top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-16

Kimi K3 is now live

https://www.kimi.com/en

3 months ago

The lost joy of music piracy

https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming

3 months ago

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/

3 months ago

Decoy Font

https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font

3 months ago

Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/

3 months ago

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

https://community.oneplus.com/thread/2170715118587871237

3 months ago

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig

3 months ago

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6

3 months ago

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/

3 months ago

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic

3 months ago

SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-16/spacex-stock-erases-gains-slides-below-ipo-price-in-intraday-trading

3 months ago

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/

3 months ago

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

https://joinedanthropic.com

3 months ago

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures

https://immersivemath.com/ila/

3 months ago

Ente – Opening Our Books

https://ente.com/open/

3 months ago

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-century.html

3 months ago

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/

3 months ago

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

https://madcampos.dev/blog/2026/07/accessibility-from-scratch/

3 months ago

Mathematics of Data Science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938

3 months ago

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/

3 months ago

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