Hacker News on Wednesday, 15 July 2026

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

Screenshot of thinkingmachines.ai: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (thinkingmachines.ai)

1146 points by vimarsh6739 3 months ago | 278 comments

Thinking Machines blog post announcing Inkling, the company's open-weights AI model, dated July 15, 2026.

thinking-machines inkling open-weights llm

Screenshot of fabiensanglard.net: Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (fabiensanglard.net)

823 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 213 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post cataloguing every computer and piece of software visible in the movie Jurassic Park, starting with an Apple PowerBook 100.

jurassic-park vintage-computers apple-powerbook film

Screenshot of academic.oup.com: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)(academic.oup.com)

654 points by bilsbie 3 months ago | 338 comments

A 2023 study in the journal SLEEP finding that sleep regularity predicts mortality risk better than sleep duration; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

sleep sleep-regularity mortality epidemiology

Screenshot of github.com: Grok Build is open source

Grok Build is open source (github.com)

560 points by skp1995 3 months ago | 591 comments

GitHub repository for xAI's Grok Build, an open-source coding agent harness and fullscreen, mouse-interactive, extensible terminal UI under Apache-2.0.

grok xai coding-agents tui

Screenshot of ayush.digital: I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (ayush.digital)

487 points by macleginn 3 months ago | 230 comments

Blog post describing how the author used a prompt-injection attack to trick Anthropic's Claude into leaking users' stored memory data.

prompt-injection claude anthropic llm-security

Screenshot of ft.com: SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status

SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status (ft.com)

474 points by youngtaff 3 months ago | 417 comments

FT Alphaville article on SpaceX bonds falling below issue price, with yields rising toward junk territory; shown behind a registration gate.

spacex bonds junk-bonds ft-alphaville

Screenshot of reuters.com: Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources (reuters.com)

470 points by rvz 3 months ago | 277 comments

Reuters report that Stripe and private equity firm Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal, according to sources; the page showed a device verification screen.

paypal stripe advent-international acquisitions

Screenshot of mort.coffee: SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (mort.coffee)

339 points by gnyeki 3 months ago | 154 comments

Blog post arguing SQLite has bad defaults, such as ignoring foreign key constraints, and should adopt Rust-style editions to fix them without breaking compatibility.

sqlite rust-editions foreign-keys database-defaults

Screenshot of neomindlabs.com: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU