AWS users reported massive unexpected billing estimates (up to $595B) due to a billing console bug, causing panic and infrastructure shutdowns. The incident highlights urgent need for AWS to improve error communication and billing accuracy.
Celebrating 15 years, Recurse Center began as a YC 2010 startup, pivoting from failed ventures to a self-directed programming retreat, driven by Hacker News (HN) for growth. Though not a billion-dollar venture, it's impacted over 3,000 programmers, with HN as a key applicant source and catalyst for the founder's work—thanking HN!
Kaiser Permanente nurses face pressure to keep calls under 15 minutes due to workplace surveillance, which they claim threatens patient care and their duty of care. Nurses are concerned that AI-powered monitoring systems prioritize efficiency over compassion and patient safety.
Researchers discovered the first atmosphere on an Earth-like rocky planet, LHS 1140b, in a star's habitable zone, detecting helium but noting other gases might exist, marking progress in the search for extraterrestrial life. While not confirming life, this finding, alongside studies of planets like K2-18b and TRAPPIST-1, highlights ongoing efforts to identify habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
Open-source AI models are gaining traction globally, offering cost-effective, customizable solutions across sectors like healthcare, finance, and agriculture, with growing adoption by developers and enterprises. They enable ownership, interoperability, and resilience against vendor lock-in, though challenges in operational tooling and trust persist.
The Measuring Progress Toward AGI hackathon highlighted benchmarks like MEDLEY-BENCH and LearningBench to assess AI reasoning and learning, but participants criticized winners for flawed claims, opaque methods, and judging inconsistencies, demanding transparency and reassessment to align with stated criteria.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model, claims top performance in benchmarks, open weights by July 2026, and high pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), outperforming peers in code tasks but costing 25 cents for a complex SVG generation test.
Using SQLite with Django revealed performance issues resolved by `ANALYZE`, but concurrency challenges during deletions caused crashes, prompting consideration of Postgres for scalability. Despite backup efforts and small-scale success, SQLite's limitations highlight the need for better database management as projects grow.
LLMs are transforming programming by automating code generation but causing burnout through relentless oversight demands. Developers now balance AI collaboration with evolving roles, grappling with fatigue, lost human connection, and the need to redefine expertise in an era of rapid, uncertain output.
The Zilog Z80, launched 50 years ago in 1976, became a foundational 8-bit processor for early computers and embedded systems, influencing CP/M and spawning clones like the GameBoy’s LR35902, while its industrial use persisted until 2024. The author’s DIY Z80 projects and exploration of its evolution from the 8080 highlight its technical legacy, from simplified interfacing to advanced features ...
Consultants tackle entrenched problems, often revealing systemic issues where solutions shift, perpetuate, or create new problems due to flawed incentives. Success requires balancing problem-solving with strategic prioritization and recognizing that some issues persist because they benefit certain stakeholders.
Pebble has shipped 80% of Pebble Time 2 pre-orders, with in-stock availability soon. Software updates enhance battery life and SDK features, while hardware issues are addressed via replacements; Index 01 production is underway, with late August shipments expected.
Ancient Roman concrete's durability stems from carbonation, revealed by studying 1,900-year-old toilets at Hadrian’s Villa. This insight could lead to sustainable, crack-sealing modern concrete, reducing construction emissions.
Study reveals asymmetric neural dynamics during attention switches in multi-talker scenarios, with transient dual speech tracking and reduced alpha power indicating cognitive effort. Lexical context resets post-switch, enhancing understanding of flexible speech processing in complex environments.
TP-Link Kasa Spot EC71 indoor cameras have multiple vulnerabilities, including fleet-wide RSA key exposure, unsalted MD5 credential storage, and unauthenticated GPS exposure.
User received AWS Budgets alert for $5 threshold exceeded, showing $3B forecasted charge despite no recent AWS usage. AWS support AI flagged potential billing/metering error, opened a ticket, and user has disabled IAM roles/deleted resources, seeking if others face similar issues.
Common Lisp offers native compilation, powerful REPL, and multi-paradigm support for high-performance applications; Clojure provides JVM integration, functional programming, and immutable data for scalable systems; Racket excels in language design and education with a rich IDE. Choose based on needs: CL for performance, Clojure for JVM ecosystems, Racket for DSLs and prototyping.
