How to fix scaling and app size issues on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8
If you have trouble getting apps to scale properly on your foldable, read on.
macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141909 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
The TechBeat: Muse, Instinct, Wajo, and OpenAI’s Dots: Four AI Assistants That Do the Work for You (10/18/2026)
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...
85 Blog Posts To Learn About Hackathon
Let's learn about Hackathon via these 85 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. A hackathon is an event where participants collaboratively...
How Much GPU Memory Do You Really Need to Run an Open LLM Locally?
Can we run it on our own machine?" is now one of the first questions teams ask about an open-weight model. Data that cannot leave the building, a predictable monthly bill, or simply the wish to stop depending on a provider: the reasons vary, but the next question is...
The “Agentic” Personal Car vs. The Fleet Robotaxi
Three things happened in the first quarter of 2026 that belong in the same sentence. In January, a startup called Tensor stood on the CES floor with a car it says you can own, that drives itself at Level 4, and that folds its steering wheel away when it does. In the...
Demystifying Python Asyncio: When to Use Concurrency vs. Multiprocessing in Production.
Every backend engineer eventually hits the performance wall. Your application is handling moderate traffic, but suddenly latency spikes, CPU usage hits 100%, or database connections timeout. The knee-jerk reaction in modern Python development is often the same: "Just...
Lessons from Paxos Made Live for Reliable AI Infrastructure
Every fault-tolerant system faces the same engineering trap: assuming that if the consensus algorithm is correct, the system will be reliable. In reality, the gap between a correct protocol and a production-ready service is where most engineering effort actually...
Stop Sending Every AI Request to Your Most Expensive Model!
Sending every prompt to one large model is expensive, fragile, and often unnecessary. A hybrid AI router matches each request to the right model: small for simple work, frontier for hard reasoning, local for private data. Here's how the pattern works, drawn out step...
How Fortune 500 Companies Build Data Platforms
Start with the unglamorous problem Picture a retailer with a few thousand stores, three ERP systems inherited from acquisitions, a loyalty app, a warehouse network and a finance team that closes the books on the fifth business day of every month. Now ask a simple...
Stop Using For-Loops for Everything: Advanced Python Iteration Patterns You Should Know.
We've all written it. The classic, nested for-loop crawling through lists, appending to accumulators, tracking manual index counters, and bloating our codebase with unnecessary state. While for-loops are fundamental to Python, relying on them for every data...
Understanding Rogue-Key Attacks in BLS Signature Aggregation
Imagine you live in an apartment building, and the resident’s association has spent the past two years saving for a new elevator. The fund is sitting in a bank account, and to protect it, the association sets one rule: no money leaves that account unless all three...
Measuring Lead Response SLAs With Verifiable CRM Events
The green dashboard and the unanswered buyer A buyer submits an inquiry at 9:02. A routing workflow creates a task at 9:03. A rep marks it complete at 9:08. The lead-response dashboard turns green. Yet the buyer's inbox and phone show nothing. This is an illustrative...
Your Smart Home Is a Remote Control. A Home AI Would Actually Run the House
The smart home was never smart When I first wrote about this topic in May 2025, I argued that a true home AI assistant was becoming inevitable. Eighteen months later, I think the framing needs an update. The assistant has arrived. The intelligence, in the sense I care...
Designing a Deletion Propagation Contract for Distributed CRM Data
Deleting a contact from a CRM feels final because the interface removes the record. In a connected revenue stack, it may be only the first state change. The same person can still exist in a warehouse, reverse-ETL destination, support platform, call recorder,...
Engineering Trustworthy AI for Healthcare: From Medical Data to Clinical Intelligence
A few months back I was reviewing a sepsis prediction model for a client, and the model itself was fine. Decent AUC, reasonable calibration on paper. What stopped me was a throwaway comment from one of the ICU nurses during a workflow walkthrough: "we don't really...
Flat Ethernet cables probably aren’t the answer to your home networking problem
For the most reliable performance, round Ethernet cables are generally superior.
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-and-science/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141681 Points: 21 # Comments: 17
The reason why your drive shows less storage than you paid for
Despite showing the storage amount on the box or the spec sheet, your new device might not actually hold as much as it states. Here are the reasons why.
Tesla ‘Cannot Guarantee’ Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car
Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cannot-guarantee-roadster-reservation-holders-will-ever-get-a-car Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141295 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Anthropic’s proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
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Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141657 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Wendy’s store closures update: See the newest list of doomed locations as embattled franchisee shrinks footprint
More than a dozen Wendy’s restaurants were marked for permanent closure this weekend as one of its largest franchisees continues a weeks-long effort to shutter loss-making locations in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Lawyers for the franchisee, Meritage...
iOS 27’s new CarPlay features are great, but only these iPhones can actually use them
With the release of iOS 27, car owners with CarPlay support can enjoy lots of cool new features. However, not all iPhone models are able to support them all.
RepRapMicron
Article URL: https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
These 6 retro sites let you relive the glory days of 2000s Flash games
Flash hasn't been around for over half a decade, but thanks to archivists, you can still enjoy this era of the internet.
The reason your Amazon Alexa devices are always listening
Alexa devices have microphones that are always listening, but what does Amazon do with that data? It's up to you.
Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents
Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-the-first-generation-dumber-than-their-parents-neuroscientist-claims/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141053 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
A Plasma Donut
We know [The Action Lab] always has something hands-on. This time, the video shows a toroidal plasma demo and how it relates to nuclear fusion. Plasma has a high temperature, and if you use physical electrodes to excite the plasma, this high temperature tends to...