top 50% hacker news stories for today

Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk

1 hour ago

★ 101GoApache-2.0
78 upvotes – 85 comments

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

https://twitter.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159

2 hours ago

261 upvotes – 129 comments

Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

https://twitter.com/i/status/2076598897779020159

2 hours ago

175 upvotes – 60 comments

Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/

3 hours ago

84 upvotes – 135 comments

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

https://anderegg.ca/2026/07/12/an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop

3 hours ago

148 upvotes – 93 comments

Control the Ideas, Not the Code

https://antirez.com/news/169

3 hours ago

148 upvotes – 104 comments

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

https://jivx.com/densha

4 hours ago

177 upvotes – 18 comments

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

7 hours ago

1057 upvotes – 528 comments

Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/07/13/inside-berkshires-397-billion-bet-against-an-overheated-market/

7 hours ago

85 upvotes – 103 comments

Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/another-ridiculous-interrail-holiday-6379km-and-13-countries-over-7-weeks/

7 hours ago

164 upvotes – 107 comments

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/quadrupling-code-performance-with-a-useless-if/

8 hours ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Backtrack-Free Cursive

https://mmapped.blog/posts/52-backtrack-free-cursive

9 hours ago

186 upvotes – 80 comments

Sam Neill Has Died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78

9 hours ago

394 upvotes – 88 comments

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news

10 hours ago

373 upvotes – 217 comments

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

https://github.com/schlae/BeavisUltrasound

10 hours ago

★ 49PythonCERN-OHL-P-2.0
85 upvotes – 29 comments

Count Binface

https://countbinface.com

11 hours ago

318 upvotes – 272 comments

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886741

14 hours ago

892 upvotes – 386 comments
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