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  1. 4h ago

    7.19.26 | GPT-5.6 closes convex optimization gap, Mayor Mamdani bans AI images for advertising, speech recognition and TTS less than 500kb

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (01:53) - Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise (03:21) - Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (04:33) - Transcribe.cpp (05:53) - If You Build It, They Will Come (07:05) - The Kimi K3 Moment (08:26) - Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (09:56) - Gleam Is Now on Tangled (11:15) - Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (12:29) - Elixir-lang.org has a new design (13:36) - Outro GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimizationhttps://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957779Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertisehttps://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-advertise-properties/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962983 Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kbhttps://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/microhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911793 Transcribe.cpphttps://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963879 If You Build It, They Will Comehttps://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-comehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 The Kimi K3 Momenthttps://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218 Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956879 Gleam Is Now on Tangledhttps://tangled.org/gleam.run/gleamhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959143 Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guidehttps://ykdojo.github.io/claude-controls-mac/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959392 Elixir-lang.org has a new designhttps://elixir-lang.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959042

  2. 1d ago

    7.18.26 | AWS billing issues, HN support gratitude, Kaiser nurses concerns

    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 star (05:59) - The state of open source AI (07:31) - Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (09:15) - Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (10:37) - Learning a few things about running SQLite (11:59) - The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (13:08) - FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (14:33) - Outro AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's workhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949551 Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worsehttps://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952880 First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant starhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947560 The state of open source AIhttps://stateofopensource.ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarkhttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947717 Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947490 Learning a few things about running SQLitehttps://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950122 The Zilog Z80 has turned 50https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951461 FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates againhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/faa-boeing-737-max-787.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952439

  3. 2d ago

    7.17.26 | Kimi K3 Open Frontier Intelligence, Microsoft Comic Chat open source, Decoy Font

    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 LLMs Anyway (09:08) - Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (10:19) - Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (11:50) - The human-in-the-loop is tired (13:15) - Outro Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligencehttps://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342Microsoft Comic Chat is now open sourcehttps://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Decoy Fonthttps://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-fonthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebookhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451 $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Solhttps://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524 LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open modelshttps://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662 The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anywayhttps://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933310 Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)https://immersivemath.com/ila/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935951 Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learninghttps://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880 The human-in-the-loop is tiredhttps://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tiredhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942000

  4. 3d ago

    7.16.26 | Inkling open-weights model, Stripe and Advent's PayPal acquisition offer, Grok Build open source

    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 Clock Designs (07:51) - The lost joy of music piracy (09:08) - Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (10:28) - I also filed the corners off my MacBook (11:33) - Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel (12:43) - Outro Inkling: Our Open-Weights Modelhttps://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sourceshttps://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915953 Grok Build is open sourcehttps://github.com/xai-org/grok-buildhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPUhttps://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434 SQLite should have (Rust-style) editionshttps://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135 Collection of Digital Clock Designshttps://clocks.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380 The lost joy of music piracyhttps://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454 Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 I also filed the corners off my MacBookhttps://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911803 Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequelhttps://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925888

  5. 4d ago

    7.15.26 | Your app could have been a webpage, Bonsai 27B runs on a phone, how to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

    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 Becomes the Only Protection Left (08:20) - Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (09:44) - I'm a USB-C Maximalist (10:54) - Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history (12:27) - Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (13:51) - Outro Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869989Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phonehttps://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910545 How to stop Claude from saying load-bearinghttps://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905248 Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908178 The Tower Keeps Risinghttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909785 Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Lefthttps://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-lefthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910676 Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detailhttps://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709 I'm a USB-C Maximalisthttps://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908214 Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from historyhttps://vpd.ca/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914644 Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCEhttps://github.com/juggler-ai/jugglerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305

  6. 5d ago

    7.14.26 | Apple's SpeechAnalyzer API benchmarked, building Mac and iOS apps without Xcode, Japan recovers lithium from EV batteries

    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 infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (06:40) - An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold (07:47) - Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? (09:17) - Ancient Roman Board Game (10:24) - Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) (11:23) - What will be left for us to work on? (12:58) - Outro Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessorhttps://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcodehttps://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665 Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batterieshttps://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 The Git history command deserves more attentionhttps://lalitm.com/post/git-history/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passeshttps://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897104 An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took holdhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900191 Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896600 Ancient Roman Board Gamehttps://ludus-coriovalli.web.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852159 Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454 What will be left for us to work on?https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-workhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901292

  7. 6d ago

    7.13.26 | Ask HN flag for AI-generated articles, Claude Code sends 33k tokens OpenCode sends 7k, xAI's Grok build CLI wire-level analysis

    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 Binface (08:06) - GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (09:43) - Tiny Emulators (10:54) - LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (12:11) - So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (13:32) - Outro Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886741Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7khttps://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overheadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883275 What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysishttps://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371 How to read more bookshttps://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882056 Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiringhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854168 Count Binfacehttps://countbinface.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887753 GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 yearshttps://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834309 Tiny Emulatorshttps://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884395 LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious foundershttps://www.larp.website/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882569 So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)https://www.susanrigetti.com/physicshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827126

  8. Jul 12

    7.12.26 | Prefer strict tables in SQLite, Ant JavaScript runtime ecosystem, Nvidia CoreWeave Nebius GPU financing

    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 Transaction (07:21) - Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (08:37) - How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (09:56) - Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (11:00) - RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (12:09) - Outro Prefer strict tables in SQLitehttps://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873940Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystemhttps://antjs.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875377 Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boomhttps://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boomhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873836 Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on irohhttps://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505 We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughputhttps://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgreshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872874 UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transactionhttps://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/reads/upi-architecture/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873457 Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratchhttps://shipthatcode.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871973 How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)https://archive.cancerworld.net/featured/how-doctors-die/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876741 Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graphhttps://github.com/jacobobryant/biff/tree/v2.x/libs/graphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820361 RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratchhttps://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876245

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