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

618 djoldman 2026-07-09 00:22:36 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 120

John Deere agreed to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment under a right-to-repair settlement with the FTC and several states. The company must provide diagnostic and repair tools to owners and shops, not just authorized dealers, and pay $1 million in antitrust enforcement costs.

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

43 Jedd 2026-07-09 05:22:36 UTC connectsci.au Full Share 10

Chatto is now open source

888 speckx 2026-07-08 15:22:36 UTC hmans.dev Llama Share 228

Chatto is an open-source group chat application that can be self-hosted for free. It offers end-to-end encryption, voice and video calls, and a snappy frontend.

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

47 nateb2022 2026-07-09 02:22:36 UTC nexte.st Llama Share 9

This tool allows for sophisticated test selection and filtering, and provides features such as stress testing, test rerunning, and deep analysis. It supports multiple platforms and is open source, widely trusted, and powers Rust development at various scales.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

198 sk4rekr0w 2026-07-08 21:22:36 UTC openai.com Llama Share 70

A detailed audit of SWE-Bench Pro found ~30% of tasks are broken, affecting model evaluation and safety decisions. The audit suggests using experienced software developers to create new benchmarks that are hard to game and genuinely reflective of model capability.

Remote Attestation

65 lcvw 2026-07-09 01:22:36 UTC liamcvw.com Llama Share 54

Remote attestation using a TPM can cryptographically prove a host's state after a reboot, ensuring it's in a trusted state or fails and breaks trust. This allows for strong guarantees about the initial state of hosts, enabling robust EDR and LSM policies to prevent kernel and driver supply chain attacks.

AI changes the economics of software rewrites

5 cinooo 2026-07-09 05:49:36 UTC thetruthasiseeitnow.com Prefix Share 1

It's determined by what the model already knows from training data, and the context you give it to work with. Popular tech stacks have an AI advantage because the model has seen millions of examples, including published sources. The opposite is true for proprietary languages and private frameworks, with inconsistent patterns - these have to be taught - mostly using the limited context ...

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

45 tanelpoder 2026-07-09 02:22:36 UTC databricks.com Llama Share 12

Databricks built an internal coding benchmark to evaluate tools on actual coding tasks, finding that a mix of tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open source provides frontier performance. The results showed clear clustering of models and harnesses into 3 capability tiers, with the most intelligent models being very expensive but highly effective.

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

78 beefburger 2026-07-09 00:22:36 UTC seriot.ch Llama Share 25

Unicode's transliteration rules, used in ICU library, can simulate any Turing machine due to their unbounded rewriting capabilities with a revisiting cursor. This makes transliteration rule files, shipped in every OS, a type of program that should be reviewed and bound at runtime.

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

122 madebymagnolia 2026-07-08 22:22:36 UTC yamanote.fun Llama Share 25

The Yamanote Line soundscapes combine station melodies, announcements, and train sounds to recreate Tokyo's railway loop. The virtual loop has distinct melodies for each direction and can be traveled in 30 minutes at double speed.

What's slowing down the AI buildout

24 droidjj 2026-07-09 04:22:36 UTC worksinprogress.news Llama Share 24

The rapid growth of AI and data centers is straining power grids worldwide, with the US grid operators facing a huge backlog of projects waiting for connection due to an inflexible first-come, first-served queue. To address this bottleneck, experts suggest implementing auctions to prioritize high-quality projects, adopting energy-only service, and linking prices to real-time costs to ...

Cloudflare Drop

365 coloneltcb 2026-07-08 19:22:36 UTC cloudflare.com Full Share 184

Drop a folder or zip. See your site live on Cloudflare's global network in seconds.

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

248 chenglong-hn 2026-07-08 18:22:36 UTC microsoft.github.io Llama Share 99

Flint is a visualization language that creates charts from simple specs, optimizing settings from data and semantic types. It supports 46 chart types and 3 rendering engines.

Rewriting Bun in Rust

454 afturner 2026-07-08 22:22:36 UTC bun.com Llama Share 232

The author of Bun rewrote the project in Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, and a dynamic workflow system, resulting in a 1,009,272-line diff and 6,502 commits. The rewrite took 11 days and was reviewed by 64 Claudes, with the project now having 24/7 coverage-guided fuzzing and 11 rounds of security review completed.

