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GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy
68•rbanffy•1h ago•19 comments

Did They Ghost You?

https://didtheyghostyou.com/
144•mooreds•3h ago•50 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
105•mellosouls•2h ago•54 comments

Stolen Buttons

https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons
510•Gecko4072•5d ago•119 comments

SIMD for Collision

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/07/simd-for-collision/
23•birdculture•3d ago•5 comments

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-min...
71•gritzko•3h ago•36 comments

Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2026/isp_mcast/
20•mrngm•2h ago•3 comments

Who does Anubis actually stop?

https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/09/who-does-anubis-actually-stop
30•type0•2h ago•36 comments

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations
101•stunningllama•1d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

https://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8
101•jsax•5h ago•32 comments

Clinical Failure Rates over the Decades: Yikes

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes
4•EA-3167•20m ago•0 comments

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/
284•tknaup•8h ago•232 comments

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero-roadkill-as-amazon-canopy-bridges-secure-15000-crossings/
252•hn_acker•3d ago•79 comments

Bitchat is now on Radicle

https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6
189•h1watt•9h ago•116 comments

General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
24•zdw•3h ago•9 comments

How My Images Are Dithered

https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html
210•surprisetalk•3d ago•73 comments

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

14•_boffin_•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Minesweeper Raycasted

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/725f961b-09dc-4a66-8dac-8fefeeb69a1f
13•franze•3h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live

https://github.com/sktkkoo/Yorishiro
27•hakumei•3d ago•6 comments

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
857•shscs911•16h ago•403 comments

Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down

https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/
115•subarctic•2h ago•69 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-train...
58•gmays•7h ago•6 comments

Show HN: GeoChess – open-source geography strategy game

https://geochess.org
4•spider-hand•5d ago•9 comments

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai
17•boveyking•4h ago•0 comments

Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser

https://windows-xp.kimi.site/
29•boveyking•1h ago•15 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/FGmI8mx-head-of-engineering
1•asontha•11h ago

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/devlog/1534514/building-a-tiny-3d-renderer-for-a-tiny-handheld
232•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•18 comments

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras
148•bookofjoe•4h ago•69 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
145•rmdmphilosopher•7h ago•171 comments

Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

https://shukla.io/blog/2026-07/cccx.html
100•BinRoo•3d ago•37 comments
Open in hackernews

A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

https://www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-year-old-republican-man-is-staging-a-solo-protest-against-st-petes-flock-cameras/
116•UmYeahNo•1h ago

Comments

dyauspitr•1h ago
If I made an app that showed their locations and gamified knocking them out (subtly), would that get me in legal trouble?
vkou•1h ago
In a country where not attending a protest gets you 30 years in prison, and attending a protest where you set off a firework gets you 70, and where a government thug can pin you down and execute you on the sidewalk, and get recognized for his heroism and bravery... you tell me.
trollbridge•1h ago
In what country did those things happen?
ethin•1h ago
In the United States
vkou•1h ago
The United States, the first two in Texas and the latter in Minnesota.

In that bit, an unarmed man was murdered, the killers scatter like roaches, the federal police is covering for them, while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial and a swift sentencing and imprisonment.

(What they did is a state crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and also a federal crime that carries the death penalty.)

parineum•1h ago
> ... while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial

Interesting.

vkou•1h ago
Anyone with eyes can see that those killers are guilty. You don't need to split hairs on that, you can look at the video yourself.

As anyone else, though, they constitutionally deserve a fair trial where the onus is on the state to prove that guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, before they can be sentenced. My assessment of their guilt has little bearing on the state's ability to do that.

Proving that guilt would be trivial if the federal government weren't actively complicit, by preventing such a trial from taking place. There's no need to cover for it, it's behavior is unconscionable and treasonous.

throwaway173738•1h ago
Hey if anything we should keep protesting. You should read about what the British did to Indians protesting for independence. Protest in spite of consequences is a singular act of bravery. The cops want people to give in.
nielsbot•1h ago
I hope a (civil rights) lawyer will reply. I’m curious too.
Dig1t•1h ago
Make it a web app and host it in a different country? Probably also depends on the mechanics of the game though as well..
cwillu•1h ago
A different country... without an extradition treaty.
mc32•1h ago
Oh like Snowden then… he or she just has to be okay living under those conditions…
anematode•1h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement#United_States

If done obliquely enough... e.g., just making a tracker and having the ability for people to report broken cameras, you're probably fine in theory. In practice, this is a litigious society, so you'd want to build this anonymously.

Zak•1h ago
The article already links to a website that shows their locations: https://deflock.org/

It does not gamify or otherwise encourage damaging them, which would be legally risky.

indy•53m ago
No need to damage the cameras, just place some balloons in front of them.
codeddesign•1h ago
Why “republican” man? Editorials like this piss me off. Just say “Man from Florida”. Why bring party politics into an article that isn’t about party lines?
Avicebron•1h ago
Ikr, "Florida man" already has a distinguished pedigree
forsalebypwner•1h ago
Right, and also, a 77-year-old man in Florida means that adding "Republican" is just redundant.
odyssey7•1h ago
The developments of political parties’ positions are themselves newsworthy, as well as the ways in which writers attempt to frame them. You’re right to notice it.
Rebelgecko•1h ago
Florida Man is an overloaded term
LeoPanthera•1h ago
Republicans are not on the side of liberty and privacy. So emphasizing that he's a republican makes the case even more strongly.

You can argue that this shouldn't be about politics, but how many years of living under an authoritarian government do you need?

