NPM’s release cooldown is security theater
Article URL: https://blog.outv.im/2026/npm-cooldown-security-theater/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993885 Points: 17 # Comments: 7
Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993816 Points: 24 # Comments: 0
Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts
With the new "Replace Audio," tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's existing likes, comments, shares, and reach intact.
Meta Horizon+ subscriptions now include Xbox Game Pass starter edition
Meta Horizon+ subscriptions are now bundled with the starter edition of Xbox Game Pass.
France’s Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
Article URL: https://postquantum.com/security-pqc/anssi-pqc-certification-2027/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994116 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Cascade Raises $3.5M From a16z Speedrun to Predict Construction Projects Before the RFP Exists
What if the most expensive project your firm ever lost was one it never saw? Somewhere in a county capital plan, a nine-figure building already exists on paper. A bond has been filed. A parcel has quietly changed hands. By the time a request for proposals goes public,...
How Many Side Projects Have You Given Up On?
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's Weekly Newsletter that curates results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thank you for having voted in our polls in the past.This week, we’ll be taking a look at how many dead side...
The TechBeat: Risk, Ethics and Trust in Enterprise Generative AI: A Practical Control Framework for CIOs & Boards (7/21/2026)
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. ## Let the Agent Complain: A Feedback Loop for Better AI Tools By @qatech...
The Edge Latency Promise Breaks the Moment You Need Consistent Writes
"Edge computing will solve your latency problems." — Every cloud vendor ever.The reality? It might just move them somewhere harder to debug.I've been building distributed systems for a while now. And every time a new edge platform drops, the marketing follows the same...
226 Blog Posts To Learn About Containers
Let's learn about Containers via these 226 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 standard software unit that packages code and all other...
Pinboard: A Free, Self-Hosted APM Dashboard That Refused to Die
Zabbix tells you the server is on fire. Who tells you what lit the match? Every ops team has infrastructure monitoring — CPU, disk, load average, ping. Ours (Zabbix) has served faithfully for years. But when a client calls saying "the site got slow after lunch,"...
Why Your Vector Database Should Be Treated Like a Cache
Embeddings are a build artifact, like a compiled binary. Change the embedding model and every vector you stored is invalid. The durable assets are the raw corpus and a reproducible pipeline—not the index.An embedding is derived data: a function of the source document,...
The Three Questions That Changed How I Think About Technical Writing
A few weeks ago, while completing an authorship application for a technical publication, I expected questions about my technical background, areas of interest, and the topics I wanted to write about. Instead, I found three questions solely about plagiarism. What is...
Will We Still Be Coding in 10 Years?
It’s been a hot-button question since the LLM’s blasted into the mainstream several years ago. Already, we’ve seen that AI has altered the structure of companies across the tech industry – most notably by deleting a lot of entry-level jobs, like at Meta and Microsoft,...
Why Practical AI Skills Matter More Than Prompt Engineering in 2026
Last year, everyone wanted the perfect prompt. The perfect framework — the exact wording that would get ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot to do what they wanted. And to be fair, prompting still matters. A good prompt can save time, improve output, and help non-technical...
The CLARITY Act’s Last Obstacle Is the President It Would Bind
Trump won't commit to ethics language restraining his own crypto business while in office. With the Senate's August clock running down, that one clause now decides whether the industry gets its market-structure law, or waits until 2027. The most consequential meeting...
Two-Thirds of the Top Million Domains Can Still Be Spoofed
A measurement study of the internet's email spoofing surface: who actually enforces DMARC across the Tranco top-1M, and what two years of mailbox-provider mandates changed.TL;DR: We analyse daily DNS snapshots of the Tranco top-1M domain list. As of July 17, 2026,...
The Conversation That Changed My Life
My name is Rodney, and this is the story of how one ordinary conversation ended up changing the course of my life. If someone had told me a few years ago that a conversation between two university students would eventually lead to an AI project, I probably would have...
HTTP 402 Sat Unused for 30 Years. x402 Just Changed That.
Why AI agents are about to render API key management obsolete and what the protocol actually looks like under the hood.---I've shipped enough internal tooling to know the exact feeling. You find a data provider with a solid API, you want to prototype something in an...
Craneware Confirms Data Theft After Cyberattack, Investigations Underway
Healthcare software vendor Craneware confirmed attackers stole data during a cyberattack, underscoring growing cybersecurity risks facing healthcare suppliers. The post Craneware Confirms Data Theft After Cyberattack, Investigations Underway appeared first on...
Threads rolls out parental supervision tools
With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.
Hyperliquid Is Bringing Prop Trading Onchain
Prop crypto trading is now one of the fastest-growing categories around Hyperliquid. Several teams are building funded crypto trading programs on top of its infrastructure, while API access allows these accounts to connect with terminals, algorithmic platforms, and...
Apple Might Want to Record Your Next Genius Bar Visit
The brand is reportedly testing an AI note-taking tool that gives "Geniuses" more time to talk to customers.
Lego just unveiled a 1,500-piece X-Files set, complete with Mulder, Scully and a grey alien
The first Lego X-Files set costs $200 and will be available in August.
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
Tired of xargs?
What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. Some examples in the post of the “other ways” include: find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm find . -name '*.sh'...
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-thomson-reuters-125-million-to-find-voter-fraud/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993448 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
Ernst & Young breach exposes client tax data – find out if you’re at risk and what to do next
Ernst & Young breach exposes client tax data - find out if you're at risk and what to do next Go to Source For two weeks, attackers had access to a third-party support ticket system containing customer tax information.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993414 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
These cities just became America’s hottest buyer’s markets
Home buyers are increasingly regaining the upper hand in most major U.S. metro areas, but the amount of leverage they wield depends entirely on where they’re buying. The second quarter marked the most buyer-friendly spring for the U.S. housing market in eight years as...