Hacker News Daily — July 24, 2026
30 stories · July 24, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Claude Opus 5
anthropic.com · 966 points · Discussion
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card
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It's getting harder to focus every day
glyphack.com · 660 points · Discussion
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after…
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Flux 3
bfl.ai · 538 points · Discussion
FLUX 3 is now available in Early Access. FLUX 3 is our new multimodal foundation model. It jointly learns from images, videos, and audio within a unified architecture, because what it needs to learn…
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My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
hhh.hn · 431 points · Discussion
i have been thinking a bit more about security cameras again, because of AXIS starting to push more for every one of their cameras to be able to easily run linux applications on them, they're far more…
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India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
arstechnica.com · 391 points · Discussion
“On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible.” V. Narayanan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (second from left), and Pawan Kumar Chandana, CEO of Skyroot…
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
cnbc.com · 321 points · Discussion
Letter: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-L... [pdf] https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103, https://xcancel.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103…
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Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
theguardian.com · 311 points · Discussion
O n 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too…
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Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
bfl.ai · 296 points · Discussion
An early version of FLUX 3, our new multimodal foundation model, is now running on robots. We gave mimic robotics early access to FLUX.3. Their strength in robot learning and deployment, combined with…
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If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
ptrchm.com · 294 points · Discussion
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before…
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Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
thehindu.com · 289 points · Discussion
Bitchat app’s developer and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared a copy of the notice dated July 23, 2026, on the X platform. File. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Home Ministry’s cybercrime arm, the…
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Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
discuss.haiku-os.org · 222 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
houseofsaud.com · 194 points · Discussion
CENTCOM struck Iranian maritime targets on Night 13, the first time the US named sea-lane assets Trump threatens to strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain. Saudi Arabia — with 86% of PAC-3 interceptors…
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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
dbos.dev · 95 points · Discussion
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY has a bad reputation thanks in part to a popular blog post asserting it does not scale. If that were true, it would be a shame, because LISTEN/NOTIFY is a powerful tool,…
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Future euro banknote design proposals
ecb.europa.eu · 79 points · Discussion
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/ht...
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I got into YC Startup School by hacking it
obaid.wtf · 74 points · Discussion
tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their…
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Don't Take the Black Pill [video]
youtube.com · 71 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm
foldkit.dev · 68 points · Discussion
Beta The frontend framework for correctness. Built on Effect. Architected like Elm. Written in TypeScript. npx create-foldkit-app@latest Declare behavior. Ship. Repeat. React, Vue, Svelte, and Solid…
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Self-host your mail server
blog.haschek.at · 65 points · Discussion
If you have spent a few days online in self-hosting or data-sovereignty communities there is one advice that always pops up: You can self-host anything but not your e-mail server! I do understand…
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Unitree As2-W
unitree.com · 62 points · Discussion
Unitree As2-W Powerful Pioneer, Compact Yet Extraordinary Wherever It Goes, Conquers Every Terrain Combining the high-speed of wheels with the obstacle-overcoming capability of legs, it automatically…
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The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)
andrewzigler.com · 59 points · Discussion
In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions ― or Dungeons, or Domains, or so many other options…
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Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]
youtube.com · 57 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
science.org · 50 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Proving a human wrote something
gjtorikian.online · 42 points · Discussion
When drafting a new blog post after some years, it’s mandatory to begin it with some form of mea culpa. I actually made a New Year’s resolution to start writing more blog posts; after the dissolution…
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Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go
ui.gsxhq.dev · 38 points · Discussion
gsxui is a shadcn-style component set for gsx: copy-in, type-checked, server-rendered. Own the code, style it with Tailwind, ship it. Browse components View on GitHub gsx documentation ↗ go install…
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Extending Polars with Rust Expression Plugins
fenic.ai · 37 points · Discussion
fenic is a semantic DataFrame library. A PySpark-style API for building AI and LLM pipelines over messy, unstructured data. Its local engine is Polars. This post is about one specific problem we hit…
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The hardest way to make a GIF
blog.willgrant.org · 35 points · Discussion
Everyone loves a good GIF, and my favourite (of all time) is this one (circa 2015): Let’s make a GIF in the hardest way possible. Why? It’s pointless, but some pointless things are just fun to do.…
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DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads
duckpgq.org · 33 points · Discussion
DuckPGQ is a DuckDB community extension for graph workloads that supports the SQL/PGQ standard. Leveraging the power of DuckDB to bring high-performance, SQL-based graph query capabilities directly to…
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The small, real, original web
spacetimetech.wordpress.com · 32 points · Discussion
The ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just writing blogs and making their own websites)…
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Marimo Now Runs in PyCharm
marimo.io · 24 points · Discussion
Today, we are excited to announce a first version of the marimo plugin for PyCharm. You can now add reactive notebooks to your Python projects in PyCharm and other JetBrains IDEs. PyCharm support has…
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Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
hopl.info · 22 points · Discussion
An online roster and genealogy of 8945 programming languages from the 18th century to the present, featuring 7,800 influence links and over 11,000 citations. Here is the genealogical tree of HOPL:…