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1.
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
380 points by compiler-guy 25 days ago | 209 comments
2.
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
706 points by systima 22 days ago | 396 comments
3.
How to read more books (scotto.me)
576 points by silcoon 22 days ago | 295 comments
4.
Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
350 points by naves 22 days ago | 33 comments
5.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
292 points by david927 22 days ago | 1154 comments
6.
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
347 points by tionis 23 days ago | 94 comments
7.
LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
324 points by BerislavLopac 22 days ago | 80 comments
8.
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
258 points by brryant 22 days ago | 131 comments
9.
So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (susanrigetti.com)
321 points by azhenley 27 days ago | 69 comments
10.
How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
173 points by raahelb 22 days ago | 352 comments
11.
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
539 points by jhoho 23 days ago | 229 comments
12.
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
455 points by subset 23 days ago | 133 comments
13.
Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
220 points by softwaredoug 24 days ago | 303 comments
14.
I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
501 points by therepanic 22 days ago | 322 comments
15.
Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
132 points by iNic 22 days ago | 35 comments
16.
I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
188 points by georgex7 22 days ago | 77 comments
17.
Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
134 points by Anon84 25 days ago | 22 comments
18.
An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
242 points by jamiebeach 27 days ago | 80 comments
19.
Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
142 points by root-parent 22 days ago | 58 comments
20.
I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
106 points by c-c-c-c-c 25 days ago | 43 comments
21.
Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
307 points by signa11 23 days ago | 67 comments
22.
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
430 points by joahnn_s 22 days ago | 220 comments
23.
How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
258 points by downbad_ 23 days ago | 163 comments
24.
Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
129 points by supo 22 days ago | 40 comments
25.
Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
75 points by hydrogen7800 26 days ago | 32 comments
26.
Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
162 points by cosmtrek 23 days ago | 63 comments
27.
Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
117 points by adunk 22 days ago | 86 comments
28.
A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
98 points by ingve 23 days ago | 65 comments
29.
Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
198 points by nradov 23 days ago | 547 comments
30.
Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
140 points by ming13 27 days ago | 61 comments

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