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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

    80 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  2. Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028

    80 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  3. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router

    80 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  4. Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

    80 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  5. Show HN: Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser

    80 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

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

    80 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

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

    80 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  8. Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

    80 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  9. Moist Towelette Museum

    80 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  10. Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles

    80 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  11. Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG

    79 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  12. Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

    79 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  13. Deir El-Medina Strikes

    79 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  14. Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

    79 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  15. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

    79 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  16. Faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

    79 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  17. A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

    79 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  18. How to Write an Email

    79 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  19. Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer

    79 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  20. A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data

    79 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  21. Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas

    78 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  22. Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

    78 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  23. Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C

    78 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  24. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch

    78 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  25. Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

    78 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  26. What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public

    78 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  27. PyTorch: A Reference Language

    78 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  28. Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model

    78 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  29. Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]

    78 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  30. EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

    78 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  31. Shay Locomotives

    78 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  32. SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications

    78 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  33. Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation

    78 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  34. US DOT deleting bike lane references

    77 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  35. The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human

    77 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  36. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)

    77 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  37. Mythologizing AI makes it more likely that we’ll fail to operate it well (2023)

    77 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  38. Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)

    77 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  39. Redeploying Fable 5

    77 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  40. Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account with Thousands Spent on Games

    77 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  41. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits

    77 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  42. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

    77 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  43. An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs

    77 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  44. Designing APIs for Agents

    77 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  45. Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'

    77 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  46. Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France

    76 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  47. Humans haven't stopped evolving

    76 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  48. How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

    76 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  49. Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

    75 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  50. What happens when the information runs out

    75 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  51. Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets

    75 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  52. Show HN: Chiptune Radio

    75 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  53. Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents

    75 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  54. Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

    75 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  55. Why study Diophantine equations?

    75 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  56. Harness Engineering

    75 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  57. Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36

    75 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  58. Perlin's Noise Algorithm (2023)

    75 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  59. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout

    75 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  60. The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard

    74 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  61. Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays

    74 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  62. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool

    74 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  63. So, you want to make a game engine (2023)

    74 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  64. Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components

    74 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  65. Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

    74 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  66. Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears

    74 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  67. Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

    74 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  68. In Praise of Observational Evidence

    74 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  69. Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

    74 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  70. Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador

    74 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  71. Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C

    74 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  72. Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC

    74 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  73. SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle

    73 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  74. You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface

    73 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  75. The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

    73 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  76. Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

    73 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  77. AIs don't do what you want. This is bad

    73 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  78. OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI

    73 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  79. Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?

    73 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  80. Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?

    73 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  81. C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

    73 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  82. Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure

    73 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  83. Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat

    73 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  84. Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust

    72 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  85. Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure

    72 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  86. Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

    72 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  87. AI Is a Bad Tool

    72 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  88. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number

    72 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  89. The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

    72 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  90. Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design

    72 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  91. Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)

    72 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  92. Firefox 153.0 Beta

    72 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  93. Andon (manufacturing)

    72 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  94. Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

    72 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  95. M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida

    72 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  96. My quest to see all of Tetris

    72 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  97. How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025)

    72 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  98. The US grocery slowdown is real

    72 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  99. Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

    72 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  100. Scanning for Pangram Errors

    72 points • comment • jul 17, 2026