Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-07-24.

Showing top 30 of 110 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).

I regret migrating to Codeberg

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 150 points, 106 comments (discussion)

Mourning Dan Williams

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 50 points, 1 comments (discussion)

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 453 points, 359 comments (discussion)

The thing with me and this is that the teams that were competing in the DARPA Grand Cyber Competition all had this capability, like, last year. All the attention has been on software security, of extracting the next marginal vulnerability out of heavily-scrutinized large codebases. In the actual pro...

I don't really like the "Human-made" badging trend

Sources: Bubbles (Case Duckworth), Bubbles (Firesphere's musings)

Also linked: Bubbles (Firesphere's musings)

You should selfhost your mail (in 2026)

Sources: Lobsters

Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

Sources: The Register

New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing

Sources: Hackaday

98.css

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 377 points, 85 comments (discussion)

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to … wait, what?

Sources: Bubbles (tyrandus' blog)

Jolt: running Clojure on Chez Scheme

Sources: Lobsters

Oracle Signs 10-Year Software Contract With Pentagon Worth Up To $7 Billion

Sources: Slashdot

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

Sources: The Register

Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients

Sources: Hackaday

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 299 points, 147 comments (discussion)

Pilllars of Eternity

Sources: Bubbles (The Wertzone)

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out

Sources: Lobsters

Microsoft Responds to LG Monitors Installing McAfee Ads On Windows

Sources: Slashdot

Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs

Sources: The Register

BASICally, Its Retro Machine Language

Sources: Hackaday

Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 292 points, 170 comments (discussion)

I'm honestly quite shocked that the physicians/scientists involved would choose to use an AAV for a brain-targeted gene therapy. There is just so much data demonstrating that these vectors are quite immunoreactive: most of the approved gene therapies based on AAVs carry black box labels for liver fa...

My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.

Sources: Bubbles (jabel)

On Accountability

Sources: Lobsters

EU Fines Google $1 Billion For Breaking Digital Antitrust Regulations

Sources: Slashdot

AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs

Sources: The Register

A Train Departure Board For The Home

Sources: Hackaday

The Beam Engine

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 241 points, 66 comments (discussion)

Buxton Pub Explorations

Sources: Bubbles (Prop Up the Bar)

The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std::indirect type

Sources: Lobsters

Amazon Is Bringing Games to Prime Video

Sources: Slashdot