It's 2026-07-12. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k | comment
I love LLMs, I hate hype | comment
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS | comment
How to read more books | comment
PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU) | comment
Prefer strict tables in SQLite | comment
The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia | comment
Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity | comment
Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents | comment
AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn | comment
GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper | comment
Don't you mean extinct? | comment
AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence | comment
How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI | comment
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput | comment
Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem | comment
What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? | comment
Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) | comment
Modern decor may be straining people's brains | comment
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests | comment
Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection | comment
GPT-5.6 | comment
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt | comment
Chatto is now open source | comment
Half-Baked Product | comment
GPT‑Live | comment
Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software | comment
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets | comment
Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament | comment
Grok 4.5 | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests | comment
Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection | comment
GPT-5.6 | comment
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time | comment
Claude Sonnet 5 | comment
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model | comment
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt | comment
Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech | comment
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 | comment
Chatto is now open source | comment
Half-Baked Product | comment
Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development | comment
GPT‑Live | comment
Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies | comment
Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software | comment
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets | comment
Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament | comment
The bottleneck might be the air in the room | comment
Virginia bans sale of geolocation data | comment
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos | comment
Grok 4.5 | comment
TypeScript 7 | comment
Open Source Low Tech | comment
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall | comment
GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks | comment
OpenPrinter | comment
Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained | comment
OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router | comment
My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite | comment
Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera | comment
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