DTF:HN for July 16, 2026

DTF:HN for July 16, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 16, 2026. Featuring: The lost joy of music piracy, Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly, Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model, If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe, Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't, and more. Stories covered: 1. The lost joy of music piracy (Article [https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454] | 🎧 0:25) 2. Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly (Article [https://joinedanthropic.com] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931588] | 🎧 4:28) 3. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (Article [https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912] | 🎧 7:55) 4. If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe (Article [https://madcampos.dev/blog/2026/07/accessibility-from-scratch/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930136] | 🎧 11:32) 5. Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (Article [https://goughlui.com/2026/07/09/teardown-a-generic-7-port-usb-3-0-hub-that-wasnt/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883036] | 🎧 14:57) 6. 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (Article [https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-century.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929945] | 🎧 18:46) 7. Grok Build is open source (Article [https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590] | 🎧 22:13) 8. Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (Article [https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095] | 🎧 25:59) 9. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (Article [https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135] | 🎧 29:41) 10. Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources (Article [https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915953] | 🎧 32:45)

DTF:HN for July 15, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 15, 2026. Featuring: Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail, Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history, Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone, TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access, Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?, and more. Stories covered: 1. Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (Article [https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709] | 🎧 0:35) 2. Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history (Article [https://vpd.ca/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914644] | 🎧 4:34) 3. Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (Article [https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27b] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910545] | 🎧 7:36) 4. TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access (Article [https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915004] | 🎧 11:29) 5. Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers? (Article [https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/15/whos-running-all-those-tiny-rpki-servers/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917055] | 🎧 14:58) 6. RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues (Article [https://www.eetimes.com/risc-v-is-inevitable-state-of-the-union-keynote-argues/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916805] | 🎧 18:03) 7. Combinatorial Games in Lean (Article [https://github.com/vihdzp/combinatorial-games] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876329] | 🎧 21:27) 8. The Tower Keeps Rising (Article [https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909785] | 🎧 24:57) 9. I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (Article [https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916975] | 🎧 28:09) 10. Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown (Article [https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913050] | 🎧 31:14)

DTF:HN for July 14, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 14, 2026. Featuring: Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries, Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware, Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity, The git history command, Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem, and more. Stories covered: 1. Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (Article [https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569] | 🎧 0:26) 2. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (Article [https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/09/spectral-compute-aims-to-set-cuda-free-will-it-succeed/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903715] | 🎧 4:54) 3. Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity (Article [https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902320] | 🎧 8:32) 4. The git history command (Article [https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010] | 🎧 12:09) 5. Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem (Article [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903082] | 🎧 16:02) 6. YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database (Article [https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902026] | 🎧 19:00) 7. Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (Article [https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665] | 🎧 22:16) 8. Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) (Article [https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454] | 🎧 25:36) 9. How to build a circular LCD clock (Article [https://blinry.org/lcd-clock/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872833] | 🎧 28:59) 10. Just Let Me Write Digits (Article [https://gendx.dev/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902791] | 🎧 32:10)

DTF:HN for July 13, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 13, 2026. Featuring: Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke, Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks, The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter, GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years, Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica, and more. Stories covered: 1. Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke (Article [https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889637] | 🎧 0:29) 2. Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks (Article [https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/another-ridiculous-interrail-holiday-6379km-and-13-countries-over-7-weeks/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889350] | 🎧 4:26) 3. The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (Article [https://andiroberts.com/citizenship/the-social-physics-of-conversation-citizenship-leadership] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828576] | 🎧 7:53) 4. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (Article [https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834309] | 🎧 11:04) 5. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (Article [https://github.com/schlae/BeavisUltrasound] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888193] | 🎧 14:53) 6. The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News (Article [https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888331] | 🎧 18:20) 7. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (Article [https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-comics/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885643] | 🎧 21:23) 8. Tiny Emulators (Article [https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884395] | 🎧 24:23) 9. Backtrack-Free Cursive (Article [https://mmapped.blog/posts/52-backtrack-free-cursive] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888518] | 🎧 28:19) 10. So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (Article [https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827126] | 🎧 30:35)

DTF:HN for July 12, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 12, 2026. Featuring: Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring, Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase, Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh, Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises, Text art tools, and more. Stories covered: 1. Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring (Article [https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854168] | 🎧 0:33) 2. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (Article [https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878682] | 🎧 4:01) 3. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (Article [https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505] | 🎧 7:22) 4. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (Article [https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-py] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827058] | 🎧 10:44) 5. Text art tools (Article [https://hlnet.notion.site/text-art-tools] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831384] | 🎧 14:10) 6. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (Article [https://thebeach.dev/posts/lisp-agent/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823981] | 🎧 17:12) 7. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (Article [https://antjs.org] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875377] | 🎧 20:51) 8. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (Article [https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873836] | 🎧 23:37) 9. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (Article [https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876245] | 🎧 26:24) 10. I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (Article [https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846177] | 🎧 29:42)