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Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.

Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

San Francisco Police Department accidentally leaked real-time surveillance footage from five of its Skydio drones on a…

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

DOM-docx is an open-source MIT-licensed tool that converts semantic HTML fragments into native, editable Word documents…

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

A longtime Photoshop user who subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud since 2013 uninstalled the software in July 2026 due to…

Control the Ideas, Not the Code

Antirez, a veteran programmer, argues that modern developers should focus on controlling the ideas and design of…

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

A new tool allows learners to study Japanese while taking a virtual ride on Tokyo's Yamanote train line through a…

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.

Aurra Markets Strengthens MENA Presence Following Money Expo Abu Dhabi 2026

ABU DHABI, UAE, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurra Markets, a global multi-asset CFD brokerage, concluded its diamond…

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

Anthropic is leveraging its massive $132 billion in funding and projected $1 trillion IPO valuation to promote…

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if

A developer optimizing a domain-specific compressor discovered that adding a simple conditional check to predict when a…

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

The Beavis Ultrasound PnP is an open-source replica of the Gravis Ultrasound sound card that includes complete…

The SpaceX IPO made history. Is the excitement still there?

A month on from the firm's stock market debut, the reality of how SpaceX currently makes money has seemed to come into…

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

A Hacker News user proposes adding a flag to mark AI-generated articles as an indicator rather than a ranking penalty,…

Gameboy is back ( no signup)

10 years of Pokémon Go and the millions still trying to catch 'em all

Michael Steranka, vice president at the mobile game's owner Scopely, says it has always been about bringing people…

Billion Dollar PDFs

A "Billion Dollar PDF" is a document that crystallized a compelling narrative at a pivotal moment and redirected…

Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017)

The A* pathfinding algorithm, commonly used for grid-based navigation, can work on any graph structure to find optimal…

Designing and assembling my first PCB

The author describes their first experience designing and assembling a custom PCB, starting from learning Arduino basics…

Architecture Description Languages [pdf]

I cannot summarize this article because the provided text is only the raw PDF file code and metadata, not the actual…

Why Vanilla JavaScript

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

This article provides a curated index of cyberpunk comics, manga, and graphic novels, listing seminal works spanning…

A Speed Limit for Computers

The article draws a parallel between Ivan Illich's 1973 theory that excessive energy consumption reduces equity and…

Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art

Codebase Posters is a tool that transforms any Git repository's commit history into generative poster art by running a…

I trained a 113M-parameter earthquake LLM from absolute scratch

A developer trained a 113-million-parameter language model specialized in earthquake science from scratch, using six…

I made a free Islamic prayer app to quit saying "I'll pray in 5 minutes"

A developer created "Better Prayer," a free Islamic prayer app designed to combat procrastination by sending reminders…

Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks

Kode Dot is a programmable handheld device featuring an ESP32 dual microcontroller, AMOLED touchscreen, and built-in…

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

This is a Hacker News discussion thread where developers share their current projects (July 2026).

Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

Starting in Chrome 148, the Math.tanh() function has become a reliable fingerprinting technique to identify the user's…

Show HN: Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP

Adaptive Recall is a memory API for AI assistants that goes beyond standard vector search by using cognitive science and…