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Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
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Show HN: One More Letter
Article URL: https://playonemoreletter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928402 Points: 11 # Comments: 7
Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite
Article URL: https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928343 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials
Article URL: https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle-materials Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928313 Points: 20 # Comments: 5
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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
Article URL: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928234 Points: 31 # Comments: 6
SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
Article URL: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135 Points: 57 # Comments: 29
LLM Networking with MikroTik
Article URL: https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927915 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
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P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC
Article URL: https://pairdrop.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927900 Points: 20 # Comments: 11
Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 Points: 55 # Comments: 17
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Grok Build is open source
Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Points: 201 # Comments: 244
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Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"
The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.
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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
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Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.
Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]
Article URL: https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2026-07/speculative_growth_AI_public.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927409 Points: 22 # Comments: 10
We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes
Article URL: https://mass-driver.com/article/from-human-hands Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927373 Points: 29 # Comments: 13