Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-28

  1. Our position on open-weights models www.anthropic.com - 1242 comments 853 points
  2. AI companies are shredding rare books twitter.com - 485 comments 767 points
  3. How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? lockwood.dev - 368 comments 467 points
  4. Kimi-K3 Technical Report - pdf github.com - 169 comments 383 points
  5. Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website www.sgieurope.com - 215 comments 320 points
  6. Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped www.techdirt.com - 118 comments 301 points
  7. Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise nypost.com - 248 comments 298 points
  8. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months arstechnica.com - 155 comments 271 points
  9. AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying www.ft.com - 141 comments 267 points
  10. Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench github.com - 59 comments 267 points
  11. Using an open model feels surprisingly good matthewsaltz.com - 85 comments 259 points
  12. Canceling “Hey” chadnauseam.com - 208 comments 252 points
  13. Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity - 2023 misago-project.org - 176 comments 241 points
  14. Apple Will ‘Watch Everything Burn’ When the AI Bubble Bursts www.macrumors.com - 318 comments 240 points
  15. Should you wash your solar panels? incoherency.co.uk - 231 comments 233 points
  16. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH microsoft.ai - 109 comments 231 points
  17. Paged Out #9 - pdf pagedout.institute - 25 comments 227 points
  18. Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470% www.bbc.com - 181 comments 209 points
  19. Why I Left Google DeepMind www.lesswrong.com - 54 comments 190 points
  20. Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines github.com - 24 comments 190 points
  21. Modern email can be built from borrowed parts en.andros.dev - 113 comments 185 points
  22. Forth xkcd.com - 39 comments 178 points
  23. Astronauts describe persistent ‘observer’ sensation after 6 month missions spacedaily.com - 93 comments 176 points
  24. VLC for Unity now supported on Linux code.videolan.org - 50 comments 163 points
  25. A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review fermisense.com - 43 comments 156 points
  26. Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles eaton-works.com - 49 comments 148 points
  27. Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions gregoryszorc.com - 31 comments 143 points
  28. The Artist Who Colored Ghibli animationobsessive.substack.com - 14 comments 121 points
  29. Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library usefeyn.com - 25 comments 104 points
  30. Worse on Purpose ledger.worseonpurpose.com - 79 comments 103 points