197: DTF:HN for July 16, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 16, 2026. Featuring: The lost joy of music piracy, Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly, Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model, If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe, Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't, and more.

Stories covered:

1. The lost joy of music piracy
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:25)
2. Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 4:28)
3. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:55)
4. If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 11:32)
5. Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 14:57)
6. 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 18:46)
7. Grok Build is open source
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 22:13)
8. Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 25:59)
9. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 29:41)
10. Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 32:45)