Hacker News Daily — June 16, 2026

30 stories · June 16, 2026

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In this issue

1

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

twitter.com · 821 points · Discussion

https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
2

Running local models is good now

vickiboykis.com · 775 points · Discussion

I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used Mistral 7B Gemma 3 OpenAI OSS-20B…
3

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

reuters.com · 696 points · Discussion

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4

Mechanical Watch (2022)

ciechanow.ski · 575 points · Discussion

In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart…
5

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

theverge.com · 394 points · Discussion

I’ll just work from the car, I thought. But after a few minutes of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that…
6

U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

timescolonist.com · 302 points · Discussion

For the scientists who built and operated the system — and the researchers, educators and students who rely on its data — the timing feels particularly punishing. A decision by the United States to…
7

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

tck.mn · 245 points · Discussion

Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to…
8

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

arseniyshestakov.com · 174 points · Discussion

Yesterday, June 15, 2026, a small and unimportant announcement appeared in Apple developer news: New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email. Long story short: now both Sign in with…
9

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

status.claude.com · 172 points · Discussion

Resolved The incident has now been resolved. We had two phases: * between 10:23 PT / 17:23 UTC to 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC -- all Sonnet and Opus models were affected, reaching an error rate of around 10%…
10

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

mareksuppa.com · 168 points · Discussion

I needed to check that one container could reach another over an internal Docker network: a plain GET /health against a service on a shared network. The obvious move is curl…
11

But yak shaving is fun

parksb.github.io · 156 points · Discussion

The joy of building from scratch 2019.07.31 KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little…
12

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

sighack.com · 152 points · Discussion

TL;DR: I made twenty five different designs using only Perlin flow fields, a simple generative algorithm. Scroll down to see the results. All Processing code for this article, along with images and…
13

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

therepublicofletters.substack.com · 131 points · Discussion

Dear Republic, Maybe you liked Calvin and Hobbes as a kid but you probably have no idea of the scrupulous moral integrity that went into it, as Matthew Morgan demonstrates in this deeply-researched…
14

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

fastcompany.com · 124 points · Discussion

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15

Stop Using JWTs

gist.github.com · 119 points · Discussion

TLDR: JWTs should not be used for keeping your user logged in. They are not designed for this purpose, they are not secure, and there is a much better tool which is designed for it: regular cookie…
16

SubQ 1.1 Small

subq.ai · 91 points · Discussion

The hardest enterprise AI problems share a common shape. They require reasoning over complete artifacts: entire codebases, document collections, contracts, financial filings. For years, the industry…
17

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

qwen.ai · 87 points · Discussion

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18

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

shadycharacters.co.uk · 85 points · Discussion

It was impossible, I found, when writing Face with Tears of Joy, to get a response to questions or interview requests out of Google, Apple, Meta and the other big emoji vendors. (A lone author writing…
19

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

tno.nl · 84 points · Discussion

GPT‑NL values We are building a responsible language model for the Dutch language and context: trustworthy, transparent, reciprocal and sovereign. Sovereign: control over technology that matters…
20

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

unicorn-engine.org · 83 points · Discussion

Unicorn is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework. Highlight features: Multi-architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, S390x (SystemZ), SPARC,…
21

Nobody clicks share buttons

ankursethi.com · 82 points · Discussion

15 Jun 2026 at 10:50PM IST derekhanson.blog Permalink (Via rendezvous with cassidoo.) I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some)…
22

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

reflex.dev · 63 points · Discussion

In our AI reflex-app builder we generate massive amounts of Python code. Sometimes, this code generation fails in rather trivial manners; positional parameters after keyword ones, returns with values…
23

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

gilesthomas.com · 53 points · Discussion

Archives Categories Blogroll Posted on 16 June 2026 in TIL, Gadgets Back in April, I upgraded my home LAN to 10Gb/s. The in-wall cabling is CAT-6 or similar, so I had to use 10GBASE-T. Now, the router…
24

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

blog.janestreet.com · 50 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…
25

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

tim.blog · 47 points · Discussion

My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing…
26

Specs Augmented Reality Glasses

newsroom.snap.com · 46 points · Discussion

Today at Augmented World Expo 2026, we introduced SPECS, our new augmented reality glasses. When we started Snap, we believed technology could help people connect more deeply with one another. Over…
27

Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture

databricks.com · 17 points · Discussion

Databricks today launched LTAP (Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing), a new data processing architecture that unifies OLAP and OLTP on a single copy of data in the lake, eliminating ETL,…
28

ASM SHADER TOY – It's shader toy but you code in asm

wegfawefgawefg.github.io · 15 points · Discussion

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Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell

sabela.datahaskell.com · 15 points · Discussion

Sabela is a reactive notebook for Haskell. The name is the Ndebele word for "to respond." Cells respond to each other on change. Initially it was meant as a tool for working with data but it has…
30

How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website

littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion

Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…