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Stories from July 23, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
1300 points by dwwoelfel 19 hours ago | 586 comments
2.
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
927 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 769 comments
3.
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
648 points by technewssss 20 hours ago | 342 comments
4.
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
518 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 397 comments
5.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
481 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 235 comments
6.
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
284 points by mpweiher 19 hours ago | 64 comments
7.
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
219 points by MarcoDewey 19 hours ago | 82 comments
8.
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
243 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 119 comments
9.
The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
275 points by jjfoooo4 16 hours ago | 190 comments
10.
What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
370 points by nickthegreek 16 hours ago | 168 comments
11.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
241 points by r2sk5t 19 hours ago | 270 comments
12.
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
379 points by adam_rida 14 hours ago | 179 comments
13.
Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
155 points by harrisontin 18 hours ago | 25 comments
14.
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
316 points by dhorthy 18 hours ago | 227 comments
15.
The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
378 points by glinscott 1 day ago | 74 comments
16.
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
157 points by helonaut 1 day ago | 72 comments
17.
Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
158 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 80 comments
18.
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
97 points by Jonathanfishner 17 hours ago | 30 comments
19.
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
90 points by MarcoDewey 15 hours ago | 25 comments
20.
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
74 points by louis030195 16 hours ago | 53 comments
21.
Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
100 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 13 comments
22.
Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
154 points by Erenay09 1 day ago | 114 comments
23.
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
174 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 162 comments
24.
git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
180 points by Erenay09 2 days ago | 120 comments
25.
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org/codeberg)
358 points by intunderflow 1 day ago | 624 comments
26.
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
329 points by Shortness8 12 hours ago | 201 comments
27.
Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
99 points by s0ck_r4w 16 hours ago | 81 comments
28.
Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
115 points by evakhoury 3 days ago | 16 comments
29.
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
133 points by jjba23 2 days ago | 114 comments
30.
Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
63 points by wuemeli 3 days ago | 18 comments

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