Hacker News Headlines
Stories from 2026-07-12
1.
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
(techcrunch.com)
2.
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
(systima.ai)
3.
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
(iroh.computer)
4.
How to read more books
(scotto.me)
5.
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
(ploy.ai)
6.
How we can reduce traffic congestion
(research.google)
7.
LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders
(larp.website)
8.
Tiny Emulators
(floooh.github.io)
9.
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
(gist.github.com)
10.
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
(terrytao.wordpress.com)
11.
So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
(susanrigetti.com)
12.
Why write code in 2026
(softwaredoug.com)
13.
I love LLMs, I hate hype
(geohot.github.io)
14.
Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts
(arxiv.org)
15.
I Learned to Read Again
(magazinenongrata.com)
16.
Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
(kode.diy)
17.
An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
(thebeach.dev)
18.
I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)
(triapul.cz)
20.
Automation Without Understanding
(arxiv.org)
21.
Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty
(dakra.github.io)
22.
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
(scrapfly.dev)
23.
How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
(cancerworld.net)
24.
Against Usefulness
(motivenotes.ai)
25.
Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout
(visitfaroeislands.com)
26.
Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
(github.com/cosmtrek)
27.
A dock that wakes up reliably
(fabiensanglard.net)
28.
Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs
(acm.org)
29.
Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
(npr.org)
30.
Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
(buf.build)
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