Hacker News Daily — July 5, 2026
30 stories · July 5, 2026
In this issue
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Organic Maps
organicmaps.app · 635 points · Discussion
Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community and the same…
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EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
heise.de · 340 points · Discussion
The dispute over digital letter secrecy in the EU is reaching a new level of escalation shortly before the summer break. After negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 – i.e., the mandatory, suspicionless…
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Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
ui.shadcn.com · 270 points · Discussion
July 2026 - Base UI as the Default Starting today, Base UI is the default component library in shadcn/ui. First, a bit of history. When shadcn/ui launched in January 2023, it was built on Radix. At…
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Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021)
dthain.github.io · 240 points · Discussion
Prof. Douglas Thain at Notre Dame This is a free online textbook: you are welcome to access the chapter PDFs directly below. If you prefer to hold a real book, you can also purchase a hardcover or…
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It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
popcar.bearblog.dev · 181 points · Discussion
05 Jul, 2026 A few days ago, PlayStation announced that they'll stop producing disks for new games starting from January 2028, confirming what we already felt was going to happen: consoles are going…
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The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]
diva-portal.org · 168 points · Discussion
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Pandoc Lua Filters
pandoc.org · 130 points · Discussion
Introduction Pandoc has long supported filters, which allow the pandoc abstract syntax tree (AST) to be manipulated between the parsing and the writing phase. Traditional pandoc filters accept a JSON…
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The future of Flipper Zero development
blog.flipper.net · 117 points · Discussion
We've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and…
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Starring the Computer
starringthecomputer.com · 116 points · Discussion
skip navigation 0 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Acer Acer Aspire 500LB • Eraser (1996) Acer Aspire 8930G…
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Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)
craigmod.com · 115 points · Discussion
I love fast software. That is, software speedy both in function and interface. Software with minimal to no lag between wanting to activate or manipulate something and the thing happening. Lightness.…
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The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
danielstanica.com · 111 points · Discussion
For more than a decade, one of the most rewarding blueprints for making money online was to “ start a blog. “ The recipe was pretty straightforward: publish helpful content, rank it on Google, and…
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Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
devever.net · 87 points · Discussion
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary…
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Show HN: KiCad in the Browser
demo.pcbjam.com · 84 points · Discussion
KiCad, a PCB EDA suite is now working in a browser, you can try it at the link, there's a demo project or you can bring your own. Firefox is best, Chrome is good, Safari is "working". We’re Emergence…
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Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
raymii.org · 79 points · Discussion
As you might know, I'm involved a bit in the OpenVMS community and the Alpha emulation side via AXPBox. AXPBox ( github ) is a fork of the es40 alpha emulator by Camiel Vanderhoeven (who is now Chief…
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Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel
economist.com · 78 points · Discussion
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A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices
arxiv.org · 77 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: The growing adoption of AI-driven smart home devices has introduced new privacy risks for domestic workers (DWs), who are frequently monitored in employers'…
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New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]
intextbooks.science.uu.nl · 73 points · Discussion
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Small Penis Rule
en.wikipedia.org · 67 points · Discussion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The small penis rule is an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits. It was described in a New York Times article by Dinitia Smith in 1998: "For…
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Airplane Boneyards List and Map
airplaneboneyards.com · 67 points · Discussion
List and Map of Active and Post-WWII Aircraft Boneyards and Storage Facilities Military Aircraft Boneyards Fighter boneyard at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, post World War II The United States manufactured…
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OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
github.com · 65 points · Discussion
OpenWiki is a CLI that writes and maintains documentation for your codebase, built specifically for agents. Install Quick Start Initialize OpenWiki, configure your model and API key, then generate…
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Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs
tomshardware.com · 46 points · Discussion
(Image credit: Fab2) Atomic Semi, the semiconductor tooling startup founded by chip architect Jim Keller and DIY fabrication pioneer Sam Zeloof, has rebranded as Fab2 and moved its operations to…
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Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi · 39 points · Discussion
Heikki Lotvonen | written on 4.2.2026 I spent a better part of December on building Mr. Baby Paint, a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers & accidentally discovering a flood-fill cellular…
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Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC
dmarcwise.io · 35 points · Discussion
The recently updated DMARC specification, published as RFC 9989, introduces the new np tag. Its purpose is to specify the policy that receivers should apply when the sender domain is a non-existent…
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Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
thomasw.dev · 30 points · Discussion
Recently, I have been successful in making A/UX boot and run stable on my vintage Macintosh emulator; Snow. A/UX was Apple’s version of UNIX that ran on the 68k-based series Macs. It required a Memory…
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You need a webring
shub.club · 26 points · Discussion
Posted on July 5, 2026 • 0 views You need a webring! Yes, you! If you have (1) a personal website and (2) n+0 friends, you should set up a webring. What is a webring? Well its just a circular linked…
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Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty
adexchanger.com · 14 points · Discussion
Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 – 9:00 am There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see: an apostrophe in its name and a hungry customer who’s out of groceries.  The pizza chain recently tapped…
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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…
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Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design
whatchord.earthmanmuons.com · 12 points · Discussion
What the engine is doing WhatChord is an app that watches the notes you play on a MIDI keyboard and names the chord as you play it. Press C-E-G together and it shows C major. That sounds like a…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
9 points · Discussion
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot.…