Hacker News Robot

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/

Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html

A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M

https://investors.zillowgroup.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2026/A-record-242-US-cities-now-have-starter-homes-that-cost-1M/default.aspx

The UK's New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents

How to feed a dictator

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete

Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157571/Iran-imposes-mandatory-insurance-on-ships-transiting-Strait-of-Hormuz-with-fees-likely-to-follow

Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/

Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic

Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll

Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

https://www.ft.com/content/1d37cc08-e0aa-45a4-a45d-4ad282529314

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/

John Jumper to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106

Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/sam-altman-biopic-amazon-openai-deal-b2999321.html

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free

EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Report-EU-to-soon-classify-AWS-and-Azure-as-gatekeepers-under-DSA-11337873.html

Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/giant-banana-pulled-over-in-montana-driver-says-cops-have-stopped-him-100s-of-times/

A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

There Are No Instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics, Atlas humanoid to be used at vehicle plant by 2028

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/

Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle

https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/linear-a/

Apple A12 and A13 Chips: New Unpatchable Exploit

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/18/a12-and-a13-chips-facing-exploit/

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/

Leave a Trace

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/leave-a-trace

Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

https://eandt.theiet.org/2026/06/18/norway-greenlights-world-s-first-full-scale-ship-tunnel

The room the economy can't see

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/19/the-room-the-economy-cant-see/

Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/amazon-engineers-ai-data-center-opposition.html

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife

Fable Converted Pylint to Rust

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/

Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885

Let's Encrypt has been down most of today

https://letsencrypt.status.io/#2026

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2#update

Godot 4.7 Release

https://godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative

https://www.nsf.gov/news/update-ocean-observatories-initiative

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect

Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia

https://bomwiki.com/

Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/trump-surrenders-to-iran-on-virtually-every-point/

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/

The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

https://mroczek.dev/articles/the-token-compression-illusion-why-im-skeptical-of-rtk/

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/

Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

https://rednafi.com/misc/chezmoi/

TypeScript 7.0 RC

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/