Hacker News – 24 Jul 2026

Table of Contents AI Innovations and Developments Flux 3 Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models Cognitive and Software Quality Insights Writing by hand is good for your brain What happened to TheNumbers.com Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) Nothing works and everyone is euphoric Personal Reflections and Experiences The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) I regret migrating to Codeberg Learning and Resources Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL Claude Cookbook The Book Prize Index