Hacker News on Monday, 27 July 2026

Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace(huggingface.co)

1294 points by nateb2022 3 months ago | 508 comments

Hugging Face placeholder page for Moonshot AI's upcoming Kimi-K3 model, showing a release countdown to July 27, 2026 and a notify button.

Our position on open-weights models(anthropic.com)

1103 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 1582 comments

Anthropic announcement by CEO Dario Amodei stating the company's position on open-weights AI models amid reports of possible US bans on Chinese models.

AI companies are shredding rare books(twitter.com)

620 points by anon373839 3 months ago | 372 comments

A tweet by @HedgieMarkets saying AI companies bulk-buy rare books via ISBNdb, cut off their spines to scan them, and shred the originals to obtain training data.

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?(lockwood.dev)

438 points by tomlockwood 3 months ago | 333 comments

A developer blog post examining the progress and claims around Bun's AI-assisted rewrite from Zig to Rust, framed as a showcase for Anthropic's AI.

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench(github.com)

367 points by dhorthy 3 months ago | 100 comments

A markdown report in HumanLayer's GitHub repo benchmarking Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model on the SlopCodeBench coding benchmark.

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf](github.com)

344 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 148 comments

GitHub-hosted PDF of Moonshot AI's technical report for Kimi K3, an open frontier large language model.

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise(nypost.com)

341 points by softwaredoug 3 months ago | 323 comments

News report on a Netflix executive suing after being fired over a personal confession made during a trust exercise at a company retreat.

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months(arstechnica.com)

324 points by quantified 3 months ago | 185 comments

Ars Technica article on how police misread a username missing an underscore, leading to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison.

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped(techdirt.com)

309 points by cdrnsf 3 months ago | 118 comments

Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website(sgieurope.com)

288 points by doener 3 months ago | 201 comments

Paged Out #9 [pdf](pagedout.institute)

267 points by laurensr 3 months ago | 30 comments

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)(misago-project.org)

236 points by Ralfp 3 months ago | 169 comments

AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying(ft.com)

233 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 months ago | 119 comments

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH(microsoft.ai)

220 points by migmartri 3 months ago | 108 comments

Should you wash your solar panels?(incoherency.co.uk)

215 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 202 comments

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines(github.com)

186 points by klaussilveira 3 months ago | 21 comments

Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions(spacedaily.com)

172 points by zdw 3 months ago | 86 comments

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts(en.andros.dev)

167 points by andros 3 months ago | 97 comments

Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used(alsterrunde.com)

163 points by mertbio 3 months ago | 49 comments

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles(eaton-works.com)

159 points by EatonZ 3 months ago | 52 comments

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%(bbc.com)

158 points by pingou 3 months ago | 144 comments

Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts(macrumors.com)

155 points by thm 3 months ago | 136 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions(gregoryszorc.com)

153 points by jcbhmr 3 months ago | 35 comments

VLC for Unity now supported on Linux(code.videolan.org)

153 points by martz 3 months ago | 45 comments

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute(jssfr.de)

148 points by jssfr 3 months ago | 48 comments

Forth(xkcd.com)

136 points by beardyw 3 months ago | 28 comments

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API(telnyx.com)

123 points by fionaattelnyx 3 months ago | 72 comments

How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods(cgjennings.ca)

122 points by at1as 3 months ago | 13 comments

DConf 2026 in London(dconf.org)

109 points by teleforce 3 months ago | 47 comments

The Glass Famine(edconway.substack.com)

101 points by baud147258 3 months ago | 51 comments

Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes(abeljansma.nl)

100 points by abelaer 3 months ago | 58 comments

Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library(usefeyn.com)

97 points by snyy 3 months ago | 22 comments

The Artist Who Colored Ghibli(animationobsessive.substack.com)

94 points by herbertl 3 months ago | 8 comments

Worse on Purpose(ledger.worseonpurpose.com)

90 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 57 comments

How real are real numbers? (2004)(arxiv.org)

86 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download(github.com)

86 points by pancomplex 3 months ago | 28 comments

Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013)(bunniestudios.com)

86 points by jacquesm 3 months ago | 6 comments

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5(status.claude.com)

82 points by croemer 3 months ago | 59 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals(rise-reforming.com)

80 points by george_rose25 3 months ago | 32 comments

Canceling "Hey"(chadnauseam.com)

70 points by ChadNauseam 3 months ago | 2 comments

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig(github.com)

68 points by jcbhmr 3 months ago | 39 comments

Shay Locomotives(shaylocomotives.com)

68 points by Rygian 3 months ago | 20 comments

Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI(techspot.com)

66 points by leephillips 3 months ago | 56 comments

Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"(gizmodo.com)

66 points by ghuroo1 3 months ago | 39 comments

EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services(wsj.com)

65 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 months ago | 59 comments

Interview with Boris Cherny [video](youtube.com)

64 points by knighthacker 3 months ago | 68 comments

The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013)(harpguitars.net)

64 points by bilegeek 3 months ago | 41 comments

Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles(pbs.org)

64 points by 1970-01-01 3 months ago | 27 comments

Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included(omgubuntu.co.uk)

62 points by twapi 3 months ago | 36 comments

Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide(rocm.blogs.amd.com)

61 points by matt_d 3 months ago | 6 comments

How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM(blog.codingconfessions.com)

59 points by donw 3 months ago | 4 comments

Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears(bloomberg.com)

57 points by petethomas 3 months ago | 35 comments

Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score(justinflick.com)

55 points by pamplemeese 3 months ago | 14 comments

Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks(pranitha.dev)

51 points by pranitha_m 3 months ago | 4 comments

Why I Left Google DeepMind(lesswrong.com)

51 points by eatitraw 3 months ago | 11 comments

US DOT deleting bike lane references(npr.org)

50 points by aendruk 3 months ago | 28 comments

Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two(n16f.net)

50 points by billiob 3 months ago | 27 comments

We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles(rtings.com)

48 points by cdemer 3 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted(github.com)

47 points by nsokin 3 months ago | 22 comments

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4(arxiv.org)

47 points by wglb 3 months ago | 18 comments