The creepiest ‘sales demo’ of all time
Article URL: https://www.appenmedia.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-the-creepiest-sales-demo-of-all-time/article_a8f0cc6c-29d3-41f7-8668-8a855f760efb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984555 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco
Article URL: https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984254 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Trump photobombing historical photos becomes a meme after an awkward moment at the World Cup Final
It seems like common sense to step out of the frame when a group you don’t belong to is taking a picture. But it seems President Trump missed that memo. The World Cup has officially come to an end as Spain and Argentina battled it out in a tense 106-minute game, with...
HireQuotient Extends AI Recruiting Capabilities to Paylocity Customers in Frontline Industries
San Francisco, United States, July 20th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--HireQuotient, an AI-native recruiting platform, today announced its integration with Paylocity (Nasdaq: PCTY), bringing AI-powered candidate sourcing and screening capabilities to Paylocity customers in...
NodeMeta Expands Its Multi-Utility Web3 Vision With OneKey, TrustScan AI and NTE
The project aims to build a connected digital economy where NTE can be used across node participation, staking, AI-based services, marketplace transactions, ecosystem access and future blockchain applications. A Multi-Utility Economy Powered by NTE NTE is the central...
What Is an Agent, Actually?
What is an Agent, Actually?Distinguishing LLMs, agents, orchestration, and frameworksWhen I wrote my first tutorials on open-source multi-agent frameworks in 2024, “agent” already meant something genuinely complicated – an LLM’s behavior already depended on...
Educational Byte: Why Some Cryptos Have Supply Caps – and Others Don’t
One of the problems of fiat (traditional) currencies is unlimited supplies: governments can print new bills and coins to their heart’s content, and this could increase inflation to the point of killing the currency itself. Money needs to be scarce to work, and when...
AI Agents & Non-Human Identities: Why They Must Be IAM Users
Why autonomous AI agents and non-human identities need first-class status in enterprise IAM Non-human identities (NHI) do not need to be human. But they must be users in IAM — the Identity and Access Management layer enterprises use to govern who or what can access...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Coding
Let's learn about Coding 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 posts about any technology. “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Social Sequencer II: When the Sun Hits (7/20/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 20, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Humans Land on the Moon in 1969, Viking 1 Lands on Mars in 1976, Pierre Lallement Arrived in the U.S in...
The first UL 3700-compliant plug-in solar microinverter is now available in the US
It's a step toward making alternative energy accessible on a smaller, renter-friendly scale.
Donation Controversy
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/donation-controversy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985249 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
Article URL: https://www.scottrlarson.com/presentations/overcoming-surveillance-capitalism-with-awareness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984231 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
Want to add Android Auto to your old car? Here are two ways – including one that’s under $20
If you feel like you're missing out on Android Auto by having a vehicle with no screen, here's your chance to fix that.
Lyft CEO David Risher on the company’s road to profitability
When David Risher was appointed as Lyft’s CEO in 2023, the company was struggling with financial losses and dwindling market share. The rideshare conducted multiple rounds of layoffs to stay afloat. In mid-February, Lyft was valued at $4.2 billion compared to its peak...
The US starter home market is finally changing—but only if you live in these states
Starter homes are finally starting to come back within reach in some parts of the country. A new report from Realtor.com found that the multi-year shortage in smaller, more affordable homes that appeal to first-time home shoppers is starting to improve – but it...
Samsung just unveiled a Galaxy credit card ahead of Unpacked
Samsung's credit card gives you up to five percent back when you buy its products.
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal...
Judge halts Paramount and Warner merger for at least 2 weeks per states’ request
A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in court. Twelve states, led by California, sued to block...
San Francisco Orders Apple And Google Remove 13 AI Nudify Apps
San Francisco gave Apple and Google 28 days to address 13 alleged AI nudify apps, raising questions about app-store controls and AI governance. The post San Francisco Orders Apple And Google Remove 13 AI Nudify Apps appeared first on TechRepublic.
Samsung US Headquarters Move Affects 739 New Jersey Jobs
Samsung’s US headquarters move to Texas is affecting 739 New Jersey positions as the company consolidates teams and cuts some jobs. The post Samsung US Headquarters Move Affects 739 New Jersey Jobs appeared first on TechRepublic.
AWS Billion-Dollar Software Bug Explained
An AWS software bug showed some customers billing estimates in the billions and trillions. Here is what failed, why invoices were unaffected, and what IT teams should know. The post AWS Billion-Dollar Software Bug Explained appeared first on TechRepublic.
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
Real FBI agents won't slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) updated an earlier warning on Monday about scammers impersonating the agency online, saying fraudsters continue to use the scheme...
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all the GPUs and wants to cause harm? Cybersecurity researchers in China have devised a way for malicious tenants to attack their infrastructure provider,...
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
Nothing can ruin the end of a week like finding out that all of the websites and hosted email you’re responsible for are offline, which is exactly what happened to Christopher Bradbury and his web design and development firm, Digital Takumi last week. AWS has since...
Frontier LLMs couldn’t help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn't mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, but commercial LLM guardrails blocked the forensic investigation, forcing it to turn to a Chinese open-weight...
Echolocation for Drones
Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has determined how to use low power ultrasonic sensors to guide drones in obscured...
FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing...