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Stories from 2026-07-17

1. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)

3. The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)

4. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)

5. Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)

6. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)

7. Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse (localnewsmatters.org)

8. Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)

9. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)

10. An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)

11. Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)

12. Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)

13. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)

14. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)

15. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)

16. Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)

18. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)

19. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)

20. The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)

21. More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)

22. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)

23. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)

24. AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)

25. A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)

26. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/charmingblaze)

27. Old Icons (leancrew.com)

28. GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims (privacypros.com.au)

29. Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators (workspaces.xyz)

30. Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)

31. GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims (privacypros.com.au)

32. Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators (workspaces.xyz)

33. M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (usgs.gov)

34. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

35. Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)

36. Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)

37. Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)

38. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (capitalone.com)

39. Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (lobste.rs)

40. Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)

41. Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C (zaerl.com)

42. In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring (vandecreme.net)

43. Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law (texasattorneygeneral.gov)

44. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (reuters.com)

45. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (belfortlabs.cloud)

46. I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 (goto10retro.com)

47. Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models (arstechnica.com)

49. Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature (olafalders.com)

50. Tannakian Reconstruction (bartoszmilewski.com)

51. UIUC AI Teaching Assistant (github.com/center-for-ai-innovation)

52. PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum (github.com/pennylaneai)

53. Minikotlin (minikotlin.run)

54. Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology (ubiresearchnet.com)

55. Show HN: Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer (mehran.dk)

56. Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks (jse.li)

57. Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts (bbc.com)

58. After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch (androidauthority.com)

59. The US grocery slowdown is real (bain.com)

60. Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data (github.com/robbyant)

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