top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-15

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

3 months ago

1225 upvotes – 294 comments

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

3 months ago

959 upvotes – 259 comments

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269

3 months ago

758 upvotes – 408 comments

I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist

3 months ago

671 upvotes – 293 comments

Grok Build Is OSS

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build

3 months ago

★ 21.3k Rust Apache-2.0
589 upvotes – 642 comments

SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status

https://www.ft.com/content/3a023b95-66c3-41e1-b0ce-df752a499541

3 months ago

562 upvotes – 591 comments

Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53B

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/

3 months ago

494 upvotes – 305 comments

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

https://vpd.ca/

3 months ago

370 upvotes – 136 comments

I Left Google DeepMind

https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind

3 months ago

368 upvotes – 166 comments

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/

3 months ago

364 upvotes – 172 comments

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

https://ramones.dev/posts/mental-health/

3 months ago

338 upvotes – 285 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/

3 months ago

328 upvotes – 212 comments

Codex Micro

https://openai.com/supply/co-lab/work-louder/

3 months ago

305 upvotes – 252 comments

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

https://clocks.dev

3 months ago

304 upvotes – 51 comments

Must actively fund open source AI [pdf]

https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf

3 months ago

296 upvotes – 117 comments

Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

https://ciphertalk.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-what-a-used-gpu-cluster

3 months ago

277 upvotes – 251 comments

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/

3 months ago

272 upvotes – 126 comments

OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/

3 months ago

264 upvotes – 167 comments

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers

https://dev.moe/en/3025

3 months ago

263 upvotes – 160 comments

Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo-news/going-going-gone-is-this-the-end-of-the-once-mighty-gopro/

3 months ago

233 upvotes – 558 comments

You only need the frontier model for one single edit

https://stencil.so/blog/prewalk

3 months ago

228 upvotes – 97 comments

Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything

https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html

3 months ago

217 upvotes – 108 comments

TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins

3 months ago

216 upvotes – 149 comments

Telegram Serverless

https://core.telegram.org/bots/serverless

3 months ago

212 upvotes – 106 comments

My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/my-midlife-crisis-corolla-fast-furious-fully-modded/

3 months ago

199 upvotes – 427 comments

Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B

https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/data-centers-23-billion-electricity-bills/

3 months ago

197 upvotes – 114 comments

The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

https://smarterarticles.co.uk/the-three-second-theft-why-ai-voice-fraud-outruns-every-defence

3 months ago

191 upvotes – 245 comments

The Psychology of Software Teams

https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Teams/Hicks/p/book/9781032963389

3 months ago

178 upvotes – 56 comments

Briar Is in Maintenance Mode

https://briarproject.org/news/2026-maintenance-mode/

3 months ago

171 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77

3 months ago

★ 142 C++ MIT
164 upvotes – 49 comments

Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

https://www.starfleetmath.com/

3 months ago

164 upvotes – 110 comments

Python 3.15's Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode – Ken Jin's Blog

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/ultra-fast-tracing.html

3 months ago

158 upvotes – 12 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20

3 months ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920698

3 months ago

137 upvotes – 114 comments

Sealed Tomb Filled with Paintings and Inscriptions Discovered in Egypt

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/sealed-tomb-of-a-high-official-or-priest-filled-with-paintings-and-inscriptions-discovered-on-luxors-west-bank/

3 months ago

133 upvotes – 85 comments

Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH

https://github.com/vshulcz/deja-vu/

3 months ago

★ 450 Go MIT
131 upvotes – 35 comments

America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD

https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/us-worst-oecd-fair-pay-score/

3 months ago

130 upvotes – 229 comments

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

https://brainless.swerdlow.dev

3 months ago

128 upvotes – 26 comments

Starlink 2X Price Increase

https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/starlink-price-rise-reckless-says-correnti/

3 months ago

122 upvotes – 218 comments

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-and-dsls.html

3 months ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

Weathergotchi – an open-source climate Tamagotchi

https://github.com/Michael-Manning/E-Paper-Climate-Logger

3 months ago

★ 419 C++ MIT
121 upvotes – 28 comments

Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM

https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling/

3 months ago

121 upvotes – 4 comments

Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning

https://worldcrunch.com/focus/green-or-gone/global-warming-at-3c-by-2050-what-s-behind-the-new-german-climate-warning/

3 months ago

115 upvotes – 198 comments

RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues

https://www.eetimes.com/risc-v-is-inevitable-state-of-the-union-keynote-argues/

3 months ago

114 upvotes – 134 comments

GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/15/gtx-1080s-revisiting-legends

3 months ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

https://mass-driver.com/article/from-human-hands

3 months ago

110 upvotes – 112 comments

Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled

https://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows-gdid-device-identifier-that-cannot-be-disabled-documented-in-fbi-case-filing/

3 months ago

110 upvotes – 60 comments

Voxatron

https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php

3 months ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

LLM Networking with MikroTik

https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html

3 months ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/free-photos-from-john-margolies-archive-of-americana-architecture.html

3 months ago

105 upvotes – 4 comments

FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free

3 months ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: One More Letter

https://playonemoreletter.com/

3 months ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916375

3 months ago

87 upvotes – 54 comments

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/20/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family

3 months ago

85 upvotes – 123 comments

DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2026/07/01/dea-temporarily-schedule-7-oh-and-related-substances-protect-public

3 months ago

84 upvotes – 187 comments

Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)

https://www.sevarg.net/2023/03/25/why-people-hate-tech/

3 months ago

78 upvotes – 177 comments

Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/15/whos-running-all-those-tiny-rpki-servers/

3 months ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash

3 months ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle-materials

3 months ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy

https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/zdgg/detail/prepub/108503/Geological_and_geophysical_characterisation_of_the_exploration_boreholes_EB1_and_EB2_Inde_Syncline_Rhenohercynian_Fold_and_Thrust_Belt_and_Weisweiler_Horst_Lower_Rhine_Embayment_Germany

3 months ago

66 upvotes – 119 comments

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/

3 months ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

https://pairdrop.net/

3 months ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms

https://pgadey.ca/notes/talk-relatorium-2026/

3 months ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Using Go for Mobile Apps

https://www.davidsobsessions.com/p/one-year-of-gomobile/

3 months ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2026-07/speculative_growth_AI_public.pdf

3 months ago

55 upvotes – 64 comments

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection-machine/

3 months ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

https://github.com/tucan9389/nanochat-jax/discussions/1

3 months ago

★ 9 Python MIT
54 upvotes – 11 comments

Unsolved Problems in MLOps

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3762989

3 months ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders

https://rogerdickey.com/funny-item-co-occurrences-in-3-million-instacart-orders/

3 months ago

52 upvotes – 92 comments

The well-calibrated Bayesian [pdf]

https://fitelson.org/seminar/dawid.pdf

3 months ago

51 upvotes – 32 comments

Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html

3 months ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/most-popular-numbers-in-hn-post-titles/

3 months ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments
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