Hacker News Daily — July 11, 2026
30 stories · July 11, 2026
In this issue
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
9to5mac.com · 1528 points · Discussion
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/
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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
brown.edu · 371 points · Discussion
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei1285
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Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
theguardian.com · 153 points · Discussion
A Grand Canyon river-rafting guide who aimed to become the first US woman to row solo across the mid-Pacific has completed a record-breaking journey from California to Hawaii. Hundreds of people…
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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
smithsonianmag.com · 145 points · Discussion
For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences A Standard Stations filling station in California, circa…
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Modern decor may be straining people's brains
studyfinds.com · 143 points · Discussion
A bright, colorful modern office design. (© Dariusz Jarzabek - stock.adobe.com) Striped Floors and Flickering LEDs Can Overload the Human Mind, Leaving Some With Headaches or Nausea In a Nutshell…
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Prefer strict tables in SQLite
evanhahn.com · 140 points · Discussion
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict…
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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
clickhouse.com · 140 points · Discussion
PgBouncer is single-threaded. A single process uses one CPU core, no matter how many the machine has. On a 16-vCPU box that means one core does all the connection pooling while the other fifteen sit…
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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
geohot.github.io · 121 points · Discussion
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we…
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Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design
amazon.com · 86 points · Discussion
RISC-V Microprocessor System-On-Chip Design is written to be accessible to an advanced undergraduate audience with limited background. It explains concepts from operating systems, VLSI, and memory…
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Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
theverge.com · 85 points · Discussion
Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is going to give content creators and website owners a…
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Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
shipthatcode.com · 72 points · Discussion
Learn by building and shipping real systems. Pick a system. Build it from scratch. Every lesson is choose → write → run, until it clicks. 80+ build-from-scratch courses · 9 languages · no credit card…
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The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]
math.ucdavis.edu · 71 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox
pluralistic.net · 71 points · Discussion
Today's links Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Themepunks; Data is a…
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Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
io-fund.com · 70 points · Discussion
Neoclouds are seeing massive hyperscaler demand as companies race to scale AI infrastructure, resulting in rapid revenue and backlog growth.  Leaders like CoreWeave and Nebius enable this through…
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Who manages the agents?
off-policy.com · 60 points · Discussion
Two AI futures There are two visions for the future: AI as a deity built and controlled by a small group of clergy Humans at the center with AI as an amplifier A new technical clergy is emerging: the…
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Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph
github.com · 58 points · Discussion
Structure your data model as a queryable graph. biff.graph allows you to query both your database and your business logic/derived data as a unified, extendable graph. Data model code can be split up…
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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
antjs.org · 53 points · Discussion
Hello HN! I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine. Ant also includes a package manager, the ants.land package registry, a platform for…
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Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh
amber-lang.com · 47 points · Discussion
amber A language compiled to Bash. A modern, type-safe programming language that catches bugs and errors at compile time. See it in action import { join } from "std/text" fun get_weather ( cities: […
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UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
timeseriesofindia.com · 41 points · Discussion
scan name & amount PIN the part you never see payment sent received The five moments of a UPI payment as you experience them. Everything between your PIN and the result happens out of sight. Several…
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Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts
atariarchives.org · 41 points · Discussion
Digital Deli The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy by The Lunch Group & Guests Edited by Steve Ditlea published 1984 Digital Deli is copyright ©1984. It…
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AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)
jamesdrandall.com · 39 points · Discussion
I asked Claude to recreate the classic 1986 game Thrust for me in the browser. It created slop but then things spiralled out of control. Thrust was one of my favourite games on the BBC Micro — written…
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Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
nagylukas.github.io · 28 points · Discussion
Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe. The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked…
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The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human
sixthtone.com · 25 points · Discussion
JIANGSU, East China — “Hello, sir or madam. I’m not AI — I’m a real voice actor. Now let me show you a tongue twister…” Pausing for breath, Shen Anyu continues in a deep, resonant voice: “Ba bai biao…
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Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
github.com · 20 points · Discussion
A lean, fully-tested LLM inference server built on llama.cpp — designed for the hardware you already have: shared vCPUs, free tiers, 2-core ARM boxes. Reame is not the first inference server. It's the…
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Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests
github.com · 16 points · Discussion
A private, offline companion for choosing quests, taking the next action, closing open loops, and reviewing your direction before drift sets in. Earth Game uses Python's standard library and SQLite.…
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ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files
zerofs.net · 13 points · Discussion
Amazon S3 Files and ZeroFS expose POSIX filesystems backed by object storage, but the shared interface hides opposite bucket layouts. The choice turns on the role of the bucket: if files must remain…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video]
youtube.com · 12 points · Discussion
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