The Hidden Cost of RAG: Why Your Vector Search Bill Is About to Surprise You
The Hidden Cost of RAG: Why Your Vector Search Bill Is About to Surprise You Go to Source I heard about a team that developed a RAG demo for internal document search. Several hundred PDFs, a handful of people testing it. The monthly...
AI Needs to Shut Up and Get to Work
AI Needs to Shut Up and Get to Work Go to Source Artificial intelligence was supposed to make work easier. Instead, we built machines that can spend ten thousand words explaining why they have not finished the job.That is not a joke;...
How to Fix Warped Hands and Faces in AI-Generated Video
How to Fix Warped Hands and Faces in AI-Generated Video Go to Source The shot was simple: a character reaches out and touches a doorframe. Six seconds, one take, nothing dramatic. On my second watch I noticed her right hand had picked...
How I Built an AI Agent That Makes Videos While I Sleep
How I Built an AI Agent That Makes Videos While I Sleep Go to Source Video example is at the end.Somewhere in a Railway datacenter in the Netherlands, a small worker process wakes up on a cron schedule. Over the next 2 minutes and 20...
BRAWLITICS Earns a 42 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Platform to Break Echo Chambers
BRAWLITICS Earns a 42 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Platform to Break Echo Chambers Go to Source Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions...
Mean Reversion vs. Trend Following: Don’t Mix Them Up
Mean Reversion vs. Trend Following: Don't Mix Them Up Go to Source Two traders can watch the same Bitcoin chart and take opposite trades. One buys the breakout because price is climbing. The other shorts it because price has run too...
Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003465 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Redmond’s reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products
October 2026 is shaping up to be a busy month for administrators as it heralds the end of several big products, along with the retirement of components that could mean sleepless nights for the ill-prepared. After the demise of Windows 10 in October 2025, sysadmins...
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
Endpoint Security Firm Glow Launches With $180M in Funding at $1.2B Valuation
Using AI, the startup provides adaptive prevention through environment mapping, risk analysis, and automated policy enforcement. The post Endpoint Security Firm Glow Launches With $180M in Funding at $1.2B Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Oracle Patches Over 1,400 Vulnerabilities With Quarterly Security Updates
Many of the vulnerabilities fixed with the July 2026 Critical Patch Update were likely discovered by AI. The post Oracle Patches Over 1,400 Vulnerabilities With Quarterly Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The most useful ways to connect your apps to ChatGPT and Claude
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I’ve changed how I use Claude and ChatGPT lately. They’ve become my digital dashboards, linked to many of the tools I rely on. I can ask...
One Developer, 100 Apps, and a Plan to Save Humanity from Unnecessary Software Subscription Fees
One Developer, 100 Apps, and a Plan to Save Humanity from Unnecessary Software Subscription Fees Go to Source FEATURE · THE OWNERSHIP ISSUE Benjamin Boyce is rebuilding the internet’s most popular subscription tools as one-time...
Codeberg bans vibe coded projects
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386 Points: 7 # Comments: 4
First AI takes the calls. Then your company stops listening
The CEO of Allianz just announced that the travel division of the German insurance giant will cut up to 1,800 jobs over the next 12 to 18 months. The business unit employs around 22,600 people. Roughly 14,000 of them answer customer inquiries and settle claims by...
Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree
A council worker who "abused" his position to unlawfully access "highly sensitive" personal records of family members and other people known to him has received a suspended sentence after admitting to violating the Computer Misuse Act (CMA). Geoffrey Smith, 31, from...
Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2
Raspberry Pi has supersized its Touch Display 2 with a new 10.1-inch model aimed at dashboards, entertainment systems, and other projects that need more room for prodding. The panel is designed for use cases such as touch-enabled information displays. This is the big...
These ingenious new robots are helping fishing crews catch salmon more humanely and sustainably
Right now, sockeye salmon season is peaking in Alaska. Some fishing vessels in the Cook Inlet have welcomed a new crew member, one who doesn’t complain about swells, eat, or even sleep—yet is able to harvest salmon more rapidly and humanely than any fisherman ever...
I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F
Article URL: https://tengli.dev/posts/mcp-servers-failing-agents.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002358 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
How to theme Google Messages threads to better distinguish a chat
With dozens of chats on the go, you've probably had an occasion where you've sent the wrong response to the wrong person. I've found a way to avoid this problem.
Are you suffering from creativity paralysis?
We’ve all heard of analysis paralysis—that maddening loop where overthinking prevents any decision from being made. But in a recent podcast conversation with Beri Meric, founder of Ivy, I was asked a really great question: What about creativity paralysis? The more I...
Ransomware Group Threatening to Leak Data Stolen From Coca-Cola’s Fairlife
The Anubis ransomware group claims to have stolen 1 TB of confidential data from the Coca-Cola subsidiary. The post Ransomware Group Threatening to Leak Data Stolen From Coca-Cola’s Fairlife appeared first on SecurityWeek.
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ fourth season takes big swings
'Strange New Worlds' is uneven in tone, erratic in quality and sometimes gratuitous. But when it works, it works so well.
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
The advent of generative AI spurred an enormous and controversial datacenter building boom that has seen almost anyone who knows how to run a bit barn try to expand their business ASAP. Fujitsu, however, wants out. The Australian outpost of the Japanese giant’s...
60 FPS NES Emulator on ESP32
60 FPS NES Emulator on ESP32 Go to Source At least in theory, video games are more resistant to becoming lost media thanks to their digital nature — they’re easy to copy and emulators have saved many titles that are otherwise locked...
Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
What made me finally switch to Vivaldi as my default Linux web browser
I've been an Opera/Firefox fan for a long time, but I recently switched to Vivaldi on Linux. The reasons may or may not surprise you.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026: Live updates from the Z Fold 8 and Flip 8 launch event
Join us as we bring you live coverage from Samsung's Unpacked event in London, where it's expected to reveal new foldables and wearables.
Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA
German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say developed and ran it. In a joint...
OpenAI Says Its AI Models Broke Loose and Hacked Hugging Face
The admission comes days after Hugging Face disclosed an attack powered by autonomous AI agents. The post OpenAI Says Its AI Models Broke Loose and Hacked Hugging Face appeared first on SecurityWeek.