Hacker News Daily — July 16, 2026
30 stories · July 16, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Kimi K3 is now live
kimi.com · 751 points · Discussion
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Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
techdirt.com · 520 points · Discussion
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OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
community.oneplus.com · 484 points · Discussion
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
opensource.microsoft.com · 374 points · Discussion
The chat client that brought Comic Sans to the world is now on GitHub Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned…
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How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
rtfeldman.com · 328 points · Discussion
For the past year and a half, the team building Roc 's compiler has been rewriting our 300,000 lines of Rust code into Zig, for reasons I'll recap below. We recently passed an exciting milestone:…
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Decoy Font
mixfont.com · 251 points · Discussion
Home Experiments Decoy Font A TTF font that hides what you're typing from AI. Type a message where each letter contains a decoy. Hidden message 11 / 48 Decoy message 11 / 48 Download Decoy Font Decoy…
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Ente – Opening Our Books
ente.com · 203 points · Discussion
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NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
blog.google · 159 points · Discussion
We’re renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. It's the same standalone product, now doing more across the Google ecosystem and updated with a secure cloud computer. Listen to article [[duration]]…
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Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
spaceweather.gov · 135 points · Discussion
Space Weather Prediction Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday, July 07, 2026 02:05:00 UTC Main navigation Home About Space Weather Impacts Electric Power Transmission GPS…
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Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure
onatm.dev · 126 points · Discussion
Homescale, PlanetScale at home. I worked for a database tools company many years ago and was lucky enough to build a few database cloning tools before PlanetScale was cool. Those tools were never…
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Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
blog.lyc8503.net · 107 points · Discussion
This article is currently an experimental machine translation and may contain errors. If anything is unclear, please refer to the original Chinese version. I am continuously working to improve the…
- 12
Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)
immersivemath.com · 106 points · Discussion
Preface A few words about this book. Chapter 1: Introduction How to navigate, notation, and a recap of some math that we think you already know. Chapter 2: Vectors The concept of a vector is…
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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks
the-decoder.com · 93 points · Discussion
Update from July 15, 2026:  After launch, critics argued that Soofi S was heavily "overtrained" by the standards of the classic Chinchilla scaling laws. Google DeepMind published those laws in…
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Guide to data tools landscape for developers
sinja.io · 92 points · Discussion
Found yourself on a data project and have no idea what they all are talking about? Feel excluded from all the fun discussions in the office kitchen? If only there were a humongous guide going over all…
- 15
How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
zhinit.dev · 70 points · Discussion
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Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer
github.com · 50 points · Discussion
GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive. On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based utilities (e.g. du) or…
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Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together
github.com · 33 points · Discussion
Enabling coding agents to work together agent-talk is a plugin for coding agents (e.g., Claude Code). It gives your agent a way to message other agents, including ones run by other people, allowing…
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Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
artificialanalysis.ai · 33 points · Discussion
Intelligence Updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's…
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Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
29 points · Discussion
I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal. I wrote it up here: https://tmzt.github.io/blog/a-modern-port-of-linux-to-a-ten-... You can see the code here:…
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As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011)
derekwebb.tumblr.com · 27 points · Discussion
Giving it Away: How Free Music Makes More Than Sense Music matters.  It’s so integral and pervasive in our culture that it almost feels invisible.  It’s even hard to imagine walking into…
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CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026
consequence.net · 19 points · Discussion
For the better part of the last decade, vinyl has been the face of music’s physical revival. But according to Luminate’s 2026 Midyear Report, another format is quietly making an even bigger comeback:…
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Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes
purplesyringa.moe · 19 points · Discussion
July 2, 2026 Guest post This is a guest post by Yuki about some tricks we use for Lua code compression in our shared ComputerCraft pet project. I’ve written about how we adapted bzip2 for this purpose…
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Pseudpocalypse
dynomight.net · 18 points · Discussion
dynomight best See all best posts → Air quality myths Sleep optimization topics All topics Health & science How to think about About dynomight get Get guide to life + weekly posts --> DYNOMIGHT best…
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The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
bbc.com · 17 points · Discussion
BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images (Credit: BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images) Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.…
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AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes
nicholas-afk.github.io · 16 points · Discussion
Smallest working chess engine · record: 278 bytes AttoChess A complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes. It draws the board, reads a move from the keyboard, searches four plies…
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Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps
15 points · Discussion
Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce ( https://www.traceforce.ai/ ). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
- 28
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
9 points · Discussion
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot.…
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Making your JITted Code known: Let me count the ways
wakelift.de · 9 points · Discussion
AOT Compilers It has been normal and expected for a long long time that any machine code they spit out would come with a bunch of metadata that is meant to be used by different pieces of the target…