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Show HN: 18 Words, a daily browser word-puzzle game
18Words.com is a browser-based daily word game launched by its creator on Hacker News. Each day presents a new letter-based puzzle; players work toward a soluti
Spider-venom compound reported to kill varroa mites while sparing bees
Researchers report that a compound derived from spider venom is lethal to varroa destructor mites but leaves honeybees unharmed. Varroa is the most damaging par
xAI's Grok 4.5 targets coding and agents, undercuts rivals on token price
xAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, positioning it as its most capable model yet for software engineering, agentic workflows, and general knowledge work. The
Yamanote.fun turns Tokyo's loop line into a 30-minute virtual audio journey
A new web project called Yamanote.fun stitches together the station jingles, platform announcements, door chimes, and rolling-stock noise of Tokyo's Yamanote Li
Zig's Creator on Bun's Rust Rewrite: Good Riddance
Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language, offers a scorching post-mortem on his years-long relationship with Bun and its founder Jarred Sumner. Bu
Canada's Lone Watchmaking School Faces a Move After 80 Years in Trois-Rivières
The École nationale d'horlogerie, Canada's only watchmaking school, occupies an entire quiet floor of an elementary school in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Founded 80
Chatto, a self-hostable Slack/Discord rival, goes open source at v0.4
Chatto, a group chat app built solo over the past year as an alternative to Slack, Teams, and Discord, has been released as open source with support for self-ho
China hands death sentence to Nanjing official over $325M in bribes
A court in Changzhou has sentenced Yang Youlin, a 69-year-old former Nanjing city official, to death for accepting more than 2.2 billion yuan ($325M) in bribes
Davit: a free, native SwiftUI front-end for Apple's container platform
Davit is an open-source (MIT) macOS app that puts a native graphical interface on Apple's own container engine, letting developers run Linux OCI containers on A
Dua Lipa launches a permanent banned-books library inside Porto's Livraria Lello
Pop musician Dua Lipa has opened the Manifesto Library, a permanent collection of banned and censored books housed in Porto's historic Livraria Lello bookshop.
EU Mandates In-Cabin Driver Attention Cameras in All New Cars From July 2026
From July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must ship with an Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) system under the bloc's General Safety
GAO Warns DOE Rules Out Cheaper Nuclear Cleanup Options Too Early
The Government Accountability Office reports that the Department of Energy is dropping potentially lower-cost approaches to cleaning up its nuclear waste and co