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...
How to use your Windows PC to make and receive phone calls
Windows 11 can connect to your phone to make calls, letting you manage them in one place instead of picking up your phone.
Your smart TV has one big problem: It’s tracking what you watch
If you don't want your TV manufacturer to know everything you watch, here's what to do about it.
Germany’s 17M Immigrants: Where They Come From
Germany's 17M Immigrants: Where They Come From Go to Source Article URL: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/where-germanys-immigrants-come-from/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140638 Points: 4 # Comments:...
Why it’s important to avoid plugging in a damaged external hard drive
External hard drives are sensitive, and what seems like a minor drop can cause major damage that should be checked by a professional.
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
Article URL: https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140001 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Why you might not want to join two Ethernet cables (and what you should do instead)
Joining two Ethernet cables together with a coupler is rare, but when your cords are suddenly too short, there are better options to extend your network.
Why are internet upload speeds so much slower than download speeds?
Uploading data tends to be much slower than downloading, and it turns out there's a very good explanation for it.
Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve
Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146834/kids-are-outsmarting-social-media-bans-thats-not-a-problem-we-need-to-solve/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139935 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
How employment is changing at Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139873 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
It’s time to talk about TEEs
Article URL: https://alinush.github.io//tee Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139658 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Evolving RC circuits
We are surrounded by evolving algorithms and AI models, and it feels like we have to evolve to them as well. Of course, the world itself is always evolving, and when we have to implement filtering circuits based on current environments it might not last all that long....
US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars
CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag. The post US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Parser Combinators
Article URL: https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139067 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
From Collars to Cameras: How AI Is Rewiring Livestock Monitoring in 2026
From Collars to Cameras: How AI Is Rewiring Livestock Monitoring in 2026 Go to Source Why a drone-and-vision guy cares about cows Most of my work sits at the intersection of computer vision, drones, and edge inference: vision-only...
The Biggest Mistake Beginners Make With AI Filmmaking (It’s Not What You’d Guess)
The Biggest Mistake Beginners Make With AI Filmmaking (It's Not What You'd Guess) Go to Source After training hundreds of creators, the same failure point shows up before anyone opens a video model. Every week, in the...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About H.g. Wells
500 Blog Posts To Learn About H.g. Wells Go to Source Let's learn about H.g. Wells via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog...
The AI productivity paradox: Why AI is everywhere except in the productivity numbers
In December 2024, just as the AI hype was ramping up, my colleagues Nicole Radziwill, Todd McClees, and I warned in the Harvard Business Review that most enterprises were poorly positioned to benefit from the technology. Our point was that AI isn’t just a technology...
This quick test will tell you if your home Wi-Fi is to blame for laggy internet
If you suspect something’s amiss with your home network, the first thing you might do is run a speed test from sites like speedtest.net or fast.com—or even the newer Orb speed test tool featured here last May. But those tests don’t tell the whole story, because...
What’s with those bobblehead NFL helmets?
If you’ve been watching the NFL this season, you’ve probably noticed that a few dozen players have pretty big heads. Not in the diva sense, but literally. Take Chris Olave, the New Orleans Saints wide receiver. He wears a Guardian Cap, a padded cover on his helmet for...
What happens when people have to jump in to clean up AI’s mess?
Imagine an artificial intelligence system that has performed reliably for months. Its recommendations are almost always right, and the employee reviewing them has learned that close scrutiny rarely changes the outcome. Then something unusual happens. The AI makes an...
ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenants
ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants....
AI’s biggest breakthrough isn’t chatbots—it’s the eureka moment
Below, Richard Socher shares five key insights from his new book, The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries. Richard is a pioneering AI researcher and serial entrepreneur who spent nearly two decades at the forefront of...
Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance
The Windows command line is a marvelous thing, beloved by administrators, but not quite so welcome when you're trying to get a parcel out of a locker. Today's example of Windows behaving badly comes from Ireland and one of the nation's OOHPod postal lockers. An...
Turning a Wi-Fi Adapter into an SDR
Since the discovery of an undocumented I/Q sampling feature in ESP32 chips about two weeks ago, there’s been a flood of similar features being found in other wireless chips, including LoRa and Wi-Fi chipsets. The latest chip to join their ranks is the MediaTek...
DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138531 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
A Princeton PhD Applied to 2,300 Jobs. He Still Can’t Get One
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/labor-market-freeze-phd-graduate-f8e17d7c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138462 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
‘Parallel work’: How holding down multiple jobs at once shed its taboo
Employees used to go to work and then come home. Now, they commonly go to one job and then to another. It’s called parallel work, and it essentially means taking on multiple jobs as opposed to having a single full-time position. That’s different from just having a...