Hacker News Daily — June 28, 2026
29 stories · June 28, 2026
In this issue
- 1
EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
patrick-breyer.de · 507 points · Discussion
Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented “double-attack” on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digital…
- 2
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
marfapublicradio.org · 374 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
antoine.fi · 220 points · Discussion
This article is about my experience using Opus 4.8 to read the results of an MRI and give me a sort of second opinion on the diagnosis. Of course, I know the technology might not be there yet, which…
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Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
cbsnews.com · 205 points · Discussion
By Paula Wethington Web Producer Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan.…
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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
eff.org · 200 points · Discussion
Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a…
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
aresluna.org · 188 points · Discussion
Marcin Wichary 2 February 2015 / 1,800 words Originally published in Medium Engineering One keyboard bug three decades in the making A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at…
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A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
github.com · 163 points · Discussion
What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local.codexignore…
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Librepods: AirPods liberated
github.com · 146 points · Discussion
Warning librepods.org is not an official website of the LibrePods project. It inaccurately claims to be the official website of the project by claiming copyrights and using the LibrePods logo in the…
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Show HN: Zanagrams
zanagrams.com · 111 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short
techcrunch.com · 102 points · Discussion
In Brief Posted: 12:05 PM PDT · June 28, 2026 Image Credits: Bloomberg / Getty Images Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had…
- 11
The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
theatlantic.com · 87 points · Discussion
I. The Boneyard Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a…
- 12
Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)
openculture.com · 75 points · Discussion
https://x.com/wrathofgnon/status/1250287741247426565, https://xcancel.com/wrathofgnon/status/1250287741247426565
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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
12gramsofcarbon.com · 73 points · Discussion
Generally speaking, if you spend tens of thousands of dollars on something, you want to see something come out on the other end. Some return on investment. O sure, not always. I’ve previously said…
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The cost YAGNI was never about
newsletter.kentbeck.com · 72 points · Discussion
Here’s how I remember it—Chet Hendrickson came up to me in the middle of a project and said, “I could do this simplistic thing now but in 3 weeks that will be insufficient so since we’re going to need…
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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
semgrep.dev · 71 points · Discussion
We ran a set of popular open-source models against our IDOR benchmark, the same dataset and the same prompt we've used to evaluate frontier coding agents. The result surprised us: GLM 5.2, an…
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Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]
keremcosar.uvacreate.virginia.edu · 69 points · Discussion
(changed from https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ancient-clay-tablets-sho... )
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
oldvcr.blogspot.com · 66 points · Discussion
Behold: the Guru of GNU! (Photo by Habib Mhenni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.) True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks an…
- 18
The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition
github.com · 61 points · Discussion
The MUMPS Primer: An Introduction and Tutorial for the 1976 Standard Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. What is MUMPS? 1.2. The 1976 Standard 1.3. Who This Book Is For 1.4. Getting Started 2. The…
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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
righto.com · 61 points · Discussion
The Space Shuttle's five 1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands of sensors, displaying data to the astronauts, and navigating…
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The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It
pcmag.com · 52 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Historical memory prices 1960-2026
dam.stanford.edu · 45 points · Discussion
Historic and current memory and storage prices, collected in the spirit of John C. McCallum's classic memory-price dataset — interactive, with the raw data downloadable. Hover for details, click the…
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More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)
cbc.ca · 41 points · Discussion
Quirks & Quarks · Analysis NASA says they've discovered the clearest evidence of potential life on Mars to date, but as history shows, finding actual proof of life remains a difficult task. Bob…
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Show HN: DRM-Free Books
frequal.com · 37 points · Discussion
After several years of mandatory DRM lockdowns from most commercial book sources, now authors have a choice when it comes to DRM for their books. Pick authors and books that are DRM-free, or download…
- 24
Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits
arxiv.org · 35 points · Discussion
Authors: Navid Anjum Aadit, Xiuqi Zhang, Shuvro Chowdhury, Kevin Callahan-Coray, Kyle Lee, Saleh Bunaiyan, Sanjay Seshan, Clayton Thomas, Jason Twigg, Andrew Seawright, Forrest Brewer, Tathagata…
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TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma
chipsandcheese.com · 28 points · Discussion
Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, we got the 67th TOP500 list where there was a surprise awaiting us. That surprise being a new Number 1 Supercomputer on the TOP500.…
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Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch
github.com · 13 points · Discussion
Hi everyone, I started working on nanoeuler after the ban of anthropic's fable because my ambition and dream is to work in the AI field in anthropic. The two interesting reasons that led me to create…
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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
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators
appaca.ai · 11 points · Discussion
Appaca is my third pivot. A couple of years ago, I started working on an idea on no-code platform that generates code. The goal is to help devs and agencies ship products faster for their clients. I…