StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

666 kls0e 2026-07-07 12:38:35 UTC streetcomplete.app Full Share 163

Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete! This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map. The info you enter is directly added to OpenStreetMap in your name, without the need to use another editor.

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

522 miroljub 2026-07-07 15:16:15 UTC heise.de Llama Share 228

The European Parliament voted to reinstate the Chat Control regulation with a narrow majority, allowing tech giants to scan private chats for child abuse material. The move was seen as an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to avoid a regulatory gap before the summer break.

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

500 bauc 2026-07-07 15:33:20 UTC gamefromscratch.com Llama Share 471

id Software developers working on idTech have been fired due to massive Xbox layoffs. Approximately 1,600 id Software roles were eliminated as part of a 3,200-person team reduction across Xbox divisions.

98% isn't much

460 speckx 2026-07-07 12:45:14 UTC whynothugo.nl Llama Share 301

The 98% statistic is often misleading as it implies success for most, but neglects the 2% who fail. Truly robust engineering requires handling edge cases, not just meeting a general average.

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

440 surprisetalk 2026-07-07 12:45:06 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 155

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

405 gasull 2026-07-07 14:23:15 UTC fightchatcontrol.eu Llama Share 133

Two EU "Chat Control" laws are moving through institutions in parallel, one expired and the other being revived. The laws aim to regulate digital platforms' detection and reporting of child sexual abuse material, with disagreement over scanning of private communications.

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

365 nickslaughter02 2026-07-07 20:50:46 UTC allaboutcookies.org Full Share 469

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How to sequence your own DNA at home

360 bilsbie 2026-07-07 00:14:21 UTC bradleywoolf.com Llama Share 142

You sequenced your genome 5 times at home using an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION, taking two months to set up and costing a significant amount. The genome is a reference layer, and analyzing it with tools like VEP and gnomAD provides information on gene expression but is not yet diagnosis-level.

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

323 ifh-hn 2026-07-07 08:54:03 UTC pcmag.com Llama Share 145

A 19-year-old hacker's arrest revealed Microsoft can track Windows PCs through a "Global Device ID" with no easy opt-out, sparking surveillance fears. Microsoft's device ID can associate with third-party services and track online activity, raising concerns about potential abuse for surveillance purposes.

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

312 notmcrowley 2026-07-07 15:58:13 UTC 30papers.com Llama Share 55

The user provided a list of various research papers, blog posts, and articles related to deep learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence, covering topics such as variational autoencoders, convolutional networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformer models. These resources aim to explain complex concepts in deep learning and provide practical examples and implementations for ...

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

308 28304283409234 2026-07-07 10:47:33 UTC nwo.nl Llama Share 249

Hier is een samenvatting van het artikel in 2 concise Engelse zinnen van niet meer dan 200 tekens:

Amazon without the knockoffs

295 plurby 2026-07-07 15:13:01 UTC knockoff.shopping Llama Share 227

The extension filters Amazon listings with customizable options and allows users to trust or block brands. It also enables one-click misclassification reports and uses plain text files for brand lists.

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

276 pax 2026-07-07 12:50:40 UTC euronews.com Llama Share 217

Dua Lipa has released a live album and her debut album reached 450 weeks on the UK chart. She also launched a library of banned books, the Manifesto Library, at Livraria Lello in Portugal.

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

261 randycupertino 2026-07-07 16:38:08 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 313

A former Nanjing city official Yang Youlin was sentenced to death for taking over 2.2bn yuan in bribes over 30 years. His case is one of the highest in recent years, with Yang exploiting his roles for personal gain despite President Xi's anti-corruption crackdown.

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

246 speckx 2026-07-07 18:24:10 UTC ariya.io Llama Share 56

Kokoro is a local speech generation model that produces realistic speech in multiple languages without compromising privacy. It can synthesize speech on a local machine using a CPU, with a container image available for easy setup and use.

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

236 adulion 2026-07-07 12:08:25 UTC ciphercue.com Llama Share 169

Researchers studied 19,450 European company entities and found US-headquartered vendors serve the majority of primary websites in the UK and Netherlands, and the plurality in Italy, Spain, and France. Cloudflare is the single largest internet-facing infrastructure vendor in every sampled country.

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

202 archargelod 2026-07-07 05:19:03 UTC www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu GoogleT5 Share 52

New material for volume 4 will first appear in beta-test form as fascicles of approximately 128 pages each, issued approximately twice per year. the first finder of any error in my books receives 0x$1.00 ($2.56), deposited to their account at the bank of san serriffe - if you find an error, i'll fix it. a citation to the original text is included in the index of each volume unless

Astro 7.0

174 saikatsg 2026-07-07 18:30:02 UTC astro.build Llama Share 47

Astro 7 is released with significant speed improvements, including a rewritten .astro compiler in Rust and a new Rust-powered Markdown and MDX pipeline.

