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Stories from 2026-07-16

1. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (kimi.com)

2. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (opensource.microsoft.com)

3. Decoy Font (mixfont.com)

4. The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)

5. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)

6. OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (oneplus.com)

7. Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (immersivemath.com)

8. Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (lyc8503.net)

9. Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them (techdirt.com)

10. How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)

11. $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (tryai.dev)

12. LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (lmstudio.ai)

13. How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (zhinit.dev)

14. Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (science.org)

15. 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (openculture.com)

16. Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (spaceweather.gov)

17. The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning (github.com/alxndrtl)

18. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (theocharis.dev)

19. Mathematics of Data Science (arxiv.org)

20. Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev)

21. CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)

22. 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin (yale.edu)

23. Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)

24. Bluesky Trademarks ATProto (atproto.com)

25. If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe (madcampos.dev)

26. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)

27. Job queues are deceptively tricky (typesanitizer.com)

28. LLM Networking with MikroTik (greg.technology)

29. I also filed the corners off my MacBook (brt.fyi)

30. Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com/samyeyo)

31. At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic (joinedanthropic.com)

32. Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)

33. G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics (davidobando.github.io)

34. Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later (github.com/minh-ton)

35. Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure (onatm.dev)

36. Pseudpocalypse (dynomight.net)

37. High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights (ieee.org)

38. Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning (arxiv.org)

39. Abstracting Effects with Continuations (crowdhailer.me)

41. The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency (pmbanugo.me)

42. Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers (arxiv.org)

43. Show HN: One More Letter (playonemoreletter.com)

44. Book prizes don't work how you think (rebeccamakkai.substack.com)

45. Guide to data tools landscape for developers (sinja.io)

46. SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading (latimes.com)

47. The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker (bbc.com)

48. CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV (hellorecon.com)

49. Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (github.com/patonw)

50. Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes (petekeen.net)

51. My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto (imdanielkendall.com)

52. Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite (sqlite.org)

53. A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data (marginalrevolution.com)

54. Netstrings (1997) (cr.yp.to)

55. The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas (a-rabbitsfoot.com)

56. Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 (mathspp.com)

57. German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks (the-decoder.com)

58. Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos (timelinescan.com)

59. GC shape stenciling in Go generics (rednafi.com)

60. CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL (catchcat.lol)

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