Social media safeguards for kids are finally in motion. Will AI protections take just as long?
Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an even more potent technology: artificial...
How A British Engineer Homebrewed The Quietest Carbine
Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms. On screen, a suppressed pistol makes a pinging thud, and the bad guy in the next room flops to the floor. Real life is rather less cinematic. A suppressor takes the edge off the report, but...
What are the limitations of using a USB-C to HDMI adapter?
What are the limitations of using a USB-C to HDMI adapter? Go to Source Adapters let you make the most of your existing hardware, but always come with compromises.
HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.
The future of independence is interdependence
Article URL: https://onlys.ky/independence-is-interdependence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966163 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
This building’s facade is endlessly adaptable
For a mixed-use development, the Westlake 66 project in Hangzhou, China, was especially mixed up. Like many projects in this category, the development was initially devised to add a combination of offices, retail, hotels, and public space, weaving the different uses...
Are there any disadvantages to using IMAX theaters?
IMAX screenings are quite simply the best way to watch a blockbuster movie. However, there are a number of important factors that can limit that enjoyment.
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
Sam Altman-backed AI chip startup Volantis has a plan to break through the memory wall using light, and this time it's not just an IP play. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco-based startup is developing an AI accelerator that will use a photonic interposer to...
Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004747/florida-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-making-threats-in-an-ai-chat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965895 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
Git Will Stop Working in 2100
My relationship with Git has always had its ups and downs. Since I first created the account, my GitHub tagline has always been “Doesn’t know how to use git properly”. It is a statement that has maintained its truth, and I expect it to do so for the foreseeable...
Meet Literally: HackerNoon Company of the Week
Hey Hackers, Welcome to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that's making waves in the global tech ecosystem and the lives of its users. Our database features everything from...
Security Teams Need to Stop Treating CVSS Scores Like a Patch Queue
Patch management sounds simple. A vulnerability is discovered. A security advisory is published. A patch becomes available. The administrator installs it. Problem solved. In real-world environments, it rarely works that way. Organizations can have thousands of...
Open Worlds Atlas: A Stateless Three.js Galaxy Built on Kepler’s Third Law
I run a Persian-language gaming site, and I wanted a place to show off open-world game history: not a wiki table, not a listicle, something you could fly through. I built it as a personal project, on my own time, and once it turned into something I actually liked, I...
PR Is No Longer Just About Media Coverage. It’s About What AI Says About You
How earned media and founder expertise are becoming part of the information layer behind AI-powered discovery. For most of my career, public relations had a fairly clear output. A company wanted to be known for something, so we developed a story, found the right...
5 Open-Source Horror Projects and Games to Enjoy for Free
The month of horror is back, and with it comes a wealth of content and software to enjoy. Even if you don't celebrate Halloween as such, if you're a horror fan, you might find the projects listed here quite appealing. And the best part? They're all free and open to...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Beginners
Let's learn about Beginners 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. This is a beginners friendly zone. We’ve all been here. Make...
Build vs. Buy: Evaluating the Architecture of a .NET Reporting Stack
"We just need to generate a few PDFs and maybe export to Excel."It sounds like a two-week feature. In practice it’s one of the more expensive architectural commitments a .NET team makes — because you’re not adding a feature, you’re starting to build a reporting SDK,...
The TechBeat: Awesome AGENTS.md That Can Be Used on Any Agent and Any Stack (10/5/2026)
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. ## Where AI-Generated Design Breaks UX Laws By @derzhaiev [ 7 Min read ]...
HubSpot Can Learn Your Brand From Your Website. What If the Website Is Wrong?
The website says a service is available in every market. The delivery team knows it is available in only three. Someone asks HubSpot's AI to draft a new landing page. Which version of the business will the draft inherit? Disclosure: I am the founder and CEO of...
Five Engineering Habits That Separate Working Demos From Reliable Software
Good ideas are rarely the limiting factor. In reviewing dozens of AI hackathon projects, the pattern that would reliably predict success had nothing to do with how brilliant an idea it was. Five distinct engineering habits were responsible for success, all of them...
Why Startups Can’t Access Enterprise Programmatic Platforms and How Managed Access Helps
Most founders meet paid media through the self-serve ad managers at Google and Meta. Those tools cover early campaigns well. Past a certain scale, marketing teams start asking for inventory that platforms do not sell: Connected TV, programmatic audio, digital...
How MasterWhats Used GraphRAG to Untangle Brazil’s Biggest Banking Fraud
A knowledge-graph investigation tool built on Nosana's decentralized compute network, born inside a small Brazilian recommendation-tech company.A scandal too big to readIn November 2025, Brazil's Central Bank ordered the extrajudicial liquidation of Banco Master, a...
Designing a Low-Latency Speech-to-Text Pipeline for Dictation
On August 17, 2026, Wispr raised $280 million at a $2 billion valuation. Two days later, The New York Times Magazine ran a review of its dictation app under the headline "Everyone's Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer."Buried in the...
Designing Recoverable Background Workflows With Explicit Execution History
A failed workflow is rarely a blank slate. Knowing what already happened is the starting point for recovery. Illustration by Raideria; conceptual example, not a product screenshot. A daily report does not arrive. The process exited with an error. Somewhere before that...
Borland Turbo Basic
Article URL: https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basic.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965894 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
California to Fine Robotaxi Companies for Blocking Emergency Responders
The new law also sets rules for remote staff operating self-driving cars.
Emotionally intelligent people use 3 short phrases to stop getting defensive and strengthen their relationships
Emotionally intelligent people use 3 short phrases to stop getting defensive and strengthen their relationships Go to Source How do I handle the feeling of getting defensive? That’s the question we discussed recently in my emotional...
Client-Side vs. Server-Side Encryption: Architecture, Keys, and Trade-Offs
In my early tech journey, I’d always see the phrase “End-to-End Encryption on WhatsApp” and feel a bit skeptical. How could WhatsApp not see my messages when their servers were the ones handling them? I honestly thought it was just a clever marketing gimmick.My...
OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads
After adding text-based ads to its chatbot earlier this year, OpenAI announced on Monday that it was adding a new “visual ad format” to ChatGPT, which is precisely what it sounds like: Visual ads, like so much of the advertising content online, will now be part of the...
“I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry”
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/embarrassed-by-tech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965497 Points: 37 # Comments: 14