woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Declare Rare Victory over Government

    25 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  2. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?

    24 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  3. The OpenAI Bubble

    24 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  4. Decoding 137MHz signals from passing satellites to get images with a $10 SDR

    24 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  5. Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different

    24 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  6. Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later

    24 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  7. Postgres locks do not scale

    24 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  8. Baseload Is a Myth (2024)

    24 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  9. The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs

    24 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  10. Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds

    24 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  11. FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet

    24 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  12. Electronic Plastic: Museum of '80s and '90s handheld and tabletop games

    24 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  13. Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna

    24 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  14. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies

    24 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  15. Study reveals what people see when they read lips

    24 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  16. As Amazon lets Mechanical Turk fade, Mercor hits a $2B gross run rate

    24 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  17. How we made our LeRobot video reader up to 15× faster

    24 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  18. Small Inventors Are Being Squeezed by a Convoluted Patent Process

    24 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  19. Ex-Epoch Times CFO pleads guilty in $67M multinational money laundering scheme

    24 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  20. Lean Software Scaling Laws

    24 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  21. Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data

    24 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  22. Robust Secret Storage in Networks

    24 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  23. 3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map

    24 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  24. Show HN: Logan Basic v2.1 - An online BASIC interpreter.

    24 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  25. Weird Al declined 'a nice pile of money' to star in AI ad

    24 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  26. The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland

    24 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  27. A simple clustering algorithm for lists

    24 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  28. A past and future of trade secrets

    24 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  29. Iran Messaged Vance Warning That US Envoys Were "Abusing" Their Inside Access

    24 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  30. Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network

    24 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  31. How to write a quine

    24 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  32. Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications

    24 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  33. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do?

    24 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  34. Modernizing a 25-year-old minimal C++ unit testing framework (Part 2)

    24 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  35. Defeat air-gapped systems by exfiltrating data using Apple Find My network

    24 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  36. How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa

    24 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  37. Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

    24 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  38. John Titor

    23 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  39. Nolan's Odyssey – A technical analysis by a nitpicky Classics student

    23 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  40. ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief

    23 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  41. Show HN: I Built LangGraph for Swift

    23 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  42. CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (2016)

    23 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  43. Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding

    23 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  44. PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats

    23 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  45. Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program

    23 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  46. Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike

    23 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  47. AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

    23 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  48. Yann LeCun on AMI Labs, JEPA, and the AI World of 2030

    23 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  49. AWS Secrets Manager Terraform: Least-Privilege Access

    23 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  50. Museum of the Human Web

    23 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  51. AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon

    23 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  52. Germany's richest man takes on Big Tech

    23 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  53. PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026)

    23 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  54. EPA says [dedicated] power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

    23 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  55. Former Judge Hannah Dugan avoids prison, fined $5k in ICE obstruction case

    23 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  56. I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  57. Show HN: Infinite Jigsaw Game

    23 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  58. Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share

    23 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  59. Man convicted of child sex crime by added _ char "Fus Ro Dah" Skyrim username

    23 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  60. Mastodon, the Only Good Choice

    23 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  61. Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep

    23 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  62. OSS-SEC: 432 Linux kernel CVEs (in less than 32 hours)

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  63. Show HN: Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compiler

    23 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  64. Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures

    23 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  65. Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming on Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming

    23 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  66. AMD and Cerebras Launch AI Inference Solution

    23 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  67. French parliament approves landmark assisted-dying bill

    23 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  68. Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts

    23 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  69. Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?(2017)

    23 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  70. US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story

    23 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  71. 1Password for Claude: Give Claude access without giving up your credentials

    23 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  72. Taiganet.com, Home of the WS4000 Simulator

    23 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  73. Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab

    23 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  74. Gleam v1.18.0

    23 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  75. How to Sell a Kettle

    23 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  76. Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests

    23 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  77. Gigatoken: Fastest Tokenizer

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  78. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman

    23 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  79. The Victorian War on Rabies

    23 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  80. Claude Code has a hardcoded instruction telling Opus 5 not to use subagents

    23 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  81. The Human Kintsugi

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  82. Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy

    23 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  83. Show HN: Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k

    23 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  84. A Man Who Runs the IRS Spied on Colleagues When He Worked at JPMorgan

    23 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  85. C3 0.8.2 a Modest Improvement

    23 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  86. Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai)

    22 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  87. New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

    22 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  88. PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

    22 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  89. Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations

    22 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  90. Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS

    22 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  91. Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games

    22 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  92. The full stack of terminals explained

    22 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  93. Greedy is optimal for single-pass semi-streaming matching

    22 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  94. Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase

    22 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  95. CO2 overload in blood suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

    22 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  96. Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

    22 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  97. I think I was part of a model distillation attack

    22 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  98. New York blocks large data centers for a year

    22 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  99. Excessive time spent online linked to stress and worse mood – study

    22 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  100. I built a f.lux alternative because the M5 Max firmware broke existing solutions

    22 points • comment • jul 31, 2026