‘Nothing’s going to feel good now’ for workers uncomfortable with change, says Cisco CEO
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages...
Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload
The Rust project has warned that attackers appear to be targeting its contributors and crate owners in an attempt to compromise their devices and accounts, potentially allowing malware to be distributed through its package ecosystem. Posting to the Rust blog,...
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they’ll be efficient
Just when you thought concerns over datacenter power generation in the US couldn't get any worse, the Trump administration gets rid of emissions restrictions on power plants. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle on this page, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or...
ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
Article URL: https://zuckoff.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785429 Points: 40 # Comments: 4
ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
Article URL: https://www.wired.me/story/meta-smart-glasses-detector-app-zuckoff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785397 Points: 37 # Comments: 0
Searching for Dark Matter with a Levitating Magnet
Much of science is performed through inference, with the readings on instruments, a flash of light in heavy water, or the results of parsing through terabytes of sensor data after a particle accelerator collision either backing up a proposed scenario or weakening its...
CrowdSec Confirms Source Code Stolen in Supply Chain Attack
The cybersecurity firm believes the data breach was the result of the May 2026 TanStack supply chain attack. The post CrowdSec Confirms Source Code Stolen in Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Show HN: Bitcoin-rs – An AI-assisted Bitcoin full node in Rust
Show HN: Bitcoin-rs – An AI-assisted Bitcoin full node in Rust Go to Source I’m building bitcoin-rs, an independent Bitcoin full node in Rust, using AI aggressively for implementation.I think Bitcoin is a particularly good target for...
How one branding agency redesigned its website to reduce carbon emissions
After one Australian branding agency discovered its website produced more carbon than the average webpage, it redesigned it to be more efficient. In the process, the agency learned something about striking the right balance between sustainability and style. MEK is a...
12 top AI tips from high performers
A clear performance gap is emerging in workplaces between those who actively use artificial intelligence to boost their output and those who avoid these tools entirely. Drawing on insights from industry experts, this article examines practical strategies that high...
Why ‘Grit starts at the copy machine,’ is still great advice, according to Evite CEO David Yeom
The first three days of my career were spent in front of a copy machine. I was fresh out of college, newly hired at Arthur Andersen in downtown Los Angeles, convinced I was about to dive headfirst into the high-stakes world of auditing and consulting. On my first...
Having ‘good taste’ won’t save designers
“Taste will be the key differentiator.” “Taste is what AI can’t replace.” “Taste is our competitive advantage.” Have you heard these as many times as I have over the last year? It feels like every time technology is mentioned, especially AI, the go-to argument is that...
Swedish candy darling BonBon is entering its big-box era
BonBon, a New York City-based Swedish candy brand, is about to hit Target’s shelves. It’s the exact kind of mass retail move that usually flattens a cult brand’s specificity into something generic and uninteresting. But at BonBon, the founding creative team is betting...
Tesla’s Cybercab exposes a robotaxi emergency-response problem
For the self-driving car industry, first responder guidance is a collective action problem. Tesla’s Cybercab, a gold-tinted self-driving sedan outfitted with doors that eject sideways and upward, officially hit the road earlier this month. In some cities, the vehicles...
This tote bag turns into a life jacket just in case the subway floods
A new tote bag has a hidden feature: In a flood, it doubles as a life jacket. Most of the time, it’s an ordinary bag. But in an emergency, you can unfold it into a vest, slip it over your head, and tug a cord to inflate it.The conceptual product, designed by a...
Jev-Leftpad
Article URL: https://github.com/f/jev-leftpad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784706 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Follow the Hill Combines Congressional Stock Disclosures With Automated Trading
Follow the Hill combines public stock disclosures with systematic trade selection, position sizing and exits in investors’ own brokerage accounts. September 3, 2026: Follow the Hill is bringing a systematic approach to congressional stock trading, combining public...
Can Claude AI Predict Crypto and Stock Prices? What It Can and Can’t Do
Search for Claude AI crypto price predictions and you will find headlines quoting exact targets for XRP, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin. Those targets are what a chat model answered when it was asked, not the output of a forecasting system. Here is what Claude can actually do...
Hammed Afenifere on the Local Context AI Compliance Can Miss
A business owner with more orders than the company can fulfill may see little reason to build a website. A financial institution overseas may still need information it can’t find. The same business can be familiar to its customers and difficult for a banking partner...
GPT-6 Astra vs. Meshy 7 for 3D Creation: What Three Creator Workflows Reveal
The Next Layer: How Creators Are Combining OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra with Meshy for 3D GenerationBased on three public creator case studies published in September 2026, GPT-6 Astra appears strongest at scene reasoning, Blender automation, code, and gameplay integration,...
Downloading Zoom or Brave? Could Be New Mac Malware ‘Sonoma’ In Disguise
Moonlock Lab first wrote about Crazy Evil in August 2024, when the group was pushing an AMOS-style stealer behind fake Loom downloads. Two years later they are still in the same business – collaboration-app lures, crypto-adjacent victims – but the tooling has been...
The Design Brief Left the Building: How Creative Agencies Are Accidentally Leaking Client Work
An art director is behind on a deadline. The client's unreleased packaging mockup needs a quick tweak, a color shift, a tagline swap, and the fastest path is pasting it into an AI tool for a few iterations. No one downloads anything sketchy. No one clicks a phishing...
Agentic AI: Rethinking the OSI Model for the Internet of Agents and Cognition
Did you memorize the 7 layers of the OSI model during your networking journey? Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data Link, Physical. There are many acronyms to help you remember them, such as: “All People Seem To Need Data Processing.” Fun fact:...
5+ Famous Crypto Addresses and Transactions That Made History
A common cryptocurrency address isn’t exactly attention-grabbing. You see a long string of random numbers and letters, without an apparent meaning. In public chains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Obyte, you can check any transaction or address you want, but if you don’t...
Microsoft Couldn’t Answer That Question Under Oath
On June 9, 2025, Anton Carniaux, Microsoft's legal director for France, sat before a French Senate commission investigating public procurement and testified under oath. A senator asked him a narrow question. Could he guarantee that data belonging to French citizens,...
Towards Deterministic and Reproducible Agentic Data Analysis
People of all ages and experience levels who know a little bit about LLMs and want to do data analysis without coding are turning to agentic tools. These tools are numerous by now and include tools from model builders such as Anthropic (Claude Code) and OpenAI (GPT...
Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning
Every summer, cities get hotter than the countryside around them. This isn't just a feeling; it's a measurable phenomenon called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where concrete, asphalt, and dense buildings trap heat that green spaces and water bodies would...
I Asked Claude Opus 5 to Beat Pangram’s AI Detector. It Failed with A Perfect Score
On September 7, 2026, I published a Substack note with the result placed where nobody could miss it: Pangram’s verdict: 100% AI-generated. It was not an accusation. It was the agreed result of an experiment. I had asked Claude Opus 5 to write an essay about the exact...
Chunking Strategies for Structured Data in RAG Systems (Part 2): Where Text-to-SQL Falls Short
This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered how to chunk structured data so a retriever can find it. This article covers the first query pattern, i.e., RAG-based Text-to-SQL. We discuss what works, what doesn't, and where it hits its limit. Part 3 will cover...
Why Banks Are Building Tokenized Deposit Networks
Everyone's been watching the stablecoin story. Circle went public in June 2025 and its shares briefly surged well above the IPO price on debut [1][2]. Tether closed out 2025 with north of $10 billion in net profit, most of it earned on the back of a Treasury bill pile...