Hacker News on Sunday, 5 July 2026

Organic Maps(organicmaps.app)

1073 points by tosh 3 months ago | 337 comments

Homepage of Organic Maps, a free, open-source, privacy-focused offline maps and GPS navigation app for hiking, cycling and driving built on OpenStreetMap data.

OpenPrinter(opentools.studio)

1033 points by bouh 3 months ago | 254 comments

Product page from OpenTools for Openprinter, an open-source, repairable inkjet printer that feeds from a paper roll.

Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made(kotaku.com)

796 points by oumua_don17 3 months ago | 332 comments

Kotaku impressions article on Running Train, a Japanese train driving simulator made by a single developer that is drawing glowing Steam reviews.

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

If you're a button, you have one job(unsung.aresluna.org)

505 points by nozzlegear 3 months ago | 249 comments

A blog post by Marcin Wichary on the Unsung blog comparing image-rotation buttons on iPhone and Nothing Phone to illustrate universal UI button design challenges.

Has_not_been_viewed_much(iamwillwang.com)

428 points by wxw 3 months ago | 118 comments

A blog note about the Art Institute of Chicago API's has_not_been_viewed_much field, marking artworks viewed under 200 times since 2010, with a browser for them.

EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track(heise.de)

365 points by stavros 3 months ago | 201 comments

Heise news article reporting that the EU Council is pushing Chat Control 1.0 messenger scanning rules through a fast-track procedure.

The future of Flipper Zero development(blog.flipper.net)

364 points by croes 3 months ago | 163 comments

Flipper Devices blog post by Pavel Zhovner outlining the future development plans for the Flipper Zero multi-tool device.

Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021)(dthain.github.io)

287 points by AlexeyBrin 3 months ago | 48 comments

Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix(ui.shadcn.com)

270 points by dabinat 3 months ago | 146 comments

Starring the Computer(starringthecomputer.com)

257 points by gitowiec 3 months ago | 56 comments

Completing a computer science degree on Coursera(notesbylex.com)

236 points by lexandstuff 3 months ago | 147 comments

Combustion engine web-based simulator(combustionlab.net)

222 points by mytuny 3 months ago | 76 comments

Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years(homegames.io)

208 points by homegamesjoseph 3 months ago | 52 comments

Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study(arxiv.org)

176 points by softwaredoug 3 months ago | 85 comments

New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf](intextbooks.science.uu.nl)

170 points by jonahbard 3 months ago | 106 comments

Home made GPU escalated quickly [video](youtube.com)

157 points by erichocean 3 months ago | 49 comments

The Private Capture of Public Genius(wysr.xyz)

155 points by martialg 3 months ago | 81 comments

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid(www3.nhk.or.jp)

152 points by dvh 3 months ago | 17 comments

Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills(readtheline.ca)

149 points by ClearwayLaw 3 months ago | 61 comments

Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July(nbcchicago.com)

141 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 290 comments

Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)(acc.org)

137 points by RickJWagner 3 months ago | 188 comments

Phosh 0.56.0(phosh.mobi)

132 points by edward 3 months ago | 52 comments

Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork(raymii.org)

120 points by jandeboevrie 3 months ago | 68 comments

Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)(craigmod.com)

116 points by ustad 3 months ago | 65 comments

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers(pluralistic.net)

113 points by deely3 3 months ago | 14 comments

Programmers need to start meditating(jacob.gold)

110 points by enz 3 months ago | 112 comments

Claude Design System Prompt(github.com)

103 points by handfuloflight 3 months ago | 28 comments

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough(techcrunch.com)

101 points by msolujic 3 months ago | 86 comments

Europe's new climate in seven charts(bbc.com)

101 points by saikatsg 3 months ago | 93 comments

Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly?(nicole.express)

99 points by zdw 3 months ago | 7 comments

Small Penis Rule(en.wikipedia.org)

98 points by chistev 3 months ago | 31 comments

Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier(lcamtuf.substack.com)

96 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 14 comments

Moby Dick Workout (2022)(hogbaysoftware.com)

93 points by helloplanets 3 months ago | 28 comments

The Log is the Agent(arxiv.org)

90 points by iacguy 3 months ago | 38 comments

Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter(nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)

90 points by zdw 3 months ago | 23 comments

Web-based cryptography is always snake oil(devever.net)

89 points by enz 3 months ago | 93 comments

Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs(tomshardware.com)

88 points by logickkk1 3 months ago | 15 comments

Scheme Is a Hoot(gracefulliberty.com)

88 points by signa11 3 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: KiCad in the Browser(demo.pcbjam.com)

85 points by ViktorEE 3 months ago | 30 comments

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit(mhloppy.com)

84 points by Narann 3 months ago | 24 comments

You need a webring(shub.club)

81 points by forthwall 3 months ago | 58 comments

TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type(philatype.com)

80 points by ChrisArchitect 3 months ago | 23 comments

A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices(arxiv.org)

77 points by dijksterhuis 3 months ago | 55 comments

Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight(designboom.com)

75 points by amichail 3 months ago | 31 comments

DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world(github.com)

70 points by Callicles 3 months ago | 51 comments

Megawatts by Microwave(computer.rip)

70 points by eternauta3k 3 months ago | 5 comments

The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits(questdb.com)

67 points by rowbin 3 months ago | 8 comments

Knowledge Should Not Be Gated(formaly.io)

67 points by nezhar 3 months ago | 47 comments

Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG(dhilst.github.io)

66 points by SchwKatze 3 months ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Neil the Seal Game(neiltheseal.app)

64 points by dalemhurley 3 months ago | 60 comments

Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland(euronews.com)

63 points by neilfrndes 3 months ago | 63 comments

Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy(segflow.github.io)

60 points by mrngm 3 months ago | 10 comments

Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii(hawaiinewsnow.com)

58 points by MaysonL 3 months ago | 5 comments

Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s(thomasw.dev)

54 points by zdw 3 months ago | 18 comments

President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car'(msn.com)

54 points by OutOfHere 3 months ago | 21 comments

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)(simonwillison.net)

54 points by ognyankulev 3 months ago | 58 comments

EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles(wsj.com)

50 points by apparent 3 months ago | 45 comments

Pi squared is nearly 10(mihai.page)

48 points by freediver 3 months ago | 46 comments

University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)

48 points by thunderbong 3 months ago | 9 comments