Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-08
- StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time streetcomplete.app - 177 comments 751 points
- Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained fightchatcontrol.eu - 215 comments 618 points
- Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera allaboutcookies.org - 765 comments 605 points
- Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software gamefromscratch.com - 524 comments 590 points
- Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament www.heise.de - 246 comments 565 points
- A better way to tie gym shorts - or any drawstring - video www.youtube.com - 171 comments 501 points
- 30papers.com – Ilya’s 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format 30papers.com - 75 comments 500 points
- 98% isn’t much whynothugo.nl - 324 comments 494 points
- Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS - Text-to-Speech with Kokoro ariya.io - 77 comments 393 points
- Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID www.pcmag.com - 149 comments 337 points
- China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes www.bbc.com - 386 comments 322 points
- Amazon without the knockoffs knockoff.shopping - 243 comments 315 points
- Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands - in Dutch www.nwo.nl - 254 comments 314 points
- Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI davit.app - 66 comments 297 points
- Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal www.euronews.com - 232 comments 289 points
- We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code odra.dev - 169 comments 273 points
- Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again www.dw.com - 631 comments 250 points
- Europe’s company websites are mostly served by US vendors ciphercue.com - 173 comments 247 points
- GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup www.gao.gov - 94 comments 193 points
- Astro 7.0 astro.build - 53 comments 193 points
- Tenda firmware - multiple versions contains hidden authentication backdoor kb.cert.org - 52 comments 182 points
- Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler pgdog.dev - 42 comments 179 points
- We’re extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 twitter.com - 181 comments 177 points
- Jim’s TrueType QR Code Font github.com - 22 comments 173 points
- GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday twitter.com - 109 comments 169 points
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS - 2024 neil.computer - 90 comments 167 points
- Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T www.the-independent.com - 164 comments 155 points
- Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop github.com - 41 comments 155 points
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures - 1986 ocw.mit.edu - 14 comments 151 points
- The revenge of the philosophy majors www.nytimes.com - 226 comments 149 points
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