Hacker News on Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt(tris.sherliker.net)

1407 points by speerer 3 months ago | 224 comments

Blog post decoding an obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script printed on a Uniqlo t-shirt by Akamai that prints an Easter egg message.

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement(apnews.com)

1333 points by djoldman 3 months ago | 284 comments

AP News article reporting that an FTC settlement will give John Deere equipment owners the right to repair their own machinery.

Chatto is now open source(hmans.dev)

1022 points by speckx 3 months ago | 277 comments

Blog post announcing that Chatto, a group and team chat application, is now open source and available to self-host, installable via Homebrew.

Grok 4.5(x.ai)

730 points by BoumTAC 3 months ago | 1337 comments

xAI announcement page introducing Grok 4.5, a model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

GPT‑Live(openai.com)

715 points by logickkk1 3 months ago | 473 comments

OpenAI announcement page introducing GPT-Live; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification challenge instead of the article.

Rewriting Bun in Rust(bun.com)

692 points by afturner 3 months ago | 428 comments

Bun blog post by Jarred Sumner explaining the decision to rewrite the Bun JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust, partly using Claude.

TypeScript 7(devblogs.microsoft.com)

670 points by DanRosenwasser 3 months ago | 266 comments

Microsoft Dev Blogs post announcing the release of TypeScript 7.0, a native port of the TypeScript compiler described as 10x faster.

Cloudflare Drop(cloudflare.com)

500 points by coloneltcb 3 months ago | 271 comments

Cloudflare Drop is a tool that lets users drag in a folder or zip of HTML, CSS, and JS files to deploy a static website instantly.

GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos(noma.security)

487 points by ColinEberhardt 3 months ago | 187 comments

Noma Labs vulnerability research post describing how a crafted GitHub issue could trick GitHub's AI agent into leaking private repository contents.

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model(mistral.ai)

454 points by ottomengis 3 months ago | 99 comments

Mistral AI announcement introducing Robostral Navigate, a robotics navigation model, shown with a demo of navigating an office space.

FAANG Simulator(abeyk.com)

430 points by nerdbiscuits 3 months ago | 172 comments

A satirical browser-based life simulator game where each tap is a quarter of a FAANG career, aiming for FIRE, founding a startup, climbing to L10, or burning out.

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years(nebusec.ai)

386 points by ranger_danger 3 months ago | 187 comments

Nebula Security research post (IonStack part II) detailing GhostLock, a stack use-after-free vulnerability present in all Linux distributions for 15 years.

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules(cyberinsider.com)

364 points by ggirelli 3 months ago | 140 comments

Cyber Insider news article reporting that the EU is one step away from reviving rules for scanning private messages (Chat Control).

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents(microsoft.github.io)

327 points by chenglong-hn 3 months ago | 118 comments

Project homepage for Flint, a Microsoft Research visualization intermediate language that lets AI agents generate charts rendered via Vega-Lite, ECharts, or Chart.js.

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)(neil.computer)

327 points by 4diii 3 months ago | 220 comments

A blog note explaining how to set up a minimal ZFS-based NAS and share a dataset over the network with Samba instead of using Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS.

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

297 points by azhenley 3 months ago | 61 comments

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips(apple.com)

270 points by soheilpro 3 months ago | 218 comments

SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence(cognition.com)

252 points by mekpro 3 months ago | 128 comments

OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root(nvd.nist.gov)

243 points by linggen 3 months ago | 125 comments

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus(blog.cloudflare.com)

241 points by bobnamob 3 months ago | 48 comments

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations(openai.com)

231 points by sk4rekr0w 3 months ago | 84 comments

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

192 points by thewebguyd 3 months ago | 86 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday(twitter.com)

185 points by jfrbfbreudh 3 months ago | 139 comments

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base(github.com)

180 points by linuxrebe1 3 months ago | 37 comments

The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous(combine-lab.github.io)

174 points by karrot-kake 3 months ago | 162 comments

LineageOS Statistics(stats.lineageos.org)

169 points by pentagrama 3 months ago | 93 comments

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks(digipres.org)

167 points by whiteblossom 3 months ago | 64 comments

What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?(e360.yale.edu)

160 points by speckx 3 months ago | 86 comments

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony(bbc.com)

158 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 55 comments

The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter(andiroberts.com)

145 points by kiyanwang 3 months ago | 34 comments

We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps(tryai.dev)

144 points by hershyb_ 3 months ago | 77 comments

US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food(theguardian.com)

142 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 92 comments

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase(databricks.com)

133 points by tanelpoder 3 months ago | 58 comments

Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises(buf.build)

122 points by ming13 3 months ago | 38 comments

Is The Economist Always Wrong?(economist.com)

119 points by nreece 3 months ago | 110 comments

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete(seriot.ch)

119 points by beefburger 3 months ago | 31 comments

A bug which affected only left handed users(shkspr.mobi)

117 points by sixhobbits 3 months ago | 66 comments

Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data(github.com)

116 points by rzk 3 months ago | 13 comments

The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally(bbc.com)

111 points by austinallegro 3 months ago | 66 comments

OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage(forum.openmandriva.org)

111 points by workethics 3 months ago | 33 comments

It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history(theatlantic.com)

103 points by 0in 3 months ago | 213 comments

Remote Attestation(liamcvw.com)

101 points by lcvw 3 months ago | 91 comments

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials(alexandrepoupeau.com)

92 points by poupeaua 3 months ago | 1 comments

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League(mira-wm.com)

85 points by ethanlipson 3 months ago | 15 comments

Text art tools(hlnet.notion.site)

79 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 22 comments

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%(arstechnica.com)

64 points by furcyd 3 months ago | 27 comments

Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts(atariarchives.org)

58 points by achairapart 3 months ago | 7 comments

Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool(bbc.com)

56 points by breitling 3 months ago | 57 comments

Almost Always Unsigned(graphitemaster.github.io)

53 points by gavide 3 months ago | 62 comments

A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median(krisshamloo.com)

45 points by speckx 3 months ago | 40 comments

Optimization Solver as a Service(quicopt.com)

44 points by paddi91 3 months ago | 34 comments

What Big Food Did to Ice Cream(medium.com)

41 points by speckx 3 months ago | 35 comments

Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)(pvk.ca)

41 points by mpweiher 3 months ago | 6 comments

Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format(nigeltao.github.io)

39 points by dmit 3 months ago | 6 comments

First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton(cbc.ca)

38 points by curmudgeon22 3 months ago | 3 comments

Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector(blog.vanillajava.blog)

36 points by peter_lawrey 3 months ago | 28 comments

The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley(ft.com)

36 points by iamflimflam1 3 months ago | 36 comments

List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work(birdy.chat)

35 points by rmesters 3 months ago | 36 comments

Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease(lifesitenews.com)

32 points by ferryth 3 months ago | 31 comments

Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy(blogs.nature.com)

26 points by ColinWright 3 months ago | 8 comments