top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-26

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html

2 months ago

1336 upvotes – 1114 comments

Kill The Cookie Banner

https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

2 months ago

1151 upvotes – 593 comments

Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

https://swag.htmx.org/en-cad/products/htmx-4-the-game

2 months ago

513 upvotes – 207 comments

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-first-time

2 months ago

461 upvotes – 368 comments

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40700-grapheneos-protections-against-data-extraction-from-locked-devices

3 months ago

448 upvotes – 257 comments

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

https://beyondloom.com/decker/

2 months ago

2 changes
379 upvotes – 101 comments

Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.16.0

3 months ago

352 upvotes – 232 comments

Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-discloses-94-1-billion-in-spacex-stock-marking-6-stake-91655d7c

2 months ago

342 upvotes – 330 comments

London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/gatwick-airport-robotic-parking-stanley-robotics/

2 months ago

1 change
291 upvotes – 271 comments

The Strongest El Niño Ever

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strongest-el-nino-ever

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 347 comments

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc

2 months ago

★ 2.6k TypeScript Apache-2.0
285 upvotes – 158 comments

Design is compromise

https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise

2 months ago

1 change
281 upvotes – 91 comments

An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

https://blog.ktz.me/esp32-plane-radar/

3 months ago

273 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

https://sunflowersgame.com/

2 months ago

264 upvotes – 92 comments

JetZero

https://www.jetzero.aero

3 months ago

256 upvotes – 267 comments

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/introduction-to-data-oriented-design.pdf

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 78 comments

We have proof automation now

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2026/07/26/zstd-lean.html

2 months ago

232 upvotes – 109 comments

Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

https://english.mapn.ro/

2 months ago

231 upvotes – 302 comments

It's not empowering to hand off the details

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/its-not-empowering-to-hand-off-the-details/

2 months ago

225 upvotes – 148 comments

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

https://golfcoursebrowser.com/

3 months ago

1 change
222 upvotes – 167 comments

Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis

2 months ago

220 upvotes – 89 comments

The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-new-ai-superpowers-focus-and

2 months ago

217 upvotes – 78 comments

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

https://huggingface.co/owensong/Inflect-Micro-v2

3 months ago

213 upvotes – 29 comments

The relay market powering token resellers and fraud

https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market

2 months ago

1 change
207 upvotes – 136 comments

Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)

https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

3 months ago

1 change
185 upvotes – 132 comments

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/

3 months ago

182 upvotes – 67 comments

Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg

https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation

2 months ago

★ 470 Shell MIT
173 upvotes – 78 comments

Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf

2 months ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

https://github.com/gmrandazzo/CheapSecurity

2 months ago

★ 195 Python AGPL-3.0
139 upvotes – 37 comments

How to write English prose (2023)

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-write-english-prose

2 months ago

1 change
135 upvotes – 66 comments

How to Block Some of the Bots

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260606-How-To-Block-Some-Of-The-Bots/

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 149 comments

Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone

https://grego.site/blog/thinkphone

2 months ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp

https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap8.html

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 34 comments

Git rebase -i is not that scary

https://cachebag.sh/journal/interactive-rebasing/

3 months ago

1 change
118 upvotes – 148 comments

Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used

https://fontsinuse.com/

2 months ago

116 upvotes – 14 comments

What does GitHub's security team even do?

https://orchidfiles.com/github-security-team/

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Teaching Kids Forth

https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/

2 months ago

1 change
112 upvotes – 65 comments

Elevated Errors for Opus 5

https://status.claude.com/incidents/zftg3gqkmv18

3 months ago

94 upvotes – 88 comments

How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster

https://astgrep.com/blog/tree-sitter-rust-rewrite

2 months ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

The first watch featuring computer functions

https://by.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/58.html

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Systems and Delays

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2026/07/24/systems-and-delays.html

3 months ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Humans haven't stopped evolving

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/research/harvard-human-evolution-genes-selective-pressure

3 months ago

1 change
83 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost

https://github.com/experientiallabs/world-model-optimizer

2 months ago

★ 306 Python 2 changes
71 upvotes – 30 comments

Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore

https://iza.ac/posts/2026/07/the-journey-of-bamya/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Systemd Linger

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/07/24/systemd-linger/

3 months ago

67 upvotes – 94 comments

Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth

https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-debris-atmosphere-burn-up

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 38 comments

No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1439

3 months ago

62 upvotes – 61 comments

Angels in Coptic Magic I: Introduction

https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/2026/01/16/angels-in-coptic-magic-i-introduction/

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments
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