Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-07-27.

Showing top 30 of 93 distinct stories after deduping (1 appeared in more than one source).

Teaching Kids Forth

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 71 points, 22 comments (discussion)

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 438 points, 274 comments (discussion)

I’ve seen a lot of people on the internet over the years say things like “the government can’t make x illegal, it’s just y.” For example, the government can’t make wiping your phone at the border illegal, it’s just punching four numbers into your phone, just like a pin, only a different four number...

AI and Cognitive Dissonance

Sources: Bubbles (Unattributed)

SQLite WAL Mode Can Lock Short-Lived Readers

Sources: Lobsters

2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X

Sources: Slashdot

SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13

Sources: The Register

Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV

Sources: Hackaday

Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 395 points, 137 comments (discussion)

Sunday photoblogging: Beaumaris

Sources: Bubbles (Crooked Timber)

Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification

Sources: Lobsters

'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'

Sources: Slashdot

Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcrfra for workloads including AI

Sources: The Register

2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Measuring Nanometer-Scale Displacements with an Optical Cavity

Sources: Hackaday

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 319 points, 39 comments (discussion)

The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon

Sources: Bubbles (Signore Galilei)

Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone

Sources: Lobsters

NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research

Sources: Slashdot

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Links: July 26, 2026

Sources: Hackaday

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 271 points, 69 comments (discussion)

Kuramae's book stores: Tomei and Readin' Writin'

Sources: Bubbles (Emma Goto)

Forth Moving Lisp Moving Forth

Sources: Lobsters

Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns

Sources: Slashdot

EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?

Sources: The Register

Filling High Pressure CO2 Tanks From Sugar Fermentation Gas

Sources: Hackaday

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 249 points, 147 comments (discussion)

VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE FOR PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Sources: Bubbles (HELLO, I'M SETH WERKHEISER)

Being Linux Torvalds

Sources: Lobsters

Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed

Sources: Slashdot

Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze

Sources: The Register