Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: Wider really is better
For people who want the power of a phone that transforms into a miniature tablet, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 offers a better way to watch shows and movies.
Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access
If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability and higher costs as time goes on. So too with Samsung’s SmartThings, the API of which will cease free access in October of 2026. While this does not...
Microsoft’s new AI model beats Mythos on security benchmark
Our AI Model Release Tracker keeps new models in context with their peers, so you know which are worth your time.
AI is storage’s biggest opportunity – and biggest threat
An AI revolution is sweeping through the IT storage world, providing a massively beneficial environment requiring more data to be stored and delivered to AI models and agents, more data to be protected, more data access governance and much better storage operating...
Xenharmlib (music theory library) adds support for Just Intonation
Article URL: https://xenharmlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/whats_new_0_4_0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086059 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention
Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/you-could-have-come-up-with-kimi-delta-attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085909 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
How the Trump administration plans to curb China’s influence by going deep into the sea
The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence around the world, after it had put a halt to many of those initiatives last year during a flurry of budget and...
Here’s why you shouldn’t throw away your old iPhone
If you've got an older iPhone hanging out in the junk drawer, grab it out and bring it back to life with these tips.
College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought
Busted! A college professor who was tired of reading AI responses to essay questions. found a unique way to determine if his students were cheating. Sadly but not surprisingly,I'll of the 35 students who took the test fell right into his trap. Jason Gibson, who...
Meta Is Rethinking Its Bizarre Subscription Plan That Put Even Offline Functions Behind a Paywall
SwiftList Earns a 83.84 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI Platform for Generating Complete Property Listings
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itsfolio.tech Earns a 50 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Resume-to-Portfolio Converter
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Designing for Human Confidence: Why Trust Alone Isn’t Enough for AI Products
There is a subtle moment that happens every time we use an AI product.It rarely lasts more than a few seconds, and most of us barely notice it.GitHub Copilot suggests a function. Cursor proposes a refactor across half a dozen files. Perplexity answers a question with...
Agent Memory Has a Lock-In Problem. Open Formats Are How We Fix It.
The bug in the ecosystem Run this thought experiment. Your agent has been in production for a year. It has accumulated thousands of memories: user preferences, resolved decisions, corrections, domain facts. Now you want to move to a different memory system — better...
Smart Care Triage Earns a 35.03 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Decision-Support Tool for Hospital Intake
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HostLens AI Earns a 55.35 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Agentic GraphRAG AI Assistant for Rental Market Insights
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Electric Vehicles Have Gotten Better, But Have They Earned Your Trust Yet?
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's Weekly Newsletter that curates results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thank you for having voted in our polls in the past. This week's question has been floating around for years,...
The Next AI War Will Be Fought Over Access, Not Models.
For the last three years, we’ve all been asking the same question. “Who will build the smartest AI?” Will it be OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI? etc. It’s a fascinating race, but I think it’s distracting us from a much bigger story. The more I watch what’s...
The TechBeat: A Developer’s Guide to Agentic AI Frameworks and Components (7/28/2026)
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. ## The Anatomy of AI: A Developer's Field Guide to the Internals By...
91 Blog Posts To Learn About Dotnet Core
Let's learn about Dotnet Core via these 91 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. .NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework for...
AI vs Google: The Quest for Visibility
Google search has been a part of our lives for decades now, and unless one was born under a rock and stayed there all these years, we have all had occasion to use it to obtain information for practically everything under the sun. In fact, to digital natives, anybody...
AI Security Startup Mate Surpasses $50M in Funding Amid Growing Enterprise Adoption
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is changing how organizations think about cybersecurity. Security operations teams are expected to investigate incidents faster, respond more quickly, and manage increasingly sophisticated attacks that can evolve at...
Why Linux Firewalls Are Moving From iptables to nftables
For many years, Linux firewall management was dominated by iptables. It became the standard tool used by system administrators to protect servers, networks, and production environments. However, modern Linux systems introduced a new firewall framework: nftables....
Cybersecurity in 2026 Is a Race Against Speed
For years, cybersecurity advice sounded simple: use a strong password, turn on two-factor authentication, and don’t click suspicious links. That advice still matters. Agencies such as CISA still recommend stronger authentication, password managers, software updates,...
AI-found bugs aren’t proving any easier to exploit despite the hype
Anthropic's Project Glasswing may have uncovered tens of thousands of potential security flaws, but new research suggests AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has yet to produce the wave of real-world attacks many expected. In research shared with The Register,...
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears
CAF Bank, which serves 14,000 charities, has suspended online banking as it fixes a vulnerability in how third-party software connects to its portal. The outage has left some organizations struggling to run payroll after being cut from their accounts. In a message to...
DEF CON bans Meta-style ‘pervert glasses’
Ahead of DEF CON 2026 opening its doors in Las Vegas next week, conference organizers said they have imposed a ban on “Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities.” Statements made via its social media channels went on to say that no exceptions will be made for...
The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain
Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers.
Rethinking Ransomware Defense at the Filesystem Layer
Most ransomware post-mortems start at the wrong moment. They start with the ransom note, because that's the moment everyone noticed. But the note is the end of the story. By the time it appears, the attacker has usually had two or three weeks of quiet, unsupervised...
Formatif Earns a 44 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a 100% Offline, Local-First Desktop Media Processing Suite
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