Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-24
- Writing by hand is good for your brain nealstephenson.substack.com - 567 comments 1267 points
- Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI www.politico.com - 754 comments 899 points
- AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt futurism.com - 340 comments 645 points
- 98.css jdan.github.io - 106 comments 448 points
- Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party news.ycombinator.com - 161 comments 425 points
- Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models news.ycombinator.com - 174 comments 370 points
- What happened to TheNumbers.com stephenfollows.com - 166 comments 363 points
- Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. www.science.org - 191 comments 326 points
- Why Software Factories Fail - or: harness engineering is not enough github.com - 218 comments 301 points
- OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line www.axios.com - 321 comments 283 points
- Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ haqr.eu - 62 comments 277 points
- The arguments against open source AI are bad tombedor.dev - 185 comments 265 points
- Alphabet’s cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs www.reuters.com - 267 comments 263 points
- I regret migrating to Codeberg xn–gckvb8fzb.com - 166 comments 259 points
- DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 www.darpa.mil - 257 comments 234 points
- Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL learnopengl.com - 118 comments 233 points
- Astronomers may have found the first exomoon www.eso.org - 81 comments 216 points
- Fields Medals 2026 www.mathunion.org - 87 comments 169 points
- Flux 3 bfl.ai - 41 comments 167 points
- EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps www.theguardian.com - 172 comments 166 points
- Building on ATProto lukekanies.com - 76 comments 154 points
- Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI github.com - 24 comments 148 points
- Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It’s time for change werd.io - 152 comments 142 points
- Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality www.worseonpurpose.com - 101 comments 115 points
- Emacs Is a Lispboard en.andros.dev - 54 comments 107 points
- Why Sony can’t bring back its classic Walkman models obsoletesony.substack.com - 91 comments 104 points
- Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account blog.google - 85 comments 101 points
- Learn WebGPU for C++ eliemichel.github.io - 13 comments 99 points
- Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you github.com - 81 comments 98 points
- JEP 540: Simple JSON API - Now in Incubator openjdk.org - 73 comments 98 points
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