Hacker News Daily — June 29, 2026

30 stories · June 29, 2026

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1

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 824 points · Discussion

Before we start: I'm hosting the first-ever The Pragmatic Summit on 11 February, 2026, in San Francisco. Join 400 top engineers and leaders as we answer the question: How is AI reshaping software…
2

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

det.social · 459 points · Discussion

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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

quesma.com · 394 points · Discussion

I’ve been disappointed by local models in the past. But then I checked Qwen 3.6, and I was in awe. For me it’s the first local model that actually makes sense as a general intelligence. It comes in…
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US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

theguardian.com · 304 points · Discussion

The US supreme court has ruled that law enforcement’s use of sprawling warrants that sweep up smartphone location data requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment, in a boost to critics…
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Rocketlab acquires Iridium

investors.rocketlabcorp.com · 301 points · Discussion

Unites Rocket Lab's leading launch and satellite manufacturing capabilities with Iridium's global network, spectrum, and experience to unlock critical space applications. Adds material revenue scale…
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Tidal AI Policy

tidal.com · 277 points · Discussion

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Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

twitter.com · 276 points · Discussion

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Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

en.sedaily.com · 275 points · Discussion

Reuters/Yonhap News Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron have been sued by some consumers in the United States over alleged memory price fixing. With "chipflation" intensifying recently—including…
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European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

torrentfreak.com · 261 points · Discussion

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A native graphical shell for SSH

probablymarcus.com · 182 points · Discussion

With the web browser, we have really figured out a good flow for how one device (the “server”) can provide an experience on another device (the “client”). This raises a fun idea: imagine if servers…
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Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

thomasdullien.github.io · 178 points · Discussion

Download the original PDF. Introduction I founded two companies — zynamics, which I ran from 2004 to March 2011 and which I sold to Google (GOOG), and optimyze, which I ran from 2019 to November 2021…
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What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

fergusfinn.com · 175 points · Discussion

Here’s a simple CUDA program. It adds two vectors. __global__ void vadd ( const float* a, const float* b, float* c, int n) { int i = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (i < n) c[i] = a[i] +…
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WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

humphri.es · 147 points · Discussion

Published on June 28th, 2026 Background This text assumes the reader is familiar with the concept of just-in-time compilation. Dolphin isn’t on iOS, because you can’t do JIT compilation on iOS. That’s…
14

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

cpushack.com · 137 points · Discussion

Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and…
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CachyOS June 2026 Release

cachyos.org · 115 points · Discussion

Hello CachyOS Enthusiasts, This is our fourth release of the year, bringing the new CachyOS Hyprland Noctalia desktop option, DNS-over-QUIC support, Python and GCC performance improvements, and a…
16

Building Principia for Windows XP

voxelmanip.se · 102 points · Discussion

Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had…
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Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

github.com · 97 points · Discussion

Aloha! 🌺 Ornith-1.0 is a self-improving open-source models for agentic coding. Highlights: State-of-the-Art Coding Agents: Available in 9B-Dense, 31B-Dense, 35B-MoE, and 397B-MoE (post-trained on top…
18

The Radiation Exposure Lie

worksinprogress.co · 94 points · Discussion

Chernobyl was the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster. The reactor was built to a flawed design. In 1986, its operators disabled automated safety systems and removed control rods to perform a…
19

Rebuilding the Computer Room

alexwlchan.net · 74 points · Discussion

One of my distinct memories of childhood is the “computer room”. When I was young, computers weren’t a ubiquitous feature of our lives; they were bulky appliances with a fixed location, and you had to…
20

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

queue.acm.org · 69 points · Discussion

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The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming

thomaswc.com · 67 points · Discussion

Consider all the things a programmer needs to keep track of while writing code: 1) Correctness: making sure the program does the right thing, satisfies all requirements, maintains all important…
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Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

lucassifoni.info · 62 points · Discussion

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it Jun 25 2026 TOC: Walking with Wallace Technical details Walking with Wallace I wanted to try a new kind of post, to present Wallace,…
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Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting

hccf.onmy.cloud · 49 points · Discussion

The Internet is the most powerful communication tool ever created, yet the infrastructure underpinning it has been leveraged by the tech industry to extract our data and exploit our attention. The…
24

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

publicdomainreview.org · 48 points · Discussion

Before crowds jostled for biennale parties and gondola rides, Venice’s waterways witnessed scenes of an even more violent kind — “La Serenissima” this was not. Factional divides ran deep, and were…
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Decker Fantasy Camp 2026

itch.io · 40 points · Discussion

Summer is upon us. The weather is hot, but pixels are cooler than ever. Pack your bags with swim trunks, mosquito repellent, animated GIFs, plenty of snacks, and, of course, your…
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Font-Family Recommendations

chrismorgan.info · 29 points · Discussion

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Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

vllm.ai · 25 points · Discussion

Everyone is watching for the next frontier model. The more interesting layer may be the one in front of it. Routers are becoming the control plane for AI inference. Their first role was practical:…
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.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

discourse.ifin.network · 22 points · Discussion

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JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

github.com · 22 points · Discussion

JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that provides DevOps and IT teams with on-demand and secure access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, Database and RemoteApp endpoints…
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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…