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

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview

1 month ago

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

https://streetcomplete.app/

1 month ago

All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face

https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system

1 month ago

Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software

https://gamefromscratch.com/microsoft-fire-idtech-team-at-id-software/

1 month ago

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

https://30papers.com/

1 month ago

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-11356680.html

1 month ago

A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk

1 month ago

98% Isn't Much

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/

1 month ago

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

https://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/

1 month ago

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

https://davit.app

1 month ago

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home

1 month ago

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device

1 month ago

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video_galleries/video-lectures/

1 month ago

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33y0n1v1xjo

1 month ago

Amazon Without the Knockoffs

https://knockoff.shopping/

1 month ago

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

https://www.nwo.nl/nieuws/eerste-internationale-wetenschappers-via-het-tulp-fonds-naar-nederland

1 month ago

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/dua-lipa-opens-library-for-banned-and-censored-books-in-portugal

1 month ago

We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

https://odra.dev/slopfix/

1 month ago

Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-language-housing/a-77853162

1 month ago

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193

1 month ago

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-pooler

1 month ago

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-web-hosting-vendor-share-2026

1 month ago

An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

https://thebeach.dev/posts/lisp-agent/

1 month ago

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

1 month ago

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

https://www.yamanote.fun/

1 month ago

"We're extending access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12."

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2074548242386178258

1 month ago

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font

1 month ago

★ 482 Python

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat

1 month ago

★ 16.4k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Astro 7.0

https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/

1 month ago

I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep

https://www.theautopian.com/i-bet-my-company-on-an-impossible-jeep-build-then-a-miracle-happened/

1 month ago

A new runtime for k and q: l

https://lv1.sh/

1 month ago

Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-meta-fine-trillion-b3010281.html

1 month ago

An iroh powered smart fan

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/an-iroh-powered-smart-fan

1 month ago

Notes on Software Quality

https://anthonyhobday.com/blog/20260410

1 month ago

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html

1 month ago

Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph

https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff/tree/v2.x/libs/graph

1 month ago

★ 1k Clojure MIT

Automating AI Away

https://replicated.live/blog/away

1 month ago

Better Auth is joining Vercel

https://better-auth.com/blog/better-auth-joins-vercel

1 month ago

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC/day AI code. A developer looked under the hood

https://www.fastcompany.com/91520702/y-combinator-garry-tan-agentic-ai-social-media

1 month ago

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference

1 month ago

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/circl-bugs/

1 month ago

Odin 1.0 Announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLPAqXi9In0

1 month ago

Silent speech with ultrasound

https://alephneuro.com/blog/silent-speech

1 month ago

Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

https://govauctions.app/research/cheapest-homes-in-america

1 month ago

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach-platform-properties

1 month ago

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

https://whimfiles.com

1 month ago

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

https://postgres.saneengineer.com

1 month ago

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

https://amber-lang.com/

1 month ago

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf/releases/tag/v1.86

1 month ago

★ 247 C

Deir El-Medina Strikes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes

1 month ago

Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/07/mens-average-testosterone-levels-have-halved-in-last-50-years-say-scientists

1 month ago

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

https://github.com/kklimuk/docx-cli

1 month ago

★ 139 TypeScript MIT