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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
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Hacker News

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Fireworks AI▲ 473

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

Benchmarking over 1,000 agentic tasks demonstrates that routing between the open-source Kimi K3 model and the closed Fable 5 model creates a new state-of-the-art (SoTA) approach that surpasses the performance of either model alone. While both models perform competitively in general benchmarks, they possess distinct specializations—K3 excels in terminal, symbolic math, and dev tooling, whereas Fable leads in web, data visualization, and multi-language breadth. By architecting a router to leverage these specific strengths, teams can achieve a 93% task accuracy rate and up to 50x better cost-efficiency compared to…

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OpenAI▲ 930

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

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Krebs on Security▲ 159

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers…

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Terence Tao▲ 227

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

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Try AI▲ 161

"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

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Jim Grey▲ 71

It's a shame what's happened to radio

Why I wouldn't enjoy returning to radio as a disk jockey.

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Late.sh▲ 58

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

A cozy command-line clubhouse for computer people. Chat, music, games, art, coding, and tech news. Connect with any SSH client!

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Artificial Analysis▲ 22

Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase

Kimi K3 is second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase, our agentic knowledge work benchmark, but costs more than Opus 4.8 to run while averaging nearly an hour per task

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RuntimeWire▲ 7

Airglow browser lets users modify YouTube, Gmail and Spotify in real time

Developer Ramazan Rakhmatullin unveils Airglow, a custom browser that lets users edit any site in real time, with built‑in YouTube, Gmail and Spotify tweaks.

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HN — Best of the Week

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Terence Tao▲ 746

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

Here's a chat someone thought you'd want to see.

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John C. Dvorak▲ 679

John C. Dvorak has died

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John C. Dvorak, our beloved husband, father, and cherished host of the No Agenda Show at the age of 74. More to follow.

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John C. Dvorak▲ 485

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

@iamjasonlevin Passkeys were invented by security engineers with zero understanding of the consumer brain. We had no way to argue its merits since no one understood what they are. As a result, we are now all asked to produce the magic fairy dust to login to apps. It may be on your phone, in

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Dylan Castillo▲ 453

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.

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GigaToken▲ 432

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Language model tokenization at GB/s. Contribute to marcelroed/gigatoken development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brian Krebs▲ 417

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move…

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Bento▲ 741

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

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Hatchet▲ 366

The startup's Postgres survival guide

A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.

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OverpAId▲ 650

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

OverpAId is the AI Executive Platform that replaces your nine-figure leadership team with something that actually works. (Satire.)

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Cole K▲ 369

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

I am equally unsurprised and upset

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Mitchell Hashimoto▲ 341

Everyone should know SIMD

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Citizen Dot▲ 338

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

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Beej▲ 317

Making

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