hcker.news — week

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

2026-07-19T14:41:16Z

2928 points by section33 | 355 comments

Article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48968606

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

2026-07-21T20:09:52Z

1619 points by mfiguiere | 1150 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48997548

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

Writing by hand is good for your brain

2026-07-23T14:24:43Z

1438 points by dwwoelfel | 651 comments

Article: https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49022152

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

2026-07-20T14:21:47Z

1239 points by benwerd | 932 comments

Article: https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48979269

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

2026-07-18T10:21:19Z

1224 points by baranul | 638 comments

Article: https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-user-consent
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48956688

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

2026-07-22T17:30:40Z

1114 points by gmays | 636 comments

Article: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49010345

Advertise in ChatGPT

2026-07-21T18:58:44Z

1090 points by montecarl | 839 comments

Article: https://ads.openai.com/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48996571

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

2026-07-23T15:18:40Z

1038 points by theanonymousone | 855 comments

Article: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49023016

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

2026-07-22T15:19:23Z

1009 points by starfallg | 234 comments

Article: https://bento.page/slides/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49008211

Who's afraid of Chinese models?

2026-07-20T11:05:58Z

991 points by mfiguiere | 899 comments

Article: https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48977128

Qwen 3.8

2026-07-19T08:44:57Z

961 points by nh43215rgb | 730 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48966120

John C. Dvorak has died

2026-07-22T19:22:19Z

924 points by coleca | 313 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49012070

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

2026-07-21T22:35:24Z

874 points by piotrgrabowski | 445 comments

Article: https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48999291

Airport Simulator

2026-07-20T10:30:40Z

853 points by apunen | 167 comments

Article: https://airport.apunen.com/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48976846

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture

2026-07-20T02:51:16Z

801 points by loubbrad | 513 comments

Article: https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48973869

Transcribe.cpp

2026-07-19T00:38:26Z

770 points by sebjones | 166 comments

Article: https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48963879

Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

2026-07-21T15:17:16Z

752 points by logickkk1 | 575 comments

Article: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48993414

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

FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

2026-07-21T18:39:06Z

715 points by FriedPickles | 168 comments

Article: https://freeink.org/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48996318

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

2026-07-20T13:28:33Z

709 points by speckx | 413 comments

Article: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48978605

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

2026-07-24T09:08:17Z

701 points by pchm | 523 comments

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

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

2026-07-21T19:43:59Z

699 points by healsdata | 141 comments

Article: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpns-are-lawful-technical-tools-says-eu-court-in-landmark-anne-frank-copyright-ruling
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48997221

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

2026-07-23T13:09:10Z

680 points by technewssss | 368 comments

Article: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49020999

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

2026-07-22T17:17:54Z

679 points by dcastm | 242 comments

Article: https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49010129

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

2026-07-22T10:49:04Z

677 points by ignaloidas | 363 comments

Article: https://overpaid.lol
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49004663

Kimi Work

2026-07-20T17:13:23Z

676 points by ms7892 | 277 comments

Article: https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48981703

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

2026-07-20T17:07:39Z

661 points by baldvinmar | 202 comments

Article: https://jelly-ui.com/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48981620

Everyone should know SIMD

2026-07-22T17:48:18Z

644 points by WadeGrimridge | 250 comments

Article: https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49010648

The Kimi K3 Moment

2026-07-18T17:32:40Z

636 points by sbochins | 611 comments

Article: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48960218

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

2026-07-22T17:20:38Z

613 points by syrusakbary | 119 comments

Article: https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49010167

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

2026-07-19T10:03:23Z

608 points by tosh | 848 comments

Article: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48966569

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

2026-07-22T12:32:48Z

605 points by montroser | 642 comments

Article: https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49005747

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

2026-07-18T13:00:52Z

600 points by mbustamanter | 391 comments

Article: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48957779

NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

2026-07-18T22:13:39Z

591 points by gnabgib | 265 comments

Article: https://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-advertise-properties/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48962983

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

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

2026-07-23T01:16:14Z

573 points by abhisek | 438 comments

Article: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49015639

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

2026-07-22T14:25:13Z

569 points by ksec | 779 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/2079787406300266743
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49007374

Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

2026-07-21T08:44:23Z

568 points by ilreb | 216 comments

Article: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48989701

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude

2026-07-21T19:04:39Z

564 points by BeetleB | 621 comments

Article: https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48996652

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch

2026-07-20T02:43:54Z

563 points by sohkamyung | 163 comments

Article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48973835

Flux 3

2026-07-24T06:17:08Z

556 points by ThouYS | 130 comments

Article: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49031796

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

2026-07-20T12:14:08Z

554 points by rapnie | 357 comments

Article: https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48977711

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

2026-07-24T11:54:41Z

554 points by hhh | 187 comments

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

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

2026-07-19T10:34:58Z

551 points by chipweinberger | 257 comments

Article: https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48966713

98.css

2026-07-23T22:30:29Z

540 points by lopespm | 123 comments

Article: https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49028927

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

2026-07-20T04:45:15Z

528 points by ilreb | 325 comments

Article: https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48974454

The startup's Postgres survival guide

2026-07-22T12:36:08Z

516 points by abelanger | 232 comments

Article: https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49005787

I regret migrating to Codeberg

2026-07-23T14:06:47Z

508 points by boramalper | 506 comments

Article: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=49021856

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

2026-07-20T19:03:37Z

499 points by artninja1988 | 255 comments

Article: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/
Comments: https://www.hcker.news/?comments=48983382