Tinder now offers group hangouts as an alternative to one-on-one dates
At least in theory, it's a little less nerve-wracking.
Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management
Article URL: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71603 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910613 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
The iPhone’s Battery Design Could Help Smaller Android Batteries Reach 10,000mAh
It could also lend structural support and improve heat management.
The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Article URL: https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910553 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909583 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature is now available for everyone
Many (if not all) Xbox Series X and Xbox One games are supported.
A Quantum-Resistant Signature Doesn’t Make Your Blockchain Quantum-Safe
In standards literature, ‘quantum-resistant’ and ‘quantum-safe’ are often used interchangeably. But for protocol engineers, there is a useful distinction worth making: a cryptographic primitive can resist known quantum attacks while the wider system that deploys it...
From Theory to Practice: Three Small Tools for Big Security Problems
In 2023 I wrote about my first steps in cybersecurity. It was a course summary: network topologies, Red Team vs Blue Team, PTES. It was useful, but it was missing something: building something.So I built three tools. None of them tries to be huge. Each one answers a...
Community Marketing Is Getting Harder. Useful Content Is the Way In.
Advertising has moved into almost every part of our digital lives. It appears across social feeds, search results, podcasts, streaming platforms, apps, and increasingly, the entertainment we already pay to access. Netflix’s advertising business now reaches more than...
Puffer and Anchorage Digital Partner to Bring Institutional Settlement Infrastructure to Puffer UniF
Cayman Islands, Cayman Islands, September 29th, 2026/Chainwire/--Anchorage Digital will serve as Puffer UniFi’s day-one institutional custodian, with the companies collaborating on stablecoin infrastructure, native settlement, and agentic payments Puffer Finance, an...
Build vs Buy Is Being Distorted by AI: Here’s How
The SaaSpocalypse is here, and depending on your perspective, I am either part of the problem or part of the solution. Over the past year, I have become much more of a builder and much less of a buyer of software. This does not mean that I’m now an engineer. This...
The TechBeat: Just Publish an App. How F*****g Hard Can It Be? (9/30/2026)
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. ## 101 Real-World Examples of How to Use Jev By @platformization [ 15 Min...
When Your AI SRE Runs Out of Telemetry: The Missing-Evidence Problem in Production Debugging
AI SRE systems are getting much better at the first half of incident investigation.An agent can receive an alert, inspect metrics, search logs, follow distributed traces, check recent deployments, read source code, retrieve runbooks, and compare the current failure...
South Florida’s Hotel Boom Puts EV Charging Into the Parking Budget
Miami-Dade County is on track to add 1,954 hotel rooms in 2026, the fifth-highest total among U.S. markets, according to CoStar projections reported by Miami Today. Just up the coast, the 801-room Omni Fort Lauderdale Hotel opened in December near the Broward County...
‘Developers Won’t Trust Someone Who Can’t Build With the Tool,’ Says Anaconda’s Brian Turcotte
Let's start with you. Who are you, what do you do, and what does your company build?I'm Brian Turcotte, a founding Developer Relations Engineer at Kilo, which was recently acquired by Anaconda. Kilo is an open-source AI coding agent available as VS Code and JetBrains...
DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
Freckle’s smartphone aims to get kids back outside on their own
Freckle's smartphone encourages kids to get outside. What a concept!
Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."
10 Niche Podcast Awards Organized by Industry and Genre
This list features podcast-only awards focused on specific industries and subject areas, including sports, health, politics, marketing, comedy, and higher education. Active Awards 1. Sports Podcast Awards An international awards program for sports podcasts, combining...
MEXC Adds Another 1,000 BTC to Guardian Fund, Strengthening User Protection
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 30, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today announced the addition of another 1,000 BTC to its Guardian Fund, marking the second major BTC allocation to the fund this year. The latest addition follows MEXC’s May...
Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
OpenAI reveals a slew of launches at its annual conference after shelving a new model over safety concerns
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a “remarkably capable, always-on” artificial intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday, a day after the company halted the rollout of a more advanced model over safety concerns.At the company’s annual developer conference, Altman...
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit Go to Source The AI industry must generate $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to keep funding the infrastructure needed to meet anticipated demand,...
Before You Preorder the iPhone Duo, Watch Out For This Scam
Official preorders begin October 16, no matter what that strange website says.
I can’t tell who’s teaching who anymore
Article URL: https://blog.murphytrueman.com/i-cant-tell-whos-teaching-who-anymore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909629 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Attackers Abuse ChatGPT Custom GPTs to Deliver RAT via ClickFix Lures
Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT Custom GPTs to disguise them as legitimate product offerings and direct unsuspecting victims to malicious sites that employ ClickFix lures to deliver malware. Huntress, which observed the activity in late September 2026, said it marks...
Ex-NCA officer who worked on Silk Road operation ordered to repay £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin
A former National Crime Agency (NCA) officer who stole Bitcoin seized during an investigation into Silk Road 2.0 has been ordered to hand over more than £1.8 million ($2.4 million). Paul Chowles, 44, stole 50 of the 97 Bitcoin recovered from convicted Silk Road 2.0...
Where does your AI data actually live?
EVENT: There are two boundaries around any AI system in a regulated industry, and they have different owners. One is the jurisdiction: what data can leave the country, and under whose rules. The other is the building: what can leave your own estate at all, and who...
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian
OpenAI’s DevDay keynote was this week, and it featured a cameo mention of everyone’s favorite underpants merchant who also sells databases, AWS. I saw Simon Willison’s liveblog comment and felt very seen: “My eyes glazed over a bit at the AWS partnership section, but...