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  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.45 2 #2 | 1064 points by nprateem 13 hours ago | 646 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×4.17 1 #3 | 370 points by nicholasjbs 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×8.31 58 | 86 points by cromka 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 105 | 285 points by david927 5 days ago | 1110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by amichail 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date
    ×3.21 4 | 21 points by Ryan_Li 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.57 91 | 132 points by kadhirvelm 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is GPT-5.6 Sol Max Worth It?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by yohji1984 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you handle the actual situation with so much AI noises
    ×0.58 101 | 4 points by ThierryRkt 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.89 78 | 1090 points by levkk 5 days ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?
    ×0.73 109 | 9 points by deadcatfound 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on(2026)?
    ×0.50 111 | 4 points by adithyaharish 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?
    ×0.41 117 | 9 points by silentmafia 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How do you guys keep up with AI news?
    ×0.74 110 | 12 points by anirudhc2005 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.58 158 | 28 points by sspehr 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.53 150 | 12 points by Gold-Ask-lx 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI
    ×0.84 95 | 11 points by im-not-enjoying 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Router ARP/NAT contradict after reload. Client ghost or firmware bug?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by asdem 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What is the most beneficial way AI has impacted your daily life?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by Mdarwish2005 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?
    ×0.55 127 | 10 points by NarcisMirandes 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: As LLMs progress, how do you stay sharp and productive?
    ×0.42 144 | 7 points by spiresofagartha 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033 (usatoday.com)
    ×3.74 21 #39 | 15 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Anthropic in early talks with Meta to acquire compute power (cnbc.com)
    ×1.50 16 #70 | 5 points by gslin 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)
    ×4.13 14 | 298 points by haritha1313 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. LoRa radio communication devices for Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.com)
    ×2.78 43 #75 | 8 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ultraclose 2029 flyby of asteroid Apophis (livescience.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by jinjin2 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid (cbc.ca)
    ×4.56 50 | 71 points by geox 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (usgs.gov)
    ×0.92 51 | 73 points by hnburnsy 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)
    ×2.33 63 | 73 points by thundergolfer 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Vektorgeist- A platform for AI operators and their agent's (vektorgeist.com)
    ×1.86 138 | 5 points by VektorGeist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: HeimWall – Catch secrets before you paste them into Claude or Cursor (heimwall.ai)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by ata2gxxx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.17 24 #33 | 117 points by pavel_lishin 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)
    ×3.53 20 #42 | 377 points by merksittich 14 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: DSA View View – A TypeScript runtime visualizer for algorithms (dsa-view-view.vercel.app)
    ×1.08 99 | 4 points by nyaomaru 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (github.com/clawkwork)
    ×1.59 104 | 223 points by celrenheit 4 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Sentinel – open-source QA agent that reads your code before it clicks (simbastack.com)
    ×0.78 112 | 15 points by asenna 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna (tunerscope.com)
    ×1.03 135 | 27 points by robotastic 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
    ×0.84 87 | 43 points by tmzt 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (github.com/juggler-ai)
    ×1.89 90 | 277 points by julesrms 5 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans (nobie.com)
    ×1.62 126 | 96 points by matthewgapp 4 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)
    ×1.32 35 #32 | 60 points by pentagrama 10 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (theocharis.dev)
    ×2.17 53 #61 | 288 points by JeremyTheo 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
    ×5.56 10 | 88 points by mirzap 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX (github.com/hkjarral)
    ×1.29 143 | 31 points by hkjarral 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/BadChemical)
    ×2.08 23 #17 | 32 points by BadChemical 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law (texasattorneygeneral.gov)
    ×3.14 27 #30 | 142 points by letmevoteplease 4 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)
    ×1.65 67 #57 | 175 points by speckx 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. StartupForge AI – Turn Any Business Idea into a Startup Blueprint (ctonew.app)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by kvreal 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We're Building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of Databases (turso.tech)
