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Stories from 2026-07-07

1. StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)

2. Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (github.com/maximerivest)

3. Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)

4. A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (youtube.com)

5. 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)

6. How to sequence your own DNA at home (bradleywoolf.com)

7. Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (allaboutcookies.org)

8. Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (ieee.org)

9. Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software (gamefromscratch.com)

10. 98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)

11. Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (heise.de)

12. Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)

13. Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com/jimparis)

14. OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released (openssh.org)

15. Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)

16. Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (pcmag.com)

17. Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (pgdog.dev)

18. Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again (dw.com)

19. l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)

20. Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)

21. China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (bbc.com)

22. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)

23. Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)

24. Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (nwo.nl)

25. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (stanford.edu)

26. Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)

27. A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku (arxiv.org)

28. AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (zksecurity.xyz)

29. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)

30. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (euronews.com)

31. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)

32. Automating AI Away (replicated.live)

33. Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)

34. NSA and IETF: Fairness (cr.yp.to)

35. The revenge of the philosophy majors (nytimes.com)

36. Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)

37. MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com/mplsllc)

38. Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation (github.com/polyml)

39. Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels (theatlantic.com)

40. In Praise of Observational Evidence (asteriskmag.com)

41. Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms (devz.cl)

42. Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf] (cccg.ca)

43. Inkfield (inkfield.studio)

44. Astro 7.0 (astro.build)

45. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)

46. The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup (wsj.com)

47. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (saneengineer.com)

48. C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences (nekrozqliphort.github.io)

49. Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29 (notebookcheck.net)

50. GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service (github.com/github)

51. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)

52. The Music of Destruction (thebaffler.com)

53. Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k (govauctions.app)

54. Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)

55. Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization (liquid.ai)

56. Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach (nooneshappy.com)

57. Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013) (stephenwolfram.com)

58. Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com/bkuan001)

59. Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (the-independent.com)

60. Not Dark Yet (agoodhardstare.substack.com)

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