Hacker News Daily — July 1, 2026
30 stories · July 1, 2026
In this issue
- 1
For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
quantamagazine.org · 585 points · Discussion
https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/
- 2
Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
asahilinux.org · 501 points · Discussion
Linux 7.1 is now here, and of course with it comes another progress report. We’ve got M3 progress, Apple bugs, and more! Welcome back Master Boot Record When you long-press the power button on your…
- 3
Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
blog.playstation.com · 442 points · Discussion
As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles…
- 4
Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
reclaimthenet.org · 400 points · Discussion
Ownership is slowly moving onto servers a few companies control, and the storefront hasn’t admitted it yet. Sony plans to wipe 551 movies and TV shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers…
- 5
Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
box2d.org · 340 points · Discussion
I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features…
- 6
Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants
phys.org · 236 points · Discussion
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Internal Combustion Engine
ciechanow.ski · 225 points · Discussion
The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19 th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omnipresence in modern day, the operation of an engine…
- 8
Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses
easyoptouts.com · 209 points · Discussion
https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-re..., https://archive.vn/mCbBw
- 9
Monetization Gateway
blog.cloudflare.com · 196 points · Discussion
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 2026-07-01 7 min read Today, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give…
- 10
ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM
zcode.z.ai · 190 points · Discussion
GLM Coding Plan 使用 GLM Coding Plan 编程 GLM 深度适配 ZCode，让 Agent 编程更稳定、更高效。 查看套餐 适合轻量开发任务 $16.2 / 月 $18 包含基础使用额度 适合轻量迭代与小型仓库 持续获得最新旗舰模型与功能 支持 20+ 编程工具，包括 ZCode 深度适配 适合专业开发工作流 $64.8 / 月 $72 包含 Lite 全部权益与 5…
- 11
FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
hydrogenaudio.org · 181 points · Discussion
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- 12
Fable 5 Is Back
twitter.com · 160 points · Discussion
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What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer
blog.demofox.org · 138 points · Discussion
I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer. I figured it was time to make a page to link instead of re-typing it each time. We are in a strange time with…
- 14
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
118 points · Discussion
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are…
- 15
How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
probelab.io · 114 points · Discussion
Introduction Publishing content in Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) has traditionally been a slow operation, especially when: i) the network is large, and ii) the nodes participating in the network are…
- 16
1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis
hypertalking.com · 113 points · Discussion
After my first son arrived in 2018, I didn’t have much time to work on the time-intensive Mount Fuji pixel art series any more (again, I hope to get back to this somehow soon). However, I enjoyed…
- 17
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
86 points · Discussion
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for…
- 18
Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
support.claude.com · 72 points · Discussion
For a limited time, you can use our newest model—Claude Fable 5—at no extra cost as part of your subscription plan. This article explains what the promotion includes, how to access Claude Fable 5,…
- 19
Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36
heyoncall.com · 60 points · Discussion
How I tracked down a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet which leaked a context on every startPodSync. A few weeks ago, I started getting alerts from a tiny Kubernetes cluster: a single-node…
- 20
Building Gin: Simple over Easy
manualmeida.dev · 49 points · Discussion
In 2014 I came back from San Francisco with no plan and one useful scar: I had seen what small software teams needed from their tools. I had spent a year building SDKs at Joypad and TinySpark after…
- 21
Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
hanakai.org · 43 points · Discussion
From the very beginning we set out to make Hanami a different kind of Ruby framework: clear, modular, and built to grow. Today it comes into full bloom. We’re thrilled to share Hanami 3.0 with you!…
- 22
Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting
cerebrium.ai · 42 points · Discussion
Reducing GPU Cold Starts with Memory Snapshots: Restoring CUDA Workloads in Seconds If you run AI models in production, you have a relationship with cold starts whether you want one or not. A…
- 23
Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
39 points · Discussion
Hi all, it’s Greg and Max, founders of Parsewise here ( https://www.parsewise.ai/api ). Parsewise transforms a bucket of unstructured data into schema compliant data, retaining lineage for values…
- 24
A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly
wasm.chdb.io · 34 points · Discussion
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- 25
Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019
researchgate.net · 33 points · Discussion
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- 26
Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business
anatoliybabushka.com · 14 points · Discussion
June 30, 2026 · 5 min read For a few weeks one summer I woke at 4am to rewrite code my employer had already paid someone to write. It ran in production every day, and it was built on CakePHP. I barely…
- 27
Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks
macrodata.co · 14 points · Discussion
TL;DR We introduce WGO‑Bench, a new benchmark for testing robotics subtask annotation performance across 100 egocentric and robot-video episodes with 743 annotated segments spanning 62 unique…
- 28
Show HN: Z-Jail – A 130 KB Linux sandbox-C99 with 7 defense layers and zero deps
github.com · 13 points · Discussion
Multi-layer sandbox for native code execution on Linux. Seven independent defence layers — no external dependencies, ~130 KiB PIE binary. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │…
- 29
How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
- 30
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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