top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-13

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

3 months ago

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886741

3 months ago

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news

3 months ago

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html

3 months ago

Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode

https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/

3 months ago

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

https://werd.io/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it/

3 months ago

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

https://twitter.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159

3 months ago

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

3 months ago

Sam Neill Has Died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78

3 months ago

Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

https://twitter.com/i/status/2076598897779020159

3 months ago

Show HN: Super Dario

https://superdario.pawb.de

3 months ago

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

https://jivx.com/densha

3 months ago

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

https://www.whois.com/whois/t.me

3 months ago

Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI

https://neow.in/cWsyMTV3

3 months ago

Count Binface

https://countbinface.com

3 months ago

DOGE is done. What happened to its records?

https://www.ms.now/opinion/doge-government-efficiency-records-job-cuts-elon-musk-foia

3 months ago

Backtrack-Free Cursive

https://mmapped.blog/posts/52-backtrack-free-cursive

3 months ago

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

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

3 months ago

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-multiply-numbers/

3 months ago

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.php

3 months ago

Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1

3 months ago

Control the Ideas, Not the Code

https://antirez.com/news/169

3 months ago

The Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o

3 months ago

Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk

3 months ago

★ 768 Go Apache-2.0

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/

3 months ago

Solod: Go can be a better C

https://solod.dev

3 months ago

Precursor

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/

3 months ago

Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/another-ridiculous-interrail-holiday-6379km-and-13-countries-over-7-weeks/

3 months ago

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

https://anderegg.ca/2026/07/12/an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop

3 months ago

Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nokia-phones-history

3 months ago

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp

https://mssv.net/2026/04/29/im-making-strandfall-a-solarpunk-orienteering-larp/

3 months ago

A Metallurgist's Doubts About Self-Replicating Probes

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/10/a-metallurgists-doubts-about-self-replicating-probes/

3 months ago

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

https://github.com/floodtide/dom-docx

3 months ago

★ 435 TypeScript MIT

The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?

https://playcode.io/blog/real-price-of-frontier-models

3 months ago

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/

3 months ago

Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

https://esologic.com/benchmarking-tesla-gpus/

3 months ago

Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

https://github.com/Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs

3 months ago

★ 184 Rust GPL-2.0

The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-bread-paradox-why-convenience

3 months ago

Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

https://github.com/thephw/claude-meseeks

3 months ago

★ 76 Go

Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

https://github.com/xqlsystems/xarray-sql/blob/claude/xarray-sql-mnist-demo/benchmarks/nn.py

3 months ago

★ 119 Python Apache-2.0

Latent Space as a New Medium

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/latent-space-as-a-new-medium

3 months ago

Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_report

3 months ago

Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/

3 months ago

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/quadrupling-code-performance-with-a-useless-if/

3 months ago

Frank Lloyd Wright's First Home

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-home-and-studio-everything-you-need-to-know

3 months ago

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

https://github.com/marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser

3 months ago

★ 157 TypeScript GPL-3.0

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/forward-deployed-engineers

3 months ago

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

https://github.com/schlae/BeavisUltrasound

3 months ago

★ 81 Python CERN-OHL-P-2.0

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

https://github.com/jbwinters/jacquard-lang

3 months ago

★ 93 OCaml Apache-2.0

Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here

https://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases

3 months ago

★ 43.9k Clojure AGPL-3.0

xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket

https://www.internationalcyberdigest.com/xais-grok-build-cli-uploads-entire-git-repositories-to-a-google-cloud-bucket/

3 months ago

Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/07/13/inside-berkshires-397-billion-bet-against-an-overheated-market/

3 months ago

A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/backyard-baseball-video-game-teacher.html

3 months ago

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

https://nobie.com

3 months ago

TFTP Honey Pot Results

https://bruceediger.com/posts/tftp-honeypot-results/

3 months ago

AI Is a Bad Tool

https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/07/user-submission-ai-is-a-bad-tool

3 months ago

‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260625-why-asias-cleanest-village-bans-tourists-on-sundays

3 months ago

The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jg-ballard-illuminated-man-christopher-priest-nina-allan/

3 months ago

Designing APIs for Agents

https://www.freestyle.sh/blog/opinion/designing-apis-for-agents

3 months ago

Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-israel-military-merger

3 months ago

Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

https://land-atlas-production.up.railway.app/welcome

3 months ago