For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

433 defrost 2026-07-01 14:33:50 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 141

Scientists created a synthetic cell that grows, replicates DNA, and divides, demonstrating basic cell functions. The cell is not alive but shows promise for generating life from non-life and could lead to breakthroughs in materials and disease research.

What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer

25 atan2 2026-07-01 17:54:50 UTC blog.demofox.org Llama Share 3

To be hireable as a graphics programmer, learn modern graphics APIs like DirectX12, Vulkan, or Metal, and understand rendering techniques, lighting, and shading. Familiarize yourself with C++ and shader languages like HLSL or GLSL, and consider learning path tracing and physically based rendering.

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

94 ledoge 2026-07-01 16:33:50 UTC hydrogenaudio.org Full Share 45

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

331 Tiberium 2026-07-01 12:33:50 UTC blog.playstation.com Llama Share 414

Sony Interactive Entertainment will discontinue physical game disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028. New games will be available digitally on PlayStation Store and at retailers starting January 2028.

How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

73 dennis-tra 2026-07-01 15:33:50 UTC probelab.io Llama Share 21

Optimistic Provide is a new optimization for IPFS's Amino DHT that reduces content publication time by over one order of magnitude and network overhead by 40%. It achieves this by using statistical heuristics to predict when the 20 closest peers have been discovered, allowing for sub-second record storage and improved performance in delay-sensitive applications.

Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine

269 makepanic 2026-07-01 12:33:50 UTC box2d.org Llama Share 54

Box3D is an open source 3D physics engine that is a fork of Box2D, developed to meet the needs of the game The Legend of California. It is now available on GitHub and has a feature set that includes gyroscopic torques, broad-phase collision detection, and compound collision systems.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

79 whoishiring 2026-07-01 16:33:50 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 89

Here are the summaries in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Monetization Gateway

141 soheilpro 2026-07-01 14:33:50 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 73

Cloudflare introduces the Monetization Gateway, allowing customers to charge for digital assets with usage-based pricing. The gateway uses the x402 protocol for sub-second payment settlement in stablecoins.

Building Gin: Simple over Easy

13 manucorporat 2026-07-01 17:45:50 UTC manualmeida.dev Llama Share 4

The author created Gin, a Go web framework, to balance simplicity and ease of use, inspired by the SDK work and Go's simplicity principles. Gin's design aimed to keep the request path explicit, reduce noise, and provide a natural developer experience, resulting in a widely-used and long-lasting framework.

Internal Combustion Engine

145 StefanBatory 2026-07-01 13:33:50 UTC ciechanow.ski Llama Share 22

An internal combustion engine is explained step by step, starting with a simple crank mechanism that converts linear force into torque, then using a cannon to generate a strong force that pushes a piston down a cylinder, and finally adding valves and a camshaft to control the flow of air and fuel. The engine's components, including the engine block, crankshaft, pistons, cylinder head, and ...

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

56 whoishiring 2026-07-01 16:33:50 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 127

I am a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design and full-stack development, proficient in various technologies including Python, AI, MERN, and Big Data, and I am looking for a Senior/Lead software engineer role in the USA.

Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom

13 PuercoPop 2026-07-01 17:41:50 UTC hanakai.org Llama Share 1

Hanami 3.0 is released with new features like mailers, internationalization, and Minitest support. It also improves performance and developer experience.

Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting

34 jono_irwin 2026-07-01 16:33:50 UTC cerebrium.ai Llama Share 11

Cerebrium's checkpointing feature solves the cold start problem for AI workloads by freezing the initialized container and restoring it quickly, reducing startup times from minutes to seconds. This feature is particularly useful for workloads dominated by deterministic initialization, importing frameworks, and loading models, allowing for better utilization, lower infrastructure costs, and a ...

Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

34 gergelycsegzi 2026-07-01 14:33:50 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 31

Greg and Max, Parsewise founders, transform unstructured data into schema compliant data with lineage. Their platform simplifies ETL and allows business experts to validate results quickly.

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

278 bilsbie 2026-07-01 14:33:50 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 139

Sony plans to remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store libraries due to licensing agreements. This move highlights the shift towards ownership being controlled by servers, rather than physical copies.

