Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714735 Points: 15 # Comments: 7
China Fires Back at AI Slowdown Proposal Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting
China rejected calls from U.S. AI leaders to slow development, deepening tensions over AI safety, chip controls, and competition ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting. The post China Fires Back at AI Slowdown Proposal Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting appeared first on TechRepublic.
Passwd Enterprise Review: Features, Pricing & Security
Review Passwd Enterprise pricing, security, Google Workspace integration, and private Google Cloud deployment to see if it fits your organization. The post Passwd Enterprise Review: Features, Pricing & Security appeared first on TechRepublic.
Microsoft’s New AI Rules Say Models Must Never Resist Human Shutdown
Microsoft has drafted a “Humanist AI” code requiring future models to accept human shutdown, follow non-negotiable safety rules, and remain under control. The post Microsoft’s New AI Rules Say Models Must Never Resist Human Shutdown appeared first on TechRepublic.
Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge
The five-year-old startup raised $108 million from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineer (Remote/US)
Article URL: https://jiga.io/about-us/?ashby_jid=0b75d72d-c92b-4dca-8062-09d298ada0bd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715446 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Inside Grindr’s Big Bet on AI
Featuring George Arison, Chairman of the Board and CEO, GrindrModerated by David Salazar, Staff Editor, Fast Company George Arison has spent his tenure at Grindr transforming what many investors once saw as a niche dating app into a growing public company with...
Why Creators Are Hollywood’s Next Growth Engine
Featuring Rob Wade, CEO, Fox Entertainment, Billy Parks, Head of Fox Creator Studios, Fox Entertainment and, Christina Richardson, Creator, Director, Writer, and Executive Producer of “Besties”; Founder, C. Rich Media. The wall between Hollywood and the creator...
Autodesk’s AI assistant could radically change how buildings are designed and built
The 3D model behind almost every building project today is as powerful as it is confusing. The precision of digital modeling brings every tiny detail to bear, which is great for building complex architecture, but not so great for the person having to search through...
Leading with Purpose in a Divided World
Featuring Jason LaRose, CEO, Bombas; Lindsay Shumlas, CEO, Cotopaxi and Priscilla Sims Brown, President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank. Corporate social responsibility has been heavily debated for the past few years and yet the underlying pressures haven’t disappeared:...
The moon may have enough power for massive cities. There’s just one problem
There’s a sea of ice lurking on the dark side of the moon, but even that may not be enough to quench the thirst of a future lunar colony. Moon colonies have long been fodder for science fiction, but governments and private companies are racing now to make those...
After a 3-Year Plateau, the Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra Will Finally Introduce a Display Panel Upgrade
The all-new S27 Pro will also get a new display panel.
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/theres-a-100-chance-ai-agents-are-already-ruining-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715113 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
Financial service biz Moody's says the availability of power is still a major constraint on US datacenter growth as the pace of construction exceeds the speed at which the nation's grid infrastructure can add the requisite capacity. America is the epicenter of the...
Are older MacBooks still worth buying in 2026?
You'll probably want to avoid Intel-powered MacBooks, but Apple Silicon models are solid.
iPhone Duo’s Dynamic Digital Bezel Helps It Fit Different Cases
The option is called “Shift Left Edge.”
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale returns in October
Expect big discounts on Amazon's own products, of course.
Swift 6.4 Released
Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.4-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714239 Points: 34 # Comments: 4
Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
Article URL: https://www.formas.ai/cartesian Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713999 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with Grand
Article URL: https://labs.ripe.net/author/pouria/closing-the-ipv6-first-packet-gap-with-grand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713337 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The CSS Zen Garden dream shipped
Article URL: https://josprague.com/blog/the-css-zen-garden-dream-finally-shipped/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713262 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
What we have learned at OpenShell applying formal methods to control AI agents
Article URL: https://nvidia.github.io/OpenShell-Research/dev-notes/posts/2026-09-10-learning-formal-methods-agent-policy-prover/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713261 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Apple’s iOS 27 has a hidden Easter egg. Here’s how to see it
Apple released iOS 27 to the public yesterday. Its headline feature is the new Siri AI chatbot, which brings a completely revamped agentic companion to the iPhone. But little do most people know, Apple also hid another type of companion in iOS 27—the dogcow. Yes, it’s...
How I Found an Internal Compliance Document in Client-Side Code
This is a disclosure of a vulnerability found in getlynko.com under their VDP programme, which has since been resolved. Lynko is a UK-based provider of premium NFC (Near Field Communication) smart business cards that instantly share a digital profile, contact details,...
Hollywood, Microdramas, and the Business of Capturing Attention
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of HackerNoon’s 3 Tech Polls Newsletter, a weekly retrospective on timely debates shaping the global tech ecosystem. Results from our Poll of the Week anchor the newsletter, supported by related conversations from around...
The TechBeat: Where AI-Generated Design Breaks UX Laws (9/15/2026)
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. ## How I Used AI to Trace 12 Generations of My Family Tree By @nfrankel [...
How I Built a Zero-Dependency Wordle Clone with Vanilla JavaScript
When Josh Wardle's Wordle went viral, it sparked an entire ecosystem of spinoffs and niche adaptations. While the instinct for modern web developers is to spin up create-react-app or a Next.js template for any interactive interface, a 5-letter word puzzle is one of...
Building a Finite-Reward DeFi Staking Protocol With Solidity and Foundry
DeFi staking protocols appear simple from the outside: deposit tokens, wait, and receive rewards. The difficult part is making the accounting behave correctly when multiple users are staking, withdrawing, claiming rewards, changing reward rates, and interacting with a...
Who Really Pays for “Free” Blockchains?
Open any L2 today, and the view is the same; on the whitepaper, we see fractions of a cent per transaction, instant swaps, and airdrops for showing up early. It feels like the industry finally cracked free infrastructure, but it didn’t. Cheap execution, “free” points...
Everyone’s Optimizing Prompts. Nobody’s Optimizing the Data Going Into Them
The discourse around trimming AI costs has focused on prompts. Lesser attention has been paid to the data the tools send back, even though that's where most tokens are spent. While developers focus on creating prompt libraries, counting tokens, and aiming for shorter...