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Software, from First Principles
Article URL: https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780224 Points: 61 # Comments: 12
Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)
I'm building Guildly, a Slack-like interface where you can run a company of AI employees. I recently used Fable to revamp the whole website into a cool retro pixel style. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780222 Points: 5 # Comments: 4
AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet
Article URL: https://stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/ai-first Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780128 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview
Article URL: https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spike Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780056 Points: 66 # Comments: 14
Africans Are Turning to Starlink
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/07/02/africans-are-turning-to-starlink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779977 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/colwill/ccc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779933 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/YTJcFwr-marketing-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779906 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29
31 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Applied Category Theory Course (2018)
Article URL: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779723 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Espionage Against the European Parliament
Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779683 Points: 96 # Comments: 12
Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Filesystem Bundled Into Millions of Embedded Devices
Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It ships inside the firmware that runs security cameras, drones, industrial controllers, hardware crypto wallets, and other devices built on
SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
Article URL: https://github.com/searxng/searxng Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779454 Points: 46 # Comments: 12
Pet projects are getting too big to pet
Article URL: https://www.nnehdi.me/p/pet-projects-are-getting-too-big Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779415 Points: 24 # Comments: 17
Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle
Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#10959 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779352 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
Egypt Is Building a New Nile
108 points, 48 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds
Article URL: https://blogsreader.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779182 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
New "Bad Epoll" Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android
A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in the same small stretch of kernel code where Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Mythos, recently found a different bug. The AI caught one flaw and missed
Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
21 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
274 points, 200 comments on Hacker News
How to Enjoy John Ashbery
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
FreeBSD ate my RAM
Article URL: https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778757 Points: 50 # Comments: 11
New Avalon Malware Framework Packs CrownX Ransomware Capabilities
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing traditional security controls. Avalon combines credential collection, lateral movement, remote access, recovery disruption, and ransomware execution, bringing together diverse functions under one
HammerDB v6.0 Response Times, Percentiles and Reservoir Sampling
Article URL: https://www.hammerdb.com/blog/uncategorized/hammerdb-v6-0-response-times-percentiles-and-reservoir-sampling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778462 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Inkfield
20 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/california-farmer-nectarines-lawsuit-patent-4f7bc8ab185e8b9cbdd6d6ad4f2aabd1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778031 Points: 101 # Comments: 103
Holes
Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3266/large/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777832 Points: 118 # Comments: 22
C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences
35 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)
40 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)
4 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
North Korea-Linked npm Packages Mimic Rollup Polyfills to Steal Developer Secrets
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft. According to JFrog, the packages "rollup-packages-polyfill-core" and "rollup-runtime-polyfill-core" mimic the legitimate "rollup-plugin-polyfill-node" project, down to the description, repository metadata, and
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