Hacker News Daily — June 27, 2026
30 stories · June 27, 2026
In this issue
- 1
DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
github.com · 692 points · Discussion
AI CODE CREATION GitHub Copilot Write better code with AI GitHub Copilot app Direct agents from issue to merge MCP Registry New Integrate external tools DEVELOPER WORKFLOWS Actions Automate any…
- 2
Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
github.com · 508 points · Discussion
New drops today;) Biggest thing yet If you wish to collaborate/discuss with me, contact me on discord @ashdfrkl Sharing this repo keeps me motivated to continue dropping my findings for you all. A…
- 3
Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
pluralistic.net · 496 points · Discussion
->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Top Sources: None --> Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and…
- 4
OpenRA
openra.net · 471 points · Discussion
The past year has brought several exciting new developments, which we are happy to share today with a new OpenRA playtest! The headline new feature in playtest-20260222 are the new random map…
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Fintech Engineering Handbook
w.pitula.me · 399 points · Discussion
Welcome to the Fintech Engineering Handbook. This resource aims to describe the most important patterns used in software engineering, where money is the primary focus of the system. It can be read in…
- 6
The case for physical media ownership
dervis.de · 302 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
arstechnica.com · 217 points · Discussion
The Motion Picture Association, which includes Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime Video, and Paramount, and the Streaming Innovation Alliance, which includes Netflix, Disney, Peacock, and Pluto TV, opposed…
- 8
Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
fosslinux.com · 180 points · Discussion
Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: I have been reviving old hardware with Linux for the better part of a decade. The machines Windows 11 left behind are not trash. They are waiting for the right operating…
- 9
Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)
danluu.com · 171 points · Discussion
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Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off
economist.com · 146 points · Discussion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo
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AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
spectrum.ieee.org · 138 points · Discussion
Summary RFIC design is a complex “ dark art ” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning…
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The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II
flutetunes.com · 125 points · Discussion
by Howard Fosdick During the Second World War, America was united as it never has been since. Everyone had family and friends in the armed forces. Rationing of everyday items like sugar, coffee, fuel,…
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Underarm bowling incident of 1981
en.wikipedia.org · 118 points · Discussion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Australia's Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie while being observed by keeper Rod Marsh and non-striker Bruce Edgar The underarm…
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Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on
cephalosec.com · 107 points · Discussion
CISOned Opinions As some of those fears, uncertainties, and doubts about Mythos are starting to feel real, what can we do about it? Paradoxically, I believe that little needs to change in what we’ve…
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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
quantamagazine.org · 106 points · Discussion
E very time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there…
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Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
sciencedirect.com · 100 points · Discussion
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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
cauenapier.com · 86 points · Discussion
Related: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608570 - June 2026 (166 comments)
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IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
ipcrawl.com · 73 points · Discussion
LIVE Tulsa, United States WOODLAND WEST PET RESORT INC 19 LIVE Rotterdam, Netherlands CPE Customers NL 19 SNAPSHOT Como, Italy Telecom Italia S.p.A. TIN EASY LITE 16 SNAPSHOT Champs-sur-Marne, France…
- 19
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
techcrunch.com · 67 points · Discussion
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos. That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is…
- 20
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V
theregister.com · 61 points · Discussion
Yuri Zaporozhets of QRV Systems is a busy chap. He's built a new RISC-V-based personal computer, a mainframe on an FPGA, and rewritten QNX – twice. Seemingly every month or two, The Reg FOSS desk…
- 21
How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)
texashighways.com · 60 points · Discussion
H-E-B’s quiet acts of kindness are preserving communities and cementing the grocery giant as Texas’ most beloved brand By Michael J. Mooney Illustrations by Chris Gash W hen the lights went out at his…
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Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests
theguardian.com · 57 points · Discussion
Screen time for babies and toddlers under the age of two has been linked with long-term negative effects on health and quality of life and should be avoided, according to a landmark study. It warns…
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A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting
gadgetreview.com · 31 points · Discussion
Claremore resident Darren Blanchard faced trespass charges after speaking past a three-minute timer at a February council meeting on the 300-acre Project Mustang campus When bodycam footage from a…
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Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together
ethz.ch · 30 points · Discussion
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed pixels that can not only create images, but also analyse them. In the future, this could lead to the development of devices that function as camera and display…
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A History of Menus Is a Menu of History
pudding.cool · 24 points · Discussion
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Running a software jam in a world of slop
foxmoss.com · 20 points · Discussion
I'm Fox. I'm a 16 year old, and I've been working mostly working on making projects I thought were cool & would do well on the internet over the last year. You can check out my other blog posts if you…
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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…
- 28
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967)
blog.jgc.org · 11 points · Discussion
The October 1967 edition of Life Magazine covered the ongoing Vietnam War but also contained a long article helping readers understand how "man's most complex machine" (the computer) worked. There's a…
- 30
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.…