top 50% 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

Holes

https://xkcd.com/3266/large/

1 month ago

Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

1 month ago

Please Stop the AI Confidence Theater

https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater

1 month ago

I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination

https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type

1 month ago

Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415

1 month ago

Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata

https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/heikki/blog/004-december-2/

1 month ago

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771515

1 month ago

Africans Are Turning to Starlink

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/07/02/africans-are-turning-to-starlink

1 month ago

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge

1 month ago

★ 316 Vue MIT

FreeBSD Ate My RAM

https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/

1 month ago

PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit

1 month ago

Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-memorizing-session-transcripts

1 month ago

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik

https://www.fide.com/fide-ethics-disciplinary-commission-issues-a-decision-in-case-involving-gm-vladimir-kramnik/

1 month ago

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spike

1 month ago

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-screwworm

1 month ago

GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-QjDxUQkdTTjZLU0EyTFFRV1E3NVRTVTRTWjRHMy4u&route=shorturl

1 month ago

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/index.html

1 month ago

Egypt Is Building a New Nile

https://www.theb1m.com/video/egypt-is-building-a-new-nile

1 month ago

Pandoc Lua Filters

https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html

1 month ago

Software, from First Principles

https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/

1 month ago

The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

https://mappingignorance.org/2026/06/30/sagrada-familia/

1 month ago

How Amsterdam invented the fire department

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/

1 month ago

A Cali. farmer is giving away tons of nectarines that he's not allowed to sell

https://apnews.com/article/california-farmer-nectarines-lawsuit-patent-4f7bc8ab185e8b9cbdd6d6ad4f2aabd1

1 month ago

America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive

1 month ago

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything

https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/

1 month ago

Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony?

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ameisen-kolonie-verletzte-pflegt/

1 month ago

US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/datacenter-recall-elections

1 month ago

The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker

https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-demoralization-of-the-white-collar-worker/

1 month ago

Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

https://www.science.org/content/article/instead-banning-ai-i-made-classroom-contract-my-students

1 month ago

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/02/hackers-shoveled-snow-for-company-were-rewarded-with-network-admin-access/5265240

1 month ago

Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

https://superuserdone.com/posts/2026-07-03-give-smart-people-the-tools/

1 month ago

Best Simple System for Now

https://dannorth.net/blog/best-simple-system-for-now/

1 month ago

Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Camera-with-transparent-display-launches-for-the-equivalent-of-29.1334495.0.html

1 month ago

The circuit that lets your brain think and see

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/circuit-lets-your-brain-think-and-see

1 month ago

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

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/onnx-embeddings-speedup/

1 month ago

Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nzzpUKhj1M

1 month ago

AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money

https://okaneland.com/study/ai-productivity-roi-at-work/

1 month ago

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html

1 month ago

GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card

https://gitfut.com

1 month ago

Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle

https://kagi.com/changelog#10959

1 month ago

Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition

https://www.swiftsilentdeadly.com/blog/gun-mistakes-in-fiction-writing-handgun-edition

1 month ago

Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-development-reveals-role-of-master-gene

1 month ago

Open Source Touhou Clone

https://taisei-project.org/

1 month ago

C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences

https://nekrozqliphort.github.io/posts/membarrier/

1 month ago

Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds with Incompatibility

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images

1 month ago

'guix substitute' and 'guix pull' Vulnerabilities

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/guix-substitute-pull-vulnerabilities/

1 month ago

Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17

https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/code-review/review-repo-code

1 month ago

Inkfield

https://www.inkfield.studio

1 month ago