top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-02

A new Android malware from Google

https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html

1 month ago

US State of Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data

https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data

1 month ago

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/spain-orders-blacklist-of-us-tech-giant-palantir-from-public-and-private-companies-fsnc2z17gjv

1 month ago

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

1 month ago

★ 15.2k TypeScript AGPL-3.0

Immich v3.0.0 Released

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29439

1 month ago

★ 107.2k TypeScript AGPL-3.0

Podman v6.0.0

https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/

1 month ago

Bring Back Crappy Forums

https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/

1 month ago

Right to Local Intelligence

https://righttointelligence.org/

1 month ago

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/

1 month ago

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438

1 month ago

The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a

1 month ago

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo

https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/

1 month ago

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-kimi-k2-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot/

1 month ago

AI Can't Be Listed as Inventor on Patent Applications, Japan's Top Court Rules

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20260306-314930/

1 month ago

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

https://herdr.dev/

1 month ago

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc

1 month ago

★ 450 C

Many people misunderstand the purpose of code review

https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/115096720350507897

1 month ago

This blog is written in en-GB

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/this-blog-is-written-in-en-gb/

1 month ago

Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines safe and effective

https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/

1 month ago

Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/

1 month ago