top 50% 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

★ 1.2k Python

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign

https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

3 months ago

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

https://atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark

3 months ago

CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026

https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/

3 months ago

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/goes-19-safe-hold

3 months ago

Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later

https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser

3 months ago

★ 1.2k Swift GPL-3.0

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model

3 months ago

My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software

https://imdanielkendall.com/the-great-software-regress-how-move-fast-and-break-things-broke-our-lives/

3 months ago

42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/42percent-of-adults-rely-on-their-parents-for-financial-supportthere-are-no-bad-guys-here-says-financial-therapist.html

3 months ago

Making 768 servers look like 1

https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1

3 months ago

British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y680w62wno

3 months ago

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708

3 months ago

German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

https://the-decoder.com/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in-both-english-and-german/

3 months ago

Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

https://onatm.dev/2026/07/16/homescale-part-1/

3 months ago

Guide to data tools landscape for developers

https://sinja.io/blog/data-landscape-guide-for-developers

3 months ago

Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public

https://schema-harness.github.io/

3 months ago

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/bonsai-webgpu

3 months ago

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin

3 months ago

Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes

https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street

3 months ago

Kimi K3 is now #1 in the Front end Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Fable 5

https://twitter.com/arena/status/2077824029126504525

3 months ago

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/

3 months ago

The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details

3 months ago

We're Building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of Databases

https://turso.tech/blog/a-new-modern-version-of-postgres-in-rust

3 months ago

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html

3 months ago

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

https://pmbanugo.me/blog/why-async-await-complect-concurrency

3 months ago

Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer

https://github.com/patonw/leaves

3 months ago

★ 194 Rust MPL-2.0

Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11859

3 months ago

SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock

https://invezz.com/news/2026/07/16/the-worlds-most-valuable-ipo-spcx-is-now-wall-streets-most-shorted-new-stock/

3 months ago

Moist Towelette Museum

https://moisttowelettemuseum.com/

3 months ago

'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'

https://techwerkers.nl/en/posts/aanval-microsoft-ai-datacentrum/

3 months ago

Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C

https://mojibake.zaerl.com/

3 months ago

Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds

https://modal.com/blog/scaling-to-1-million-concurrent-sandboxes-in-seconds

3 months ago

As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011)

https://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than

3 months ago

Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o

3 months ago

Abstracting Effects with Continuations

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-07-15/abstracting-effects-with-continuations/

3 months ago

Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft

https://www.pramit.gg/post/remaking-echo-1-stealth-physics

3 months ago

Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

3 months ago

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12395

3 months ago

800 Canadian wildfires burning as air quality alerts extend to US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m7n427xd8o

3 months ago

Show HN: Be the ChatBOT

https://bethechatbot.com/

3 months ago

Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together

https://github.com/xhluca/agent-talk

3 months ago

★ 138 Python MIT

The Growing Compute Shortage

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/2026/06/growing-compute-shortage

3 months ago

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/

3 months ago

Umuganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umuganda

3 months ago

Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3

3 months ago