Everything is about politics now.

ryandrake•1h ago
Being against mass-surveillance should be a bipartisan struggle. Given our political polarization, each side is highly distrustful about what "the other side" will do with mass amounts of data about their side. This should be a cause that unites everyone.
tedggh•1h ago
We do have some bipartisan initiatives, it’s just that they are not news worthy. Take for example the initial push for banning TikTok. It had unprecedented bipartisan support.
SwellJoe•44m ago
All the evil shit (war, funding genocide, mass surveillance, privacy invasions or curtailing free speech in the name of protecting children) nearly always has bipartisan support.
jmspring•53m ago
Having binged on a bunch of modern British detective fiction in the last year or so - Rhys Dylan as an example. The reliance on cameras in society, yes it is fiction, but there is also truth is an interesting thing in terms of what a society accepts.
PaulHoule•43m ago
I've seen Trump 2024 voters go to No Kings in 2026 because they fear being the victim of federal overreach as in ICE.
drnick1•1h ago
A sledgehammer would be a better solution.
Barbing•14m ago
For the company Flock, yes.

For the community, the vandal, and progress, no.

cogman10•1h ago
These cameras aren't just invasive, they are expensive. Cities are paying a pretty penny to access a few web cams.

Last I looked it up, $2500 per year per camera in the surveillance area.

dagurp•46m ago
They are also installed improperly https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/flock-cameras-tennessee-...
hamandcheese•45m ago
That doesn't sound expensive to me. Not compared to, say, a $1.7M public toilet[0].

To be clear, I do not support Flock cameras.

[0]: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-fran...

RickJWagner•5m ago
Insufficiently aligned with hive mind! Downvotes for you!
Aboutplants•1h ago
Curious if hoisting an Ipad on the end of his pool skimmer that just showed a video of random cars and their license plates, causing the camera to register a bunch of false positives?
biztos•55m ago
That's a fun idea! I wonder if it'd work if you just used something like an e-Ink screen and had it generate random license plates?

I suppose "blocking the view of surveillance cameras" is probably illegal though.

jagged-chisel•40m ago
Waiting for the “obstruction of justice” suit. Probably won’t stick, but it’ll be a tremendous pain in the ass of the protester.
jubilee33•1h ago
Why does it matter his political party? Many otherwise good people have fallen for a con of some sort at least once at some point it their life. The man has some time and uses it in a non destructive manner to do what he thinks will help his community rather than just posting nonsense online, that in itself is commendable . I find the article trying to forment division by naming him a Republican...who cares, human privacy and the imbalance of power is something every American and even non Americans should care about.
aliasxneo•56m ago
I'd wager it has something to do with this: https://www.cltampa.com/news/creative-loafing-tampa-bay-has-....
carimura•55m ago
nice. i just asked chatgpt for the lean and it said progressive so there ya go.
carimura•56m ago
ya. classic tactic to label someone so there's pattern matching for readers. happens everywhere unfortunately.
JMKH42•48m ago
Because the modern GOP is itself a con. Its great that he is protesting flock cameras but he should also be protesting his own party, which is engaged in unprecedented corruption, murders american civilians, attacks democracy, and seeks to disenfranchise our daughters and wives.

I cannot stand it that disingenous and ignorant people pretend this isn't the case, you can all go to hell.

WhyComboNadir•55m ago
Equally informative title: A 77-year-old lactose-intolerant man is staging a solo protest against St. Pete’s Flock cameras
nozzlegear•55m ago
He's a 77-year-old patriot o7
nozzlegear•42m ago
Flock enjoyers didn't like this one
Barbing•54m ago
Thanks for acting out my daydream, Carl.
carimura•53m ago
i've said this before on Hn but I called the sheriff to discuss these in our neighborhood and asked if they could search for our whereabouts and he said "only if there's an active crime for your plate", so I said "what if the governor imposes a 'bird flu curfew'?" and after some kerfuffling said in theory yes they could then use it to track offendors.
grg0•40m ago
The other issue is that the company obviously has access to the streams nationwide, and they likely don't have the same oversight that a local police might have to document when/how they are used, if they have any oversight at all.
Barbing•16m ago
Other possible searches (in some areas):

  “heavy-set male with a black and white hat”

  “person on skateboard”

  “person wearing orange vest and construction hat”
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-n...
linsomniac•47m ago
Last month I said to my wife that we should start paying homeless people to hold their signs while standing in front of the radar speed cameras the city has been putting up around our town.
Barbing•22m ago
This post has just dropped from the top three to #72 on the third page (heavy downvotes/flagging?).
indoorfish•7m ago
It's not flagged, more likely @dang or @tomhow got a call from Flock.
tedggh•56m ago
I grew up under an authoritarian government. The US is not an authoritarian government.
GlacierFox•55m ago
"Republicans are not on the side of liberty and privacy."

Moronic generalisation.

tdb7893•56m ago
Most of the people very against Flock are more left wing and I feel like another left wing protest about it isn't particularly engaging. I'm sure putting Republican there gets way more interest as Republicans turning against them is necessary to have anything actually happen.
fogleman•54m ago
Why "man"? Why bring gender into it?
cpursley•52m ago
Do you prefer collection of cells?
krapp•50m ago
"ugly bags of mostly water" is the preferred nomenclature.
Rebuff5007•28m ago
It is at least somewhat relevant.

A persons political persuasion can tell you something about their values, and the policies they would prefer enacted for a given topic.

Republicans AFAIK have not been on the crusade to end mass surveillance or promote privacy laws to regulate big tech, so seeing a republican man stand up for this right might help you understand that the sentiment of the party is not unanimous.

Barbing•12m ago
Man Bites Dog!

Nothing pro-/anti-human or dog in that headline, just increasing intrigue without resorting to clickbait. Assuming a man really did bite a dog (bad!).

RickJWagner•6m ago
“ The man has some time and uses it in a non destructive manner to do what he thinks will help his community rather than just posting nonsense online “

Best comment this week, so far.