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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
1318 points by nprateem 16 days ago | 756 comments
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First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
536 points by neversaydie 16 days ago | 310 comments
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
407 points by droidjj 16 days ago | 223 comments
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
836 points by nicholasjbs 16 days ago | 107 comments
5.
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
289 points by st_goliath 16 days ago | 121 comments
6.
Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
343 points by surprisetalk 16 days ago | 90 comments
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The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
486 points by rellem 16 days ago | 357 comments
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Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)
563 points by gnabgib 16 days ago | 380 comments
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Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
277 points by surprisetalk 16 days ago | 165 comments
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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)
273 points by crazysaem 17 days ago | 199 comments
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EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)
258 points by giuliomagnifico 16 days ago | 181 comments
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How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)
274 points by divbzero 17 days ago | 222 comments
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Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
199 points by lalitmaganti 16 days ago | 15 comments
14.
An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)
303 points by gregsadetsky 23 days ago | 84 comments
15.
Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)
209 points by koeng 20 days ago | 174 comments
16.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
111 points by NaOH 21 days ago | 60 comments
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Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)
410 points by merksittich 16 days ago | 391 comments
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Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
181 points by tusksm 16 days ago | 63 comments
19.
Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)
174 points by surprisetalk 16 days ago | 58 comments
20.
Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)
474 points by twerkmeister 16 days ago | 298 comments
21.
Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)
157 points by zdw 16 days ago | 96 comments
22.
Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
118 points by lortex 16 days ago | 43 comments
23.
Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
262 points by geerlingguy 24 days ago | 27 comments
24.
The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)
318 points by haritha1313 17 days ago | 201 comments
25.
More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
141 points by pavel_lishin 16 days ago | 59 comments
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FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
196 points by hmm37 16 days ago | 118 comments
27.
AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)
100 points by duha 16 days ago | 9 comments
28.
A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)
203 points by silcoon 16 days ago | 170 comments
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Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)
134 points by wertyk 16 days ago | 48 comments
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MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/charmingblaze)
76 points by klaussilveira 19 days ago | 27 comments

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