Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-07-28.

21 new stories since Lunch.

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 116 points, 65 comments (discussion)

DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses'

Sources: Slashdot, The Register

Also linked: The Register

Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk

Sources: Lobsters

Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets

Sources: Slashdot

AI is storage’s biggest opportunity - and biggest threat

Sources: The Register

Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access

Sources: Hackaday

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 421 points, 199 comments (discussion)

The most interesting point of the article for me is that this vaccine appears to be a series of shots which act as a curriculum for the immune system. Each one slightly different and targeting a different stage of B-cell development. I've never thought of vaccine series working like that, so it was ...

GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

Sources: Slashdot

College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought

Sources: The Register

Sharkfin Bites Attack Shark

Sources: Hackaday

How to survive boiling water

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 380 points, 80 comments (discussion)

I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times

Sources: Lobsters

Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Sources: Slashdot

Britain hopes £7.3M will help electric and hydrogen aircraft take off

Sources: The Register

Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience

Sources: Hackaday

Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 269 points, 85 comments (discussion)

What even are microservices?

Sources: Lobsters

Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google

Sources: Slashdot

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

Sources: The Register

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 251 points, 105 comments (discussion)

Building (systems) software with Nix

Sources: Lobsters