Hacker News Daily — July 29, 2026
29 stories · July 29, 2026
In this issue
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Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
github.com · 529 points · Discussion
Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have…
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Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
enklypesalt.com · 303 points · Discussion
I would like to thank Microsoft product teams and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) for collaborating with me on this technical analysis and mitigation of the disclosed vulnerabilities. The…
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Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
arxiv.org · 262 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Language-model agents are increasingly deployed under standing instructions: a system prompt, a policy file, or a skills document is placed in context, and the…
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Darktable
darktable.org · 240 points · Discussion
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them…
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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident
huggingface.co · 199 points · Discussion
Back to Articles TL;DR Initial access Stage 1: from an OpenAI evaluation sandbox to a rooted launchpad Stage 2: Penetrating Hugging Face infrastructure using two injection vectors into our dataset…
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Kimi K3-256k
kimi.com · 198 points · Discussion
Model Configuration This page covers the models Kimi Code provides and how to switch between them in each client. Model Overview Kimi Code currently offers two models—Kimi K3 and Kimi K2.7…
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Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
digitalfoundry.net · 195 points · Discussion
The equivalent of keyboard projects QMK and ZMK. ZGM. That's the name of peripheral manufacturer Keychron's upcoming open-source gaming mouse firmware, announced today and planned to release in the…
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Claude Is Down
status.claude.com · 179 points · Discussion
Incident Report for Claude Subscribe to Updates Identified We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors across multiple models, and are working to resolve this. We will provide an update…
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A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
nytimes.com · 161 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
claire-blackshaw.com · 98 points · Discussion
TLDR: Written version of the talk I gave at Develop Brighton 2026. Yes Godot can ship commercial VR, we paid roughly £80k in early adopter tax to do it. War stories from rebuilding Godot's core, the…
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Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
aistack.imec-int.com · 94 points · Discussion
Update (29 July 2026): We have run Kimi K3 through the same setup, served with SGLang. At 1.4TB of weights, K3 does not fit within the memory budget of the 8×B200 node used for GLM-5.2 (1.5TB of total…
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The Rust on ESP Book
docs.espressif.com · 89 points · Discussion
Keyboard shortcuts Press ← or → to navigate between chapters Press S or / to search in the book Press? to show this help Press Esc to hide this help The Rust on ESP Book Preface Welcome to our guide…
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Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used
alsterrunde.com · 83 points · Discussion
When I moved to Hamburg in 2018, I bought a bike in my first week. After that, almost every day after work, I was just jumping on it and cycling around the city without any direction. That is how I…
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Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
blog.cryptographyengineering.com · 73 points · Discussion
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAWK,…
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Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
cheapfoodmap.com · 71 points · Discussion
I was recently laid off after 18 years, and gave myself 100 days to build soething useful in public. CheapFoodMap is a crowdsourced map of meal under $10, excluding franchises, local good eats only.…
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GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?
juliahub.com · 70 points · Discussion
We tested the latest frontier models gpt-5.6-terra in our agent, on five modeling and simulation problems of varying difficulty. Here are the results: claude-fable-5 0.889 weighted score $9.60 / trial…
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Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
github.com · 61 points · Discussion
Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. Qwen Scribe transcribes audio and video with Qwen3-ASR running through mlx-qwen3-asr on the Mac's Metal GPU. There is no…
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Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit)
prilik.com · 49 points · Discussion
TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking…
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Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money
usetokenless.com · 43 points · Discussion
Hi HN, Rohit here from Tokenless ( https://usetokenless.com/ ), which I’m building alongside co-founders Andrew and Kev. We’re building an API gateway which routes agent traffic dynamically…
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The coolest use for the Vision Pro
christianselig.com · 36 points · Discussion
July 29, 2026 One day there will hopefully be a house on this land Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s…
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Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals
emergingtrajectories.com · 28 points · Discussion
Every few months, and especially this week, the AI space gets criticized for circular financing and customer relationships. OpenAI raises money from Microsoft, spending it on Microsoft servers; Nvidia…
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How to Not Die by a Thousand Cuts. Or, How to Think About Software Quality
evalapply.org · 26 points · Discussion
How To Not Die By A Thousand Cuts. Or, How To Think About Software Quality. [ ↓ toc ] Published: 2022-01-20 Updated: 2023-03-10 Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle…
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How much can you delegate to agents?
newsletter.posthog.com · 22 points · Discussion
People are trusting their agents to do more work without supervision, but how do you decide when to trust them? Some think the answer depends on how good the model is – i.e. when models get…
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A Trampoline
dogdogfish.com · 16 points · Discussion
I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money. It was the fact that just about every trampoline I’d seen in somebody’s garden looked like a sad, weather-beaten thing. And I never saw children…
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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…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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A field day for Gleam's language server – Gleam v1.18.0 release
gleam.run · 12 points · Discussion
Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.18.0 has been published. Language server record field support Gleam's focus on static…