Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-07-18.

Showing top 30 of 151 distinct stories after deduping (4 appeared in more than one source).

Regressive JPEGs

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 456 points, 45 comments (discussion)

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 274 points, 74 comments (discussion)

Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled

Sources: Bubbles (Dustycloud Brainstorms), Lobsters

Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates

Sources: Slashdot, The Register

Also linked: The Register

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 1223 points, 716 comments (discussion)

Ive dealt with this error at AWS. It’s a unit error. In my case we _meant_ to charge like 5¢/GB, but missed the unit (GB), and then the billing system defaults to bytes. 5¢ per Byte of data transferred meant some customers were seeing MM bills within hours. Got paged by support around 2am, had it fi...

RE: Bye bye Gravatar

Sources: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect), Bubbles (Unattributed)

Also linked: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)

Lobsters Interview with matheusmoreira about Lone Lisp

Sources: Lobsters

Google-Backed Satellites For Wildfire Detection Launch As Smoke Chokes US, Canada

Sources: Slashdot

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

Sources: The Register

Spidery Drone Goes Near-invisible By Spinning Really, Really Fast

Sources: Hackaday

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

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 673 points, 79 comments (discussion)

About Binface

Sources: Bubbles (cultural snow)

Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B

Sources: Lobsters

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

Sources: Slashdot

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

Sources: The Register

Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser

Sources: Hackaday

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

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 476 points, 280 comments (discussion)

Didn't know a rocky planet in the habitable zone of a red dwarf could retain atmosphere against intense stellar stripping. Red dwarfs are known to be cooler (the habitable zone is therefore closer) and unstable. I don't think LHS 1140b is "Earth-like" at all. Rather, it's more like a mini-Neptune, b...

The most American thing about me is the coffee

Sources: Bubbles (Tadaima.)

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Sources: Lobsters

Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

Sources: The Register

Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol

Sources: Hackaday

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

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 363 points, 192 comments (discussion)

> The biggest limitation of the pelican is that it doesn’t touch at all on the thing that matters most for today’s model: agentic tool calling and the ability to operate tools reliably as conversations grow in length. In all seriousness, I propose SWE-bench-adversarial-pelican-gen: it's like SWE-ben...

Online Friends Are Real Friends

Sources: Bubbles (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)

GitRoot

Sources: Lobsters

Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot

Sources: Slashdot

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Sources: The Register

Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes

Sources: Hackaday

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 297 points, 148 comments (discussion)

One of those webinars

Sources: Bubbles (joelchrono's blog)