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2026-07-22 20:15:12 CEST

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Link: https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/2079787406300266743
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007374

2026-07-22 19:25:13 CEST

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Link: https://bento.page/slides/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008211

2026-07-22 16:35:11 CEST

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Link: https://late.sh/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001127

2026-07-22 15:15:12 CEST

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
Link: https://overpaid.lol
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004663

2026-07-22 13:40:10 CEST

My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault
Link: https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/06/22/I%27m-Building-a-Secure-USB-Drive/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974862

2026-07-22 11:00:10 CEST

Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
Link: https://thecastlemap.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994178

2026-07-22 10:45:12 CEST

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
Link: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000864

2026-07-22 10:25:11 CEST

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
Link: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362

2026-07-22 08:05:12 CEST

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Link: https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996652

2026-07-22 05:20:14 CEST

Laguna S 2.1
Link: https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995261

2026-07-22 04:25:11 CEST

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Link: https://runtimewire.com/article/jack-dorsey-block-buzz-team-chat-ai-agents-git
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995213

2026-07-22 03:10:13 CEST

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Link: https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999291

2026-07-22 02:15:11 CEST

Advertise in ChatGPT
Link: https://ads.openai.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996571

2026-07-22 00:40:13 CEST

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
Link: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpns-are-lawful-technical-tools-says-eu-court-in-landmark-anne-frank-copyright-ruling
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997221

2026-07-21 23:40:14 CEST

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
Link: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993816

2026-07-21 23:30:14 CEST

FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
Link: https://freeink.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996318

2026-07-21 23:25:13 CEST

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Link: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

2026-07-21 22:50:13 CEST

Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Link: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for-csam-but-the-judge-was-not-pleased-amy-v-apple.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992870

2026-07-21 18:55:12 CEST

Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993414

2026-07-21 17:45:12 CEST

I Stopped “Creating Content”
Link: https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/why-i-stopped-creating-content/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980520

2026-07-21 17:30:12 CEST

Agent swarms and the new model economics
Link: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982535

2026-07-21 15:15:11 CEST

Shinjuku Station in 3D
Link: https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978792

2026-07-21 15:05:12 CEST

Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Link: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701

2026-07-21 14:25:11 CEST

Incremental – A library for incremental computations
Link: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987822

2026-07-21 14:15:12 CEST

Perfection is not over-engineering
Link: https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979120

2026-07-21 12:15:12 CEST

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Link: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091

2026-07-21 10:25:10 CEST

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
Link: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863

2026-07-21 09:00:12 CEST

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
Link: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681

2026-07-21 07:10:11 CEST

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Link: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731

2026-07-21 05:20:14 CEST

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Link: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382

2026-07-21 03:50:11 CEST

Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Link: https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977128

2026-07-21 00:20:12 CEST

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
Link: https://jelly-ui.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981620

2026-07-21 00:05:13 CEST

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
Link: https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/frontier-lab-economics/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980019

2026-07-20 23:45:12 CEST

Kimi Work
Link: https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981703

2026-07-20 19:30:11 CEST

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning
Link: https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979269

2026-07-20 17:55:15 CEST

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
Link: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978605

2026-07-20 17:30:12 CEST

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode
Link: https://wren.wtf/shower-thoughts/stop-using-opencode/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978112

2026-07-20 17:20:15 CEST

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
Link: https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977711

2026-07-20 16:45:11 CEST

Airport Simulator
Link: https://airport.apunen.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976846

2026-07-20 15:40:12 CEST

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
Link: https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-with-gpt5-6/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975665

2026-07-20 15:35:11 CEST

Orion Browser by Kagi
Link: https://orionbrowser.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970894

2026-07-20 15:15:11 CEST

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
Link: https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972970

2026-07-20 13:30:12 CEST

Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Link: https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974454

2026-07-20 08:40:14 CEST

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
Link: https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973869

2026-07-20 02:50:11 CEST

AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found
Link: https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971738

2026-07-20 01:25:14 CEST

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Link: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967256

