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Hacker News (17 Jul 2026)

  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

    871 points • 476 comments • jul 17, 2026

  2. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

    419 points • 257 comments • jul 17, 2026

  3. Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

    331 points • 278 comments • jul 17, 2026

  4. The state of open source AI

    302 points • 211 comments • jul 17, 2026

  5. The human-in-the-loop is tired

    288 points • 192 comments • jul 17, 2026

  6. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

    273 points • 192 comments • jul 17, 2026

  7. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

    252 points • 207 comments • jul 17, 2026

  8. Pebble Mega Update – July 2026

    245 points • 159 comments • jul 17, 2026

  9. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

    238 points • 155 comments • jul 17, 2026

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

    202 points • 99 comments • jul 17, 2026