top 50% 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

A font that humans can read but AI cannot

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

3 months ago

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

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

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

How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/blocking-botnets-with-reaction

3 months ago

Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/11/research_fralinbiomed_yanweightlifting.html

3 months ago

How to build a circular LCD clock

https://blinry.org/lcd-clock/

3 months ago

Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20

https://github.com/samyeyo/clx

3 months ago

★ 131 C++

The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/courses/229A/stewart-svd.pdf

3 months ago

How to Hide from Killer Drones

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/08/how-to-hide-from-killer-drones

3 months ago

Your code is fast – if you're lucky

https://tiki.li/blog/lucky_code.html

3 months ago

FCC Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/fcc-space-mirror.html

3 months ago

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

https://davidobando.github.io/gsharp/

3 months ago

Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can't Make a Medical Glove

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-07/why-it-s-so-difficult-to-produce-100-american-made-medical-gloves

3 months ago

Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative

3 months ago

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Good1964.pdf

3 months ago

ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files

https://www.zerofs.net/blog/zerofs-vs-aws-s3-files/

3 months ago

Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects

https://nagylukas.github.io/orbit.html

3 months ago

The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018753

3 months ago

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

3 months ago

USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025

https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/san-antonio-usaa-insurance-claims-rejected-22293061.php

3 months ago

Who manages the agents?

https://www.off-policy.com/dont-go-quietly-into-the-ai-night/

3 months ago

What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/python-abi-abi3t

3 months ago

Andon (manufacturing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)

3 months ago

Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief/2026/07/11/b240d63f-2768-43dd-89b6-2bdceb6df745

3 months ago

Starlink from 1984

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/starlink-from-1984

3 months ago

The Second Life of Sanskrit

https://openthemagazine.com/india/the-second-life-of-sanskrit

3 months ago

Debugging Performance Regressions

https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2026/07/debugging-performance-regressions/

3 months ago

Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio

https://mrzk.io/posts/qmlx-maximising-ai-psychosis-minmaxing-mac-studio/

3 months ago

Free Software

https://www.fsf.org/

3 months ago

Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership

https://anti-forbes-list.vercel.app

3 months ago

Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs

https://github.com/swellweb/reame

3 months ago

★ 92 C++ MIT

Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528622123

3 months ago

Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dy6e8klw0o

3 months ago