Top Hacker News Stories – June 20, 2026 (Summarized)

On Hacker News, recent top stories include a humorous post titled "Help I accidentally a wigglegram," which garnered 580 points and 127 comments, reflecting community engagement with quirky tech mishaps. Another popular story, "CSSQuake," received 538 points and 115 comments, highlighting interest in creative web development tools. Additionally, Loupe, an iOS app that raises awareness about app permissions, attracted 537 points and 246 comments, indicating ongoing concern about privacy. Other notable stories include a guide on SSH tunneling and discussions about screen color limitations, demonstrating diverse interests within the tech community.

#10

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

311 pts, 109 comments

311 points · 109 comments · Add your take →

#11

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

306 pts, 373 comments

306 points · 373 comments · Add your take →

#12

Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches

296 pts, 327 comments

296 points · 327 comments · Add your take →

#13

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

291 pts, 101 comments

291 points · 101 comments · Add your take →

#14

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

284 pts, 75 comments

284 points · 75 comments · Add your take →

#15

TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

278 pts, 168 comments

278 points · 168 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – June 20, 2026 (Summarized)

Help I accidentally a wigglegram

CSSQuake

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

Renting a sewing machine from the library

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux

22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

LLMs Are Complicated Now

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

Memory Safe Inline Assembly

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

Alice is impatient

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

Lisp in the Rust Type System

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

How to feed a dictator

Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

The European Social Stack

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2

We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

Epidurals are a miracle technology

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