01) - Fox to buy Roku

(10:21) - The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

(11:35) - My Homelab AI Dev Platform

(12:45) - Outro

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546294Iroh 1.0
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480
Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100
TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
https://tinywind.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543475
Hetzner Price Adjustment
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844
Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb
https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547985
John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550779
Fox to buy Roku
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550693
My Homelab AI Dev Platform
https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542433

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:15) - Firewood Splitting Simulator

(01:18) - Your ePub Is fine

(02:31) - Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

(03:39) - Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

(05:08) - Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

(06:21) - Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

(07:46) - What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

(09:13) - Formal methods and the future of programming

(10:53) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

(12:12) - Even more batteries included with Emacs

(13:18) - Outro

Firewood Splitting Simulator
https://screen.toys/firewood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471638Your ePub Is fine
https://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533848
Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
https://github.com/tamnd/kage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990
Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537165
Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-users-are-tired-of-microsoft-account-requirements-and-workarounds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533101
Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371
What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
https://mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538229
Formal methods and the future of programming
https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/?from_theconsensus=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526633
Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779
Even more batteries included with Emacs
https://karthinks.com/software/even-more-batteries-included-with-emacs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535886

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

(01:56) - Every Frame Perfect

(03:34) - Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

(04:49) - GLM 5.2 Is Out

(06:09) - Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

(07:23) - Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

(08:27) - AI coding at home without going broke

(09:50) - A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

(11:08) - Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

(12:29) - RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

(13:55) - Outro

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377Every Frame Perfect
https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516251
Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models-dcc90578?st=Yct6gx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519092
GLM 5.2 Is Out
https://twitter.com/jietang/status/2065784751345287314
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518684
Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch
https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-revealed-cancers-master-switch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517199
Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
https://news.sky.com/story/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-for-using-ai-to-create-evidence-in-multiple-cases-13553661
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807
AI coding at home without going broke
https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518969
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336
Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
https://juniperspring.org/posts/honda-evil-valet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523080
RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515454

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:20) - Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

(02:00) - Open source AI must win

(03:19) - CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

(04:26) - Electric motors with no rare earths

(05:52) - Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

(07:20) - How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

(08:44) - There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

(10:09) - Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

(11:17) - Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

(12:36) - Leaving Mozilla

(14:06) - Outro

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072Open source AI must win
https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511908
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505231
Electric motors with no rare earths
https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no-rare-earths/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510010
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495928
How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020
There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513536
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506659
Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510046
Leaving Mozilla
https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806