Hacker News Daily — July 4, 2026
30 stories · July 4, 2026
In this issue
- 1
The bottleneck might be the air in the room
blog.mikebowler.ca · 706 points · Discussion
Categories Tags You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people.…
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Maybe you should learn something
marginalia.nu · 387 points · Discussion
You can learn new things. Pixel art, touch typing, 3d modelling, music, calligraphy, wood working, knitting, a language. Whatever is practical and calls to you, you can learn. In the long term,…
- 3
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
javoriuski.com · 358 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
mistral.ai · 345 points · Discussion
Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 licensed model with 6B active parameters, delivers a major performance upgrade in formal verification, saturating miniF2F, solving 587/672 PutnamBench problems, and…
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Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper
wafer.ai · 340 points · Discussion
Have you noticed we like AMD? The demand for inference is skyrocketing and outpacing supply. With frontier models being released almost every other week — Claude Fable, GLM5.2, and Minimax M3, to name…
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Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
peteris.rocks · 337 points · Discussion
For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop. I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That's not quite right. And also, why does…
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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
github.com · 244 points · Discussion
Bug Description Apparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently…
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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
software.annas-archive.gl · 211 points · Discussion
Admin message SIGN UP USING adguard-mail.com or mailinator.com for more reliable email delivery! -- Join our chat for devs & translators on Matrix: #annas:archivecommunication.org. Google Books (or…
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Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
quantamagazine.org · 171 points · Discussion
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which…
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Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
mirtitles.org · 160 points · Discussion
The book is based on the author’s impressions of her numerous expeditions in the many countries. It is a fascinating narrative rather than a mere record of facts irrespective of how scientifically…
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Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
tomshardware.com · 157 points · Discussion
(Image credit: Getty / Bloomberg) The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a…
- 12
Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained
databricks.com · 145 points · Discussion
When I started my PhD at UC Berkeley 16 years ago, my advisor told me: "OLTP databases are a solved problem. They work. Focus on analytics." We were at the early innings of being able to collect far…
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Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
github.com · 102 points · Discussion
Zero Hour running natively on Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone, and iPad — campaign, skirmish, and Generals Challenge, with touch controls built for RTS (tap-select, drag-box, long-press deselect,…
- 14
Verizon is About to Break our Watches
jefftk.com · 83 points · Discussion
Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids ( review ). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon is moving everyone over to a new one ("Verizon…
- 15
Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2
en.wikipedia.org · 74 points · Discussion
(1942–1943) 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (1943–1945) "},"image":{"wt":"Po-2.jpg"},"image_size":{"wt":"300px"},"caption":{"wt":"A [[Polikarpov Po-2]], the aircraft type used by the…
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Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language
freepressjournal.in · 69 points · Discussion
Scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong Dr Julie Elie of the University of California, Berkeley, has won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-Way Interspecies Communication, receiving…
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Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
euronews.com · 68 points · Discussion
Published on 30/06/2026 - 16:24 GMT+2 Finland on Tuesday pulled the plug on analogue landline phone calls after almost 150 years, the latest country to push forward in a global transition towards…
- 18
Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)
github.com · 67 points · Discussion
A real, windowed Windows CE desktop — running on a Sega Dreamcast. The Dreamcast shipped a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 that retail games booted into and never exposed. Windows CE Dreamcast…
- 19
Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System
ziglang.org · 49 points · Discussion
This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. June 30, 2026 All Package…
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Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference
irishtimes.com · 48 points · Discussion
A five-star hotel in Co Wicklow has cancelled bookings for a “secretive” conference which was to be hosted in August by a group cofounded by US tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The planned event at the…
- 21
Plein Air
art.joonas.wtf · 45 points · Discussion
About Plein Air — A painting for right now, wherever you are Plein air — French for in the open air — was the discipline of painting outdoors, in front of the weather, the way Constable studied clouds…
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Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit
explainanalyze.com · 38 points · Discussion
Database Architecture System Design Six months in, p_future holds 800M rows because the growth projection didn't survive the workload, and every ALTER to fix it needs a maintenance window nobody wants…
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BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments
github.com · 37 points · Discussion
A simple x86 bare-metal tool designed to boot from a disk/USB and dump the system's RAM directly to the booting medium. It relies on BIOS interrupts to boot and perform disk operations, and enters…
- 24
Curveball
mightyburger.net · 33 points · Discussion
Curveball is my curve generator tool for Neverball. You can use Curveball on the web! The source code is available on Github. You can find some more screenshots there. If you'd rather run Curveball as…
- 25
Drone Physics
iahmed.me · 33 points · Discussion
A friendly drone capable of awesome feats of aerodynamics. This article describes drone physics. Audience should have familiarity with introductory linear algebra, introductory calculus, and…
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Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting
studios.disneyresearch.com · 29 points · Discussion
In this work, we introduce a novel neural render proxy (NRP) that enables differentiable relighting of static scenes with fixed camera and materials at interactive rates. July 1, 2026 Eurographics…
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EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?
endbasic.dev · 19 points · Discussion
Published on: July 4, 2026 Just a little over a month ago, I was announcing EndBASIC 0.13 with a brand new compiler and VM implementation. 0.13 was the result of six months of work and I had to “flush…
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Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console
mattgreer.dev · 14 points · Discussion
Printing to the console with things like printf() in C or console.log() in JavaScript is a useful tool while developing. When making a GBA game, you might think you have to forego this, or log to the…
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The .join() that should be a bug
kronotop.com · 13 points · Discussion
Serving thousands of connections on a backend where every call blocks Section titled “Serving thousands of connections on a backend where every call blocks” There are two well-known ways to implement…
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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…