ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM

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User is creating a browser-based Go game with an AI opponent using ZCode and GLM-5.2, implementing features like player interaction, AI algorithm, and victory conditions. The game is now complete and can be run independently, with the user verifying its functionality and removing unnecessary dependencies to enable local execution.

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

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Scientists created a synthetic cell that grows, replicates DNA, and divides, demonstrating basic cell functions. The cell is not alive but shows promise for generating life from non-life and could lead to breakthroughs in materials and disease research.

What to learn to be a graphics programmer

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To be hireable as a graphics programmer, learn modern graphics APIs like DirectX12, Vulkan, or Metal, and understand rendering techniques, lighting, and shading. Familiarize yourself with C++ and shader languages like HLSL or GLSL, and consider learning path tracing and physically based rendering.

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

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Find worker-owned coffee shops and restaurants across the US. Search by city to discover cooperatively owned cafes, bakeries, and restaurants in your area.

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Sony Interactive Entertainment will discontinue physical game disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028. New games will be available digitally on PlayStation Store and at retailers starting January 2028.

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

Proliferate is a platform for running AI agents in parallel, locally and in the cloud, aiming to democratize access to AI. It's hiring a software engineer to work closely with founder Pablo, offering a fast-paced, ownership-driven environment.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

Here are the summaries in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Internal Combustion Engine (2021)

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An internal combustion engine is explained step by step, starting with a simple crank mechanism that converts linear force into torque, then using a cannon to generate a strong force that pushes a piston down a cylinder, and finally adding valves and a camshaft to control the flow of air and fuel. The engine's components, including the engine block, crankshaft, pistons, cylinder head, and ...

Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine

Box3D is an open source 3D physics engine that is a fork of Box2D, developed to meet the needs of the game The Legend of California. It is now available on GitHub and has a feature set that includes gyroscopic torques, broad-phase collision detection, and compound collision systems.

Fable 5 Is Back

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Fable 5 is back. https://t.co/9RTGUCcPHy

One KW wind turbine without civil engineering

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Wind To Watt offers a 1 kW wind turbine for mass production, adaptable to any terrain and environment. It's a patented invention for global scalability, combining technological innovation and industrial experience.

Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Cloudflare introduces the Monetization Gateway, allowing customers to charge for digital assets with usage-based pricing. The gateway uses the x402 protocol for sub-second payment settlement in stablecoins.

How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

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Optimistic Provide is a new optimization for IPFS's Amino DHT that reduces content publication time by over one order of magnitude and network overhead by 40%. It achieves this by using statistical heuristics to predict when the 20 closest peers have been discovered, allowing for sub-second record storage and improved performance in delay-sensitive applications.

Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

Greg and Max, Parsewise founders, transform unstructured data into schema compliant data with lineage. Their platform simplifies ETL and allows business experts to validate results quickly.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

I am a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design and full-stack development, proficient in various technologies including Python, AI, MERN, and Big Data, and I am looking for a Senior/Lead software engineer role in the USA.

Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019

Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business

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Rewriting code for personal reasons, not business needs, is a common pattern. Before rewriting, look for a specific reason or number that justifies the change, not just personal preference or style.

Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom

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Hanami 3.0 is released with new features like mailers, internationalization, and Minitest support. It also improves performance and developer experience.

The Apple Disk II Controller Card

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In the world of Apple II disks, there are two major types of disk controller cards: the original Disk II controller (and clones), and everything else. Both have their place. The “everything else” category includes the Apple 3.5 disk controller card, Liron card, SCSI cards, IDE cards, and more. These cards provide a standard API for software to read/write blocks, get drive status, and format ...

1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

User created 42 Apple emojis as 1-bit pixel art in Summer 2019. They are available for use in projects with credit and link back to the source.

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Isaac 1 is a home robot designed to handle tedious tasks like laundry and room reset. It's autonomous and controlled through a smartphone app, with teleoperation assistance available when needed.

I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers

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Harry’s was a nice place — probably still is. I haven’t been back lately. It’s a couple of miles off I-79, a few exits north of Charleston, near a place called Sutton. Used to do a pretty fair amount of business until they finished building the Interstate out from Charleston and made it worthwhile for some fast-food joints to move in right next to the cloverleaf; nobody wanted to drive the ...

Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine

The New Paradigm for building forms. Stop coding UI-coupled forms and start defining semantic, serializable schemas.

A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly

chDB SQL Shell

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Sony plans to remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store libraries due to licensing agreements. This move highlights the shift towards ownership being controlled by servers, rather than physical copies.

Generating Images with a 2025 Android

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The user successfully ported the Bonsai Image model to a Samsung Galaxy S25+ using the phone's Hexagon NPU, achieving a 512x512 image generation time of around 2 minutes. However, the process was challenging due to Android's immature machine-learning stacks and varying hardware, resulting in a less-than-ideal experience compared to the iPhone 12 Pro from 2020.

Building Gin: Simple over Easy

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The author created Gin, a Go web framework, to balance simplicity and ease of use, inspired by the SDK work and Go's simplicity principles. Gin's design aimed to keep the request path explicit, reduce noise, and provide a natural developer experience, resulting in a widely-used and long-lasting framework.

Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36

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A tiny Kubernetes cluster revealed a memory leak in the kubelet process due to a context leak on every startPodSync, which was caused by a change in Kubernetes 1.36 that created a new cancelable context without properly canceling the old one. The issue was fixed by reverting the problematic code and adding comments to warn about potential context leaks and long-lived goroutines.

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

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Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.