Hacker News on Sunday, 26 July 2026

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search(techspot.com)

1201 points by eecc 3 months ago | 924 comments

TechSpot news article about US prosecutors charging an Atlanta man after his GrapheneOS phone wiped itself during an airport border search.

Kill The Cookie Banner(killthecookiebanner.eu)

1050 points by rapnie 3 months ago | 495 comments

Campaign site urging support for an EU Commission proposal to let users set privacy preferences once in the browser and eliminate cookie banners.

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works(nikolays.github.io)

867 points by jonbaer 3 months ago | 84 comments

An interactive 3D city simulation visualizing PostgreSQL internals like WAL, buffer pool, checkpointer, backends, and replication, with a guided tour.

Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy(swag.htmx.org)

467 points by rcy 3 months ago | 158 comments

Product page on the htmx swag store selling a $25 Game Boy cartridge game themed around htmx 4.0, a joke release of the library.

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time(france24.com)

445 points by saaaaaam 3 months ago | 355 comments

France 24/AFP news report that a massive wildfire in southwest France produced a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, a first for the country according to firefighters.

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices(discuss.grapheneos.org)

385 points by Cider9986 3 months ago | 220 comments

GrapheneOS forum announcement describing its defenses against forensic data extraction from locked devices, including encryption, secure element rate limiting, and hardware requirements.

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS(beyondloom.com)

368 points by tosh 3 months ago | 92 comments

Project page for Decker, a HyperCard-inspired multimedia platform for creating interactive documents with sound, images, hypertext, and scripting, runnable in the browser.

Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59(astral.sh)

323 points by vismit2000 3 months ago | 203 comments

Astral blog post announcing Ruff v0.16.0, a Python linter release expanding the default rule set from 59 to 413 rules.

Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake(wsj.com)

292 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 months ago | 234 comments

Design is compromise(stephango.com)

264 points by ankitg12 3 months ago | 88 comments

London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service(aerospaceglobalnews.com)

263 points by agotterer 3 months ago | 220 comments

An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk(blog.ktz.me)

253 points by alexktz 3 months ago | 54 comments

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary(github.com)

253 points by maxloh 3 months ago | 146 comments

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf](gamedevs.org)

232 points by tosh 3 months ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper(sunflowersgame.com)

229 points by pompomsheep 3 months ago | 79 comments

JetZero(jetzero.aero)

226 points by lisper 3 months ago | 209 comments

We have proof automation now(imperialviolet.org)

215 points by zdw 3 months ago | 99 comments

Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team(pkg.go.dev)

212 points by AbuAssar 3 months ago | 77 comments

Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory(english.mapn.ro)

206 points by _tk_ 3 months ago | 233 comments

The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough(rickmanelius.com)

201 points by mooreds 3 months ago | 69 comments

The Strongest El Niño Ever(theclimatebrink.com)

201 points by ndsipa_pomu 3 months ago | 182 comments

The relay market powering token resellers and fraud(vectoral.com)

197 points by mlenhard 3 months ago | 123 comments

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course(golfcoursebrowser.com)

194 points by rickmf 3 months ago | 116 comments

It's not empowering to hand off the details(davidnicholaswilliams.com)

178 points by davnicwil 3 months ago | 100 comments

Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)(norvig.com)

171 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 102 comments

Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg(github.com)

153 points by xterminal 3 months ago | 65 comments

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home(seti.org)

146 points by spzx 3 months ago | 53 comments

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago(newscientist.com)

133 points by stevenwoo 3 months ago | 100 comments

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs(github.com)

131 points by zeldone 3 months ago | 27 comments

How to write English prose (2023)(thelampmagazine.com)

121 points by geneticdrifts 3 months ago | 60 comments

Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone(grego.site)

109 points by marosgrego 3 months ago | 42 comments

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp(letoverlambda.com)

107 points by fallat 3 months ago | 25 comments

How to Block Some of the Bots(nochan.net)

105 points by Bender 3 months ago | 122 comments

Teaching Kids Forth(gracefulliberty.com)

89 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 37 comments

Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used(fontsinuse.com)

87 points by open_ 3 months ago | 10 comments

Elevated Errors for Opus 5(status.claude.com)

85 points by TimCTRL 3 months ago | 68 comments

How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster(astgrep.com)

84 points by herrington_d 3 months ago | 14 comments

Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf](teorth.github.io)

82 points by Anon84 3 months ago | 42 comments

The first watch featuring computer functions(by.seiko-design.com)

75 points by stefanv 3 months ago | 29 comments

What does GitHub's security team even do?(orchidfiles.com)

74 points by theorchid 3 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost(github.com)

59 points by SilenN 3 months ago | 26 comments

Humans haven't stopped evolving(harvardmagazine.com)

58 points by ilamont 3 months ago | 63 comments

Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth(spectrum.ieee.org)

57 points by marc__1 3 months ago | 32 comments

Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore(iza.ac)

55 points by infinitewalk 3 months ago | 22 comments

No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s(comuniq.xyz)

49 points by 01-_- 3 months ago | 39 comments

Angels in Coptic Magic I: Introduction(coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de)

48 points by jruohonen 3 months ago | 6 comments

Systemd Linger(etbe.coker.com.au)

42 points by edward 3 months ago | 42 comments

Japan legend Miura, 59, scores first goal since 2022(bbc.com)

38 points by brudgers 3 months ago | 8 comments

PGSimCity – an explorable 3D model that shows how Postgres works(github.com)

27 points by samokhvalov 3 months ago | 3 comments

What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now(agrillo.it)

25 points by ConteMascetti71 3 months ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?

25 points by zecice 3 months ago | 9 comments

Lidl Introduces the European Payment Method Wero in Germany(unternehmen.lidl.de)

25 points by doener 3 months ago | 3 comments

Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz(abcnews.com)

24 points by russfink 3 months ago | 4 comments

I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become(newsletter.platypuseconomics.com)

23 points by NomNew 3 months ago | 37 comments

Make an Origami Circuit Board(spectrum.ieee.org)

20 points by ohjeez 3 months ago | 2 comments

W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones(github.com)

18 points by sqshi 3 months ago | 3 comments

Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai)(bulletins.wolframphysics.org)

18 points by marysminefnuf 3 months ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Infinite Jigsaw Game(infinitejigsaw.com)

16 points by impostervt 3 months ago | 15 comments

Kimi K3 is not cheap(alexinch.com)

16 points by ainch 3 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: HART OS – an open-source AI OS built so frontier AI needs no datacenter(github.com)

15 points by hevolveai 3 months ago | 11 comments