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Stories from 2026-07-14

1. Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) (danq.me)

2. Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (supercarblondie.com)

3. How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing (jola.dev)

4. Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? (artfish.ai)

5. Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (prismml.com)

6. The git history command (lalitm.com)

7. The Tower Keeps Rising (pocoo.org)

8. Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity (lenergy.com.au)

9. An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold (bbc.com)

10. The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (sfgate.com)

11. Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (github.com/juggler-ai)

12. European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS (github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet)

13. Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites (satellitemap.space)

14. Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left (mindgard.ai)

15. The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era (thoughtworks.com)

16. I'm a USB-C Maximalist (shkspr.mobi)

17. The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB (2b2t.place)

18. Punch yourself in the face with reality (adi.bio)

19. Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (verbaprima.com)

20. Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) (stanford.edu)

21. Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem (bbc.com)

22. Our Amish Language (thedial.world)

23. Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK (marco-nett.de)

24. The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf] (elasticity.institute)

25. Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts (github.com/openai)

26. The kids with phones are alright (heatherburns.tech)

27. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (hpcwire.com)

28. How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)

29. YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database (github.com/jetbrains)

30. MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits (paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io)

31. Is x86 ready to ACE it? (chipsandcheese.com)

32. How I use HTMX with Go (alexedwards.net)

33. Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act (dw.com)

34. Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown (github.blog)

35. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com/jbwinters)

36. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)

37. World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made (sciencealert.com)

38. Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection (ryanjk5.github.io)

39. Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations (agnost.ai)

40. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) (github.com/danau5tin)

41. What will be left for us to work on? (normaltech.ai)

42. The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard (lareviewofbooks.org)

43. Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices (hackney.app)

44. Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an ancient astronomer (nature.com)

45. A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI (arxiv.org)

46. S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- (heise.de)

47. How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction (fsf.org)

48. Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder (sleuth-io.github.io)

49. Just Let Me Write Digits (gendx.dev)

50. A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology (grist.org)

51. Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely (twitter.com/demishassabis)

52. The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat (bobbytables.io)

53. Paxos Made Simple (2001) [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)

54. No Spanish reading crisis? (commonreader.co.uk)

55. A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes (centauri-dreams.org)

56. Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries (careersatdoordash.com)

57. Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme (pasteurlabs.ai)

58. Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list (phemex.com)

59. StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping (cbc.ca)

60. Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer (kevin-gibson.com)

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