Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W28

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

A Uniqlo T-shirt features an obfuscated bash script, which has sparked curiosity and discussion about its origin and purpose.

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My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

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Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

The EU mandates driver monitoring cameras in new cars, sparking mixed reactions.

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Grok 4.5

Twitter's ownership and financial status remain uncertain, with some viewing recent acquisitions as strategic moves.

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StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

StreetComplete is an app that helps improve OpenStreetMap through small quests, gaining popularity among users.

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GPT‑Live

The discussion covers GPT‑Live's real-time translation capabilities, concerns about energy use and ethical issues, and the potential for local voice model deplo…

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Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

Debate surrounds the EU's proposed ban on the AfD party, with concerns about its far-right views and potential implications for democracy.

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Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

A user showcased turning a reMarkable into a Harry Potter diary using Fable, sparking mixed reactions.

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Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

Microsoft reportedly laid off half of the id Software team, including some members associated with John Carmack, amid broader VR/AR project cancellations.

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Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

EU Parliament approved first round of Chat Control legislation, raising concerns about privacy and misuse.

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98% isn't much

Many commenters discuss the implications of 98% uptime, with some arguing it's insufficient for reliability.

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30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

30papers.

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A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

A video demonstrates a new method for tying gym shorts or drawstrings, sparking discussions about knots and tying techniques.

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A global workspace in language models

Discussions centered on the potential of scaling language models and the nature of their 'workspace', with debates on whether models can truly 'lie' or just hal…

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Resetting Xbox

Discussions about Xbox's challenges highlight industry issues, retailer margins, and company decisions impacting Microsoft's gaming division.

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Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Kokoro is a local, CPU-friendly TTS model with some users praising its quality, but others report crashes on Apple M2 Pro.

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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

GPT-5.

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AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo dev kit is expensive and has mixed reviews, with some preferring Macs for benchmarks and energy efficiency.

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How to sequence your own DNA at home

A discussion on home DNA sequencing highlights the importance of error correction, with some users sharing personal experiences and skepticism about its practic…

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Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

A real-time map of Great Britain's rail network uses open signaling data to track train locations, which some find intrusive.

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How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

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Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

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China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

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Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

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Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped

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Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

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Amazon without the knockoffs

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No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

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We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

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Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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Road to Elm 1.0

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Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

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Aluminum foil (2021)

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Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

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GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

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OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

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Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

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Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

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The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

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John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Astro 7.0

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Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

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GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

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How Kalshi Infects the News

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Workers Cache

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Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

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We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food

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Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

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Should DayQuil Be Legal?

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Notes on Software Quality

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)

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Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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The revenge of the philosophy majors

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Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

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GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

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Cloudflare Drop

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Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

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What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots"

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The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous

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NSA and IETF: Fairness

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l: A new runtime for k and q

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Automating AI Away

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Is The Economist Always Wrong?

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Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

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A bug which affected only left handed users

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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

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Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

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Better Auth is joining Vercel

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C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

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Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

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DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

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Union Busters Coming After Me

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OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

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