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StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

https://streetcomplete.app/
454 points
102 comments

Amazon without the knockoffs

https://knockoff.shopping/
162 points
102 comments

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

https://30papers.com/
102 points
19 comments

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk
330 points
123 comments

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font
42 points
3 comments

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
95 points
6 comments

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-...
35 points
6 comments

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf/releases/tag/v1...
32 points
3 comments

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbour...
331 points
144 comments

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

https://gamefromscratch.com/microsoft-fire-idtech-...
302 points
295 comments

The revenge of the philosophy majors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philos...
75 points
106 comments

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33y0n1v1xjo
91 points
92 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
0 points
0 comments

Automating AI Away

https://replicated.live/blog/away
32 points
12 comments

Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf]

https://cccg.ca/proceedings/2008/paper34full.pdf
7 points
0 comments

Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/antidoom
14 points
2 comments

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

https://postgres.saneengineer.com
68 points
10 comments

98% isn't much

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-v...
374 points
253 comments

Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

https://govauctions.app/research/cheapest-homes-in...
65 points
58 comments

The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-...
60 points
46 comments

GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service

https://github.com/github/freno
16 points
0 comments

Better Auth is joining Vercel

https://better-auth.com/blog/better-auth-joins-ver...
98 points
62 comments

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-wor...
47 points
96 comments

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-web-hosting-ve...
223 points
148 comments

Software Bonkers

https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/
18 points
8 comments

C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences

https://nekrozqliphort.github.io/posts/membarrier/
48 points
4 comments

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/dua-li...
226 points
186 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.h...
177 points
47 comments

New Literalism Comes for Museums

https://jaymollica.com/blog/new-literalism-comes-f...
3 points
0 comments

Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/05/historic...
100 points
25 comments