July 10, 2026

EU Parliament Backs Chat Control, Postgres Gets a Rust Rewrite, and Bots Flood LinkedIn

12 minutes

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee narrowly approved the Chat Control proposal, which would scan private — including encrypted — messages for child sexual abuse material, setting up a broader fight ahead. Meanwhile, a community rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust now passes 100% of the original regression test suite, while a separate analysis argues that generative AI is fundamentally lowering the cost of such massive rewrites. The Bun JavaScript runtime is also migrating parts of its

Timeline

00:00:00 Opening

00:00:04 Introduction

00:00:22 EU Parliament Greenlights Chat Control 1.0

00:01:08 Postgres Rewritten in Rust Passes All Regression Tests

00:02:01 Bun's Rust Rewrite Sparks Developer Debate

00:02:58 Developers Ditching GitHub for Codeberg

00:03:51 AI Content Floods Social Media, Especially LinkedIn

00:04:24 GLM 5.2 and Near-Human Bookkeeping Accuracy

00:04:50 The Glass Backbone: Army Logistics Vulnerabilities

00:05:42 Spider Venom Kills Varroa Mites Without Harming Bees

00:06:25 No Leap Second at End of December 2026

00:07:12 Context.dev API for Structured Web Data

00:07:54 TLS Certificates for Internal Services Done Right

00:08:43 Damn Interesting and the Cost of Ad-Free Publishing

00:09:34 Analog Watch, Pi.dev, Hy3, and Muse Spark 1.1

00:11:52 18 Words Browser Game

00:12:27 Outro

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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

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GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

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No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

TLS certificates for internal services done right - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

A possible future for Damn Interesting - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

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Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed

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