top 50% 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

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

https://bento.page/slides/

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

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

3 months ago

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

https://overpaid.lol

3 months ago

Everyone Should Know SIMD

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

3 months ago

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

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

3 months ago

★ 3.8k Rust MIT

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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

3 months ago

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

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

3 months ago

The startup's Postgres survival guide

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

3 months ago

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

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

3 months ago

The Beam Engine

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

3 months ago

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

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

Making

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

3 months ago

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

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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

3 months ago

Does creatine make you smarter?

https://dynomight.net/creatine/

3 months ago

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

https://late.sh/

3 months ago

Back to Kagi

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

3 months ago

A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It's Real

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/05/31/a-zipper-patent-sat-in-a-garage-for-40-years-now-its-real/

3 months ago

Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees

https://mymodernmet.com/magnolia-ancient-flowers-beetles/

3 months ago

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/devlog/1534514/building-a-tiny-3d-renderer-for-a-tiny-handheld

3 months ago

"We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3"

https://twitter.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708

3 months ago

My Images Are Dithered

https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html

3 months ago

Never Enough

https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/21/never-enough/

3 months ago

Ten Steps Towards Happiness

http://hintjens.com/blog:99

3 months ago

Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hall/

3 months ago

The Computer That Helped Win World War II

https://spectrum.ieee.org/colossus-computer-ieee-milestone

3 months ago

What's Under Your Feet in New York City?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/7/21/whats-under-your-feet-in-new-york-city

3 months ago

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

https://ishmael.textualize.io/blog/ghost-cut/

3 months ago

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

3 months ago

★ 71.6k Assembly

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus-hybrid

3 months ago

★ 206 Shell MIT

10 REM"_(C2SLFF4

https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/

3 months ago

Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

3 months ago

★ 164

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/

3 months ago

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html

3 months ago

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria

3 months ago

Most Americans Say "Not in My Backyard" to AI Data Centers

https://www.redfin.com/news/ai-data-centers-opposition-education-benefit/

3 months ago

SIMD for Collision

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/07/simd-for-collision/

3 months ago

Marimo Now Runs in PyCharm

https://marimo.io/blog/pycharm

3 months ago

Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

https://shukla.io/blog/2026-07/cccx.html

3 months ago

OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

https://opennode.com/

3 months ago

All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized

https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list

3 months ago

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html

3 months ago

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data

3 months ago

Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept

https://cruciblebench.ai/

3 months ago

Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books

https://www.readkinetic.com/app/

3 months ago

Jacobian Conjecture for Baby

https://muchmirul.github.io/jacobian-conjecture/

3 months ago

Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser

https://hologram.page/blog/backing-hologram

3 months ago

Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

https://webkit.org/blog/18162/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-248/

3 months ago

DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector

https://github.com/jdefrancesco/dskDitto

3 months ago

★ 317 Go Apache-2.0

PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/

3 months ago

Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch

https://blog.jaysmito.dev/blog/04-fast-lockfree-queues/

3 months ago

Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer

https://openaim.pramit.gg/

3 months ago

White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

https://apnews.com/article/california-research-grants-terminated-keywords-lawsuit-a0ddb01413ecb68d9668490a20be6207

3 months ago

Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html

3 months ago

Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC

https://www.swingnyc.com/

3 months ago

Perlin's Noise Algorithm

https://blog.jaysmito.dev/blog/02-perlins-noise-algorithm/

3 months ago

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o

3 months ago

Men That Don't Fit In

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58012/the-men-that-dont-fit-in

3 months ago

Airbus Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-07-airbus-launches-new-flight-test-programme-for-wing-of-tomorrow

3 months ago

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

https://karlvmuller.com/posts/why-i-am-not-going-to-buy-a-computer/

3 months ago

Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/kimi-k3-agentic-knowledge-benchmark

3 months ago

Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/02/ancient-romes-version-of-google-maps-how-long-to-reach-the-beach

3 months ago