top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-07-12

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead

3 months ago

705 upvotes – 395 comments

How to Read More Books

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/

3 months ago

574 upvotes – 295 comments

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI

https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547

3 months ago

538 upvotes – 229 comments

I love LLMs, I hate hype

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html

3 months ago

498 upvotes – 322 comments

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/

3 months ago

453 upvotes – 133 comments

Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/

3 months ago

430 upvotes – 220 comments

Tiny Emulators

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.html

3 months ago

347 upvotes – 33 comments

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/

3 months ago

323 upvotes – 80 comments

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

https://dakra.github.io/ghostel/

3 months ago

306 upvotes – 67 comments

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-comics/

3 months ago

304 upvotes – 159 comments
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