Engadget review recap: Razr Ultra, AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE and more
A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget.
Meet the designer behind NYC’s charming World Cup campaign
How do you build excitement among 8.5 million New Yorkers (and 1.2 million tourists) for the World Cup? You start with deep research on the city’s beloved colors and symbols and then turn that into something like the joyful, nostalgic, and vividly hued bus shelter...
Behold a 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor
E-ink displays have a number of advantages over other display types, but their refresh rate isn’t one of them. But what exactly makes them slow? According to [Wenting Zhang], it’s not an inherent limitation of the technology. It’s mainly the controller, and this...
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking
Amazon has developed a new networking topology that's up to a third faster and up to 40 percent more energy efficient than traditional hierarchical network designs. The novel architecture, called Resilient Network Graphs (RNG), is based on random graph theory....
NBA streetball, crafting with renewable energy and other new indie games worth checking out
Plus, the next game from the Mouthwashing devs and trying to survive as a sentient guitar.
The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks
Hidden inside a building in Alabama, the FBI has created its own small town as a dedicated cyber training ground for simulating cyberattacks.
Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
I built Paca out of pure passion—a free and lightweight Jira alternative written in Go where humans and AI agents work together as equal teammates to plan sprints and assign tasks to each other. It is fully customizable with custom views, fields, and a WASM-based...
The Fable 5 Jailbreak Shows Why AI Guardrails Alone Are Not Enough
Article URL: https://www.agilehunt.com/blog/fable-5-jailbreak-ai-guardrails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515344 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
This is the surprising thing that creates the happiest couples
Think back to the last really bad argument you had with your significant other. You know the one. It included multiple Olympic-worthy eye rolls, gratuitous mentions of mothers and/or best friends, and at least one callback to something only one of you remembers. Yeah,...
Google’s Pinpoint is the free research tool you should know about
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Google’s Pinpoint is now open to everyone. It’s a surprisingly powerful free tool for making sense of giant piles of digital stuff....
The Hidden Cost of Manual Compliance Testing – And the 60% Time Reduction We Found
Three engineers, a stamp, and a quarter-million-dollar P&L. Until 2023, the group spent about 40% of its calendar on actual regulatory work, interpreting standards, talking to certification bodies, deciding whether a new product feature triggers new requirements....
Xbox as a Platform: Is It Time to Face the Truth?
If you’ve been an Xbox fan for a while, you’re probably sick to your stomach from all the ups and downs over the last 12ish years. Every time it seems that the cloudy days of Xbox are over, the weather forecast shows another 100 days of doom and gloom. Look, do I...
372 Blog Posts To Learn About Project Management
Let's learn about Project Management via these 372 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. 'How many project managers does it take to change a...
How a Defective i7-13700K Took Down My Proxmox Server
My perfectly stable homelab server gradually descended into chaos — random crashes, segfaults, system hangs — and how months of troubleshooting, community support, and hardware swaps eventually led to one conclusion: the CPU itself was defective from the factory. If...
OpenAI, AWS, NVIDIA and the New AI Deployment Race
AI power is shifting from model access to deployment control as cloud, chips, energy and governance become the real strategic battlegrounds.
I always keep 3 devices connected to a power station – here’s why
I always keep 3 devices connected to a power station - here's why Go to Source Using a portable power station to its full potential is ideal for getting your money's worth and enjoying uninterrupted power.
Your Tweets Are Training Data: The Personal Data Problem AI Created Without Telling You
Most software developers think a lot about the data their apps collect. Very few think about the data they create themselves. For over ten years, people have been writing posts online. Now, writing has become one of the biggest sources of data used to train Artificial...
Apple just dropped these three hidden clues about where the company is heading, thanks to AI
On Monday, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, where it showcased the next versions of the operating systems that power its devices, including iOS 27, macOS 27, and iPadOS 27. The thing is—and I say this as an Apple fan—unless you’re a...
This free service uses Wikipedia to reveal what the world is thinking about
Wikipedia may be the last good website—a volunteer-driven service that isn’t flooded by advertisements or completely captured by corporate interests. It’s also very useful. I find myself constantly opening it when I hear a name or term I’m not familiar with, and I’m...
How World Cup ticket inflation reflects a bigger problem with pricing
In 1994, the last time U.S. stadiums hosted the World Cup, an average ticket cost US$58. The most expensive ticket for the final could be grabbed for $475. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $131 and $1,069, respectively, in today’s prices. Fast-forward 22 years,...
NHS patients can’t opt out of Palantir’s data platform – but their hospital can
Patients in England cannot stop their data being processed by the Palantir-built NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), but individual NHS trusts can choose not to use it, health minister Preet Kaur Gill has told MPs. The minister, who was appointed last month to cover...
5 tips to redesign your surroundings and live better
Below, Leidy Klotz shares five key insights from his new book, In a Good Place: How the Spaces Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive. Leidy is a behavioral scientist and engineering professor at the University of Virginia. He has written for The Washington...
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London’s driverless railway
BORK!BORK!BORK! We're big fans of retro computing here at Vulture Central, and so it is with a certain delight that we can report XP-era Windows has been spotted disgracing itself on London's Docklands Light Railway. Spotted by Register reader Tim Hayward, the...
Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
Article URL: https://github.com/vladignatyev/brain-map-skill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514124 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514560 Points: 26 # Comments: 4
New study finds a common supplement ingredient for cognitive enhancement may lead to a shorter lifespan
A common supplement ingredient may have some unwanted side effects. While many high performers use L-tyrosine to manage stress and improve their memory, new data suggests that they may be harming their long-term health by doing so. A new study found that men with...
GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC
Every month or so we bring you a Jenny’s Daily Drivers article, in which we share with you an esoteric OS and try to use it for the everyday work of a Hackaday scribe. As part of that ongoing effort, the world of esoteric operating systems is always on the radar, even...
OpenAI is facing investigation from a group of state attorneys general
A coalition of state attorneys general is asking OpenAI for documents about its activities.
Leaving Mozilla
Article URL: https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806 Points: 5 # Comments: 0