Hacker News Daily — June 26, 2026
28 stories · June 26, 2026
In this issue
- 1
The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
expression.fire.org · 1070 points · Discussion
Imagine your favorite team just scored an incredible, last-second goal at the World Cup. So you log online to celebrate with other fans. But, using data it’s already collected on you, the social media…
- 2
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
openai.com · 589 points · Discussion
System card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview
- 3
Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
nesbitt.io · 466 points · Discussion
Report filed: 04:13 UTC Status: Resolved (by treaty) Severity: Informational → Critical → Withdrawn → Critical → Negotiated Duration: 96 hours (billable: 2.1 trillion tokens) Affected systems: All of…
- 4
U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
washingtonpost.com · 454 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/PCQQl
- 5
A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
github.com · 343 points · Discussion
This is a game where you are the operating system of a computer. As such, you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events. Make sure not to leave processes idling for too long, or the user will…
- 6
What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
fernandoi.cl · 337 points · Discussion
home · about June 25, 2026 · ∞ I built hackmyclaw.com, where anyone could email Fiu, my OpenClaw assistant, and try to make it leak the contents of a secrets.env file. After reaching the front page of…
- 7
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck
science.org · 313 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 8
Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
jeffgeerling.com · 305 points · Discussion
I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirks—most…
- 9
Libre Barcode Project
graphicore.github.io · 268 points · Discussion
Libre Barcode fonts enable you to write barcodes in the Code 39, Code 128, and EAN/UPC formats, with or without text below the code. Visit the individual pages for usage instructions and further…
- 10
Jolla Phone (October 2026)
commerce.jolla.com · 255 points · Discussion
Jolla Phone · Production batches Cumulative volume, batch by batch Plotted by the date each batch closed. The running total passes 10,000 units secured at Batch #3. Cumulative volume Batch closed…
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22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'
classicfm.com · 245 points · Discussion
19 June 2026, 12:31 A handwritten manuscript book, belonging to a 22-year-old Mozart, has been discovered in Paris. Picture: Getty The notebook was confiscated during the French Revolution, and has…
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MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
aws.amazon.com · 200 points · Discussion
Today, we are announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive within AWS Lambda that lets you run code generated by users or AI in isolated, stateful execution environments. You get…
- 13
Ultrasound imaging of the brain
alephneuro.com · 190 points · Discussion
A few years ago, a paper came out that blew our minds. The idea was that you can decode what someone is looking at just from their brain activity. Reconstructing seen images from brain activity — seen…
- 14
My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
blog.matthewbrunelle.com · 108 points · Discussion
You can now pre-order Valve's Steam Machine! Fortuitous timing as I drafted this as a follow up to my post from December where I wrote about using Linux for PC gaming. At that time Steam ran well on…
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Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
github.com · 105 points · Discussion
We built a model router that plugs into coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) and intelligently sends requests to the best model to serve them. Here's a quick demo of running it…
- 16
Bipartite Matching Is in NC
scottaaronson.blog · 100 points · Discussion
Since I’m a good mood today—at a beautiful science camp with my kids, high in the mountains near Big Bear Lake in California—I thought I’d blog about something positive. Last week, five authors…
- 17
Data centers trigger voter backlash
newsweek.com · 98 points · Discussion
A wave of voter anger over massive data center projects is beginning to reshape U.S. politics, with local officials and senior lawmakers losing elections after backing controversial developments tied…
- 18
Doing a masters while working in Spain
jan-herlyn.com · 83 points · Discussion
In 2022, towards the end of the pandemic, my life needed to change. While I would love to pretend that I inscribed to the masters degree in the noble pursuit of knowledge, the true reason was due to…
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Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter
github.com · 70 points · Discussion
WebBase-III dBASE III is back. In your browser. USE customers like it's 1984. Remember the dot prompt? Before SQL won, before ORMs, before anyone said "full-stack" — there was dBASE III. You typed USE…
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LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers
swiftlatex.com · 61 points · Discussion
It may take a few minutes to download template files for the first time. Please be patient Step 1: Download latest release from Github. Extract the files and put them into your webpage directory. Step…
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The "Bizarre Headgear" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum Is Incredible
svpow.com · 42 points · Discussion
An imposing view of a juvenile Utahceratops. As threatened, I was in Oklahoma at the tail end of last week and over the weekend, mostly to give talks. My Friday evening public lecture was on horned…
- 22
Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
gossamer-lang.org · 41 points · Discussion
Why Gossamer Expressive and clear syntax Forward pipes ( |> ), immutable by default, and one obvious way to do things. Data flows top-to-bottom, the way you wrote it — not nested inside-out. Automatic…
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Modern GPU Programming for MLSys
mlc.ai · 41 points · Discussion
Modern GPU Programming For MLSys # Machine learning systems sit at the heart of modern AI workloads. In these systems, performance often comes down to the quality of a small number of GPU kernels.…
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What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
lefakkomies.github.io · 40 points · Discussion
What is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? ¶ A nomogram or nomograph is a diagram that provides an easy, graphical way of calculating the result of a mathematical formula. Sometimes also called…
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What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?
jtekt.co.jp · 37 points · Discussion
＞ Inquiries regarding products What is a Lithium-ion capacitor？ Capacitors are power storage devices that are classified as secondary batteries.Various types of capacitors have been developed…
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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…
- 27
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
acoup.blog · 10 points · Discussion
This is the third part ( I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the…