Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up
Britain has raised its drone commitment to Ukraine to 150,000 this year and will send air defense missiles and radars as part of a £752 million aid package to help the country defend against Russia. The drones and air defense systems were announced this week at a NATO...
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Article URL: https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606619 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellite-reveals-immense-scale-of-gps-signal-tampering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606271 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Your youngest employees may be your most valuable AI teachers
I’ve built leadership programs at Amazon, Microsoft, and other companies. One mistake I often see is thinking that knowledge flows only from the top down. Senior leaders teach, junior employees learn, and expertise moves in just one direction. Traditionally, knowledge...
How do you find a job that will make you happy?
If you work full-time, a significant chunk of your week is bound up with your work life. Not only are you engaged eight or more hours a day, but you’re likely to think about things going on at work even when you’re doing other things. So, while your job doesn’t need...
JCPenney – 368,418 breached accounts
In June 2026, retailer JCPenney and associated brands were targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from JCPenney through the exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft was later published...
Making Old Computers Count To A Million
How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured it could actually prove to be a simple but useful benchmark for comparing computers over many eras...
XLibre XServer 25.2.0 Released
Article URL: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/wiki/XLibre-XServer-25.2-Changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605778 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
How LLMs can be Assisted to do Arithmetic Correctly
One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic – like summing 1 and 1 – and pass it on to a dedicated calculator application, even if...
How to Feed a Dictator
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605301 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M
Article URL: 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 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605208 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
Hey, N00B, We Didn’t Hire You to Complete Tasks
Article URL: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604851 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow
Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157571/Iran-imposes-mandatory-insurance-on-ships-transiting-Strait-of-Hormuz-with-fees-likely-to-follow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604584 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604186 Points: 53 # Comments: 19
Epson HX-20 Gets A Drive Upgrade
The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to store data. It can be problematic to keep these tapes and drives going after so many decades, so [Andrew...
Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
Maybe there will even be more interest in the invention and use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604232 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work
For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
This HP Omen gaming laptop is $700 off on Amazon – and it’s a serious powerhouse
HP's Omen gaming laptop has dropped to $1,599, making it a great early deal for gamers on a budget.
PremiumBlock Launches Non-Custodial Risk Hub for User-Created Prediction Markets, Perps and Web3 Pok
Stockholm, Sweden, June 19th, 2026/Chainwire/--PremiumBlock brings leveraged prediction markets, liquid 24/7 FX perpetuals and Web3 poker together in one wallet-native platform via premiumblock.org PremiumBlock today announced the launch of its non-custodial risk hub...
183 Blog Posts To Learn About Stock Market
Let's learn about Stock Market via these 183 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 stock market is a marketplace where shares of publicly...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: 5 Hackathons You Can Enter Right Now 🤫 (6/19/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 19, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Michael Pupin Patented Long-Distance Telephony in 1900, The First Commercial Photoelectric Cell Was...
Here’s What You Should Know About AI Agent Scopes And Tool Lifecycles
Five articles built the runtime. The sixth made it observable. This one introduces the agent primitive: runAgent plus AgentScope, with budgets, replayable events, and structured cancellation in the box. The whole loop: n import { runAgent, AgentToolCalls, OpenAITokens...
The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603761 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Zenzizenzizenzic
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603664 Points: 9 # Comments: 4
From a 7 KB file to a 13-year backdoor operation
Article URL: https://anchor.host/from-a-7-kb-file-to-a-13-year-backdoor-operation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602868 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Go eyes robotaxis and acquisitions after Japan’s biggest IPO of 2026. Here’s why it matters
Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers....
Trump unveils the new Air Force One, a converted Qatari jet
President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder...
7,000 Langflow servers are under attack. LangGraph and LangChain have the same holes
Your AI agent did exactly what it was designed to do. The framework underneath it just handed an attacker a shell on the box that holds your OpenAI key, your database credentials, and your CRM tokens.That is not a hypothetical. In a few months, three of the most...
Aura’s impressive e-ink photo frame doesn’t even look digital
What’s the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has completely refreshed this product space with its gorgeous Aura Ink frame, which uses e-ink to create a display that...