DTF:HN for July 14, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 14, 2026. Featuring: Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries, Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware, Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity, The git history command, Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem, and more. Stories covered: 1. Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 2. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/09/spectral-compute-aims-to-set-cuda-free-will-it-succeed/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903715 3. Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902320 4. The git history command https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 5. Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903082 6. YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902026 7. Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665 8. Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454 9. How to build a circular LCD clock https://blinry.org/lcd-clock/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872833 10. Just Let Me Write Digits https://gendx.dev/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902791