2026-07-19 21:55:11 CEST

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
Link: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965850

2026-07-19 21:05:11 CEST

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606

2026-07-19 20:20:12 CEST

Blender 5.2 LTS
Link: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911021

2026-07-19 20:00:12 CEST

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569

2026-07-19 18:55:12 CEST

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Link: https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966713

2026-07-19 18:50:12 CEST

Codex Resets
Link: https://codex-resets.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963465

2026-07-19 16:35:12 CEST

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds
Link: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960155

2026-07-19 16:15:13 CEST

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Link: https://github.com/stupside/castor
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964015

2026-07-19 14:10:13 CEST

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon
Link: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120

2026-07-19 14:10:13 CEST

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Link: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964185

2026-07-19 07:00:12 CEST

Transcribe.cpp
Link: https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963879

2026-07-19 04:40:12 CEST

Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise
Link: https://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-advertise-properties/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962983

2026-07-19 03:20:12 CEST

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
Link: https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911793

2026-07-19 02:40:16 CEST

If You Build It, They Will Come
Link: https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-come
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090

2026-07-19 01:25:11 CEST

The Kimi K3 Moment
Link: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218

2026-07-18 19:20:11 CEST

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
Link: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1953768#graph
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956949

2026-07-18 18:25:11 CEST

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957779

2026-07-18 17:30:11 CEST

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
Link: https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951461

2026-07-18 14:55:11 CEST

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Link: https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-user-consent
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956688

2026-07-18 14:45:12 CEST

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
Link: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956924

2026-07-18 13:05:11 CEST

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Link: https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947490

2026-07-18 11:30:11 CEST

Learning a few things about running SQLite
Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950122

2026-07-18 10:35:11 CEST

Regressive JPEGs
Link: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954851

2026-07-18 03:25:17 CEST

Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
Link: https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952880

2026-07-18 02:35:11 CEST

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949551

2026-07-18 02:05:12 CEST

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947717

2026-07-17 23:05:11 CEST

Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Link: https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943174

2026-07-17 22:00:13 CEST

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947560

2026-07-17 21:00:12 CEST

Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Link: https://stateofopensource.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825

2026-07-17 19:25:11 CEST

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Link: https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946303

2026-07-17 18:10:13 CEST

An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)
Link: https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862165

2026-07-17 17:10:11 CEST

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241

2026-07-17 15:25:11 CEST

Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946010

2026-07-17 15:10:13 CEST

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)
Link: https://immersivemath.com/ila/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935951

2026-07-17 14:30:11 CEST

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
Link: https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933310

2026-07-17 14:10:11 CEST

The human-in-the-loop is tired
Link: https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942000

2026-07-17 11:50:12 CEST

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
Link: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662

2026-07-17 10:45:11 CEST

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Link: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524

2026-07-17 04:35:13 CEST

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451

2026-07-16 23:05:11 CEST

Decoy Font
Link: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584

2026-07-16 21:20:13 CEST

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Link: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426

2026-07-16 20:25:16 CEST

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
Link: https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933149

2026-07-16 18:15:12 CEST

Kimi K3 is now live
Link: https://www.kimi.com/en
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342

2026-07-16 18:05:12 CEST

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
Link: https://joinedanthropic.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931588

2026-07-16 18:05:11 CEST

Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them
Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933419

2026-07-16 17:10:12 CEST

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
Link: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095

2026-07-16 16:30:12 CEST

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Link: https://community.oneplus.com/thread/2170715118587871237
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539

2026-07-16 15:30:11 CEST

I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Link: https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911803

2026-07-16 12:55:12 CEST

Collection of Digital Clock Designs
Link: https://clocks.dev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380

2026-07-16 10:40:13 CEST

The lost joy of music piracy
Link: https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454

2026-07-16 10:35:12 CEST

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
Link: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135

2026-07-16 05:35:11 CEST

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Link: https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434

2026-07-16 03:45:12 CEST

Grok Build is open source
Link: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590

2026-07-15 23:35:11 CEST

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
Link: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915953