top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-14

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/

3 months ago

Bonsai 27B (1-bit LLM): The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27b

3 months ago

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing

3 months ago

European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

3 months ago

★ 90

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro

3 months ago

★ 10.3k C++

The Tower Keeps Rising

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/

3 months ago

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-ai

3 months ago

The Git history command deserves more attention

https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/

3 months ago

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left

3 months ago

Codex starts encrypting prompts, uses ciphertext for inference instead

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28058

3 months ago

★ 100.3k Rust Apache-2.0

Blender 5.2 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2-lts/

3 months ago

Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK

https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk/

3 months ago

I'm a USB-C Maximalist

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/

3 months ago

S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level

https://www.heise.de/en/news/S-P-downgrades-Oracle-to-BBB-only-one-notch-above-junk-level-11363472.html

3 months ago

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/

3 months ago

How I use HTMX with Go

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go

3 months ago

Australia is offering free daytime electricity

https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/

3 months ago

Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-freedom-of-information-act/a-77939695

3 months ago

Punch Yourself in the Face with Reality

https://adi.bio/reality

3 months ago

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/41.html

3 months ago

Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo

3 months ago

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/

3 months ago

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/

3 months ago

The Zen of Parallel Programming

https://smolnero.com/posts/the-zen-of-parallel-programming

3 months ago

Proof of Care in the Age of A.I

https://jacobfilipp.com/care/

3 months ago

Fundamentals of Wireless Communication

https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html

3 months ago

Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

https://www.verbaprima.com/

3 months ago

What will be left for us to work on?

https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work

3 months ago

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database

https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb

3 months ago

★ 418 Java Apache-2.0

Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]

https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull120.pdf

3 months ago

Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites

https://satellitemap.space/

3 months ago

New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

https://www.reuters.com/world/new-york-becomes-first-state-impose-data-center-moratorium-2026-07-14/

3 months ago

Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely

https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718

3 months ago

Just Let Me Write Digits

https://gendx.dev/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html

3 months ago

Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list

https://phemex.com/news/article/2026-fields-medal-winners-list-leaked-includes-two-peking-university-alumni-92948

3 months ago

StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stubhub-ceo-class-action-scalping-9.7268987

3 months ago

Pseudpocalypse

https://dynomight.net/pseudpocalypse/

3 months ago

The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]

https://elasticity.institute/rsi-paper.pdf

3 months ago

Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/09/spectral-compute-aims-to-set-cuda-free-will-it-succeed/

3 months ago

Job queues are deceptively tricky

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html

3 months ago

LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros

https://www.benjamin-bai.com/projects/lemario

3 months ago

Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think

https://rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/book-prizes-dont-work-how-you-think

3 months ago

The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game

https://blog.exe.dev/meet-the-conservationist-who-turned-40-terabytes-of-government-data-into-a-video-game

3 months ago

Making Software: How to make a font

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-to-make-a-font

3 months ago

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an ancient astronomer

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02170-8

3 months ago

Dupes (product clones) took over the world

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/493930/dupe-culture-fender-ugg-quince-tiktok-amazon-online-shopping

3 months ago

Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection

https://ryanjk5.github.io/posts/rjk-duck/

3 months ago

The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/

3 months ago

How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes

https://compilade.net/blog/ternary-packing

3 months ago

Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)

https://github.com/Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai

3 months ago

★ 215 Python MIT

Is x86 ready to ACE it?

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/is-x86-ready-to-ace-it

3 months ago

Our Amish Language

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/amish-pennsylvania-dutch

3 months ago

Who Is America's Homer?

https://www.plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer

3 months ago

Probably check on your smart appliances

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/check-your-smart-tv/

3 months ago

A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to

3 months ago

MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits

https://paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io/morpho/

3 months ago

The Memory Heist

https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist

3 months ago

Coding agents think ahead of time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05188

3 months ago

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

https://gwern.net/guardian-angel

3 months ago

Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)

https://om-intelligence.ch/projects/vocal-notation/vocal-notation.html

3 months ago

No Spanish Reading Crisis?

https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/no-spanish-reading-crisis

3 months ago

Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account with Thousands Spent on Games

https://xcancel.com/JoshuaKhane/status/2076918699248803977

3 months ago

The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat

https://www.bobbytables.io/p/the-agentic-loop-three-loops-in-a

3 months ago

Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-9GbsS9Fg

3 months ago

The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use

https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/

3 months ago

Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit

https://iain.so/infinities-impossibilities-and-the-man-in-the-white-linen-suit

3 months ago

Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive

https://twitter.com/JoshuaKhane/status/2076918699248803977

3 months ago

Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations

https://agnost.ai

3 months ago

Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/founders-guide-success-may-not-matter

3 months ago

MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games

https://github.com/CharmingBlaze/moonbasic

3 months ago

★ 64 HTML MIT

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

https://blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/posts/2026-07-14-lbse-conditional-layers/

3 months ago

OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says

https://www.adweek.com/media/openais-ad-business-is-on-pace-to-miss-its-own-forecast-by-90-analyst-says/

3 months ago

What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?

https://sorting-machine.pages.dev/

3 months ago

After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch

https://www.androidauthority.com/pebble-time-2-smartwatch-hands-on-3680077/

3 months ago

Korg PS-3300 - one of the rarest synthesizers in music history is back

https://www.korg.co.uk/blogs/updates/ps3300

3 months ago

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics

https://hjerpbakk.com/blog/2026/07/14/umami-for-apps

3 months ago