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Stories from 2026-07-08

1. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)

2. Chatto is now open source (hmans.dev)

3. GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos (noma.security)

4. Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor (cert.org)

5. GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (gao.gov)

6. GPT‑Live (openai.com)

7. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986) (ocw.mit.edu)

8. Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model (mistral.ai)

9. How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (neil.computer)

10. EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why (gamesindustry.biz)

11. Grok 4.5 (x.ai)

12. TypeScript 7 (devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript)

13. Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years (cbc.ca)

14. Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus (cloudflare.com)

15. Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (digipres.org)

16. Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (microsoft.github.io)

17. EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules (cyberinsider.com)

18. Cloudflare Drop (cloudflare.com)

19. LineageOS Statistics (lineageos.org)

20. FAANG Simulator (abeyk.com)

21. Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips (apple.com)

22. Rewriting Bun in Rust (bun.com)

23. The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (pluralistic.net)

24. Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (openai.com)

25. A bug which affected only left handed users (shkspr.mobi)

26. SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence (cognition.com)

27. OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (nist.gov)

28. We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 (twitter.com/claudeai)

29. OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage (openmandriva.org)

30. Scheme Is a Hoot (gracefulliberty.com)

31. Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base (github.com/linuxrebel)

32. Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data (github.com/dekart-xyz)

33. Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony? (uni-wuerzburg.de)

34. Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] (youtube.com)

35. NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta (manualmeida.dev)

36. Show HN: Chiptune Radio (alephvoid.com)

37. Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D (nexttrain.london)

38. Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow (nostarch.com)

39. Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid (nhk.or.jp)

40. GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com/openai)

41. PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU) (flatpanelshd.com)

42. I Built a Telegram Client for Pi (npmjs.com)

43. My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers (economist.com)

44. What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? (yale.edu)

45. We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code (odra.dev)

46. Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)

47. TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type (philatype.com)

48. Show HN: Neil the Seal Game (neiltheseal.app)

49. Understanding B-Tree Indexes in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide– Part 1 (medium.com/devli0)

50. The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous (combine-lab.github.io)

51. First Principles of Model Routing (try.works)

52. It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history (theatlantic.com)

53. FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (theguardian.com)

54. An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets (vatsalbakshi.com)

55. Pure-Python symbolic regression that rediscovered Kepler's law from 8 data point (github.com/ariel95500-create)

56. Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase (github.com/animesh-94)

57. Show HN: Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw (techstackups.com)

58. Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor (moxiedocs.com)

59. Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3) (opensourcebarware.com)

60. Catastrophe theory; geniuses and maniacs (2011) (glassbottomblog.blogspot.com)

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