Hacker News Daily — July 9, 2026
30 stories · July 9, 2026
In this issue
- 1
EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
patrick-breyer.de · 791 points · Discussion
Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting…
- 2
GPT-5.6
openai.com · 785 points · Discussion
https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6/gpt-5-6.pdf https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model https://x.com/levie/status/2075287443411222628,…
- 3
Show HN: 18 Words
18words.com · 712 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 4
- 5
- 6
Muse Spark 1.1
ai.meta.com · 273 points · Discussion
https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/muse-spark-1-1-evaluatio... [pdf] https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/meta-star...,…
- 7
Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
networkworld.com · 270 points · Discussion
With the cost of new RAM soaring, Meta has found a thrifty way to reuse older memory in newer servers. The performance of about 40% of Meta’s millions of servers is limited by a lack of memory, the…
- 8
The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
mwi.westpoint.edu · 227 points · Discussion
The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the…
- 9
No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
datacenter.iers.org · 189 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 10
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
github.com · 184 points · Discussion
A Postgres rewrite in Rust. pgrust targets compatibility with Postgres 18.3 and matches Postgres's expected output across more than 46,000 regression queries. pgrust is disk compatible with Postgres…
- 11
Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
wired.com · 167 points · Discussion
https://archive.is/LV6Cw
- 12
A possible future for Damn Interesting
damninteresting.com · 167 points · Discussion
Site News/Podcast: An attempt to secure the future of the site, with an unfortunate quantity of moist metaphors. Written by Alan Bellows • Non-Fiction • July 2026 © 2026 All Rights Reserved. Do not…
- 13
GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
toot-books.pages.dev · 132 points · Discussion
We evaluated the performance of GLM 5.2, an open weights AI model, on the task of quarterly value-added tax (VAT) return preparation for a small UK business. Preparing a VAT return is a typical…
- 14
AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
pangram.com · 127 points · Discussion
Two months ago, we launched our Chrome extension to help combat the rising slop problem on social media. It lets users scan posts on social media as they scroll, flagging AI-generated content so they…
- 15
TLS certificates for internal services done right
tuxnet.dev · 104 points · Discussion
Title is a bit clickbait-y — YMMV, but let me explain why I think “this is the way”. Let’s start with a simple example — we have a server which hosts bunch of HTTP services. Some of those services are…
- 16
AI changes the economics of software rewrites
thetruthasiseeitnow.com · 92 points · Discussion
AI changes rewrite economics because codebases with clear, common patterns get more leverage than proprietary or inconsistent systems. My view on software rewrites has changed because of AI. The…
- 17
Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made
kotaku.com · 90 points · Discussion
I spent a rather embarrassing amount of time trying to match up  Running Train ‘s hyper-realistic train lines and Japanese terrain with the real world. And in doing so, I paid the game the…
- 18
Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting
nahla.dev · 90 points · Discussion
Thu, Mar 12, 2026 Design Theory Reality Advantages Technical Limitations, Notable Behaviors Benchmarks Methodology Results Analysis/Conclusions Source Code Disclaimer: An earlier version of this post…
- 19
Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration
lazypi.org · 82 points · Discussion
...entirely opposite of what i want Pi to be. — Mario Zechner, creator of Pi Pi coding agent · instant setup One command. Everything configured. Nothing to research. One command installs 60+ community…
- 20
Show HN: Analog Watch
analog.watch · 81 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 21
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
github.com · 60 points · Discussion
A few days ago I found myself trying out GLM 5.2 and was really positively impressed. The capabilities and security I was getting from this LLM are similar to those I've gotten from models like Claude…
- 22
A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
scotto.me · 59 points · Discussion
The question that most programmers face when seeing some Lisp code for the first time is, without doubt, “what the hell is this?”. I asked myself the same thing when I first read its unconventional…
- 23
Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
context.dev · 56 points · Discussion
Hi Hacker News, I’m Yahia. I built Context.dev ( https://www.context.dev/ ) to make it really easy to integrate web data into your products and agents. Here’s a demo video:…
- 24
New open access book on history of computers and politics
mitpress.mit.edu · 54 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 25
Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas
tomesphere.com · 47 points · Discussion
When I read papers, I have to jump between multiple tabs to find the dataset, code, videos, peer reviews, and so on. I tried to fix this with this project. It started as a project just for papers on…
- 26
How to Start a Ruby Meetup
guides.rubyevents.org · 37 points · Discussion
A practical guide for starting and sustaining a local Ruby meetup — from finding your first venue to keeping it going years later. Contents Why Bother Starting From Zero Your Format Promotion Speakers…
- 27
How to Follow a Drummer
drummate.app · 27 points · Discussion
DRUMMATE Teaching machines the musicianly thing Almost every electronic music setup makes the human follow the machine. The click is the boss. The sequencer is the boss. The DAW timeline is the boss.…
- 28
Why the Next Era of AI Is About Infrastructure, Not Just Models
blog.mozilla.ai · 21 points · Discussion
Expert Opinion The Model’s the Easy Part - How to Get, and Keep, Value Here’s how I see the evolution of AI in enterprises over the last few years: Autumn of 2022, the world thinks it’s going into a…
- 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
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.