Top Hacker News Stories – June 16, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include SpaceX's announcement to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, generating over 1,150 points and 1,700 comments, highlighting significant industry interest. Additionally, GrapheneOS has been successfully ported to Android 17, attracting more than 1,000 points, reflecting advancements in mobile security. Other notable topics include improvements in local model performance, with discussions on running models locally, and concerns over Apple's upcoming changes that may render Hide My Email less effective. Discussions also feature insights from John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard, and technical deep-dives like DuckDB internals, alongside reports on ocean sensor withdrawals impacting Canadian research amid El Niño concerns.

#10

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

365 pts, 98 comments

365 points · 98 comments · Add your take →

#11

I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

315 pts, 99 comments

315 points · 99 comments · Add your take →

#12

But yak shaving is fun (2019)

307 pts, 95 comments

307 points · 95 comments · Add your take →

#13

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

286 pts, 105 comments

286 points · 105 comments · Add your take →

#14

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

256 pts, 618 comments

256 points · 618 comments · Add your take →

#15

SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

237 pts, 3 comments

237 points · 3 comments · Add your take →

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Top Hacker News Stories – June 16, 2026 (Summarized)

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

Running local models is good now

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

DuckDB Internals Part 1

U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

But yak shaving is fun (2019)

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

Mechanical Watch (2022)

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15

Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids

Data Compression Explained (2012)

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

Telescope Ranchers

Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

Commodore Releases Flip Phone

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

Never talk to the police

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

Stop Using JWTs

OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B

cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

SubQ 1.1 Small

Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund

Inference cost at scale with napkin math

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

After AI Takes Everything

The 2-Year Apartment Rule

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017)

America has lost its war with Iran

Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024)

Making espresso with ultrasound

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released

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