top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-09

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/

1 month ago

GPT-5.6

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/

1 month ago

Show HN: 18 Words

https://18words.com/

1 month ago

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842459

1 month ago

★ 14.6k C Apache-2.0

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

https://github.com/malisper/pgrust

1 month ago

★ 3k Rust AGPL-3.0

My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

1 month ago

Hy3

https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3

1 month ago

The Glass Backbone: Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/

1 month ago

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/?_fb_noscript=1

1 month ago

I Think I Have LLM Burnout

https://www.alecscollon.com/blog/llm-burnout/

1 month ago

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/

1 month ago

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/

1 month ago

Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/

1 month ago

ChatGPT Work

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/

1 month ago

Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5pd9z2487o

1 month ago

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are

1 month ago

A Possible Future for Damn Interesting

https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/

1 month ago

No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt

1 month ago

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming

1 month ago

A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-09-why-lisp/

1 month ago

US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/us-seeks-cheaper-hunter-killer-drones-after-iran-destroys-1b-worth-of-reapers/

1 month ago

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn

https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed

1 month ago

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

https://toot-books.pages.dev/blog/glm-5-2-vat-benchmark

1 month ago

TLS certificates for internal services done right

https://tuxnet.dev/posts/tls-for-internal-services/

1 month ago

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

https://www.ello.com/blog/teaching-a-child-in-1000-ms

1 month ago

The tiny cell that wasn't there

https://grist.org/science/nitrogen-cycle-cell-discovery-nitroplast-science-fertilizer-algae-bacteria/

1 month ago

Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration

https://lazypi.org/

1 month ago

Ancient Roman Board Game

https://ludus-coriovalli.web.app/

1 month ago

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Microprocessor-System-Chip-Design/dp/0323994989

1 month ago

Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07267

1 month ago

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

https://www.context.dev

1 month ago

New open access book on history of computers and politics

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/

1 month ago

Remote Attestation

https://www.liamcvw.com/p/remote-attestation

1 month ago

I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)

https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber

1 month ago

Show HN: Analog Watch

https://analog.watch

1 month ago

AI changes the economics of software rewrites

https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/

1 month ago

World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made

https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-super-alloy-could-transform-the-way-metals-are-made

1 month ago

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

https://mira-wm.com/

1 month ago

Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

https://github.com/ronak-create/FableCut

1 month ago

★ 460 JavaScript MIT

Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847834

1 month ago

How to Write an Email

https://blog.dannycastonguay.com/how-to-write-an-email/

1 month ago

PostHog Open Sourced

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

1 month ago

★ 674 Python MIT

Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/cursed-circuits-6-reverse-avalanche

1 month ago

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

https://github.blog/security/application-security/how-github-gave-every-repository-a-durable-owner/

1 month ago

What's slowing down the AI buildout

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/ai-is-bottlenecked-by-the-grid

1 month ago

Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/energy/2026/07/06/syrias-solar-boom-is-redefining-middle-easts-energy-model/

1 month ago

Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas

https://tomesphere.com/atlas

1 month ago

Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation

https://frieve-a.github.io/sound_toolbox/vinyl_explained/vinyl_explained.html

1 month ago

Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

https://github.com/dicroce/wyrm_math

1 month ago

★ 49 TypeScript MIT

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-donkey-kong-toppled-atari/

1 month ago

Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout

https://visitfaroeislands.com/en/plan-your-stay/getting-around/world-first-under-sea-roundabout

1 month ago

A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median

https://krisshamloo.com/blog/007

1 month ago

DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1095178/deepseek-makes-pivot-that-should-put-silicon-valley-on-high-alert-1095178.html

1 month ago

How should group chats work in decentralized systems?

https://marindedic.com/groups/

1 month ago

How to Start a Ruby Meetup

https://guides.rubyevents.org/meetups/

1 month ago

Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer

https://www.kevin-gibson.com/blog/writing-a-bindless-gpu-abstraction-layer/

1 month ago

N+1

https://www.woman-of-letters.com/p/n1

1 month ago

OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/

1 month ago

Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf

1 month ago