Archive
Jul 2026
- AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study
- Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
- Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
- Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France
- Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
- Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
- Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
- What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
- How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
- Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
- Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
- How to hide from killer drones
- AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
- Prefer strict tables in SQLite
- Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
- Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
- Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
- UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
- Modern decor may be straining people's brains
- FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
- Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
- Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
- Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
- Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
- An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
- How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
- 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
- GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
- New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
- SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
- You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
- Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
- QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
- A love letter to flashcards
- Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
- Write code like a human will maintain it
- After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
- Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
- Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C
- Late Bronze Age Collapse
- EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
- Good Tools Are Invisible
- In Emacs, everything looks like a service
- AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
- Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
- Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
- Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
- GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
- Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
- GPT-5.6
- ChatGPT Work
- AI 2040: Plan A
- AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
- Hy3
- TLS certificates for internal services done right
- No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
- Muse Spark 1.1
- US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers
- The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
- Just Pay the Subscription
- A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
- Show HN: 18 Words
- EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
- Bonnie Tyler has died
- My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
- Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
- Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
- Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
- AI changes the economics of software rewrites
- Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
- What's slowing down the AI buildout
- I think I have LLM burnout
- Remote Attestation
- John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
- Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
- Rewriting Bun in Rust
- The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous
- FAANG Simulator
- Cloudflare Drop
- Grok 4.5
- Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
- PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)
- What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?
- GPT‑Live
- EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules
- SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
- TypeScript 7
- Chatto is now open source
- Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model
- FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food
- OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root
- It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
- Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
- Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
- The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley
- GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
- GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
- Is The Economist Always Wrong?
- LineageOS Statistics
- Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
- GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
- Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
- We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
- Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
- l: A new runtime for k and q
- We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
- Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k
- China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
- 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
- Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
- Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
- Amazon without the knockoffs
- The revenge of the philosophy majors
- Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
- Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T
- Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal
- 98% isn't much
- A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
- StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
- Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
- Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
- Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
- Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
- How to sequence your own DNA at home
- NSA and IETF: Fairness
- Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
- How little exercise can you get away with?
- Learning to code is still worthwhile
- GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
- Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach
- Price per 1M tokens is meaningless
- Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
- What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
- CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
- OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
- A global workspace in language models
- Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario
- Should DayQuil Be Legal?
- Car touchscreens are cheap, not good
- AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
- What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots"
- Resetting Xbox
- Aluminum foil (2021)
- Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
- How Kalshi Infects the News
- Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
- Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
- Road to Elm 1.0
- Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
- When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
- Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
- GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
- The Private Capture of Public Genius
- Has_not_been_viewed_much
- Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
- OpenPrinter
- Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
- New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]
- The future of Flipper Zero development
- Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline
- It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
- Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
- Organic Maps
- Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
- EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
- Europe's new climate in seven charts
- Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
- Programmers need to start meditating
- Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
- If you're a button, you have one job
- GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
- AI has torched the market for junior programmers
- Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
- As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers
- Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches
- “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
- Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
- Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
- Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System
- Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
- Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
- The bottleneck might be the air in the room
- 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
- Maybe you should learn something
- What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean?
- Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
- Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
- Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
- Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper
- Africans Are Turning to Starlink
- Espionage Against the European Parliament
- Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
- I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
- US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials
- Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
- Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful
- Costco is the anti-Amazon
- Factories are just rooms
- America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
- Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
- It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
- Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
- Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
- PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit
- Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
- Please stop the AI confidence theater
- Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition
- Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
- Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
- Half-Baked Product
- Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
- Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
- CarPlay Is Additive
- Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
- An American Privacy Emergency
- Protect your right to run local AI
- Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data
- Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years
- The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
- Exapunks (2018)
- The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies
- 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
- Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
- Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
- Podman v6.0.0
- No LLM Code in Dependencies
- Immich 3.0
- AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
- The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
- This blog is written in en-GB
- Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
- The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
- Vite+ Beta
- PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
- OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
- Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
- Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
- We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society
- The fall of the theorem economy
- CursorBench 3.1
- Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
- Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
- Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers
- Bring back crappy forums
- Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise
- Meta caps internal AI token spending
- Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
- ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
- Fable 5 is Back
- Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
- What to learn to be a graphics programmer
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
- Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
- For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
- FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
- Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
- Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
- Internal Combustion Engine (2021)
- Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
- Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
- Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
- Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
- A retrospective of my time on the internet
- Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
- Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice
- Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
- The first early human eggs from stem cells
- Why jet engines aren't made in China