Hacker News top 30 - 2026-06-17

1. Running local models is good now vickiboykis.com - 517 comments 1357 points
2. SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B www.reuters.com - 1534 comments 1036 points
3. GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 discuss.grapheneos.org - 400 comments 800 points
4. Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness www.theverge.com - 237 comments 776 points
5. Mechanical Watch - 2022 ciechanow.ski - 118 comments 700 points
6. Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com - 518 comments 587 points
7. Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless arseniyshestakov.com - 297 comments 489 points
8. Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity therepublicofletters.substack.com - 186 comments 433 points
9. TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP mareksuppa.com - 199 comments 426 points
10. U.S. pulling ocean sensors a ‘shock’ for Canadian research as El Niño nears www.timescolonist.com - 254 comments 421 points
11. Stop Using JWTs gist.github.com - 233 comments 405 points
12. Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? tim.blog - 351 comments 314 points
13. SpaceX Is Buying Cursor www.bbc.com - 3 comments 289 points
14. Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers 9to5google.com - 353 comments 278 points
15. Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time mll.sh - 65 comments 277 points
16. But yak shaving is fun - 2019 parksb.github.io - 78 comments 270 points
17. Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures www.dexerto.com - 174 comments 267 points
18. GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands www.tno.nl - 220 comments 219 points
19. ‘Ghost jobs’ could soon be illegal in New York www.fastcompany.com - 121 comments 205 points
20. Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn runtimewire.com - 220 comments 201 points
21. Claude: Elevated errors across many models - resolved status.claude.com - 155 comments 187 points
22. I’ve always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs ankursethi.com - 100 comments 182 points
23. Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence qwen.ai - 31 comments 181 points
24. Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15 writings.stephenwolfram.com - 87 comments 173 points
25. 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module www.gilesthomas.com - 139 comments 155 points
26. I Fired Google www.theartofdoingstuff.com - 130 comments 151 points
27. Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland www.bbc.com - 70 comments 145 points
28. Google Chrome’s Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers tech.slashdot.org - 3 comments 134 points
29. The UK’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy www.techdirt.com - 132 comments 129 points
30. Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society www.wired.com - 17 comments 129 points