For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

299 defrost 2026-07-01 15:17:55 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 89

Scientists created a synthetic cell that grows, replicates DNA, and divides, demonstrating basic cell functions. The cell is not alive but shows promise for generating life from non-life and could lead to breakthroughs in materials and disease research.

How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

47 dennis-tra 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC probelab.io Llama Share 5

Optimistic Provide is a new optimization for IPFS's Amino DHT that reduces content publication time by over one order of magnitude and network overhead by 40%. It achieves this by using statistical heuristics to predict when the 20 closest peers have been discovered, allowing for sub-second record storage and improved performance in delay-sensitive applications.

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

240 Tiberium 2026-07-01 12:17:55 UTC blog.playstation.com Llama Share 297

Sony Interactive Entertainment will discontinue physical game disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028. New games will be available digitally on PlayStation Store and at retailers starting January 2028.

Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine

215 makepanic 2026-07-01 12:17:55 UTC box2d.org Llama Share 40

Box3D is an open source 3D physics engine that is a fork of Box2D, developed to meet the needs of the game The Legend of California. It is now available on GitHub and has a feature set that includes gyroscopic torques, broad-phase collision detection, and compound collision systems.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

41 whoishiring 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 63

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Monetization Gateway

106 soheilpro 2026-07-01 14:17:55 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 33

Cloudflare introduces the Monetization Gateway, allowing customers to charge for digital assets with usage-based pricing. The gateway uses the x402 protocol for sub-second payment settlement in stablecoins.

Internal Combustion Engine

108 StefanBatory 2026-07-01 13:17:55 UTC ciechanow.ski Llama Share 9

An internal combustion engine is explained step by step, starting with a simple crank mechanism that converts linear force into torque, then using a cannon to generate a strong force that pushes a piston down a cylinder, and finally adding valves and a camshaft to control the flow of air and fuel. The engine's components, including the engine block, crankshaft, pistons, cylinder head, and ...

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

31 whoishiring 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 89

I am a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design and full-stack development, proficient in various technologies including Python, AI, MERN, and Big Data, and I am looking for a Senior/Lead software engineer role in the USA.

Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses

55 sashk 2026-07-01 15:17:55 UTC easyoptouts.com Llama Share 4

iCloud+ Hide My Email service has vulnerabilities allowing attackers to discover hidden email addresses. Apple has been aware of the issue since June 2025 but still hasn't fixed it.

Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36

17 compumike 2026-07-01 16:18:55 UTC heyoncall.com Llama Share 3

A tiny Kubernetes cluster revealed a memory leak in the kubelet process due to a context leak on every startPodSync, which was caused by a change in Kubernetes 1.36 that created a new cancelable context without properly canceling the old one. The issue was fixed by reverting the problematic code and adding comments to warn about potential context leaks and long-lived goroutines.

Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children

96 tartoran 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC reuters.com Full Share 21

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Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

29 gergelycsegzi 2026-07-01 14:17:55 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 20

Greg and Max, Parsewise founders, transform unstructured data into schema compliant data with lineage. Their platform simplifies ETL and allows business experts to validate results quickly.

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

199 bilsbie 2026-07-01 15:17:55 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 99

Sony plans to remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store libraries due to licensing agreements. This move highlights the shift towards ownership being controlled by servers, rather than physical copies.

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF

0 2026-07-01 14:17:55 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Manufact is building the MCP cloud platform for AI agents and raised $6.3M seed in 4 days. They're hiring a Developer Advocate to drive partnerships and content across the AI dev-tools ecosystem.

Red Programming Language: Static linking support

49 em-bee 2026-07-01 14:17:55 UTC red-lang.org Llama Share 6

The Red toolchain has been updated to support static linking of libraries written in C, allowing for single, self-contained binaries with all dependencies packed inside. This feature is now available for Windows, Linux, and Linux ARM, including the Raspberry Pi, and can be used with the miniz library for compression.

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

441 pantalaimon 2026-07-01 10:17:55 UTC asahilinux.org Llama Share 146

Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.

