Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-06-21

  1. CSSQuake cssquake.com - 106 comments 505 points
  2. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows waxy.org - 147 comments 370 points
  3. VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at ‘age-gate’ www.birminghammail.co.uk - 341 comments 296 points
  4. Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs www.extremetech.com - 160 comments 285 points
  5. Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see github.com - 105 comments 281 points
  6. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible www.smpte.org - 79 comments 261 points
  7. DOS Game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reversing project needs DOS test pilots neuviemeporte.github.io - 65 comments 252 points
  8. Renting a sewing machine from the library www.bbc.com - 120 comments 230 points
  9. Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents blog.cloudflare.com - 110 comments 209 points
  10. UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro www.lispm.net - 40 comments 204 points
  11. Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior www.cell.com - 50 comments 203 points
  12. Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches www.phoronix.com - 178 comments 202 points
  13. Developers don’t understand CORS - 2019 fosterelli.co - 102 comments 196 points
  14. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase startupwiki.tech - 62 comments 196 points
  15. Pre-2022 Books notes.lorenzogravina.com - 120 comments 194 points
  16. Your brain was never designed for this much bad news www.sciencedaily.com - 125 comments 192 points
  17. Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World www.esquire.com - 79 comments 183 points
  18. When I reject AI code even if it works vinibrasil.com - 99 comments 179 points
  19. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites townsquare.cauenapier.com - 88 comments 177 points
  20. Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash www.reuters.com - 108 comments 170 points
  21. The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost www.sciencedaily.com - 59 comments 170 points
  22. Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux sibexi.co - 37 comments 163 points
  23. AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July www.tomshardware.com - 37 comments 154 points
  24. From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone techcrunch.com - 67 comments 151 points
  25. The rise of South Korea’s weapons business www.politico.com - 50 comments 138 points
  26. Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore github.com - 267 comments 132 points
  27. Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil www.cnn.com - 94 comments 132 points
  28. Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones www.lrt.lt - 93 comments 126 points
  29. Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract - 2025 www.theregister.com - 33 comments 126 points
  30. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned - CLI or in the browser via WASM github.com - 54 comments 119 points