Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware
A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
Porting The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess to the 3DS
After the Nintendo 3DS saw various Nintendo 64-era titles like Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask ported to it, there was a lot of speculation that the GameCube/Wii title of Twilight Princess might soon make its way to this handheld gaming system too....
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn’t
Article URL: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770647 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid for the chance to do them. The service's...
Ask HN: Looking for work, donations, friendship, or advisors
Article URL: https://cjohnson.io/history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770226 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Chain-of-Thought Spoofing Targets Reasoning AI Models
Researchers [Charles Ye], [Jasmine Cui], and [Dylan Hadfield-Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction sources because they prioritize writing style over metadata tags, and this role...
CarPlay Is Additive
Article URL: https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769397 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
“An AI Job Apocalypse?” – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.goldmansachs.com/static-libs/pdf-redirect/prod/index.html?path=/pdfs/insights/goldman-sachs-research/an-ai-job-apocalypse/report.pdf&originalQuery=&referrer= Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769110 Points: 6 #...
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway
During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones's Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges - most related to the use of Gemini image-generation models. Yet Jones, a solo developer who runs programmatic SEO and insurance sites, told The...
In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical
Sustainability demands progress on several fronts at once. For example, societies must reduce factory energy use, roll out EVs, and ensure that communications equipment can operate off-grid to extend educational opportunities to children in remote areas. China-based...
Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you
I know we are very wary of AI slop but disclaimer: AI was used. I don't think that it is slop though and it was mostly used for formatting. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769064 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM
Article URL: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-QjDxUQkdTTjZLU0EyTFFRV1E3NVRTVTRTWjRHMy4u&route=shorturl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768997 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
An American Privacy Emergency
Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768992 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6
If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
Article URL: https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768464 Points: 21 # Comments: 1
Mystery identity of ‘Green Boots’ climber is finally solved after DNA test
Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15943905/Mystery-identity-Green-Boots-climber-macabre-landmark-frozen-ice-dying-Everest-finally-solved-DNA-test.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768336 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force
True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the US military.
U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/israel-iran-negotiators-plot.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767914 Points: 33 # Comments: 9
Bubbles, Belts, and Bulbs: How the Scantron Works
Bubbles, Belts, and Bulbs: How the Scantron Works Go to Source Many of us remember back in our school days taking tests and filling out answers on a Scantron sheet, those long rows of A, B, C, D, and E that had to be filled in with a...
Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme
AI infrastructure doesn't come cheap. To keep up, rent-a-GPU outfits such as CoreWeave and Lambda have had to borrow billions of dollars from venture capitalists and hedge funds to bankroll their datacenter build outs. So long as their revenues are greater than the...
Meta has released an app for making generative AI games
Pocket is listed in app stores but seemingly unavailable in the US.
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks’ Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage
MeetingTV has sued Palo Alto Networks after its newly acquired Koi Security threat-intelligence biz published a blog that linked the video conferencing and webinar startup to a Chinese corporate espionage operation. The legal complaint filed against Koi Security, its...
Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/modusregel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767834 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
BlastRadar – paste a Git diff, get a production risk score in 10 seconds
Article URL: https://blastradar.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767515 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
Article URL: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767347 Points: 96 # Comments: 11
Trump administration proposes rule to cut Medicare drug prices by $1.1 billion
The Trump administration is proposing a new rule on Thursday to keep hospitals from charging markups on discounted drugs for Medicare patients and says that could save consumers $1.1 billion next year, according to estimates obtained by The Associated Press. The rule...
A Very Subjective History of Functional Programming
Functional programming began in 1958, not as a theory but as an engineering solution: McCarthy needed to manipulate symbolic expressions, and Fortran couldn't do it.
5 Most Popular Coins for Merchants Worldwide
Sometimes, you may want to go to your nearest store and pay for your groceries with some crypto, but this payment method isn’t exactly common… or is it? Well, it depends on the coin and country, actually. A lot of merchants of all kinds accept different...
60 Blog Posts To Learn About Scam
Let's learn about Scam via these 60 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. "The key to my success was my ability to be a chameleon, to adapt...