The HackerNoon Newsletter: When Copying The Physical World Helps The UI, and When It Doesnt (6/20/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 20, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Samuel Morse Patented Telegraphy Signals in 1840, Wikimedia Was Founded in Florida in 2003, Chinese...
Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
UK Home Office launches £75M ‘PoliceAI’ to capitalise on artificial intelligence
Article URL: https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/06/15/public-order-justice-and-rights/home-office-launches-75m-policeai-to-capitalise-on-artificial-intelligence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612806 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ Go to Source "These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"
AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-will-reinstate-memory-encryption-on-ryzen-9000-cpus-through-a-bios-update-in-july-tsme-is-coming-back-after-valuable-community-feedback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612098 Points:...
Seeing the World in Radio Waves with the QuadRF
Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then calculate the angle of arrival from this difference), the radio hardware to actually implement this has historically been hard...
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
Article URL: https://github.com/overflowy/make-look-scanned Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611513 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod
I posted my portfolio here about a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609) and while there was a big response, it was very mixed! It'll probably be similar this time, but regardless of your thoughts about the concept, I think I've done a pretty good...
NASA is testing a rover that can drive faster and lift its wheels to climb obstacles
The space agency shared footage of tests with its Ernest prototype rover.
Agency stole bestselling author’s book, used AI to relaunch as their own
Article URL: https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611411 Points: 32 # Comments: 0
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
I have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots. Most of them to prop up their profiles. The stars are obviously exaggerated too.What other platforms are you using for your projects? Comments URL:...
AIPropel, AI-powered proposal generation for freelancers and agencies
Article URL: https://www.aipropel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610999 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
Article URL: https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610853 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
Article URL: https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-community Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies.The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or...
Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility
Article URL: https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/ember-hackernews Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610816 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Epic is working on a ‘ground-up rebuild’ of its launcher that will be 5x faster
Launcher V2 will go through a private beta before a public release.
NASA’s Swift Boost mission will launch later this month to rescue a falling telescope
NASA mission to save a falling space telescope is ready to launch.
Tricking a Bike Counter
Some municipalities implement bike counters on cycling routes in order to monitor traffic. [nullpxl] recently investigated how these counters work, and explored methods that can be used to trick the counter into thinking a bike passed over it. A great many of these...
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
DOS Game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reversing project needs DOS test pilots
Article URL: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
Sogen Kato
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609863 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/0f3e33d2-0b9e-481d-a911-245d8cc01a9c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610055 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
When Copying The Physical World Helps The UI, and When It Doesn’t
When Apple revealed the Liquid Glass design system last year, the design community went back to an argument it had been having since iOS 7. Some designers welcomed the return of depth, material, and texture after years of flat design. Others saw it as unnecessary...
The TechBeat: How a Weekend MVP Became inDrive’s Cross-Platform Design Token Export Tool (6/20/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Building Knowledge Graphs with Gemini By @picardparis [ 60 Min read ]...
228 Blog Posts To Learn About Team Management
Let's learn about Team Management via these 228 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. The process of organizing and coordinating a group of...
Cargo-Geiger
Article URL: https://github.com/geiger-rs/cargo-geiger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609645 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Claude Guillemot, one of Ubisoft’s co-founders, has died in a plane crash
The crash reportedly happened on an airstrip near the western coast of France on June 19.