Hacker News on Thursday, 25 June 2026

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time(scrollprize.org)

1608 points by verditelabs 4 months ago | 353 comments

Vesuvius Challenge announcement page reporting that an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll has been virtually unrolled and read for the first time.

Om Malik has died(om.co)

1286 points by minimaxir 4 months ago | 159 comments

Death announcement on Om Malik's blog stating he passed away June 24, 2026 at Stanford Hospital after a long heart illness, inviting remembrances.

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy(expression.fire.org)

1073 points by bilsbie 4 months ago | 550 comments

An opinion piece on FIRE's Expression newsletter arguing that internet age verification laws amount to identity verification and threaten Americans' privacy.

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads(reuters.com)

797 points by virgildotcodes 4 months ago | 1175 comments

News report that Apple is raising prices on MacBooks, iPads and other products as memory costs rise sharply.

Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments(hackernewstrends.com)

651 points by ytkimirti 4 months ago | 144 comments

Hacker Trends, a tool that charts how often topics, tools, or people appear across 18 years of Hacker News posts and comments, with matching stories listed below.

Half-Life 2 in a Browser(hl2.slqnt.dev)

619 points by panza 4 months ago | 249 comments

A web page that loads and runs Half-Life 2 directly in the browser, shown here mid-download with a fullscreen button.

Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark(twitter.com)

579 points by mmunj 4 months ago | 253 comments

X post by Papermark founder Marc Seitz accusing Corgi's Nico Laqua of copying Papermark's open source and enterprise-licensed code for a data room product.

Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors(bloomberg.com)

524 points by alanwreath 4 months ago | 264 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that Ford has been rehiring experienced human quality inspectors after AI inspection systems fell short.

LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach(9to5mac.com)

438 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 196 comments

9to5Mac news article reporting that LastPass has notified users of another data breach.

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology(newsroom.ibm.com)

373 points by porridgeraisin 4 months ago | 198 comments

IBM newsroom press release announcing its first sub-1 nanometer chip technology built with a "nanostack" 3D chip architecture.

OAuth for all(blog.cloudflare.com)

348 points by terryds 4 months ago | 147 comments

Cloudflare blog post announcing OAuth support available to all developers to build third-party apps integrating with Cloudflare accounts.

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion(github.com)

347 points by engomez 4 months ago | 164 comments

GitHub repository for OpenKnowledge, an open source AI-native WYSIWYG markdown editor and LLM wiki with Claude, Codex, and Cursor integrations.

Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line(bloomberg.com)

285 points by scrlk 4 months ago | 297 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements(ziglang.org)

266 points by kouosi 4 months ago | 135 comments

OS9Map(yllan.org)

251 points by LaSombra 4 months ago | 50 comments

Dark Sky Lighting(savingourstars.org)

232 points by alexandrehtrb 4 months ago | 45 comments

Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%(ft.com)

228 points by bazzmt 4 months ago | 171 comments

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023)(gchandbook.org)

225 points by teleforce 4 months ago | 47 comments

Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best(mullvad.net)

211 points by Cider9986 4 months ago | 79 comments

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent(theatlantic.com)

204 points by dbl000 4 months ago | 304 comments

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide(fosslinux.com)

200 points by tapanjk 4 months ago | 117 comments

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship(thomasdullien.github.io)

199 points by nekitamo 4 months ago | 44 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action(rozumem.xyz)

199 points by rozumem 4 months ago | 255 comments

Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition(utaw.tech)

196 points by chobeat 4 months ago | 188 comments

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates(neowin.net)

193 points by bundie 4 months ago | 163 comments

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators(unconv.ai)

180 points by babelfish 4 months ago | 46 comments

Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606(dolphin-emu.org)

178 points by exploraz 4 months ago | 25 comments

Model Training as Code(aleph-alpha.com)

172 points by peterBlue75 4 months ago | 22 comments

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base(arstechnica.com)

170 points by tzs 4 months ago | 82 comments

Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off(economist.com)

166 points by edward 4 months ago | 155 comments

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)(calpaterson.com)

155 points by tosh 4 months ago | 65 comments

Ending respiratory infections(blog.interceptfund.com)

153 points by EthanFantl 4 months ago | 78 comments

1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis(hypertalking.com)

151 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 25 comments

The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II(flutetunes.com)

150 points by tomcam 4 months ago | 71 comments

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library(blog.cloudflare.com)

145 points by Pop_- 4 months ago | 66 comments

Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies(science.org)

139 points by rndsignals 4 months ago | 77 comments

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley(economist.com)

131 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 74 comments

The unbearable cheapness of open weight models(jamesoclaire.com)

128 points by ddxv 4 months ago | 115 comments

OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO(nytimes.com)

125 points by mfiguiere 4 months ago | 102 comments

Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand(trakkr.ai)

118 points by mektrik 4 months ago | 235 comments

Deno 2.9(deno.com)

115 points by enz 4 months ago | 42 comments

Show HN: Bible as RAG Database(crosscanon.com)

111 points by jacksonastone 4 months ago | 70 comments

Build Yourself Flowers(vickiboykis.com)

109 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 2 comments

Parallel Parentheses Matching(williamdue.github.io)

108 points by Athas 4 months ago | 14 comments

Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?(devz.cl)

93 points by DanielVZ 4 months ago | 31 comments

Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress(ziglang.org)

90 points by Retro_Dev 4 months ago | 48 comments

Regular expressions that work “everywhere”(johndcook.com)

87 points by ColinWright 4 months ago | 36 comments

Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE(syracuse.com)

80 points by coloneltcb 4 months ago | 34 comments

A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time(petapixel.com)

76 points by HardwareLust 4 months ago | 59 comments

The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming(thomaswc.com)

72 points by thomaswc 4 months ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice(lingochunk.com)

69 points by alder 4 months ago | 28 comments

Mixing Visual and Textual Code(arxiv.org)

68 points by doppioandante 4 months ago | 42 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs

65 points by shantnutiwari 4 months ago | 24 comments

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus(nijho.lt)

63 points by wasting_time 4 months ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?

61 points by jvilalta 4 months ago | 37 comments

Bringing Swift to the Apple ][(yeokhengmeng.com)

53 points by LucidLynx 4 months ago | 3 comments

The operating cost starts after the demo(twoheads.net)

52 points by hellokfk 4 months ago | 39 comments

SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf](group.softbank)

49 points by dmmalam 4 months ago | 12 comments

How physicists track and trap the elusive neutrino(quantamagazine.org)

48 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 25 comments

A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels(healeycodes.com)

45 points by healeycodes 4 months ago | 5 comments