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7.18.26 | AWS billing issues, HN support gratitude,...

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2026/07/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion (01:49) - Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work (03:12) - Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse (04:31) - First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant

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13:20

7.17.26 | Kimi K3 Open Frontier Intelligence,...

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2026/07/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (01:40) - Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (02:59) - Decoy Font (03:52) - NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (05:08) - $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (06:24) - LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (07:38) - The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use

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12:48

7.16.26 | Inkling open-weights model, Stripe and...

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2026/07/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (01:51) - Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources (02:53) - Grok Build is open source (04:15) - Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU (05:49) - SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (07:02) - Collection of Digital

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13:56

7.15.26 | Your app could have been a webpage, Bonsai...

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2026/07/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) (01:39) - Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (02:59) - How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing (04:22) - Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? (05:43) - The Tower Keeps Rising (06:57) - Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure

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13:03

7.14.26 | Apple's SpeechAnalyzer API benchmarked,...

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2026/07/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (01:44) - Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (03:05) - Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (04:18) - The Git history command deserves more attention (05:30) - The

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13:42

7.13.26 | Ask HN flag for AI-generated articles,...

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2026/07/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles (01:29) - Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (03:10) - What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (04:51) - How to read more books (05:38) - Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (06:52) - Count

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12:15

7.12.26 | Prefer strict tables in SQLite, Ant...

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2026/07/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Prefer strict tables in SQLite (01:45) - Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (02:57) - Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (03:47) - Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (05:05) - We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (06:20) - UPI: Anatomy of a Payment

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14:30

7.11.26 | Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets,...

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2026/07/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (01:45) - QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (03:00) - New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (04:40) - GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (05:56) - Good Tools Are

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13:28

7.10.26 | EU Parliament approves Chat Control 1.0,...

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2026/07/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (01:46) - GPT-5.6 (02:58) - Show HN: 18 Words (03:58) - Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (05:10) - Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (06:44) - Train sim created by just one person is being called the best

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13:13

7.9.26 | Decoding obfuscated bash script on Uniqlo...

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2026/07/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (01:33) - Chatto is now open source (02:55) - John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (04:03) - GPT‑Live (05:23) - Grok 4.5 (06:19) - TypeScript 7 (07:44) - Rewriting Bun in Rust (09:29) - Cloudflare Drop (10:42) - FAANG

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7.8.26 | StreetComplete improves OpenStreetMap, Chat...

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2026/07/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (01:29) - Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (02:46) - Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (04:08) - 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (05:24) - Local, CPU-Friendly,

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14:29

7.7.26 | OpenWrt One open hardware router, resetting...

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2026/07/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router (01:42) - Resetting Xbox (03:36) - CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps (04:54) - Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (06:22) - GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse (07:39) - A global workspace in language models (09:07) - AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev

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12:48

7.6.26 | Organic Maps offers offline navigation,...

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2026/07/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Organic Maps (01:22) - OpenPrinter (02:33) - It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (04:03) - The future of Flipper Zero development (05:12) - Has_not_been_viewed_much (06:15) - GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (07:30) - Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than

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14:12

7.5.26 | Command and Conquer Generals ported, GPT-5.5...

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2026/07/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (01:44) - GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (03:18) - If you're a button, you have one job (04:36) - What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (06:03) - Better Models: Worse

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13:48

7.4.26 | Costco is the anti-Amazon, the bottleneck...

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2026/07/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Costco is the anti-Amazon (01:37) - The bottleneck might be the air in the room (02:41) - Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (03:53) - Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (05:11) - Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (06:30) - Factories are just rooms (07:40) - SearXNG: A free

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13:49

7.3.26 | Virginia bans geolocation data sales, Podman...

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2026/07/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Virginia bans sale of geolocation data (01:35) - Podman v6.0.0 (03:12) - Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (04:40) - Immich 3.0 (06:19) - CarPlay Is Additive (07:32) - An American Privacy Emergency (08:59) - Half-Baked Product (09:51) - Right to Local

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13:56

7.2.26 | A first cell grown and divided, new Android...

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2026/07/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (01:35) - A new Android malware from Google (02:52) - ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 (04:19) - FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder (05:49) - What to learn to be a graphics programmer (07:22) - Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned

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7.1.26 | Claude Code marks requests, Claude Sonnet 5,...

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2026/07/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Code is steganographically marking requests (01:04) - Claude Sonnet 5 (02:53) - Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (04:03) - Claude Science (05:39) - Nano Banana 2 Lite (06:54) - Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience (07:56)

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6.30.26 | Qwen 3.6 27B is ideal for local...

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2026/06/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (01:29) - 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech (02:32) - .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (03:40) - US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections (05:06) - Free

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6.29.26 | GLM 5.2 outperforms Claude, age...

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2026/06/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (01:48) - Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (03:16) - HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (04:36) - The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (05:49) - I used Claude Code to get a

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