top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-30

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/

2 months ago

1233 upvotes – 674 comments

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/

2 months ago

1 change
814 upvotes – 547 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/

2 months ago

780 upvotes – 295 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/

2 months ago

620 upvotes – 557 comments

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/

2 months ago

608 upvotes – 402 comments

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

https://remysharp.com/links/2026-07-23-35890312

2 months ago

433 upvotes – 177 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html

2 months ago

423 upvotes – 526 comments

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses

2 months ago

408 upvotes – 234 comments

The AI Aesthetic

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/

2 months ago

377 upvotes – 176 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish

2 months ago

★ 1.7k Python MIT
360 upvotes – 122 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/

2 months ago

354 upvotes – 427 comments

Premier league bans gambling sponsors

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2646571793/betting-ban-takes-effect-no-more-gambling-sponsors-in-the-premier-league.html

2 months ago

328 upvotes – 123 comments

The Religion of Speed

https://graybeard.ing/the-religion-of-speed/

2 months ago

320 upvotes – 159 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html

2 months ago

285 upvotes – 122 comments

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/

2 months ago

275 upvotes – 161 comments

Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/

2 months ago

265 upvotes – 118 comments

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

2 months ago

252 upvotes – 199 comments

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/

2 months ago

235 upvotes – 179 comments

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a

2 months ago

1 change
233 upvotes – 313 comments

“Gravity is worth asking about”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/gravity-is-worth-asking-about/

2 months ago

1 change
228 upvotes – 146 comments
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