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Top 30 Hacker News stories — Sunday, June 28, 2026

  1. 01
    'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence (fortune.com)
    2026-06-28
  2. 02
    IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet (ipcrawl.com)
    2026-06-28
  3. 03
    AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (spectrum.ieee.org)
    2026-06-28
  4. 04
    Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (github.com)
    2026-06-28
  5. 05
    Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    2026-06-28
  6. 06
    Suspicious Discontinuities (2020) (danluu.com)
    2026-06-28
  7. 07
    Underarm bowling incident of 1981 (en.wikipedia.org)
    2026-06-28
  8. 08
    Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California (arstechnica.com)
    2026-06-28
  9. 09
    The case for physical media ownership (dervis.de)
    2026-06-28
  10. 10
    OpenRA (www.openra.net)
    2026-06-28
  11. 11
    The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II (www.flutetunes.com)
    2026-06-28
  12. 12
    Fintech Engineering Handbook (w.pitula.me)
    2026-06-28
  13. 13
    DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] (github.com)
    2026-06-28
  14. 14
    Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (www.economist.com)
    2026-06-28
  15. 15
    Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (www.fosslinux.com)
    2026-06-28
  16. 16
    OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (www.openttd.org)
    2026-06-28
  17. 17
    Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
    2026-06-28
  18. 18
    International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
    2026-06-28
  19. 19
    WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (www.sfwriter.com)
    2026-06-28
  20. 20
    Om (daringfireball.net)
    2026-06-28
  21. 21
    Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (physics.stackexchange.com)
    2026-06-28
  22. 22
    U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (www.semafor.com)
    2026-06-28
  23. 23
    We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (www.eff.org)
    2026-06-28
  24. 24
    The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (blog.doubleword.ai)
    2026-06-28
  25. 25
    PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
    2026-06-28
  26. 26
    U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (www.washingtonpost.com)
    2026-06-28
  27. 27
    Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    2026-06-28
  28. 28
    MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (aws.amazon.com)
    2026-06-28
  29. 29
    Jolla Phone (October 2026) (commerce.jolla.com)
    2026-06-28
  30. 30
    Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (www.science.org)
    2026-06-28

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