7.31.26 | UEFA and national associations exclude FIFA, advice for TV streaming stick purchase, stacked PRs launched on GitHub

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (01:42) - Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (02:56) - Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (04:17) - Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (05:36) - Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (07:06) - The AI Aesthetic (08:21) - GCC steering committee announces AI policy (09:56) - The session you cannot take with you (11:15) - The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (12:35) - Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (13:50) - Outro UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitionshttps://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929Read this before you buy that TV streaming stickhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744Stacked PRs are now live on GitHubhttps://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robotshttps://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237The AI Aesthetichttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099GCC steering committee announces AI policyhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108685The session you cannot take with youhttps://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781The Economic Benefit of Refactoringhttps://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111176Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Uphttps://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111305