top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-11

Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/

3 months ago

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom

3 months ago

Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite

https://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/

3 months ago

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm

3 months ago

Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript Runtime and Ecosystem

https://antjs.org

3 months ago

Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/california-hawaii-rowing-solo-journey

3 months ago

Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains

https://studyfinds.com/modern-decor-may-be-straining-peoples-brains/

3 months ago

Kids (With Phones) Are Alright

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/the-kids-with-phones-are-alright/

3 months ago

Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)

https://archive.cancerworld.net/featured/how-doctors-die/

3 months ago

The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

https://2b2t.place/1million

3 months ago

Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

https://blog.yaelwrites.com/stop-telling-me-to-ask-an-llm/

3 months ago

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgres

3 months ago

A font that humans can read but AI cannot

https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font

3 months ago

UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

https://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/reads/upi-architecture/

3 months ago

AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html

3 months ago

The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/

3 months ago

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy

3 months ago

★ 496 C

Networking and the Internet, from First Principles

https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/

3 months ago

Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/

3 months ago

Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

https://shipthatcode.com

3 months ago