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Arbitrary code execution breaking sandboxes in KDE Plasma
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Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene
26 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
The Safari MCP server for web developers
Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769639 Points: 98 # Comments: 16
CarPlay Is Additive
Article URL: https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769397 Points: 80 # Comments: 87
An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
Article URL: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-QjDxUQkdTTjZLU0EyTFFRV1E3NVRTVTRTWjRHMy4u&route=shorturl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768997 Points: 110 # Comments: 82
An American Privacy Emergency
Recent and related: Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 - June 2026 (604 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768992 Points: 206 # Comments: 69
Right to Local Intelligence
Article URL: https://righttointelligence.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768951 Points: 71 # Comments: 30
Understanding is the new bottleneck
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crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
Article URL: https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768464 Points: 175 # Comments: 31
Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test
Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15943905/Mystery-identity-Green-Boots-climber-macabre-landmark-frozen-ice-dying-Everest-finally-solved-DNA-test.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768336 Points: 66 # Comments: 31
Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
Article URL: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767347 Points: 96 # Comments: 11
Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys
92 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
230 points, 399 comments on Hacker News
When 2+2=5
33 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
My quest to see all of Tetris
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ds.css: A css framework recreating the DS / DS Lite's UI
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Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0
Article URL: http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766598 Points: 35 # Comments: 16
Wireless LAN SD
Article URL: https://www.sdcard.org/developers/sd-standard-overview/sdio-isdio/wireless-lan-sd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766297 Points: 15 # Comments: 11
Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow
Article URL: https://growtheflowutah.org/laketracker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766286 Points: 18 # Comments: 0
EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf]
Article URL: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EFF-letter-to-FTC-on-X-consent-order-7-2-26.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766209 Points: 67 # Comments: 17
EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff-and-allies-xs-ftc-petition-waive-privacy-violation-order-should-be-rejected Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766209 Points: 139 # Comments: 60
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.
A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars
Article URL: https://aasnova.org/2026/07/01/a-new-catalog-of-stellar-rotation-periods-for-over-a-million-stars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766124 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable
Article URL: https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766026 Points: 29 # Comments: 8
Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video
Article URL: https://github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766005 Points: 30 # Comments: 7
Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more
22 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview
Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/539 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765830 Points: 39 # Comments: 13
Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices
Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the network's pool of usable devices by millions. Google identifies NetNut, also tracked as Popa, as a network spread across home
No LLM code in dependencies
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