top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-03

Half-Baked Product

https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/

1 month ago

Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/

1 month ago

CarPlay Is Additive

https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts

1 month ago

Costco Is the Anti-Amazon

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/

1 month ago

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/

1 month ago

Espionage Against the European Parliament

https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/

1 month ago

An American Privacy Emergency

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902

1 month ago

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm

1 month ago

★ 1.3k Shell

EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/eve-onlines-carbon-engine-is-now-open-source-fenris-creations-explains-why

1 month ago

Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/

1 month ago

GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd

1 month ago

Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

https://wordgard.net/

1 month ago

Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks-source-says-2026-07-03/

1 month ago

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4192827/meta-reuses-old-ram-in-new-servers-with-custom-bridge-chip.html

1 month ago

60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it

https://github.com/teamchong/pxpipe

1 month ago

★ 5.4k TypeScript MIT

Factories Are Just Rooms

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories

1 month ago

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

https://github.com/searxng/searxng

1 month ago

★ 33.6k Python AGPL-3.0

The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/

1 month ago

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-pumping-water-to-top-branches/

1 month ago

Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/

1 month ago