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How many of the 170k English words do you know?
Article URL: https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586
Points: 206
# Comments: 325
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There are no instances in ATProto
Article URL: https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515
Points: 317
# Comments: 181
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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093
Points: 314
# Comments: 198
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Amateur may have cracked Linear A
Article URL: https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/linear-a/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600107
Points: 395
# Comments: 154
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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600312
Points: 596
# Comments: 277
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Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access
Article URL: https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600345
Points: 395
# Comments: 133
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AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600593
Points: 20
# Comments: 5
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Court Records Should Be Free
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946
Points: 191
# Comments: 31
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A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600950
Points: 223
# Comments: 112
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Big Banana Car
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/giant-banana-pulled-...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601420
Points: 110
# Comments: 64
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Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
Article URL: https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602352
Points: 128
# Comments: 11
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Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)
Article URL: https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602817
Points: 45
# Comments: 10
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Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems
Article URL: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602918
Points: 24
# Comments: 11
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Zenzizenzizenzic
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603664
Points: 46
# Comments: 16
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How do flocking birds and schools of fish move?
Article URL: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/june/how-do-flocking-birds-and-schools-of-fish-move--new-research-off.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604115
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604186
Points: 62
# Comments: 27
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Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow
Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157571/Iran-imposes-mandatory-insurance-on-ships-transiting-Strait-of-Hormuz-with-fees-likely-to-follow
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604584
Points: 8
# Comments: 0

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7 of the Best ITAM Software For Hardware Asset Tracking in 2026
Hardware inventories have outgrown spreadsheets. This guide compares seven leading IT asset management platforms, examining their strengths in hardware discovery, lifecycle management, compliance, integrations, and financial tracking to help IT teams choose the right ITAM solution for 2026.

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Hyperliquid Has Moved Beyond Crypto Perp Exchange Territory
Hyperliquid has evolved beyond crypto-native perpetuals. Driven by the HIP-3 framework, RWA markets now account for a significant share of platform volume, while Portfolio Margin and hourly funding have changed the economics of trading. For traders and bot operators, assumptions built around BTC and ETH no longer hold.

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I Downgraded My AI and Output Got Better
I tested Claude Opus 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 across real production workflows. The newer models score higher on benchmarks but break file creation, Excel parsing, and code execution. 4.6 does what you ask it to do. Newer is not always better when reliability matters more than reasoning scores.

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How to Plan a Distributed Database Migration Without Any Surprises
Before migrating a distributed database to the cloud, do not start with node count or capacity sizing. Start with the failure model. Decide replication strategy first, then consistency level, then network topology, and only then capacity. A safe migration also needs clear acceptance criteria, a quantitative replication-lag cutover gate, and a tested rollback plan before the maintenance window begins. Capacity is the consequence of architecture, not the starting point.

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AI Hallucinations Are a Verification Issue
AI hallucinations are an unavoidable feature of probabilistic models, not a problem that can be completely solved. The author argues that AI safety should focus less on making models perfect and more on verifying outputs before they reach users. Current systems often rely on AI reviewing AI, creating risks of shared blind spots. Instead, AI needs independent reviewers, adversarial checking, and immutable audit trails. As autonomous agents take on higher-stakes tasks, verification and accountabil...

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Retired Not Rehired: How AI Is Changing That
The Silver Tsunami is sending millions of retirees back to work - thin savings, delayed pensions, and a stalled job market leave little choice. They land in a hiring system where AI-powered ATS filters, an AI fluency gap, and ageism screen them out before a human sees their 30+ years of experience. But the same technology can flip the script: AI tools can reformat resumes to clear ATS filters, match deep experience to the right roles, and close the fluency gap. The move is to compete on accumula...

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500 Blog Posts To Learn About Startups
Let's learn about Startups via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology.
"It takes humility to realize we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels, and to know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don't, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place."
— Cher Wang
1. A Handy Tool Kit for Choosing Your Startup Destination...

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5 Hackathons You Can Enter Right Now 🤫
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The TechBeat: A Unified Namespace Determines Your Historian Schema, Not the Other Way Around (6/19/2026)
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## Scaling Performance Comparison: ScyllaDB vs Apache Cassandra
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HackerNoon Projects of the Week: PLOT, Insurmatics ESG Lite, and Scheme-langserver
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What It Took to Reach 97% Accuracy in AI Answering Machine Detection
MightyCall's AI answering machine detection system evolved through multiple training iterations, real production voicemail samples, and human-reviewed edge cases to achieve 97% detection accuracy. This case study explores the challenges of voicemail detection, data preparation, responsible AI practices, and the roadmap toward even higher reliability.

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Building a Digital Signature Pipeline Using APIs and Webhooks
This tutorial demonstrates how to build an automated document-signing workflow in Node.js. Starting with an HTML template, it covers PDF generation, fillable form fields, digital signatures, webhook-based status tracking, and retrieval of completed signed documents.