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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

    88 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  2. Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers

    88 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  3. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files

    88 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  4. Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario

    88 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  5. The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker

    88 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  6. Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

    88 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  7. Mourning Dan Williams

    88 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  8. FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System

    88 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  9. It's not me, it's the compiler

    88 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  10. Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

    88 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  11. Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

    88 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  12. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

    87 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  13. Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

    87 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  14. Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

    87 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  15. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?

    87 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  16. No Spanish reading crisis?

    87 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  17. How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

    87 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  18. America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD

    87 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  19. The first watch featuring computer functions

    87 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  20. U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators

    87 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  21. Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer

    86 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  22. Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

    86 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  23. The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat

    86 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  24. Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects

    86 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  25. Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

    86 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  26. C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)

    86 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  27. US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials

    86 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  28. Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator

    86 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  29. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms

    86 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  30. Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score

    85 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  31. The Price of Happiness (2024)

    85 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  32. Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included

    85 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  33. Best Simple System for Now (2025)

    85 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  34. Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29

    85 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  35. Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold

    85 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  36. Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"

    85 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  37. The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency

    85 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  38. The <usermedia> HTML element

    85 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  39. Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts

    85 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  40. Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

    85 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  41. The BBC Tetris Companion

    85 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  42. PostHog FOSS

    85 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  43. Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)

    85 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  44. IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats

    84 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  45. A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

    84 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  46. Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

    84 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  47. Car touchscreens are cheap, not good

    84 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  48. Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations

    84 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  49. Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

    84 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  50. PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days

    84 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  51. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects

    84 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  52. Why is it all in the kernel?

    84 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  53. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home

    84 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  54. The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal

    84 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  55. Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit

    84 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  56. Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market

    84 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  57. VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines

    84 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  58. Full Writeup of the Windows GDID

    83 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  59. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

    83 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  60. AI has torched the market for junior programmers

    83 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  61. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]

    83 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  62. Show HN: One More Letter

    83 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  63. Odin 1.0 Announcement

    83 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  64. The circuit that lets your brain think and see

    83 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  65. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]

    83 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  66. G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier

    83 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  67. EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services

    83 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  68. Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C

    83 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  69. Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer

    83 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  70. What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

    82 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  71. First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched

    82 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  72. UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August

    82 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  73. Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices

    82 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  74. MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

    82 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  75. The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use

    82 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  76. In-browser programmable robot simulator

    82 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  77. Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

    82 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  78. Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

    82 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  79. AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

    82 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  80. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

    82 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  81. A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows

    82 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  82. Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts

    81 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  83. Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

    81 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  84. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

    81 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  85. Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals

    81 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  86. Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love

    81 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  87. What's slowing down the AI buildout

    81 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  88. Drone Autonomy (2021)

    81 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  89. When A.I. is a member of the family

    81 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  90. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold

    81 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  91. Systems and Delays

    81 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  92. Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

    81 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  93. Megawatts by Microwave

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  94. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?

    80 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  95. M/PC – A Concatenative OS

    80 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  96. DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety

    80 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  97. NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements

    80 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  98. Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of

    80 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  99. Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted

    80 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  100. Fable extended until 19 July

    80 points • comment • jul 12, 2026