198: DTF:HN for July 17, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for July 17, 2026. Featuring: EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams, Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence, Pebble Mega Update – July 2026, How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues, Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source, and more.

Stories covered:

1. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:22)
2. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 3:20)
3. Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 6:40)
4. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 10:19)
5. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 14:05)
6. Decoy Font
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 17:31)
7. An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 20:54)
8. LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 23:58)
9. Starlink from 1984
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 27:26)
10. Solod: Go can be a better C
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 30:09)