top 50% 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

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

https://herdr.dev/

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

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

Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9QRTAlL02THgAN2AGmWe9El0_2ZJF6hhgDBx8k97c/edit?tab=t.0

1 month ago

Exapunks

https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/

1 month ago

Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html

1 month ago

The Fall of the Theorem Economy

https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy

1 month ago

Introduction to Genomics for Engineers

https://learngenomics.dev/docs/biological-foundations/cells-genomes-dna-chromosomes/

1 month ago

The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?

https://danielstanica.com/posts/Great-Blogging-Collapse

1 month ago

Vite+ Beta

https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-vite-plus-beta

1 month ago

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with-your-data

1 month ago

Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys

https://clojure.org/news/2026/07/02/clojure-1-13-alpha1

1 month ago

Germany's Infineon opens $5.7B chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260702-germany-s-infineon-opens-major-chip-plant-as-eu-seeks-tech-autonomy

1 month ago

The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable

https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/

1 month ago

Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760048

1 month ago

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

https://senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai/

1 month ago

Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/job-seekers-giving-up-labor-force-participation-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-50-years-outside-of-covid-era.html

1 month ago

CursorBench 3.1

https://cursor.com/evals

1 month ago

Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

https://github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video

1 month ago

★ 1.4k Python MIT

AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-were-getting-ai-fake-news-complaining-about-how-ai-fake-news-is-the-death-of-real-news/

1 month ago

NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation

https://nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to

1 month ago

Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

https://github.com/flythenimbus/bramble

1 month ago

★ 217 TypeScript GPL-3.0

EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf]

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EFF-letter-to-FTC-on-X-consent-order-7-2-26.pdf

1 month ago

Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01232

1 month ago

The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/02/canonization/

1 month ago

24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_wd2bm

1 month ago

OpenAI: In early talks to give 5% stake to US Government

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman

1 month ago

Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow

https://growtheflowutah.org/laketracker/

1 month ago

The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

https://moeonmargin.substack.com/p/the-us-government-is-now-a-shareholder

1 month ago

U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/israel-iran-negotiators-plot.html

1 month ago

Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3

https://www.zerofs.net/

1 month ago

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyIQkqBXhS0

1 month ago

Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15943905/Mystery-identity-Green-Boots-climber-macabre-landmark-frozen-ice-dying-Everest-finally-solved-DNA-test.html

1 month ago

Vulkan is now available on NetBSD

https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd

1 month ago

★ 23 Shell

No LLM Code in Dependencies

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/no_LLM_code_in_dependencies/

1 month ago

Winamp Skin Museum

https://skins.webamp.org

1 month ago

Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

https://manufact.com

1 month ago

Flexible Metaprogramming with Rhombus

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1079001/67840550991151ed/

1 month ago

Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser

https://freegraphpaper.net/

1 month ago

Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail

https://mailmemories.com

1 month ago

The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming

https://geastack.com/blog-the-age-of-personalized-hardware-is-coming

1 month ago

LibreCAD in the Browser

https://magik.net/librecad/

1 month ago

My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020)

https://joesiegler.blog/2020/11/my-story-of-apogee-3dr/

1 month ago

Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35310/w35310.pdf

1 month ago

FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/flow.html

1 month ago

Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

https://github.com/rafal-qa/slopo

1 month ago

★ 222 Python AGPL-3.0

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/

1 month ago