Espionage Against the European Parliament

202 ledoge 2026-07-03 20:57:48 UTC citizenlab.ca Llama Share 52

Stelios Kouloglou, a former European Parliament member, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware twice, in October 2022 and March 2023, while investigating spyware abuses. The infections likely captured non-public information about committee activities, breaching EU parliamentary confidentiality.

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

74 theanonymousone 2026-07-03 20:57:48 UTC github.com/searxng Full Share 20

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng

Africans Are Turning to Starlink

55 bookofjoe 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC economist.com Llama Share 35

Ekiti's rocky terrain hampers 21st-century commerce due to poor network connections. Starlink's satellite-internet service has improved the government's connection, offering a glimpse into Africa's urban future.

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

244 livestyle 2026-07-03 15:57:48 UTC github.com/jamesob Llama Share 117

User has $2k to spend on local machine intelligence and $40k for top-of-the-line. They have 4x RTX Pro 6000s and built a DDR4 system to host them.

Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle

47 mroche 2026-07-03 20:57:48 UTC kagi.com Llama Share 9

Kagi has made several updates to its search engine and browser, including adding a toggle to disable widgets, improving the Kagi Assistant experience, and launching the Orion 1.1 update for macOS. The company has also introduced a new Search API, expanded its Small Web ecosystem, and partnered with various organizations to promote privacy and security.

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

23 measurablefunc 2026-07-03 20:57:48 UTC math.ucr.edu Full Share 1

This is a course based on Fong and Spivak's book Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory, taught by John Baez and turned into nice webpages by Simon Burton. © 2018 John Baez

Elevating Privileges from Firefox to Android Root

5 kozika 2026-07-03 22:39:48 UTC rootme.nebusec.ai Full Share 1

By clicking “Step 2”, you acknowledge and agree that this website will run an open-source kernel exploit on your device. This kernel exploit is experimental and may be unstable. It could cause unexpected behavior, crashes, data corruption, or permanent data loss. I understand the risks and agree to run the exploit on this device.

FreeBSD ate my RAM

67 theanonymousone 2026-07-03 19:57:48 UTC crocidb.com Llama Share 26

The user investigated why memory usage reported by fastfetch and btop differed on FreeBSD, discovering that the discrepancy was due to btop's incorrect handling of the ARC cache and filesystem metadata buffer cache. The user contributed patches to btop and htop to improve their memory usage reporting, and also submitted a PR to fastfetch, which was later merged with improvements.

How Amsterdam invented the fire department

4 zdw 2026-07-03 22:46:48 UTC worksinprogress.co Prefix Share 0

In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world. Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes. But material abundance and industrial activities also heightened an ancient danger: they added fuel to the flames of urban ...

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

0 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Marketing Lead at Infracost will develop and execute marketing strategies, manage the marketing function, and drive customer acquisition. The role requires 5+ years of B2B marketing experience, strong project management, and a bias toward action in a fully remote US and Canada timezone-based team.

Factories are just rooms

171 arbesman 2026-07-03 15:57:48 UTC interconnected.org Llama Share 71

You spoke to a year group about manufacturing, sharing your experience making an AI clock and showing them various stages of design and production. You aim to normalize hands-on learning and inspire kids to become makers and inventors.

Costco is the anti-Amazon

239 bookofjoe 2026-07-03 15:57:48 UTC phenomenalworld.org Llama Share 220

Amazon's complex logistics model may not be the most efficient or socially beneficial, while Costco's simpler model offers lower costs and better worker treatment. A public grocery store model, inspired by Costco and the military commissary system, could provide cheaper groceries for New Yorkers with lower overhead.

Software, from First Principles

8 faza 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC fazamhd.com Prefix Share 0

When you use your smartphone or laptop, it is easy to forget the sheer absurdity of the physical reality underneath. Behind that seamless experience lies centuries of effort from physicists, chemists, mathematicians, engineers, programmers, and designers. Inside your device is a slice of literal rock, purified to near perfection and carved with microscopic circuits. By just controlling the ...

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

155 peterparker204 2026-07-03 13:57:48 UTC ubuntu.com Llama Share 11

SQLite fixed a long-standing bug in WAL checkpointing that could lead to database corruption. The dqlite team used TLA+ to model SQLite's behavior and found that dqlite is not affected by the bug due to its stricter locking mechanism.

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

10 cubefox 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC epoch.ai Llama Share 1

Anthropic and OpenAI announced efforts to use frontier models for cybersecurity, but this led to a significant increase in high-severity vulnerabilities. The number of high- and critical-severity CVEs jumped 3.5x in June after the announcements.

Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)

41 kerlenton 2026-07-03 16:57:48 UTC github.com/kerlenton Llama Share 13

mcpsnoop is a transparent proxy that shows real tool calls between AI client and MCP servers live in the terminal. It wraps your server command and displays every JSON-RPC frame in a live UI for debugging.

PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit

142 furkansahin 2026-07-03 13:57:48 UTC ubicloud.com Llama Share 76

Enabling strict memory overcommit in Linux protects PostgreSQL from catastrophic OOM kills by preventing shared memory corruption. A kernel bug in Linux 6.5 caused inflated committed memory, but a fix was applied, allowing strict overcommit to be safely enabled.

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

242 indy 2026-07-03 08:57:48 UTC wordgard.net Llama Share 90

Wordgard is an open-source JavaScript library for in-browser rich-text editors with a powerful programming interface. It's customizable and free to use under the MIT license, but commercial users are expected to contribute to its maintenance.

The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker

26 njrc 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC nooneshappy.com Llama Share 16

The American worker is struggling due to stagnant wages, rising housing costs, and unaffordable healthcare, leading to a "Great Detachment" where workers feel disconnected from their jobs and the system. The root causes of this issue include corporate greed, a broken pension system, and a healthcare system designed to deny claims, resulting in workers being forced to live paycheck to paycheck ...

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

513 ahlCVA 2026-07-03 13:57:48 UTC gamingonlinux.com Llama Share 96

Valve has made the Steam Machine's e-ink display open source under the MIT license, allowing anyone to create their own "Inkterface". JSAUX plans to release pre-built versions of the display.

A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

142 OuterVale 2026-07-03 12:57:48 UTC lyra.horse Llama Share 48

Reddit's spam filter system, which includes spamurai, uses various methods to detect and remove spam content. The system can see internal removal reasons, but only sitewide admins can view them.

Goodbye, Forever, Probably

36 backlit4034 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC whitep4nth3r.com Llama Share 17

The user, a developer relations professional, reflects on their career and the changing tech industry, feeling anxious and burnt out due to the pressure to constantly produce content and meet arbitrary metrics. They've decided to leave their DevRel role and focus on their own well-being, taking a lower salary and stepping back from public online presence to prioritize their mental health and ...

Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust

7 colwont 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC github.com/colwill Prefix Share 0

Tool that scans a project and generates a ContextCodeCache - a .ccc directory holding a compact, machine-readable map of every source file: its constants, functions (with return types and doc summaries), intra-file call graph, and marker notes (TODO/FIXME/...). It is designed to give agents a cheap, always-fresh index of a project. Requires Rust ≥ 1.77 (the tree-sitter 0.25 stack; some ...

60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it

209 dimitropoulos 2026-07-03 15:57:48 UTC github.com/teamchong Llama Share 84

pxpipe compresses Claude Code requests by rendering bulky context as images, reducing input tokens by ~25k to ~2.7k. This results in a ~59-70% lower end-to-end bill.

Holes

155 caminanteblanco 2026-07-03 17:57:48 UTC xkcd.com Full Share 28

Half-Baked Product

1176 weli 2026-07-03 08:57:48 UTC weli.dev Llama Share 361

A founder builds an oven company with a flawed MVP that fails to deliver on its promises, despite raising millions of dollars in funding. The company struggles to execute its vision due to poor engineering, sales, and management decisions.

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

110 yehiaabdelm 2026-07-03 10:57:48 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 140

You're frustrated with LLMs for programming, feeling stuck in a prompt-response loop. Researchers are exploring alternative models like the tab model, which may offer a more fluid coding experience.

My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?

80 surprisetalk 2026-07-03 14:57:48 UTC ambrook.com Llama Share 46

The US oat market declined due to agricultural policies favoring corn and soybeans, leading to a shift to importing oats from Canada. A supply chain was built to import Canadian oats, which has proven resilient but may need to be remade to prioritize US soil health and Corn Belt communities.

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

129 crescit_eundo 2026-07-03 13:57:48 UTC construction-physics.com Llama Share 54

Screwworms, a flesh-eating parasite, have returned to the US after decades of eradication. The parasite was previously eliminated through a program that dropped millions of sterile male flies in infested areas.

Nerdle Review

5 trizoza 2026-07-03 21:57:48 UTC dles.gg Prefix Share 0

← Back to Reviews Some games, like Grand Theft Auto are born in a studio. Some games, like football are born on the street. Well, Nerdle was born in a London traffic jam. In January 2022, data scientist Richard Mann was stuck in the car with his daughter Imogen, the two of them were talking about the Wordle hype, and by the time the traffic cleared they'd sketched out a maths version and ...