2026-07-23 front | Hacker News

3 min read Original article ↗
1.
Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)1259 points by dwwoelfel 17 hours ago | 565 comments2.
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)894 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 748 comments3.
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)645 points by technewssss 19 hours ago | 338 comments4.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)481 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 235 comments5.
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)498 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 382 comments6.
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)276 points by mpweiher 17 hours ago | 61 comments7.
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)215 points by MarcoDewey 18 hours ago | 81 comments8.
What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)360 points by nickthegreek 15 hours ago | 165 comments9.
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)231 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 118 comments10.
The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)264 points by jjfoooo4 15 hours ago | 183 comments11.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)234 points by r2sk5t 18 hours ago | 252 comments12.
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models368 points by adam_rida 12 hours ago | 173 comments13.
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)157 points by helonaut 1 day ago | 72 comments14.
Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)146 points by harrisontin 17 hours ago | 24 comments15.
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)298 points by dhorthy 16 hours ago | 217 comments16.
The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)336 points by glinscott 1 day ago | 72 comments17.
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)94 points by Jonathanfishner 16 hours ago | 30 comments18.
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents74 points by louis030195 15 hours ago | 53 comments19.
Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)153 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 77 comments20.
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)89 points by MarcoDewey 13 hours ago | 24 comments21.
Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)98 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 13 comments22.
Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)154 points by Erenay09 1 day ago | 114 comments23.
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)172 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 162 comments24.
git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)180 points by Erenay09 2 days ago | 120 comments25.
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org/codeberg)356 points by intunderflow 1 day ago | 620 comments26.
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)325 points by Shortness8 11 hours ago | 189 comments27.
Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)97 points by s0ck_r4w 15 hours ago | 81 comments28.
Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)115 points by evakhoury 3 days ago | 16 comments29.
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)133 points by jjba23 2 days ago | 112 comments30.
Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)61 points by wuemeli 3 days ago | 18 comments