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Back to Episodes7.24.26 | Writing by hand boosts brain, Startup founders ask US to keep Chinese AI open, OpenAI's accidental attack against Hugging Face occurs
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:18) - Writing by hand is good for your brain
- (01:17) - Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
- (02:41) - OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
- (04:06) - 98.css
- (05:28) - Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
- (06:44) - What happened to TheNumbers.com
- (08:06) - The Beam Engine
- (08:59) - Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
- (10:31) - Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
- (12:03) - The arguments against open source AI are bad
- (13:27) - Outro
Writing by hand is good for your brain
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022152
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015639
98.css
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028927
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026810
What happened to TheNumbers.com
https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691
The Beam Engine
https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007221
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023019
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038
The arguments against open source AI are bad
https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024643