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GitHub Outage

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9
1•rumblefrog•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where Is Karma Used?

1•haebom•4m ago•0 comments

Average Prototypes

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/
1•phyzix5761•5m ago•0 comments

6.4x faster than llama.cpp, 3.9x faster than MLX

https://www.basecompute.co/getbasert
2•lukasonedge•10m ago•0 comments

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

https://nonogra.ph/the-anti-palantir-manifesto-07-20-2026
4•arkhiver•19m ago•0 comments

Website Screen Capture: Recordings Your AI Can Read

https://cbrowser.ai/blog/screen-capture-recordings-your-ai-can-read/
1•alexandriaeden•20m ago•0 comments

History and Scale of the H1B Visa

https://numberstation.fm/the-body-shop/
2•StrageMusik•20m ago•0 comments

The crash that wasn't: debugging CI with AI

https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2026/07/19/the-crash-that-wasnt-debugging-kinjo-ci-with-a...
1•sagevoid•22m ago•0 comments

Open BFME 1

https://github.com/Open-BFME/Open-BFME-1
1•OsrsNeedsf2P•23m ago•0 comments

Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night

https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/
1•herbertl•24m ago•0 comments

A Painter's New York Loft that he Moved into in 1967 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_u4N08B9U
1•toomuchtodo•27m ago•0 comments

'Live' World Cup Broadcast Is Not Live

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/sports/soccer/world-cup-live-tv-delay.html
1•lxm•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Quartermaster – self-hosted license server with offline signing key

https://github.com/laudendev/quartermaster
1•laudendev•31m ago•0 comments

Epub.js: Enhanced EBooks in the Browser

https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/
2•gurjeet•34m ago•0 comments

Unvibe Is Here

https://unvibe.live
1•PrestonSusanto•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Headroom – measure your GPU's true bandwidth ceiling for local AI

https://ar5en1c.github.io/headroom/
2•Ar5en1c•39m ago•0 comments

DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired

https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/07/3-more-georgia-police-officers-fired-over-alleged-flock-camera-m...
34•pir8life4me•42m ago•15 comments

I've Struggled with Addiction. I'm Staying Away from A.I. Chatbots

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/opinion/ai-attention-social-media-attachment.html
1•geox•44m ago•0 comments

The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need

https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-slap-stack-is-the-last-server-stack-youll-ever-need/
1•blakewatson•45m ago•0 comments

Production Deployments to Exe.dev

https://asadjb.com/blog/2026-07-19-production-deployments-to-exe-dev
1•asadjb•50m ago•0 comments

Flock cameras collecting face, clothing,tattoo identifiers

https://www.jalopnik.com/2217154/flock-cameras-collecting-more-than-plate-car-information/
2•pir8life4me•50m ago•3 comments

Freeze-Casting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-casting
1•soupspaces•51m ago•0 comments

PEP 829 – Package Startup Configuration Files

https://peps.python.org/pep-0829/
1•zahlman•53m ago•1 comments

Connection Machine Joins All to All to Optimize Better

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ising-machine
1•andsoitis•54m ago•0 comments

Reviving a 1996 IRC network from its own original, recovered source code

https://chatnet.gg/
3•casoalb•55m ago•0 comments

We Can't Harden Node.js Against Prototype Pollution

https://adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/no-we-cant-harden-nodejs-against-prototype/
1•Fudgel•1h ago•0 comments

Why Your Dashboard Is Lying to You (and What Works)

https://medium.com/@alanscottencinas/why-your-dashboard-is-lying-to-you-and-what-actually-works-d...
1•encinas88•1h ago•0 comments

Email Encryption

https://computer.rip/2026-07-19-email-encryption.html
2•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

Prompt Bill of Materials (PBOM) – an open standard for agentic workflows

https://github.com/EqoAI/pbom-spec
2•kavia•1h ago•0 comments

Ecological patterns in Pokémon games reflect those observed in the natural world

https://jgeekstudies.org/2026/07/19/ecological-patterns-in-pokemon/
1•zdw•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Are the LLM Wars the Database Wars?

https://rruxandra.github.io/llm-wars-database-wars.html
3•rruxandra_l•12h ago

Comments

makira•12h ago
Short article, but it's good food for thought, thanks.

"The engines that ended up everywhere were not the ones being argued about."

LLMs are still quite recent indeed!

elmer2•12h ago
The LLMs will be invisible. Everyone will see the harness (the client app you use in your daily life that drives some LLM-based function).
spottedmarley•11h ago
Yep. LLMs will disappear into the motherboard of every device
alex-moon•11h ago
Not only do I think you're right, I think put this way it seems obvious - I am almost heaving a sigh of relief having a better historical comparison than "the dot com bubble".