# Athena AI News — Top 20 (Monday Week-Open, Today Only)

> Generated 2026-07-13 20:54 UTC · recency-guard ON · GitHub EXCLUDED (standing rule) · ranked by virality × recency × editorial fit
> Source: oracle.db · 20 shown of 129 fresh today (-GitHub) · 98 older re-posts dropped

| # | Title | Source | Score | Age | Link |
|---|-------|--------|-------|-----|------|
| 1 | Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke | hackernews | 0.573 | today | [link](https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/) |
| 2 | Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers | hackernews | 0.527 | today | [link](https://twitter.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159) |
| 3 | Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles | hackernews | 0.519 | today | [link](https://news.ycombinator.com/item/48886741) |
| 4 | I love LLMs, I hate hype | hackernews | 0.468 | today | [link](https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html) |
| 5 | What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis | hackernews | 0.442 | today | [link](https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547) |
| 6 | Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop | hackernews | 0.437 | today | [link](https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk) |
| 7 | Old and new apps, via modern coding agents | hackernews | 0.435 | today | [link](https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/) |
| 8 | xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket | hackernews | 0.433 | today | [link](https://www.internationalcyberdigest.com/xais-grok-build-cli-uploads-entire-git-repositories-to-a-google-cloud-bucket/) |
| 9 | Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper | hackernews | 0.420 | today | [link](https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6) |
| 10 | Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh | hackernews | 0.394 | today | [link](https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm) |
| 11 | AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study | hackernews | 0.358 | today | [link](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery) |
| 12 | Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM | hackernews | 0.355 | today | [link](https://blog.yaelwrites.com/stop-telling-me-to-ask-an-llm/) |
| 13 | Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase | hackernews | 0.340 | today | [link](https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk) |
| 14 | Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs | hackernews | 0.338 | today | [link](https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-we-understand-how-large-language-models-reason/) |
| 15 | AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence | hackernews | 0.297 | today | [link](https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html) |
| 16 | The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) | hackernews | 0.263 | today | [link](http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/OneStepTrap.html) |
| 17 | Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring | hackernews | 0.258 | today | [link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q29j47v9ro) |
| 18 | Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) | hackernews | 0.250 | today | [link](https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative) |
| 19 | Who manages the agents? | hackernews | 0.240 | today | [link](https://www.off-policy.com/dont-go-quietly-into-the-ai-night/) |
| 20 | Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs | hackernews | 0.195 | today | [link](https://github.com/swellweb/reame) |

## Editorial fit tags

2. **Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers** — model-wars, privacy/sec
4. **I love LLMs, I hate hype** — anti-hype
5. **What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis** — model-wars
6. **Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your la** — agents
7. **Old and new apps, via modern coding agents** — agents
8. **xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket** — model-wars, privacy/sec, local/infra
9. **Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper** — agents, model-wars
10. **Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh** — local/infra
11. **AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: stud** — biz/legal
13. **Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your c** — agents
14. **Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to ** — local/infra
16. **The One-Step Trap (In AI Research)** — biz/legal, anti-hype
18. **Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025)** — anti-hype
19. **Who manages the agents?** — agents
20. **Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs** — local/infra
