{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"7.24.26 | Writing by hand boosts brain, Startup founders ask US to keep Chinese AI open, OpenAI's accidental attack against Hugging Face occurs","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a6ac71af\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":812,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2026.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nWriting by hand is good for your brain\nhttps://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022152\nStartup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI\nhttps://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016\nOpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened\nhttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015639\n98.css\nhttps://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028927\nShow HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026810\nWhat happened to TheNumbers.com\nhttps://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691\nThe Beam Engine\nhttps://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007221\nWhy Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)\nhttps://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023019\nSoftware rendering in 500 lines of bare C++\nhttps://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038\nThe arguments against open source AI are bad\nhttps://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024643","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}