Hacker News Daily — June 15, 2026
29 stories · June 15, 2026
In this issue
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Iroh 1.0
iroh.computer · 768 points · Discussion
It's a simple idea really, and it's the right abstraction for the future of the internet. IP addresses can break, without warning, and it's outside of your device's control. Keys, however, are created…
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CrankGPT
crankgpt.com · 514 points · Discussion
What do climate change, wealth concentration, and your flabby arms have in common? A human-powered, fully local and private AI solution. Introducing Rightsizing AI Use the appropriate tool for the…
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Apple Foundation Models
platform.claude.com · 446 points · Discussion
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TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
tinywind.io · 441 points · Discussion
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Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
434 points · Discussion
Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s)
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Even more batteries included with Emacs
karthinks.com · 338 points · Discussion
Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s…
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Hetzner Price Adjustment
docs.hetzner.com · 226 points · Discussion
https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-...
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Typst 0.15.0
typst.app · 205 points · Discussion
Typst 0.15.0 (June 15, 2026) This section documents all changes to the Typst language and compiler between Typst 0.14.2 and 0.15.0. If you are migrating an existing document to Typst 0.15, make sure…
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Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins
monash.edu · 194 points · Discussion
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Openrouter Fusion API
openrouter.ai · 184 points · Discussion
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My Homelab AI Dev Platform
rsgm.dev · 173 points · Discussion
I set up OpenCode Web UI with Git access to make my homelab easier to manage. OpenCode pushes changes to Git, I approve the PRs, GitOps deploys the changes. Best of all, OpenCode runs as a server with…
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Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins
smithsonianmag.com · 161 points · Discussion
Students at a high school in Rome stumbled upon a well-preserved villa that dates to the mid-second century C.E. Eventually, archaeologists hope to open the sprawling space to the public Graffiti…
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A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
roman.pt · 150 points · Discussion
Last week, I got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter at a small crypto startup. We exchanged a few messages over a couple of days, she described a broken proof-of-concept they needed a lead engineer…
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Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes
maurycyz.com · 106 points · Discussion
2026-06-13 ( Electronics ) This page discusses sealing metal through borosilicate/lab glass: other chemistries behave quite differently. When making vacuum tubes, the glass is actually the easy part:…
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Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
github.com · 98 points · Discussion
A sourced model and short report on a single question: Can Europe stand up a sovereign frontier-class AI model now, by federating the public compute it already owns, while the gigawatt datacenters it…
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Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen
forgottenbytes.net · 95 points · Discussion
March 28, 2026 Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen Finally, The Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen is here, more than 35 years after the original game was released in December 1990. The book…
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How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data
roszigit.com · 81 points · Discussion
TimescaleDB can achieve compression of up to 98% for typical time-series data. Compressing time-series data requires a fundamentally different approach than the general-purpose algorithms used in OLTP…
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How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
kobzol.github.io · 77 points · Discussion
CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be reported. Some of them are caused simply by bugs in…
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Boot Naked Linux
nick.zoic.org · 63 points · Discussion
2026-05-19 c / linux Starting up a Linux kernel to host one single process rather than a full on operating system... and doing it in less than a second! When I was a kid, computers weren’t coddled and…
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Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI
machine0.io · 56 points · Discussion
Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (& Ubuntu) VMs. You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. VMs stay on unless…
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Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding
fata.dev · 51 points · Discussion
Hi HN, I'm Djoumé. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and like a lot of you I've been coding almost exclusively through an agent in the past few months. It's been amazing to vibe code prototypes…
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US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says
reuters.com · 45 points · Discussion
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Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials
blog.trailofbits.com · 43 points · Discussion
What happens when the bits of an RSA private key are heavily biased toward 0 instead of being randomly generated? The public key’s bits could be biased enough for us to detect these incorrectly…
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Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
30 points · Discussion
I’m Nick, founder of Drafted ( https://www.drafted.ai ). We’re training models that generate residential architecture from structured design constraints. Product demo:…
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I Love the Computer
michaelenger.com · 30 points · Discussion
2026-06-06 In a recent discussion on the Aftermath Podcast about the ill effects of the current AI hype cycle, one of the editors said something that really resonated with me: I love the computer. —…
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US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
fred.stlouisfed.org · 26 points · Discussion
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US Government Reportedly Allowing Federal Data Center Rules to Expire
gizmodo.com · 18 points · Discussion
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The Alaska Server
serialport.org · 15 points · Discussion
We recently pulled out this old 2U rackmount server. I set it up 10+ years ago as a personal file server, and recently realized the server wasn’t powering on. We determined the power supply had failed…