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

159 xinit 2026-07-07 18:44:29 UTC davit.app Llama Share 32

Davit is a container management app for macOS that directly interacts with Apple's container daemon. It offers features like live monitoring, interactive shells, and customizable settings.

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

158 theanonymousone 2026-07-07 10:42:59 UTC dw.com Llama Share 411

Researchers found that emigration from Germany is driven by multiple factors including family reasons and discrimination. Public policy can influence contributing factors such as bureaucracy and language acquisition.

Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T

137 wrxd 2026-07-07 13:03:31 UTC the-independent.com Llama Share 149

The Independent is a news outlet that provides unbiased reporting on various topics, including climate change and reproductive rights, without paywalls. Meta Platforms may face a $1.4 trillion penalty for allegedly designing Facebook and Instagram to addict young users.

The revenge of the philosophy majors

136 benbreen 2026-07-07 14:41:56 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 204

Robert Long, a philosophy Ph.D., shifted from academia to A.I. research after discovering the field's potential for conscious A.I. He now works at Eleos AI Research, a nonprofit exploring A.I. welfare.

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

118 levkk 2026-07-07 15:36:49 UTC pgdog.dev Llama Share 33

PgDog is a Postgres proxy that scales connections without requiring trade-offs like connection poolers do. It preserves features like SET commands and LISTEN/NOTIFY, making it a more reliable option for scaling Postgres.

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

116 arantius 2026-07-07 16:30:42 UTC github.com/jimparis Llama Share 15

This repo generates experimental OpenType fonts that turn bracketed text into QR codes while preserving readability. The fonts are generated from Liberation Sans Regular and licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Better Auth is joining Vercel

116 sync 2026-07-07 15:52:22 UTC better-auth.com Llama Share 79

The author of Better Auth joined forces with Vercel to focus on building a framework-agnostic auth framework. This partnership will help them invest in the future of auth, including secure access for agents acting on users' behalf.

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

106 theanonymousone 2026-07-07 08:39:51 UTC fastcompany.com Full Share 97

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l: A new runtime for k and q

93 skruger 2026-07-07 18:08:29 UTC lv1.sh Llama Share 57

l is a new engine built for modern memory, using compressed vectors, SIMD, and parallelism to run k4, q, and qSQL unchanged. It moves fewer bytes, making it fast, and automatically picks the execution path with no annotations.

Automating AI Away

93 gritzko 2026-07-07 15:11:08 UTC replicated.live Llama Share 48

OpenAI researchers are automating themselves away by improving AI, but LLMs are clumsy and non-deterministic. Beagle SCM uses deterministic tools and formal workflows to sandwich brilliant but inconsistent LLMs.

Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

91 player_piano 2026-07-07 16:42:41 UTC govauctions.app Llama Share 101

The US government owns 2,074 homes, with 335 listed under $100,000 and 15 under $25,000, mostly in the Rust Belt and rural South. These homes are sold as-is through licensed agents, often requiring significant repairs.

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

82 anivan_ 2026-07-07 12:40:28 UTC postgres.saneengineer.com Full Share 14

Choose how big your data is and how much throughput you need. Each point is a benchmarked instance × disk; everything right of the target line clears your requirement, and the cheapest of those is the pick.

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

79 whimbyte 2026-07-07 08:12:12 UTC whimfiles.com Llama Share 53

WhimFiles is a native macOS file manager that filters files by type, date, and size, and allows dual-pane browsing and fuzzy search. It offers batch rename, folder size calculation, and a command palette for streamlined local file management.

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

75 segmenta 2026-07-07 16:10:44 UTC github.com/rowboatlabs Llama Share 23

Rowboat is a desktop AI coworker with a built-in knowledge graph that indexes work and allows collaboration with AI. It includes email client, notes, browser, code mode, and workspaces for different projects.

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

70 duha 2026-07-07 18:36:35 UTC blog.zksecurity.xyz Llama Share 9

zkSecurity's AI audit pipeline, zkao, found seven real bugs in Cloudflare's CIRCL experimental cryptography library, including a critical float64 precision loss in threshold RSA and a complete access-control break in attribute-based encryption, all of which are now fixed upstream. The AI's severity ratings were inconsistent, overrating some bugs and underrating others, highlighting the need ...

Notes on Software Quality

67 speckx 2026-07-07 18:14:50 UTC anthonyhobday.com Llama Share 39

Quality is a result of ability and appetite, where organisations have people who can produce high quality and allow quality to be achieved.

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

64 mplsllc 2026-07-07 16:24:40 UTC github.com/mplsllc Llama Share 13

MacSurf is a native web browser for Classic Mac OS with real HTTPS and a modern JavaScript engine. It now runs on PowerPC Macs with Mac OS 9.1-9.2.2, thanks to a new engine called macQJS.

Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years

55 samizdis 2026-07-07 20:36:01 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 49

Researchers warn of a major crisis in male reproductive health due to declining testosterone levels, which have halved over 50 years. Obesity, diabetes, and environmental factors like endocrine-disrupting chemicals may contribute to the decline.

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

53 skeledrew 2026-07-07 20:10:13 UTC firesphere.dev Full Share 87

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

53 kirillklimuk 2026-07-07 18:19:00 UTC github.com/kklimuk GoogleT5 Share 22

Agents address text by stable locators with character offsets (p3:5-20); humans see normal word formatting on disk. docx <noun>, docx'verb', and a doxygen-based symlink encapsulate the verbs in the xml file system. # # the ok field appears in exactly one place: the --verbose success

Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1

48 santiagobasulto 2026-07-07 12:31:53 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 28

User noticed a reversal in comments on HN posts, with "Who wants to be hired" getting 2x more comments than "Who's hiring". This shift may be related to AI, potentially due to a recession or job market changes caused by AI advancements.

Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

41 reconnecting 2026-07-07 18:40:40 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 26

GitHub is restricting access to certain features for non-logged-in users due to misuse of public data for spam activities. Users are advised to keep local copies of their repositories to mitigate potential access issues.

Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site

39 danso 2026-07-07 15:32:34 UTC abcnews.com Llama Share 27

A Midtown Manhattan high-rise building at 235 E. 42nd Street is compromised, with structural support beams buckling and the building moving, prompting evacuations and fears of a partial collapse. Emergency shoring is being installed to stabilize the building, with no reported injuries and construction workers safely evacuated.

Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

36 ck2 2026-07-07 14:19:34 UTC newscientist.com Llama Share 57

Changan's new electric vehicle, the Nevo AO6, features a sodium-ion battery made by CATL, which could challenge lithium's dominance due to its lower cost and abundance. Sodium-ion batteries have improved to the point where they can compete with lithium-ion batteries in terms of performance and energy density.

Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization

29 dataminer 2026-07-07 16:31:19 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 6

Antidoom is a method to reduce doom loops in reasoning models by targeting the exact token that begins a loop and training the model to prefer coherent alternatives. This approach improves performance and reduces looping rates in models like LFM2.5-2.6B and Qwen3.5-4B.

Show HN: Shellular – run Claude Code, Codex, Pi from your phone

28 sherlock-holmes 2026-07-07 14:08:58 UTC shellular.dev Llama Share 28

Shellular is a mobile app that lets developers control their local machine from their phone, edit files, and run commands securely. It pairs devices via QR code and encrypts data, allowing users to work remotely without exposing their machine to the world.

Software Bonkers

27 razin 2026-07-07 15:33:40 UTC craigmod.com Llama Share 20

The writer is a software enthusiast who built custom software using Claude Code to manage his finances and business. He created TaxBot2000, a personalized accounting system that handles multiple currencies and tax requirements.

PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026)

26 pv1337 2026-07-07 11:07:18 UTC hostim.dev Llama Share 11

Hostim had the fastest writes, 2.5× the write throughput of AWS RDS and 2.1× Hetzner, due to storage fsync latency. Hetzner had the fastest reads on raw per-core CPU speed.

Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents

25 brian_kuan 2026-07-07 14:07:08 UTC github.com/bkuan001 Llama Share 15

Tamper-evident runtime records track AI agent actions in an append-only log, verifiable without trust. The log is open, free to implement, and provides a verifiable Runtime Report for security reviews and assessments.

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

23 Jimmc414 2026-07-07 22:23:58 UTC gao.gov Full Share 0

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Sites that block AI training crawlers mostly ignore the answer time bots

15 zeppelin_7 2026-07-07 15:52:48 UTC sitedex.dev Llama Share 3

The web's rulebook for AI barely acknowledges the moment when AI fetches a page to answer a question, with most sites neglecting to write rules for answer-time bots. Only 144 of 5,577 readable sites explicitly allow answer-time bots, while many others block training crawlers but not answer-time fetchers.

New Literalism Comes for Museums

13 thebigship 2026-07-07 16:56:31 UTC jaymollica.com Llama Share 8

Museums are adopting "New Literalism," simplifying art to avoid controversy and boost attendance. This approach undermines media literacy and ambiguity, driving audiences to seek out more nuanced experiences elsewhere.

Weighing smoke: why AI visibility dashboards are mostly useless

12 iainharper 2026-07-07 16:20:12 UTC betterthangood.xyz Llama Share 0

The AI search visibility tracking industry is based on flawed assumptions and lacks validity, with most tools averaging random results and providing no tangible conversion. A simple and cost-effective alternative is to track the probability of appearing in a consideration set across multiple intent-varied prompts.