Daily News Digest

Generated 2026-07-18.

Showing top 30 of 159 distinct stories after deduping (4 appeared in more than one source).

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 157 points, 46 comments (discussion)

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 152 points, 38 comments (discussion)

Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 30 points, 22 comments (discussion)

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: 1021 points, 636 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...

I own my books

Sources: Bubbles (Michael Harley)

Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled

Sources: Lobsters

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

Sources: Slashdot

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

Sources: The Register

How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart

Sources: Hackaday

Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 437 points, 277 comments (discussion)

AI is useful. But the amount of people that are simply offloading all of their thinking to AI and blindly accepting the answer is absurd. Kaggle is most likely using ai to assess the submissions and are not using any common sense by blindly accepting the results.

i've started drawing again

Sources: Bubbles (the website of jyn)

Lobsters Interview with matheusmoreira about Lone Lisp

Sources: Lobsters

Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

Sources: The Register

The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards

Sources: Hackaday

The state of open source AI

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 363 points, 264 comments (discussion)

Speculation: open models is what will kill Anthropic and OpenAI. Hyperscalers can run the models without a licensing fee. Apple can make them smaller and put them on the device. The frontier models are an edge and a liability. They're astronomically expensive to train. Without them, their models wil...

Daily Dex - Pelipper, Sprigatito, and Wynaut

Sources: Bubbles (quailblog)

Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B

Sources: Lobsters

Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.'

Sources: Slashdot

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

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives

Sources: Hackaday

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

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 358 points, 224 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...

Meta glasses ad vandalized in London

Sources: Bubbles (Manual do Usuário)

What are you doing this weekend?

Sources: Lobsters

China Just Erased America's AI Lead

Sources: Slashdot

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

Sources: The Register

MacSurf Hits 2.0 To Bring PowerPCs back Online

Sources: Hackaday

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

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 267 points, 24 comments (discussion)

Deleting Systems You Don't Understand

Sources: Bubbles (Software and Tech stories from an Inside…)