top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-29

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare

2 months ago

★ 5.4k Swift Apache-2.0
916 upvotes – 345 comments

The coolest use for the Vision Pro

https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/

2 months ago

848 upvotes – 321 comments

Superlogical

https://www.superlogical.com/

2 months ago

2 changes
793 upvotes – 458 comments

KOReader

https://koreader.rocks/

2 months ago

752 upvotes – 247 comments

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research

2 months ago

618 upvotes – 318 comments

Kimi K3-256k

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models

2 months ago

492 upvotes – 157 comments

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice

2 months ago

442 upvotes – 182 comments

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/

2 months ago

438 upvotes – 74 comments

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes

2 months ago

409 upvotes – 114 comments

LLM Honeypot

https://llm2human.pages.dev/

2 months ago

387 upvotes – 107 comments

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/

2 months ago

383 upvotes – 300 comments

The Productivity Mirage

https://frantic.im/mirage/

2 months ago

363 upvotes – 154 comments

Darktable

https://www.darktable.org/

2 months ago

363 upvotes – 176 comments

French musician Kavinsky found dead

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/29/dj-kavinsky-known-for-his-track-nightcall-found-dead-at-his-paris-home

2 months ago

341 upvotes – 80 comments

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398

2 months ago

325 upvotes – 210 comments

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html

2 months ago

1 change
313 upvotes – 404 comments

The Cold Email

https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email

2 months ago

298 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

https://cheapfoodmap.com/

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 258 comments

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawling-ancient-civilization

2 months ago

272 upvotes – 206 comments

Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3

2 months ago

1 change
268 upvotes – 247 comments

LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

https://learnvector.ai/

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 172 comments

Software for One

https://www.ajwaxman.com/writing/software-for-one

2 months ago

1 change
263 upvotes – 274 comments

SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

https://micrologics.org/blog/sqlite-in-production-optimizing-wal-mode-concurrency-and-vfs-layers-for-low-latency-app-servers

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 77 comments

Pareto Front

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

2 months ago

255 upvotes – 108 comments

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/

2 months ago

247 upvotes – 133 comments

Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

https://prilik.com/blog/post/automating-ac-nyc/

2 months ago

1 change
207 upvotes – 167 comments

Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 116 comments

Folding Paper Globes

https://foldingglobes.com/globes

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 40 comments

State of multi-player Wayland

https://blinry.org/multi-seat-wayland/

2 months ago

1 change
171 upvotes – 110 comments

Amiga Graphics Archive

https://amiga.lychesis.net/index.html

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 25 comments

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/san-francisco-dont-fall-industry-defense-surveillance-pricing

2 months ago

167 upvotes – 92 comments

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

https://aistack.imec-int.com/blog/gpu-self-hosting

2 months ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

https://16-bits.org/ft2.php

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 57 comments

Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

https://www.hubble.md/

2 months ago

1 change
151 upvotes – 80 comments

Superlogical

https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical

2 months ago

1 change
150 upvotes – 3 comments

That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-when-i-failed-the-microsoft-interview/

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 312 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

2 changes
143 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

https://kedge.dev/

2 months ago

1 change
141 upvotes – 25 comments

After the AI Crash

https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/07/29/after-the-ai-crash/

2 months ago

128 upvotes – 236 comments

A Trampoline

https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/07/29/a-trampoline/

2 months ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

https://www.claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/07/shipping-godot-vr-and-porting-to-psvr2-a-partial-post-mortem/

2 months ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem

https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/27/the-mean-means-nothing

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

https://juliahub.com/blog/frontier-models-physical-ai-evaluation

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

2 months ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/VladUZH/qwen-scribe

2 months ago

★ 179 Python Apache-2.0
94 upvotes – 21 comments

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5905360/kalshi-wisconsin-election-betting-prediction-markets

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/disrupting-supply-chain-attacks-on-npm-and-github-actions/

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals

https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/commodification-and-circularity/

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 48 comments

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

https://tracewayapp.com/blog/sqlite-vs-duckdb

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier

https://gmic.eu/gmic40/

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 5 comments

The BBC Tetris Companion

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/07/28/bbc-bridge-companion-part-1-overview.html

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications

https://docs.imiron.io/v/0.5.10/en/tour.html

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]

https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/robots-nsd.pdf

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 72 comments

Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8zng43npo

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/token-town/

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design

https://transformer-transformer.github.io/

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple's hostile App Store rating system

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/14.html

2 months ago

1 change
73 upvotes – 123 comments

Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money

https://usetokenless.com/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 63 comments

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Sponsors-RADV-Windows

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

The Difference Between a Button and a Link

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/buttons-vs-links/

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 51 comments

FCC bans foreign-produced solar inverters, grid lockout begins today

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/28/fcc-bans-foreign-produced-solar-inverters-grid-lockout-begins-today/

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector

2 months ago

★ 113 Python MIT
65 upvotes – 68 comments

Hooray for the Sockets Interface

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/hooray-for-the-sockets-interface/

2 months ago

64 upvotes – 83 comments

How much can you delegate to agents?

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/agent-autonomy

2 months ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099021

2 months ago

1 change
64 upvotes – 59 comments

The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure (2019)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-was-a-bold-beautiful-failure

2 months ago

1 change
61 upvotes – 18 comments

Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)

https://archive.org/details/mancomputerbyjoh0000john

2 months ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Teacher arrested for clapping in opposition at an AI data center meeting

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/teacher-arrested-for-clapping-in-support-of-opposition-at-an-ai-data-center-meeting-gigawatt-scale-project-gets-approved-anyway-despite-community-resistance

2 months ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in

https://federalistreader.org/

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Parsers don't have to be complicated

https://bkaradzic.github.io/posts/scanner/

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 75 comments

Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation

https://shuklaayu.sh/blog/riscv-recompiler

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatbots-gaza

2 months ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Cyberpunk Video Games

https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-video-games/

2 months ago

57 upvotes – 67 comments

The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260728-dancing-dots-the-motion-sickness-cure-hidden-in-your-iphone-settings

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

eBay agrees $56M settlement with bloggers over harassment case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj039p238r5o

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world

https://depot.dev/blog/github-is-the-wrong-shape-for-this-new-world

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

How to think about software quality (2022)

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/how-to-not-die-by-a-thousand-cuts/index.html

2 months ago

1 change
54 upvotes – 53 comments

Dr. Dobb's Journal (articles from 1988 – 2009)

https://jacobfilipp.com/thedoctor/

2 months ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/29/windows-11-is-quietly-installing-onedrive-photos-another-image-viewer-that-nobody-asked-for/

2 months ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

AI in Linux

https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/

2 months ago

52 upvotes – 101 comments

Google DeepMind dismantles AlphaFold team

https://www.ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33

2 months ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095601

2 months ago

51 upvotes – 60 comments
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