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Hacker News (Jul 2026)

  1. Scientists discover first eukaryote that can fix nitrogen (2024)

    3 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  2. Mullvad's co-founder is bankrolling the far right

    3 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  3. Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection

    3 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  4. Babel, a construction that builds and unbuilds itself forever

    3 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  5. Global robotaxi market set to hit US$1T by 2040 as China tech costs plummet

    3 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  6. What we know about the typical Polymarket user

    3 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  7. New virus catalog reveals which pathogens pose the greatest threat

    3 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  8. Best Investments over the Last 100 Years? Almost All Are Tech Companies.

    3 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  9. Levels of Concern

    3 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  10. A Rust-based time-series DB for quant workloads (4.5x faster than DuckDB/Polars)

    3 points • comment • jul 23, 2026

  11. The Hair-Dryer Incident Is Just the Start

    3 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  12. Notes Toward a New Romanticism: Or why it's 1800 all over again

    3 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  13. Million Dollar Homepage

    3 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  14. AI Innovators Adopt Nvidia Vera – Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

    3 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  15. Is Passwork safe for your business?

    3 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  16. Show HN: Resultant Engineering Student Tools Site

    3 points • comment • jul 16, 2026

  17. A Last Gasp of 2D: The Cave CV1000 (2022)

    3 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  18. China's mysterious new billionaires are conquering the world

    3 points • comment • jul 20, 2026

  19. Ask HN: Does anyone else find GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex slow?

    3 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  20. Pentagon suspends CMMC phase two requirements, launches review of program

    3 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  21. TinyRetroPad, a 2.5 KB 'Notepad' for Windows

    3 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  22. Hacker's Guide to UART Root Shells [video]

    3 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  23. We tried London's first driverless bus

    3 points • comment • jul 11, 2026

  24. Scaling Agentic RL: 365,000 Environments for SWE, Terminal, and Search

    3 points • comment • jul 29, 2026

  25. What's horned, fluffy, and ethically dubious? Yak clones

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  26. Ravenspire – watch your Claude Code and Codex agents as a JRPG

    3 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  27. TIRx: An Open Compiler Stack for Evolving Frontier ML Kernels

    3 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  28. I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)

    3 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  29. Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled

    3 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  30. FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining

    3 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  31. Blocking internet on phones improves attention, mental health, and well-being

    3 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  32. US awards GlobalFoundries $300M to bolster silicon photonics for AI chip

    3 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  33. Infisical Privileged Access Management

    3 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  34. Open dataset of cannabis growing problems (79 structured diagnoses, JSON/CSV)

    3 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  35. I built a project management tool because every alternative felt too complicated

    3 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  36. Fremforge: Forgejo-based, EU-hosted Git/CI with its own Sigstore instance

    3 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  37. Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  38. Pyshackle: A hard pre-execution gate for AI agent tool calls (open source)

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  39. LLMs as a Last Resort

    3 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  40. Experimental explosion detected off Florida coast sparks earthquake alert

    3 points • comment • jul 28, 2026

  41. Too Old for Silicon Valley? Think Again. AI Is Changing the Math

    3 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  42. Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved

    3 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  43. Ask HN: How has the software industry changed for you personally?

    3 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  44. The Hitler Salute Was Never German

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  45. AI Investors Buying Accounting Companies and Force Them to Use OpenAI [video]

    3 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  46. Four Types of Thinker

    3 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  47. International Child Abduction in Japan

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  48. GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc./tunables.conf, More Optimizations

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  49. Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

    3 points • comment • jul 10, 2026

  50. Evaluation of a pentapropellant upper stage (1970) [pdf]

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  51. Show HN: Cpulse – See why your Docker Compose stack is stuck

    3 points • comment • jul 12, 2026

  52. Two teens learn the hard way not to do toy gun drive-bys from a Waymo

    3 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  53. Dashlane Loses List of Subprocessors

    3 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  54. Zone of Ceremony (2019)

    3 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  55. HammerDB v6.0 Response Times, Percentiles and Reservoir Sampling

    3 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  56. Toxoplasma Gondii

    3 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  57. Hideo Kojima on PlayStation killing discs, 'frightened' for future of ownership

    3 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  58. Anthropic Discloses That AI Models Testing Hacked Three Companies

    3 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  59. Fable – Inner Forward Pass

    3 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  60. Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in the browser, free

    3 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  61. FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving with WiFi, GPU and Audio Driver Work

    3 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  62. Pan Am Clipper Endeavor Is Found After over 70 Years Lost at Sea

    3 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  63. Investigating Flock: America's Mass Surveillance Company [video]

    3 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  64. OpenAI Says Model Broke Out of Sandbox

    3 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  65. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out

    3 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  66. A browser game that turns NASA exoplanet data into planet-hunting

    3 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  67. Dr Richard Hipp still maintains 40% of the lines contributed to SQLite

    3 points • comment • jul 07, 2026

  68. Software Markdowns at Mutual Funds Hint at Private Markets' Pain

    3 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  69. The problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

    3 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  70. I built ClickIt a local clipboard manager for macOS

    3 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  71. Buffett drops Gates Foundation from his annual donations

    3 points • comment • jul 14, 2026

  72. Central Valley farmers reluctantly turn to solar as water supplies dry up

    3 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  73. Tribe in Colorado brings utility scale solar project online

    3 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  74. Robotic bird targets drones' biggest aerodynamic shortcoming

    3 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  75. What a 1976 Washington Post prediction said about 2026

    3 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  76. The Many Claudes of My Code

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  77. Against Claudefishing – AI detection feature on Substack

    3 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  78. Claude Opus 5: The System Card

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  79. Show HN: Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files

    3 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  80. Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool

    3 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  81. Why some people are more bothered by low-frequency sounds

    3 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  82. Doing the Work

    3 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  83. OpenEvidence is bribing spouses of CMI and Genentech leadership

    3 points • comment • jul 18, 2026

  84. OpenAI's new Agent Sandbox Cloud [video]

    3 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  85. Steam Workshop Map for Meccha Chameleon Used to Deliver Malware

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  86. A Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI-Generated Code in Real-World Repositories

    3 points • comment • jul 13, 2026

  87. Syntropy: A Web Framework for Ruby

    3 points • comment • jul 08, 2026

  88. Show HN: Axtary – Content Authorization for AI Agents

    3 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  89. Hypernet – The Agent-First Web

    3 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  90. Codex now leads Claude Code in first-time Homebrew installs for last 30 days

    3 points • comment • jul 25, 2026

  91. Patterns of Biophilic Design

    3 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  92. How Did Node.js Come About?

    3 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  93. FFmpeg's native AAC encoder has just been rewritten, and beats fdk_aac

    3 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  94. Deep Agent Code Capabilities

    3 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  95. High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating memory fragmentation

    3 points • comment • jul 02, 2026

  96. Google must pay record €4.1B (£3.5B) fine over antitrust issues

    3 points • comment • jul 03, 2026

  97. Evading Residential Proxy Networks

    3 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  98. The Sutra of the Open Door

    3 points • comment • jul 06, 2026

  99. Show HN: Great Spectations, the Spec Checker

    3 points • comment • jul 31, 2026

  100. The Royal Order of Operations

    3 points • comment • jul 27, 2026