Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics
We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. We might rationalize that they’re worth keeping for the parts alone, but the reality is, unless you desolder and...
The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn’t realize existed
Apple has a not-so-obvious heart rate feature that's worth checking out. Here's what it does and how to use it.
The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference
Article URL: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/cpu-back-rethinking-cpu-gpu-split-llm-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221089 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Despite the popularity of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex, developers have plenty of complaints about AI coding tools. So researchers affiliated with York University and the University of Calgary in Canada decided to sift through developers'...
Supernatural’s head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta
We chatted with Supernatural's Head of Fitness about the company's plans for its VR exercise app.
A Tome of Forbidden Technologies
Article URL: https://ecosophia.net/a-tome-of-forbidden-technologies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221124 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
The USSR in 100 Photographs
Article URL: https://trinixy.ru/7039-sssr_v_fotografijakh_100_foto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221041 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Brinks Home – 732,162 breached accounts
In July 2026, Brinks Home was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data they alleged was taken from the company, including 732k unique email addresses and other personal information relating to leads, customers...
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out
We're looking forward to Big Walk, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs, Pigeon: A Love Story and several others this week.
‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform
‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform Go to Source Alphonzo Terrell was the global head of social and editorial at Twitter, until Elon Musk’s $44...
Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure
Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure Go to Source At last, we know how Elon Musk’s fabled Terafab will look. Tesla and SpaceX showed a video rendering of their jointly developed...
Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data
The RovoBlast attack method identified by Varonis researchers could have been exploited to steal Confluence, Jira and SharePoint data. The post Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Is Grokipedia Already Dead? It Hasn’t Reviewed Edits Since April
Earlier, Grokipedia processed requests pretty quickly, with a median time of just 3 minutes.
Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines
There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something of an engineering hero for his many years of delighting us with machines, it’s definitely...
Europe’s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires Go to Source Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/ Comments URL:...
US Military’s Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide
US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide Go to Source Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with-cluster-of-deaths-by-suicide...
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. Go to Source Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL:...
X is replacing revenue sharing with a new original content rewards program
X is retiring its old rewards-sharing program after September 7.
States with the least—and most—housing market inventory heading into the fall
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Nationally aggregated inventory is up just 2.1% on a year-over-year basis from July 31, 2025, to July 31, 2026. While that’s up a tad from the +1.9%...
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices Go to Source Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220390 Points: 4 #...
Monitoring versu… I mean AND Observability
Chapter 3 of the O’Reilly book I’m co-authoring with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman is out today (you can download it here) and I wanted to share a bit that didn’t make it through the editing process, because even with the eBook edition, space (and reader attention) isn’t...
Is Spider-Man: Brand New Day Worth Watching in Theatres? Here’s What the Critics and Audience Think
The long-awaited MCU film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, has officially been released, and there’s been a lot of talk surrounding it. Not a ton of heroes in the MCU get a coveted fourth film in their series, and this is also the first time there’s been a fourth...
423 Blog Posts To Learn About Html
Let's learn about Html via these 423 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. The HyperText Markup Language. But is it REALLY a language? 1. 21...
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
The race for the first before-and-after images of the spent SpaceX rocket on the Moon has been won by the South Korean space agency. The Korean Aerospace Administration (KASA) posted imagery from its Danuri lunar orbiter showing the impact site on the Moon on August...
Why can’t your email be as secure as your texts?
Most people take for granted that the messages they send via popular messaging apps like Meta’s WhatsApp or Apple’s iMessage are end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning that no one but the sender and receiver—not even WhatsApp or Apple—can read the contents....
Turn your handwriting into a font for Android, Windows, or MacOS
Handwriting has personality. Get to know someone well enough and their handwriting will remind you of them, because we all form letters just a bit differently. Our devices, for the most part, lack that kind of personality. Sure, you can choose a font from a drop-down...
New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens
New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over...
Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those...
Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
Article URL: https://ai-updates.net/grindr-ceo-says-ai-is-doing-the-work-of-200-engineers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219775 Points: 4 # Comments: 1