top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-22

Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56

3 months ago

1125 upvotes – 635 comments

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

https://bento.page/slides/

3 months ago

1026 upvotes – 239 comments

John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has passed

https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302

3 months ago

928 upvotes – 323 comments

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html

3 months ago

683 upvotes – 242 comments

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

https://overpaid.lol

3 months ago

682 upvotes – 364 comments

Everyone Should Know SIMD

https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd

3 months ago

662 upvotes – 252 comments

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/

3 months ago

★ 3.8k Rust MIT
619 upvotes – 120 comments

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/

3 months ago

609 upvotes – 647 comments

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/2079787406300266743

3 months ago

577 upvotes – 780 comments

The startup's Postgres survival guide

https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide

3 months ago

522 upvotes – 240 comments

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/quality-non-fiction-books-are-the

3 months ago

492 upvotes – 240 comments

The Beam Engine

https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/

3 months ago

486 upvotes – 99 comments

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

https://citizendot.github.io/articles/fake-job-interview-git-hook-malware/

3 months ago

482 upvotes – 126 comments

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/

3 months ago

468 upvotes – 526 comments

Making

https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/

3 months ago

442 upvotes – 186 comments

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero-roadkill-as-amazon-canopy-bridges-secure-15000-crossings/

3 months ago

387 upvotes – 125 comments

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/

3 months ago

381 upvotes – 303 comments

Does creatine make you smarter?

https://dynomight.net/creatine/

3 months ago

339 upvotes – 275 comments

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

https://late.sh/

3 months ago

333 upvotes – 129 comments

Back to Kagi

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/

3 months ago

332 upvotes – 256 comments
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