HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-17

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

    1318 points · HN #48945241

  2. 02

    First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)

    536 points · HN #48947560

  3. 03

    Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)

    407 points · HN #48947717

  4. 04

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

    836 points · HN #48949551

  5. 05

    The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)

    289 points · HN #48951461

  6. 06

    Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)

    343 points · HN #48950122

  7. 07

    The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)

    486 points · HN #48947825

  8. 08

    Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)

    563 points · HN #48952880

  9. 09

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

    277 points · HN #48947490

  10. 10

    Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)

    273 points · HN #48943174

  11. 11

    EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)

    258 points · HN #48943745

  12. 12

    How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)

    274 points · HN #48943142

  13. 13

    Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)

    199 points · HN #48951898

  14. 14

    An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)

    303 points · HN #48862165

  15. 15

    Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)

    209 points · HN #48895199

  16. 16

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)

    111 points · HN #48887102

  17. 17

    Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)

    410 points · HN #48946303

  18. 18

    Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)

    181 points · HN #48947548

  19. 19

    Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)

    174 points · HN #48952135

  20. 20

    Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)

    474 points · HN #48946010

  21. 21

    Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)

    157 points · HN #48951780

  22. 22

    Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)

    118 points · HN #48950774

  23. 23

    Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)

    262 points · HN #48854988

  24. 24

    The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)

    318 points · HN #48942000

  25. 25

    More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)

    141 points · HN #48947201

  26. 26

    FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)

    196 points · HN #48952439

  27. 27

    AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)

    100 points · HN #48947714

  28. 28

    A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)

    203 points · HN #48947455

  29. 29

    Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)

    134 points · HN #48952067

  30. 30

    MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/charmingblaze)

    76 points · HN #48910579