top 50% 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

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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

3 months ago

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

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

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

What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

https://rybakov.com/blog/what_else_do_people_draw_on_gradient-copy.horse/

3 months ago

The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting

https://suzyahyah.github.io/machine%20learning/2026/06/27/trouble-with-time-series.html

3 months ago

British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years

https://news.sky.com/story/british-runner-josh-kerr-breaks-world-record-for-mile-which-had-stood-for-27-years-13564688

3 months ago

I Started a "Dirt Notebook"

https://pinewind.bearblog.dev/i-started-a-dirt-notebook/

3 months ago

REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

https://reotrucks.com

3 months ago

Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week

https://boilingsteam.com/steam-machine-between-10k-and-15k-sold-per-week/

3 months ago

Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

https://haxxorwpm.0s.is/

3 months ago

Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

https://old.reddit.com/r/BingeEatingDisorder/comments/1uzr3ui/fake_food_delivery_site_for_the_dopamine/

3 months ago

Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

https://q3edit.com

3 months ago

UnifiedIR for Julia

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/62334

3 months ago

★ 48.9k Julia MIT

Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/features/wallofbirds/?_hsmi=428996456

3 months ago

Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14587

3 months ago

Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09211

3 months ago

Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/arduino-launches-plug-and-play-modules-for-long-range-sensor-projects/

3 months ago

What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/07/agent-quota-reset/

3 months ago

Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/blog/our-approach-to-bioresilience/

3 months ago

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

https://www.stenchill.com/en/

3 months ago

Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise

https://xcancel.com/i/article/2077113148524417439

3 months ago

Harness Engineering

https://github.com/lopopolo/harness-engineering

3 months ago

★ 2.3k Python CC-BY-4.0

No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes

https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/no-link-between-acetaminophen-use-during-pregnancy-and-adverse-birth-outcomes-study-finds/

3 months ago

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

3 months ago

Judge a book by its first pages

https://uncovered.ink

3 months ago