Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-18

  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion news.ycombinator.com - 686 comments 1148 points
  2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life’s work news.ycombinator.com - 52 comments 532 points
  3. Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse localnewsmatters.org - 309 comments 483 points
  4. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners www.kaggle.com - 282 comments 455 points
  5. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star www.bbc.com - 256 comments 439 points
  6. The state of open source AI stateofopensource.ai - 302 comments 421 points
  7. Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters www.ft.com - 336 comments 390 points
  8. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark simonwillison.net - 169 comments 323 points
  9. Learning a few things about running SQLite jvns.ca - 59 comments 233 points
  10. Three ways people respond to a problem - other than solving it improvesomething.today - 127 comments 229 points
  11. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 goliath32.com - 68 comments 209 points
  12. Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars news.ycombinator.com - 1 comments 203 points
  13. A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp scotto.me - 137 comments 186 points
  14. Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law www.texasattorneygeneral.gov - 200 comments 171 points
  15. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again www.cnbc.com - 98 comments 171 points
  16. Trump Media to sell instant access to ‘market-moving’ social posts www.bbc.com - 114 comments 164 points
  17. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price www.reuters.com - 167 comments 157 points
  18. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time honeypotlive.cc - 57 comments 156 points
  19. Regressive JPEGs maurycyz.com - 7 comments 153 points
  20. Frame – Linux X server in Assembly isene.org - 93 comments 146 points
  21. Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature www.olafalders.com - 117 comments 139 points
  22. More Bounce to the Ounce mceglowski.substack.com - 53 comments 128 points
  23. Lego building instructions through time www.lego.com - 22 comments 105 points
  24. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years github.com - 24 comments 104 points
  25. Minikotlin minikotlin.run - 33 comments 103 points
  26. Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search - 2024 curiouscoding.nl - 6 comments 103 points
  27. Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader www.crowdsupply.com - 35 comments 99 points
  28. I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 www.goto10retro.com - 95 comments 96 points
  29. AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s ZkVM blog.zksecurity.xyz - 6 comments 92 points
  30. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events app.everything.diena.co - 31 comments 89 points