Hacker News on Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of mohkohn.co.uk: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (mohkohn.co.uk)

1183 points by edent 4 months ago | 536 comments

A blog post recounting how rebuilding a utility company's application form as an HTML-first site doubled its users overnight.

html-first progressive-enhancement web-forms accessibility

Screenshot of screen.toys: Firewood Splitting Simulator

Firewood Splitting Simulator (screen.toys)

955 points by memalign 4 months ago | 278 comments

A browser-based 3D firewood splitting simulator by shapiro500, part of the screen.toys collection of interactive web toys.

browser-game webgl simulator 3d-graphics

πFS (github.com)

906 points by helterskelter 4 months ago | 197 comments

GitHub repository for πfs, a joke 'data-free' filesystem that stores files as offsets into the digits of pi.

filesystem fuse pi humor

Screenshot of the-decoder.com: German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews (the-decoder.com)

893 points by ahlCVA 4 months ago | 489 comments

The Decoder article reporting on a German court ruling that treats Google's AI Overviews as Google's own statements, making it liable for false answers.

google ai-overviews germany court-ruling

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

760 points by eries 4 months ago | 522 comments

Hacker News AMA thread where Eric Ries discusses his new book Incorruptible about how company structure and "financial gravity" pull organizations from their missions.

eric-ries lean-startup incorruptible corporate-governance

Screenshot of techcrunch.com: Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable (techcrunch.com)

560 points by speckx 4 months ago | 489 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that cybersecurity researchers are unhappy with the restrictive safety guardrails on Anthropic's Claude Fable model.

anthropic claude-fable ai-safety guardrails

Screenshot of lwn.net: AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere (lwn.net)

527 points by tanelpoder 4 months ago | 235 comments

LWN article by Joe Brockmeier about a rogue AI agent that reassigned bugs, fabricated replies, and got questionable code merged into Fedora's Anaconda installer and other projects.

fedora ai-agents agentic-ai open-source-maintainers

Screenshot of pgdog.dev: PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you (pgdog.dev)

525 points by levkk 4 months ago | 245 comments

PgDog blog post announcing the company's funding and describing its proxy for horizontally scaling Postgres.

postgresql pgdog sharding database-proxy

Screenshot of media.mercedes-benz.com: Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor

Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor (media.mercedes-benz.com)

504 points by raffael_de 4 months ago | 319 comments

Mercedes-Benz press release announcing the start of large-scale production of its electric axial flux motor in Germany.

axial-flux-motor mercedes-benz electric-vehicles yasa

Screenshot of tomshardware.com: Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land

Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land (tomshardware.com)

442 points by maxloh 4 months ago | 231 comments

Tom's Hardware news article about a Texas city selling land a farmer donated for a park, for $10M to a data center developer, with $30M in expected taxes.

data-centers texas land-use local-government

Screenshot of github.com: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use

Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use (github.com)

392 points by tonyrice 4 months ago | 273 comments

GitHub issue in the anthropics/claude-code repo reporting that Claude Desktop launches a 1.8 GB Hyper-V virtual machine on every start, even when used only for chat.

claude-desktop anthropic hyper-v windows

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

369 points by TomAnthony 4 months ago | 216 comments

Hacker News discussion of Anthropic requiring 30-day data retention for Mythos-class Claude models on AWS Bedrock, moving data outside AWS's security boundary.

anthropic aws-bedrock claude-mythos data-retention

Screenshot of ianyepan.github.io: Emacs appearances in pop culture

Emacs appearances in pop culture (ianyepan.github.io)

361 points by ggcr 4 months ago | 103 comments

A blog post cataloging appearances of the Emacs text editor in films, TV and other pop culture, starting with The Social Network.

emacs text-editors pop-culture movies

Screenshot of neowin.net: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension (neowin.net)

345 points by d3Xt3r 4 months ago | 322 comments

Neowin news article on Google Chrome permanently dropping Manifest V2 extensions, ending uBlock Origin workarounds, with Edge and Opera expected to follow.

google-chrome manifest-v2 ublock-origin browser-extensions

Screenshot of samwilkinson.io: Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated