Hacker News on Friday, 26 June 2026

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

Screenshot of washingtonpost.com: U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (washingtonpost.com)

1103 points by alain94040 4 months ago | 1163 comments

Washington Post article reporting that the U.S. government will vet who can use OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model upgrade amid increased federal AI oversight.

openai chatgpt gpt-5 ai-regulation

Screenshot of openai.com: Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)

1091 points by minimaxir 4 months ago | 695 comments

OpenAI announcement post previewing GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation language model, with a linked system card.

openai gpt-5-6 llm model-release

Screenshot of opensourcelowtech.org: Open Source Low Tech

Open Source Low Tech (opensourcelowtech.org)

608 points by grep_it 4 months ago | 121 comments

Homepage of OpenSourceLowTech.org, where Daniel Connell shares free open-source designs and tutorials for basic technologies built from recycled materials.

low-tech diy wind-turbine recycled-materials

Screenshot of semafor.com: U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (semafor.com)

511 points by bobrenjc93 4 months ago | 678 comments

Techmeme post on X relaying a Semafor report that the US lifted its block on Anthropic's Mythos 5 model, allowing release to over 100 US institutions.

anthropic mythos ai-regulation us-government

Screenshot of nesbitt.io: Incident CVE-2026-LGTM

Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)

484 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 82 comments

Andrew Nesbitt's satirical incident report about a malicious package slipping past seven AI-powered security gates in a fictional future CVE.

supply-chain-security package-managers ai-agents satire

Om (daringfireball.net)

442 points by throw0101a 4 months ago | 19 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball post remembering tech journalist Om Malik after his death, featuring a photo of the two together.

om-malik obituary daring-fireball john-gruber

Screenshot of eff.org: We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (eff.org)

428 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 152 comments

EFF Deeplinks article arguing that California's proposed 3D printer surveillance requirements can still be stopped and urging action against them.

3d-printing eff california surveillance

Screenshot of akrites.org: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together

We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)

421 points by dhruv3006 4 months ago | 203 comments

An open letter announcing Akrites, a Linux Foundation project coordinating efforts to remediate vulnerabilities in widely used open source software.

open-source-security linux-foundation akrites vulnerability-remediation

Screenshot of physics.stackexchange.com: Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)(physics.stackexchange.com)

354 points by ProxyTracer 4 months ago | 195 comments

A Physics Stack Exchange question from 2011 asking why kinetic energy scales with the square of speed rather than linearly; the capture shows a bot verification page.

physics kinetic-energy classical-mechanics stack-exchange

Screenshot of fernandoi.cl: What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)

343 points by cuchoi 4 months ago | 156 comments

Blog post recounting how over 2,000 people sent 6,000+ emails trying to get the author's OpenClaw AI assistant to leak a secrets file, which never leaked.

prompt-injection ai-agents openclaw llm-security