Hacker News on Saturday, 25 July 2026

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB(kitsumed.github.io)

941 points by shscs911 3 months ago | 459 comments

Blog post warning that proposed Android changes may restrict on-device ADB, affecting Shizuku, libadb, power-user apps and developer setups.

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach(maths.cam.ac.uk)

540 points by agnishom 3 months ago | 89 comments

University of Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics feature announcing that Professor Hannah Fry has won the Leelavati Prize for mathematics outreach.

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models(claude.com)

429 points by mellosouls 3 months ago | 328 comments

Anthropic's Claude blog post on updated context engineering practices for Claude 5 generation models.

Did They Ghost You?(didtheyghostyou.com)

377 points by mooreds 3 months ago | 168 comments

Did They Ghost You? is a site keeping an anonymous, moderated public record of companies that stop responding to job candidates during interviews.

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway(refp.se)

370 points by olexsmir 3 months ago | 155 comments

Blog post by Filip Roséen explaining the POSIX shell colon (no-op) builtin and practical tricks for using it in shell scripts.

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment(tobi.knaup.me)

369 points by tknaup 3 months ago | 287 comments

Blog post by Tobi Knaup arguing that open-weight AI models are at a moment comparable to Kubernetes' rise, and urging the community not to squander it.

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller(github.com)

255 points by boveyking 3 months ago | 65 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap(theconsensus.dev)

254 points by matheusmoreira 3 months ago | 38 comments

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall(wsj.com)

245 points by JumpCrisscross 3 months ago | 129 comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026(obryant.dev)

240 points by tnisonoff 3 months ago | 192 comments

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf](github.com)

235 points by oliculipolicula 3 months ago | 177 comments

Bitchat is now on Radicle(radicle.network)

234 points by h1watt 3 months ago | 128 comments

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality(siepr.stanford.edu)

212 points by pod_krad 3 months ago | 279 comments

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site(brolly.sh)

203 points by jsax 3 months ago | 71 comments

Turn And Face The Strange(fly.io)

201 points by subarctic 3 months ago | 127 comments

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals(debian.org)

195 points by zdw 3 months ago | 179 comments

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters(huggingface.co)

190 points by nateb2022 3 months ago | 23 comments

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage(spectrum.ieee.org)

184 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 83 comments

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras(theguardian.com)

182 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 97 comments

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers(blog.cloudflare.com)

181 points by alphabetatango 3 months ago | 135 comments

The Rust on ESP Book(docs.espressif.com)

168 points by AlexeyBrin 3 months ago | 19 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics(kirwinhampshire.substack.com)

167 points by rmdmphilosopher 3 months ago | 195 comments

ARC-AGI Leaderboard(arcprize.org)

165 points by rzk 3 months ago | 129 comments

MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad(augmental.tech)

150 points by ZaninAndrea 3 months ago | 29 comments

The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory(supakeen.com)

127 points by 6581 3 months ago | 37 comments

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota(ammoniaenergy.org)

123 points by gritzko 3 months ago | 90 comments

Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes(science.org)

119 points by EA-3167 3 months ago | 107 comments

UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities(nist.gov)

118 points by walrus01 3 months ago | 37 comments

Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers(blog.adafruit.com)

117 points by sambellll 3 months ago | 38 comments

Memory safety absolutists(itsallaboutthebit.com)

107 points by drogus 3 months ago | 160 comments

Git rebase -I is not that scary(cachebag.sh)

100 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 122 comments

Extinct Media Museum Tokyo(extinct-media-museum.blog.jp)

100 points by sohkamyung 3 months ago | 23 comments

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed(karimjedda.com)

94 points by kiyanwang 3 months ago | 143 comments

A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras(cltampa.com)

91 points by UmYeahNo 3 months ago | 43 comments

Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer(energiesmedia.com)

75 points by speckx 3 months ago | 61 comments

IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats(engadget.com)

71 points by ksec 3 months ago | 111 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs(pytorch.org)

70 points by gmays 3 months ago | 6 comments

Systems and Delays(martin.janiczek.cz)

69 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 16 comments

London’s most equidistant pub(equidistance.io)

61 points by lambfruit 3 months ago | 36 comments

Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves(www2.isye.gatech.edu)

60 points by shraiwi 3 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added(bribes.fyi)

58 points by neverenderr 3 months ago | 31 comments

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself(github.com)

56 points by tobr 3 months ago | 12 comments

Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser(windows-xp.kimi.site)

55 points by boveyking 3 months ago | 30 comments

How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

51 points by karakoram 3 months ago | 6 comments

Winding Down Artichoke Ruby(hyperbo.la)

51 points by ksec 3 months ago | 8 comments

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)(theparisreview.org)

51 points by andsoitis 3 months ago | 93 comments

ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison(qoitech.com)

49 points by hasheddan 3 months ago | 12 comments

Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis(trevoraleo.substack.com)

48 points by samclemens 3 months ago | 39 comments

Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network(apalrd.net)

47 points by mrngm 3 months ago | 12 comments

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits(coindesk.com)

45 points by paulpauper 3 months ago | 32 comments

League of Legends designer shares game design field manual(areadenial.games)

40 points by jmanjmanjman 3 months ago | 24 comments

Who does Anubis actually stop?(fzakaria.com)

39 points by type0 3 months ago | 55 comments

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly(youtube.com)

35 points by root-parent 3 months ago | 16 comments

The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft(mohammedshehu.com)

34 points by shehuphd 3 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

33 points by _boffin_ 3 months ago | 12 comments

Staging patches with git add (2024)(simonholywell.com)

31 points by ankitg12 3 months ago | 39 comments

My web version of Mars MIPS, now has built-in C compiler(webmars.nfiles.top)

30 points by nenepbl 3 months ago | 6 comments

Task-centered iproute2 user guide(baturin.org)

29 points by greengreengrass 3 months ago | 3 comments

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI(wsj.com)

27 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 months ago | 12 comments

Amen Break(en.wikipedia.org)

26 points by root-parent 3 months ago | 7 comments