TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Do gaming routers really make a difference?
Gaming routers have fancy designs and a few special features, but they can't fix every problem with your network setup.
Here’s what you should do if only one of your AirPods is working
If only one AirPod isn't working, you have several options for troubleshooting and getting your audio back.
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
Fulcrum faces an identity crisis, even as it works on creating one by enabling anyone to imitate another person's writing style. The AI startup, founded in 2025 and previously operating at fulcrumresearch.ai, now uses fulcrum.inc and could easily be confused with one...
Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force
The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week. The post Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The pros and cons of enabling Wi-Fi calling
Wi-Fi calling can help a lot if you're in an area with a weak cellular connection, but you should know the drawbacks before jumping in.
How getting rid of some USB gadgets can improve your bad Wi-Fi
A bit of decluttering can go a long way toward improving your Wi-Fi.
Motion Control via Belt
[Tolko] wanted to encourage kids to have some physical activity, but noted that they only wanted to play games. That led to BlobJump, a Raspberry Pi-based game sort of like the famous dinosaur runner game. The difference? Your body — or more precisely, a belt worn on...
Why you shouldn’t sync your phone to a rental car
Unless you pay attention, your contacts could end up forever stored in the car.
Internet speeds vs. bandwidth: What’s the difference?
Knowing your internet speed is important, but bandwidth is another important metric that many people overlook.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Article URL: https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953495 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
What is infill in 3D printing and is it necessary?
The infill settings you use for your 3D prints can make or break them - literally. Let's talk about what infill does and how you should use it.
Customizing your Samsung Galaxy phone is a bit easier with One UI 9
Lots of new options just became available to Samsung phones with the latest update. Customize your Quick Panel, Edge Panel and much more.
Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children
Article URL: https://teachyourkids.substack.com/p/rejection-sensitivity-in-gifted-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953116 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
How to use Android’s Motion Assist feature to help with motion sickness
Google's Motion Assist uses moving shapes on your Android's screen to help combat motion sickness. Here's how it works and how to enable it.
How much does DDR5 RAM speed matter for gaming?
Wondering whether DDR5 speed impacts your gaming performance? Dive into how memory bandwidth and latency influence frame rates and overall gameplay.
Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
Article URL: https://github.com/allenv0/SCM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952111 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
AI on Your Gaming PC
If you want to experiment with LLMs, you typically have a choice of sending your requests to someone else’s computer or fielding a very large GPU and CPU setup to run models locally. However, a recent crop of projects aims to bring bigger models to much more modest...
Why tech companies are racing to put AI data centers in space
Why on earth do people want to put data centers in space? It’s all about power and cooling. The chips that run AI models require a lot of electrical power, and our electrical grid will be seriously stretched to accommodate the wave of new AI data centers now being...
The world is a mess. Let’s book a cruise!
Consumer confidence is feeble, gas prices remain high, the labor market has the jitters, there’s war in the Middle East, and AI doomerism has become part of pop culture. So . . . time to book a cruise? Apparently so. This week Carnival, the largest cruise line,...
Revive Raskin’s 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev’s duty of care
In 1942, Isaac Asimov formulated three laws of robotics. 58 years later, Jef Raskin responded with three laws of human-computer interface design. They haven’t been bettered yet. There are rules, and even laws, about designing computer user interfaces. Even after 35...
VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here’s what’s next
Article URL: https://gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952029 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
AI Is Now an Enterprise Resource. So Why Are We Still Managing It Like Software?
Most companies track AI as a software line item. But AI is increasingly doing the work, not just supporting it, and that means the real question isn't "how much are we spending on AI?" but "what outcomes is it producing, and who owns them?" Nobody in the room could...
Why I Still Choose Boring VPS Hosting Over AWS in 2026 (And How It Lets Me Ship Faster)
I want my hosting to leave me alone long enough to finish the feature. After more than two decades of running web projects, that remains a surprisingly useful architectural requirement. I still rent servers and put websites on them. Sometimes it is a VPS. Sometimes it...
Firefox Didn’t Just Lose the Browser War. Mozilla Slowly Gave It Away
I never made a formal decision to quit Firefox. There was no final crash, no single broken website, and no dramatic moment when I exported my bookmarks and swore never to come back. For a while, Firefox was simply my browser. Brave was installed as the backup browser,...
Your Agent Retries Because It Can’t Tell a Timeout From a Failure
TL;DR: My agent hit a timeout, treated it as a failure, and re-ran a task that had already finished. It correctly diagnosed every error it saw and kept retrying anyway. Understanding a failure does not constrain what an LLM does next, so the constraint has to live in...
The Future of Work Belongs to Innovation Leaders, Not Tech Adopters
Every boardroom conversation today eventually circles back to two words: artificial intelligence. And yet, for all the investment in tools, platforms, and AI pilots, most organizations are discovering the same uncomfortable truth — technology alone does not transform...
133 Blog Posts To Learn About Ar
Let's learn about Ar via these 133 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. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital...
‘This can’t go on’: thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/spain-housing-protest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951966 Points: 13 # Comments: 4