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a court order to shut down a pornographic website, motherless.com, for violating Texas's age-verification law. The order requires the website to post a $9.14 million bond to regain its domain name, conditioned on implementing age verification and satisfying civil penalties.
The post discusses implementing a static search tree (S+ tree) for high-throughput searching of sorted data, optimizing it to its limits, and adding batching to improve throughput. The S+ tree is a data structure that supports queries returning the smallest element of vals that is at least q, or u32::MAX if no such element exists, and is optimized for throughput, with the goal of making ...
The FAA has reinstated Boeing's authority to issue airworthiness certificates for 737 Max and 787 Dreamliners after evaluating comparable quality to its own, following crashes and a 2024 incident, signaling regulatory confidence in the company's safety improvements.
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The dashboard provides live SSH honeypot telemetry for security research, showing IPs, credentials, and commands from incoming connections. Source IPs may indicate compromised systems or bots, and displayed data includes untrusted content requiring caution.
Trump Media launches paid service for Wall Street, offering high-speed access to influential posts, including Trump's, to generate revenue from market-moving content starting August 1. The move raises ethical concerns as Trump, a major shareholder, benefits from expedited access to his public statements affecting global markets.
Tech-facilitated abuse is prevalent in domestic violence, with 99% of cases involving tech and 650%+ reporting rises, impacting 27% of children. DV Safe Phones, like GrapheneOS on Pixels, offer privacy tools to enhance safety and reduce tracking risks.
The Open Book Touch is a small, open-source e-reader with a 4.26-inch e-paper touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and a frontlight for reading in any environment. It's designed for reading, not browsing, with a focus on typography, localization, and customization, and is available for crowdfunding with a goal of shipping in early 2027.
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The author created a custom X server, "frame," in Assembly to replace X11, building a minimalist, efficient system with full control. This stack, alongside Rust tools, offers improved battery life, stability, and ownership, all released to the Public Domain.
Union Pacific is painting rails white to reflect sunlight, cutting rail temperatures by about 20°F and reducing heat‑related derailments. The move, first in the U.S. and proven in Europe, is part of a safety strategy that lowered derailment rates 19% in 2025.
Anthropic introduced an undocumented auto-continue feature in Claude Code 2.1.198 on July 1, 2026, allowing agents to proceed after 60 seconds without user input, sparking concerns over transparency and safety. Despite a swift fix, the lack of changelog documentation and silent release raised trust issues, highlighting risks in automated updates and unreviewed defaults.
Nuclear pulse rockets use sequential nuclear detonations for propulsion, enabling massive payloads and interplanetary travel with high efficiency. However, they face political, safety, and proliferation challenges due to nuclear risks and fallout.
Riemann was able to find an even more precise formula computing the number of prime numbers less than a number (n). the size of xrho depends only on how big s is, so if you have 0, then y = n - p / r h = 1...! equating logarithms with primes can be done in
Topcoat is a Rust framework for building fullstack apps with simplicity and productivity. It renders markup on the server and uses a macro system for HTML and Rust control flow.
ScreenWall is browser-based software for reusing old phones, tablets, and monitors to create clocks, status boards, and ambient screens. It allows users to pair devices from their browser and create synced installations without installing anything.
Explore the timeline of everything, from the Big Bang to the present day, and beyond. Discover the history of the universe, life on Earth, and human civilization in a new and interactive way.
Prolog was born from a project to process natural languages, specifically French, and its first version emerged in 1971.
minikotlin is a C-written Kotlin compiler that compiles directly to WebAssembly-GC, bypassing JVM/LLVM, with features like coroutines, smart casting, and sealed classes fully lowered to WASM-GC. It runs in-browser as a WASM module, enabling Kotlin code execution without external toolchains.
zkao, an AI auditor, discovered a critical soundness bug (CVE-2026-46669) in OpenVM's pairing library, enabling forged pairing checks, fixed in v1.6.0. While standard LLMs failed to detect exploitable issues in complex zkVMs, zkao's context-engineered workflows successfully identified the vulnerability by simulating expert audit methods.