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

49 Narann 2026-07-09 01:22:36 UTC mhloppy.com Llama Share 13

The user fixed a bug in MechCommander 1 where large weapons were being concentrated in the left arm of a mech, making it vulnerable to losing that arm. The user created a patch to fix this issue by changing the game's code to distribute large weapons across multiple locations on the mech, and also updated the weapon classification function to default to small weapons instead of large ones.

Grok 4.5

554 BoumTAC 2026-07-08 18:22:36 UTC x.ai Llama Share 759

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

115 linuxrebe1 2026-07-08 21:22:36 UTC github.com/linuxrebel Llama Share 27

DocuBrowse is a local document search tool that indexes files on your machine using AI models. It supports multiple document types and directories, and provides a web interface for searching and managing documents.

Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0

20 lprimak 2026-07-09 01:22:36 UTC shiro.apache.org Full Share 0

The Apache Shiro team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Shiro version 3.0.0. This is a new major release of Apache Shiro, with many new features and improvements, culminating more than two years of work. Apache Shiro 1.x and 2.x are now considered end-of-life. If support for these versions is required, please check Commercial Support

GPT‑Live

666 logickkk1 2026-07-08 17:22:36 UTC openai.com Llama Share 433

ChatGPT introduces GPT-Live, a new voice model for natural conversations. It uses full-duplex architecture and delegates complex tasks to other models for smarter answers.

FAANG Simulator

363 nerdbiscuits 2026-07-08 20:22:36 UTC abeyk.com Full Share 142

You are 22. You just signed at Goggle for $190k. One tap = one quarter of your life. Fill the freedom bar and quit forever — or burn out, get replaced by an AI named Kevin, and join the permanent underclass.

We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps

137 hershyb_ 2026-07-09 00:22:36 UTC tryai.dev Llama Share 67

Grok 4.5 excelled in speed and cost, building a great Breakout and gravity sim, but struggled with the 3D cube. Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were reliable builders, but pricey.

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

1349 speerer 2026-07-08 09:22:36 UTC tris.sherliker.net Llama Share 212

The user's wife bought him a Uniqlo t-shirt with an obfuscated bash script that prints a happy Easter egg message when decoded. The user successfully decoded the script using OCR and confirmed it was a base64 encoded string referencing Linux and Akamai's Peace for All campaign.

TypeScript 7

547 DanRosenwasser 2026-07-08 16:22:36 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 213

TypeScript 7 is a native port that's 10x faster than TypeScript, with strong type-checking and rich tooling. It's compatible with TypeScript 6 and offers improved performance, stability, and editor support.

I think I have LLM burnout

273 sosodev 2026-07-09 02:22:36 UTC alecscollon.com Llama Share 205

You heavily rely on LLMs for work and personal tasks, but repetitive patterns and mistakes in their output are causing frustration. You're struggling to deal with the consistency of LLM writing styles and errors, affecting your productivity and comfort with AI-generated content.

A bug which affected only left handed users

104 sixhobbits 2026-07-08 18:22:36 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 54

A user's blog had a bug where a comment box appeared when scrolling with the left thumb due to a touchstart listener on links. The user fixed the issue by deleting unnecessary code, preventing the bug from affecting left-handed users.

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

55 ethanlipson 2026-07-09 01:22:36 UTC mira-wm.com Full Share 11

Multiplayer world model - a dream of Rocket League.

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

84 bookofjoe 2026-07-08 20:22:36 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 30

A Swedish colony called New Sweden existed in the US from 1638-1655, introducing log cabins and Lutheran Christianity. Its legacy lives on in the Delaware Valley, with remnants of the colony still visible in modern-day Philadelphia and Wilmington.

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

240 bobnamob 2026-07-08 13:22:36 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 48

Cloudflare's Meerkat is a consensus service that provides strong consistency and fault tolerance for distributed systems. It uses the QuePaxa consensus algorithm, which allows all replicas to perform writes and provides linearizability without relying on a leader or timeouts.

My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers

33 andsoitis 2026-07-08 23:22:36 UTC economist.com Llama Share 1

Ran Fowler searches for rare succulents, specifically Agave shawii, with unique spines. Various stories of beauty, labor, and coolness are intertwined with Fowler's plant-hunting expedition.

The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta

8 goostavos 2026-07-09 05:22:36 UTC chriskiehl.com Full Share 0

Wikipedia says they're Spirocuta. Bizarre to watch. It's like they move by "pouring" themselves into a new location.