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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds

    98 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  2. GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

    98 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  3. MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits

    97 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  4. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

    97 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  5. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

    97 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  6. Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids

    97 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  7. My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020)

    97 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  8. We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

    97 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  9. FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill

    97 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  10. The Sneakerweb

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  11. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii

    97 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  12. Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds

    96 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  13. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

    96 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  14. Old Icons

    96 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  15. Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts

    96 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  16. US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

    96 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  17. Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

    96 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  18. Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects

    96 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  19. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

    96 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  20. The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire

    96 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  21. Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

    96 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  22. A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game

    96 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  23. Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail

    96 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  24. Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

    96 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  25. Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

    96 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  26. Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

    96 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  27. A dock that wakes up reliably

    95 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  28. MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

    95 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  29. The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming

    95 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  30. Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  31. Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books

    95 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  32. Why low-latency Java still requires discipline?

    95 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  33. JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal

    95 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  34. Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  35. World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made

    95 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  36. The Memory Heist

    95 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  37. Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013)

    95 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  38. Exit Chat Control

    94 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  39. Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here

    94 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  40. Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

    94 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  41. LibreCAD in the Browser

    94 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  42. 1k Words: A Writing Contest

    94 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  43. Where .env Went Wrong

    94 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  44. Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

    94 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  45. TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type

    94 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  46. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

    94 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  47. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

    94 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  48. Pros and Cons of Solo Development

    93 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  49. Probably check on your smart appliances

    93 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  50. Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

    93 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  51. OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries

    93 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  52. Airplane Boneyards List and Map

    93 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  53. Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning

    93 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  54. Coding agents think ahead of time

    93 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  55. Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next

    93 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  56. Elevated Errors for Opus 5

    93 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  57. Worse on Purpose

    92 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  58. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

    92 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  59. Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32

    92 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  60. Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

    92 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  61. Show HN: Neil the Seal Game

    92 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  62. Text art tools

    92 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  63. Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI

    92 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  64. How real are real numbers? (2004)

    92 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  65. The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup

    92 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  66. OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

    92 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  67. The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

    92 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  68. Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

    91 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  69. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  70. Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

    91 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  71. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools

    91 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  72. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

    91 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  73. Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  74. The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm

    91 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  75. How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster

    91 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  76. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

    91 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  77. Jacobian Conjecture for Baby

    90 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  78. Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)

    90 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  79. HMD Touch 4G

    90 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  80. TFTP Honey Pot Results

    90 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  81. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

    90 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  82. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

    90 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  83. Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

    90 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  84. The creepiest 'sales demo' of all time

    90 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  85. Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators

    90 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  86. I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64

    90 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  87. Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency

    90 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  88. xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket

    90 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  89. DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector

    89 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  90. Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account

    89 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  91. Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

    89 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  92. Five tech giants are hiding $1.6T in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

    89 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  93. 85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core

    89 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  94. Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

    89 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  95. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand

    89 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  96. FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

    89 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  97. DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed

    89 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  98. Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

    89 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  99. Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup

    89 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  100. Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video]

    88 points • comment • jul 14, 2026