top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-17

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241

3 months ago

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

https://www.recurse.com

3 months ago

Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse

https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/

3 months ago

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo

3 months ago

Mozilla: The state of open source AI

https://stateofopensource.ai/

3 months ago

Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423

3 months ago

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166

3 months ago

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/

3 months ago

Learning a few things about running SQLite

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/

3 months ago

The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired

3 months ago

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html

3 months ago

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/

3 months ago

How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/

3 months ago

Pebble Mega Update – July 2026

https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026

3 months ago

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876

3 months ago

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa_EC71.md

3 months ago

★ 18 Python

Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681

3 months ago

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-17-which-lisp/

3 months ago

Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-landmark-legal-victory-lock-pornographic-website-domain-and

3 months ago

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/

3 months ago