Best tech stories this week

This week on Hacker News, Substack writers emphasized the importance of having a dedicated website, garnering 291 points and 159 comments. Meanwhile, the release of Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 attracted 142 points, highlighting ongoing developments in programming languages. Additionally, discussions around the Kimi K3 architecture overview and Zig's incremental compilation internals received significant attention, with 210 and 142 points respectively, reflecting strong community interest in hardware and compiler internals. Notably, Apple's transition from the iPhone Upgrade Program to Apple Upgrade sparked 154 comments, indicating active debate on the company's new service offerings.

#10

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

87 pts, 32 comments

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#11

The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)

43 pts, 23 comments

43 points · 23 comments · Add your take →

#12

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

480 pts, 219 comments

480 points · 219 comments · Add your take →

#13

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

49 pts, 1 comments

49 points · 1 comments · Add your take →

#14

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

251 pts, 109 comments

251 points · 109 comments · Add your take →

#15

Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library

85 pts, 62 comments

85 points · 62 comments · Add your take →

#16

Uv 0.12.0

75 pts, 31 comments

75 points · 31 comments · Add your take →

#17

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

78 pts, 59 comments

78 points · 59 comments · Add your take →

#18

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

119 pts, 34 comments

119 points · 34 comments · Add your take →

#19

The most advanced robotic servicing satellite–that we know about

26 pts, 1 comments

26 points · 1 comments · Add your take →

#20

How to Survive Boiling Water

4 pts, 1 comments

4 points · 1 comments · Add your take →

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Best tech stories this week

Substack writers, you need a website

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

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

MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade

How Do I Profile eBPF Code?

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

The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

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

Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library

Uv 0.12.0

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

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

The most advanced robotic servicing satellite–that we know about

How to Survive Boiling Water

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

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

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

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

Donate to GrapheneOS

So, you want to make a game engine (2023)

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux

Granola for Apple Watch

Deflock Casa Grande

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

I'd not buy a LG monitor

VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines

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

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

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles

Ubuntu's TPM encryption switches to snap kernel that blocks deb kernel packages

Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History

Analysis of Opus 5's 'Contrition'

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

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

Amazon Data Centers Hit in Iran Strikes, Satellite Images Show

GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser

tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database

Xenharmlib (music theory library) adds support for Just Intonation

Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules

"Uncensored" open LLMs are measurably more optimistic than their base models

What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski?

Our position on open-weights models

Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)

24,650 internet-accessible BMCs leak password-derived hashes before login

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

Cynative – Read-only CLI in Go that explains your live infrastructure

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

EPA says [dedicated] power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

Vehicle Motion Cues

Usenet Archive Toolkit – process Usenet messages into a searchable archive

Somebodyhire.me

Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees

Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity

Low Water Cancels Jackson Lake Boat Tours in Grand Teton Two Months Early

Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives

Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle

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

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

Chip stocks tumble as AI sell-off deepens

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

Why We're Dropping Basecamp

PyTorch: A Reference Language

Why haven't organoids solved all of drug discovery?

Moving from Claude to Proton Lumo

Starlink exempted from FCC ban on foreign-made routers

Betelgeuse Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star's companion

Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones as school shooting response

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

An Interview with the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone