Hacker News on Friday, 24 July 2026

Claude Opus 5(anthropic.com)

1715 points by alvis 3 months ago | 1186 comments

Anthropic announcement page for the Claude Opus 5 model, with the poster linking its system card; the captured page failed to load a PDF.

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?(ptrchm.com)

702 points by pchm 3 months ago | 526 comments

Blog essay arguing that despite hype about AI solving coding and an 'Agentic Era', software quality keeps getting worse.

It's getting harder to focus every day(glyphack.com)

675 points by peykar 3 months ago | 381 comments

A personal blog post by Glyphack reflecting on increasing difficulty focusing and getting only about an hour of focused time a day.

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page(hhh.hn)

630 points by hhh 3 months ago | 211 comments

A blog post describing how firmware analysis of a Hanwha security camera revealed a GitHub admin token embedded in its login page.

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models(cnbc.com)

619 points by louiereederson 3 months ago | 279 comments

CNBC article reporting that Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta signed a letter warning against premature restrictions on open-weight AI models.

Flux 3(bfl.ai)

546 points by ThouYS 3 months ago | 128 comments

Black Forest Labs blog post announcing FLUX 3, multimodal flow models spanning image, video, audio and action as real-world models for visual intelligence.

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story(theguardian.com)

470 points by rwmj 3 months ago | 274 comments

Guardian opinion piece by John Thickstun arguing readers should be skeptical of OpenAI's story about a rogue hacker AI agent, since alarm about AI also signals its power to investors.

How to survive boiling water(taxa.substack.com)

463 points by cainxinth 3 months ago | 105 comments

A Substack essay from Taxa about a notorious MIT milk carton and how certain bacteria can survive boiling water, framed as a probiotic paradox.

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey(thehindu.com)

445 points by rootkea 3 months ago | 325 comments

The Hindu news report that India's government ordered GitHub to remove Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat after protesters used it during internet restrictions.

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard(artificialanalysis.ai)

358 points by aarondong 3 months ago | 211 comments

Artificial Analysis page comparing AI models on intelligence, output speed, latency, price and context window, showing Claude Opus 5 at the top for intelligence.

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales(dbos.dev)

351 points by KraftyOne 3 months ago | 68 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft arguing that Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can scale, contrary to common belief.

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS(discuss.haiku-os.org)

322 points by m0do1 3 months ago | 65 comments

Haiku forum thread about porting the Nvidia open GPU driver for Turing and newer GPUs to Haiku, with user posts on progress including running games.

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center(houseofsaud.com)

317 points by thisislife2 3 months ago | 394 comments

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models(bfl.ai)

311 points by kensai 3 months ago | 49 comments

Em dashes are amazing(psychotechnology.substack.com)

306 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 266 comments

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds(ziggit.dev)

280 points by kristoff_it 3 months ago | 180 comments

Claude Cookbook(platform.claude.com)

268 points by saikatsg 3 months ago | 133 comments

Future euro banknote design proposals(ecb.europa.eu)

260 points by robin_reala 3 months ago | 261 comments

Don't Take the Black Pill [video](youtube.com)

202 points by signa11 3 months ago | 174 comments

Show HN: I made some transistor animations(brandonli.net)

194 points by stunningllama 3 months ago | 24 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)(sive.rs)

161 points by downbad_ 3 months ago | 42 comments

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB(gpusolutions.net)

138 points by wslh 3 months ago | 110 comments

Hetzner is working on LLM Inference(sliplane.io)

126 points by jonas_scholz 3 months ago | 53 comments

Patreon laying off 20% of staff(patreon.com)

120 points by gpi 3 months ago | 176 comments

Unitree As2-W(unitree.com)

116 points by MehrdadKhnzd 3 months ago | 52 comments

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep(news.st-andrews.ac.uk)

114 points by hhs 3 months ago | 29 comments

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history(tangled.org)

108 points by nerdypepper 3 months ago | 32 comments

Codeberg Divides(lucumr.pocoo.org)

95 points by ashdnazg 3 months ago | 117 comments

The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)(andrewzigler.com)

95 points by bw86 3 months ago | 73 comments

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video](spacex.com)

94 points by cryptoz 3 months ago | 105 comments

I got into YC Startup School by hacking it(obaid.wtf)

94 points by speckx 3 months ago | 59 comments

JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal(openjdk.org)

90 points by pmg1991 3 months ago | 86 comments

The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)(aramcoworld.com)

87 points by jxub 3 months ago | 66 comments

Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf](images.nvidia.com)

85 points by lairv 3 months ago | 40 comments

The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm(foldkit.dev)

75 points by plucafs 3 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser(scalatutorials.com)

68 points by eranation 3 months ago | 28 comments

AIs don't do what you want. This is bad(rewardhacking.org)

64 points by kking23 3 months ago | 43 comments

Claude Opus 5(anthropic.com)

64 points by meetpateltech 3 months ago | 7 comments

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun(chipsandcheese.com)

62 points by ingve 3 months ago | 27 comments

Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

61 points by nsoonhui 3 months ago | 35 comments

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival(technicshistory.com)

61 points by cfmcdonald 3 months ago | 20 comments

Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go(ui.gsxhq.dev)

59 points by jackielii 3 months ago | 10 comments

The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type(mariusbancila.ro)

58 points by signa11 3 months ago | 53 comments

I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year(alexhyett.com)

58 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 52 comments

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene(science.org)

55 points by delichon 3 months ago | 12 comments

Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules(necroticgnome.com)

53 points by doener 3 months ago | 22 comments

Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks(gameoftrees.org)

51 points by gregnavis 3 months ago | 7 comments

Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond(the-scientist.com)

50 points by fosco 3 months ago | 21 comments

Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes(bruh.ltd)

46 points by speckx 3 months ago | 21 comments

How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?(alexklos.ca)

44 points by prohobo 3 months ago | 32 comments

The Book Prize Index(book-prize-index.vercel.app)

44 points by Luc 3 months ago | 4 comments

Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending(jpost.com)

44 points by DemiGuru 3 months ago | 5 comments

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?(elsewhere.news)

43 points by ilreb 3 months ago | 38 comments

Proving a human wrote something(gjtorikian.online)

42 points by gjtorikian 3 months ago | 51 comments

German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications(reuters.com)

41 points by giuliomagnifico 3 months ago | 30 comments

A Dying Art: The last of the morticians(harpers.org)

41 points by Petiver 3 months ago | 8 comments

Plants vs. Zombies for PlayStation 2(github.com)

41 points by Jotalea 3 months ago | 4 comments

Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It(adriengonin.com)

40 points by Adrig 3 months ago | 35 comments

Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms(makonea.com)

40 points by jdw64 3 months ago | 10 comments

The hardest way to make a GIF(blog.willgrant.org)

39 points by plaguna 3 months ago | 11 comments