Weekly news | 2026-07-15
news
- John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
- Cloudflare Drop
- Remote Attestation
- Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit
- Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete
- EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
- Show HN: 18 Words
- Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
- Hy3
- Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
- Focus
- Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
- Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
- An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
- SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
- The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
- Good Tools Are Invisible
- We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture
- A pure scheme web programming tool
- Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
- I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)
- The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012)
- An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
- Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
- A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further
- GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
- Count Binface
- Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
- Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
- So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
- Designing and assembling my first PCB
- First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
- Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
- The Git history command deserves more attention
- Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
- What will be left for us to work on?
- Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
- The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]
- An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
- Is x86 ready to ACE it?
- Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
- TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
- Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
- Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
- Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel
- The Tower Keeps Rising
- Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
- LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros
AI: - Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations - Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model - Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust - GPT-5.6 - GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
- AWS:
- AWS MCP Server OAuth support
- Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments
- Certificate Manager ACME protocol for public certificates
- CloudWatch Application Signals automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events
- CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Dynamic Instrumentation
- CodeBuild Amazon Linux 2023 for on-demand build hosts
- Cognito self-service provisioned API rate limits
- Config +191 additional managed rules
- Connect Customer forecasting, planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails
- DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation
- DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline SQL Server conversion
- DocumentDB R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances
- EC2 EBS volume for Replace Root Volume
- ECS Managed Instances reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%
- EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%
- EMR on EKS Apache Spark troubleshooting agent
- EMR Serverless larger worker sizes to run more compute and memory intensive workloads
- GameLift Streams secure terminal access for stream sessions
- Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options
- MSK Replicator replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers
- Organizations account departure security controls by default for new orgы created via Organizations
- Redshift RG instances now available on the trailing track
- SageMaker data lineage in IAM-based domains
- SageMaker Feature Store batch feature writes and record listing
- SageMaker HyperPod AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning
- SageMaker HyperPod deep health checks for Slurm clusters with continuous provisioning
- SageMaker HyperPod disaggregated prefill and decode
- SageMaker Studio Hugging Face one-click model deployment and customization
- SageMaker Unified Studio custom asset types to the catalog in IAM-based domains
- SageMaker Unified Studio importing existing MWAA environments
- SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports operators for Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, and Glue Catalog
- Secrets Manager managed external secrets support for Paddle and GitLab
- Security Hub impact analysis for exposure findings
- Security Hub Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources
- Security Hub unified security management to Microsoft Azure
- Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing
- Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes database state change events to Amazon EventBridge
- VPC Encryption Controls declarative controls
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
- Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
- Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
- RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch
- Tiny Emulators
blogs
- Chatto is now open source
- I think I have LLM burnout
- QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
- An iroh powered smart fan
- Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit
- Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
- Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
- Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
- Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries
- Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
- Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left