Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-07-11

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
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• Organic Maps
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• OpenPrinter
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• Resetting Xbox
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• OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
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• CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
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• StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
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• Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
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• Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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• Chatto is now open source
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• GPT‑Live
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• Grok 4.5
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• John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
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• Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
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• Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
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• EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
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• Show HN: 18 Words
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• GPT-5.6
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• QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
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• Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-07-04

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• OpenRA
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• Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
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• Free the Icons
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• GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
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• 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
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• HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
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• Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
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• Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
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• Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
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• .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
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• European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
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• Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
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• Claude Sonnet 5
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• Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
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• Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
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• For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
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• Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
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• Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data
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• Half-Baked Product
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• The bottleneck might be the air in the room
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-06-27

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Identity verification on Claude
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• Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
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• Deno Desktop
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• Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
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• Steam Machine launches today
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• What we call \"age verification\" is actually mass surveillance
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• FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
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• We’re making Bunny DNS free
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• OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
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• Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
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• Half-Life 2 in a Browser
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• Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
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• Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
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• An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
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• Om Malik has died
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• The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
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• Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
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• U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
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• DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
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• Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-06-20

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Firewood Splitting Simulator
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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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• Your ePub Is fine
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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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• I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
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• SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
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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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• GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
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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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• Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
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• Midjourney Medical
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• I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
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• Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-06-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
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• LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
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• Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
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• Dopamine Fracking
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• Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
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• Making Graphics Like it's 1993
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• Claude Fable 5
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• CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
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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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• 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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• Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
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• If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
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• AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
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• CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including \"undruggable\" cancers
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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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