top 10 hacker news stories for today

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-user-consent

9 hours ago

824 upvotes – 412 comments

Regressive JPEGs

https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

16 hours ago

599 upvotes – 62 comments

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

8 hours ago

395 upvotes – 135 comments

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

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/

6 hours ago

389 upvotes – 236 comments

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1953768#graph

8 hours ago

308 upvotes – 363 comments

EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/ban-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-enters-application-2026-07-17_en

5 hours ago

217 upvotes – 203 comments

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

https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/

8 hours ago

172 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

https://ikea.greg.technology/

15 hours ago

132 upvotes – 74 comments

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

https://tangled.org/gleam.run/gleam

4 hours ago

127 upvotes – 74 comments

The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/

11 hours ago

118 upvotes – 27 comments
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