1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

54 surprisetalk 2026-07-01 14:17:55 UTC hypertalking.com Llama Share 7

User created 42 Apple emojis as 1-bit pixel art in Summer 2019. They are available for use in projects with credit and link back to the source.

Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting

20 jono_irwin 2026-07-01 16:20:55 UTC cerebrium.ai Llama Share 5

Cerebrium's checkpointing feature solves the cold start problem for AI workloads by freezing the initialized container and restoring it quickly, reducing startup times from minutes to seconds. This feature is particularly useful for workloads dominated by deterministic initialization, importing frameworks, and loading models, allowing for better utilization, lower infrastructure costs, and a ...

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

10 ledoge 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC hydrogenaudio.org Full Share 7

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

384 _tk_ 2026-07-01 12:17:55 UTC mynintendonews.com Llama Share 198

Nintendo raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent and maintain an appropriate compensation standard. The company also invested 121 billion yen in R&D and has been cautious with price increases.

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

204 chimpanzee 2026-07-01 08:17:55 UTC phys.org Full Share 44

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Ray Tracer in SQL

27 kbumsik 2026-07-01 15:17:55 UTC github.com/clickhouse Llama Share 6

A path tracer written in ClickHouse SQL queries renders a scene with procedurally generated landscape, reflecting terrain and casting shadows, using 3D math on tuples and parallelizing across CPU cores. The scene exercises various geometric primitives, including boxes, cylinders, tori, and spheres, with CSG union, difference, and ray-marched distance field, and is rendered at any resolution ...

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas

535 backlit4034 2026-07-01 14:17:55 UTC wangcong.org Llama Share 416

A software engineer stopped arguing with others due to understanding that correctness is not always good and that arguing often challenges people's sense of self rather than their ideas. He now focuses on self-improvement and building on differences rather than trying to convince others.

Show HN: GolemUI – The new paradigm for JavaScript forms

12 wtfdeveloper 2026-07-01 15:17:55 UTC golemui.com Full Share 20

The New Paradigm for building forms. Stop coding UI-coupled forms and start defining semantic, serializable schemas.

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

870 Pragmata 2026-07-01 00:17:55 UTC twitter.com/anthropicai Full Share 573

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

9 DanielVZ 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC devz.cl Prefix Share 4

I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don’t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read are: Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software: I don’t remember much. I think I read this too early to fully grasp all patterns but at least it gave me a general understanding of ...

Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used

7 oleksiibond 2026-07-01 16:17:55 UTC pmbai.dev Prefix Share 3

How it works Hooks inject the right memory before the model thinks, and journal the agent's work after, no LLM call on the read path, no tool the agent has to remember to call. Every message is classified in sub-millisecond; the matching lessons, decisions and project overview are fetched for the agent before it reasons. The MCP tool returns instantly. SQLite first; the embed and LanceDB ...

ArXiv's Next Chapter

244 subset 2026-07-01 03:17:55 UTC blog.arxiv.org Llama Share 77

arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization on July 1, 2026. This change will bring new flexibility and opportunities while maintaining arXiv's mission and values of free access to scientific ideas and discoveries.

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

67 fbrusch 2026-07-01 10:17:55 UTC vitalik.eth.limo Llama Share 9

Obfuscation is a powerful cryptographic primitive that hides the internal workings of a program while preserving its functionality, and it has been used to create secure and private systems such as voting systems and cryptocurrencies. However, making a secure form of obfuscation is extremely hard, and the current state-of-the-art obfuscation protocols have galactic runtimes, but researchers ...

A retrospective of my time on the internet

233 felixdoerp 2026-07-01 11:17:55 UTC cleberg.net Llama Share 237

The author reflects on the evolution of the internet from a place you visited to a woven part of daily life, with a focus on the mid-2000s as a transformative time. The author laments the loss of the old web, where websites were authored by humans and discovery was a manual process, replaced by a modern web with layers of intermediaries and commercial value extraction.