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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying

    261 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  2. The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

    260 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  3. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

    260 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  4. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

    260 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  5. Severance

    260 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  6. Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

    259 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  7. DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

    258 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  8. Camera Chase Vehicle

    258 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  9. Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

    256 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  10. OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

    256 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  11. Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

    256 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  12. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

    255 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  13. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

    254 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  14. Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

    253 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  15. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

    253 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  16. Deflock Casa Grande

    252 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  17. Software for One

    252 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  18. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

    252 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  19. Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

    252 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  20. Pareto Front

    252 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  21. Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

    252 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  22. The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

    251 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  23. SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

    251 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  24. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

    250 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  25. Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

    250 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  26. JetZero

    250 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  27. Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

    249 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  28. Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

    249 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  29. Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

    249 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  30. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

    249 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  31. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

    248 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  32. Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

    248 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  33. Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

    248 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  34. DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

    248 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  35. “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

    248 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  36. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

    247 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  37. In Emacs, everything looks like a service

    247 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  38. How My Images Are Dithered

    247 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  39. Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

    245 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  40. I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

    245 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  41. Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

    245 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  42. Elixir-lang.org has a new design

    245 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  43. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

    244 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  44. Completing a computer science degree on Coursera

    244 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  45. Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)

    244 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  46. Gleam Is Now on Tangled

    244 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  47. If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

    244 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  48. "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

    244 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  49. AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

    243 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  50. Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

    242 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  51. LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

    242 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  52. 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

    242 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  53. Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

    241 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  54. OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line

    241 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  55. Successful companies go blind

    241 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  56. Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

    241 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  57. Holes

    240 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  58. Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

    240 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  59. Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1

    240 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  60. The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?

    239 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  61. The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

    239 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  62. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

    238 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  63. Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

    238 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  64. How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks

    237 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  65. How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

    237 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  66. Should you wash your solar panels?

    237 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  67. Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

    236 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  68. Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

    236 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  69. JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master

    235 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  70. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

    235 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  71. Donate to GrapheneOS

    235 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  72. Punch yourself in the face with reality

    235 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  73. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

    235 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  74. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

    235 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  75. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

    234 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  76. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

    233 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  77. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

    233 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  78. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

    232 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  79. I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

    231 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  80. Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

    231 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  81. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

    230 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  82. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

    229 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  83. Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

    229 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  84. Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

    229 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  85. Should DayQuil Be Legal?

    229 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  86. Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

    229 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  87. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

    229 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  88. Combustion engine web-based simulator

    229 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  89. Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

    228 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  90. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

    227 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  91. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System

    227 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  92. Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

    227 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  93. Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

    226 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  94. Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

    226 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  95. The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

    226 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  96. You only need the frontier model for one single edit

    226 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  97. Vite+ Beta

    226 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  98. Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio

    225 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  99. Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

    225 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  100. We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

    225 points • comment • jul 07, 2026