top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-07-20

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/

3 months ago

Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?

https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

3 months ago

Airport Simulator

https://airport.apunen.com/

3 months ago

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture

https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566

3 months ago

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/

3 months ago

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/

3 months ago

Kimi Work

https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work

3 months ago

Stolen Buttons

https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons

3 months ago

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

https://jelly-ui.com/

3 months ago

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

3 months ago