Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize
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Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
I receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is 5$. Forecasted amount is listed as $3,005,575,870.47. (Yepp, right, that’s…
Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
This has to be a bug. My usual monthly S3 bill is only $2–3. Has anyone else received a strange billing estimate today?https://prnt.sc/UqjcYD3RSQrS Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945606…
I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64
Article URL: https://www.goto10retro.com/p/i-owe-my-life-to-the-commodore-64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945260 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 BILLION
URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/statusI've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is < $5.Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket.…
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
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Pushinka
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushinka Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944333 Points: 21 # Comments: 6
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943745 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
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How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943142 Points: 13 # Comments: 2