top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-24

Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card

3 months ago

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/

3 months ago

It's getting harder to focus every day

https://glyphack.com/attention/

3 months ago

Microsoft – Open Weights and American AI Leadership

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/

3 months ago

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/

3 months ago

Flux 3

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3

3 months ago

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece

3 months ago

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker

3 months ago

How to Survive Boiling Water

https://taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-boiling-water

3 months ago

Em dashes are fucking amazing

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing

3 months ago

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models

3 months ago

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability

3 months ago

Claude Cookbook

https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/

3 months ago

IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/

3 months ago

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18

3 months ago

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic

3 months ago

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-builds/16891

3 months ago

Future euro banknote design proposals

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

3 months ago

Andrew Kelley: Don't Take the Black Pill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4

3 months ago

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations

3 months ago

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

https://sive.rs/itunes

3 months ago

A Painful Update about our Team

https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951

3 months ago

Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

https://sliplane.io/blog/hetzner-inference

3 months ago

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

https://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/

3 months ago

Codeberg Divides

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/24/codeberg-divides/

3 months ago

Unitree As2-W

https://www.unitree.com/As2-W/

3 months ago

Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History

https://tangled.org/oppi.li/stinkpot

3 months ago

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13

3 months ago

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/

3 months ago

The case for MUDs in modern times

https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times

3 months ago

Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf]

https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf

3 months ago

I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year

https://www.alexhyett.com/videos/tried-building-app-with-ai-it-took-a-year/

3 months ago

I got into YC by hacking it

https://obaid.wtf/jotbook/2026/07/18/how-i-got-into-yc-by-hacking-it.html

3 months ago

The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan

https://www.aramcoworld.com/articles/2015/the-fabled-flatbreads-of-uzbekistan

3 months ago

As of JDK 27, Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port

https://openjdk.org/jeps/541

3 months ago

The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm

https://foldkit.dev/

3 months ago

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-instinct-mi455x-aiming-for-the

3 months ago

AIs don't do what you want. This is bad

https://rewardhacking.org

3 months ago

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

https://simone.org/advertising/

3 months ago

Show HN: Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser

https://scalatutorials.com

3 months ago

Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442

3 months ago

Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond

https://www.the-scientist.com/police-removed-prominent-scientists-from-the-ada-meeting-researchers-respond-74607

3 months ago

Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9n2y61w6o

3 months ago

The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type

https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/07/23/the-pimpl-idiom-and-the-cpp26-stdindirect-type/

3 months ago

Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go

https://ui.gsxhq.dev/

3 months ago

Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5

3 months ago

Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/07/towards-a-theory-of-bugs-the-ruliology-of-the-unexpected/

3 months ago

German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications

https://www.reuters.com/business/german-battery-maker-varta-files-insolvency-applications-2026-07-24/

3 months ago

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

https://technicshistory.com/2026/07/24/the-ibm-pc-part-1-arrival/

3 months ago

Proving a Human Wrote Something

https://gjtorikian.online/posts/proving-a-human-wrote-something/

3 months ago

Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules

https://necroticgnome.com/collections/dolmenwood

3 months ago

The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin

https://reprodev.com/the-corporate-creep-of-plex-why-it-may-be-time-to-move-to-jellyfin-and-the-open-source-reality/

3 months ago

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx4343

3 months ago

Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks

https://www.gameoftrees.org/

3 months ago

DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads

https://duckpgq.org/

3 months ago

How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?

https://alexklos.ca/blog/how-do-we-stop-vibe-coding

3 months ago

The Reddit Problem – How a Reddit Alternative Was Banned from RedditAlternatives

https://rhyme.com/post/53oy222/the-reddit-problem-and-how-our-reddit-alternative-was-banned

3 months ago

The small, real, original web

https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web/

3 months ago

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

https://elsewhere.news/en/zhenfund/why-is-programming-so-captivating-yet-so-agonizing

3 months ago

Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-data-center-crisis/

3 months ago

Writing a Debugger from Scratch

https://www.timdbg.com/posts/writing-a-debugger-from-scratch-part-1/

3 months ago

Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

https://adriengonin.com/writing/service-with-a-software/

3 months ago

A Dying Art: The last of the morticians

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/08/a-dying-art-john-semley-mortuary-sciences-competition/

3 months ago