Top Hacker News Stories – July 22, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include Terence Tao's discussion about a potential counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, which garnered 1,126 points and 635 comments. Additionally, Bento, an innovative HTML-based presentation tool that combines editing, viewing, and collaboration in a single file, received 1,026 points and 239 comments. The death of renowned tech journalist John C. Dvorak was also widely noted, accumulating 928 points and 322 comments, alongside debates on whether AI labs are engaging in "pelicanmaxxing," which attracted 681 points and 242 comments.

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The startup's Postgres survival guide

522 pts, 240 comments

522 points · 240 comments · Add your take →

#11

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

492 pts, 240 comments

492 points · 240 comments · Add your take →

#12

The Beam Engine

487 pts, 99 comments

487 points · 99 comments · Add your take →

#13

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

482 pts, 125 comments

482 points · 125 comments · Add your take →

#14

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

468 pts, 525 comments

468 points · 525 comments · Add your take →

#15

Making

442 pts, 186 comments

442 points · 186 comments · Add your take →

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Top Hacker News Stories – July 22, 2026 (Summarized)

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

John C. Dvorak has died

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

Everyone should know SIMD

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

The startup's Postgres survival guide

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

The Beam Engine

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

Making

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

Does creatine make you smarter?

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

Back to Kagi

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

How My Images Are Dithered

Never Enough

Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

The computer that helped win World War II

What's Under Your Feet in New York City?

Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

10 REM"_(C2SLFF4

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

Malleable computing, Emacs, and you

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers

SIMD for Collision

Marimo now runs in PyCharm

Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees

Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept

ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books

Jacobian Conjecture for Baby

Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next

DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector

Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch

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