Generated 2026-07-18.
Showing top 30 of 159 distinct stories after deduping (4 appeared in more than one source).
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 157 points, 46 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 152 points, 38 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 30 points, 22 comments (discussion)
Sources: Slashdot, The Register
Also linked: The Register
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...
Sources: Bubbles (Michael Harley)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
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.
Sources: Bubbles (the website of jyn)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
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...
Sources: Bubbles (quailblog)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
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...
Sources: Bubbles (Manual do Usuário)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 267 points, 24 comments (discussion)
Sources: Bubbles (Software and Tech stories from an Inside…)