The author recounts how the affordable Commodore 64, bought during a 1980s price drop, shaped his tech career and life through coding, gaming, and global connections, later rekindling its legacy with a replica. Its impact, from problem-solving skills to fostering creativity, remains profound.
A weekly tour of real desk setups from designers, founders, and builders. Every Saturday.
Anthropic's Fable model was unexpectedly removed from users' plans, with some experiencing errors and usage credits being drained. Users speculate that this may be a mistake or a cash grab, and are waiting for an official announcement, with some expecting another extension or refund.
Live encrypted ResNet-20 inference under FHE. The server never sees your image.
Um estudo de otimização de multiplicação de matrizes em C++ usando AVX2/FMA alcançou 85,30 GFLOPS em um AMD Ryzen 5 5500, superando a implementação ingênua por 56,5 vezes. O modelo MX24 atingiu o melhor desempenho, com erro máximo absoluto de 0,0.
Users are seeing $4bn AWS S3 billing estimates due to an "Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data" operational issue. AWS confirms the problem via health.aws.amazon.com/health/status.
US grocery sales have declined due to consumers buying fewer items, with units down 2% year over year since February 2026. Value-oriented retailers are gaining consumers, but overall sales remain soft until macroeconomic factors improve.
Republican Josh Hawley accuses Meta of using lawfare to silence ex-employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who criticized its China ties and teen impact; Meta disputes her claims and cites arbitration. Wynn-Williams alleges surveillance and bankruptcy threats, but Meta denies corporate censorship and cites her $780k severance.
The author of "The Secret Life of Circuits" created 290 original illustrations by gathering real data for electronics components, including quartz crystals, batteries, and vacuum tubes. To measure semiconductor devices, the author used a benchtop multimeter and pulsed power from a lab supply, interfacing them to a computer using the SCPI protocol to capture accurate V-I curves.
Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE) surpasses AlphaFold 3 in predictive accuracy and introduces new capabilities for real-world drug discovery. IsoDDE accurately models protein-ligand structures, predicts binding-affinities, and identifies novel binding pockets, enabling researchers to rapidly rank and optimise potential molecules during drug design programs.
Announcing the release of VulnHunter, an open-source AI code security tool with an agentic reasoning workflow developed by Capital One.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley apologizes for labeling anti-surveillance activists as "terroristic," acknowledging public backlash against his $8.3 billion company's license plate tracking tech. The anti-Flock movement, led by DeFlock, grows as critics highlight privacy risks, with activists mapping cameras and pushing legal challenges amid corporate and political scrutiny.
SpaceX's stock has fallen below its IPO price, losing $1 trillion in value since its peak, driven by a failed Starship launch and ongoing lockup expirations. The company faces pressure as it delays the rocket's return to flight and shares tumble amid investor uncertainty.
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Emojis evolved from literal symbols to convey nuanced emotions, bridging digital communication gaps. Now in 3D, they prioritize expressive design over realism, with open-source models fostering innovation and accessibility.
Rising atmospheric CO2 correlates with increased serum bicarbonate and decreased calcium/phosphorus in U.S. NHANES data, suggesting potential health risks as CO2 levels climb. Long-term exposure may disrupt acid-base balance, risking chronic conditions, underscoring urgent emission reductions.
in-toto is designed to ensure the integrity of a software product from initiation to end-user installation. It does so by making it transparent to the user what steps were performed, by whom and in what order. An open metadata standard that you can implement in your software’s supply chain.
Over 200 experts warn AI risks displacing jobs and eroding critical thinking as it floods education and media with low-quality content, while industry and government push adoption despite public resistance and self-reinforcing algorithmic decay. Mirroring Vonnegut’s "Harrison Bergeron," AI homogenizes intelligence, enabling the unskilled while degrading societal knowledge, as unchecked ...
The Asháninka and Shipibo people call the central Peruvian Amazon's boiling river Shanay-Timpishka, meaning boiled with the sun's heat. It's a 6km long river with temperatures reaching 99.1 degrees Celsius, hosting unique microbes and defying conventional geological explanations.
ICE Flight Monitor tracks ICE Air flights via an interactive dashboard, offering insights into deportation routes, historical trends, and third-country transfers since 2020. Users can filter data by month and location, with updates and retroactive edits ensuring accuracy through cross-referenced sources.
