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Stories from 2026-07-11

1. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)

2. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)

3. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)

4. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)

5. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)

6. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)

7. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)

8. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)

9. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)

10. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)

11. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)

12. Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (theverge.com)

13. Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)

14. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)

15. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)

16. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)

17. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)

18. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)

19. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)

20. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com/jacobobryant)

21. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com/wren6991)

22. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)

23. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)

24. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)

25. How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)

26. Optimization Solver as a Service (quicopt.com)

27. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

28. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)

29. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)

30. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)

31. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)

32. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com/swellweb)

33. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)

34. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (upenn.edu)

35. Lost and Found (walzr.com)

36. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)

37. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

38. Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (bloomberg.com)

39. FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)

40. AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (jamesdrandall.com)

41. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (yaelwrites.com)

42. AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)

43. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

44. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (alexbeals.com)

45. Your code is fast if you're lucky (tiki.li)

46. The Lindy effect in software (clemsau.com)

47. The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (sixthtone.com)

48. Who manages the agents? (off-policy.com)

49. Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)

50. BLISS (wikipedia.org)

51. Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video] (youtube.com)

52. Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)

53. Earendel (Astronomical Object) (wikipedia.org)

54. The Victorian War on Rabies (historytoday.com)

55. FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)

56. Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)

58. I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it (androidauthority.com)

59. Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (economist.com)

60. Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive (html-drive.com)

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