Migrating a Production Django App from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch
Key Takeaways Legacy search clients like elasticsearch==7.10.1 hard-cap underlying transport libraries (urllib3<2), blocking critical security patches for vulnerabilities like CVE-2025-50181. elasticsearch-py 7.14.0+ introduced a client-side UnsupportedProductError...
The TechBeat: The Mathematics That Breaks the Biggest Myths About AI (9/25/2026)
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 ]...
FinOps for AI Data Infrastructure: Optimising the Cost of Cloud Analytics and Agentic AI Workloads
A few months back, I was pulled into a call that started with someone staring at a Databricks bill and asking, quite genuinely, "did we get hacked?" We hadn't. What had happened was far more mundane and, honestly, far more common: a retrieval-augmented pipeline...
Before You Hit Send: Building a Reply Co-Pilot on TypeSafe’s Jev, Deployed on Cloudways Velocity
A drafted support reply usually gets one round of scrutiny before it goes out, usually by the same person who wrote it, in a hurry. Tone problems, unauthorized promises, and replies that should have gone to a manager first tend to surface later, in a QA pass, well...
Designing an Event-Driven Next-Best-Action Architecture for Customer Retention
Why retention needs an event-driven architecture Customer retention is often treated as a campaign problem: identify customers approaching renewal, generate a list, and ask an agent or marketing system to contact them. That model works when customer behavior changes...
Before You Blame the Model, Check What Your Compactor Deleted
A lot of production AI incidents look like intelligence failures. The assistant asks for data the user already gave. It violates a constraint that was clearly stated earlier. It makes a recommendation that ignores a prior commitment. The default diagnosis is: the...
The Open-Source Debt Nobody in Finance Wants to Talk About
Most of the software running the global financial markets was never paid for. Not by the banks, not by the brokers, not by the hedge funds processing billions in daily volume. It was written by developers who published their work for free, maintained by small teams...
STS Digital Named Digital Asset Provider of the Year by FOW
Recognition marks the fourth industry award for STS Digital in less than one yearHamilton, Bermuda STS Digital, the Bermuda Monetary Authority-regulated principal trading firm specialising in institutional digital asset derivatives, spot trading and structured...
Modernizing COBOL-Based Billing Logic Without a Big-Bang Rewrite
Key TakeawaysSafe COBOL-to-Java modernization in regulated billing systems happens one algorithm at a time inside a runtime that can host both languages side by side, not through a scheduled cutover of the whole system.We did parallel runs that fed the same production...
Your AI Agent Needs an Unknown State
Cover diagram by the author: a completed external effect with a lost response leaves the executor uncertain. Your agent submits a command. The external service performs it. The response disappears somewhere between the service and your worker. A timeout handler marks...
Designing Data Products Around Uncertainty
I built a light pollution map (link at the end of the article). Click anywhere, and you get a Bortle class, a sky-brightness (SQM) value, a rough count of naked-eye stars, a suggested camera exposure time, a multi-year brightness trend.Not one of those is a...
Is Dev Rel Marketing, Engineering, or Product? “The Answer Is Yes,” Says Checkmarx’s Tessa Mero
"Developers don't need more hype, they just need a reason to care about your product."Let's start with you. Who are you, what do you do, and what does your company build?Hello! I’m Tessa Mero, Director of Developer Advocacy, Developer Security at Checkmarx. Who am I...
SCOUTz Prospect Intelligence Platform Launches for MSPs With 30-Day Beta
Phoenix, Arizona, September 24th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--SCOUTz, a prospect intelligence platform built for managed service provider (MSP) security sales, is now available in open beta. The platform gives an MSP dated evidence about a prospect's environment before the...
Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware
Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are listed below -...
PamStealer macOS Malware Adds Live C2 Payload Decryption and Multi-Layer Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA)...
Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack
The tech giant, which allows companies to send large datasets over the internet, said it received a "credible threat" from law enforcement about an imminent attack.
For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.
Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.
Factorio that you can touch
Article URL: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-447 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845133 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Don’t Buy the Latest Mac Mini If You’re a Storage Junkie
The new M6 and M5 Pro models don't have the removable storage module found in the M4 Mac Mini.
Did The BBC and Sir Clive Get it Right Twenty Years Ago?
Predictions of the future are often laughable when reviewed in the years for which they are made. For example, here in 2026 we neither live on the Moon, nor have flying cars. But sometimes they come closer to the reality than others, and in that the BBC Archive have...
Tesla finally moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays
Tesla's Semi truck, with a 500-mile range, is about to hit the road in big numbers, with the company saying it plans to make 50,000 units a year.
In Other News: Clop Leak Site Takeover, Docker Botnet Hunts AI Keys, Water Utility Exposure
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BragJack attack against browser AI assistants, TDengine flaw threatens industrial telemetry uptime, Ubuntu update overhaul. The post In Other News: Clop Leak Site Takeover, Docker Botnet Hunts AI Keys, Water...
Tell HN: AGI Is Here
Whether by your strict definition or not AGI is here is immaterial. For 90%+ of humanity AGI is here today, they act like it does and they use it as if it is. Geoffrey Hinton in a recent interview said that according to him it is still a year or so out, but that seems...
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug
Users report that a recent optional update for out-of-date Microsoft 365 applications might be connected to suddenly deactivated Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 installations. The activation bug cropped up this week and appears to mostly impact Home and Business...
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
EVENT: The Register is hosting a private dinner in New York on Tuesday 27 October for senior technology, infrastructure and data leaders, with LucidLink. Joe Fay takes the chair, it runs under the Chatham House Rule, and nothing said leaves the table. Distributed...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development Save up to $200 on your pass before today ends.
Today is Dolly Parton Day: Why fans are celebrating the iconic singer and country star on September 25
The world lost significant sparkle and empathy on August 25 when beloved country music and humanitarian icon Dolly Parton died. Today (Friday, September 25), many locations across the United States are collectively celebrating Dolly Parton Day. Here’s everything you...
Polymarket faces a lawsuit in New York with claims it’s operating an illegal gambling platform
New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state.The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge from a state moving to rein in...
Allow Carriers on Planes
Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/allow-carriers-on-planes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844786 Points: 13 # Comments: 1