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

976 djoldman 2026-07-09 00:23:30 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 192

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.

Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75

82 theanonymousone 2026-07-09 10:23:30 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 17

Bonnie Tyler, a Welsh singer known for her hit song Total Eclipse of the Heart, had a 50-year music career spanning from her early days in Swansea clubs to international fame. She was awarded an MBE for her services to music and had a billion streams on Spotify for her iconic song.

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

180 Jedd 2026-07-09 05:23:30 UTC connectsci.au Llama Share 69

Researchers found peptides in Tasmanian cave spider and giant Japanese funnel-web spider venom that can kill varroa mites without harming honeybees. These biodegradable peptides could lead to a sustainable treatment for varroa mite infestations in honeybee hives.

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

96 ihsw 2026-07-09 07:23:30 UTC networkworld.com Llama Share 33

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.

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

198 Gedxx 2026-07-09 09:23:30 UTC howtogeek.com Llama Share 135

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.

In-browser programmable robot simulator

42 lijay 2026-07-09 07:23:30 UTC bittlex-sim.petoi.com Full Share 0

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TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time

0 2026-07-09 12:03:30 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

TrueBiz is an API that quickly evaluates business risk for financial institutions, replacing manual research with automated analysis. They're hiring a Senior Engineer to scale their system, expand the product, and improve reliability and performance.

I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep

69 martey 2026-07-09 05:23:30 UTC theautopian.com Llama Share 13

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.

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"

93 rapnie 2026-07-09 11:23:30 UTC patrick-breyer.de Llama Share 57

The European Parliament allowed the interim "Chat Control 1.0" regulation to pass, permitting mass scanning of private communications until 2028. Negotiations for a permanent regulation will resume in September, with the EU Parliament pushing for targeted detection orders and stricter security standards.

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

132 nateb2022 2026-07-09 02:23:30 UTC nexte.st Llama Share 32

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.

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

45 giuliomagnifico 2026-07-09 06:23:30 UTC dfarq.homeip.net Llama Share 12

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.

My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

233 kristoff_it 2026-07-09 10:23:30 UTC andrewkelley.me Llama Share 151

Jarred's startup Bun initially attracted attention with its performance, but his focus on productivity and exit strategy led to poor management and a rift with the Zig community. The community was relieved when Bun was acquired and eventually rewritten in Rust.

The Field Equation, living shader geometry folded into a breathing object

13 echohive42 2026-07-09 09:23:30 UTC sand-morph.up.railway.app Full Share 1

A live WebGL equation that drifts between discs, truchet cells, capsules, corridors, palettes, symmetry, and grain.

Why is there smoke from the boiler room? – Botanical Garden using Home Assistant

10 Baardappel 2026-07-09 10:23:30 UTC vooijs.eu Llama Share 2

The author argues that building owners should have control over their data, citing the EU Data Act and the benefits of using open platforms like Home Assistant. By using plain language interfaces and open protocols, building owners can access and control their data without relying on vendors.

Cloudflare Drop

468 coloneltcb 2026-07-08 19:23:30 UTC cloudflare.com Full Share 255

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

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

114 tanelpoder 2026-07-09 02:23:30 UTC databricks.com Llama Share 46

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.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

225 sk4rekr0w 2026-07-08 21:23:30 UTC openai.com Llama Share 82

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.

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

310 chenglong-hn 2026-07-08 18:23:30 UTC microsoft.github.io Llama Share 114

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.

Grok 4.5

681 BoumTAC 2026-07-08 18:23:30 UTC x.ai Llama Share 1102

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.

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

196 madebymagnolia 2026-07-08 22:23:30 UTC yamanote.fun Llama Share 45

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.

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

111 beefburger 2026-07-09 00:23:30 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.

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

159 linuxrebe1 2026-07-08 21:23:30 UTC github.com/linuxrebel Llama Share 35

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.

Rewriting Bun in Rust

647 afturner 2026-07-08 22:23:30 UTC bun.com Llama Share 384

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.

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

140 bookofjoe 2026-07-08 20:23:30 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 51

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.

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

79 Narann 2026-07-09 01:23:30 UTC mhloppy.com Llama Share 23

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.

Chatto is now open source

1005 speckx 2026-07-08 15:23:30 UTC hmans.dev Llama Share 273

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.

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

1399 speerer 2026-07-08 12:23:30 UTC tris.sherliker.net Llama Share 224

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.

Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0

40 lprimak 2026-07-09 01:23:30 UTC shiro.apache.org Full Share 7

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

TypeScript 7

652 DanRosenwasser 2026-07-08 16:23:30 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 260

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.

3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map

21 Lawyer24 2026-07-09 05:23:30 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.