Hacker News Highlights

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

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 scalability
https://lore.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081Midjourney Medical
https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650
Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
https://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 Method
https://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 1s
https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561
Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
https://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 tool
https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209
DeepSeek Introduces Vision
https://chat.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458
Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553

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