Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

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Google's Android Developer Verification program silently installs a virus on devices running Android 8 or higher, disguising itself as a system service with full root privileges. This virus, which affects an estimated 4 billion devices, blocks users from running software not approved by Google, posing a significant threat to user freedom and privacy.

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Spanish government instructs state-controlled entities to blacklist US data analytics firm Palantir due to national security concerns. Palantir still holds a €16.5 million contract with Spain's Ministry of Defense, set to expire in November.

Bring back crappy forums

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The web forum, which was once a popular way for people to connect online, has largely been replaced by social media due to its limitations and the novelty of new technologies. Despite its flaws, the web forum has left a lasting legacy, with its concepts and tools influencing modern platforms and even being used in game development.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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PeerTube is a decentralized video platform allowing users to host videos on community-owned instances without vendor lock-in. It's free, ad-free, and allows users to follow channels and discover videos across the entire video fediverse.

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 into law on April 13, 2026, banning the sale of geolocation data. The ban takes effect on July 1, 2026, following similar laws in Maryland and Oregon.

Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself

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oomwoo is an open-source home robot vacuum that owners build themselves with affordable 2D LiDAR and local navigation. It's built on Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, and 3D printing, with a community-driven development process.

The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing

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Three major US egg producers, Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman's, allegedly conspired to manipulate egg prices from 2022-2025 by submitting fake bids and sham transactions to influence the Urner Barry pricing index. The companies agreed to a settlement, paying $3 million in penalties and donating 53 million eggs to food banks, but critics argue the punishment is too lenient given the alleged ...

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

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Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now available in GitHub Copilot with lower costs and provider list pricing. It's rolling out to Copilot plans, but plan administrators must enable it for organization use.

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

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A user discovered a security vulnerability in Linux 6.9 where LUKS encryption keys remained in memory after suspend, making laptops susceptible to cold boot attacks. A patch was created to wipe the LUKS encryption keys on suspend, inspired by Debian's cryptsetup-suspend, and is now available for other Linux distributions.

Podman v6.0.0

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Podman v6.0.0 is now available with improved networking, enhanced machine capabilities, and configuration file handling. This release includes Docker compatibility improvements and new features like Pesto rootless port forwarding and Quadlet evolution.

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

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To ask for help effectively, put yourself in the other person's mind and show you're worth helping by demonstrating seriousness, personal connection, or institutional credibility. Explain context briefly and make your request easy to accept by reducing costs, making it specific, and bounded, while also making it easy to say no.

AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules

The US Supreme Court rejected an engineer's appeal to name an artificial intelligence as inventor on a patent application. The court upheld lower court rulings that patent inventors must be natural persons, not AI.

This blog is written in en-GB

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A blog commenter suggested using more globally known cultural references, but the author prefers to use their own cultural context. The brain can adapt to new concepts and references, and understanding different cultures is not a problem.

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise

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mRNA vaccines are safe and highly effective in preventing infectious diseases, with potential applications for various diseases including cancer and autoimmune disorders. A comprehensive review affirms their safety and efficacy, providing evidence-based information to support healthcare providers and the public.

Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

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Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass [go/rmayrhofer-leaving-note] When Google offered me the job of Director of Android Platform Security in 2017, it was impossible to refuse. Yes, Trump was already president—my family and I had qualms—but he seemed conta...

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain

Code review is not for finding bugs but to identify code that will be hard to maintain. The reviewer checks if they can understand the code, and if not, it should be fixed for easier future maintenance.

Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine

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Europe's top court upheld a 4.1 billion euro fine against Google for anti-competitive practices. Google's appeal was dismissed, confirming the penalty for abusing Android's mobile dominance.

The fall of the theorem economy

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Mathematics is not just about proving theorems, but about understanding and sharing knowledge. The rise of AI threatens the traditional honor code of mathematicians, which prioritizes theorem-proving over conceptual innovation.

Vite+ Beta

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Vite+ is a unified toolchain for web development in beta, combining Vite, Vitest, and other tools into a single workflow. It offers a consistent development experience with features like hot module replacement, code formatting, and task running.

Exapunks (2018)

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A former hacker with the phage now makes deals for one hack per dose of medication. They learn from TRASH WORLD NEWS, a zine with hacking tutorials and tips.

Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy

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Immich 3.0

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v3.0.0 Welcome to Immich v3.0.0! After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0! 🎉 Breaking changes Th...

Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)

Several individuals shared their experiences of quitting their jobs due to absurdity and frustration in the industry, with some finding success in side projects and others struggling with motivation. They discussed various reasons for quitting, including poor company culture, incompetent leadership, and unrealistic expectations, and shared their plans for future projects and entrepreneurial ventures.

Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

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Senior SWE-Bench introduces realistic tasks with natural language instructions and a validation agent to evaluate solutions. It also scores tasteful solves by combining runtime correctness tests with quality metrics.

