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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people

    29 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  2. Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects

    29 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  3. The End of Creativity

    29 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  4. Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men

    29 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  5. A gender-swap EarthBound for my daughter (2025)

    29 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  6. Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go

    29 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  7. Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images

    29 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  8. Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude

    29 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  9. I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F

    29 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  10. Happy Independence Day

    29 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  11. Pint in England

    29 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  12. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?

    29 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  13. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2015)

    29 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  14. Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms

    29 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  15. Show HN: Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle

    29 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  16. Small Portable Weather Radar

    29 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  17. What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?

    29 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  18. SpaceX built to separate retail investors from their money

    29 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  19. Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly

    29 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  20. GPT‑Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

    29 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  21. California authorizes its DMV to join a national ID database

    29 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  22. Netstrings (1997)

    29 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  23. Capitalism Gone Wrong

    29 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  24. Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard

    29 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  25. The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon

    29 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  26. The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB

    29 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  27. Pip install Postgres – no Docker/Brew/apt

    29 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  28. I built TradingSpy: local, privacy-first AI trading assistant(First Open Source)

    29 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  29. FCC Officials Took $$$ Gifts from Paramount as Company Needed Approval for Deals

    29 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  30. The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding

    29 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  31. Bloomberg Terminal Is Ugly and Clunky–Everyone Still Uses It

    28 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  32. Read More. Read Often. Read Every Day

    28 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  33. Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  34. Iran exploited mobile flaws to locate U.S. troops in the Middle East

    28 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  35. Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  36. Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment

    28 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  37. Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  38. Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  39. 'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  40. Jacobian conjecture is false (with help of Fable)

    28 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  41. Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice

    28 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  42. Microsoft cuts 4,800 Jobs, Half from Xbox division

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  43. Gina Gallery of International Naive Art

    28 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  44. Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  45. Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins?

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  46. The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  47. Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity

    28 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  48. Nadella Blasts AI Industry's Double Standard

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  49. More testosterone won't make a better soldier or a tougher man

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  50. FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  51. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

    28 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  52. Microsoft Disclosure Provides Rare Glimpse of Tax Haven Tactics

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  53. Judge Voices Doubt US Has Justified Its Ban on Anthropic AI

    28 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  54. The Telegarden (1995-2004)

    28 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  55. Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

    28 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  56. How an AI Anime Is Created

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  57. How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  58. The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012)

    28 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  59. A PHP server that can handle 10x as many concurrent requests as Nginx+PHP-fpm

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  60. I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

    28 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  61. U of Chicago law school bans laptops from classes amid AI backlash

    28 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  62. Guy is banned by OpenAI for cyber abuse, his AI appeals, another AI approves it

    28 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  63. A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human

    28 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  64. New bacterial species discovered in NASA's cleanrooms (2025)

    28 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  65. You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing

    28 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  66. My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress

    28 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  67. Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  68. I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  69. Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses

    28 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  70. Modder Makes GTA: Vice City Playable Inside GTA 3 Inside GTA: San Andreas

    28 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  71. The Act and the Outcome of Creation

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  72. Apocketlypse

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  73. Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  74. Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  75. RIP tech journalist John C. Dvorak (1946–2026)

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  76. TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  77. New Jersey bans grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set prices

    28 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  78. Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art

    28 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  79. Maybe we should revisit microkernels

    28 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  80. You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month

    27 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  81. Inkling-Small

    27 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  82. Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory, not max_iterations

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  83. Making Referential Stability a Type

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  84. Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas

    27 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  85. Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair?

    27 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  86. Axiom Foundation launches to publish law as open, verifiable code

    27 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  87. Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts

    27 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  88. Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

    27 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  89. An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf]

    27 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  90. OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  91. Parsoid

    27 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  92. Heresy

    27 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  93. Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you

    27 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  94. Inventor, Mother, Creator: Grace Hopper (2025)

    27 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  95. Show HN: How to build and self-host a code review agent

    27 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  96. DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites

    27 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  97. Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery

    27 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  98. We rewrote our custom visualisation renderers from SVG to be in Canvas

    27 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  99. Publishers consider opting out of Google as search traffic declines

    27 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  100. AI Lays Bare the Authoritarianism of Modern Work. Time to Rethink Education

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2026