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LLM Networking with MikroTik
Article URL: https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927915 Points: 63 # Comments: 24
P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC
Article URL: https://pairdrop.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927900 Points: 43 # Comments: 17
Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]
Article URL: https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2026-07/speculative_growth_AI_public.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927409 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes
8 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
The End of Creativity
Article URL: https://hugodaniel.com/posts/the-end-of-creativity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927136 Points: 7 # Comments: 7
Must actively fund open source AI [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
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Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in WebAssembly. Here are a few things you might find interesting: - This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets. - There is a novel WASM->JS JIT for experimental site speedup - This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly. For a more usable "browser in browser" experience, we also built https://github.com/HeyPuter/browser.js that eats a bit less RAM. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926939 Points: 23 # Comments: 9
GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
70 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
Grok Build
Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Points: 88 # Comments: 101
Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok
Article URL: https://brainless.swerdlow.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926085 Points: 48 # Comments: 6
Voxatron
Article URL: https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926053 Points: 33 # Comments: 10
SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
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Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel
Article URL: https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925888 Points: 66 # Comments: 12
TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. "While the AI complied with their request to generate botnet code, it included a safety disclaimer that the developer failed
Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912 Points: 435 # Comments: 106
GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials
New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub. The post GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923833 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Your AI Is Not a Tool
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The Psychology of Software Teams
59 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH
Article URL: https://github.com/vshulcz/deja-vu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923111 Points: 92 # Comments: 19
Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
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) - Slow compression Results on the tarred Silesia corpus on Intel x86-64 follow: codec decode ratio encode misa77 -0 5219 MB/s 42.64% 54.5 MB/s misa77 -1 4274 MB/s 39.65% 51.2 MB/s lz4 2505 MB/s 47.59% 371 MB/s lz4hc -12 2531 MB/s 36.45% 7.31 MB/s Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922838 Points: 115 # Comments: 37
Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents
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 applications without usable APIs. Developers send Coasty a natural-language task either through our consumer app or through our API, select a machine or browser environment, and any relevant credentials or files. The agent then operates the interface through screenshots, mouse, and keyboard input, verifies the result, and returns a structured run record with screenshots, actions, outputs, and errors. Here is a raw demo of an agent completing a workflow in a legacy application(It’s a mockup): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZghU_3vsAYhHVz1bsvE0pkvZYk7... A lot of important software is still difficult to automate. Healthcare teams submit prior authorizations through payer portals, accounting teams enter data into desktop applications, and operations teams move information between internal systems,
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Article URL: https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434 Points: 199 # Comments: 115
OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps
A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from inside the wallet's own desktop software. Sometimes it waits until you plug the device in first. The page is malicious. The app around it is the real one you installed, and
DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
15 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921461 Points: 37 # Comments: 13
CVE-2026-59208: Cross-Issuer Account Takeover in n8n
Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/n8n-cross-issuer-account-takeover Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921422 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation
Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on execution, testing, and validation gaps in agentic systems under production-like constraints. By Leela Kumili
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