HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

972 points by nprateem 13 hours ago | 613 comments

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Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)

426 points by twerkmeister 11 hours ago | 268 comments

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Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)

366 points by merksittich 10 hours ago | 308 comments

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The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)

345 points by rellem 8 hours ago | 245 comments

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First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)

326 points by neversaydie 8 hours ago | 215 comments

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The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)

296 points by haritha1313 22 hours ago | 196 comments

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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)

255 points by crazysaem 18 hours ago | 170 comments

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How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)

253 points by divbzero 18 hours ago | 212 comments

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EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (journals.plos.org)

244 points by giuliomagnifico 16 hours ago | 164 comments

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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)

237 points by droidjj 8 hours ago | 133 comments

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

203 points by mstolpm 12 hours ago | 1 comments

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

174 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 104 comments

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GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims (privacypros.com.au)

173 points by aussieguy1234 21 hours ago | 188 comments

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A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)

166 points by silcoon 8 hours ago | 112 comments

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

156 points by nicholasjbs 5 hours ago | 10 comments

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Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts (bbc.com)

155 points by NikxDa 14 hours ago | 110 comments

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Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (reuters.com)

146 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 hours ago | 139 comments

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Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)

134 points by tusksm 8 hours ago | 48 comments

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Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature (olafalders.com)

131 points by oalders 8 hours ago | 115 comments

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Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)

127 points by guybedo 7 hours ago | 83 comments

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The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)

125 points by st_goliath 3 hours ago | 33 comments

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Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)

118 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 27 comments

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Minikotlin (minikotlin.run)

100 points by frizlab 9 hours ago | 30 comments

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More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)

99 points by pavel_lishin 9 hours ago | 36 comments

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I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 (goto10retro.com)

95 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 92 comments

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Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

88 points by mirzap 12 hours ago | 1 comments

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Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?

80 points by cromka 4 hours ago | 84 comments

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AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (blog.zksecurity.xyz)

78 points by duha 8 hours ago | 3 comments

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M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (earthquake.usgs.gov)

73 points by hnburnsy 22 hours ago | 45 comments

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Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid (cbc.ca)

71 points by geox 21 hours ago | 11 comments