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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (01:34) - Midjourney Medical (03:14) - Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (04:26) - US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (05:32) - RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (06:44) - How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s (08:10) - Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (09:33) - Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (11:01) - DeepSeek Introduces Vision (12:20) - Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (13:42) - Outro Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalabilityhttps://lore.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081Midjourney Medicalhttps://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogposthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS usershttps://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security riskshttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Methodhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1shttps://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alonehttps://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolhttps://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209DeepSeek Introduces Visionhttps://chat.deepseek.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CADhttps://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAMhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.