DTF:HN for July 17, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 17, 2026. Featuring: EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams, Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence, Pebble Mega Update – July 2026, How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues, Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source, and more. Stories covered: 1. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943745 2. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 3. Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943174 4. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943142 5. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 6. Decoy Font https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 7. An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862165 8. LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662 9. Starlink from 1984 https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/starlink-from-1984 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876811 10. Solod: Go can be a better C https://solod.dev HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895199