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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:12) - Steam Machine launches today
• (01:44) - Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
• (02:58) - Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
• (04:22) - GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
• (05:48) - Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
• (07:10) - My Mathematical Regression
• (08:42) - Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
• (10:03) - VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
• (11:17) - Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
• (12:18) - Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
• (13:27) - Outro

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694

Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585

GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377

Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=HhTZY2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614715

My Mathematical Regression
https://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597221

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630171

VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639240

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
https://puzzlelair.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629213

Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
https://oak.space/oak/oak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Identity verification on Claude
• (01:47) - Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
• (03:17) - Deno Desktop
• (04:59) - Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
• (06:26) - Help I accidentally a wigglegram
• (07:40) - There is minimal downside to switching to open models
• (09:05) - Everything is logarithms
• (10:19) - JSON-LD explained for personal websites
• (11:39) - GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
• (13:11) - The minimum viable unit of saleable software
• (14:47) - Outro

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
https://david.newgas.net/did-my-old-job-only-exist-because-of-fraud/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622867

Deno Desktop
https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626137

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
https://apertvs.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622778

Help I accidentally a wigglegram
https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605561

There is minimal downside to switching to open models
https://www.marble.onl/posts/cancel_claude.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622518

Everything is logarithms
https://alexkritchevsky.com/2026/05/25/everything-is-logarithms.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622626

JSON-LD explained for personal websites
https://hawksley.dev/blog/json-ld-explained-for-personal-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621517

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626866

The minimum viable unit of saleable software
https://brandur.org/minimum-viable-unit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620342

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
• (01:38) - SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
• (03:09) - DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
• (04:33) - Renting a sewing machine from the library
• (05:51) - Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
• (07:19) - Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
• (08:32) - Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
• (09:31) - Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
• (11:01) - Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
• (12:05) - UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
• (13:23) - Outro

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-community
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766

Renting a sewing machine from the library
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613755

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614844

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613555

Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569

Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943

Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608394

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610853

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
• (01:54) - Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
• (03:16) - Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
• (04:41) - There are no instances in ATProto
• (06:11) - The AirPods Effect
• (08:15) - Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
• (09:12) - How many of the 170k English words do you know?
• (10:02) - Court Records Should Be Free
• (11:22) - Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
• (12:39) - Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
• (13:55) - Outro

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595511

There are no instances in ATProto
https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515

The AirPods Effect
https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592832

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602352

How many of the 170k English words do you know?
https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586

Court Records Should Be Free
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546890

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549118

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
• (01:56) - .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
• (03:07) - CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
• (04:23) - Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
• (05:30) - Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
• (07:07) - Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
• (08:23) - Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
• (09:51) - W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
• (11:19) - DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
• (13:01) - To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
• (14:09) - Outro

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583356

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583606

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
https://www.intheweights.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591348

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585866

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
https://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583897

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584497

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553388

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operating-system-0610
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543311

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
• (01:34) - Midjourney Medical
• (03:14) - Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
• (04:26) - US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
• (05:32) - RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
• (06:44) - How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
• (08:10) - Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
• (09:33) - Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
• (11:01) - DeepSeek Introduces Vision
• (12:20) - Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
• (13:42) - Outro

Midjourney Medical
https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209

DeepSeek Introduces Vision
https://chat.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Running local models is good now
• (01:33) - SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
• (02:57) - GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
• (03:57) - Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
• (04:59) - TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
• (06:29) - Stop Using JWTs
• (07:39) - Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
• (09:23) - Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
• (10:57) - Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
• (12:05) - But yak shaving is fun (2019)
• (13:13) - Outro

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561654

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558018

Stop Using JWTs
https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558147

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558489

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
https://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563394

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564696

But yak shaving is fun (2019)
https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555838

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
• (01:32) - Iroh 1.0
• (02:55) - Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
• (04:35) - TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
• (05:40) - Hetzner Price Adjustment
• (07:02) - Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb
• (08:20) - John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
• (09:01) - Fox to buy Roku
• (10:21) - The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
• (11:35) - My Homelab AI Dev Platform
• (12:45) - Outro

Iroh 1.0
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
https://tinywind.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543475

Hetzner Price Adjustment
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb
https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547985

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550779

Fox to buy Roku
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550693

My Homelab AI Dev Platform
https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542433