    ×2.62 68 | 100 points by polyrand 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Leet Robotics: Learn robotics and ROS2 with hands-on courses (leetrobotics.com)
    ×1.97 155 | 12 points by deepresearch 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I Started a "Dirt Notebook" (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.28 3 #12 | 15 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.18 8 #13 | 279 points by droidjj 12 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
    ×1.12 17 #29 | 141 points by tusksm 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.76 62 #69 | 68 points by ingve 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany (electrek.co)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by breve 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Repeal of national park rule could impact drinking water for millions (courthousenews.com)
    ×2.13 16 | 4 points by geox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)
    ×1.38 76 | 150 points by hisamafahri 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Wallflower – A Quiet Social Reader (thewallflower.app)
    ×0.77 136 | 8 points by tldrthelaw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Fluent, tiny lang for reactivity and autograd (mlajtos.github.io)
    ×1.41 77 | 4 points by mlajtos 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: BambooGrid – Open-source web UI for power grid modeling and power flow (kickstage.com)
    ×0.75 88 | 33 points by soaringmonchi 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection (ryanjk5.github.io)
    ×0.83 106 | 117 points by RyanJK5 3 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Nutshot Simulator – 31 days, 59K prompts, 142M tokens, ~$23K of Claude (nutshotsimulator.com)
    ×1.98 139 | 5 points by Yahivin 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A non-partisan map of how Congress votes and who donates (anaximander.us)
    ×1.62 42 | 3 points by Vavnik 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. NASA Taps SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion (nasa.gov)
    ×1.51 2 | 6 points by connicpu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: SeekinWeb – Check if AI agents can read your website (seekinweb.com)
    ×2.33 140 | 5 points by draxork 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. LG monitors installing adware on Windows PCs (techradar.com)
    ×3.87 48 #77 | 23 points by 0xC0ncord 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
    ×1.81 40 #79 | 277 points by Sherex 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Deadwire-HTTPD A triple-threaded x86-64 assembly static server (github.com/Deadbytes101)
    ×1.21 116 | 4 points by lexsandra56 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) (github.com/Danau5tin)
    ×0.88 108 | 107 points by Danau5tin 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: WFHJ.com – Work from Home Jobs (wfhj.com)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by nadermx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig (moonstone.sh)
    ×0.89 24 #11 | 8 points by ksymph 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Texas spent $4.5M in Spy SUVs that scan phones in 3 minutes (letsaddresstexas.substack.com)
    ×2.96 23 #72 | 31 points by Muhammad523 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After It Crashes Through Their Roof (nytimes.com)
    ×1.75 5 | 4 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Lific: Issue trackers should be simple, right? (lific.dev)
    ×1.25 94 | 3 points by Void_Null 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.91 29 #26 | 80 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Credit Card Points Are a Transfer from the Broke to the Comfortable (willisallstead.substack.com)
    ×4.10 69 #86 | 26 points by willio58 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Avatoon – React Three Fiber component for audio-synced 3D avatar lip-sync (github.com/khaledalam)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by KhaledAlam 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used (frank.computer)
    ×3.79 81 | 105 points by cratermoon 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock (invezz.com)
    ×5.28 72 | 78 points by lbrito 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: The Port Index – 3,804 seaports and 9,640 airports, scored (theportindex.online)
    ×0.99 75 | 3 points by theportindex 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Selenium Boot – Spring Boot's Conventions, Applied to Selenium (seleniumboot.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by mdsddmhossain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)
    ×1.92 | 364 points by xnx 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (reuters.com)
    ×3.87 60 | 152 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.72 7 #16 | 67 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How An Adolescent's Brain Reacts to Faces May Predict Their Social Future (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.56 44 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
    ×2.14 7 #6 | 378 points by neversaydie 12 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (tryai.dev)
    ×2.47 12 #90 | 383 points by hershyb_ 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Sylvia Plath, Aristotle, and Jean-Paul Sartre Walk into a Bar (medium.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by sgkey28 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Functional Taxonomy of World Models by Fei-Fei Li (drfeifei.substack.com)
    ×2.13 15 | 7 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. VM Timekeeping: Using the PTP Hardware Clock on KVM (libertysys.com.au)
    ×2.16 18 | 4 points by randen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???