Hacker News Daily — July 17, 2026
29 stories · July 17, 2026
In this issue
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
kimi.com · 1980 points · Discussion
https://www.kimi.com/en Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3
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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
895 points · Discussion
URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status I've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is < $5. Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket.…
- 3
Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
ft.com · 342 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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The state of open source AI
stateofopensource.ai · 315 points · Discussion
V1.0 · Recurring · July 2026 A Letter From Our CTO, Raffi Krikorian “ In New Zealand's far north, a Māori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo — a language too small for any market — under a…
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First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
bbc.com · 286 points · Discussion
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics |Harvard & Smithsonian Artwork: The red tinge illustrates an atmosphere around a…
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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
repebble.com · 250 points · Discussion
TL:DR; # Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Since we started mass production in late March, we’ve built over 23,000 Pebble Time 2 watches. We’re over 80% of the way through fulfilling all the pre-orders…
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EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
journals.plos.org · 240 points · Discussion
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Emina Aličković, Johannes Zaar, Alejandro López Valdés, Giovanni M. Di Liberto Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the…
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
simonwillison.net · 204 points · Discussion
16th July 2026 Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website…
- 9
Camera Chase Vehicle
transistor-man.com · 186 points · Discussion
The Plan Quad-rotor drone shots taken low to the ground are difficult: GPS altitude is fairly rough on accuracy, and obstacle avoidance can get significantly more difficult versus just flying over the…
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Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
improvesomething.today · 152 points · Discussion
When people learn I’m a consultant, conversation often proceeds to problems and problem-solving. It’s true that I only get hired well after there is a problem. Typically a problem that has gotten so…
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A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
scotto.me · 149 points · Discussion
Most programming languages evolve as a single language. Python, Java, Javascript, C++, have new versions and standards, multiple implementations, but they still remain the same language. C and C++ can…
- 12
Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
honeypotlive.cc · 122 points · Discussion
This dashboard displays live telemetry from an SSH honeypot for security research, threat intelligence, and educational purposes. The source IP addresses, usernames, passwords, commands, client…
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Frame – Linux X server in Assembly
isene.org · 112 points · Discussion
On my quest to own my software, one foundational piece kept itching… the X server. The underlying graphics engine, the thing that puts pixels on the screen. X11 is 4 million lines of code, a beast…
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More Bounce to the Ounce
mceglowski.substack.com · 90 points · Discussion
My purpose, and my belief, is that the bombs that killed and maimed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shall one day open the skies to man. —Freeman Dyson, A Space Traveler’s Manifesto, 1958 The nuclear pulse…
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Learning a few things about running SQLite
jvns.ca · 88 points · Discussion
Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts…
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AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM
blog.zksecurity.xyz · 73 points · Discussion
This is the second post in the series. In case you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL, it has more context on why we run these experiments and how our pipeline is set up. In this post,…
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Latent Space as a New Medium
kevinkelly.substack.com · 66 points · Discussion
Winslow Homer’s most famous watercolor rendered as a child’s drawing. Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My…
- 18
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
goliath32.com · 66 points · Discussion
Back to the Blog Index Introduction As of writing, the Zilog Z80 processor was officially launched 50 years ago, in July of 1976, less than 4 years after the last human had walked on the moon, decades…
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Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
pythonspeed.com · 55 points · Discussion
How do you speed up computational Python code? A common, and useful, starting point is: Pick a good algorithm. Use a compiled language to write a Python extension. Maybe add parallelism so you can use…
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VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
capitalone.com · 51 points · Discussion
Capital One’s open-source, agentic AI code security tool. The rules of software security are changing faster than most defenders can keep pace. Advanced AI models have dramatically lowered the barrier…
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Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators
workspaces.xyz · 50 points · Discussion
Want to see what items show up in these setups time and time again? I compiled all of the data from 500+ interviews into one easy to read report: https://workspaces.xyz/gear-report
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home
architecturaldigest.com · 49 points · Discussion
Located in Illinois, he first designed the residence at age 22 and lived in it for 20 years The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. Photo: Courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago. Photographer:…
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ICE Flight Monitor Interactive Dashboard
humanrightsfirst.org · 35 points · Discussion
Amidst flagrant abuses by ICE, inhumane detention, and deportations without due process, ICE Flight Monitor delivers data to strengthen public accountability and uphold transparency in our democracy.…
- 24
Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms
sofar.belfortlabs.cloud · 27 points · Discussion
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Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
app.everything.diena.co · 23 points · Discussion
I'm building a journal app in Kotlin Multiplatform and for this purpose I have created a zoomable timeline interface. This is a side-project where I reuse the timeline interface to display 4 million…
- 26
Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks
blog.jse.li · 23 points · Discussion
https://web.archive.org/web/20260714142831/https://blog.jse....
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MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games
github.com · 17 points · Discussion
A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games — write.mb source, download pre-built binaries, and run. No Go, no C compiler, no build tools on your machine. Download from here: (…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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