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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
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• Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
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• Xiaomi-Robotics-1
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• Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
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• Airport Simulator
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• The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
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• Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode
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• Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
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• China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
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• Kimi Work
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Blender 5.2 LTS
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• Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
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• If You Build It, They Will Come
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• The Kimi K3 Moment
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• NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
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• Transcribe.cpp
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• Qwen 3.8
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• Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
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• What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
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• Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
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• Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
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• Learning a few things about running SQLite
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• The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
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• Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
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• Regressive JPEGs
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• LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
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• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
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• What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
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• GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)
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• Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)
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• NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
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• $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
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• LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
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• AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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• Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners
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• Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
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• First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
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• The state of open source AI
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
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• Grok Build is open source
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• SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
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• The lost joy of music piracy
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• OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
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• How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
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• Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
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• Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
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• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
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• Decoy Font
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
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• The Tower Keeps Rising
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• Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
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• Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
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• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
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• Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
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• I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
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• Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
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• SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
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• Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
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• A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
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• Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
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• The git history command
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• Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
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• European \"age verification\" \"app\" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
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• Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
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• How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
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• Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
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• Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
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• How to read more books
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• Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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• The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
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• Sam Neill has died
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• Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
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• Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers
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• LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
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• Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
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• Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
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• Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
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• Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
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• Prefer strict tables in SQLite
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• Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
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• Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
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• What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
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• Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
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• Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
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• I love LLMs, I hate hype
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• AI 2040: Plan A
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• In Emacs, everything looks like a service
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• Good Tools Are Invisible
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• Late Bronze Age Collapse
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• The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
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• SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
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• GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
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• An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
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• Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
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• Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
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• Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
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• Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
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• Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
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• The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
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• Muse Spark 1.1
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• Hy3
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• Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
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• QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
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• New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
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• EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules
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• Cloudflare Drop
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• FAANG Simulator
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• Rewriting Bun in Rust
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• John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
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• My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite
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• EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
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• Show HN: 18 Words
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• GPT-5.6
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
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• Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
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• Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
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• GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
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• Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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• Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model
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• Chatto is now open source
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• TypeScript 7
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• GPT‑Live
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• Grok 4.5
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A global workspace in language models
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• CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
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• GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
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• Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
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• StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
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• A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
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• 98% isn't much
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• Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
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• Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
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• Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
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• The future of Flipper Zero development
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• Has_not_been_viewed_much
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• GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
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• Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
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• Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
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• Road to Elm 1.0
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• Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
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• Resetting Xbox
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• OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
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• Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
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• GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
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• If you're a button, you have one job
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• Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
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• EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
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• Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021)
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• Organic Maps
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• It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
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• OpenPrinter
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
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• Costco is the anti-Amazon
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• Espionage Against the European Parliament
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• Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper
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• Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
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• Maybe you should learn something
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• The bottleneck might be the air in the room
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• Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
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• Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
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• Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to ask for help from people who don't know you
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• Immich 3.0
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• Podman v6.0.0
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• Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
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• Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data
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• Protect your right to run local AI
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• CarPlay Is Additive
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• Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
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• Half-Baked Product
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• Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
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• FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
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• What to learn to be a graphics programmer
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• ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
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• Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself
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• Bring back crappy forums
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• Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
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• PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
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• The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
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• Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nano Banana 2 Lite
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• Claude Science
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• Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
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• Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
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• Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
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• Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
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• Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
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• Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
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• For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
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• Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open Source Low Tech
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• Free the Icons
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• 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
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• Rocketlab acquires Iridium
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• .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
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• The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
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• European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
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• The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level
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• Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
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• Claude Sonnet 5
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