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Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
159•twerkmeister•1h ago•65 comments

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
1745•vincent_s•21h ago•1025 comments

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
155•giuliomagnifico•6h ago•91 comments

Pebble Mega Update – July 2026

https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026
151•crazysaem•8h ago•72 comments

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

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year...
165•divbzero•8h ago•124 comments

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

47•mstolpm•1h ago•26 comments

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
718•jervant•20h ago•158 comments

Decoy Font

https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
595•ray__•20h ago•139 comments

An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)

https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029
205•gregsadetsky•6d ago•22 comments

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166
13•merksittich•38m ago•3 comments

Solod: Go can be a better C

https://solod.dev
159•koeng•3d ago•85 comments

Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)

https://om-intelligence.ch/projects/vocal-notation/vocal-notation.html
45•busssard•3d ago•18 comments

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic
277•minimaxir•16h ago•101 comments

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6
306•hershyb_•16h ago•406 comments

Starlink from 1984

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/starlink-from-1984
54•ingve•5d ago•21 comments

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/
162•mustaphah•14h ago•19 comments

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/
328•xnx•20h ago•161 comments

I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/i-owe-my-life-to-the-commodore-64
42•ingve•2h ago•27 comments

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

https://immersivemath.com/ila/
246•srean•21h ago•28 comments

Camera Chase Vehicle

https://transistor-man.com/gimbal_camera_rover.html
39•geerlingguy•1w ago•5 comments

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/
210•uneven9434•19h ago•155 comments

Old Icons

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/old-icons/
75•zdw•5d ago•21 comments

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708
120•anyonecancode•16h ago•41 comments

In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring

https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/exhaustive-destructuring-praise/
29•avandecreme•5d ago•6 comments

Mathematics of Data Science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938
178•Anon84•16h ago•11 comments

CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/
133•speckx•19h ago•143 comments

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin
91•gmays•14h ago•22 comments

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/
253•JeremyTheo•1d ago•265 comments

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model
148•zhinit•21h ago•71 comments

Pushinka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushinka
20•benbreen•5h ago•6 comments
Open in hackernews

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

71•mirzap•2h ago
This has to be a bug. My usual monthly S3 bill is only $2–3. Has anyone else received a strange billing estimate today?

https://prnt.sc/UqjcYD3RSQrS

Comments

pcarmichael•2h ago
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

"Operational issue - AWS Billing Console (Global) Service - AWS Billing Console Severity Impacted - Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"

Sheepzez•2h ago
Yes, I've got an estimated bill of $4bn. Probably related to the ongoing "Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data" incident?

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

cifvts•2h ago
Yes, an incident is ongoing https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
dirkk0•1h ago
same here, I am still in shock. took me 10 minutes to find the 'operational issue' message in the dashboard. longest 10 minutes of my life.
charles_f•1h ago
Can you not set spending limits in AWS?
reformd•52m ago
he did, 140 billion :D
inigyou•48m ago
No you can't. Spending limits imply realtime billing backend flows and they also imply deleting all your data so that you don't pay for storage.
boristsr•47m ago
No, alerts but not limits.
masafej536•38m ago
If you owe AWS 140B dollars its their problem ;)
throwaway_5753•1h ago
Should have used Fable.
cyanydeez•1h ago
someones been dognfooding the AI too muxh
sankalpmukim•1h ago
AWS pushed the wishful thinking internal calculator to production.
glenstein•1h ago
Probably the safest bet is to pay your bill in full to stay in good standing and then get refunded the difference when they revise it down.
NordStreamYacht•59m ago
With interest, of course.
bknight1983•1h ago
I'm disappointed I only got a bill for $28M, need to work harder on burning money. Seriously though I thought my life flashed before me
danousna•59m ago
Yeah, small timers, I only got $4,4T. How will I finance this?
rodeduivel•51m ago
MMT!
MichaelNolan•13m ago
$28m actually seems worse. If I wake to a $100b bill, that’s obviously a mistake. If I wake up to a bill in the millions then my first thought would be “oh no what did I do wrong, this will ruin my life”
kylecazar•1h ago
You didn't have savings opportunities enabled
port3000•59m ago
Rookie error
port3000•1h ago
They have to pay for that AI Capex buildout somehow
djantje•59m ago
I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
pelagicAustral•58m ago
Imagine it not being a bug...
Sebb767•51m ago
As the famous saying goes: If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
RGamma•49m ago
Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!
speedgoose•48m ago
Time to become a shepherd in some remote mountains.
tgv•58m ago
Mine was a mere $49B. Fucking idiots.
atmosx•36m ago
Cheap!
thisisauserid•56m ago
FinSlops.
paulbjensen•53m ago
AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.
archerx•51m ago
Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…
yonatan8070•15m ago
Vendor-locked customers _hate_ him!
pfshort•51m ago
117 billion us dollars. Eat that GDP of Kuwait! But yes I have never scrambled so hard to try to get on the phone with someone at AWS in my life. Terrifying 10 minutes until I found that banner on the support page. It should be front and center on the dash, not hidden away. And in yellow.
rboyd•50m ago
Ask for some leniency. Let your account rep know about your budget difficulties and ask if you can make good faith payments of a few billion per month until you get back on your feet.
blitzar•45m ago
In unrelated news I just hit my target for S3 revenue (projections). Promotion meeting locked in for tomorrow (fastest in the companies history), looking forward to being a L2 Amazon employee.
nottorp•45m ago
Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?
lovich•44m ago
You really should get your spending under control. Unfortunately unless you become one of the real people class through a large lottery, it sounds like you owe the rest of your life to AWS until you can pay off your debts for being so careless.
reactordev•43m ago
“Due to a rounding error” or a buffer overflow, you now owe INT_MAX to BaldGuyCloudService.

Yeah, this most certainly is bad code wrapping around a value. AWS will post a notice soon if they haven’t already.

mapt•43m ago
AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.
bdangubic•41m ago
eh your typical off-by-7 (zeros) programmer mistake
rickette•40m ago
Some guy named Claude screwed up.
hoppp•38m ago
How much is that in kidneys?
atmosx•36m ago
A lot.
atmosx•37m ago
Looks like you are the biggest shareholder. Well, going by the popular saying: “You own AWS now”.
aweiland•37m ago
Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
compounding_it•33m ago
Are you sure it’s a bug ?

The crypto network you hosted should pay for itself in 10-20 years just like LLMs. Don’t worry. Consider Bank of America until then if you are good on credit score.

kvcm•13m ago
I had Hermes managing mine, and it made a partial prepayment to help smooth out the bump in my account balance. Unfortunately Billing Support say my $17.4B refund may take up to 10 calendar days to be processed.
jameskilton•9m ago
My personal photo backup S3 account, with a budget limit of $10, now going to cost me ....

$1,299,988,247,332.56!

That was a fun set of emails to wake up to, figured they had to be phishing for how outrageous of a number it was. But nope! Fun little incident they've got going over there.