CursorBench 3.1

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A chart compares model scores against average cost per task, with Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 showing high scores at high cost. Lower-cost models like Composer 2.5 and GLM 5.2 also achieve high scores.

AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

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Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years

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The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June due to a massive exodus of workers from the labor force, not an increase in employment. The labor force participation rate dropped to 61.5%, the lowest since March 2021.

Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train

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Researchers studied how reinforcement learning adapts to transformer layers in large language models. They found that a small subset of layers, often in the middle, contribute most to RL gains, surpassing full-parameter training in some cases.

OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to give the US government a 5% stake in the company, with other AI firms possibly following. The move aims to share AI benefits with the public and improve industry relations with the Trump administration.

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

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The user is working on a Rust to C compiler toolchain called cilly which can compile Rust code to C for arbitrary targets and is network transparent. The toolchain is still in development and not yet ready for public consumption due to some issues and the user's current busy schedule.

The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

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The US government has invested $23.9 billion in 26 companies through direct equity, grants, and off-take agreements, with $181 billion in remaining capacity. The government is now a shareholder in 26 companies, with sectors like robotics and drones expected to be next.

Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3

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ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems or block devices with features like compression, encryption, and caching. It supports multiple clients and servers running in one process with features like fsync, checkpoints, and failover.

No LLM Code in Dependencies

You spent 100 hours reviewing dependencies for git-annex, finding issues with LLM generated code, and gaining insight for future decisions. This experience has led you to reconsider your participation in communities due to the broader impact of LLM generated code on software quality and freedom.

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

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Co-locating workflow state with application data in the same Postgres database simplifies durable workflows by eliminating partial failures and idempotency issues. This approach also simplifies atomic updates and notifications by leveraging database transactions and user-defined functions.

NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation?

NSA is pushing for a weakened cryptographic standard, ietf-tls-mlkem, over a stronger one, ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem. Opponents can voice their opposition by joining the IETF TLS mailing list and sending a message by July 7, 2026.
Public interest organizations strongly oppose X Corp's petition to set aside or terminate its 2022 settlement order with the FTC, citing the company's continued risk to Americans' privacy and data security. The FTC should reject the petition and maintain the 2022 Order, which remains a critical safeguard for users' privacy and security.

Winamp Skin Museum

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Infinite scroll through 100k Winamp skins with interactive preview

Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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The mcp-use SDK is a fullstack framework for developing MCP Apps and servers for AI Agents like ChatGPT and Claude. It simplifies app development with auto-deployment and analytics.

Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail

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Mail Memories is a desktop app that scans your Gmail account to find and save photo attachments. It's free to try and download the first 50 oldest photos, with a $29 license for the full archive.

24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

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The article discusses the futility of 24-bit/192kHz digital music downloads, which offer no benefits and take up excessive space. The human ear can only perceive a limited range of frequencies, and 24-bit/192kHz audio does not provide any improvement in fidelity.

Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser

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FreeGraphPaper offers free printable graph paper in various formats and sizes without login or watermark. Users can download clean, print-ready PDFs or create custom graph paper in the browser.

U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators

US officials feared Israel might target Iran's top negotiators Abbas Araghchi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during peace talks. US asked other countries to warn Iran about possible Israeli assassination efforts to save negotiations.

This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD

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A Vulkan driver for NetBSD has been successfully built and installed using the Lavapipe software driver. The process is now automated and reproducible on a fresh install.

Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

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claude-real-video extracts frames from videos locally, transcribes audio, and hands a clean folder for LLMs to read. It's smarter than other tools that sample frames at a fixed interval, and can be installed with pip and used with ffmpeg and whisper CLI.

The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025)

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A recent study found that experienced developers using AI tools felt 20% faster but were actually 19% slower. The study suggests that the gauge used to measure productivity is broken, especially for experienced developers working in large codebases.

Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

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Slopo detects non-exact code duplication by calculating embeddings and clustering similar code units. It uses incremental re-indexing and customizable thresholds to identify and report duplicate code for refactoring.

LibreCAD in the Browser

A user ported LibreCAD, a free 2D CAD application, to WebAssembly for web use. The port uses Qt's official WebAssembly support and Emscripten.

We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society

You're reading "The Entrepreneurial State" by Sigge Winther Nielsen, which highlights the failure of large Danish political reforms. You believe decision risk can be reduced by breaking work into small, learnable chunks and continuously iterating.

The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

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The author, a software developer, shares their approach to using AI agents in security-critical systems. They recommend a "short leash method" where developers closely monitor AI changes and intervene when necessary.

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

LMDB is a high-performance, memory-efficient database library with full ACID semantics and transactional support. It uses a memory map for data storage and is thread-aware, supporting concurrent read/write access.

Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow

The Great Salt Lake Tracker website monitors the status of North America's largest saline lake. It provides a dashboard to track the lake's conditions.

JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview

The Java Virtual Machine introduces strictly-initialized fields, which must be explicitly initialized before they can be read, ensuring that default values such as 0 or null are never observed. This feature is available for use by compilers that emit class files and provides stronger integrity guarantees for field initialization, making it easier to diagnose and prevent bugs related to field ...

Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

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Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of Claude Code What's Wrong? ● Claude asked...

Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Indian climber Dorje Morup's body, known as 'Green Boots', has been identified after a DNA test. His remains were preserved in snow and ice on Everest for almost 30 years after a 1996 expedition disaster.

Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node

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The author conducted an experiment where 11 AI models proposed and ranked different ways to untangle a complex node in a LangGraph agent, and the results showed that Opus-4.7 had the best map of the control logic but was flawed in its routing implementation. The ranking script found Opus-4.7 to be the best proposal, but it had issues with routing and was not the top choice when considering ...

Show HN: zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits

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zkGolf is a competition to build cheapest circuits with verified submissions scored on cost and tightness. A model can use the API to autoresearch and submit solutions automatically.

Wireless LAN SD

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Wireless LAN SD standard enables wireless communication between devices and SD cards. It integrates SD cards with wireless LAN modules for simple complex tasks.

A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars

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Scientists built the largest catalog of stellar rotation periods using TESS data, covering 1,046,317 stars within 1,600 light-years. The catalog, called TARS, helps study stellar evolution, exoplanet discovery, and Milky Way structure.

Show HN: QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI

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Engineers use QUALITY.md to define a project quality model and generate a holistic quality report. This report provides actionable recommendations for improvement, helping teams care for their projects and prioritize quality.

Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity

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Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone

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Dave Plummer created TinyRetroPad, a 2.5KB text editor mimicking Notepad's functionality without AI. It's a minimalist, size-obsessed project built around the Windows API's RICHEDIT50W control.

FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

FoundationDB developed Flow, a new programming language that brings actor-based concurrency to C++11, allowing efficient concurrency within C++ in a maintainable and extensible manner. Flow's new keywords and control-flow primitives support asynchronous message passing between components, enabling complex message-passing systems and achieving high performance per node and scalability.

Orbital Data Centers: Why the Hype Outpaces Reality

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Elon Musk claims orbital data centers will be cost-effective within three years, but experts say the math doesn't add up due to launch and manufacturing limitations. Hyperscalers are promoting orbital data centers for profit, not practicality.

Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share

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Nvidia offers revenue-sharing agreements to start-ups in exchange for a slice of future profits, providing access to compute power. Initial partners include Sharon AI and Firmus Technologies, offering up to 200,000 GPUs.

Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine

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ctx is a CLI for local search across past coding sessions, indexing logs into SQLite for fast retrieval. It stores and indexes agent history, allowing current and future agents to access meaningful history with fewer tokens.

Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices

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inkwell is a self-hosted RSS/Atom reader that serves articles as static HTML tuned for the built-in browser on a Kindle. Background jobs pre-extract every article and transcode every embedded image, so a tap on the device fetches ready-to-render bytes from local disk. Authenticating your e-reader — sign a new Kindle in through the auth gateway without typing on the device.

Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face

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An 11-year-old Canadian boy died from rabies after being bitten by a bat in Ontario in 2024. His parents initially delayed seeking medical attention, allowing the virus to progress and ultimately leading to his death.

EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos

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The EU Court of Justice ruled that reposting Russia Today videos is punishable in EU countries. Individuals distributing RT materials bear full responsibility in Europe, regardless of the platform or duration.

Karp: Anthropic/OpenAI are stealing customer IP and their tokens have low value

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Palantir's CEO Alex Karp exposed the AI industry's flaws, calling it intellectual property extraction and a wealth tax that punishes businesses. He claimed customers are furious about being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse.

Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime

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Anthropic's Fable 5 was re-released after being pulled due to security concerns, but it still allows users to plan cybercrime against IoT devices. Fable 5 bypassed guardrails with basic prompt engineering and executed attacks on July 1st.

Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems

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Connect with builders who understand your journey. Share solutions, influence AWS product development, and access useful content that accelerates your growth. Your community starts here.

Right to Local Intelligence

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Right to Intelligence advocates for open AI models, allowing users to download, own, and run them locally without needing a license. They provide state-specific call scripts to contact legislators about this issue.

Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed

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Author created a contest for top-tier analytic essays on AI safety connections in a novel, using a detailed rubric and autoscorer for fair competition. The contest aims to see how humans and LLMs compare in writing essays on this topic.

Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Rhombus is a new programming language that combines Racket's metaprogramming capabilities with a simple Python-like syntax. It aims to be a flexible and extensible language for real-world use.

In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence?

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Bramble is a password manager that stores encrypted vaults on your devices, syncing them peer-to-peer without a cloud. It uses Argon2id and AES-256-GCM encryption, with a recovery code and multiple unlock methods for security.