Year: 2026

shinyquagsire23/Klepton: JIT-less relinker and compatibility layer for running Quest/Android XR APKs on visionOS and macOS · GitHub

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Running Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro, no JIT required! klepton-ld translates Android .so libraries into loadable Apple .dylib and .framework libraries, which then link into the Klepton runtime. Klepton currently focuses on Java-thin applications only (no ART, no JVM). For graphics, GLES 3.2 is translated to a vendored ANGLE GLES 3.0 (with its Metal backend), and Vulkan is translated to MoltenVK. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ GUEST (translated Mach-O, instruction bytes mostly unmodified) │ │ libil2cpp · libunity · libunityopus · libmain · burst ·…

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Why do we assume everyone should be working?

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I was talking to a friend of mine and I asked this. She said “of course everyone should be working, I mean, I’d like to be able to buy more stuff” In that statement though there really is a non obvious implied logic. So the next question: does economics support that statement always? That if we want more stuff, and better lives, everyone should be working harder? No, only sometimes; in economics, utilizing a resource to it’s fullest at all times is not a…

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We're making auto mode the default in Claude Code. Starting on August 14, new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans will run in auto mode. If you've already set a different default yourself, you may get a one-time prompt asking whether you want to switch to auto mode. If you have a pinned default, nothing changes for you. The auto mode classifier uses a small number of extra tokens per tool call, and we're no longer charging Claude Code users on Pro, Max, and…

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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The logo of Taylor Farms Mexico is seen at the company's facilities, in Doctor Mora, Guanajuato state, Mexico, July 20, 2026. Demian Chavez | ReutersTaylor Farms said on Sunday it was recalling prepared food items containing jalapeños from retailers over concerns about potential salmonella contamination, a few weeks after removing lettuce from Mexico that U.S. authorities linked to the cyclospora parasite.The California-based supplier said it had voluntarily recalled the products, including salsas and guacamole, after being notified that Coast Citrus Distributors was recalling the fresh…

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What Happened to HackerOne? · Curiosity With a Side of Chaos

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: So…what’s going on at HackerOne lately? It might be time for a wellness check. If you are new to the bug bounty space (1-3 years), you might not have any idea what I’m talking about. But as a properly washed-up bug bounty hunter who lived through the golden era of HackerOne, I think it’s time to address the elephant in the room. For some context, I started as a hacker on HackerOne in 2017. When I began working in tech, that hands-on experience was extremely…

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How we pushed CDC into Postgres — and turned replication into clockwork

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💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Making data from transactional databases available to analytical databases is an essential part of any modern data architecture. It is also a perpetual battle against fragile tooling, high costs and complex operations. When we started building a Postgres service at Snowflake, solving this problem naturally became our number one priority. This post is a deep dive into the engineering behind data mirroring: how we reimagined Postgres replication from the ground up. Optimizing Postgres replication Postgres is an amazing operational database, but its change data capture…

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Panasonic did what Apple, Sony and Nikon couldn’t: overturn a Red Raw video patent

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Japanese Patent Office has declared one of Red’s key Raw video patents as invalid, following a challenge by Panasonic. The court determined that many of the claims made in the patent, first filed in the US in 2008, would have been obvious to someone skilled in the subject area and familiar with existing developments. The news, first reported by Thom Hogan, put Nikon’s video subsidiary in the position of trying to defend a patent that Nikon had previously argued was invalid. The patent…

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AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes.It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person — it was artificial intelligence (AI). But Andrew was shocked by what happened next. His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed, thanks to a vulnerability it discovered in the booking software.Then…

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Savannah Police Department fires 6 employees over Flock Safety System misuse

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Savannah Police Department terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department’s Flock Safety License Plate Reader system. All six cases are also under independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.The six employees were placed on administrative leave last week after a proactive review of system activity identified searches that appeared to have been conducted for purposes unrelated to legitimate law enforcement activity. SEE: Savannah Police investigating 6 employees over…

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Is it all just vapourware? — Kira Howe

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: August 8, 2026/3 min readMaybe I’m just too cynical but it’s really starting to feel like more or less all of this new “AI”/agent software is vapourware. I’ve been trying to take this whole “agentic development” thing seriously and there is just so much friction in this ecosystem it’s absolutely insane. It’s very clear that all this stuff is built by engineers who a) have free access to unlimited tokens and b) have no systematic review or QA process for usability testing or dogfooding…

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