top 50% 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

SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence

https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-7

1 month ago

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

https://blog.cloudflare.com/meerkat-introduction/

1 month ago

OpenAI no longer recommends SWE-Bench Pro

https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/

1 month ago

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2074704958419792299

1 month ago

US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/us-food-and-drug-administration-rejects-petition-to-set-pfas-limits-in-food

1 month ago

The Age of Reading Is Over

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/

1 month ago

Fable is not a useful model

https://combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/07/07/fable-is-not-a-useful-model.html

1 month ago

LineageOS Statistics

https://stats.lineageos.org

1 month ago

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

https://github.com/linuxrebel/DocuBrowser

1 month ago

★ 497 Python

What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?

https://e360.yale.edu/features/cassandra-rauert-interview

1 month ago

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/

1 month ago

The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter

https://andiroberts.com/citizenship/the-social-physics-of-conversation-citizenship-leadership

1 month ago

We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/grok-4.5-vs-gpt-5.5-vs-claude-build-off

1 month ago

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260629-new-sweden-the-uss-long-lost-secret-colony

1 month ago

Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks' Multi-Million Line Codebase

https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase

1 month ago

Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-py

1 month ago

Is The Economist Always Wrong?

https://www.economist.com/interactive/finance-and-economics/2026/07/02/is-the-economist-always-wrong

1 month ago

Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data

https://github.com/dekart-xyz/geosql

1 month ago

★ 448 Python MIT

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/

1 month ago

A bug which affected only left handed users

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/a-bug-which-only-affected-left-handed-users/

1 month ago

OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempted-distribution-sabotage/8997

1 month ago

Unicode's Transliteration Rules Are Turing-Complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/uts35/

1 month ago

The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwye0dlzgejo

1 month ago

Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/

1 month ago

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

https://alexandrepoupeau.com/otary/learn/

1 month ago

Text Art Tools

https://hlnet.notion.site/text-art-tools

1 month ago

Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834961

1 month ago