top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-01

For First Time, a Cell Built from Scratch Grows and Divides

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides-20260701/

1 month ago

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

1 month ago

Why I Stopped Arguing with People

https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html

1 month ago

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

https://reclaimthenet.org/sony-deletes-551-studiocanal-movies-playstation-owners-paid-for

1 month ago

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/

1 month ago

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

https://mynintendonews.com/2026/06/26/nintendo-has-raised-its-employees-base-salary-by-10/

1 month ago

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-authored-code-contributions-we-cant-trust-heavy-users-of-ai-to-understand-their-code-enough-to-fix-it/

1 month ago

Announcing Box3D :: Box2D

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/

1 month ago

ZCode

https://zcode.z.ai/en

1 month ago

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129691.0.html

1 month ago

What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/

1 month ago

Fable 5 Is Back

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2072402636813607381

1 month ago

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

https://www.workerowned.info/

1 month ago

Monetization Gateway

https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/

1 month ago

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-frog-derived-gut-bacterium

1 month ago

Internal Combustion Engine

https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

1 month ago

Why Jet Engines Aren't "Made in China"

https://aakash.substack.com/p/why-jet-engines-arent-made-in-china

1 month ago

Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses

https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/

1 month ago

ArXiv's Next Chapter

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/arxivs-next-chapter/

1 month ago

ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM

https://zcode.z.ai/cn

1 month ago

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/03/1/index.html

1 month ago

The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore

https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html

1 month ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747976

1 month ago

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

https://runtimewire.com/article/weave-robotics-isaac-1-home-robot-launch

1 month ago

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/

1 month ago

The President Made More Than $1Billon in Crypto Deals

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-made-more-than-1-billion-on-crypto-deals-part-of-2025-windfall-ee917d3f

1 month ago

The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2052282/FULLTEXT01.pdf

1 month ago

How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

https://probelab.io/blog/optimistic-provide/

1 month ago

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

https://www.databricks.com/blog/lakebase-ltap-rethinking-database-storage

1 month ago

The first early human eggs from stem cells

https://www.conception.bio/science-and-updates/the-first-early-human-eggs-from-stem-cells

1 month ago

Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/meta-loses-bid-dismiss-us-states-claims-that-facebook-instagram-addict-children-2026-06-30/

1 month ago

The Vespa at 80: Why the Italian scooter remains the coolest thing on 2 wheels

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vespa-italy-postwar-design-9.7252641

1 month ago

Redeploying Fable 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

1 month ago

Healthy but Sedentary People Show Early Decline in Cellular Energy Production

https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/healthy-but-sedentary-individuals-show-early-decline-in-cellular-energy-production

1 month ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747975

1 month ago

Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

https://mlq.ai/news/meta-caps-internal-ai-token-spending-after-costs-approach-billions-in-2026/

1 month ago

Meta's Un-Stable Signature

https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1098-Metas-Un-Stable-Signature.html

1 month ago

Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2026/06/30/faa-supersonic-flight-no-boom/

1 month ago

Rotman Lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens

1 month ago

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/pine64-pinevoice-riscv-smart-speaker-launch

1 month ago

Qualcomm Linux 2.0

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2026/06/qualcomm-linux-2-now-available

1 month ago

Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

https://www.reuters.com/business/swedish-court-says-google-is-pay-15-billion-klarna-antitrust-damages-2026-07-01/

1 month ago

The Underhanded C Contest

https://underhanded-c.org/

1 month ago

Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

https://thisismodest.com/vimscoops/

1 month ago

Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust

https://rayfish.xyz/blog/01-introducing-rayfish

1 month ago

I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers

https://escapepod.org/2013/09/14/ep413-why-i-left-harrys-all-night-hamburgers/

1 month ago

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

https://nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto

1 month ago

IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-models-ieee-course

1 month ago

Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15424964-claude-fable-5-promotional-access

1 month ago

Chip Off the Old Block

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/chip-off-the-old-block

1 month ago

Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/06/25/medieval-style-fortifications-are-back-in-the-sahel

1 month ago

Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom

https://hanakai.org/blog/2026/06/30/hanami-3-0-in-full-bloom

1 month ago

Forestiere Underground Gardens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens

1 month ago

OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki

1 month ago

★ 10.5k TypeScript MIT

Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/spanish-bans-palantir-national-security-5HjdcNp_2/

1 month ago

The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-family-keeping-watch-over-a-52-year-old-pot-of-soup-1e72f115

1 month ago

Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand

https://dfarq.homeip.net/apricot-computers-an-underrated-british-brand/

1 month ago

Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

https://www.thedrive.com/news/your-kids-school-bus-is-about-to-become-a-roaming-surveillance-vehicle

1 month ago

It's not me, it's the compiler

https://parsa.wtf/cast/

1 month ago

The <Usermedia> HTML Element

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/usermedia-html-element

1 month ago

Old Reddit Now Requires Login

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129

1 month ago

Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/art-cats

1 month ago

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

https://ayushtambde.com/blog/matrix-orthogonalization-improves-memory-in-recurrent-models/

1 month ago

SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle

https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/

1 month ago

Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028

https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-ending-playstation-discs-physical-media-january-2028

1 month ago

Single header Parser Combinators for C

https://github.com/steve-chavez/CParseC

1 month ago

★ 82 C MIT

Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36

https://heyoncall.com/blog/fixing-kubernetes-kubelet-memory-leak

1 month ago

In Praise of Observational Evidence

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/in-praise-of-observational-evidence

1 month ago

Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353058947_Global_regional_and_national_burden_of_mortality_associated_with_non-optimal_ambient_temperatures_from_2000_to_2019_a_three-stage_modelling_study

1 month ago

FSF Librephone update: Ensuring freedom, one blob at a time

https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/ensuring-freedom-one-blob-at-a-time

1 month ago

Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

https://devz.cl/posts/solid-never-felt-solid/

1 month ago

Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business

https://anatoliybabushka.com/blog/when-to-rewrite-working-code.html

1 month ago