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

124 djoldman 2026-07-08 23:41:29 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 25

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.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

137 sk4rekr0w 2026-07-08 21:41:29 UTC openai.com Llama Share 58

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.

Chatto is now open source

694 speckx 2026-07-08 15:41:29 UTC hmans.dev Llama Share 186

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.

Cloudflare Drop

209 coloneltcb 2026-07-08 19:41:29 UTC cloudflare.com Full Share 105

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

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

1285 speerer 2026-07-08 09:41:29 UTC tris.sherliker.net Llama Share 205

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.

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

400 ottomengis 2026-07-08 14:41:29 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 94

Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that enables robots to navigate complex environments using only one RGB camera and plain-language instructions. It achieves 76.6% on R2R-CE validation unseen, beating previous approaches by significant margins.

Remote Attestation

5 lcvw 2026-07-09 00:34:29 UTC liamcvw.com Prefix Share 0

A host connects to your network. It looks like part of your fleet, but is it really? It runs your software, or at least enough of it to start serving traffic. It quacks like a duck. But what’s on the inside? But seriously. How do you know that your data isn’t sitting on a compromised stack? How do you know that you aren’t trying to schedule workloads on an attacker controlled machine? How do ...

Grok 4.5

448 BoumTAC 2026-07-08 18:41:29 UTC x.ai Llama Share 532

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.

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

181 chenglong-hn 2026-07-08 18:41:29 UTC microsoft.github.io Llama Share 71

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.

DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed

68 StalwartLabs 2026-07-08 20:41:29 UTC stalw.art Llama Share 43

DKIM2 and DMARCbis are two new email authentication protocols that improve upon existing systems. DKIM2 creates a verifiable chain of custody for messages, preventing replay attacks and ensuring that forwarding does not break signatures. DMARCbis replaces the static Public Suffix List with a live DNS tree walk, making it easier to determine an organization's authority domain.

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

59 linuxrebe1 2026-07-08 20:41:29 UTC github.com/linuxrebel Llama Share 9

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.

FAANG Simulator

250 nerdbiscuits 2026-07-08 20:41:29 UTC abeyk.com Full Share 101

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.

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

39 madebymagnolia 2026-07-08 22:41:29 UTC yamanote.fun Llama Share 11

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.

GPT‑Live

582 logickkk1 2026-07-08 17:41:29 UTC openai.com Llama Share 395

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.

Rewriting Bun in Rust

227 afturner 2026-07-08 22:41:29 UTC bun.com Llama Share 117

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.

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

7 hershyb_ 2026-07-08 23:41:29 UTC tryai.dev Prefix Share 0

All posts Grok 4.5 landed this week with xAI calling it their smartest model yet, "trained alongside Cursor" for coding and agentic work. The internet's favorite way to vibe-check a new coding model is the build-off: hand it one prompt, see what app it spits out, post the clip. So we did it, but properly. We gave Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Fable 5 the exact ...

A bug which affected only left handed users

75 sixhobbits 2026-07-08 18:41:29 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 41

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.

TypeScript 7

449 DanRosenwasser 2026-07-08 16:41:29 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 169

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.

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

36 bookofjoe 2026-07-08 19:41:29 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 2

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.

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

9 beefburger 2026-07-08 23:41:29 UTC seriot.ch Prefix Share 2

I've been wondering for a while whether Unicode allows universal computation. The core Unicode algorithms (normalization, casing, bidi, collation) are deliberately bounded, but UTS #35 transliteration rules, under their natural unbounded semantics, are not. This is a result I haven't found published before. These rules ship as locale data in ICU, the widely used Unicode/globalization ...

My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers

11 andsoitis 2026-07-08 22:41:29 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.

Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot – Lilith Duncan – GodotCon 2026 [video]

5 surprisetalk 2026-07-08 23:41:29 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 0

OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

70 workethics 2026-07-08 18:41:29 UTC forum.openmandriva.org Llama Share 12

Our distribution experienced disruptions due to Davide Beatrici's actions. He joined our team despite limited contributions, offering to migrate our repository infrastructure.

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

208 bobnamob 2026-07-08 13:41:29 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 42

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.

Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)

4 jarodrh 2026-07-08 23:41:29 UTC github.com/rodiun Prefix Share 0

Free, local, open-source LLM cost analyzer. Point Frugon at your LLM call logs and see — on your machine — how much you'd save by switching or routing models. Your data never leaves your machine. Your keys go straight to your own providers. Nothing reaches us. # one-shot (no install) uvx frugon analyze ./logs.jsonl # permanent install pipx install frugon frugon analyze ./logs.jsonl # for ...

Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)

13 RichBJamison 2026-07-08 22:41:29 UTC opensourcebarware.com Llama Share 8

Bars manually count bottles by tenths and input data into outdated spreadsheets to reconcile with POS sales, often with discrepancies. Companies profit from this inefficiency by selling inventory management tools and consulting services.

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules

347 ggirelli 2026-07-08 17:41:29 UTC cyberinsider.com Llama Share 134

The European Parliament approved an urgent procedure to revive the EU's expired "Chat Control 1.0" rules, allowing online platforms to scan private user communications for child sexual abuse material. A decisive vote on July 9 will determine whether the temporary framework returns.

I Built a Telegram Client for Pi

50 atharva-again 2026-07-08 18:41:29 UTC npmjs.com Llama Share 24

The bot uses the same pi provider configuration and credentials as the CLI, with flags and environment variables overriding the saved config. It adds workspace commands to the slash menu and sends normal messages to pi with full tool access.

Poison, redzones and shadows: inside KASAN

11 rrampage 2026-07-08 21:41:29 UTC bootlin.com GoogleT5 Share 0

Kasan is a tool for monitoring memory accesses in the kernel. kasan uses 1 byte of shadow memory to track 8 bytes of kernel memory - called “granule” when the memory is freed, it “poisons” it again to mark it back as “inaccessible” this is where the build time instrumentation comes in to play: it can be inlined or outlined, depending on the trade-

SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence

249 mekpro 2026-07-08 16:41:29 UTC cognition.com Llama Share 127

Cognition's SWE-1.7 model reaches frontier-level intelligence at a lower cost, advancing the cost-performance Pareto curve. It's trained on a large dataset with extensive quality-assurance measures to ensure alignment and trustworthiness.