For First Time, a Cell Built from Scratch Grows and Divides

77 defrost 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 20

Scientists created a synthetic cell that grows, replicates DNA, and divides, demonstrating basic cell functions. The cell is not alive but shows promise for generating life from non-life and could lead to breakthroughs in materials and disease research.

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

402 pantalaimon 2026-07-01 10:47:14 UTC asahilinux.org Llama Share 117

Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.

Why I Stopped Arguing with People

426 backlit4034 2026-07-01 13:47:14 UTC wangcong.org Llama Share 337

A software engineer stopped arguing with others due to understanding that correctness is not always good and that arguing often challenges people's sense of self rather than their ideas. He now focuses on self-improvement and building on differences rather than trying to convince others.

SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle

28 godwinson__4-8 2026-07-01 14:59:14 UTC biotic.org Llama Share 2

Prof. Kate Adamala's team at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, a synthetic cell that performs a complete cell cycle from known chemical components. SpudCell grows, replicates, and divides using a feeding mechanism and a smaller genome than previously thought possible.

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

327 mpweiher 2026-07-01 09:47:14 UTC thefocalpoints.com Llama Share 163

A newly discovered bacterium, Ewingella americana, has shown to completely eliminate colorectal cancer in mice with no recurrence. It outperforms chemotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade with a dual-action approach of direct tumor destruction and immune activation.

Announcing Box3D :: Box2D

106 makepanic 2026-07-01 12:47:14 UTC box2d.org Llama Share 24

Box3D is an open source 3D physics engine that is a fork of Box2D, developed to meet the needs of the game The Legend of California. It is now available on GitHub and has a feature set that includes gyroscopic torques, broad-phase collision detection, and compound collision systems.

Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

21 gergelycsegzi 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 11

Greg and Max, Parsewise founders, transform unstructured data into schema compliant data with lineage. Their platform simplifies ETL and allows business experts to validate results quickly.

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

305 _tk_ 2026-07-01 11:47:14 UTC mynintendonews.com Llama Share 144

Nintendo raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent and maintain an appropriate compensation standard. The company also invested 121 billion yen in R&D and has been cautious with price increases.

Red Programming Language: Static linking support

25 em-bee 2026-07-01 13:47:14 UTC red-lang.org Llama Share 3

The Red toolchain has been updated to support static linking of libraries written in C, allowing for single, self-contained binaries with all dependencies packed inside. This feature is now available for Windows, Linux, and Linux ARM, including the Raspberry Pi, and can be used with the miniz library for compression.

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

44 eustoria 2026-07-01 14:50:14 UTC nym.com Llama Share 10

Programmers have a moral responsibility to the world to create technologies that promote freedom and prevent surveillance. They must build software and hardware to defend against mass surveillance and technofascism.

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF

0 2026-07-01 13:47:14 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Manufact is building the MCP cloud platform for AI agents and raised $6.3M seed in 4 days. They're hiring a Developer Advocate to drive partnerships and content across the AI dev-tools ecosystem.

Monetization Gateway

31 soheilpro 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 6

Cloudflare introduces the Monetization Gateway, allowing customers to charge for digital assets with usage-based pricing. The gateway uses the x402 protocol for sub-second payment settlement in stablecoins.

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

188 chimpanzee 2026-07-01 08:47:14 UTC phys.org Full Share 39

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Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

79 bilsbie 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 28

Sony plans to remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store libraries due to licensing agreements. This move highlights the shift towards ownership being controlled by servers, rather than physical copies.

Internal Combustion Engine

17 StefanBatory 2026-07-01 13:47:14 UTC ciechanow.ski Llama Share 1

An internal combustion engine is explained step by step, starting with a simple crank mechanism that converts linear force into torque, then using a cannon to generate a strong force that pushes a piston down a cylinder, and finally adding valves and a camshaft to control the flow of air and fuel. The engine's components, including the engine block, crankshaft, pistons, cylinder head, and ...

Claude Sonnet 5

1212 marinesebastian 2026-06-30 18:47:14 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 747

Claude Sonnet 5 is a more agentic AI model that can make plans, use tools, and run autonomously at a lower price than its predecessor. It's available across all plans and offers a safer and more efficient option for developers, with a lower rate of undesirable behaviors and improved performance on tasks like coding and knowledge work.

