Hacker News Daily — June 12, 2026
29 stories · June 12, 2026
In this issue
- 1
If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
tombedor.dev · 1425 points · Discussion
An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the…
- 2
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
web.mit.edu · 705 points · Discussion
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CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
innovativegenomics.org · 499 points · Discussion
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Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
huggingface.co · 382 points · Discussion
1. Model Introduction Kimi K2.7 Code is a coding-focused agentic model built upon Kimi K2.6. With substantial improvements on real-world long-horizon coding tasks, it strengthens end-to-end task…
- 5
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
blog.lopp.net · 290 points · Discussion
Robocalls are really annoying. Everyone knows the misery of scam calls, spoofed numbers, fake warranty pitches, fraudulent bank alerts, and automated political spam. The FCC is correct to claim that…
- 6
WASI 0.3
bytecodealliance.org · 207 points · Discussion
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
twitter.com · 189 points · Discussion
https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-wor...
- 8
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
blog.miguelgrinberg.com · 178 points · Discussion
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
- 9
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
correresmidestino.com · 171 points · Discussion
Article views: 29,850 In my Ottawa life, every Tuesday evening, I take two gym classes back to back—boxing and the pompously named “body sculpt,” which makes me discover muscles I didn’t know I had.…
- 10
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
news.utexas.edu · 153 points · Discussion
The advance in fabric technology comes alongside a new benchmark for atmospheric water harvesting. The textile incorporated into the jacket collects moisture and funnels it to detachable harvesting…
- 11
A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
yalereview.org · 140 points · Discussion
What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library Preserving the library alone will not rescue reading, Sheila Liming writes, but it is a good place to begin. Getty Images on a june…
- 12
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
envs.net · 137 points · Discussion
2026-06-12 I've been trying to make progress on a herculean task; I want decent looking programs for personal use which I can generate quickly using AI agents yet I'm a person without taste…
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How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
ikyle.me · 136 points · Discussion
I'd had my internet fail a few times recently leaving me stranded without a coding agent, and so when I saw the "Gemma 4 now runs 2x faster with MTP" Multi-Token Prediction update for Gemma 4 I…
- 14
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
piwodlaiwo.github.io · 120 points · Discussion
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- 15
Maxproof
arxiv.org · 120 points · Discussion
Authors: Jiacheng Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Shunkai Zhang, Yanmohan Wang, Lin Li, Tiancheng Qin, Qin Wang, Zhengmao Zhu, Tianle Li, Jingyang Li, Zehan Li, Binyang Jiang, Jin Zhu, Han Ding, Fei Yu, Chenyu Du,…
- 16
Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time
pgedge.com · 103 points · Discussion
Recently, a new type of question has entered the database arena: what did this data look like last Tuesday? Maybe it's the price of a product before the holiday sale kicked in, or which department an…
- 17
A PDF that changes based on how its read
sgaud.com · 94 points · Discussion
PDF is a visual format. It stores instructions for where to draw glyphs on a page. The spec does support Tagged PDF, a structure tree that marks headings, paragraphs, lists. Some domains use it like…
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Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself
quantamagazine.org · 85 points · Discussion
At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. Introduction At this moment, a spacecraft is headed from Earth to Europa,…
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New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses
politico.com · 74 points · Discussion
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Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)
harvardlawreview.org · 70 points · Discussion
Within law enforcement, few things are more venerated than the concept of the Warrior. Officers are trained to cultivate a “warrior mindset,” the virtues of which are extolled in books, articles, 1…
- 21
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF
blog.yadutaf.fr · 55 points · Discussion
The historic go-to solution for network booting is PXE. PXE is based on DHCP and TFTP. It is tricky to correctly configure, even trickier to make it highly available and good luck with the security…
- 22
Encrypted Spaces An architecture for collaborative applications
encryptedspaces.org · 52 points · Discussion
Research preview An architecture for collaborative applications where data is encrypted and operations are cryptographically verifiable. Encrypted Spaces are part of a research effort to explore…
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There Is Life Before Main in Rust
grack.com · 51 points · Discussion
Disclosures 🧠 This post is 100% human-written. Claude was used for feedback and to assist with the linker symbol diagram. Cursor was used for feedback and to ensure examples were compilable. The…
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Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI
github.com · 47 points · Discussion
I haven't found a way to delete all chats in bulk like you can on Chatgpt. With Claude, you have to scroll to the bottom, select everything, and delete. The problem is, if you have a lot of chats, it…
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Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship
stackscope.dev · 35 points · Discussion
Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built with. It watches launches from Product Hunt, Show HN, and PeerPush, then crawls the…
- 26
EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war
reuters.com · 28 points · Discussion
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Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents
bitboard.work · 26 points · Discussion
We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard ( https://bitboard.work ). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace. We give you the infrastructure and visualization layer to analyze data with AI. Today, we’re…
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You can power on a Mac remotely
jeffgeerling.com · 22 points · Discussion
Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4…
- 29
Cosmodial Sky Atlas
killedbyapixel.github.io · 19 points · Discussion
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