top 50% 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

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm

2 months ago

220 upvotes – 82 comments

Logic for Programmers

https://logicforprogrammers.com/

2 months ago

1 change
217 upvotes – 47 comments

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/

2 months ago

1 change
214 upvotes – 275 comments

Holocloth

https://holocloth.vercel.app

2 months ago

206 upvotes – 38 comments

CodePen 2.0

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/

2 months ago

193 upvotes – 52 comments

Europe's fires are just the start

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/07/28/europes-fires-are-just-the-start

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 344 comments

The Absurdity of Albert Camus

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/absurdity-albert-camus

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 92 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/

2 months ago

176 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer

2 months ago

170 upvotes – 73 comments

1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed

https://noyb.eu/en/1741-informed-consents-one-click-gdpr-complaint-against-dictcc-filed

2 months ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg8299

2 months ago

157 upvotes – 69 comments

Are We Stuck with Lean?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/513742/are-we-stuck-with-lean

2 months ago

156 upvotes – 68 comments

Manual: •.,:;…!?·

https://type.today/en/journal/dots

2 months ago

1 change
130 upvotes – 34 comments

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users

2 months ago

130 upvotes – 42 comments

Why don't people use formal methods? (2019)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-methods/

2 months ago

1 change
128 upvotes – 117 comments

Making Postgres queues scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale

2 months ago

1 change
128 upvotes – 34 comments

Gpiozero Flow

https://bennuttall.com/blog/2026/07/gpiozero-flow/

2 months ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

https://dynomight.net/plants/

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 109 comments

Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cause-cancer-in-some-people-but-not-others

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 115 comments

3D Pinball for Windows (1995)

https://98.js.org/programs/pinball/space-cadet.html

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 49 comments

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/scaling-numpy-on-free-threaded-python

2 months ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-starts-production-home-grown-immersion-duv-chipmaking-tools-source-2026-07-28/

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 118 comments

Train Simulator Controller

https://z80.me/blog/tsc-2026-july/

2 months ago

105 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder

2 months ago

2 changes
101 upvotes – 70 comments

Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-1-release

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

https://github.com/YoanWai/agent-manager

2 months ago

★ 271 Go Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 79 comments

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

https://ei3lh.eu/2025/11/20/replacing-the-kobo-libra-h2o-battery/

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/

2 months ago

1 change
96 upvotes – 13 comments

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

EU now fears US interference in European elections

https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/29/eu-now-fears-us-interference-in-european-elections/

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements

https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-partners-universities-industry-pilot-initiative-four

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents

https://noelo.org/blog/kuna-release/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 59 comments

We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros

https://nintendowire.com/news/2026/07/29/we-discovered-a-new-super-mario-bros-variant/

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components

https://elenajs.com/

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/072926_melendez_swatting/man-seeks-millions-after-being-shot-by-pima-deputies-swatting-incident/

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 111 comments

You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface

https://steelmanlabs.com/blog/computer-use-is-far-from-solved

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 85 comments

Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

https://phulin.me/blog/poker/

2 months ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 21 comments

ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgpt-roblox-to-fall-under-strictest-eu-rules-for-platforms

2 months ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 54 comments

CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cosmosescape-taking-over-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

US oil inventories fall to 'precariously low' level as Iran war disrupts supply

https://www.ft.com/content/86f37415-cc80-4ea6-bc03-87c96cb831f4

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-went-extinct

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year

https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/ever-bigger-car-size-at-a-crossroads

2 months ago

70 upvotes – 92 comments

How old is Ann?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/07/29/how-old-is-ann/

2 months ago

1 change
70 upvotes – 71 comments

Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

https://quantego.org/

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

https://github.com/n67094/sdl_gp

2 months ago

★ 76 C
65 upvotes – 30 comments

There's never been a better time to commit financial fraud

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/29/theres-never-been-a-better-time-to-commit-financial-fraud

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

We accidentally built an LLVM compiler for Jax

https://iza.ac/posts/2026/07/accidental-llvm-compiler-for-jax/

2 months ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior

https://kttnr.net/blog/cpp-float-to-int-conversion-undefined-behavior/

2 months ago

63 upvotes – 67 comments

Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits

https://docs.carolinacloud.io/organizations/prepaid-interest/

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds

https://hannahilea.com/blog/birduino/

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

https://github.com/grafana/ai-sdk

2 months ago

★ 212 Go Apache-2.0
60 upvotes – 16 comments

'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts

https://www.ft.com/content/23f388eb-e8ab-4fb1-b1ca-8e04eb4561a1

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

https://www.typestax.com/

2 months ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Boarding China's Last Bus

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/chinas-last-bus

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

https://github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account

2 months ago

★ 69 Rust MIT
54 upvotes – 31 comments

Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI

https://www.wsj.com/finance/citadel-buys-situational-awarenesss-stock-portfolio-after-big-losses-in-ai-5117159b

2 months ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages

https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/23/study-uncovers-lost-golden-age-languages

2 months ago

54 upvotes – 75 comments

US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries

2 months ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments
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