HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-06-17

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (lore.org)

    1276 points · HN #48571081

  2. 02

    GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

    916 points · HN #48567759

  3. 03

    US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (reuters.com)

    537 points · HN #48565498

  4. 04

    Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (grapheneos.org)

    786 points · HN #48571526

  5. 05

    Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff (wpvip.com)

    1084 points · HN #48569278

  6. 06

    RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (rfc-editor.org)

    420 points · HN #48568502

  7. 07

    U.S. science is in chaos (scientificamerican.com)

    881 points · HN #48568058

  8. 08

    Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (tim.blog)

    422 points · HN #48558489

  9. 09

    How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s (browser-use.com)

    322 points · HN #48556561

  10. 10

    Hacker News but for independent blogs (bubbles.town)

    632 points · HN #48567155

  11. 11

    Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (thesignalist.io)

    332 points · HN #48569894

  12. 12

    Want your images back? That'll be $5 (lutr.dev)

    664 points · HN #48569954

  13. 13

    MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)

    257 points · HN #48569205

  14. 14

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

    250 points · HN #48523534

  15. 15

    Kirkland Roundabouts (kirklandroundabouts.com)

    182 points · HN #48533098

  16. 16

    Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct (arstechnica.com)

    409 points · HN #48576838

  17. 17

    The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup (claude.com)

    249 points · HN #48566832

  18. 18

    Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors (storiedcolors.com)

    228 points · HN #48577374

  19. 19

    Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)

    260 points · HN #48573012

  20. 20

    Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com/adam-cad)

    215 points · HN #48572553

  21. 21

    Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15 (stephenwolfram.com)

    224 points · HN #48563609

  22. 22

    Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures (dexerto.com)

    361 points · HN #48564696

  23. 23

    Image Compression (makingsoftware.com)

    228 points · HN #48522927

  24. 24

    Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction (loreline.app)

    229 points · HN #48576395

  25. 25

    AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charitydotwtf.substack.com)

    429 points · HN #48570948

  26. 26

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (arstechnica.com)

    119 points · HN #48536660

  27. 27

    Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length (theguardian.com)

    188 points · HN #48496233

  28. 28

    Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year (arstechnica.com)

    361 points · HN #48577208

  29. 29

    A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator (analogtv.net)

    61 points · HN #48526256

  30. 30

    Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust (github.com/nvlabs)

    106 points · HN #48561410