Hacker News on Monday, 29 June 2026

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development(quesma.com)

1124 points by stared 3 months ago | 699 comments

A Quesma blog post by Piotr Migdał arguing that the dense Qwen 3.6 27B model is the best choice for running LLMs locally for development, with impressions and setup guidance.

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88(danunparsed.com)

927 points by sambellll 3 months ago | 395 comments

Blog post testing HackerRank's open-sourced AI hiring agent ATS, finding the same resume gets inconsistent scores across runs, arguing hiring is becoming luck-based.

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech(nonogra.ph)

885 points by arkhiver 3 months ago | 523 comments

An anonymous opinion post arguing that age verification laws in the US, Europe, and Australia are a precursor to tying online speech to people's real identities.

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

828 points by taubek 3 months ago | 120 comments

Gergely Orosz's blog post describing how startup Pollen tried to get his article about its CEO and CTO removed, and how Google assisted the takedown.

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting(hccf.onmy.cloud)

649 points by HumanCCF 3 months ago | 362 comments

A blog post from HCCF proposing .self, a new human-centered top-level domain intended to support self-hosting; the page failed to load with an upstream connection error.

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections(theguardian.com)

578 points by cdrnsf 3 months ago | 276 comments

Guardian news article reporting that the US Supreme Court ruled law enforcement geofence warrants for smartphone location data require constitutional privacy protections.

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party(det.social)

495 points by Risse 3 months ago | 1111 comments

A Mastodon post claiming Mullvad VPN's CEO is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party, linking a Flamman article.

Rocketlab acquires Iridium(investors.rocketlabcorp.com)

456 points by everfrustrated 3 months ago | 296 comments

Rocket Lab investor relations press release announcing its deal to acquire satellite communications company Iridium.

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing(en.sedaily.com)

360 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 170 comments

Seoul Economic Daily article on a US lawsuit accusing Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of memory price fixing; the page returned a CloudFront 403 error.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage(torrentfreak.com)

348 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 98 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.

A native graphical shell for SSH(probablymarcus.com)

326 points by mrcslws 3 months ago | 189 comments

Blog post by Marcus Lewis proposing a browser-based graphical shell served over SSH, where each app is a small HTTP server on Unix domain sockets.

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses(twitter.com)

309 points by notRobot 3 months ago | 135 comments

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3(home.cern)

298 points by HelloUsername 3 months ago | 94 comments

Tidal AI Policy(tidal.com)

279 points by hn8726 3 months ago | 307 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?(fergusfinn.com)

273 points by mezark 3 months ago | 31 comments

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active(longcat.chat)

260 points by benjiro29 3 months ago | 76 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding(github.com)

246 points by danboarder 3 months ago | 48 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots(arstechnica.com)

227 points by jnord 3 months ago | 154 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter(humphri.es)

218 points by energeticbark 3 months ago | 34 comments

Memory Safe Context Switching(fil-c.org)

198 points by modeless 3 months ago | 30 comments

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?(arstechnica.com)

194 points by DR_MING 3 months ago | 22 comments

Linux for the Sega MegaDrive(github.com)

192 points by HardwareLust 3 months ago | 48 comments

Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund(playstation.com)

181 points by kugelblitz 3 months ago | 104 comments

Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf](apollo.com)

171 points by mooreds 3 months ago | 138 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU(cpushack.com)

168 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 43 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example(htmx.org)

152 points by comma_at 3 months ago | 49 comments

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal(github.com)

120 points by mzehrer 3 months ago | 80 comments

CachyOS June 2026 Release(cachyos.org)

117 points by simonpure 3 months ago | 59 comments

My favorite keyboards(fabiensanglard.net)

114 points by tmach32 3 months ago | 109 comments

What can you confidently guarantee about your software?(queue.acm.org)

104 points by eatonphil 3 months ago | 47 comments

Building Principia for Windows XP(voxelmanip.se)

102 points by LorenDB 3 months ago | 29 comments

Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)(obsolescence.dev)

101 points by ozymandiax 3 months ago | 23 comments

The Radiation Exposure Lie(worksinprogress.co)

97 points by duffydotsvg 3 months ago | 63 comments

AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers(telegraph.co.uk)

96 points by b-man 3 months ago | 106 comments

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water(phys.org)

94 points by wglb 3 months ago | 62 comments

Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction(mixedbread.com)

94 points by breadislove 3 months ago | 32 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room(alexwlchan.net)

93 points by ingve 3 months ago | 53 comments

Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)(outsideonline.com)

86 points by markgavalda 3 months ago | 92 comments

The Apple Disk II Controller Card (2021)(bigmessowires.com)

86 points by stmw 3 months ago | 20 comments

Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel(nature.com)

84 points by gscott 3 months ago | 38 comments

How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps(iinteractive.com)

77 points by fortyseven 3 months ago | 63 comments

Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables(buraksen.dev)

76 points by buraksen 3 months ago | 1 comments

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)(vitalik.eth.limo)

70 points by fbrusch 3 months ago | 9 comments

NixOS 26.05(nixos.org)

68 points by lostmsu 3 months ago | 47 comments

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API(vllm.ai)

64 points by matt_d 3 months ago | 19 comments

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite(philipbohun.com)

60 points by pbohun 3 months ago | 68 comments

Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand(reclaimthenet.org)

57 points by Cider9986 3 months ago | 37 comments

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management(github.com)

55 points by neitsab 3 months ago | 22 comments

Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online(act.eff.org)

54 points by rmason 3 months ago | 11 comments

A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML(davidpoblador.com)

53 points by nirvanis 3 months ago | 33 comments

Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian(danielcordova.me)

48 points by nogajun 3 months ago | 50 comments

I Don't Maintain My Homelab(cleberg.net)

48 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 36 comments

Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity(ucc.ie)

45 points by giuliomagnifico 3 months ago | 33 comments

Counterexamples in type systems (2021)(counterexamples.org)

40 points by bramadityaw 3 months ago | 1 comments

The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)(github.com)

34 points by gregsadetsky 3 months ago | 11 comments

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood(discourse.ifin.network)

32 points by speckx 3 months ago | 21 comments

Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made(github.com)

30 points by tcballard 3 months ago | 31 comments

DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change(kucoin.com)

30 points by lmartineng 3 months ago | 13 comments

Is It Out Yet?(outyet.ai)

30 points by partsch 3 months ago | 16 comments

A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back(maskray.me)

29 points by mariuz 3 months ago | 7 comments