top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-08

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/

1 month ago

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02

1 month ago

Chatto is now Open Source

https://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-is-open-source

1 month ago

Rewriting Bun in Rust

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust

1 month ago

Grok 4.5

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5

1 month ago

GPT‑Live

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/

1 month ago

TypeScript 7

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0/

1 month ago

GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/

1 month ago

Cloudflare Drop

https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/

1 month ago

FAANG Simulator

https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/

1 month ago

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/

1 month ago

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-now-one-step-away-from-reviving-private-message-scanning-rules/

1 month ago

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/

1 month ago

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/213560

1 month ago

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/#/

1 month ago

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS

https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/

1 month ago

So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

1 month ago

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-to-increase-spend-with-broadcom-to-produce-billions-more-us-chips/

1 month ago

PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1783340582

1 month ago

OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-57589

1 month ago