Writing by hand is good for your brain
Several users discuss the benefits of handwriting for brain activity and learning, with some emphasizing its importance for creativity and focus.
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Top Hacker News Stories – July 23, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent discussions on Hacker News highlight several notable developments in the tech industry. A study emphasizes that writing by hand can benefit brain health, garnering over 800 points and 400 comments. In the biotech sector, a couple paid over $800,000 for gene-editing therapy for their daughter, who unfortunately passed away, sparking significant debate. Additionally, open-weight AI models like Echo are achieving Fable-level results at roughly one-third the cost, and startup founders are urging the U.S. government to avoid shutting off Chinese open-weight AI, which has received over 600 points and 500 comments.
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
695 pts, 380 comments
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OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
587 pts, 450 comments
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I regret migrating to Codeberg
562 pts, 567 comments
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98.css
559 pts, 128 comments
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Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room
477 pts, 193 comments
477 points · 193 comments · Add your take →
What happened to TheNumbers.com
426 pts, 204 comments
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Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
393 pts, 272 comments
393 points · 272 comments · Add your take →
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
376 pts, 652 comments
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Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
369 pts, 229 comments
369 points · 229 comments · Add your take →
The arguments against open source AI are bad
310 pts, 215 comments
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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
295 pts, 70 comments
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Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
275 pts, 287 comments
275 points · 287 comments · Add your take →
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
271 pts, 100 comments
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Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
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DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
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I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
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I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music
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Astronomers may have found the first exomoon
228 points · 87 comments · Add your take →
Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
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Fields Medals 2026
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
201 points · 147 comments · Add your take →
Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI
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Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
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Building on ATProto
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I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
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Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol
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Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]
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EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
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Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
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Rethinking legal education in the AI era
153 points · 94 comments · Add your take →
US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
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Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]
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Self-host your mail server
130 points · 138 comments · Add your take →
Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
125 points · 228 comments · Add your take →
Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
116 points · 111 comments · Add your take →
Emacs Is a Lispboard
116 points · 59 comments · Add your take →
Securing Services with Rootless Containers
112 points · 36 comments · Add your take →
Learn WebGPU for C++
112 points · 15 comments · Add your take →
Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you
111 points · 86 comments · Add your take →
OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
110 points · 32 comments · Add your take →
The Visual 6502
109 points · 25 comments · Add your take →
AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees
106 points · 30 comments · Add your take →
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements
102 points · 34 comments · Add your take →
JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
101 points · 82 comments · Add your take →
Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone
101 points · 35 comments · Add your take →
Mourning Dan Williams
92 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
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