top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-28

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en

2 months ago

818 upvotes – 234 comments

Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000011_en

2 months ago

724 upvotes – 291 comments

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

https://www.lji.org/news-events/news/post/new-hiv-vaccine-shows-unprecedented-success-in-preclinical-study/

2 months ago

660 upvotes – 297 comments

Substack writers, you need a website

https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/

2 months ago

644 upvotes – 352 comments

Codex Security

https://github.com/openai/codex-security

2 months ago

★ 8.5k TypeScript Apache-2.01 change
597 upvotes – 229 comments

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/kimi-k3-architecture-notes.html

2 months ago

506 upvotes – 111 comments

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline

2 months ago

1 change
468 upvotes – 258 comments

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere

2 months ago

★ 218 JavaScript MIT
433 upvotes – 126 comments

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/

2 months ago

342 upvotes – 128 comments

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

https://www.slow-journalism.com/

2 months ago

336 upvotes – 211 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html

2 months ago

328 upvotes – 37 comments

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/

2 months ago

325 upvotes – 142 comments

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692

2 months ago

1 change
306 upvotes – 133 comments

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/

2 months ago

303 upvotes – 161 comments

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

https://blog.doubleword.ai/you-could-have-come-up-with-kimi-delta-attention

2 months ago

1 change
297 upvotes – 127 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

https://sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.6.7

2 months ago

277 upvotes – 169 comments

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/

2 months ago

274 upvotes – 268 comments

Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

https://unawatch.com/

2 months ago

1 change
273 upvotes – 195 comments

Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/

2 months ago

269 upvotes – 157 comments

I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

https://itsmevox.substack.com/p/im-38-and-i-cant-support-myself-anymore

2 months ago

265 upvotes – 489 comments

Deflock Casa Grande

https://deflockcg.com/

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 109 comments

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management

2 months ago

253 upvotes – 97 comments

Donate to GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.org/donate

2 months ago

252 upvotes – 93 comments

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses

2 months ago

232 upvotes – 187 comments

The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/hidden-by-billboards-for-over-100-years-the-tiny-holdout-building-in-the-middle-of-macys-is-back-in-view/

2 months ago

1 change
231 upvotes – 71 comments

How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-hollywood-stopped-making-movies

2 months ago

1 change
225 upvotes – 254 comments

ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

https://reframe.camera/

2 months ago

223 upvotes – 49 comments

Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/how-norway-s-salmon-industry-became-a-global-behemoth/106949872

2 months ago

1 change
220 upvotes – 154 comments

I'd not buy a LG monitor

https://beko.famkos.net/2026/07/27/id-not-buy-a-lg-monitor/

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 108 comments

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067

2 months ago

212 upvotes – 149 comments

The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade

https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program

2 months ago

2 changes
209 upvotes – 392 comments

Vehicle Motion Cues

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios

2 months ago

208 upvotes – 112 comments

DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it

https://ciphercue.com/blog/dmarc-enforcement-gap-rua-fragmentation-2026

2 months ago

1 change
200 upvotes – 168 comments

Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights

https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/shopify-ceo-voting-rights-stripping-americans-19th-century/

2 months ago

194 upvotes – 351 comments

Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/now-is-the-time-to-give-llms-access-to-the-acm-digital-library/

2 months ago

1 change
190 upvotes – 178 comments

Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

https://anthropeum.com/

2 months ago

1 change
190 upvotes – 46 comments

Azulejo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azulejo

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 64 comments

GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

https://www.pcmag.com/news/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-search

2 months ago

180 upvotes – 192 comments

Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

2 months ago

174 upvotes – 40 comments

Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/underwater-oxygen-loss-threatens-earths-stability-researchers-warn

