Caching Cognito M2M Tokens With Lambda, DynamoDB, and WAF
Cognito's machine-to-machine authentication is just the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. To use it, your service hands Cognito a client ID and a client secret, and it gets back a short-lived access token. It's all pretty handy and every successful token request...
Why a Successful AI Testing Pilot Can Still Lead to a Failed Rollout
Eighty-eight percent of respondents say AI is a priority for their organization’s future testing strategy. Only 12.6% report using it across key testing activities today. Those findings, from a Leapwork and SD Times survey of 302 QA professionals, do not mean that AI...
My Sea Router Turned a 50-Mile Canal Crossing Into a 10,337-Mile Detour
I asked my sea router for a route from the Atlantic side of Panama to the Pacific side. It returned 10,337 nautical miles, going all the way around South America. The Panama Canal is about 50 nautical miles long. The router is auto-sea-way, an open-source routing...
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
Hi there. My name is Paul. I’m a developer, an explorer and I’ve got ADHD. As of the beginning of August, I’m also unemployed.This last part, along with everything else this past year, has caused me a great deal of stress.While our balcony zen garden project is yet to...
International observers to investigate Swedish election fraud
Article URL: https://www.tv4.se/artikel/37VDHaUBmbgXCIRAP1bR8f/internationell-valobservatoer-ska-foelja-upp-misstaenkta-valfusken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836612 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
How AI Is Changing the Production Pipeline of Filmmaking: Interview with Amy Kouxiao Zhang
Artificial intelligence is no longer just changing how films are marketed, edited, or distributed. It is beginning to reshape the entire production pipeline itself. From micro-drama production to filmmaking, where budget, resources, and creative iteration often...
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2: How these AI glasses compare
Meta's newest smart glasses are an iterative, expensive update.
Beyond Copilots: How Multi-Day Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting the SDLC in 2026
The autonomous AI coding agent era is not a futuristic projection mapped out on a startup’s pitch deck. It is here today—measured in millions of production sessions, verified by peer-reviewed benchmarks, and actively restructuring how engineering teams in the world's...
Nintendo wins $4.5 million from lawsuit over pirated Switch games
It's easy to win when the defendant is a no-show.
A strong El Niño actually means fewer Atlantic hurricanes, but the Pacific has been extra stormy
The Atlantic Ocean has had an unusually quiet hurricane season this year. Though there have been six named storms, zero have actually strengthened into hurricanes—a rarity that hasn’t occurred in decades. On the other side of the country, though, Hurricane Polo has...
Nicolas Cage is anything but subtle in the Madden trailer
The biopic arrives on Prime Video in November.
Mamdani is the most popular elected official in NYC: poll
Article URL: https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/23/mamdani-is-the-most-popular-elected-official-in-nyc-poll/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836342 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Article URL: https://launchvideo.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836374 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/Moeeryani/Vibe-Coding-Production-Kit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836678 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Google Wallet got a lot of new tricks in 2026 – these 5 are my favorites
You can do a whole lot more than tap to pay with Google’s Wallet app.
Think $1 million makes you rich? Here’s what it takes to join America’s top 10%
In America, the wealth gap is turning into a chasm. As the stock market and AI boom mint wave after wave of new millionaires, wealth is consolidating at the top more than ever. Across three quarters of last year, ultra-wealthy Americans in the top .1% and the super...
Bungie shares more detail about Marathon’s Symbiosis update and 2027 plans
Another big overhaul to the game is now due in March.
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
Article URL: https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836590 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
The PGA of America limits AI sprawl with a streamlined identity architecture
Identity security becomes more important when AI agents start acting across enterprise systems. That challenge can be especially acute for smaller technology teams that cannot dedicate large teams to infrastructure, security and identity management. The Professional...
Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting
The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.
Autonomous AI Hacks Raise Thorny Questions of Legal Accountability
The prospect of legal accountability is unclear. Lawsuits are a possibility, but some legal experts believe any criminal investigations would face an extremely high burden. The post Autonomous AI Hacks Raise Thorny Questions of Legal Accountability appeared first on...
Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
Article URL: https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835996 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Entry-level tech jobs in NYC are being cut in half by the AI boom
At first glance, the tech scene in New York City appears to be thriving: OpenAI and Anthropic have been putting down roots in the city, while stalwarts of the tech industry like Google now have over 14,000 employees based in New York. Between 2008 and 2023, tech...
Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835531 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Executives are using AI to communicate better. There’s just one problem.
Artificial intelligence can help executives communicate more effectively and efficiently. But relying on it too much carries significant risks. One of the biggest is something Wade Foster, co-founder and chief executive of workflow automation platform Zapier, calls...
A 7-Segment Clock Built With No Digital Electronics
If you wanted to build a clock with a 7-segment display, there are a wide variety of ways you might go about it. You could grab some 74-series logic chips and create a whole bunch of counters and decoders to drive the display, or you could wire up a microcontroller...
Okta turns Dex AI agent into a customer-zero proving ground
The Dex AI agent is helping Okta Inc. streamline employee support. It also serves as a testbed for the identity controls the company offers customers. After surpassing last year’s goal of saving 250,000 employee hours, Okta raised this year’s target to 1 million. The...
Should managers step in to help their sales staff?
Workers in sales might roll their eyes when they deal with a micromanaging boss. But many customers actually appreciate it if a store manager offers to help when they’re mulling over a purchase, whether it’s a dishwasher, a tablet or a lawnmower. That’s the main...
Show HN: Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming
Hey HN, I'm Jordan from Radix.Radix is a UI tool for programming agents. You prompt your agent to generate a workspace for a task you're working on and get an interactive widget that persists locally on disk.I built Radix because I always needed tools while I was...
New York Times Cooking is coming to Meta’s AI and display glasses
The app is getting a "hands-free" mode that can narrate recipe steps.