The 2026 Shanghai conference highlighted multi-primary color displays as next-gen tech beyond RGB, with Hisense's RGBX tech expanding color gamut to 130% BT.2020. Discussions emphasized human-centric benefits and ecosystem challenges for commercialization.
Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE) JSON API will shut down on January 1, 2027, after 11 years. A replacement, the google-cse-replacement actor, is available with a similar schema and pricing starting at $0.005 per query.
Pushinka, daughter of a space-traveling dog, was gifted by Khrushchev to JFK in 1961 after Jacqueline Kennedy requested her puppies. The CIA inspected her for devices, and her four puppies were distributed to the public and Kennedy family.
University of Queensland researchers found that most skin temperature sensitive nerve cells can sense both cool and warmth, challenging a widely accepted view. This new understanding could help explain thermal dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and ageing.
Elon Musk's DOGE, backed by right-wing billionaires, pushed partisan cuts to public services, falsely claiming efficiency gains while targeting progressive agencies and deregulating industries like crypto and AI. Despite massive job losses and reduced government effectiveness, including preventable deaths from USAID cuts, DOGE faced minimal accountability, reflecting a political alliance ...
PennyLane is an open-source quantum platform for computing, machine learning, and chemistry, offering hardware integration, a large library, and a global community. It provides Python 3.11+ tools, Docker support, tutorials, and collaborative resources for researchers and developers.
Valve and Collabora are working on a pure aarch64 port of Arch Linux for the Steam Frame, releasing prepared binaries, sources, and containers for experimentation. The port aims to create a CI system for building binaries and determine correct dependencies for a rolling-release distribution.
The U.S. seeks a share of Korean semiconductor profits, citing American purchases, amid debates over profit redistribution to subcontractors and public. Record Korean chip exports to the U.S. and Washington's push for domestic manufacturing expansion highlight tensions over commercial vs. public interests.
Our system uses 11 parallel models for text/image tasks with 2s median latency, leveraging non-public educational data and a novel semantic search dataset (available on Huggingface) for RLHF. Evaluations via GPT-3 (with self-bias limitations) and open-source tools (except textbooks) ensure iterative improvements, encouraging custom Pinecone database integration.
LingBot-Map introduces a Geometric Context Transformer for efficient streaming 3D reconstruction, achieving 20 FPS on long sequences with paged KV cache attention and superior benchmark performance. It includes tools for offline rendering, sky masking, and sliding-window inference, with fixes and optimizations for stability and scalability in diverse scenes.
The user found a 1978 Panasonic RQ-2106 shoebox cassette tape recorder for under 10 euros and fixed its fast-forward button by gluing a snapped cog back into place. They then used an adapter to connect the recorder to their Mac and guitar amp to amplify the sound and record music from Spotify.
The SIGGRAPH course Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games covers state-of-the-art techniques in real-time computer graphics for games. It shares practical implementations, limitations, and tradeoffs behind game development breakthroughs.
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Maggie Coblentz, a researcher and artist, sent miso to ferment on the International Space Station to explore how Earth food changes in space. Her study found the space miso tasted nuttier and earthier than its earthbound controls.
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Sellbonds.now enables AI agents to autonomously issue and manage uncollateralized debt as on-chain smart contracts, allowing peer-to-peer fundraising and repayment without intermediaries or accounts. Built on Base mainnet with open-source tools, it supports autonomous financial decision-making by AI agents, enabling projects like asteroid mining through instant, gas-free testnet funding and ...
The author created a VR mod for the game GTFO, which allowed players to experience the game in virtual reality, and spent several years maintaining and updating the mod with new features and bug fixes. The mod gained a dedicated community and received donations and contributions from players, but the author eventually had to put the project on hold due to the game's switch to IL2CPP, which ...
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The user created a triode with a titanium getter to remove gas and improve tube longevity. The triode performed well initially but required periodic getter heating to maintain functionality.
Researchers at MIT have developed a new method to increase qubit density and reduce interference using 2D materials, specifically hexagonal boron nitride. This breakthrough could lead to more scalable and high-performance quantum computing.