When are surround sound systems actually worth it over soundbars?
Choosing between a soundbar and full surround system requires you to evaluate how much you care about convenience, immersion, price and more.
Ask HN: Why do we let the AI companies dominate regulation discussion?
And I don't mean the doomerism nonsense. From rogue AI, doomerism, AGI.I mean real regulation:1) Fair accounting of input/output tokens. Where is the weights and measures department to enforce fair counting of usage? If I pay for a gallon of gas, that is what I...
EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/electric-car-sales-soar-52-in-europe-with-fuel-at-record-highs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870928 Points: 21 # Comments: 8
When is it worth using a bike computer over a smartphone?
Your phone may be all you need until battery life, navigation or rough conditions start getting in the way.
How to turn your old MacBook into a home NAS server
If you have a MacBook sitting around collecting dust, you can give it new life by turning it into a home NAS server. Here's how to get started.
Here’s what happens to your old computer parts you donate to Goodwill
Goodwill has a pretty robust electronics refurbishment program.
Going on a Tangent with the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm
Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse-engineering is probably figuring out which algorithm was used in the...
How to improve CarPlay navigation if you use Google Maps over Apple Maps
Google Maps can't be set as the default GPS app in CarPlay in most regions, but you can still make it easier to use while driving.
Why AI Agents Forget Everything (and How to Build Ones That Don’t)
Most AI agents today are stateless, even when they sound conversational. You explain your background, clarify what you’re trying to accomplish, and correct the agent two or three times. Then the session ends, and all of that context disappears. The next conversation...
Designing Agent Memory for Freshness, Supersession, and Retention
We trained AI agents to remember information, but not to know when the information is out-of-date, superseded, or too sensitive to remember.Now imagine an AI agent confidently telling a customer that your refund policy is "14 days, no questions asked.Now imagine an AI...
The SDP Offer/Answer Rules That Bite During WebRTC Renegotiation
WebRTC developers do not normally bother about an SDP blob. It just works in the initial negotiation, media streams are exchanged, and the details of the format are irrelevant. But once renegotiation happens — adding a track, starting a screen share, performing ICE...
How Much Should AI Be Allowed to Decide in Your Product? A PM’s Decision Tree
Every product manager I know is under the same pressure right now: add AI. A chatbot, auto-replies, smart recommendations, auto-approvals, something. The roadmap review has a new standing question, and it is some version of "where's the AI?"Meanwhile, the writing...
Bittensor’s Real Experiment Is Paying Markets to Produce Intelligence
Most conversations about decentralized AI stall on the adjective. "Decentralized" sounds like a value, and values are hard to audit. Bittensor is more interesting when you drop the adjective and look at what the network actually does all day: it grades work and pays...
AI Coding Metrics Have a Missing Middle
We can measure AI usage and software delivery. The hard part is understanding what happens between the two.AI coding measurement has become surprisingly sophisticated in a very short time. We can measure active AI users. We can see which tools developers use. We can...
How Differential Testing Exposed Type and Performance Bugs in Chuks v0.1.2
Building a programming language with both a bytecode VM and a native compiler creates an uncomfortable requirement: the same program has to mean the same thing in both places. Chuks has been working toward that guarantee release by release, first across the language...
How to Validate Financial Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy and Backtests
A trading AI can be accurate and still be economically useless. It can also produce an excellent backtest and still fail to provide convincing evidence that it has learned anything durable. These are not separate problems. They are different stages of the same...
Why Terraform Workflows Break Down Across Multiple Teams
Terraform workflows break down at scale because every team builds its own pipeline, and nothing forces those pipelines to agree. The pattern looks the same everywhere. A repository per team, a slightly different GitHub Actions workflow in each one, more state backends...
Designing Hardware-Assisted Forwarding Planes for Constant-Time Network Recovery
Large networks are built with redundancy everywhere. Links are duplicated. Routers have alternate paths. Routing protocols continuously calculate multiple ways to reach the same destination. Yet redundancy alone does not guarantee fast recovery. When a link or node...
Building a Playwright Training Environment Around Real CI Failures
In today’s world of software engineering, proficiency in just one tool is not enough. Broad expertise in modern tooling is essential. You might be a Senior AQA engineer with 10+ years of Selenium experience, but when the time comes to enter a job search, you may...
Exploring Beyond Data Lineage: Tracking What AI Agents Actually Do
I have devoted quite a considerable amount of time to the concept of lineage within the context of data governance. This concept is relatively straightforward: if I am working with the data, then I should have enough understanding of its origins, its journey, and its...
Designing Accessible Keyboard Focus States With CSS
A small CSS decision can have a much bigger impact on how easily someone is able to navigate your website.We can adjust a property's outline’s width, style and color with the outline property.outline: [width] [style] [color]; Sometimes developers use this property to...
Two Identical AKS Clusters, Two Different Elastic Metadata Bugs
Two AKS clusters used the equivalent Fleet processor configuration and produced different cluster metadata. One cluster produced an empty orchestrator.cluster.name. The other retained the configured name and looked correct in Kibana. I observed this behaviour with...
Lunar Terminator Paradox
Article URL: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870837 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
Allegations of US interference in Quebec election
Article URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/12073854/quebec-election-u-s-interference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870417 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
Article URL: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367 Points: 40 # Comments: 2
Alan Kay’s answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870070 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Defeating Satellite Spoofing with Galileo’s Encryption
Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jamming to more sophisticated spoofing attacks. This may be changing,...
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM Go to Source https://hex.pm/packages/imphttps://dspy.ai/current/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869995 Points: 5 # Comments: 2