1489
668
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
3 months ago
1069
889
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
695
381
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
587
449
OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
560
570
I Regret Migrating to Codeberg
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/
559
128
98.css
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar
498
177
Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028037
484
228
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026810
474
188
Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room
https://blackhole.plav.in
426
204
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
393
271
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
★ 2.2k – 3 months ago
376
649
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254
★ 167 – 3 months ago
367
229
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
310
215
The Arguments Against Open Source AI Are Very Bad
https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/
299
331
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
295
70
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
275
285
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/
270
99
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
https://twitter.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777
142
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
https://learnopengl.com/
268
336
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
244
Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
https://globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io/
231
54
I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music
https://pentaton.app/blog/2026-07-12-introducing-pentaton-lp/
86
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/
223
Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models
https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/why-sony-cant-bring-back-classic-walkman
219
119
Fields Medals 2026
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026
201
145
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
191
39
Show HN: Palmier Pro – open-source macOS video editor built for AI
https://github.com/palmier-io/palmier-pro
★ 12.8k Swift GPL-3.0– 3 months ago
179
171
July 23 1985, Commodore introduced its Amiga 1000: 10 years ahead of its time
https://dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-1000-ten-years-ahead-of-its-time/
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated/
178
104
Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol
https://cen.acs.org/materials/adhesives/glue-bonds-nonstick-surfaces-wipes-clean/104/web/2026/07
95
Building on ATProto
https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/
173
186
Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out – Filip Pizlo – SSW 2026 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek
185
EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/23/eu-fines-google-for-competition-breaches-over-search-and-apps
156
117
Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
https://ziggit.dev/t/cruller-buns-zig-runtime-continued-on-zig-0-16/16734
153
94
Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strategy-statement
US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
143
163
Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
https://werd.io/private-healthcare-makes-industries-less-innovative-its-time-for-change/
137
38
Run large language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
https://petals.dev/
133
9
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]
https://faculty.lsu.edu/kharms/files/flexner_1939.pdf
130
138
Self-host your mail server
https://blog.haschek.at/2026/you-should-selfhost-your-mail.html
122
17
Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
121
112
Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/
116
109
Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/
59
Emacs Is a Lispboard
https://en.andros.dev/blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/
114
35
Securing Services with Rootless Containers
https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
15
Learn WebGPU for C++
https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/
111
Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you
https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos
★ 180 Python MIT– 3 months ago
110
32
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
https://onecli.sh
★ 2.9k TypeScript Apache-2.0– 3 months ago
25
The Visual 6502
http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
106
30
AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/ai-bet-goes-awry-oracle-fires-21-000-employees/ar-AA28vWuD
102
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements
https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements
82
JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/540
101
Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone
https://github.com/h3nock/remux
★ 216 Swift MIT– 3 months ago
92
97
Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
https://www.rtx.com/news/news-center/2026/07/21/rtxs-pratt-whitney-canada-advances-hybrid-electric-technology-development
1
Mourning Dan Williams
https://lwn.net/Articles/1084545/
88
64
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jul/23/uk-households-free-install-plug-in-balcony-solar-panels
87
67
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Power your agents by your 24/7 screen recording
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024620
First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/4551871/robotic-servicing-of-geosynchronous-satellites-launches-into-orbit/
84
169
I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI
https://louwrentius.com/i-think-you-might-be-fooling-yourself-with-ai.html
36
Transform your fund into something you can talk to
https://www.angellist.com/blog/introducing-angellist-link
83
Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts
https://github.com/Conradqh/scrapemychats
★ 73 Python MIT– 3 months ago
27
What happens when the information runs out
https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/06/30/what-happens-when-the-information-runs-out/
81
149
Understanding the AI Economy
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/understanding-the-ai-economy/
79
New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory
https://frame.work/desktop?tab=192gb-coming-soon
76
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09369
72
74
How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?
https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-and-artificial-intelligence-use
71
48
Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
https://imjasonh.github.io/playground/population-rays/
69
Fourth Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Needed
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required
55
Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/log-is-non-monotonic-in-php-and-lua/
68
3
ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/23/ice-illegally-scooped-up-medicaid-data-then-shared-it-with-palantir/
Using sed to make indexes for books (long)
https://www.pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt
66
60
Geekbench 7
https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/
5
Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE's Fingertips
https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/
62
24
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/stripe-in-talks-to-buy-buzzy-ai-model-marketplace-openrouter-decc6a74
Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems
https://www.agent-swarm.dev/blog/code-mode-token-savings