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

58 fbrusch 2026-07-01 10:47:14 UTC vitalik.eth.limo Llama Share 5

Obfuscation is a powerful cryptographic primitive that hides the internal workings of a program while preserving its functionality, and it has been used to create secure and private systems such as voting systems and cryptocurrencies. However, making a secure form of obfuscation is extremely hard, and the current state-of-the-art obfuscation protocols have galactic runtimes, but researchers ...

1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

12 surprisetalk 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC hypertalking.com Llama Share 1

User created 42 Apple emojis as 1-bit pixel art in Summer 2019. They are available for use in projects with credit and link back to the source.

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

468 pjmlp 2026-07-01 07:47:14 UTC pcgamer.com Llama Share 298

Godot Foundation is updating its contribution policies to ban AI-authored code and AI-generated text in human communication. The goal is to reduce the burden on maintainers and ensure new contributors become future maintainers.

ArXiv's Next Chapter

221 subset 2026-07-01 03:47:14 UTC blog.arxiv.org Llama Share 66

arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization on July 1, 2026. This change will bring new flexibility and opportunities while maintaining arXiv's mission and values of free access to scientific ideas and discoveries.

Compiler-Assisted Floating-Point Error Analysis and Profiling with FPChecker

21 matt_d 2026-07-01 12:47:14 UTC fpanalysistools.org Llama Share 2

A half-day tutorial on floating-point arithmetic analysis will be held at CCH Congress Center Hamburg from 9am-1pm. Participants will learn to evaluate and track floating-point behavior using compiler-assisted tools and apply them to C/C++ codes.

A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back

22 mariuz 2026-07-01 11:47:14 UTC maskray.me Llama Share 5

SmallVector's push_back optimization for trivially copyable element types reduces the fast path's size and improves performance. The optimization uses memcpy and grow_pod to copy elements, avoiding constructors and destructors.

The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore

214 felixdoerp 2026-07-01 10:47:14 UTC cleberg.net Llama Share 207

The author reflects on the evolution of the internet from a place you visited to a woven part of daily life, with a focus on the mid-2000s as a transformative time. The author laments the loss of the old web, where websites were authored by humans and discovery was a manual process, replaced by a modern web with layers of intermediaries and commercial value extraction.

Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

60 cf100clunk 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC thedrive.com Llama Share 40

Companies are planning to equip school buses with automatic license plate readers to sell data to law enforcement. This raises concerns about mass surveillance and potential abuse of the collected data.

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

271 reconnecting 2026-06-30 23:47:14 UTC github.com/google Llama Share 52

Copybara is a tool used internally at Google to transform and move code between repositories, allowing for syncing of confidential and public repositories. It is stateless and supports Git repositories, with experimental support for Mercurial.

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

2304 kirushik 2026-06-30 15:47:14 UTC thereallo.dev Llama Share 689

Developers give coding agents excessive access for productivity, but this also raises security concerns. A tool like Claude Code hides classification signals in system prompts, making it harder to trust its claims of transparency.

Ray Tracer in SQL

4 kbumsik 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC github.com/clickhouse Prefix Share 0

A path tracer written entirely as ClickHouse SQL queries, rendering straight to a PNG via ClickHouse's PNG output format. No UDFs and no external code — a single SELECT computes every pixel. It renders the word ClickHouse as glassy, chrome lettering — in the spirit of Andrew Kensler's famous Pixar business-card ray tracer — and, in the scene above, sets it floating over a procedurally ...

Show HN: Frond – a frontend runtime for your app's dependency graph

14 romanonthego 2026-07-01 12:47:14 UTC frondruntime.dev Llama Share 8

Frond is a frontend framework that organizes runtime dependencies into a graph, simplifying service management and error tracking. It provides a typed, declarative approach to runtime lifecycle, error classification, and retry mechanisms.

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. and It's Manmade

25 quux 2026-07-01 14:47:14 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 5

Scientists at the University of Minnesota created SpudCell, a synthetic cell that feeds, grows, and reproduces, but lacks full life. The team is organizing a community to make SpudCell more alive and adapt it for new experiments.

Claude Science

541 lebovic 2026-06-30 17:47:14 UTC claude.com Llama Share 156

Claude Science is a public beta app that integrates AI with scientific computing, allowing users to run full analyses on their own infrastructure. It connects to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models, and produces reproducible results with full provenance.