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July 08, 2026Hacker News – 08 Jul 2026
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Tech Vulnerabilities and Security Insights
GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

DIY and Data Preservation
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

Machine Learning and AI Innovations
30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

New Tools and Applications
Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

Reflections on Technology and Society
Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
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July 07, 2026Hacker News – 07 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Open Hardware and Offline Solutions
OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

AI Economics and Development
GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

Tech Innovations and DIY Projects
How to sequence your own DNA at home

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

Microsoft's Moves and Challenges
Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

Resetting Xbox

Tech Developments and Research
Inkfield

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)
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4min
July 06, 2026Hacker News – 06 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Mapping the Future
Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

Organic Maps

Gaming and Ownership
It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership

Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

AI Insights
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

Innovation and Challenges
OpenPrinter

Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

Education and History
Completing a computer science degree on Coursera

Starring the Computer
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July 05, 2026Hacker News – 05 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Component Innovations
Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Pandoc Lua Filters

User Experience Matters
If you're a button, you have one job

Fast Software, the Best Software

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Cryptography and Trust Issues
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

Science and Technology Intersect
Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

Megawatts by Microwave

Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more

Cultural Reflections
Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts

About the Digital Art
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4min
July 04, 2026Hacker News – 04 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Air Quality and Cognitive Performance
The bottleneck might be the air in the room

AI and Software Development
Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island

Hardware Innovations
Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

Historical Innovations
The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

New Developments in Search and Security
SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds
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3min
July 03, 2026Hacker News – 03 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Privacy and Data Regulations
Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

An American Privacy Emergency

Tech Innovations and Tools
CarPlay Is Additive

Podman v6.0.0

Immich 3.0

AI and Local Intelligence
Right to Local Intelligence

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

Unique Projects and Developments
crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

Half-Baked Product

Game Development Insights
Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

EXAPUNKS (2018)
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4min
July 02, 2026Hacker News – 02 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Android Malware – A Growing Threat
A new Android malware from Google

Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine

AI Developments – New Tools and Benchmarks
Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

Exciting Innovations in Robotics and Programming
Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

Thought-Provoking Articles and Discussions
The Fall of the Theorem Economy

Bring back crappy forums

Fun and Quirky Insights
How do wombats poop cubes?

Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van
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4min
July 01, 2026Hacker News – 01 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Ethical Dilemmas
Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

Claude Sonnet 5

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Scientific Breakthroughs
The first early human eggs from stem cells

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

Tech Tools and Projects
Google copybara: moving code between repositories

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

Leanstral 1.5

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nature and Culture
Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

Forestiere Underground Gardens

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material
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June 30, 2026Hacker News – 30 Jun 2026
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Open Source Innovations
Open Source Low Tech

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

AI and Machine Learning
Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

Nostalgic Computing
Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)

Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

Old Computer Challenge

Tech Industry Developments
Rocketlab acquires Iridium

One million passports leaked online

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

Technical Insights
Memory Safe Context Switching

How to corrupt an SQLite database file

Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming" (2003)
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4min
June 29, 2026Hacker News – 29 Jun 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

Tech Developments
Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

US Grid Constraints: Towards 40GW+ of Behind-the-Meter Datacenter by 2028?

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

Historical Insights
Historical memory prices 1960-2026

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

Cultural Reflections
The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

Deciphering basmala

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]
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