Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W25

In the latest tech discussions, SpaceX announced plans to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, generating over 1,700 comments on Hacker News. Meanwhile, Midjourney Medical received significant attention with 1,377 points, highlighting ongoing advancements in AI-driven healthcare. Additionally, open-source projects like Lore, a scalable version control system, and Iroh 1.0 continue to garner interest, reflecting a focus on innovative tools for developers. Notably, a survey revealed that 60% of US consumers find AI-centric brand messaging off-putting, indicating mixed consumer sentiment towards AI integration in marketing.

#10

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

964 pts, 402 comments

964 points · 402 comments · Add your take →

#11

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

915 pts, 192 comments

915 points · 192 comments · Add your take →

#12

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

909 pts, 444 comments

909 points · 444 comments · Add your take →

#13

U.S. science is in chaos

881 pts, 1111 comments

881 points · 1111 comments · Add your take →

#14

Identity verification on Claude

850 pts, 735 comments

850 points · 735 comments · Add your take →

#15

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

847 pts, 424 comments

847 points · 424 comments · Add your take →

#16

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

823 pts, 588 comments

823 points · 588 comments · Add your take →

#17

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

814 pts, 1031 comments

814 points · 1031 comments · Add your take →

#18

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

786 pts, 480 comments

786 points · 480 comments · Add your take →

#19

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

773 pts, 316 comments

773 points · 316 comments · Add your take →

#20

Running local models is good now

757 pts, 608 comments

757 points · 608 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W25

Midjourney Medical

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Iroh 1.0

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

U.S. science is in chaos

Identity verification on Claude

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

Running local models is good now

What happened to nerds?

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

Want your images back? That'll be $5

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

Hacker News but for independent blogs

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

CrankGPT

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

Help I accidentally a wigglegram

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

CSSQuake

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

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

There are no instances in ATProto

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

Hetzner Price Adjustment

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

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

DuckDB Internals Part 1

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

Apple Foundation Models

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

Are You in the Weights?

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

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

The brain was not designed for this much bad news

The AirPods Effect

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

Chess-Inspired Roguelike

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

Google Hits 50% IPv6

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

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

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

Even more batteries included with Emacs

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

Fox to buy Roku

Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

Renting a sewing machine from the library