top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-18

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

3 months ago

Regressive JPEGs

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

3 months ago

The Kimi K3 Moment

https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise

https://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-advertise-properties/

3 months ago

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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

3 months ago

If You Build It, They Will Come

https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-come

3 months ago

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Codex Resets

https://codex-resets.com/

3 months ago

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307

3 months ago

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

https://elixir-lang.org/

3 months ago

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

https://ykdojo.github.io/claude-controls-mac/

3 months ago

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-starts-shipping-high-na-euv

3 months ago

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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

3 months ago

The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

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

3 months ago

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/

3 months ago

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

https://ikea.greg.technology/

3 months ago