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The Hacker Times

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Hacker News Edition
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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Hacker News

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Supercar Blondie▲ 213

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

In a real win for Earth Day, it has been reported that scientists in Japan have developed a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

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Lalit Misra▲ 177

The Git history command deserves more attention

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Normal Tech▲ 85

What will be left for us to work on?

My keynote at ICML 2026

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Satellitemap▲ 53

Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites

Track satellites in real-time on an interactive 3D map. See Starlink trains, space stations, rocket bodies, and satellite passes visible from your location.

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Stanford University▲ 91

Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)

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GitHub▲ 49

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database with storage format native to handle graph relations. YouTrackDB supports Gremlin queries and ACID transactions. -…

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Chips and Cheese▲ 45

Is x86 ready to ACE it?

CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads.

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Lenergy▲ 13

Australia is offering free daytime electricity

The Solar Sharer Offer launches 1 July 2026. Here's what changed, how the cap works, and how to maximise free daytime electricity for your home.

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HN — Best of the Week

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Zig Creator▲ 1437

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

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Apple▲ 499

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.

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Grok▲ 493

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

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LAPD▲ 441

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

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DOGE▲ 302

DOGE is done. What happened to its records?

Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.

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Samsung▲ 296

Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training

Samsung has started showing Samsung Health users a controversial notice requiring them to consent to their data being used for AI training if they want to keep their data from being deleted.

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Telegram▲ 288

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

Whois Lookup for t.me

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