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  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.36 1 #1 | 730 points by nprateem 5 hours ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
    ×3.13 50 #65 | 197 points by mstolpm 7 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date
    ×6.38 80 | 9 points by Ryan_Li 14 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is GPT-5.6 Sol Max Worth It?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by yohji1984 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 89 | 284 points by david927 4 days ago | 1105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you handle the actual situation with so much AI noises
    ×0.87 43 | 4 points by ThierryRkt 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What is the most beneficial way AI has impacted your daily life?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by Mdarwish2005 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on(2026)?
    ×0.61 74 | 4 points by adithyaharish 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.55 75 | 128 points by kadhirvelm 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?
    ×0.81 83 | 9 points by deadcatfound 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.90 57 | 1088 points by levkk 4 days ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?
    ×0.43 86 | 9 points by silentmafia 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How do you guys keep up with AI news?
    ×0.78 84 | 12 points by anirudhc2005 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI
    ×0.65 76 | 8 points by im-not-enjoying 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×16.29 90 | 76 points by cromka 27 minutes ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Router ARP/NAT contradict after reload. Client ghost or firmware bug?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by asdem 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: AWS said I was projected to spend $5B this month on my personal account
    ×1.94 58 | 6 points by throwaway_5753 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.50 129 | 11 points by Gold-Ask-lx 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.59 140 | 28 points by sspehr 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?
    ×0.57 99 | 10 points by NarcisMirandes 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: As LLMs progress, how do you stay sharp and productive?
    ×0.43 117 | 7 points by spiresofagartha 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Thinking: Alternate Distribution for Filmmakers
    ×0.24 142 | 3 points by phaedrus044 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution
    ×0.16 | 2 points by yohji1984 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by JoeAltmaier 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS?
    ×0.53 127 | 4 points by tomelliot 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Reading List of Precision Engineering Books (precisionmindsetllc.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by o4c 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)
    ×2.31 23 | 71 points by thundergolfer 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.45 5 #3 | 118 points by droidjj 4 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (capitalone.com)
    ×0.70 23 #21 | 41 points by medina 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by sbulaev 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection (ryanjk5.github.io)
    ×0.83 88 | 117 points by RyanJK5 3 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
    ×1.42 4 #8 | 98 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly (puter.com)
    ×2.32 41 | 255 points by coolelectronics 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Moltshit.com – An Imageboard for AI Agents (moltshit.com)
    ×1.66 112 | 4 points by jetbalsa 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise (github.com/mathaix)
    ×0.57 134 | 41 points by mathaix 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. As Blazes Spread Near Paris, Extreme Heat Is Changing How France Fights Fires (nytimes.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by littlexsparkee 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Whole Half-Life (twhl.info)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by jonl247 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Truth About AI's Water Use (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lantry 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc (crates.io)
    ×0.58 114 | 23 points by tracyspacy 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Leet Robotics: Learn robotics and ROS2 with hands-on courses (leetrobotics.com)
    ×1.97 135 | 12 points by deepresearch 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (belfortlabs.cloud)
    ×1.28 40 #27 | 6 points by j2kun 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Playing with Particle Life [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by iefbr14 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zenban (github.com/berkaycit)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by berkaycit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (mort.coffee)
    ×2.03 19 | 358 points by gnyeki 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks (the-decoder.com)
    ×3.00 11 | 142 points by amai 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A web based VistaPro clone (toby.github.io)
    ×1.57 133 | 11 points by tobypadilla 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public (schema-harness.github.io)
    ×1.77 41 #72 | 114 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Australian Data Centres forced to generate more power than they use (afr.com)
    ×1.28 15 #75 | 8 points by root-parent 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sandboxing LLM-Generated Python: How I Let Strangers' Prompts Fight Each Other (jcurcioconsulting.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Jeremy1026 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI scans your expenses and shows you where to save (scanticket.io)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by sunhp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 7.3 earthquake off cost of Mexico, Quatamala (usgs.gov)
    ×1.96 11 | 3 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid (cbc.ca)
    ×4.64 12 | 69 points by geox 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made ts-node alternative, ttsc/ttsx, a TypeScript-go toolchain (github.com/samchon)
    ×1.52 132 | 6 points by autobe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (usgs.gov)
    ×0.91 24 #80 | 71 points by hnburnsy 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pseudpocalypse (dynomight.net)
    ×1.53 32 #66 | 137 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Major earthquake off Mexican coast triggers tsunami threat (globalnews.ca)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Grok Build is open source (github.com/xai-org)
    ×3.04 5 | 580 points by skp1995 1 day ago | 643 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (siegelendowment.org)
    ×1.82 34 | 292 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: SeekinWeb – Check if AI agents can read your website (seekinweb.com)
    ×2.34 108 | 5 points by draxork 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)
    ×3.66 35 #40 | 415 points by twerkmeister 7 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×3.76 5 #68 | 809 points by mcgin 1 day ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Personal Systems Series (yusufaytas.com)
    ×0.53 12 | 3 points by yusufaytas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Rudo - A small, elegant dock for Wayland (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×1.18 131 | 3 points by modinfo 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (lmstudio.ai)
    ×1.70 21 #36 | 313 points by minimaxir 22 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: CreditKit, a Stripe usage-credits engine I kept rebuilding (youngalgy.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by youngalgy 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bluesky Trademarks ATProto (atproto.com)
    ×1.52 47 #88 | 193 points by chaosharmonic 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bayeux Tapestry Returns to English Soil at the British Museum (apnews.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by gmays 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. In remote northern Philippines, a local solution to the global energy shock (csmonitor.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by thunderbong 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign (hyperallergic.com)
    ×4.14 36 | 203 points by decimalenough 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)
    ×1.36 47 | 147 points by hisamafahri 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Tree, truth, druid, dryad, and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root (migdal.pl)
    ×1.44 136 | 3 points by stared 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars (404media.co)
    ×2.92 25 #64 | 31 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Opus 5 expected to launch on July 20-21 (twitter.com/pankajkumar_dev)
    ×2.56 40 | 3 points by binyu 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Kross – 2D Software Rasterizer from scratch in C (github.com/Kristaq77)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Kristaq77 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Hearth, an open-source local AI that runs your PC (files, apps, voice) (github.com/0pen-Sourcer)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by SwagKing 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)
    ×1.67 25 #43 | 193 points by koeng 19 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed (bbc.com)
    ×1.68 53 | 71 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time (ssrn.com)
    ×0.83 100 | 38 points by fabioricardo7 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Bean Network Tester – a free tool to simulate bad network conditions QA (itch.io)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by donislawdev 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Maxx – HUD for Claude token usage (meetmaxx.co)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by _reif 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Much of the crypto universe is "gambling" with a better vocabulary (medium.com)
    ×1.38 12 #58 | 3 points by rakeshmenon 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A Map of the Cyclospora Outbreak (kcra.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by jenthoven 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Anthropic breaks July 19th promise, pulling plug in Fable 5 (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by critic-of-slop 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Fixing Gnome Snapshot Segfault on NixOS and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 (grigio.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by grigio 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust (github.com/cmk)
    ×0.61 72 | 30 points by partialsolve 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A cross-platform app for meeting notes and items that don't get lost (github.com/kestermckinney)
    ×1.34 139 | 6 points by kestermckinney 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Tmux tab markers for Claude Code, Grok, and pi sessions (github.com/jhickner)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by jhickner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 54 #70 | 59 points by binyu 21 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Will U.S. Households Still Buy Heat Pumps Without a Tax Credit? (wordpress.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: AI Crypto Investigations/Research Agents (blockscope.co)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by loopedcircuits 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???