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What we learned when a user tried to load a 1 GB GML file in a browser

https://geodataviewer.com/blog/why-vector-tiles-for-large-gis-datasets/
1•twainyoung•5m ago•0 comments

The V Programming Language: A Revolutionary Approach to Modern Development

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-v-programming-language-a-revolutionary-approach-to-...
1•baranul•6m ago•0 comments

Open Source LLM Statistics and Trends (2026)

https://openllmstack.com/blog/open-source-llm-statistics/
1•sherlockxu•8m ago•0 comments

Microsoft's 90s Weapon That Made Windows Fast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0BYAkPj78
1•csense•11m ago•0 comments

Is tech ruining the World Cup?

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m002yq16
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•11m ago•0 comments

Epistemic Heat Death and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of the Global Web

https://github.com/psyll/Epistemic-Heat-Death-and-the-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio-of-the-Global-Web
1•lioeters•12m ago•0 comments

Tesla's Electric Semi Has Its First Fatal Crash

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2026/07/01/teslas-electric-semi-has-its-first-fatal-crash/
2•cdrnsf•13m ago•1 comments

Creating Joy in the User Experience

https://daveon.design/creating-joy-in-the-user-experience.html
1•thunderbong•13m ago•0 comments

TurboQuant can reduce vector index size by 10x at 100M Row Scale

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/pull/989
1•mxfeinberg•14m ago•0 comments

Google must pay record €4.1B (£3.5B) fine over antitrust issues

https://news.sky.com/story/google-must-pay-record-4-1bn-fine-over-antitrust-issues-13559819
1•geoffbp•20m ago•0 comments

North Korea patents soybean-based chocolate to bypass cocoa and sanctions

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2026/06/22/KBDUJI6IFJAIJODLXUAHV5IH3I/
2•mushstory•21m ago•0 comments

Giving admins more visibility and control over Claude spend

https://claude.com/blog/giving-admins-more-visibility-and-control-over-claude-usage-and-spend
1•geoffbp•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PriceProbe – zero-dependency competitor price tracker in Python

https://github.com/willylam2222-bot/priceprobe
1•l2602591158•26m ago•0 comments

Why build quantum computers if you can simulate them?

https://medium.com/@jkim_tran/why-build-quantum-computers-if-you-can-simulate-them-8fa87577b35f
1•jennifer-trin•29m ago•0 comments

CarPlay Is Additive

https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts
12•sprawl_•29m ago•7 comments

Show HN: Drop Flap Boards for All

https://dropflapboard.com
1•PaybackTony•31m ago•0 comments

Ease Comes After

https://easel.games/blog/2026-june-update
2•BSTRhino•40m ago•2 comments

The World's Top Economists Are Sounding the Alarm on AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-worlds-top-economists-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-d99055b6
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•42m ago•2 comments

We should reduce the amount of generated information

https://www.bponnaluri.com/why-we-should-reduce-the-amount-of-generated-information/
2•gulugawa•44m ago•0 comments

LawZero: Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29657
2•KingKunta•50m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists'

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec
10•bhouston•50m ago•6 comments

In Defense of AI Mandates

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-ai-mandates
2•cyndunlop•52m ago•0 comments

What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?

https://news.mit.edu/2026/agentic-ai-and-what-do-we-want-it-be-0630
2•sudo_cowsay•52m ago•1 comments

Brain's language network is more extensive than previously thought

https://news.mit.edu/2026/brain-language-network-more-extensive-than-previously-thought-0701
3•sudo_cowsay•52m ago•0 comments

Sebastian Mallaby: The AI Race Nobody Can Win, Foreign Affairs Interview [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQC6V8T8ry4
1•verdverm•53m ago•0 comments

Supreme Court rules privacy protections apply to cellphone location history

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-okello-chatrie-geofence-warrants-a3adee8a3fd32b8ea1b42eb...
9•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: 4isX – A game to make the target from four digits

https://4isx.akhdan.dev/
2•akhdanfadh•1h ago•0 comments

The Age of Suspicion: Why AI Made Authenticity Expensive

https://bennorthmore.com/journals/welcome-to-the-suspicion-economy/
4•surprisefox•1h ago•0 comments

FuturePath – Sophisticated retirement planner with 50-state tax modeling

https://futurepath.essentialx.us/
2•maheshgattani•1h ago•0 comments

The Case Against Public Engineering Levels

https://i0exception.substack.com/p/the-case-against-public-levels
3•i0exception•1h ago•1 comments
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Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you

https://github.com/alex-w-developer/GetBlocked
8•sudo_cowsay•1h ago
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

rabidheuristics•46m ago
What does this do that ublock doesn’t?
sudo_cowsay•35m ago
It's not trying to match uBlock (that requires a lot of help from other people). However, on the other hand, it's IMO transparent and is a beginner friendly tool for people who want to easily audit and add features they want to be added (all pull requests are welcome!).