AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
1248 points by nprateem | 727 comments
Hacker News discussion where a user reports an AWS estimated bill of $1.7 billion despite normal usage under $5, linked to an AWS billing data issue.
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
780 points by nicholasjbs | 99 comments
Recurse Center cofounder's HN post marking its 15th anniversary, recounting its YC origins, pivot to a programming retreat, and HN's role in its growth.
Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse(localnewsmatters.org)
510 points by gnabgib | 332 comments
Local News Matters/CalMatters article reporting Kaiser nurses' claims that AI tools and workplace surveillance are worsening their jobs and patient care.
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star(bbc.com)
506 points by neversaydie | 292 comments
BBC News article by Pallab Ghosh reporting the first detection of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of a distant star.
The state of open source AI(stateofopensource.ai)
456 points by rellem | 328 comments
Mozilla's "The State of Open Source AI" report landing page, with a downloadable full report and a letter from CTO Raffi Krikorian.
Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners(kaggle.com)
446 points by twerkmeister | 276 comments
A Kaggle discussion post alleging inconsistencies in the judging and winner selection of the 'Measuring Progress Toward AGI' competition, citing the Medley Bench grand prize winner.
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark(simonwillison.net)
387 points by droidjj | 209 comments
Simon Willison blog post on Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, its benchmarks and pricing, and his pelican-on-a-bicycle test results.
Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters(ft.com)
362 points by merksittich | 305 comments
Financial Times article reporting that Apple has sent legal letters to dozens of OpenAI employees; content is behind a subscription paywall.
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50(goliath32.com)
271 points by st_goliath | 106 comments
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026(repebble.com)
253 points by crazysaem | 170 comments
A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp(scotto.me)
170 points by silcoon | 117 comments
Lego building instructions through time(lego.com)
139 points by NaOH | 36 comments
Frame – Linux X server in Assembly(isene.org)
125 points by guybedo | 83 comments
The Birth of Prolog (1996)(dl.acm.org)
103 points by Jtsummers | 13 comments
Minikotlin(minikotlin.run)
94 points by frizlab | 26 comments
The US grocery slowdown is real(bain.com)
42 points by toomuchtodo | 48 comments
