Hacker News on Friday, 19 June 2026

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics(startupfortune.com)

896 points by ck2 4 months ago | 380 comments

Startup Fortune article reporting Hyundai is buying SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, taking full ownership.

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school(reuters.com)

749 points by ilreb 4 months ago | 516 comments

Reuters article about Norway imposing a near ban on AI use in elementary schools; the captured page shows a bot verification captcha.

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28(jvm-weekly.com)

629 points by philonoist 4 months ago | 389 comments

JVM Weekly newsletter issue 180 explaining Project Valhalla's decade of development and its arrival in JDK 28.

There are no instances in ATProto(overreacted.io)

509 points by danabramov 4 months ago | 289 comments

Dan Abramov's Overreacted blog post explaining why the concept of "instances" from Mastodon doesn't apply to Bluesky's AT Protocol.

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2(arrowtsx.dev)

474 points by oshrimpton 4 months ago | 235 comments

Blog post arguing that bigger AI models are not better, comparing benchmark and hallucination rates of GLM-5.2, GPT-5.5, Opus 4.8, DeepSeek V4 and others.

How many of the 170k English words do you know?(vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app)

444 points by abnry 4 months ago | 528 comments

VocabOwl is a web quiz that estimates how many of 171,476 English words you know via a stratified 100-question test.

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access(tales.fromprod.com)

442 points by birdculture 4 months ago | 144 comments

Blog post reporting that Google Workspace began warning Firefox users on a Business Plus account that they must use Chrome to keep access.

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died(legacy.com)

430 points by pgrote 4 months ago | 50 comments

Legacy.com obituary page for Robert "Bobby" Prince, composer of the Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D soundtracks; it loaded as a Cloudflare verification screen.

Court Records Should Be Free(eff.org)

430 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 99 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that federal court records should be freely accessible to the public.

Amateur may have cracked Linear A(aiclambake.com)

395 points by Kosturdistan 4 months ago | 154 comments

Blog post on AI Clambake reporting that self-taught AI engineer Tom Di Mino claims to have deciphered the Minoan Linear A script, pending expert review.

My Mathematical Regression(blog.dahl.dev)

346 points by aleda145 4 months ago | 134 comments

Blog post in which the author revisits a decade-old Project Euler solutions repo and reflects on a plain-text answer to problem 15, Lattice Paths.

Plotnine(plotnine.org)

251 points by tosh 4 months ago | 74 comments

A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech(eff.org)

241 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 117 comments

Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way(taoofmac.com)

210 points by zdw 4 months ago | 38 comments

Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom(people.idsia.ch)

195 points by tosh 4 months ago | 88 comments

Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)(nochan.net)

190 points by Bender 4 months ago | 113 comments

Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings(theguardian.com)

185 points by ValentineC 4 months ago | 100 comments

Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)(jacc.org)

179 points by js2 4 months ago | 114 comments

The room the economy can't see(wilsoniumite.com)

172 points by Wilsoniumite 4 months ago | 167 comments

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks(newsletter.kentbeck.com)

165 points by rrvsh 4 months ago | 83 comments

Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership(the-independent.com)

156 points by theanonymousone 4 months ago | 61 comments

Big Banana Car(bigbananacar.com)

156 points by Bender 4 months ago | 79 comments

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good(nature.com)

154 points by Michelangelo11 4 months ago | 174 comments

John Jumper to join Anthropic(twitter.com)

147 points by artninja1988 4 months ago | 111 comments

Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today(letsencrypt.status.io)

141 points by widdakay 4 months ago | 90 comments

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems(brooker.co.za)

138 points by KraftyOne 4 months ago | 34 comments

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI(mnot.net)

125 points by ingve 4 months ago | 76 comments

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette(simonwillison.net)

124 points by lumpa 4 months ago | 54 comments

Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel(eandt.theiet.org)

120 points by geox 4 months ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

112 points by amichail 4 months ago | 189 comments

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks(lwn.net)

112 points by jwilk 4 months ago | 74 comments

Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm(semiconductor.samsung.com)

107 points by its_ajseven 4 months ago | 35 comments

Zenzizenzizenzic(en.wikipedia.org)

97 points by gyosifov 4 months ago | 29 comments

Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers(en.wikipedia.org)

92 points by dhorthy 4 months ago | 51 comments

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992(blog.plover.com)

86 points by speckx 4 months ago | 40 comments

Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2(6it.dev)

85 points by birdculture 4 months ago | 19 comments

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?(natkr.com)

84 points by logickkk1 4 months ago | 29 comments

Windows NT for GameCube/Wii(github.com)

84 points by zdw 4 months ago | 11 comments

Pull request limits are cutting down the noise(github.blog)

80 points by ingve 4 months ago | 40 comments

Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets(ft.com)

76 points by fandorin 4 months ago | 52 comments

An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy(github.com)

73 points by modinfo 4 months ago | 42 comments

Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow(lloydslist.com)

73 points by decimalenough 4 months ago | 61 comments

Fable Converted Pylint to Rust(pypi.org)

68 points by adamraudonis 4 months ago | 66 comments

Leave a Trace(jakeworth.com)

62 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 47 comments

Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored(github.com)

60 points by WolfOliver 4 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups(startupsbr.com)

50 points by leonagano 4 months ago | 23 comments

Granularity comes at a cost(sidhantbansal.com)

43 points by sidhantbansal 4 months ago | 8 comments

I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 tps(point.free)

42 points by zdw 4 months ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?(brainfrog.lol)

40 points by AlexanderZ 4 months ago | 28 comments

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment(whatwelo.st)

34 points by watermelon0 4 months ago | 35 comments

Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt(erildrun.bearblog.dev)

33 points by speckx 4 months ago | 37 comments

The UK's New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents(eff.org)

33 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 25 comments

Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability(techspot.com)

32 points by speckx 4 months ago | 11 comments

GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running It(vettedconsumer.com)

32 points by ermantrout 4 months ago | 4 comments

Aikido Code Audit(aikido.dev)

30 points by ilreb 4 months ago | 10 comments

Lift Challenge(darpa.mil)

28 points by mhb 4 months ago | 33 comments

From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access(reuters.com)

28 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 months ago | 35 comments

NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission(techcrunch.com)

28 points by isaacfrond 4 months ago | 36 comments

I solved my mystery fatigue with AI(metalearn.substack.com)

27 points by staticshock 4 months ago | 9 comments

Cocktail Optimization, an Integer Programming Problem(bunkum.us)

26 points by ftgregg 4 months ago | 4 comments