Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W24

This week on Hacker News, the top story was the US government's directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, which garnered 3,158 points and 2,314 comments, reflecting significant concern within the tech community. Claude Fable 5 also attracted notable attention with 2,626 points and 2,160 comments, highlighting ongoing discussions around AI and gaming. In the biotech sector, CRISPR technology made headlines with advances in selectively shredding cancer cells, including "undruggable" types, earning 1,002 points and 220 comments. Additionally, the release of Homebrew 6.0.0 and the React-based Performative-UI library drew interest from developers, with 1,472 and 1,178 points respectively.

#10

Every Frame Perfect

869 pts, 281 comments

869 points · 281 comments · Add your take →

#11

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

809 pts, 579 comments

809 points · 579 comments · Add your take →

#12

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

793 pts, 263 comments

793 points · 263 comments · Add your take →

#13

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

792 pts, 534 comments

792 points · 534 comments · Add your take →

#14

GLM 5.2 Is Out

772 pts, 504 comments

772 points · 504 comments · Add your take →

#15

How to earn a billion dollars

725 pts, 1933 comments

725 points · 1933 comments · Add your take →

#16

Electric motors with no rare earths

717 pts, 218 comments

717 points · 218 comments · Add your take →

#17

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

688 pts, 464 comments

688 points · 464 comments · Add your take →

#18

Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

688 pts, 141 comments

688 points · 141 comments · Add your take →

#19

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

628 pts, 489 comments

628 points · 489 comments · Add your take →

#20

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

570 pts, 446 comments

570 points · 446 comments · Add your take →

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W24

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Claude Fable 5

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

Homebrew 6.0.0

Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

Firewood Splitting Simulator

Your ePub Is fine

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

Every Frame Perfect

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

GLM 5.2 Is Out

How to earn a billion dollars

Electric motors with no rare earths

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

Leaving Mozilla

Not everyone is using AI for everything

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

Doing nothing at work

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

The Cypherpunk Library

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

Formal methods and the future of programming

AI coding at home without going broke

Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

Linux 7.1

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

Putt.day a daily mini golf game

What are you working on? (June 2026)

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

Write for One Person

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

Bitsy

Don't trust large context windows

Codex for open source

Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps

Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost

Zig by Example

Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

Notes on DeepSeek

I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math

A dumpster arrived behind my university's library

Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

Are you still using a Vision Pro?

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

Perlisisms (1982)

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Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes