top 50% 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

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/

3 months ago

Command Line Interface Guidelines

https://clig.dev/

3 months ago

Why Vanilla JavaScript

https://guseyn.com/html/posts/why-vanilla-js.html

3 months ago

Designing and assembling my first PCB

https://vilkeliskis.com/b/2026/0711.html

3 months ago

Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family

https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-07-10/woman-rescued-in-brazil-after-being-enslaved-for-55-years-by-three-generations-of-the-same-family.html

3 months ago

Understanding the Odin Programming Language

https://odinbook.com/

3 months ago

Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk

3 months ago

★ 808 Go MIT

AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery

3 months ago

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

https://danq.me/2026/07/10/rescuing-7234-gifs/

3 months ago

Automation Without Understanding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06377

3 months ago

Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid

https://my.uscap.org/uscap/program/S0tc675/index.cfm?pgid=5167&sid=14770&abid=51228

3 months ago

A pure scheme web programming tool

https://goeteia.dev

3 months ago

Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks

https://kode.diy

3 months ago

Against Usefulness

https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/against-usefulness

3 months ago

Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/04/us-consumer-rage-prices-economy

3 months ago

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-we-understand-how-large-language-models-reason/

3 months ago

Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams

https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.yt-dlp/Download%2520a%2520YouTube%2520Video

3 months ago

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

3 months ago

Long Covid May Physically Damage the Nerves That Control the Stomach

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(26)00608-9/fulltext

3 months ago

Neocities: Create your own free website

https://neocities.org/

3 months ago

We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/we-know-simple-fluids-can-flow-turns-out-some-can-fracture-20260710/

3 months ago

Old Icons

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/old-icons/

3 months ago

A dock that wakes up reliably

https://fabiensanglard.net/tb4/index.html

3 months ago

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/martha-lillard-us-polio-patient-iron-lung-dies-134668491

3 months ago

A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further

https://igropyr.com

3 months ago

Fable extended until 19 July

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2076351399999557669

3 months ago

Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

https://github.com/hasenj/go-shirei/

3 months ago

★ 382 Go Zlib

Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/microsoft-amazon-google-datacentre-carbon-emissions-france

3 months ago

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

https://www.marciot.com/mac68k-visual-catalog/

3 months ago

Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router

https://mrbruh.com/motorola/

3 months ago

A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/a-beautiful-theory-falls-to-ugly-data.html

3 months ago

Why study Diophantine equations?

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/modular

3 months ago

Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582

3 months ago

6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/branchless-binary-search/

3 months ago

Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/12/storm-clouds-gather-over-americas-financial-supremacy

3 months ago

Billion Dollar PDFs

https://billiondollarpdf.com/

3 months ago

Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

https://github.com/waaldev/waldi

3 months ago

★ 76 Go MIT

Why Write Code in 2026

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/09/write-code.html

3 months ago

Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

https://github.com/LazoVelko/neverclick

3 months ago

★ 332 C++

The One-Step Trap (In AI Research)

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/OneStepTrap.html

3 months ago

GC shape stenciling in Go generics

https://rednafi.com/go/gc-shape-stenciling/

3 months ago