Hacker News Daily — July 15, 2026
30 stories · July 15, 2026
In this issue
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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
academic.oup.com · 601 points · Discussion
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
thinkingmachines.ai · 326 points · Discussion
Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We have developed a platform that lets anyone customize models, previewed an AI system built for interactive collaboration, and…
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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
ramones.dev · 248 points · Discussion
Tl;dr I am slowly learning to live with a severe depression, my career is failing, but at least I am not alone. When I had my first ever internship during my BSc, my mind was filled with nothing but…
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Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
reuters.com · 222 points · Discussion
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Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
dev.moe · 209 points · Discussion
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands;…
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OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
dpa-international.com · 192 points · Discussion
15.07.2026, 14:24 Uhr OpenAI, the US company behind ChatGPT, has lost its legal challenge against the refusal to register the trademark "OPENAI" at the European Union's General Court. The…
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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
neomindlabs.com · 182 points · Discussion
There’s a server in my basement that has no business running a modern language model. It’s a repurposed HP StoreVirtual storage box, roughly thirteen years old, two Ivy Bridge Xeons, no GPU. It was…
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Telegram Serverless
core.telegram.org · 160 points · Discussion
Telegram Serverless lets you run backend code for your bot and Mini App directly on Telegram's infrastructure — no servers to provision, no containers to keep alive, no scaling to think about. You…
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The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
smarterarticles.co.uk · 152 points · Discussion
Sharon Brightwell heard her daughter crying down the line, and that was the end of any defence she might have mounted. The voice belonged to April, or so every instinct insisted: the same timbre, the…
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Towards a harness that can do anything
eardatasci.github.io · 137 points · Discussion
Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything I've been thinking about how to free LLMs from the chat pane for a few years now. Watching what people have tried and seeing what worked (and didn't), I've…
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My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
zocalopublicsquare.org · 129 points · Discussion
For my 50th birthday, I bought a Toyota Corolla. 1 Wait. Did this guy really pick both the BEST-SELLING and MOST-BORING model of all time as his mid-life crisis car? Well, yes. And no. My gift to…
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Briar is in maintenance mode
briarproject.org · 126 points · Discussion
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years…
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Collection of Digital Clock Designs
clocks.dev · 106 points · Discussion
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Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
github.com · 105 points · Discussion
I've spent the last few months working on this codec. It has the following characteristics: - SOTA decompression throughput in its ratio class - Decent ratios (comparable to LZ4 at high effort levels)…
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The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game
blog.exe.dev · 88 points · Discussion
There’s a grass fire burning behind Raffael Hickisch when we speak on a video call on Tuesday. He’s not worried—fires like this are part of everyday life in Sub-Saharan Africa, where people burn off…
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Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH
github.com · 85 points · Discussion
Your agents already solved this. deja finds it. vshulcz.github.io/deja-vu Claude Code, Codex and opencode write every conversation to local files — gigabytes of debugged problems and design decisions…
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The Memory Heist
ayush.digital · 71 points · Discussion
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets July 9, 2026 Take a look at this Claude conversation. Notice anything suspicious? Looks innocuous, but by the time Claude finished…
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Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
danq.me · 64 points · Discussion
This week, GlitchyZorua brought to my attention the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a collection of many thousands of GIF icons curated in the 1990s by Gioacchino La Vecchia. Glitchy’s goal was to archive a…
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When A.I. is a member of the family
newyorker.com · 54 points · Discussion
The first time the voice kept Cece Ogbuji awake was on a school night in the fall. Cece, who was fifteen, was having a busy week of classes and theatre practice and homework. She needed to sleep. So…
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Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel
elbowgreasegames.substack.com · 48 points · Discussion
Misfits Attic recently announced Duskers 2.0 inside PC Gamer’s PC Gaming Show and that the game has been funded by Max McGuire’s project fund: Stray Signal. The official Duskers 2.0 teaser trailer…
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Unsolved Problems in MLOps
spawn-queue.acm.org · 36 points · Discussion
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Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents
coasty.ai · 27 points · Discussion
Hey HN, we’re Nitish and Prateek, the founders of Coasty ( https://coasty.ai/computer-use ). We’re building computer-use agents that can complete workflows inside legacy desktop software and web…
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Voxatron
lexaloffle.com · 19 points · Discussion
Voxatron is a fantasy console and collection of games made entirely out of voxels (little colourful cubes, kind of). The Alpha version comes with an arena shooter and action-adventure cartridges as…
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Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice
github.com · 18 points · Discussion
🧢🪝 cap'n hook Don't grep the same mystery twice. Persistent memory for coding agents. When your agent spends ten minutes figuring out where something lives in your codebase, capn saves the files…
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Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok
brainless.swerdlow.dev · 15 points · Discussion
Claude Code v2.1.206 Fable 7 with xhigh effort · Claude Max ben@freestyle.sh's Organization ~/acme-site Tips for getting started Ask Claude to create a new app or clone a repo What's new Added…
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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
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Designing APIs for Agents
freestyle.sh · 9 points · Discussion
Designing APIs for agents is different from designing them for humans. Most consumers of APIs today do so through agent-written code. This was not true two years ago, and it changes how we should…
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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
9 points · Discussion
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot.…