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1.		AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
		1317 points by nprateem 7 days ago \| 755 comments
2.		First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
		536 points by neversaydie 7 days ago \| 311 comments
3.		Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
		406 points by droidjj 7 days ago \| 223 comments
4.		Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
		835 points by nicholasjbs 7 days ago \| 107 comments
5.		The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
		288 points by st_goliath 7 days ago \| 119 comments
6.		Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
		341 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 90 comments
7.		The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
		486 points by rellem 7 days ago \| 357 comments
8.		Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)
		562 points by gnabgib 7 days ago \| 379 comments
9.		Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
		276 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 165 comments
10.		Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)
		273 points by crazysaem 7 days ago \| 199 comments
11.		EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)
		258 points by giuliomagnifico 7 days ago \| 180 comments
12.		How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)
		273 points by divbzero 7 days ago \| 221 comments
13.		Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
		199 points by lalitmaganti 7 days ago \| 15 comments
14.		An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)
		302 points by gregsadetsky 14 days ago \| 84 comments
15.		Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)
		209 points by koeng 11 days ago \| 174 comments
16.		Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
		111 points by NaOH 11 days ago \| 61 comments
17.		Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)
		410 points by merksittich 7 days ago \| 390 comments
18.		Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
		181 points by tusksm 7 days ago \| 63 comments
19.		Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)
		174 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 58 comments
20.		Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)
		474 points by twerkmeister 7 days ago \| 298 comments
21.		Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)
		157 points by zdw 7 days ago \| 96 comments
22.		Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
		118 points by lortex 7 days ago \| 43 comments
23.		Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
		262 points by geerlingguy 14 days ago \| 27 comments
24.		The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)
		316 points by haritha1313 8 days ago \| 201 comments
25.		More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
		141 points by pavel_lishin 7 days ago \| 59 comments
26.		FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
		196 points by hmm37 7 days ago \| 118 comments
27.		AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)
		100 points by duha 7 days ago \| 9 comments
28.		A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)
		203 points by silcoon 7 days ago \| 168 comments
29.		Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)
		131 points by wertyk 7 days ago \| 47 comments
30.		MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/charmingblaze)
		76 points by klaussilveira 10 days ago \| 27 comments
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