The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2026
We track 1,350 stories from July 2026, averaging 300 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 91 stories. Together they drew 236,843 comments, 175 per story on average.
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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
section33 · 19 Jul 2026
2.9k pts
360 comments
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
kimi.com · vincent_s · 16 Jul 2026
2.1k pts
1.2k comments
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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
f-droid.org · drewfax · 2 Jul 2026
1.7k pts
746 comments
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
9to5mac.com · stock_toaster · 10 Jul 2026
1.7k pts
967 comments
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
patrick-breyer.de · rapnie · 9 Jul 2026
1.6k pts
863 comments
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
openai.com · mfiguiere · 21 Jul 2026
1.6k pts
1.2k comments
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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
raymyers.org · crowdhailer · 13 Jul 2026
1.6k pts
786 comments
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Writing by hand is good for your brain
nealstephenson.substack.com · dwwoelfel · 23 Jul 2026
1.5k pts
669 comments
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Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
tris.sherliker.net · speerer · 8 Jul 2026
1.5k pts
233 comments
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John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
apnews.com · djoldman · 8 Jul 2026
1.4k pts
306 comments
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Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
huggingface.co · nateb2022 · 27 Jul 2026
1.4k pts
544 comments
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US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
techspot.com · eecc · 26 Jul 2026
1.3k pts
1.1k comments
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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
nprateem · 17 Jul 2026
1.3k pts
756 comments
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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
werd.io · benwerd · 20 Jul 2026
1.2k pts
932 comments
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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
uefa.com · dickfickling · 30 Jul 2026
1.2k pts
674 comments
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LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
videocardz.com · baranul · 18 Jul 2026
1.2k pts
638 comments
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
thinkingmachines.ai · vimarsh6739 · 15 Jul 2026
1.2k pts
294 comments
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Our position on open-weights models
anthropic.com · surprisetalk · 27 Jul 2026
1.2k pts
1.7k comments
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Kill The Cookie Banner
killthecookiebanner.eu · rapnie · 26 Jul 2026
1.2k pts
595 comments
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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
chatgpt.com · gmays · 22 Jul 2026
1.1k pts
637 comments
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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
levkk · 13 Jul 2026
1.1k pts
460 comments
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Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
politico.com · theanonymousone · 23 Jul 2026
1.1k pts
889 comments
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Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
bento.page · starfallg · 22 Jul 2026
1k pts
239 comments
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Android may soon restrict on-device ADB
kitsumed.github.io · shscs911 · 25 Jul 2026
1k pts
509 comments
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Who's afraid of Chinese models?
stratechery.com · mfiguiere · 20 Jul 2026
995 pts
910 comments
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Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
fabiensanglard.net · vinhnx · 15 Jul 2026
961 pts
259 comments
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Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data
hunton.com · toomuchtodo · 2 Jul 2026
959 pts
139 comments
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For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
quantamagazine.org · defrost · 1 Jul 2026
957 pts
303 comments
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Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
github.com · vforno · 9 Jul 2026
937 pts
240 comments
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PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
nikolays.github.io · jonbaer · 27 Jul 2026
930 pts
92 comments
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Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
github.com · gitpusher42 · 29 Jul 2026
919 pts
345 comments
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Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
fightchatcontrol.eu · gasull · 7 Jul 2026
916 pts
352 comments
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If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
ptrchm.com · pchm · 24 Jul 2026
907 pts
692 comments
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Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
danq.me · MrVandemar · 11 Jul 2026
895 pts
549 comments
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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
fireworks.ai · piotrgrabowski · 21 Jul 2026
877 pts
451 comments
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Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
kotaku.com · oumua_don17 · 5 Jul 2026
862 pts
357 comments
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The lost joy of music piracy
pigeonsandplanes.com · mcgin · 16 Jul 2026
853 pts
608 comments
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The coolest use for the Vision Pro
christianselig.com · robbiet480 · 29 Jul 2026
849 pts
321 comments
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
nicholasjbs · 17 Jul 2026
836 pts
107 comments
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The bottleneck might be the air in the room
blog.mikebowler.ca · gslin · 4 Jul 2026
833 pts
468 comments
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Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
github.com · SweetSoftPillow · 9 Jul 2026
832 pts
729 comments
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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
openwrt.org · peter_d_sherman · 6 Jul 2026
832 pts
325 comments
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StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
streetcomplete.app · kls0e · 7 Jul 2026
829 pts
206 comments
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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
krebsonsecurity.com · speckx · 30 Jul 2026
818 pts
552 comments
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My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
andrewkelley.me · kristoff_it · 9 Jul 2026
817 pts
707 comments
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
opensource.microsoft.com · jervant · 16 Jul 2026
814 pts
178 comments
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Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
xcancel.com · loubbrad · 20 Jul 2026
803 pts
515 comments
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