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF

0 2026-07-01 13:33:50 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Manufact is building the MCP cloud platform for AI agents and raised $6.3M seed in 4 days. They're hiring a Developer Advocate to drive partnerships and content across the AI dev-tools ecosystem.

Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36

39 compumike 2026-07-01 16:33:50 UTC heyoncall.com Llama Share 8

A tiny Kubernetes cluster revealed a memory leak in the kubelet process due to a context leak on every startPodSync, which was caused by a change in Kubernetes 1.36 that created a new cancelable context without properly canceling the old one. The issue was fixed by reverting the problematic code and adding comments to warn about potential context leaks and long-lived goroutines.

Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font

16 foodevl 2026-07-01 17:33:50 UTC qr.jim.sh Llama Share 4

A TrueType/OpenType font renders QR codes from bracketed text without separate image generation. It can be copied, pasted, or mixed with regular text, but may require styling for reliable rendering in HTML.

1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

73 surprisetalk 2026-07-01 14:33:50 UTC hypertalking.com Llama Share 11

User created 42 Apple emojis as 1-bit pixel art in Summer 2019. They are available for use in projects with credit and link back to the source.

My OSCP Pentesting Cheatsheet

15 HackerAsk 2026-07-01 17:50:50 UTC hackerask.com Llama Share 2

The user passed the OSCP exam on 14.03.2025 and documented useful commands for penetration testing and the exam. They created a knowledge base with environment variables, aliases, and scripts for tasks like IP address retrieval and reverse shell generation.

Show HN: Pglayers – PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers

16 iemejia 2026-07-01 17:33:50 UTC github.com/pglayers Llama Share 2

pglayers is a tool that pre-installs PostgreSQL extensions in Docker images, making it easier to use extensions like pgvector, PostGIS, and pg_cron. It uses a layering system to stack extension images on top of the official postgres image.

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

462 pantalaimon 2026-07-01 10:33:50 UTC asahilinux.org Llama Share 157

Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.

Red Programming Language: Static linking support

57 em-bee 2026-07-01 13:33:50 UTC red-lang.org Llama Share 10

The Red toolchain has been updated to support static linking of libraries written in C, allowing for single, self-contained binaries with all dependencies packed inside. This feature is now available for Windows, Linux, and Linux ARM, including the Raspberry Pi, and can be used with the miniz library for compression.

Are readers generating fiction with AI models?

9 ilamont 2026-07-01 17:33:50 UTC arxiv.org Prefix Share 11

Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations (arXiv:2405.01470), we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation -- including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and ...

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

214 chimpanzee 2026-07-01 08:33:50 UTC phys.org Full Share 48

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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

418 _tk_ 2026-07-01 12:33:50 UTC mynintendonews.com Llama Share 237

Nintendo raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent and maintain an appropriate compensation standard. The company also invested 121 billion yen in R&D and has been cautious with price increases.

Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses

125 sashk 2026-07-01 15:33:50 UTC easyoptouts.com Llama Share 16

iCloud+ Hide My Email service has vulnerabilities allowing attackers to discover hidden email addresses. Apple has been aware of the issue since June 2025 but still hasn't fixed it.

Ray Tracer in SQL

35 kbumsik 2026-07-01 14:33:50 UTC github.com/clickhouse Llama Share 8

A path tracer written in ClickHouse SQL queries renders a scene with procedurally generated landscape, reflecting terrain and casting shadows, using 3D math on tuples and parallelizing across CPU cores. The scene exercises various geometric primitives, including boxes, cylinders, tori, and spheres, with CSG union, difference, and ray-marched distance field, and is rendered at any resolution ...

Show HN: LIBR tracing with source ledger rows and byte-exact PDF verification

4 cd_mkdir 2026-07-01 17:55:50 UTC exitprotocols.com Prefix Share 1

An engineering note on replaying ordered financial transactions to preserve balance dips, same-day assumptions, and non-replenishment behavior. State transition card State inputs: - prior traceable balance - current account balance - transaction amount - ordering mode Transition: traceable_after = min(traceable_before, account_balance_after) Boundary: later deposits do not automatically ...

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

882 Pragmata 2026-07-01 00:33:50 UTC twitter.com/anthropicai Full Share 596

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.