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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
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• The AirPods Effect
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• How many of the 170k English words do you know?
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• There are no instances in ATProto
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• Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
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• GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
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• Court Records Should Be Free
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• Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
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• Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
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• CSSQuake
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• DuckDB Internals Part 1
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• .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
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• CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
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• Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
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• I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
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• Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
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• Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
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• Amateur may have cracked Linear A
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• Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
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• Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
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• RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
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• Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
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• Midjourney Medical
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• Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
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• DeepSeek Introduces Vision
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• I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
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• Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
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• Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
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• Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
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• TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
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• Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
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• GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
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• Hacker News but for independent blogs
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• GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
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• U.S. science is in chaos
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• Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
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• Want your images back? That'll be $5
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• Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hetzner Price Adjustment
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• Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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• The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
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• I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
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• Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
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• SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
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• Mechanical Watch (2022)
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• Running local models is good now
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• Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
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• Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
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• Your ePub Is fine
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• Apple Foundation Models
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• Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
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• What happened to nerds?
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• CrankGPT
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• Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
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• Iroh 1.0
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• TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
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• A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Firewood Splitting Simulator
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• New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times
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• GLM 5.2 Is Out
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• AI coding at home without going broke
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• Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
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• Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
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• Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
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• How to earn a billion dollars
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• Not everyone is using AI for everything
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• Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
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• How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
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• Electric motors with no rare earths
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• Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
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• Open source AI must win
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• Leaving Mozilla
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• Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
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• Every Frame Perfect
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• Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
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• Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
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• Lines of code got a better publicist
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• Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22
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• Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
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• If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
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• Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
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• Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
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• AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
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• Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
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• CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including \"undruggable\" cancers
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
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• PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
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• Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
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• Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
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• Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land
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• AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
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• Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
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• Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
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• MiMo Code is now released and open-source
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• Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
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• CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
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• Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
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• If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
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• macOS Container Machines
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• German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
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• Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
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• Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
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• I'm Eric Ries, author of \"The Lean Startup\" and new book \"Incorruptible\" – AMA
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• πFS
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
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• xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
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• AI is slowing down
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• EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
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• Siri AI
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• Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
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• Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
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• Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
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• Making Graphics Like it's 1993
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• Claude Fable 5
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
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• How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
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• DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
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• Dopamine Fracking
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• How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
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• Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
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• Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
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• A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
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• MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
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• Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
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• Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
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• Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
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• Moving beyond fork() + exec()
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• Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
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• Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
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• The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners
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• LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
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• Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
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• Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How LLMs work
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• Ask HN: What was your \"oh shit\" moment with GenAI?
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• Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
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• New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
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• pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
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• Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
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• S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
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• GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
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• Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
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• Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
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• Retro-Tech Parenting
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• When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
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• Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
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• SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
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• C++: The Documentary
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• Changing how we develop Ladybird
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• Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
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• Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
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• Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
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• DaVinci Resolve 21
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• Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
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• They’re made out of weights
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• Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
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• U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
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• I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
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• Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
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• French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
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• VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug
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• MAI-Code-1-Flash
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• CT scans of BYD car parts
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• Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
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• AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
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• Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
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• Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
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• I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
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• Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
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• Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nvidia RTX Spark
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• AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
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• Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
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• Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
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• macOS needs its grid back
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• Why Janet? (2023)
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• Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai
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• A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
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• Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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• Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
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• 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
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• Codex just found a \"workaround\" of not having sudo on my PC
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• Chuwi Minibook X
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• A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
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• Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
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• CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
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• The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
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• Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
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• The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
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• Zig: Build System Reworked
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• Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
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• Domain expertise has always been the real moat
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• Shantell Sans (2023)
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• Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
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• The Website Specification
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• Dav2d
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• Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
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• Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
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