DTF:HN for July 9, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 9, 2026. Featuring: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement, Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees, Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip, Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives, My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite, and more. Stories covered: 1. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838876 2. Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841259 3. Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip https://www.networkworld.com/article/4192827/meta-reuses-old-ram-in-new-servers-with-custom-bridge-chip.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778956 4. Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842611 5. My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843352 6. I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep https://www.theautopian.com/i-bet-my-company-on-an-impossible-jeep-build-then-a-miracle-happened/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814023 7. Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI https://nexte.st/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800596 8. In-browser programmable robot simulator https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784126 9. How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-donkey-kong-toppled-atari/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841385 10. Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837396