Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-06-18

  1. Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability lore.org - 610 comments 1146 points
  2. Sixty percent of US consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff wpvip.com - 555 comments 1042 points
  3. U.S. science is in chaos www.scientificamerican.com - 975 comments 815 points
  4. Midjourney Medical www.midjourney.com - 516 comments 763 points
  5. Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users discuss.grapheneos.org - 411 comments 684 points
  6. Want your images back? That’ll be $5 www.lutr.dev - 263 comments 632 points
  7. AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less charitydotwtf.substack.com - 188 comments 383 points
  8. Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society techcrunch.com - 459 comments 380 points
  9. RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method www.rfc-editor.org - 157 comments 375 points
  10. Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year arstechnica.com - 4 comments 353 points
  11. Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom’s abusive conduct arstechnica.com - 184 comments 321 points
  12. Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone www.thesignalist.io - 117 comments 273 points
  13. A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok? openrouter.ai - 192 comments 247 points
  14. MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C github.com - 78 comments 239 points
  15. Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball ribbie.tv - 121 comments 232 points
  16. Local Qwen isn’t a worse Opus, it’s a different tool blog.alexellis.io - 109 comments 219 points
  17. Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata cells2pixels.github.io - 50 comments 193 points
  18. Launch HN: Adam - YC W25 – Open-Source AI CAD github.com - 87 comments 184 points
  19. Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them www.nytimes.com - 195 comments 177 points
  20. Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors storiedcolors.com - 39 comments 175 points
  21. Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction loreline.app - 24 comments 172 points
  22. DeepSeek Introduces Vision chat.deepseek.com - 68 comments 150 points
  23. SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable store.steampowered.com - 48 comments 150 points
  24. Taxonomy of the Occlupanida - parasitoids on bread bag tags www.horg.com - 35 comments 150 points
  25. How Madrid built its metro cheaply - 2024 worksinprogress.co - 85 comments 144 points
  26. Clojure Hosted on Go github.com - 16 comments 140 points
  27. The Competitive Moat That AI Can’t Replicate ghostinthedata.info - 115 comments 136 points
  28. French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation www.science.org - 140 comments 134 points
  29. ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker www.404media.co - 55 comments 121 points
  30. AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs www.tomshardware.com - 34 comments 105 points