top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-23

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your

3 months ago

Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992

3 months ago

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

3 months ago

OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/

3 months ago

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/

3 months ago

98.css

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar

3 months ago

Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028037

3 months ago

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026810

3 months ago

Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

https://blackhole.plav.in

3 months ago

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all

3 months ago

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md

3 months ago

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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254

3 months ago

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Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never-made-public

3 months ago

The Arguments Against Open Source AI Are Very Bad

https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/

3 months ago

OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/openai-anthropic-open-models-trump-china

3 months ago

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/

3 months ago

Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-big-tech-ai-spending-climbs-2026-07-23/

3 months ago

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

https://learnopengl.com/

3 months ago

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

https://twitter.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777

3 months ago

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-us-air-force-fly-ai-controlled-f-16

3 months ago