AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
AWS billing system displayed erroneous estimated bills up to $241 billion for users.
Panic and anger over false $B bills; calls for AWS accountability.
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AWS billing system displayed erroneous estimated bills up to $241 billion for users.
Panic and anger over false $B bills; calls for AWS accountability.
The Recurse Center founder thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping find his life's work.
Gratitude dominates, with a side debate on the "no feigning surprise" social rule.
Kaiser nurses say AI surveillance and call time pressure harm patient care.
Widespread criticism of using AI to evaluate empathy and enforce call time limits on nurses.
Concatenating JPEG scans can embed multiple frames in one file for progressive playback.
The hack is appreciated but seen as duplicative of existing MJPEG and progressive PNG methods.
Researchers detected helium in the atmosphere of rocky planet LHS 1140b, 48 light-years away.
48 light-years is close by cosmic standards but likely unreachable for any foreseeable probe.
Open-source AI models have reached parity with closed models on most tasks, but deployment remains harder.
Skeptics critique the article's style and data viz, while others debate whether open models will kill closed AI vendors.
A $25k DeepMind Kaggle prize winner faces accusations of flawed methodology and misinterpreted data.
Critics argue the winner exemplifies AI slop, with flawed methodology and self-promotion overriding quality.
LG monitors install software via Windows Update without user consent.
Users confirm the issue and share workarounds for disabling automatic manufacturer app downloads.
Apple sent legal letters to dozens of OpenAI employees amid trade secret concerns.
Thread calls the letters standard practice, not an escalation.
Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model, is Moonshot AI's most capable and most expensive open-weights model yet.
Commenters split on the pelican benchmark's value as a test of model capability.
AI company logos often resemble buttholes due to circular designs with central openings.
Most commenters agree with the butthole comparison, with some defending the logos as symbolic apertures.
Running SQLite in production requires more operational care than simple blog posts suggest.
Commenters shared tools (`.expert`, `s3-credentials`) and agreed batching large operations is essential for any database.
Pebble nears end of PT2 pre-order fulfillment, PR2 mass production starts late July.
Owners praise PT2 but criticize Index 01's disposable battery and question reported hardware failure rates.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Two camps: those arguing modern concrete could match Roman if designed for it, and those citing cost and obsolescence as barriers.
Problems often get pushed around, preserved, orget promoted instead of solved, says a consultant.
The thread adds denial and risk management as analogs to the article's four P's.
The brain briefly encodes two speech streams simultaneously when switching attention.
Commenters shared personal anecdotes of processing multiple audio streams, from pilots to teachers.
The Zilog Z80 processor, launched 50 years ago in July 1976, remains influential through clones and embedded use.
Nostalgia for the Z80 from hobbyists and professionals, with technical corrections on its clones.
An AWS user's budget alert shows a mistaken forecast of $3 billion.
Lisp is a family of dialects; beginners can pick any active one.
Commenters valued the overview but flagged missing dialects and CL's OS-interaction pain points.
Texas obtained a court order to lock motherless.com's domain for violating age-verification laws.
Commenters debated whether a Texas court can order Verisign to lock a .com domain for violating state law.