Hacker News on Monday, 20 July 2026

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning(werd.io)

1182 points by benwerd 3 months ago | 894 comments

Blog post by Ben Werdmuller arguing China's open-weights AI strategy is winning while America's closed, proprietary approach is failing.

Who's afraid of Chinese models?(stratechery.com)

924 points by mfiguiere 3 months ago | 785 comments

Stratechery article by Ben Thompson examining Chinese AI models and the strategic concerns and debates surrounding them.

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture(xcancel.com)

756 points by loubbrad 3 months ago | 471 comments

An xcancel mirror of a tweet thread by Levent Alpoge claiming an explicit polynomial map C^3→C^3 with constant Jacobian -2 that is not injective, disproving the Jacobian Conjecture.

Airport Simulator(airport.apunen.com)

744 points by apunen 3 months ago | 145 comments

A browser-based pixel-art airport simulator game showing runways, landings, departures, pace and duration counters, made by @lapunen.

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database(news.risky.biz)

677 points by speckx 3 months ago | 380 comments

Risky Bulletin security newsletter reporting a hacker wiped Romania's land registry database, plus news on Graykey, Hugging Face hack, and WordPress RCE.

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch(arstechnica.com)

662 points by sohkamyung 3 months ago | 198 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that India's first privately developed rocket reached orbit on its debut launch.

Kimi Work(kimi.com)

660 points by ms7892 3 months ago | 269 comments

Product page for Kimi Work, Moonshot AI's AI desktop application for knowledge work, with a download button showing it is not available for the visitor's system.

Stolen Buttons(anatolyzenkov.com)

648 points by Gecko4072 3 months ago | 157 comments

A gallery of website buttons collected by Anatoly Zenkov's Button Stealer extension, which grabs a button from every site he visits.

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls(jelly-ui.com)

640 points by baldvinmar 3 months ago | 192 comments

Landing page for Jelly UI, a dependency-free Web Components library adding soft-body physics to form controls, with dark mode, RTL support and WCAG AA color tokens.

Xiaomi-Robotics-1(robotics.xiaomi.com)

495 points by ilreb 3 months ago | 317 comments

Project page for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a robot foundation model trained on over 100K hours of real-world manipulation trajectories, with links to report, code, and model.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel(edri.org)

440 points by rapnie 3 months ago | 245 comments

EDRi article warning that the EU's planned Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US would share sensitive personal data in exchange for visa-free travel.

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public(aclu.org)

395 points by StatsAreFun 3 months ago | 120 comments

ACLU commentary arguing that Flock Safety, maker of automated license plate reader cameras, has repeatedly misled city councils, police departments, and the public.

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25(slcyber.io)

381 points by infosecau 3 months ago | 209 comments

Searchlight Cyber research post by Adam Kues describing finding a WordPress remote code execution vulnerability using GPT5.6 for about $25.

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac(blaizzy.github.io)

361 points by aratahikaru5 3 months ago | 122 comments

Landing page for Nativ, an open-source macOS app for downloading and running open AI models locally on Apple Silicon without accounts or cloud.

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode(wren.wtf)

331 points by alekq 3 months ago | 224 comments

A blog post critiquing OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, listing annoying behaviors and alarming security design problems based on its source code.

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team(forum.jellyfin.org)

317 points by swat535 3 months ago | 282 comments

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling(emergingtrajectories.com)

313 points by cl42 3 months ago | 300 comments

My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault(rootkitlabs.com)

267 points by machinehum 3 months ago | 144 comments

Shinjuku Station in 3D(satoshi7190.github.io)

265 points by Gecko4072 3 months ago | 59 comments

Perfection is not over-engineering(var0.xyz)

263 points by var0xyz 3 months ago | 115 comments

I Stopped “Creating Content”(refactoringenglish.com)

254 points by mtlynch 3 months ago | 205 comments

Agent swarms and the new model economics(cursor.com)

251 points by jlaneve 3 months ago | 121 comments

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco(vincentwoo.com)

250 points by akanet 3 months ago | 54 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC(essenceia.github.io)

238 points by random__duck 3 months ago | 55 comments

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks(unslop.run)

229 points by dopamine_daddy 3 months ago | 156 comments

LEDs’ potential to save our night skies(spectrum.ieee.org)

227 points by defrost 3 months ago | 172 comments

Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL(phoronix.com)

216 points by DemiGuru 3 months ago | 52 comments

I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs(numerlab.org)

189 points by wallach-game 3 months ago | 166 comments

NYC Apartment Aquaponics(erinmurphy.dev)

185 points by mm1119 3 months ago | 75 comments

The Voice of Google(newyorker.com)

183 points by littlexsparkee 3 months ago | 95 comments

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)(nothings.org)

179 points by firephox 3 months ago | 77 comments

Airbus Takes Flight from AWS(theregister.com)

161 points by bbg2401 3 months ago | 118 comments

GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime(bytecodealliance.org)

147 points by phickey 3 months ago | 33 comments

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism(scottrlarson.com)

144 points by trinsic2 3 months ago | 31 comments

When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?(theconversation.com)

141 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 months ago | 117 comments

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques(github.com)

124 points by Vineeth147 3 months ago | 23 comments

Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files(hypr.land)

123 points by matesz 3 months ago | 106 comments

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in(blog.documentfoundation.org)

123 points by cube00 3 months ago | 87 comments

Making ASCII Art in Vim(alexyang.dev)

102 points by evakhoury 3 months ago | 12 comments

Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027(expats.cz)

100 points by Markoff 3 months ago | 52 comments

That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing(rachelbythebay.com)

96 points by wglb 3 months ago | 85 comments

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

93 points by alexsouthmayd 3 months ago | 99 comments

Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video](youtube.com)

83 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 4 comments

The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency(dl.acm.org)

70 points by qaprof 3 months ago | 34 comments

Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust(soteria-tools.com)

64 points by annieversary 3 months ago | 1 comments

The footprints of every building in NYC(beautifulpublicdata.com)

63 points by jonathanmkeegan 3 months ago | 6 comments

My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry(statnews.com)

61 points by Jimmc414 3 months ago | 36 comments

Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig(github.com)

59 points by TheSorcerer 3 months ago | 40 comments

Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds(wuemeli.com)

59 points by wuemeli 3 months ago | 18 comments

Mythologizing AI makes it more likely that we’ll fail to operate it well (2023)(newyorker.com)

59 points by simonebrunozzi 3 months ago | 91 comments

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

58 points by ibobev 3 months ago | 3 comments

The creepiest 'sales demo' of all time(appenmedia.com)

57 points by slowin 3 months ago | 26 comments

My falling-out with the rationalist community(lcamtuf.substack.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 43 comments

Quickly rewrite Git repository history(github.com)

53 points by modinfo 3 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day(readthetape.cc)

51 points by will_asouka 3 months ago | 38 comments

ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS)(github.com)

48 points by xlii 3 months ago | 10 comments

Firefox 153.0 Beta(firefox.com)

48 points by Erenay09 3 months ago | 38 comments

Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin(mattjhall.co.uk)

47 points by mattjhall 3 months ago | 6 comments

The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research(marginalrevolution.com)

47 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 5 comments