US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again
https://apnews.com/article/gas-prices-iran-war-4-gallon-4b82825734ec3ded192351e53a4be69e
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976172

Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js)
https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/signal-in-the-dark
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955740

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943745

America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD
https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/us-worst-oecd-fair-pay-score/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918078

European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903777

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889637

Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878682

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/in-emacs-everything-looks-like-a-service.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857230

Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842611

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815196

When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
https://tomtunguz.com/ai-spend-breakeven-2029/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801493

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe
https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783948

Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758309

Popping the GPU Bubble
https://moondream.ai/blog/popping-the-gpu-bubble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728729
