top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-27

Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

2 months ago

2 changes
1379 upvotes – 545 comments

Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

2 months ago

1178 upvotes – 1746 comments

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/

2 months ago

929 upvotes – 92 comments

AI companies are shredding rare books

https://twitter.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565

2 months ago

2 changes
798 upvotes – 513 comments

How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?

https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html

2 months ago

1 change
495 upvotes – 385 comments

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/netflix-exec-goes-ballistic-after-being-fired-for-stunning-trust-exercise-confession-at-retreat-suit/

2 months ago

2 changes
441 upvotes – 503 comments

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/

2 months ago

408 upvotes – 291 comments

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md

2 months ago

★ 2.2k
405 upvotes – 119 comments

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3/blob/main/k3_tech_report.pdf

2 months ago

★ 7.9k 1 change
391 upvotes – 183 comments

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/27/judge-rejects-googles-attempt-to-dmca-its-way-out-of-being-scraped/

2 months ago

341 upvotes – 153 comments

Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

https://www.sgieurope.com/e-commerce/decathlon-germany-launches-wero-payment-on-its-website/122397.article

2 months ago

337 upvotes – 229 comments

Canceling "Hey"

https://chadnauseam.com/random/cancelling-my-hey

2 months ago

292 upvotes – 270 comments

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_009.pdf

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 32 comments

AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying

https://www.ft.com/content/d8a5f95e-3b6d-463a-a848-c9ef8e2394db

2 months ago

1 change
277 upvotes – 145 comments

Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/27/ed-zitron-apple-watch-it-burn-ai-bubble-bursts/

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 356 comments

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

https://misago-project.org/t/removing-reactjs-from-the-codebase-and-adapting-htmx-for-ui-interactivity/1267/

2 months ago

1 change
253 upvotes – 199 comments

Should you wash your solar panels?

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/should-you-wash-your-solar-panels.html

2 months ago

246 upvotes – 252 comments

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/

2 months ago

1 change
241 upvotes – 110 comments

Forth

https://xkcd.com/3277/

2 months ago

232 upvotes – 54 comments

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q9w3x9qn2o

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 191 comments

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts

https://en.andros.dev/blog/d7ed8b07/modern-email-can-be-built-from-borrowed-parts/

2 months ago

198 upvotes – 160 comments

Why I Left Google DeepMind

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left-google-deepmind

2 months ago

197 upvotes – 58 comments

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64

2 months ago

★ 916 C CC0-1.0
196 upvotes – 24 comments

Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions

https://spacedaily.com/sd-v-astronauts-returning-from-six-month-missions-describe-a-persistent-observer-sensation-the-feeling-of-watching-their-own-lives-from-a-half-step-outside-the-frame-weeks-after-theyr/

2 months ago

183 upvotes – 111 comments

Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used

https://alsterrunde.com/hamburgs-stadtpark-a-park-built-to-be-used/

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 60 comments

VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-unity

2 months ago

169 upvotes – 55 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/

2 months ago

165 upvotes – 43 comments

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

https://eaton-works.com/2026/07/27/my-eicher-hack/

2 months ago

163 upvotes – 61 comments

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580119-hunter-gatherers-introduced-fish-to-a-mountain-lake-7000-years-ago/

2 months ago

160 upvotes – 119 comments

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

https://jssfr.de/2026-07-27-bad-apple-but-traceroute.html

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments

The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist-who-colored-ghibli

2 months ago

133 upvotes – 14 comments

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

https://telnyx.com/release-notes/kimi-k3-telnyx-inference

2 months ago

1 change
132 upvotes – 88 comments

How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods

https://cgjennings.ca/articles/jpeg-compression/

2 months ago

130 upvotes – 14 comments

DConf 2026 in London

https://dconf.org/2026/index.html

2 months ago

124 upvotes – 68 comments

The Glass Famine

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-glass-famine

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

https://usefeyn.com/blog/feynobg/

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

US DOT deleting bike lane references

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5900901/bike-lanes-dot-websites

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 110 comments

Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes

https://abeljansma.nl/2026/07/10/truth-is-not-a-direction.html

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 86 comments

Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html

2 months ago

106 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap

2 months ago

★ 328 Swift MIT
104 upvotes – 43 comments

Worse on Purpose

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands

2 months ago

104 upvotes – 84 comments

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

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

2 months ago

104 upvotes – 74 comments

Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?

https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/exercise-works-for-depression-so-why-isnt-it-treated-like-real-medicine/

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 103 comments

Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013)

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2013/where-usb-memory-sticks-are-born/

2 months ago

1 change
97 upvotes – 8 comments

How real are real numbers? (2004)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 102 comments

EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-fined-1-02-billion-under-eus-tech-antitrust-rules-7e8ae1fb

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 137 comments

Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

https://github.com/letsseal/letsseal

2 months ago

★ 302 JavaScript Apache-2.0
94 upvotes – 31 comments

We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles

https://www.rtings.com/air-fryer/learn/research/ptfe-cookware-shedding

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 99 comments

Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"

https://gizmodo.com/this-viral-data-center-sounds-like-satans-buzzsaw-2000791122

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 70 comments

Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/chrome-arm64-linux-available

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

https://www.rise-reforming.com

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/wiles.html

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Shay Locomotives

https://www.shaylocomotives.com/

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/nvidia-s-750-billion-deals-revive-fear-of-ai-circular-financing

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

https://github.com/allyourcodebase

2 months ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025)

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

2 months ago

1 change
75 upvotes – 7 comments

Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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

2 months ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 81 comments

The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

https://gizmodo.com/a-feature-that-makes-your-phone-data-self-destruct-in-authorities-hands-may-soon-have-its-day-in-court-2000790831

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition

https://videocardz.com/newz/minecraft-java-edition-raises-recommended-memory-to-16gb-ahead-of-vulkan-transition

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 81 comments

The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013)

https://www.harpguitars.net/history/grunewald/12-string.htm

2 months ago

1 change
68 upvotes – 48 comments
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