Hacker News – 18 Jul 2026

Table of Contents JPEG Innovations Regressive JPEGs Tech Glitches & Community Love AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work Hardware Revivals & Innovations Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 AI Developments & Tools Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark Software Supply Chain & More In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby