Big Tech Needs to Justify AI Spending as Investors Dump Stocks
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/big-tech-needs-to-justify-ai-spending-as-investors-dump-stocks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974426 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques
Article URL: https://github.com/Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974325 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
Exploitation of the new WordPress vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 started soon after disclosure. The post WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
These 3 Perplexity power-user techniques make AI search more useful
If you’ve been using Perplexity for a while, you’ve probably figured out the basics. You know it gives you straight answers instead of a giant wall of sponsored results and recipe blogs. That’s fine, but if you’re only typing basic questions into the primary search...
Seven Ways to Install Magnets Into Your 3D Prints
Magnets are awesome, so it’s no wonder we love to add them to our 3D prints. Doing so in a way that will actually last is harder, with thermal creep being one reason a simple friction fit will loosen over time, and using super glue to hold a magnet in place can be...
Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/data-center-eminent-domain-public-use/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974292 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner
A quarter of the work performed by IT infrastructure and operations people will be handled by AI in the year 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, despite AI also complicating your environment and possibly creating outages. Those predictions landed on July 10 in...
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
Article URL: https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973869 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Delete Your Data with Drop
Article URL: https://privacy.ca.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973715 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
Article URL: https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972970 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/the-anti-palantir-manifesto-07-20-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973293 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Pong-like Cabinet for Classic Dinosaur Jumper
Back when Google ran a functional search engine, there used to be all kinds of quirky, fun antics hidden in their products. From Easter eggs in certain search results, to a flight simulator hidden in Google Maps, to funny, engaging April Fools jokes, it was a lighter,...
DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired
Article URL: https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/07/3-more-georgia-police-officers-fired-over-alleged-flock-camera-misuse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973123 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
Many of my favorite bloggers have stopped writing (or have drastically shifted topics). What are your favorite blogs?I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects or super niche factoids. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972858 Points: 12...
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a major speech on AI, which he thinks has enormous potential – for good and evil. Xi’s speech called for AI development to “adhere to the principle of openness.” “As a new engine of world economic growth and an...
CO2 overload in blood suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972928 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
Paidwork – 23,272,765 breached accounts
In March 2026, hackers claimed they had obtained data from the gig economy platform Paidwork which they then listed for sale. Almost 11GB of data allegedly obtained from the platform was subsequently posted publicly in July and contained over 23M unique email...
Principia Artificialis – Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Thought
Article URL: https://github.com/holland202/Principia-Artificialis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972197 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Hackaday Links: July 19, 2026
We’ll start this week off by giving our congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace of India for successfully launching the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket yesterday. The company’s Vikram-1 booster stands 24 m (79 ft) tall and uses a somewhat unusual...
Jurassic Park packed $4M of legit 1993 computer hardware
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/jurassic-park-packed-usd4-million-of-legit-1993-computer-hardware-a-software-engineer-detailed-every-single-piece-of-hardware-in-the-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972082 Points: 4 #...
We want Texans to know their rights
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/we-want-texans-know-their-rights-qa-mayday-health-impact-surveillance-abortion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972062 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found
Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971738 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app
So I've been working on this app for a very long time now. Started off by wanting an app that separates long form notes from short form notes visually and keeps everything organized on a canvas.The app features:-Sticky notes for quick, small notes and A4 notes for...
The Kodak EC35 is a pocketable, beginner-friendly 35mm film camera
The $35 camera comes in seven colors and has a slide cover.
Code Lies, Data Speaks: Splitting a Monolith on Data, Not Code
Breaking a monolith into microservices gets planned as a code and architecture problem. You draw the services on a board, you argue about where the boundaries go, you agree on an order of extraction, and almost the whole conversation happens in domain and code terms....
108 Blog Posts To Learn About Code
Let's learn about Code via these 108 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. “First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” – John Johnson...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Coding Tip 027 – Force Code Standards (7/19/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 19, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The SS Great Britain Launches in 1843, First Tour de France Ended in 1903, Dot-Com Bubble Continued Its...
Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.
A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
Article URL: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Intel_Itanium_IA-64-Emulator_that_boots_Windows.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971566 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in...