2 months ago

1 change
172 upvotes – 88 comments

Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3819083

2 months ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

2 months ago

1 change
153 upvotes – 170 comments

Pacing the frontier

https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/

2 months ago

1 change
151 upvotes – 204 comments

Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max

https://github.com/gavamedia/deltafin

2 months ago

★ 663 Rust 1 change
138 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

https://github.com/reflex-dev/xy

2 months ago

★ 1.3k Python Apache-2.01 change
136 upvotes – 46 comments

Linux on ESP32

https://github.com/GrieferPig/esp32-s31-linux

2 months ago

★ 145 C
132 upvotes – 49 comments

Uv 0.12.0

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.12.0

2 months ago

★ 88.3k Rust Apache-2.01 change
131 upvotes – 43 comments

MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/

2 months ago

127 upvotes – 40 comments

How Do I Profile eBPF Code?

https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-07-22-how-do-i-profile-ebpf-code/

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code

https://github.com/schildep/verified-3d-mesh-intersection

2 months ago

★ 92 Lean MIT
115 upvotes – 49 comments

Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women

https://ooni.org/post/2026-italy-blocks-wow-and-whw

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 165 comments

Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts

https://arsastronomica.com/

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

Neutrino-1 8B

https://www.fermionresearch.com/models/neutrino-8b/

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4212

2 months ago

105 upvotes – 114 comments

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

https://glyphsapp.com

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

https://github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1

2 months ago

★ 74 Assembly
99 upvotes – 13 comments

Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-illusion-of-explanatory-depth

2 months ago

93 upvotes – 71 comments

Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)

https://www.phidgets.com/?view=articles&article=LongRangeWifi

2 months ago

1 change
92 upvotes – 66 comments

Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score

https://justinflick.com/2026/07/27/llm-confidence-scores.html

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/7658

2 months ago

★ 34.8k Swift Apache-2.0
89 upvotes – 48 comments

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-06-08/a-programming-language-for-humans/

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 66 comments

Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat

https://jacob.gold/posts/residential-proxies-are-a-national-security-threat/

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 93 comments

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

PyTorch: A Reference Language

https://docs.pytorch.org/devlogs/compiler/2026-07-25-pytorch-a-reference-language/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

So, you want to make a game engine (2023)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/so-you-want-to-make-a-game-engine.html#part-3

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/28/def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses/5279763

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

https://tale.fyi/@sam/announcing-tale-fyi-read-or-listen-to-an-entire-book-from-a-single-link

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 72 comments

Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM

https://ccsim.fly.dev

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 3 comments

Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-data-center-activist

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/software-tools-optimization/gluon-attention-decode-mi450/README.html

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski?

https://galjot.si/what-ai-developers-could-learn-from-charles-bukowski

2 months ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/woff-1-0-a-milestone-on-w3cs-journey-of-fonts-on-the-web/

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History

https://simpleflying.com/over-150000-flights-airlines-busiest-day-recorded-history/

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 124 comments

eBay and former execs will pay $56M to settle harassment of Natick couple

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/business/ebay-harassed-ina-david-steiner-settlement/

2 months ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

"Opus 5 is a really bad model"

https://twitter.com/HarukaKunori/status/2081697911847481502

2 months ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)

https://jfrog.com/blog/jfrog-and-openai-collaboration-on-zero-day-security-findings/

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Recursive Filters: SMA, EMA, Low‑Pass, and a Tiny Kalman

https://www.staszewski.xyz/blog/recursive-filters/

2 months ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

News outlet killed story on plagiarism after Cambridge prof hired law firm

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday-plagiarism-allegations-times-higher-education-exclusive/

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

Anthropic publishes a practical key-recovery attack on HAWK-256

https://github.com/anthropics/cryptography-research-demo

2 months ago

★ 58 C Apache-2.0
57 upvotes – 2 comments

Ubuntu's TPM encryption switches to snap kernel that blocks deb kernel packages

https://bare.systems/posts/ubuntu-tpm-snap/

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

Toolcraft

https://toolcraft.sh

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

https://rioterm.com/blog/2026/07/27/rio-vt-and-librio

2 months ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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