John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

857 djoldman 2026-07-09 00:30:11 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 162

John Deere agreed to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment under a right-to-repair settlement with the FTC and several states. The company must provide diagnostic and repair tools to owners and shops, not just authorized dealers, and pay $1 million in antitrust enforcement costs.

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

128 Jedd 2026-07-09 05:30:11 UTC connectsci.au Full Share 58

Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

111 Gedxx 2026-07-09 08:30:11 UTC howtogeek.com Llama Share 67

GitHub is facing issues with frequent downtime, political direction, and AI integration, leading some users to abandon the platform. Many projects are moving to alternative services like Codeberg, GitLab, and Sourcehut, citing concerns over technical quality and politics.

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

35 ihsw 2026-07-09 07:30:11 UTC networkworld.com Llama Share 4

Meta developed Vistara, a custom chip to reuse older memory in new servers, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This technology can help address the rising memory prices and shortage, which may last until 2027.

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

107 nateb2022 2026-07-09 02:30:11 UTC nexte.st Llama Share 30

This tool allows for sophisticated test selection and filtering, and provides features such as stress testing, test rerunning, and deep analysis. It supports multiple platforms and is open source, widely trusted, and powers Rust development at various scales.

I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep

45 martey 2026-07-09 05:30:11 UTC theautopian.com Llama Share 10

The author, a media company co-founder, was tasked with building a brand new WWII Jeep from scratch using primarily parts purchased off eBay Motors within a tight deadline. With the help of experts and friends, he overcame numerous challenges to assemble the vehicle, which was sponsored by eBay Motors as a partnership.

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

91 tanelpoder 2026-07-09 02:30:11 UTC databricks.com Llama Share 35

Databricks built an internal coding benchmark to evaluate tools on actual coding tasks, finding that a mix of tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open source provides frontier performance. The results showed clear clustering of models and harnesses into 3 capability tiers, with the most intelligent models being very expensive but highly effective.

Cloudflare Drop

438 coloneltcb 2026-07-08 19:30:11 UTC cloudflare.com Full Share 238

Drop a folder or zip. See your site live on Cloudflare's global network in seconds.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

218 sk4rekr0w 2026-07-08 21:30:11 UTC openai.com Llama Share 79

A detailed audit of SWE-Bench Pro found ~30% of tasks are broken, affecting model evaluation and safety decisions. The audit suggests using experienced software developers to create new benchmarks that are hard to game and genuinely reflective of model capability.

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

23 giuliomagnifico 2026-07-09 06:30:11 UTC dfarq.homeip.net Llama Share 5

Nintendo released Donkey Kong in July 1981, which became the highest-grossing arcade game of 1981 and 1982, and launched the Mario franchise. Donkey Kong's success led to Nintendo's rise as a major producer of arcade titles and ultimately contributed to Atari's decline.

Rewriting Bun in Rust

607 afturner 2026-07-08 22:30:11 UTC bun.com Llama Share 340

The author of Bun rewrote the project in Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, and a dynamic workflow system, resulting in a 1,009,272-line diff and 6,502 commits. The rewrite took 11 days and was reviewed by 64 Claudes, with the project now having 24/7 coverage-guided fuzzing and 11 rounds of security review completed.

Grok 4.5

644 BoumTAC 2026-07-08 18:30:11 UTC x.ai Llama Share 987

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

0 2026-07-09 07:30:11 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

CollectWise is a Y Combinator-backed startup using AI to automate debt collection, seeking a Founding Account Executive to reach $10 million in revenue within a year. The role involves owning the sales funnel, consistently exceeding quota, and navigating complex sales cycles.

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

106 beefburger 2026-07-09 00:30:11 UTC seriot.ch Llama Share 29

Unicode's transliteration rules, used in ICU library, can simulate any Turing machine due to their unbounded rewriting capabilities with a revisiting cursor. This makes transliteration rule files, shipped in every OS, a type of program that should be reviewed and bound at runtime.

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

286 chenglong-hn 2026-07-08 18:30:11 UTC microsoft.github.io Llama Share 110

Flint is a visualization language that creates charts from simple specs, optimizing settings from data and semantic types. It supports 46 chart types and 3 rendering engines.

