The M5 Macbook Air is down to the lowest price we’ve seen since Apple’s price hike
Apple increased prices in its official store, but Amazon has the lowest prices on the new 13-inch M5 MacBook Air right now.
Google’s AI leadership comes apart in a single morning
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TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office
The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content moderation team.
Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)
Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) Go to Source Article URL: https://github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198583 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
AI agents are part of your team now. Here’s how to secure all of them.
Presented by JumpCloudA practical framework for securing every identity in the modern workforce, human or not.Your organization already has a rigorous process for governing human identities. New employees go through onboarding. They get a role, a set of entitlements,...
Almost no skill required to cook a steak
Article URL: https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198069 Points: 21 # Comments: 7
Open-Source Hardware Could Redraw Ethereum Rollup Economics
The seven-day withdrawal window was the price users paid for cheaper L2 execution.Optimistic rollups made Ethereum transactions cheaper by replacing upfront validity proof generation with fraud challenges. Users gained lower fees and accepted delayed exits, weaker...
Building a Reusable AI Skill for STIG-to-Excel Conversion
One saved skill turns a 300-page U.S. government security checklist into a reviewed Excel tracker from a single instruction. This is the complete walkthrough: the code, the real outputs, and the failures along the way. The problem I actually have I have spent my...
Sui Adopts Post-Quantum Signature Schemes In Move Toward Quantum Readiness
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 6th, 2026/Chainwire/--Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that it is adopting two post-quantum signature schemes in its move toward quantum readiness. The quantum timeline is different for blockchains,...
CT3 Introduces Demand-based Availability Management for New Contracts and Prepares for Token Listing
London, UK, August 6th, 2026, Chainwire/--The launch of CT3 Storage Contracts enabled the platform to significantly expand its available capacity and strengthen its data storage infrastructure within a short period of time. These additional resources helped CT3 meet...
Inevitable AI Group Raises $6M From Aleph to Launch AI-Native SaaS Companies
Tel Aviv, Israel, August 6th, 2026, TechnologyWire Inevitable AI Group (IAIG), an AI-native venture studio founded by veteran technology entrepreneurs, today announced a $6 million pre-seed funding round led by Aleph. The company is building and launching dozens of...
KuCoin Pay Launches Enterprise Gift Cards That Let Businesses Send USDT and USDC Like Store Credit
The most effective crypto onboarding tool ever built may turn out to be one the industry did not invent, because the gift card has been quietly teaching the world to accept digital value for twenty years. An iTunes card taught a generation to load stored credit into...
The TechBeat: I Launched Two Similar Job Boards: Google Indexed One and Rejected the Other (8/6/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can a VPN Replace a Browser Ad Blocker? By @ipvanish [ 7 Min read ]...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Google
Let's learn about Google via these 500 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. You feeling lucky? 1. This Is How Google Will Collapse Reporting...
Your Agent Framework Should Not Become Your Architecture
Earlier this year, I tried to build something deliberately ordinary: a streaming chat, two tools, and memory that survived the browser session.I was not trying to build a synthetic employee or an autonomous company. I wanted a useful product feature. The first model...
The Hidden Validation Boundaries in a Browser-to-Paper Pipeline
A browser application can report success while the user’s project has already failed. The upload completed. The preview rendered. The progress bar reached 100 percent. A PDF appeared in the Downloads folder. Every event the application could easily observe looked...
Meet the Writer: Veera Ravindra Divi on Building AI Agents You Can Trust
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. Let's start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. I'm Veera...
My RAG System Answered a Stock-Price Question It Had No Data For
My retrieval system was working. That was the problem. I built this prototype to test one thing. Could a local, auditable RAG system support financial-document research without turning retrieval scores into false confidence? The pipeline ran over SEC filings and...
Five Months of Building an Open Source PHP Dev Tool: What Grew, What Failed, and What Surprised Me
In May 2026, I published an article here about lerd, a local PHP development environment I built for Linux because Laravel Herd does not support Linux and I got tired of the alternatives. At the time, I had a handful of stars and was not sure anyone would care....
Kali365 Targets US Organizations with Data Theft via Device Code Phishing
interactive malware analysis Kali365 is targeting US organizations with device code phishing attacks that abuse legitimate Microsoft authentication. Instead of directing victims to a fake login form, the phishkit sends them to a real Microsoft page, where they...
Google Wallet now lets parents set up secure balances for their kids
The tech giant says the new feature will allow parents to teach their kids healthy financial habits while maintaining oversight over their child's spending with built-in safeguards.
Google Wallet now lets parents send money securely to their kids
Parents can now send their kids money that can be used anywhere Google Pay is accepted.
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks Go to Source Hey HN, we’re Will & Johnny from ProvenMetal (https://provenmetal.com). You send us design files or specs and we give you assembled...
The California Teamsters union is suing the state over self-driving trucks
The California Teamsters union says that new self-driving truck regulations could eventually cause around 400,000 people to lose their jobs.
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking
This generation of 20-somethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else -- even an AI matchmaker.
Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made.Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedback, a red...
This new kind of flu shot by Moderna has just been approved by the FDA
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new kind of flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturer Moderna said.The shot, named mFlusiva, is intended for adults age 50 or...
Going Full Fruity with Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3
Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic that often got described in terms of such fruit variants. Although the iMac steals a lot of the glory here, the Power Mac series and...
How to stop Roku from tracking everything you watch
Let's dive in to Roku's privacy policy to see what data is being collected from you -- and how to stop it.
ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories
Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled bugs, poisoned agent instructions,...