2. Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges (abovethelaw.com)
Not a single Trump 2.0 judicial nominee will admit that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election.
3. American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland (energiesmedia.com)
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
4. Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (hn-without-ai.vercel.app)
Hacker News with AI-driven content removed.
6. Show HN: How will the Aug 12 eclipse look like from your address? (eclipse2026times.com)
Live countdown, an interactive path map, and exact local times for the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse, visible across Europe, North Africa and the North Atlantic — from Reykjavik and Spain
7. Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents (github.com)
CLI security scanner built for the agentic era. Detects CI/CD misconfigs, agent permission risks, MCP tool injection, hardcoded secrets, and DMCA-flagged AI dependencies. - asamassekou10/ship-safe
Ship Safe is an open-source CLI security scanner designed to identify vulnerabilities in coding agents, including misconfigurations in CI/CD pipelines and risks associated with agent permissions. It also flags hardcoded secrets and potential legal issues with AI dependencies, making it a valuable tool for developers focused on secure coding practices.
8. Show HN: Learn System Design, one campaign at a time (scalequest.io)
A story game for learning system design. Read the crisis, make the call, learn why it was right or wrong — a new campaign every week.
9. State-Oriented Consistency: Why We Stopped Looking for One Right Answer (keel-iot.eu)
A distributed-systems design lesson, with a clustered MQTT broker as the case study: why every piece of state needs its own consistency guarantee, not one system-wide answer.
Learn how a clustered MQTT broker illustrates the need for tailored consistency guarantees in distributed systems, emphasizing that each state requires its own approach rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.
10. Show HN: Validate your idea, know what to charge, and how to get first users (nellailabs.ai)
NELL Builder - Empowering the next generation of AI innovators from idea to exit
11. Humans Will Never Leave the Solar System (www.erscream.com)
The idea of humans becoming an interstellar species-- being able to live across the stars-- has enthralled our culture for nearly our entire existence, from the Greeks to the latest science fiction. We may forever only gaze up at the stars from Earth, never to reach another star. Climate change is altering our planet, and some have wondered if we may have to leave Earth to another distant planet. We will never escape climate change, and unfortunately, we will never leave the Solar System, and E
13. Show HN: Sift – MCP aggregator that exposes 2 tools instead of hundreds (github.com)
Fast Rust MCP aggregator with semantic tool search and on-demand loading — SQLite-backed, restart-safe embedding index, stdio + Streamable HTTP transports. - Narasimha1997/sift
14. Show HN: CityEdit – Open-source map for voting on NYC street changes (cityedit.org)
Map and visualize desire paths - the informal trails people create
15. New Keyboard: Alicja v2 (marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
This time with PCB!
The Alicja v2 keyboard features a printed circuit board (PCB), enhancing its functionality and performance. Learn how this upgrade impacts the user experience and what new features come with it.
16. The Era of (Good) Personal Software Has Arrived (hec.works)
17. Show HN: FormLab, a no-signup formulation lab notebook in the browser (lab.formvix.com)
18. Show HN: QR codes where your photo is the code, not pasted on top (sqr.art)
Your picture is encoded into the QR code itself, down to the error-correction bits. Every code stays fully scannable.
19. Ryg_rans Is Not a Library (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
I wrote ryg_rans in 2014. I still regularly get questions and patch submissions from people who want to use it as a library. That is not what it’s for! ryg_rans is not a library, never was. I…
The author clarifies the purpose of ryg_rans, emphasizing that it was never intended to function as a library despite ongoing requests for it to be used that way. This piece addresses common misconceptions and offers insight into the project’s true intent.
20. Show HN: Photo to Video AI – Animate a photo with a motion prompt (www.phototovideo-ai.net)
Turn a single photo into a clean AI video online. Photo to Video AI helps you create realistic motion in seconds with no signup and no watermark.