Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W31

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

Superlogical

784 pts, 455 comments

784 points · 455 comments · Add your take →

#11

AI companies are shredding rare books

778 pts, 513 comments

778 points · 513 comments · Add your take →

#12

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

774 pts, 294 comments

774 points · 294 comments · Add your take →

#13

The session you cannot take with you

751 pts, 226 comments

751 points · 226 comments · Add your take →

#14

KOReader

746 pts, 248 comments

746 points · 248 comments · Add your take →

#15

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

714 pts, 347 comments

714 points · 347 comments · Add your take →

#16

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

711 pts, 291 comments

711 points · 291 comments · Add your take →

#17

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

657 pts, 295 comments

657 points · 295 comments · Add your take →

#18

Substack writers, you need a website

643 pts, 350 comments

643 points · 350 comments · Add your take →

#19

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

620 pts, 558 comments

620 points · 558 comments · Add your take →

#20

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

619 pts, 317 comments

619 points · 317 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W31

Elevators

Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

Our position on open-weights models

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

The coolest use for the Vision Pro

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

Superlogical

AI companies are shredding rare books

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

The session you cannot take with you

KOReader

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

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

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Codex Security

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Diátaxis

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

Kimi K3-256k

How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

The End of an Era

Seedance 2.5

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

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

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]

LLM Honeypot

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

How to Exist

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

The AI Aesthetic

The Productivity Mirage

Darktable

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

French musician Kavinsky found dead

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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

Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

200 Milliseconds

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

NetBSD 11.0

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

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

The Religion of Speed

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

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

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

The Cold Email

Premier league bans gambling sponsors

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Karpathy’s Pelican

CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout