Hacker News on Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained(fightchatcontrol.eu)

858 points by gasull 3 months ago | 328 comments

Explainer page from Fight Chat Control describing the two EU Chat Control proposals: the temporary 1.0 regulation (EU) 2021/1232 and the permanent CSA Regulation 2.0 in trilogue.

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time(streetcomplete.app)

773 points by kls0e 3 months ago | 192 comments

Homepage of StreetComplete, an Android app for surveying and improving OpenStreetMap data, with Google Play and F-Droid download links.

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera(allaboutcookies.org)

680 points by nickslaughter02 3 months ago | 855 comments

Article explaining the EU's ADDW rule requiring driver-monitoring cameras in all new cars from July 2026 and the privacy concerns over driver data.

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

592 points by notmcrowley 3 months ago | 98 comments

A website presenting the rumoured list of ML papers Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack (27 known so far) in a beginner-friendly format.

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software(gamefromscratch.com)

538 points by bauc 3 months ago | 493 comments

GameFromScratch news article reporting that Microsoft has laid off most or all of the idTech engine team at id Software.

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament(heise.de)

525 points by miroljub 3 months ago | 234 comments

Heise Online news article on proponents in the EU Parliament using a procedural move to revive Chat Control 1.0, enabling indiscriminate scanning of chat messages.

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

493 points by speckx 3 months ago | 92 comments

Blog post by Ariya Hidayat on running Kokoro, a high-quality text-to-speech model, locally on a CPU, with an embedded demo video.

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video](youtube.com)

485 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 169 comments

A 1:17 YouTube video from First Class Amateur demonstrating a better knot for tying gym shorts or any drawstring.

98% isn't much(whynothugo.nl)

464 points by speckx 3 months ago | 306 comments

A blog post arguing that 98% success rates are inadequate for basic expectations, such as websites relying on new browser features that fail for millions of users.

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI(davit.app)

364 points by xinit 3 months ago | 93 comments

Landing page for Davit, a free, MIT-licensed native macOS app providing a UI for Apple's container platform to run Linux containers on Apple silicon.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)(ocw.mit.edu)

339 points by gjvc 3 months ago | 44 comments

MIT OpenCourseWare page hosting the twenty 1986 SICP video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, recorded for Hewlett-Packard employees.

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor(kb.cert.org)

337 points by miniBill 3 months ago | 115 comments

CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#213560 reporting a hidden authentication backdoor in multiple versions of Tenda device firmware.

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID(pcmag.com)

294 points by ifh-hn 3 months ago | 125 comments

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)(nwo.nl)

294 points by 28304283409234 3 months ago | 228 comments

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes(bbc.com)

277 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 324 comments

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup(gao.gov)

265 points by Jimmc414 3 months ago | 140 comments

Amazon without the knockoffs(knockoff.shopping)

262 points by plurby 3 months ago | 183 comments

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again(dw.com)

254 points by theanonymousone 3 months ago | 644 comments

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal(euronews.com)

237 points by pax 3 months ago | 190 comments

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler(pgdog.dev)

230 points by levkk 3 months ago | 58 comments

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors(ciphercue.com)

227 points by adulion 3 months ago | 158 comments

An agent in 100 lines of Lisp(thebeach.dev)

224 points by jamiebeach 3 months ago | 69 comments

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

221 points by madebymagnolia 3 months ago | 48 comments

We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code(odra.dev)

219 points by zie1ony 3 months ago | 120 comments

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop(github.com)

200 points by segmenta 3 months ago | 84 comments

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font(github.com)

199 points by arantius 3 months ago | 26 comments

We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12(twitter.com)

190 points by minimaxir 3 months ago | 204 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

180 points by archargelod 3 months ago | 47 comments

Astro 7.0(astro.build)

163 points by saikatsg 3 months ago | 40 comments

An iroh powered smart fan(iroh.computer)

157 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 52 comments

l: A new runtime for k and q(lv1.sh)

156 points by skruger 3 months ago | 98 comments

I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep(theautopian.com)

141 points by martey 3 months ago | 48 comments

Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph(github.com)

140 points by jacobobryant 3 months ago | 16 comments

Notes on Software Quality(anthonyhobday.com)

137 points by speckx 3 months ago | 58 comments

The revenge of the philosophy majors(nytimes.com)

132 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 202 comments

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit(mimo.xiaomi.com)

108 points by theanonymousone 3 months ago | 40 comments

Automating AI Away(replicated.live)

103 points by gritzko 3 months ago | 49 comments

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl(blog.zksecurity.xyz)

102 points by duha 3 months ago | 12 comments

Better Auth is joining Vercel(better-auth.com)

99 points by sync 3 months ago | 66 comments

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach(theverge.com)

97 points by herbertl 3 months ago | 45 comments

Silent speech with ultrasound(alephneuro.com)

95 points by chrwn 3 months ago | 22 comments

Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k(govauctions.app)

83 points by player_piano 3 months ago | 79 comments

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh(amber-lang.com)

80 points by _superposition_ 3 months ago | 61 comments

Deir El-Medina Strikes(en.wikipedia.org)

80 points by mooreds 3 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types(postgres.saneengineer.com)

74 points by anivan_ 3 months ago | 12 comments

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released(github.com)

71 points by mplsllc 3 months ago | 14 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T(the-independent.com)

69 points by wrxd 3 months ago | 61 comments

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

54 points by whimbyte 3 months ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Chiptune Radio(chiptune-radio.alephvoid.com)

53 points by bootbloopers 3 months ago | 14 comments

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood(fastcompany.com)

53 points by theanonymousone 3 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)(github.com)

53 points by jarodrh 3 months ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens(github.com)

53 points by kirillklimuk 3 months ago | 23 comments

Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0(shiro.apache.org)

44 points by lprimak 3 months ago | 10 comments

Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world(satteri.bruits.org)

39 points by nateb2022 3 months ago | 5 comments

The Clouds of Hiroshima(doomsdaymachines.net)

38 points by handfuloflight 3 months ago | 24 comments

Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years(theguardian.com)

37 points by samizdis 3 months ago | 20 comments

Xbox 'OG' Adventures(mamoniem.com)

36 points by davikr 3 months ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked(github.com)

35 points by arhamshahrier 3 months ago | 32 comments

The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters(blog.alexbeals.com)

34 points by dado3212 3 months ago | 19 comments

Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule(debasishg.github.io)

31 points by eigenBasis 3 months ago | 20 comments