Top Hacker News Stories – June 28, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include the release of GLM 5.2, which outperformed Anthropic's Claude in benchmarks with a score of 977 points and 516 comments, and the controversial 30-year sentence handed down for transporting zines, sparking debates on free speech. The KIDS Act, proposing mandatory age verification for online access, garnered significant attention with 623 points and 568 comments. Additionally, a Brown University professor publicly criticized mass AI fraud during an exam, while users shared personal experiences, such as using Claude Code for MRI second opinions, highlighting the growing integration of AI tools in healthcare.

#10

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

397 pts, 158 comments

397 points · 158 comments · Add your take →

#11

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

392 pts, 108 comments

392 points · 108 comments · Add your take →

#12

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

252 pts, 115 comments

252 points · 115 comments · Add your take →

#13

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

225 pts, 143 comments

225 points · 143 comments · Add your take →

#14

Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

193 pts, 78 comments

193 points · 78 comments · Add your take →

#15

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

177 pts, 291 comments

177 points · 291 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – June 28, 2026 (Summarized)

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

Librepods: AirPods liberated

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

One million passports leaked online

Zanagrams

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

DRM-Free Books

Mel Brooks is 100 today

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

We need tech news sources which exclude AI

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)

Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

POSIX Is Not a Shell

Better Images of AI

NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf]

FSM – an advanced system monitor for Linux

British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005)

Engye – transfer files between any two devices by scanning a QR code

QR code renderer in a TrueType font

Hacker Times – HN Reader

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