Hacker News Daily — June 17, 2026
30 stories · June 17, 2026
In this issue
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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
lore.org · 781 points · Discussion
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GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
artificialanalysis.ai · 692 points · Discussion
Z ai’s GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 51 and it sits on the Pareto frontier of Intelligence vs Cost per Task GLM-5.2 is the same…
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Want your images back? That'll be $5
lutr.dev · 556 points · Discussion
We're in the era of trillion-dollar companies, but that doesn't mean you should leave $5 on the table! Take, for example, Photobucket. In case you've never heard of it, it is the Imgur -equivalent of…
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Hacker News but for independent blogs
bubbles.town · 475 points · Discussion
5034 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you. the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (ava's blog) 10 hours ago · Writing · 0…
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U.S. science is in chaos
scientificamerican.com · 468 points · Discussion
L ast year Christopher Reynolds started to worry that his space telescope was going to be killed. The mission had started taking shape nine years earlier, a billion-dollar orbiting observatory that…
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Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
discuss.grapheneos.org · 366 points · Discussion
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RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
rfc-editor.org · 277 points · Discussion
Abstract This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of…
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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
charitydotwtf.substack.com · 276 points · Discussion
A few days back I wrote a piece called “ AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy.” I have notes on a whole pile of AI-related topics that I’d like to cover…
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US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
reuters.com · 212 points · Discussion
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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
claude.com · 185 points · Discussion
We share how founders are using AI at every stage of the startup journey, with practical exercises, frameworks, and prompts for using Claude. Share Copy link…
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MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
github.com · 155 points · Discussion
A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C Features Tiny: around 1100 sloc of ANSI C Works within a fixed-sized memory region: no additional memory is allocated Built-in controls:…
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Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball
ribbie.tv · 150 points · Discussion
Hey HN, I built a website to watch live baseball games in an 8-bit broadcast. It takes live MLB data streams and converts them into near real-time pixel art gamecasts. Been waiting to share this for…
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Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields
airfields-freeman.com · 137 points · Discussion
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields © 2002, © 2026 by Paul Freeman. Revised 6/13/26. *** Dedicated in the memory of my father, Harris Freeman (1929-2010), who supported my interest in aviation ever…
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Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation
johnowhitaker.github.io · 127 points · Discussion
I've made a drawing app based on my physical sketching practice, using fluid sim and some shader tricks to mimic watercolor-style ink washes. Best used on iPad or with a drawing tablet. The linked…
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Kirkland Roundabouts
kirklandroundabouts.com · 123 points · Discussion
How to Play ← → Change lanes or turn ↓ Space Brake This game is designed to run on computers with a keyboard and at least a laptop-sized screen. There are on-screen controls for mobile devices but…
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How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
browser-use.com · 123 points · Discussion
Our cloud browsers need to do three things at once: start quickly, remain isolated, and be cheap. That is why we rebuilt Browser Use Cloud, so a new session starts in under a second and costs $ 0.02…
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Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
thesignalist.io · 116 points · Discussion
I remember sitting with a colleague a few years ago. A conversation that started about nothing in particular quickly became one of the most productive exchanges I'd had in a while: problems I'd been…
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Image Compression
makingsoftware.com · 116 points · Discussion
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Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
github.com · 107 points · Discussion
Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam ( https://adam.new/ ). We're building AI agents for mechanical CAD software. We’ve built the company on two fundamental beliefs: - AI will be the primary medium for creating…
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
freerange.city · 85 points · Discussion
In yesterday’s mailbag post, Matthew Yglesias responded to a question about why commercial spaces sometimes sit vacant for years at a time. Matthew’s answer started off on the right track, then veered…
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The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
ghostinthedata.info · 67 points · Discussion
The Restaurant That Refused to Take Bookings Online Let me tell you a story about a restaurant owner who became obsessed with human connection. He didn’t want people booking online. He wanted them to…
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Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026
eia.gov · 44 points · Discussion
In-brief analysis June 16, 2026 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor Note: CAISO=California Independent System Operator In the first five months of 2026,…
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TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code
greptile.com · 38 points · Discussion
I'm Shlok, a software engineer at Greptile. We recently built a code reviewer that, in addition to reviewing pull requests, actually runs the code and shows you what went wrong. In 1976, Michael Fagan…
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Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
openai.com · 36 points · Discussion
OpenAI’s work in science is motivated by a simple belief: advanced AI can become a powerful partner for scientists, helping them explore more ideas, connect distant concepts, design better…
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Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You
mathenchant.wordpress.com · 21 points · Discussion
“Oh, it’s just a trick thing.” – Ben Ames Williams, Coconuts Here are six puzzles, some of them classics, that don’t look much alike on the surface. After stating them, I’ll give a hint about what…
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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…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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The Capitoline Wolf
thehappytraveler.ca · 10 points · Discussion
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Introduction Legends and symbolism often bridge the stories of cities, and nowhere is this truer than between Rome and Siena. The Capitoline Wolf is the iconic statue…
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Show HN: StarScope – Free astronomy dashboard for observers outside the US/UK
starscope.live · 9 points · Discussion
Citizen Astronomy Without Borders — real-time feeds, hemisphere-aware alerts, and a worldwide community for serious amateur astronomers. Tonight's Sky What's worth pointing your telescope at right…
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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
9 points · Discussion
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot.…