Hacker News on Thursday, 9 July 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of patrick-breyer.de: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)

1562 points by rapnie 3 months ago | 788 comments

Patrick Breyer's blog post reporting that the European Parliament approved the Chat Control 1.0 regulation on message scanning, and criticizing the decision.

chat-control eu-parliament privacy surveillance

GPT-5.6 (openai.com)

1499 points by logickkk1 3 months ago | 1055 comments

OpenAI's product release announcement for GPT-5.6, a frontier model touted for better performance per dollar and on-demand capability for hard tasks.

gpt-5-6 openai llm chatgpt

Screenshot of 18words.com: Show HN: 18 Words

Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)

1055 points by pompomsheep 3 months ago | 339 comments

Landing page for 18 Words, a daily browser word game challenging players to survive 18 words, showing puzzle #25 and a Play now button.

word-game daily-puzzle browser-game show-hn

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com)

882 points by vforno 3 months ago | 223 comments

GitHub repo for Colibrì, a dependency-free C engine that runs the 744B GLM-5.2 MoE model on a ~25GB-RAM machine by streaming experts from disk.

glm llm-inference mixture-of-experts quantization

Screenshot of github.com: Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com)

749 points by SweetSoftPillow 3 months ago | 635 comments

GitHub repository for pgrust, a rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust that claims to pass 100% of the Postgres regression tests.

postgresql rust database ai-assisted-development

Hy3 (hy.tencent.com)

536 points by andai 3 months ago | 113 comments

Tencent Hunyuan research page announcing Hy3, a new AI model; the page showed only a loading spinner when captured.

tencent hunyuan hy3 large-language-models

Screenshot of mwi.westpoint.edu: The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (mwi.westpoint.edu)

435 points by baud147258 3 months ago | 595 comments

Modern War Institute at West Point essay by Jonathan Buckland arguing that US Army logistics are fragile and likely to fail in a future large-scale war.

military-logistics us-army defense supply-chain

Screenshot of ai.meta.com: Muse Spark 1.1

Muse Spark 1.1 (ai.meta.com)

393 points by ot 3 months ago | 196 comments

Meta AI blog post announcing Muse Spark 1.1, a new Meta AI model offered through a paid developer API.

meta muse-spark large-language-models ai-agents

Screenshot of andrewkelley.me: My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite (andrewkelley.me)

369 points by kristoff_it 3 months ago | 269 comments

Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, writes a blog post reflecting on Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust and Jarred Sumner's history with the Zig community.

bun zig rust javascript-runtime

Screenshot of alexalejandre.com: Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig (alexalejandre.com)

367 points by veqq 3 months ago | 207 comments

Blog interview by Alex Alejandre with Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, discussing terminals, the Ghostty project, Zig, and open source.

mitchell-hashimoto ghostty zig terminal-emulators

Screenshot of ai-2040.com: AI 2040: Plan A

AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)

362 points by kschaul 3 months ago | 448 comments

AI 2040 "Plan A" is a scenario by the AI 2027 authors describing a positive path in which humanity delays superintelligence until 2040 and makes AI research public.

ai-safety superintelligence ai-forecasting ai-2027