The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2026

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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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Claude Opus 5 anthropic.com · alvis · 24 Jul 2026

1.8k pts 1.3k 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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Show HN: Elevators john.fun · Jrh0203 · 31 Jul 2026

1.7k pts 415 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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GPT-5.6 openai.com · logickkk1 · 9 Jul 2026

1.6k pts 1.1k 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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Half-Baked Product weli.dev · weli · 3 Jul 2026

1.4k pts 415 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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Organic Maps organicmaps.app · tosh · 5 Jul 2026

1.2k pts 364 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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Show HN: 18 Words 18words.com · pompomsheep · 9 Jul 2026

1.2k pts 366 comments

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Kill The Cookie Banner killthecookiebanner.eu · rapnie · 26 Jul 2026

1.2k pts 595 comments

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OpenPrinter opentools.studio · bouh · 5 Jul 2026

1.2k pts 289 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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Chatto is now open source hmans.dev · speckx · 8 Jul 2026

1.1k pts 305 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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Advertise in ChatGPT ads.openai.com · montecarl · 21 Jul 2026

1.1k pts 842 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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Qwen 3.8 twitter.com · nh43215rgb · 19 Jul 2026

961 pts 731 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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John C. Dvorak has died twitter.com · coleca · 22 Jul 2026

930 pts 323 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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Airport Simulator airport.apunen.com · apunen · 20 Jul 2026

856 pts 168 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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7.1 Earthquake in Japan data.jma.go.jp · krembo · 28 Jul 2026

819 pts 234 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