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

178 madebymagnolia 2026-07-08 22:30:11 UTC yamanote.fun Llama Share 36

The Yamanote Line soundscapes combine station melodies, announcements, and train sounds to recreate Tokyo's railway loop. The virtual loop has distinct melodies for each direction and can be traveled in 30 minutes at double speed.

Remote Attestation

99 lcvw 2026-07-09 01:30:11 UTC liamcvw.com Llama Share 86

Remote attestation using a TPM can cryptographically prove a host's state after a reboot, ensuring it's in a trusted state or fails and breaks trust. This allows for strong guarantees about the initial state of hosts, enabling robust EDR and LSM policies to prevent kernel and driver supply chain attacks.

In-browser programmable robot simulator

14 lijay 2026-07-09 07:30:11 UTC bittlex-sim.petoi.com Full Share 0

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Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

143 linuxrebe1 2026-07-08 21:30:11 UTC github.com/linuxrebel Llama Share 33

DocuBrowse is a local document search tool that indexes files on your machine using AI models. It supports multiple document types and directories, and provides a web interface for searching and managing documents.

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

70 Narann 2026-07-09 00:30:11 UTC mhloppy.com Llama Share 20

The user fixed a bug in MechCommander 1 where large weapons were being concentrated in the left arm of a mech, making it vulnerable to losing that arm. The user created a patch to fix this issue by changing the game's code to distribute large weapons across multiple locations on the mech, and also updated the weapon classification function to default to small weapons instead of large ones.

3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map

18 Lawyer24 2026-07-09 05:30:11 UTC github.com/jamalrfordii-arch Llama Share 3

A real-time 3D map displays global moving things like ships, aircraft, and satellites with day/night and ocean simulation. Built with Three.js and ES modules, it uses APIs and optional tokens for high-res terrain and flight data.

Chatto is now open source

974 speckx 2026-07-08 15:30:11 UTC hmans.dev Llama Share 269

Chatto is an open-source group chat application that can be self-hosted for free. It offers end-to-end encryption, voice and video calls, and a snappy frontend.

Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0

35 lprimak 2026-07-09 01:30:11 UTC shiro.apache.org Full Share 5

The Apache Shiro team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Shiro version 3.0.0. This is a new major release of Apache Shiro, with many new features and improvements, culminating more than two years of work. Apache Shiro 1.x and 2.x are now considered end-of-life. If support for these versions is required, please check Commercial Support

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

1380 speerer 2026-07-08 10:30:11 UTC tris.sherliker.net Llama Share 218

The user's wife bought him a Uniqlo t-shirt with an obfuscated bash script that prints a happy Easter egg message when decoded. The user successfully decoded the script using OCR and confirmed it was a base64 encoded string referencing Linux and Akamai's Peace for All campaign.

GPT‑Live

709 logickkk1 2026-07-08 17:30:11 UTC openai.com Llama Share 465

ChatGPT introduces GPT-Live, a new voice model for natural conversations. It uses full-duplex architecture and delegates complex tasks to other models for smarter answers.

TypeScript 7

628 DanRosenwasser 2026-07-08 16:30:11 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 244

TypeScript 7 is a native port that's 10x faster than TypeScript, with strong type-checking and rich tooling. It's compatible with TypeScript 6 and offers improved performance, stability, and editor support.

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

118 bookofjoe 2026-07-08 19:30:11 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 44

A Swedish colony called New Sweden existed in the US from 1638-1655, introducing log cabins and Lutheran Christianity. Its legacy lives on in the Delaware Valley, with remnants of the colony still visible in modern-day Philadelphia and Wilmington.

FAANG Simulator

425 nerdbiscuits 2026-07-08 20:30:11 UTC abeyk.com Full Share 166

You are 22. You just signed at Goggle for $190k. One tap = one quarter of your life. Fill the freedom bar and quit forever — or burn out, get replaced by an AI named Kevin, and join the permanent underclass.

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

79 ethanlipson 2026-07-09 00:30:11 UTC mira-wm.com Full Share 14

Multiplayer world model - a dream of Rocket League.

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

141 SweetSoftPillow 2026-07-09 06:30:11 UTC github.com/malisper Llama Share 178

pgrust targets Postgres 18.3 compatibility with over 46,000 regression queries. It uses Rust and AI-assisted programming to explore deeper server changes.