Hacker News Daily — June 14, 2026
29 stories · June 14, 2026
In this issue
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Firewood Splitting Simulator
screen.toys · 499 points · Discussion
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Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
juniperspring.org · 375 points · Discussion
Previously: Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052753 - May 2023 (43 comments)
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Not everyone is using AI for everything
gabrielweinberg.com · 359 points · Discussion
Last year around this time The New York Times Magazine ran an A.I. issue with an introduction titled “ Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? ” It’s an edited transcript from the Hard…
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How to earn a billion dollars
paulgraham.com · 341 points · Discussion
June 2026 (This is based on a talk I gave at the Oxford Union.) Since this is apparently the future prime ministers' club, I'm going to tell you about something it would be good if more politicians…
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Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
sqltoerdiagram.com · 331 points · Discussion
SQL to ER Diagram — free online ERD generator: convert a SQL schema (CREATE TABLE statements) into an interactive entity-relationship diagram in your browser. Turn SQL into a diagram instantly, no…
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Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
github.com · 221 points · Discussion
kage (影, "shadow") clones a website into a folder you can browse offline, with every script stripped out. It opens each page in real headless Chrome, waits for the page to settle, snapshots the DOM a…
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Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
github.com · 211 points · Discussion
prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B is presented as an original 397B model trained by IplanRIO. It is not. Its weights are a direct element-wise merge of our model, Nex, with the official…
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I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
195 points · Discussion
TLDR: I had 2,207 GoPro videos, and I need to rewatch them to find interesting moments from my cycling journey. I built a project to index them locally on my M1 Max using open-source ML models, search…
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Lisp's Influence on Ruby
blog.tacoda.dev · 193 points · Discussion
Once I wrote users.select { |u| u.admin? }.map(&:email) and realized I’d written Lisp. Not literally. The parentheses are gone, the prefix notation is gone, the lambdas are syntactic blocks. But the…
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The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
destroyallsoftware.com · 191 points · Discussion
A talk by Gary Bernhardt from PyCon 2014 This science fiction / comedy / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035. It's not pro- or…
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A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
cnn.com · 166 points · Discussion
A mysterious cold patch in the North Atlantic has puzzled scientists for years. New research links the cooling to a weakening system of Atlantic Ocean currents that researchers warn could reach a…
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Linux 7.1
lore.kernel.org · 163 points · Discussion
Loading... You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does…
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Formal methods and the future of programming
blog.janestreet.com · 127 points · Discussion
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods. I’m not saying that anymore. It’s not exactly that I think we were wrong…
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Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency
su3.io · 124 points · Discussion
zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that runs eBPF scripts in userspace ( intro ). Now it's got a Caddy-compat mode - when provided a Caddyfile, zeroserve JIT-compiles it to eBPF and then to…
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Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks
twitter.com · 123 points · Discussion
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
107 points · Discussion
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
planetscale.com · 95 points · Discussion
Tom Pang | June 11, 2026 Counterintuitively, large DELETE s add work to the database. From experience we can plainly claim the following: the most scalable Postgres data-deletion strategies revolve…
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Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed
friedkielbasa.substack.com · 89 points · Discussion
When I first began learning about the Roman Empire in middle school, I was most interested in what everyone else seems to be interested in — the time of Caesar and Augustus. Recently, however, I’ve…
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FarOutCompany
faroutcompany.com · 82 points · Discussion
Lama Foundation, 1970s Boston Common, 1967 Macramé Park, 1974 Suzy Creamcheese, 1967 Mt. Philo Commune Harbinger Commune Maplewood Mudflats, 1971 Tree Frog Commune, Vermont Inside a Head Shop, Boston,…
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Perlisisms (1982)
cs.yale.edu · 75 points · Discussion
EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 1. One man's constant is another man's variable. 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. 3. Syntactic…
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How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
arcadeblogger.com · 68 points · Discussion
One of the most fascinating sequences in Atari’s arcade manufacturing process in the early 80s, was the application of the fabulous artwork that adorned all of its cabinets from the golden age of…
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Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops
mgunlogson.github.io · 44 points · Discussion
Commodity FDM print strength is limited by poor Z-axis layer bonding. Parts crack along Z under stress. MAGMA tries to fix this in software that works on any FDM 3D printer. It's a fork of OrcaSlicer…
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Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)
aresluna.org · 42 points · Discussion
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Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call
traceapp.info · 34 points · Discussion
I'm the developer of Trace, a non-intrusive, shortcut-driven Mac app that records and transcribes your meetings on-device. I know, another meeting transcription app. Please bear with me though, I'm…
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Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks
science.org · 34 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Chaosnet (1981)
tumbleweed.nu · 34 points · Discussion
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mit/ai/AIM-628_chaos...
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Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
github.com · 28 points · Discussion
A modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust. The goal is not to clone Xorg. It is to provide a practical X11 server that runs real desktop environments, window managers, and applications on…
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Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows
lisyarus.github.io · 27 points · Discussion
Quivers: a year of linear algebra by drawing arrows 2026 Jun 9 Disclaimer: if your first instinct was to think about string diagrams, that's not was this post is about. Cool guess, though. In algebra…
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Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science
fulcrum.inc · 13 points · Discussion
“It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.” — Uncle Iroh At Fulcrum Research, we study the performance and behavior of…