HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

996 points by nprateem 14 hours ago | 620 comments

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

434 points by twerkmeister 12 hours ago | 268 comments

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

370 points by merksittich 11 hours ago | 312 comments

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The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)

353 points by rellem 9 hours ago | 260 comments

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

345 points by neversaydie 9 hours ago | 219 comments

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

296 points by haritha1313 23 hours ago | 196 comments

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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)

257 points by crazysaem 20 hours ago | 173 comments

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

254 points by divbzero 20 hours ago | 213 comments

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

248 points by droidjj 9 hours ago | 140 comments

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

245 points by giuliomagnifico 18 hours ago | 165 comments

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

220 points by nicholasjbs 6 hours ago | 18 comments

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

203 points by mstolpm 13 hours ago | 1 comments

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

181 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 108 comments

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

174 points by aussieguy1234 22 hours ago | 191 comments

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

172 points by silcoon 9 hours ago | 123 comments

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

159 points by NikxDa 15 hours ago | 110 comments

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

150 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 hours ago | 148 comments

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The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)

141 points by st_goliath 4 hours ago | 39 comments

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

136 points by tusksm 9 hours ago | 49 comments

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

136 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 36 comments

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

134 points by oalders 9 hours ago | 116 comments

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Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse (localnewsmatters.org)

133 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 100 comments

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

133 points by guybedo 8 hours ago | 90 comments

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

105 points by pavel_lishin 10 hours ago | 37 comments

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Minikotlin (minikotlin.run)

100 points by frizlab 11 hours ago | 30 comments

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

96 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 92 comments

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

88 points by mirzap 13 hours ago | 1 comments

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

82 points by cromka 5 hours ago | 84 comments

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FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)

80 points by hmm37 2 hours ago | 43 comments

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

79 points by duha 9 hours ago | 5 comments