Reverse-engineering is cheap now
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/cheap-reverse-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988265 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Do we just want slaves?
Article URL: https://www.yashthapliyal.com/blog/do-we-just-want-slaves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988196 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
I left Amazon to buy a printing company. It was the best career move I ever made
After joining Amazon as a product leader in 2022, I saw a series of layoffs and return-to-office mandates over the following three years that made any semblance of presence in home life impossible. The tech industry layoffs disproportionately impacted women, and the...
AI FOMO is a distraction from being a good leader
In almost every leadership conversation I have been part of over the last two years, AI comes up within the first ten minutes. Sometimes it is the whole conversation. Executives want to know how to use it, how to talk about it, how to signal that they are not behind...
Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star
We all know that Google and other big players pick and choose what information people see, but we sometimes overlook it outside of the search and social media space. [Lauren Leek] decided to take a look at how Google Maps picks winners and losers in the restaurant...
Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifically looks at western/euro-american institutions and maps their collection categorised by...
The IPO hype machine is moving faster than the stocks
It has been a busy year for Wall Street debuts. While a few IPOs have captured most of the headlines, 203 companies have begun trading on either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq market so far in 2026. Many made splashy entrances, but their performance has been...
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud operator OVH has revealed it used its Sydney, Australia, datacenter as the crash test dummy to test a rapid rollout of a fix for the critical Januscape guest-host escape bug in the Linux kernel-based virtual machine (KVM). Januscape, aka CVE-2026-53359,...
Five US tech giants’ hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste
Article URL: https://www.instructables.com/A-Koi-Pond-Mosaic-Made-From-10-Pounds-of-3D-Printe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987831 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
Article URL: https://www.armaangomes.com/blogs/doom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987846 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987634 Points: 9 # Comments: 4
Ramp Router
Article URL: https://ramp.com/router/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space
Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – remains an enduring mystery. Some theories point to the early Earth’s surface conditions as a...
Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731 Points: 19...
Show HN: I made email signatures less boring
Article URL: https://esigna.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986912 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Article URL: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
I wore Meta’s $499 prescription Ray-Bans for 6 weeks: They’re stylish but not for me
Meta's Ray-Ban Blayzer Optics are made specifically for prescription eyeglass wearers with a lightweight, stylish design.
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
Amazon’s Adaptive Display for Fire TVs is officially rolling out today
Amazon's Adaptive Display accessibility feature for Fire TVs is officially rolling out today
Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator
Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name “Itanic” in the tech press. This is perhaps unfair, considering it did limp on until a quiet EOL in...
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
If you use WordPress, patch now. Just hours after fixes came out, attackers have begun exploiting two bugs that, when chained together, allow pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE). And security researchers tell us there’s a very good chance the miscreants had...
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
Suno – 55,282,226 breached accounts
In November 2025, AI music generation tool Suno suffered a data breach that later came to light in July the following year. The data contained over 55M unique email addresses. Phone numbers were also present where they had been used as the sign-up method. Although...
My falling-out with the rationalist community
Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985140 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Article URL: https://numerlab.org/2025/07/20/bashumerate-enumerator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984270 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
The creepiest ‘sales demo’ of all time
Article URL: https://www.appenmedia.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-the-creepiest-sales-demo-of-all-time/article_a8f0cc6c-29d3-41f7-8668-8a855f760efb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984555 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco
Article URL: https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984254 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Trump photobombing historical photos becomes a meme after an awkward moment at the World Cup Final
It seems like common sense to step out of the frame when a group you don’t belong to is taking a picture. But it seems President Trump missed that memo. The World Cup has officially come to an end as Spain and Argentina battled it out in a tense 106-minute game, with...