Hacker News on Saturday, 11 July 2026

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)(danq.me)

833 points by MrVandemar 3 months ago | 500 comments

Dan Q's blog post arguing that a travel company's mobile app for a school Disneyland trip should have been a webpage, and describing how he rebuilt it as one.

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

354 points by adletbalzhanov 3 months ago | 153 comments

An I/O Fund blog post analyzing the circular financing relationships among Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius in the AI GPU boom.

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh(iroh.computer)

326 points by tionis 3 months ago | 76 comments

Blog post from the iroh (n0) team introducing Mesh LLM, a system for distributed AI model inference across devices networked with iroh.

Prefer strict tables in SQLite(evanhahn.com)

313 points by ingve 3 months ago | 160 comments

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

311 points by theMackabu 3 months ago | 142 comments

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

277 points by speckx 3 months ago | 92 comments

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

252 points by downwithdisease 3 months ago | 245 comments

The kids with phones are alright(heatherburns.tech)

235 points by JumpCrisscross 3 months ago | 309 comments

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

230 points by saisrirampur 3 months ago | 54 comments

The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB(2b2t.place)

229 points by _____k 3 months ago | 73 comments

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

222 points by prtk25 3 months ago | 104 comments

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

194 points by mariuz 3 months ago | 31 comments

How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)(archive.cancerworld.net)

189 points by downbad_ 3 months ago | 108 comments

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

180 points by mvdtnz 3 months ago | 60 comments

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

176 points by acley 3 months ago | 53 comments

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

175 points by faza 3 months ago | 47 comments

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

167 points by rvz 3 months ago | 192 comments

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

159 points by justswim 3 months ago | 121 comments

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

158 points by theorchid 3 months ago | 83 comments

How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction(fsf.org)

151 points by pseudolus 3 months ago | 59 comments

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

149 points by downbad_ 3 months ago | 95 comments

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

133 points by wolfi1 3 months ago | 74 comments

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

127 points by _samt_ 3 months ago | 27 comments

How to build a circular LCD clock(blinry.org)

122 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 56 comments

Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)(news.vt.edu)

112 points by sublinear 3 months ago | 62 comments

How to hide from killer drones(economist.com)

111 points by pseudolus 3 months ago | 139 comments

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

111 points by chrka 3 months ago | 76 comments

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

104 points by serial_dev 3 months ago | 75 comments

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

101 points by reaperducer 3 months ago | 108 comments

Long Covid May Physically Damage the Nerves That Control the Stomach(ijidonline.com)

98 points by thenerdhead 3 months ago | 45 comments

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

97 points by helsinkiandrew 3 months ago | 111 comments

Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid(my.uscap.org)

97 points by thenerdhead 3 months ago | 12 comments

A pure scheme web programming tool(goeteia.dev)

93 points by guenchi 3 months ago | 22 comments

A dock that wakes up reliably(fabiensanglard.net)

93 points by ingve 3 months ago | 57 comments

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

87 points by jason_s 3 months ago | 49 comments

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

84 points by zetalyrae 3 months ago | 41 comments

Old Icons(leancrew.com)

77 points by zdw 3 months ago | 23 comments

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma(abcnews.com)

76 points by daniel_iversen 3 months ago | 22 comments

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

72 points by lukas9 3 months ago | 19 comments

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software(marciot.com)

70 points by zdw 3 months ago | 7 comments

ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files(zerofs.net)

68 points by cbrewster 3 months ago | 16 comments

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

66 points by GavCo 3 months ago | 71 comments

Andon (manufacturing)(en.wikipedia.org)

63 points by tony 3 months ago | 25 comments

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

63 points by homarp 3 months ago | 8 comments

Starlink from 1984(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

60 points by ingve 3 months ago | 26 comments

Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio(mrzk.io)

55 points by marzukia 3 months ago | 22 comments

The Second Life of Sanskrit(openthemagazine.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 40 comments

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

48 points by sakshyampatro 3 months ago | 39 comments

Shipping OpenStrike: A Counter-Strike-Shaped FPS on a 2004 Handheld(pocketjs.dev)

44 points by itvision 3 months ago | 13 comments

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

43 points by targetbridge 3 months ago | 13 comments

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

43 points by zrail 3 months ago | 39 comments

GC shape stenciling in Go generics(rednafi.com)

41 points by ingve 3 months ago | 11 comments

C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax(lzon.ca)

41 points by jpmitchell 3 months ago | 53 comments

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

40 points by littlexsparkee 3 months ago | 11 comments

BLISS(en.wikipedia.org)

39 points by tosh 3 months ago | 8 comments

What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications(neciudan.dev)

38 points by freediver 3 months ago | 10 comments

What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI(labs.quansight.org)

38 points by matt_d 3 months ago | 4 comments

Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art(max-amb.github.io)

32 points by max-amb 3 months ago | 15 comments

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf](ibm-1401.info)

32 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 3 comments

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

32 points by modinfo 3 months ago | 9 comments