Hacker News Daily — June 18, 2026
30 stories · June 18, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Midjourney Medical
midjourney.com · 1253 points · Discussion
https://www.midjourney.com/medical Video: https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797
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Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
bluewin.ch · 573 points · Discussion
Until June 19, the Federal Palace in Bern will once again be bustling with activity. Numerous important issues will be on the agenda during the summer session of the National Council and Council of…
- 3
I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
orchidfiles.com · 523 points · Discussion
18 June 2026 This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other…
- 4
Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
windowslatest.com · 503 points · Discussion
Clicking Outlook notifications will take longer to load the email than if you open the app and find the mail directly Microsoft’s Outlook for Windows has a notification problem that is hard to ignore.…
- 5
DeepSeek Introduces Vision
chat.deepseek.com · 432 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
rahuljuliato.com · 368 points · Discussion
Karthik Chikmagalur recently published another of his excellent "Even More Batteries Included with Emacs" posts, digging into lesser-known features that already ship with Emacs today. I wanted to…
- 7
A website that lists websites to submit your website to
submission.directory · 352 points · Discussion
A hand-picked directory of website submission sites. Find the best places to submit your website, startup, or product, earn quality backlinks, and rank higher across search engines and AI answers.…
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Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
kcl.ac.uk · 253 points · Discussion
This “hidden” research system, which operates outside of the patent system, has huge potential to regularly provide society with affordable treatments. Examples of this have included using a cancer…
- 9
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
cs.cornell.edu · 244 points · Discussion
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course by Adrian Sampson on programming language implementation. It covers universal compilers topics like…
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The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
independent.co.uk · 236 points · Discussion
C raig Newmark, multimillionaire founder of Craigslist, has long had trouble keeping his mouth shut – leading to some “influential mistakes”, he readily admits. But he doesn’t consider it a lapse in…
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.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
nelson.cloud · 211 points · Discussion
I’ve been using Git for so long and I just realized you can ignore files at three different levels and not just with.gitignore. The three files you can use to ignore files…
- 12
Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
blog.ui.com · 190 points · Discussion
Enterprise storage has traditionally required costly licensing, proprietary hardware, and complex management. ENAS changes that by delivering a private, local storage platform designed for…
- 13
Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
spectrum.ieee.org · 183 points · Discussion
Last fall, Modos debuted the Paper Monitor and Dev Kit, an open-source e-paper display kit that hit a record 75-hertz refresh rate. The project was successful, raising almost double its US $110,000…
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Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
twitter.com · 155 points · Discussion
https://xcancel.com/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297 https://www.reuters.com/technology/googles-gemini-co-lead-no...
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W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
blog.elenarossini.com · 152 points · Discussion
In the past few months I have unwittingly become an expert on all things W Social: the microblogging platform that is a fork of Bluesky and bills itself as Europe’s alternative to X, with identity…
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Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids
mcsweeneys.net · 115 points · Discussion
Internet Tendency The Store Books Division Quarterly Concern The Believer Donate Day 4,382 of people asking whether “normal workers” could really move large stones without assistance from mystical sky…
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Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
ns.nl · 112 points · Discussion
Train tickets for international journeys can be purchased from NS International Direct trains to All train destinations Log in My NSI Visit NS International
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Emacs, how it all started for me
xvw.lol · 111 points · Discussion
While I can have very strong opinions on many topics (notably on programming languages ), I am much less emotionally invested in the ancient Editor War. Indeed, even though I sometimes defend Emacs…
- 19
How Alberta Eradicated Rats
worksinprogress.co · 102 points · Discussion
Most of us accept rats as a fact of life. They live in tunnels and sewers, gnaw through walls, contaminate food, and resist nearly every attempt to push them back. A 2023 estimate put New York City’s…
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Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts
gerrymandle.cc · 98 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall
elastic.co · 91 points · Discussion
Building agent memory on Elasticsearch Three indices, hybrid recall with a reranker, supersession, decay, and DLS. The architecture and the numbers behind a persistent memory layer for agents. Sarah's…
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TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants
neutronbytes.com · 90 points · Discussion
TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants DOE Awards $2.7 Billion for Uranium Enrichment Oklo, Meta Plan 1.2 GW Nuclear Energy Development in Southern Ohio…
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Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps
tester.army · 84 points · Discussion
Hey HN - we’re Oskar, Szymon, and Piotr, and we’re building TesterArmy ( https://tester.army ). TesterArmy is an agentic testing platform that runs end-to-end checks before deployment and in…
- 24
Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi
rednafi.com · 64 points · Discussion
I’ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years. I even wrote a piece with a corny title about that setup back in 2023. Stow served me well, but managing symlinks across multiple devices…
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The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
mroczek.dev · 41 points · Discussion
RTK's pitch sounds like an absolute developer cheat code: "Cut token usage, keep the same intelligence, pay 1/10 the price." With 60k GitHub stars and counting, the industry is clearly buying into the…
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Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
37 points · Discussion
The A2A protocol is an agent to agent protocol from Google. I was looking at it 6 months back but it didn't feel like I really understood how to use it at that point. Probably because we were all…
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The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy
wired.com · 33 points · Discussion
https://web.archive.org/web/20260618100028/https://www.wired...
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Agentic Resource Discovery Specification
agenticresourcediscovery.org · 25 points · Discussion
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/announcing-the-agentic-...
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McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
mcmansionhell.com · 19 points · Discussion
Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural…
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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…