Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-31

  1. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions www.uefa.com - 537 comments 997 points
  2. Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick krebsonsecurity.com - 398 comments 701 points
  3. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub github.blog - 214 comments 628 points
  4. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 openai.com - 372 comments 570 points
  5. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots deepmind.google - 438 comments 551 points
  6. ‘VPNs are lawful technical tools,’ says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling remysharp.com - 167 comments 429 points
  7. Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year android-developers.googleblog.com - 479 comments 400 points
  8. We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 www.bottlenecklabs.com - 209 comments 363 points
  9. Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English github.com - 108 comments 300 points
  10. The AI Aesthetic blog.jim-nielsen.com - 127 comments 298 points
  11. GCC steering committee announces AI policy lwn.net - 314 comments 287 points
  12. The session you cannot take with you earendil.com - 53 comments 265 points
  13. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 www.grumpygamer.com - 112 comments 241 points
  14. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring martinfowler.com - 96 comments 233 points
  15. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up www.quantamagazine.org - 130 comments 213 points
  16. Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 www.projectpluto.com - 64 comments 204 points
  17. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? www.construction-physics.com - 239 comments 192 points
  18. DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update api-docs.deepseek.com - 78 comments 187 points
  19. I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals geospatialml.com - 79 comments 182 points
  20. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations www.anthropic.com - 137 comments 177 points
  21. Europe’s fires are just the start economist.com - 282 comments 168 points
  22. CodePen 2.0 chriscoyier.net - 47 comments 166 points
  23. The lost civic life of movie rental stores thereader.mitpress.mit.edu - 216 comments 165 points
  24. Hacker Public Radio hackerpublicradio.org - 29 comments 152 points
  25. The Religion of Speed graybeard.ing - 70 comments 140 points
  26. Are We Stuck with Lean? mathoverflow.net - 64 comments 139 points
  27. A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return www.science.org - 112 comments 137 points
  28. The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it greyswansignals.com - 119 comments 130 points
  29. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn’t transfer censorship. Try it www.ctgt.ai - 64 comments 123 points
  30. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users - 2020 mnot.net - 36 comments 122 points