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July 28, 2026Hacker News – 28 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Earthquake Alerts
7.1 Earthquake in Japan

AI Developments and Discussions
Our position on open-weights models

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Software and Programming Innovations
What Even Are Microservices?

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

Hardware and Gaming News
RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

Language and Accessibility in Programming
EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms
...more
4min
July 27, 2026Hacker News – 27 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI & Machine Learning
Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

Software & Development
PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

Innovations & Projects
Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

History & Nostalgia
How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM

HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

Nature & Technology
French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees
...more
4min
July 26, 2026Hacker News – 26 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Python and Scripting Enhancements
Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

Overloaded Overloading

Security and Data Management
GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

Innovative Projects and Research
An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

AI and Machine Learning Developments
DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

Business and Legal Education
Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era

JetZero
...more
5min
July 25, 2026Hacker News – 25 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations
Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

Tech Enhancements
GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Security Concerns
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities

Sustainable Living
NYC Apartment Aquaponics

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

Cultural Curiosities
Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico
...more
4min
July 24, 2026Hacker News – 24 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Developments
Flux 3

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

Cognitive and Software Quality Insights
Writing by hand is good for your brain

What happened to TheNumbers.com

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

Personal Reflections and Experiences
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

I regret migrating to Codeberg

Learning and Resources
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

Claude Cookbook

The Book Prize Index
...more
4min
July 23, 2026Hacker News – 23 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Embracing New Technologies
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot

Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

Making ASCII Art in Vim

AI and Its Implications
Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

Navigating Coding and Development
git's –end-of-options Flag

The startup's Postgres survival guide

Why malloc always does more than I asked for?

Reflections on Creation and Knowledge
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

Making

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

A Glimpse into the Past
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
...more
5min
July 22, 2026Hacker News – 22 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Incidents
OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude

Hardware and Software Advances
Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

Advertise in ChatGPT

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

Open Source and Community Projects
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books

Mathematical Breakthroughs and Discoveries
A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
...more
4min
July 21, 2026Hacker News – 21 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Challenges
Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details

Who's afraid of Chinese models?

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Development Tools and Libraries
Incremental – A library for incremental computations

Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of

I wrote a bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

Creative Projects and Innovations
Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects

Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste

User Experience and Design
Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

Team Dynamics and Productivity
The Psychology of Software Teams

Agent swarms and the new model economics
...more
4min
July 20, 2026Hacker News – 20 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Cybersecurity and AI Insights
Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Innovative Hardware Solutions
Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

Game Streaming and Development Updates
Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

Robotics and AI Advances
Xiaomi-Robotics-1

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

Cultural and Environmental News
Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years
...more
4min
July 19, 2026Hacker News – 19 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Developments
Transcribe.cpp

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Tools for Content and Communication
Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

Moonshine Micro: Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

Castor: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

Security and Data Management
Searchable field-level encryption on Supabase with CipherStash

Codex Resets

Retro Computing and Software
Classic Amiga titles, free to download

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum

Software Development Insights
Making Software: How to make a font

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics
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5min

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