June 2026's standout Hacker News projects: Half-Life 2 streamed into a browser tab, a searchable 18-year HN archive, a Pareto-frontier mini-PC tracker, and more.
Google Cloud suspended Railway's production account by mistake on May 19, knocking the deploy platform offline for roughly eight hours across 3 million users.
AI-built interfaces all look the same: purple gradients, Inter, three icon cards in a row. Here's why the output converges, what it costs, and how developers break the pattern.
Brave released Origin, a paid version of its browser that compiles out Leo AI, the crypto wallet, Rewards, Tor, and the VPN. A one-time $59.99 buys it, and Linux is free.
A widely shared breakdown explains why Linear feels instant: a local-first sync engine, optimistic UI, and an in-browser object cache. Here's the architecture, in plain terms.
Graz researchers built FROST, a browser side-channel that times SSD activity to guess which sites and apps you're running. Here's how it works and what helps.
DuckDuckGo's US downloads climbed about 30% and its no-AI search page saw 28% more visits the week after Google's I/O push. The backlash is now measurable.
Cloudflare laid off 20% of its workforce on May 7 while reporting record Q1 revenue of $639.8M. The stock dropped 18% after hours.