Hacker News on Tuesday, 14 July 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of tech.supercarblondie.com: Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (tech.supercarblondie.com)

663 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 175 comments

Tech news article about a Japanese method that recovers up to 90% of the lithium from used electric vehicle batteries.

battery-recycling lithium electric-vehicles japan

Screenshot of prismml.com: Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (prismml.com)

649 points by xenova 3 months ago | 230 comments

PrismML blog post announcing Bonsai 27B, a 27B-parameter-class language model designed to run locally on a phone.

bonsai-27b prismml on-device-ai llm

Screenshot of jola.dev: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing (jola.dev)

567 points by shintoist 3 months ago | 581 comments

A short blog post showing how to use a Claude Code MessageDisplay hook to replace or mock Claude's overused phrases like "load-bearing" and "honest takes".

claude claude-code llm hooks

Screenshot of github.com: Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (github.com)

544 points by petewarden 3 months ago | 79 comments

GitHub directory for Moonshine's micro build, offering speech recognition and neural text-to-speech small enough to run on microcontrollers like the RP2350.

speech-recognition text-to-speech microcontrollers moonshine

Screenshot of lucumr.pocoo.org: The Tower Keeps Rising

The Tower Keeps Rising (lucumr.pocoo.org)

517 points by cdrnsf 3 months ago | 239 comments

Blog post by Armin Ronacher using Bruegel's Tower of Babel as a metaphor for how vibecoded software changes unpredictably and the shared understanding that technological progress depends on.

vibe-coding ai-assisted-coding software-quality tower-of-babel

Screenshot of artfish.ai: Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?(artfish.ai)

484 points by yenniejun111 3 months ago | 435 comments

An essay on the Art Fish Intelligence Substack by Yennie Jun reflecting on whether people offload too much thinking to AI and the value of thinking for ourselves.

cognitive-offloading generative-ai critical-thinking autonomy

Screenshot of github.com: European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS (github.com)

451 points by roundabout-host 3 months ago | 307 comments

GitHub discussion on the EU age verification app spec urging removal of its dependency on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation.

age-verification eu-digital-identity-wallet google-play-integrity apple-app-attest

Screenshot of mindgard.ai: Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left (mindgard.ai)

410 points by Synthetic7346 3 months ago | 192 comments

Mindgard blog post disclosing an unpatched Cursor IDE flaw where a malicious git.exe in a workspace root is executed automatically without user interaction.

cursor zero-day full-disclosure code-execution