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Claude Opus 5

2026-07-24T16:57:41Z

1454 points by alvis | 801 comments

Article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038433

It's getting harder to focus every day

2026-07-24T08:18:30Z

715 points by peykar | 392 comments

Article: https://glyphack.com/attention/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49032660

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

2026-07-24T09:08:17Z

701 points by pchm | 524 comments

Article: https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033004

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

2026-07-24T13:32:30Z

576 points by louiereederson | 257 comments

Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49035303

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

2026-07-24T11:54:41Z

555 points by hhh | 187 comments

Article: https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034292

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

2026-07-24T16:33:31Z

474 points by rwmj | 276 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038060

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

2026-07-24T14:41:59Z

444 points by rootkea | 325 comments

Article: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49036433

Em dashes are amazing

2026-07-24T12:40:27Z

344 points by surprisetalk | 287 comments

Article: https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034747

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

2026-07-24T09:31:48Z

313 points by kensai | 49 comments

Article: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033127

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

2026-07-24T12:53:59Z

289 points by m0do1 | 54 comments

Article: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034868

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

2026-07-24T09:52:58Z

278 points by thisislife2 | 337 comments

Article: https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033240

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

2026-07-24T19:05:53Z

272 points by KraftyOne | 49 comments

Article: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49040296

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

2026-07-24T09:26:40Z

256 points by kristoff_it | 170 comments

Article: https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-builds/16891
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033099

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

2026-07-24T19:45:10Z

235 points by aarondong | 139 comments

Article: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49040741

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

2026-07-24T09:07:44Z

197 points by downbad_ | 79 comments

Article: https://sive.rs/itunes
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033001

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

2026-07-25T02:54:36Z

173 points by JumpCrisscross | 60 comments

Article: https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49044074

Future euro banknote design proposals

2026-07-24T09:29:44Z

161 points by robin_reala | 138 comments

Article: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033110

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

2026-07-24T16:48:57Z

159 points by signa11 | 136 comments

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038298

Patreon laying off 20% of staff

2026-07-24T13:02:49Z

155 points by gpi | 263 comments

Article: https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034948

Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

2026-07-24T09:24:44Z

146 points by jonas_scholz | 78 comments

Article: https://sliplane.io/blog/hetzner-inference
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033087

Codeberg Divides

2026-07-24T15:05:06Z

119 points by ashdnazg | 174 comments

Article: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/24/codeberg-divides/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49036765

Unitree As2-W

2026-07-24T16:32:52Z

115 points by MehrdadKhnzd | 48 comments

Article: https://www.unitree.com/As2-W/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038045

Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf]

2026-07-24T13:58:12Z

111 points by lairv | 2 comments

Article: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49035751

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]

2026-07-24T22:44:38Z

107 points by cryptoz | 137 comments

Article: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49042528

I got into YC Startup School by hacking it

2026-07-24T18:03:22Z

102 points by speckx | 67 comments

Article: https://obaid.wtf/jotbook/2026/07/18/how-i-got-into-yc-by-hacking-it.html
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49039448

JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal

2026-07-24T16:52:33Z

95 points by pmg1991 | 89 comments

Article: https://openjdk.org/jeps/541
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038352

I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year

2026-07-24T12:00:17Z

94 points by surprisetalk | 79 comments

Article: https://www.alexhyett.com/videos/tried-building-app-with-ai-it-took-a-year/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034342

The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)

2026-07-24T11:46:40Z

91 points by bw86 | 73 comments

Article: https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034217

The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm

2026-07-24T15:24:00Z

84 points by plucafs | 46 comments

Article: https://foldkit.dev/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49037031

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

2026-07-24T06:59:07Z

81 points by ingve | 34 comments

Article: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-instinct-mi455x-aiming-for-the
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49032072

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

2026-07-24T23:13:18Z

76 points by hhs | 10 comments

Article: https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49042751

AIs don't do what you want. This is bad

2026-07-24T22:24:08Z

73 points by kking23 | 65 comments

Article: https://rewardhacking.org
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49042354

Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

2026-07-24T13:33:12Z

73 points by DemiGuru | 13 comments

Article: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49035314

Claude Opus 5

2026-07-24T16:55:26Z

73 points by meetpateltech | 3 comments

Article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038393

Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

2026-07-24T06:36:50Z

70 points by slow_typist | 91 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9n2y61w6o
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49031917

The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type

2026-07-24T07:02:43Z

67 points by signa11 | 80 comments

Article: https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/07/23/the-pimpl-idiom-and-the-cpp26-stdindirect-type/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49032095

German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications

2026-07-24T11:46:55Z

66 points by giuliomagnifico | 53 comments

Article: https://www.reuters.com/business/german-battery-maker-varta-files-insolvency-applications-2026-07-24/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034219

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

2026-07-24T11:13:59Z

65 points by cfmcdonald | 22 comments

Article: https://technicshistory.com/2026/07/24/the-ibm-pc-part-1-arrival/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033916

What if we made advertising illegal?

2026-07-24T20:07:20Z

64 points by gurjeet | 57 comments

Article: https://simone.org/advertising/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49040989

Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go

2026-07-24T17:59:08Z

62 points by jackielii | 10 comments

Article: https://ui.gsxhq.dev/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49039395

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

2026-07-24T16:40:49Z

61 points by delichon | 15 comments

Article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx4343
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038181

Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks

2026-07-24T10:15:29Z

59 points by gregnavis | 12 comments

Article: https://www.gameoftrees.org/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033412

How do we stop vibe coding?

2026-07-24T10:12:39Z

58 points by prohobo | 73 comments

Article: https://alexklos.ca/blog/how-do-we-stop-vibe-coding
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49033388

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

2026-07-25T01:44:12Z

58 points by agnishom | 13 comments

Article: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49043724

The Reddit Problem – How a Reddit Alternative Was Banned from RedditAlternatives

2026-07-24T15:08:25Z

57 points by JoinRhyme | 9 comments

Article: https://rhyme.com/post/53oy222/the-reddit-problem-and-how-our-reddit-alternative-was-banned
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49036816

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

2026-07-24T12:15:11Z

53 points by ilreb | 49 comments

Article: https://elsewhere.news/en/zhenfund/why-is-programming-so-captivating-yet-so-agonizing
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49034468

Proving a human wrote something

2026-07-24T16:33:26Z

52 points by gjtorikian | 63 comments

Article: https://gjtorikian.online/posts/proving-a-human-wrote-something/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038059

Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

2026-07-24T16:27:58Z

51 points by Adrig | 71 comments

Article: https://adriengonin.com/writing/service-with-a-software/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49037971

The small, real, original web

2026-07-24T17:28:59Z

50 points by speckx | 25 comments

Article: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038977

DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads

2026-07-24T17:00:23Z

50 points by rzk | 9 comments

Article: https://duckpgq.org/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49038481