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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241
3 months ago
835
107
Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
https://www.recurse.com
562
379
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/
536
311
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
486
357
Mozilla: The state of open source AI
https://stateofopensource.ai/
474
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Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
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Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166
406
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
341
90
Learning a few things about running SQLite
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/
316
201
The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired
https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired
288
119
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html
276
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Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/
273
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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/
199
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026
258
180
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
236
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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
★ 18 Python – 3 months ago
206
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Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681
203
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A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-17-which-lisp/
200
308
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
15
Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)
https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/
197
40
Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
https://justif.lyall.co/
196
118
FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/faa-boeing-737-max-787.html
181
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Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
https://honeypotlive.cc/
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo
179
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GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
174
58
Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader
https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch
187
Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/short-sellers-rack-up-87-bln-profit-spacex-slips-below-ipo-price-ortex-2026-07-16/
158
42
Lego building instructions through time
https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/d-lego-building-instructions-through-time
157
96
Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment
https://www.up.com/news/safety/Tracking-Rail-Heat-260608
108
Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server
https://isene.org/2026/07/Frame.html
146
52
ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space
https://screenwall.app/
142
120
Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
https://www.olafalders.com/2026/07/17/claude-code-anatomy-of-a-misfeature/
141
59
More Bounce to the Ounce – By Maciej Cegłowski
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/more-bounce-to-the-ounce
134
43
What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?
https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/rh
131
47
Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust
https://github.com/tokio-rs/topcoat
★ 2.7k Rust MIT– 3 months ago
19
The Birth of Prolog (1996)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/234286.1057820
Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
https://app.everything.diena.co/
105
37
Minikotlin
https://minikotlin.run
104
36
A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie
https://www.thegamer.com/the-backrooms-a24-copyright-strike-artwork/
100
9
AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM
https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/openvm-bugs/
99
I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/i-owe-my-life-to-the-commodore-64
93
70
Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators
https://workspaces.xyz/
Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms
https://sofar.belfortlabs.cloud/
22
85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core
https://github.com/houslast3/85.30-GFLOPS-Single-Core-FP32-Matrix-Multiplication-on-AMD-Zen-3
★ 22 C – 3 months ago
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Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950477
5
Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945606
140
The US Grocery Slowdown Is Real
https://www.bain.com/insights/the-us-grocery-slowdown-is-real-snap-chart/
86
20
Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/meta-whistleblower-sarah-wynn-williams-us-senator-josh-hawley
85
Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/tech-note-making-your-own-v-i-plots
83
8
The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold
https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/the-isomorphic-labs-drug-design-engine-unlocks-a-new-frontier
78
VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
https://www.capitalone.com/tech/open-source/announcing-vulnhunter/
76
Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/07/17/flock-ceo-sorry-for-labelling-activists-terrorists/
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SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock-drops-new-low-ipo-price-starship-launch-scrubbed-2026-7
73
Scanning for Pangram Errors
https://veryfineprint.substack.com/p/scanning-for-pangram-errors
50
M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
72
11
Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/carney-presser-gord-bridge-9.7272695
Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/world-emoji-day-noto-3d/
CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5
69
17
In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains
https://in-toto.io/
68
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Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us
https://newrepublic.com/article/213004/everybody-weirded-ai-except-people-foist-us
65
14
Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano
https://terradaily.com/anything-that-falls-into-a-four-kilometre-stretch-of-a-river-in-the-central-peruvian-amazon-dies-within-seconds-because-the-water-reaches-temperatures-of-up-to-100-degrees-celsius-despite-the-river/