top 20 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

How to Read More Books

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

3 months ago

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI

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

3 months ago

I love LLMs, I hate hype

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

3 months ago

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

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

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

3 months ago

Tiny Emulators

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

3 months ago

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/

3 months ago

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

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

3 months ago

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

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

3 months ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884984

3 months ago

Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE

https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler

3 months ago

★ 495 JavaScript AGPL-3.0

A no-brainer for protecting your brain

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/a-no-brainer-for-protecting-your-brain

3 months ago

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6

3 months ago

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/11/irish-datacenters-now-guzzle-23-of-the-countrys-electricity/5270013

3 months ago

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

https://goughlui.com/2026/07/09/teardown-a-generic-7-port-usb-3-0-hub-that-wasnt/

3 months ago

Don't You Mean Extinct?

https://fabiensanglard.net/extinct/index.html

3 months ago

Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5835631/turner-camhi-do-no-harm-college-loans

3 months ago

I Learned to Read Again

https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again

3 months ago

Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

https://ca.pcmag.com/social-media/16790/the-death-of-the-status-update-why-55-of-americans-stopped-posting-on-social-media

3 months ago