Hacker News on Sunday, 14 June 2026

Your ePub Is fine(andreklein.net)

856 points by sohkamyung 4 months ago | 290 comments

Blog post by Andre Klein arguing that valid EPUB files fail on Kobo e-readers because of Adobe's rendering engine.

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing(github.com)

676 points by tamnd 4 months ago | 131 comments

GitHub repository for Kage, an open-source tool that clones a website with JavaScript stripped out and packs it into a single binary for offline viewing.

How to earn a billion dollars(paulgraham.com)

634 points by kingstoned 4 months ago | 1643 comments

Paul Graham essay, based on an Oxford Union talk, explaining how people become billionaires, chiefly by starting successful startups.

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything(windowscentral.com)

475 points by josephcsible 4 months ago | 329 comments

Windows Central article on a Reddit discussion where Windows 11 users complain about Microsoft account requirements and the loss of local account options.

Not everyone is using AI for everything(gabrielweinberg.com)

432 points by yegg 4 months ago | 472 comments

Gabriel Weinberg's Substack essay arguing that AI adoption varies, with people embracing, limiting, or avoiding AI much as they do with eating meat.

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model(github.com)

384 points by unrvl22 4 months ago | 206 comments

GitHub issue on the Nex-N2 repo alleging Rio's Rio-3.5-Open-397B model is an element-wise merge of about 0.6 Nex-N2_pro and 0.4 Qwen3.5-397B, with no training of its own.

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

371 points by iliashad 4 months ago | 95 comments

Hacker News discussion post describing a project that indexes 669 GB of GoPro cycling footage locally on an M1 Max using open-source ML models for searchable clips.

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded(sqltoerdiagram.com)

334 points by robhati 4 months ago | 65 comments

A free in-browser tool that parses SQL CREATE TABLE statements and renders an entity-relationship diagram, with PNG/SVG export and no data uploaded.

Formal methods and the future of programming(blog.janestreet.com)

322 points by eatonphil 4 months ago | 99 comments

Jane Street Blog post on formal methods and their role in the future of programming, illustrated with OCaml-style specification code.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

279 points by david927 4 months ago | 997 comments

Linux 7.1(lore.kernel.org)

268 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 104 comments

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation(johnowhitaker.github.io)

227 points by Yenrabbit 4 months ago | 26 comments

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)(destroyallsoftware.com)

224 points by subset 4 months ago | 127 comments

Don't trust large context windows(garrit.xyz)

220 points by computersuck 4 months ago | 161 comments

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency(su3.io)

197 points by losfair 4 months ago | 58 comments

Phoenix LiveView 1.2(phoenixframework.org)

172 points by ksec 4 months ago | 44 comments

Kirkland Roundabouts(kirklandroundabouts.com)

171 points by DenisM 4 months ago | 140 comments

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown(cnn.com)

165 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 239 comments

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million(swissinfo.ch)

159 points by FabCH 4 months ago | 152 comments

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost(garrit.xyz)

158 points by mindracer 4 months ago | 71 comments

Did Anthropic ask for this?(verysane.ai)

147 points by ad8e 4 months ago | 128 comments

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields(airfields-freeman.com)

140 points by wizardforhire 4 months ago | 46 comments

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes(maurycyz.com)

133 points by zdw 4 months ago | 41 comments

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)(blog.apnic.net)

132 points by teleforce 4 months ago | 47 comments

Perlisisms (1982)(cs.yale.edu)

125 points by tosh 4 months ago | 59 comments

Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks(twitter.com)

123 points by lucasfcosta 4 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News(orangecrumbs.com)

119 points by octopus143 4 months ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock(github.com)

119 points by arcaege 4 months ago | 35 comments

FarOutCompany(faroutcompany.com)

118 points by bookofjoe 4 months ago | 19 comments

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter(theregister.com)

116 points by wglb 4 months ago | 92 comments

UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s(manchestereveningnews.co.uk)

111 points by beejiu 4 months ago | 167 comments

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress(dailymail.com)

109 points by Bender 4 months ago | 84 comments

Extinction-Level Capitalism(matthewbutterick.com)

109 points by laurex 4 months ago | 53 comments

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech(twitter.com)

100 points by sosomoxie 4 months ago | 48 comments

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed(friedkielbasa.substack.com)

99 points by fkozlowski 4 months ago | 25 comments

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations(techcrunch.com)

97 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 16 comments

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust(github.com)

95 points by Venn1 4 months ago | 87 comments

Chaosnet (1981)(tumbleweed.nu)

93 points by RGBCube 4 months ago | 12 comments

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?(bramcohen.com)

84 points by drob518 4 months ago | 110 comments

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache(vinyl-cache.org)

73 points by embedding-shape 4 months ago | 34 comments

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?(arcadeblogger.com)

73 points by msephton 4 months ago | 21 comments

Software Architecture Guide (2019)(martinfowler.com)

71 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 29 comments

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved(npr.org)

70 points by mikhael 4 months ago | 25 comments

Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution(tribblix.org)

70 points by naturalmovement 4 months ago | 25 comments

Making Claude a Chemist(anthropic.com)

68 points by gmays 4 months ago | 64 comments

The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf](rhawa.org)

66 points by luu 4 months ago | 91 comments

Abu Fanous(en.wikipedia.org)

60 points by joebig 4 months ago | 10 comments

The rich aren't your role models(theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com)

57 points by Refreeze5224 4 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU(github.com)

55 points by alebal123bal 4 months ago | 9 comments

Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines(ataraxy-labs.github.io)

55 points by rohanat 4 months ago | 36 comments

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples(theguardian.com)

52 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 20 comments

A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator(analogtv.net)

51 points by ambanmba 4 months ago | 8 comments

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

49 points by classichasclass 4 months ago | 5 comments

'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess(wired.com)

47 points by momentmaker 4 months ago | 33 comments

Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo(dir.dillo-browser.org)

44 points by HotGarbage 4 months ago | 0 comments

EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision(reuters.com)

42 points by tartoran 4 months ago | 25 comments

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer(yusufaytas.com)

42 points by yusufaytas 4 months ago | 17 comments

Cloud-based LLM gold rush is ending(automato.substack.com)

40 points by andrewstetsenko 4 months ago | 9 comments

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)(byorgey.wordpress.com)

39 points by downbad_ 4 months ago | 4 comments

Zinnia: A modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust(zinnia-os.org)

37 points by mrunix 4 months ago | 1 comments