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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. Canceling "Hey"

    152 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  2. The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

    152 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  3. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price

    151 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  4. New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

    151 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  5. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers

    151 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  6. Are We Stuck with Lean?

    150 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  7. NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation?

    150 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  8. Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches

    150 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  9. Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

    150 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  10. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

    150 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  11. RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

    150 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  12. Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

    150 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  13. EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf]

    150 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  14. Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D

    150 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  15. Programmers need to start meditating

    150 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  16. Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train

    149 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  17. Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration

    149 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  18. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

    149 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  19. Patreon laying off 20% of staff

    149 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  20. Rethinking legal education in the AI era

    149 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  21. Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

    149 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  22. The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

    148 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  23. That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing

    148 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  24. British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply

    148 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  25. When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)

    148 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  26. Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list

    148 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  27. Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)

    147 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  28. Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

    147 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  29. Small Penis Rule

    147 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  30. Making 768 servers look like 1

    147 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  31. Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

    147 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  32. AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

    147 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  33. Synthesis is harder than analysis

    147 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  34. Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

    147 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  35. StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping

    146 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  36. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)

    146 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  37. Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter

    146 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  38. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph

    146 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  39. The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]

    146 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  40. Egypt Is Building a New Nile

    146 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  41. Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

    146 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  42. ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space

    146 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  43. Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

    145 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  44. Fable created novel 4D splat format

    145 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  45. Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout

    145 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  46. Claude Is Not a Compiler

    145 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  47. The real prices of frontier models

    145 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  48. Pseudpocalypse

    145 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  49. Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

    145 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  50. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

    145 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  51. That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

    145 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  52. Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

    145 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  53. Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

    144 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  54. LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

    144 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  55. Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production

    144 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  56. GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

    144 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  57. Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

    143 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  58. New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

    143 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  59. How to build a circular LCD clock

    143 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  60. Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban

    142 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  61. AI makes programming differently difficult

    142 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  62. A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

    142 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  63. German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

    142 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  64. Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

    142 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  65. Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes

    141 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  66. The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

    141 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  67. Pandoc Lua Filters

    141 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  68. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

    141 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  69. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

    141 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  70. Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20

    141 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  71. Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

    141 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  72. Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

    141 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  73. ECC and DDR5

    140 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  74. 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed

    140 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  75. Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files

    140 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  76. Phosh 0.56.0

    139 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  77. MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds

    139 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  78. Atomic Clocks

    139 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  79. Unitree As2-W

    139 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  80. Meta caps internal AI token spending

    139 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  81. Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

    139 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  82. Ancient Roman Board Game

    139 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  83. How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

    139 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  84. Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

    139 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  85. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware

    139 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  86. Meta's Un-Stable Signature

    139 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  87. Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers

    138 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  88. Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)

    138 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  89. NSA and IETF: Fairness

    138 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  90. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

    138 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  91. Codeberg Divides

    138 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  92. Read the novels and forget everything else

    137 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  93. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises

    137 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  94. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

    137 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  95. More Bounce to the Ounce

    137 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  96. Rotman Lens

    137 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  97. Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads

    137 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  98. An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan

    137 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  99. Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max

    136 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  100. The death and rebirth of my home server

    136 points • comment • jul 19, 2026