Top Hacker News Stories – July 28, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include a discussion emphasizing the importance for Substack writers to establish their own websites, which garnered 291 points and 159 comments. Additionally, the release of Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 attracted 142 points, while an overview of Kimi K3 architecture received 210 points. Other notable posts include insights into cryptographic weaknesses with Claude, Zig's incremental compilation internals, and updates on Apple's transition from the iPhone Upgrade Program to Apple Upgrade, reflecting ongoing developments across programming, security, and tech industry strategies.

#10

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

334 pts, 211 comments

334 points · 211 comments · Add your take →

#11

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

326 pts, 141 comments

326 points · 141 comments · Add your take →

#12

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)

306 pts, 133 comments

306 points · 133 comments · Add your take →

#13

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

302 pts, 127 comments

302 points · 127 comments · Add your take →

#14

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

302 pts, 161 comments

302 points · 161 comments · Add your take →

#15

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

297 pts, 126 comments

297 points · 126 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – July 28, 2026 (Summarized)

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

Substack writers, you need a website

Codex Security

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

Deflock Casa Grande

Donate to GrapheneOS

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood

I'd not buy a LG monitor

Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade

DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it

Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights

Vehicle Motion Cues

Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

Azulejo

Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives

Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era

An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan

Pacing the frontier

Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max

GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

Uv 0.12.0

MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless

Linux on ESP32

How Do I Profile eBPF Code?

Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code

Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women

Neutrino-1 8B

Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts

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