Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse

21 gnabgib 2026-07-17 22:27:25 UTC localnewsmatters.org GoogleT5 Share 4

Nurses who spend more than 15 minutes on a call routinely face criticism from kaiser management. the california nurses association begins negotiating statewide contract with kaiser this month. two-thirds of surveyed nurses said their own assessments had at some point disagreed with an ai prediction. six out of 10 respondents said they don't trust their employer to prioritize patient safety ...

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

126 st_goliath 2026-07-17 19:50:25 UTC goliath32.com Qwen Share 35

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 ...

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

973 nprateem 2026-07-17 13:50:25 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 614

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.

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

160 nicholasjbs 2026-07-17 20:50:25 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 11

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!

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

327 neversaydie 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC bbc.com Qwen Share 217

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.

Learning a few things about running SQLite

120 surprisetalk 2026-07-17 17:50:25 UTC jvns.ca Qwen Share 27

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.

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

238 droidjj 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC simonwillison.net Qwen Share 133

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.

Frame – Linux X server in Assembly

127 guybedo 2026-07-17 15:50:25 UTC isene.org Qwen Share 83

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.

FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again

58 hmm37 2026-07-17 21:50:25 UTC cnbc.com Qwen Share 29

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.

Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

98 abetusk 2026-07-17 20:50:25 UTC lobste.rs Qwen Share 57

In 2025, a collaborative SQLite migration for Lobsters resolved performance issues, reducing CPU/memory usage and costs after overcoming initial deployment challenges. The project, initiated in 2019, closed #539 with fixes for full table scans and data type adjustments, emphasizing thorough testing and communication.

The state of open source AI

348 rellem 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC stateofopensource.ai Qwen Share 245

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.

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

39 lortex 2026-07-17 18:50:25 UTC app.everything.diena.co Full Share 20

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.

Show HN: Tarit – a hypervisor which is 2x faster than firecracker

7 mkagenius 2026-07-17 21:50:25 UTC github.com/instavm Prefix Share 2

Tarit is a microVM platform for secure, fast, ephemeral sandboxes, built for AI agent workloads. It boots a real hardware-virtualized VM in milliseconds, runs a task inside it, and tears it down, giving each sandbox kernel-level isolation instead of a shared-kernel container boundary. vmm/ - the Tarit VMM, a minimal rust-vmm based microVM monitor (the hypervisor layer). One process runs one ...

The US Grocery Slowdown Is Real

23 toomuchtodo 2026-07-17 22:11:25 UTC bain.com GoogleT5 Share 20

Us grocery slowdown has entered a new phase, says bain analyst. pressure has been building on consumers, and it intensified in 2026, he says. price growth and inflation can no longer hide that shoppers are buying fewer items. grocers that pull ahead will sharpen their value proposition, the analysts say. they say the grocery industry will continue to struggle until macroeconomic factors ...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home

65 NaOH 2026-07-17 16:50:25 UTC architecturaldigest.com Qwen Share 33

Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio (1889-1909) in Illinois, where he designed Prairie-style masterpieces like the Robie House, is a preserved National Historic Landmark showcasing his early architectural evolution. Restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust since 1974, the site offers guided tours of his living and workspaces, reflecting his innovative design philosophy.

Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

134 tusksm 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC honeypotlive.cc Qwen Share 48

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.

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

7 surprisetalk 2026-07-17 20:50:25 UTC crowdsupply.com Prefix Share 0

Back this project to help bring it into existence.Funding ends on Aug 20, 2026 at 04:59 PM PDT. Open Book Touch is the device I’ve been trying to build for six years: a small, beautiful, completely open source e-book reader that does one thing and does it well. There are no physical buttons on the front; the device is a single, perfectly symmetrical 4.26-inch front-lit e-paper touchscreen, ...

AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM

78 duha 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC blog.zksecurity.xyz Qwen Share 3

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.

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

174 surprisetalk 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC improvesomething.today Qwen Share 104

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.

Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust

8 wertyk 2026-07-17 20:50:25 UTC github.com/tokio-rs Prefix Share 1

Topcoat is a modular, batteries-included Rust framework for building fullstack apps. It prioritizes simplicity and productivity. See the Getting started guide to set up a new project. use topcoat::{ Result, router::{Router, RouterBuilderDiscoverExt, page}, view::{component, view}, }; #[tokio::main] async fn main() { topcoat::start(Router::builder().discover().build()).await.unwrap(); } ...

MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games

34 klaussilveira 2026-07-17 18:50:25 UTC github.com/charmingblaze Qwen Share 8

moonbasic is a modern BASIC for 2D/3D game development with pre-built binaries, no C/Go tools needed. It bundles Raylib, Box2D, Jolt, and offers a cross-platform IDE with built-in docs and 4,200+ commands across 40+ namespaces.

More Bounce to the Ounce

100 pavel_lishin 2026-07-17 13:50:25 UTC mceglowski.substack.com Qwen Share 36

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.

Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators

63 ryangilbert 2026-07-17 15:50:25 UTC workspaces.xyz Full Share 47

A weekly tour of real desk setups from designers, founders, and builders. Every Saturday.

Lego building instructions through time

32 NaOH 2026-07-17 18:50:25 UTC lego.com Qwen Share 7

A security service blocked your action due to potential threats like specific phrases, SQL commands, or malformed data. Contact the site owner with your activity details and the Cloudflare Ray ID for resolution.

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud

0 2026-07-17 13:50:25 UTC ycombinator.com Qwen Share

Manufact builds the MCP cloud platform for AI tool integration, used by NASA, SAP, and 5,000+ companies. They seek a cloud engineer to scale infrastructure, ensure observability, and manage security for growing AI tool calls.

Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

426 twerkmeister 2026-07-17 11:50:25 UTC kaggle.com Qwen Share 268

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.

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

169 silcoon 2026-07-17 14:50:25 UTC scotto.me Qwen Share 112

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.

Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms

50 j2kun 2026-07-17 16:50:25 UTC sofar.belfortlabs.cloud Full Share 29

Live encrypted ResNet-20 inference under FHE. The server never sees your image.

Latent Space as a New Medium

76 thm 2026-07-17 13:50:25 UTC kevinkelly.substack.com Qwen Share 24

Latent spaces in AI compress vast knowledge into multidimensional maps, enabling creative exploration by allowing manipulation of concepts and ideas across domains. This new medium fosters innovation in art, science, and problem-solving through structured exploration of possibilities.

Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks

33 eat_veggies 2026-07-17 16:50:25 UTC blog.jse.li Full Share 7