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Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776345 Points: 12 # Comments: 2

Costco is the anti-Amazon

215 points, 189 comments on Hacker News

Factories Are Just Rooms

Article URL: https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776035 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are

Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775979 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Best Simple System for Now

Article URL: https://dannorth.net/blog/best-simple-system-for-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775949 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

Article URL: https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775921 Points: 16 # Comments: 2

Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

Article URL: https://superuserdone.com/posts/2026-07-03-give-smart-people-the-tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775748 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

Cloudflare Details Unified Data Platform Where Billing Workloads Account for 53% of Queries

Cloudflare details Town Lake, an internal unified data platform, and Skipper, an AI analytics agent unifying access to operational, billing, security, and business data. The platform processed ~91K billing queries, with billing forming majority usage. Built on a lakehouse architecture using Trino, Iceberg, R2, and DataHub, it enables governed cross-system analytics and natural language access. By Leela Kumili

Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP

Article URL: https://taskpeace.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775484 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep

Article URL: https://promptowl.ai/resources/persistent-memory-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775483 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

Dogesh is a Python-based interpreted programming language where every keyword speaks dog

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Fourteener Lobsters

Hey folks, Once more around the sun, today is 14 years since Lobsters launched in 2012. Like the the American fourteeners, our activity charts have been busily sloping upwards. We now have 20,412 users who've submitted 127,589 stories, written 696,054 comments, and cast 4,911,743 votes. (I'm happy to run more complicated queries than count(*).) Previously: 2013 2016 2017 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Look back at the last year’s top stories, or review your upvoted comments and stories to share your favorites.

A [non-hybrid tls-mlkem] standard by any other name: How IETF evades responsibility for its actions

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Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be

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Armored Likho Targets Government Agencies, Power Sector with BusySnake Stealer

A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. "Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targeting private individuals with targeted cyber espionage aimed at organizations," Kaspersky said in a technical analysis published today. "

Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]

25 points, 4 comments on Hacker News

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/02/hackers-shoveled-snow-for-company-were-rewarded-with-network-admin-access/5265240 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774704 Points: 39 # Comments: 15

Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774518 Points: 217 # Comments: 29

PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why We Use Strict Memory Overcommit

Article URL: https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774509 Points: 70 # Comments: 14

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-screwworm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774492 Points: 34 # Comments: 13

Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17

Article URL: https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/code-review/review-repo-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774429 Points: 40 # Comments: 21

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02512 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774368 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more efficient alternative to the Apache Parquet Java implementation. For now, the library supports just reading; writing support is expected in the upcoming versions. By Olimpiu Pop

OpenTelemetry Graduates to CNCF's Highest Maturity Level

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, elevating the project to the foundation's highest level of maturity and formally recognizing it as production-ready for enterprise use. By Craig Risi

Fixing full-bleed CSS

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European Parliament Member Investigating Spyware Was Hacked With Pegasus

A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse of such commercial surveillance tools in the bloc. "Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had

Mini book: Agentic AI Architecture

In this eMag, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, written by industry experts, cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI architecture. We aim to present the latest trends and developments shaping the new type of architecture as it enters the mainstream. By InfoQ

Diving into the depths of Widevine L3

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