A material in Spanish World Cup star Pedri’s cleats could also repair your colon
When Spanish midfielder Pedri zips across the field this Sunday, microscopic pillars on the Nanostrike+ fabric of his Adidas Predator cleats will help him control the ball. The microstructure technology—designed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign mechanical...
The World Cup tech innovations that will outlast the tournament
The FIFA World Cup comes to a close on Sunday, as Spain and Argentina face off for the championship. The tournament’s scale is difficult to overstate: More than 75% of the world’s population was expected to engage with it in some way, whether by attending matches,...
If U.S. home prices fell 16%, it’d restore housing market affordability to the long-run average
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. We’re currently amid a 14-month streak in which year-over-year nationally aggregated worker earnings growth (+3.4% YoY) has exceeded year-over-year...
The new Trump accounts for kids: The good, the bad, and the icky
How much money parents can invest in their kids is one of the biggest factors in upward mobility. The inability of many families to provide their children a financial leg up has helped drive income inequality in the United States. There is now a partial solution,...
How Browser-Based Image Rotation Works Without Uploading Your Files
Image rotation is one of the most common image editing tasks. Whether you're fixing a sideways photo from a phone, rotating scanned documents, or preparing images for presentations, the operation itself is simple. Yet many online tools still upload your image to a...
Why Bigger Context Windows Make AI Agents Worse, Not Better
The industry sells context length as pure progress — 200K, 1M, 2M tokens. So engineers stuff everything in "just in case." That's the bug, not the fix. Signal-to-noise beats raw volume, every time.The day a bigger prompt made my agent dumberI had a code-fixing agent...
Multi-Agent Systems Need a Control Plane, Not Just Better Orchestration
I keep seeing the same agent demo, just with different logos. A user gives the system a goal. One agent plans, one agent researches, another calls tools, and a fourth writes the final answer. Everyone watches the little boxes pass messages to each other, and for three...
Why Superintelligence Won’t Be Born on Earth
Today, elites of all kinds and nationalities have almost stopped hiding their desire to fully control artificial Intelligence. Although, to be fair, they were never truly able to conceal this plan.In recent months, we have seen surging activity from government...
Designing Software for Change: The Engineering Discipline Behind Systems That Survive Growth
Every software system begins with a lie. Not a malicious lie. A useful one. We pretend we understand the domain. We pretend the API shape is obvious. We pretend the database model will remain stable. We pretend the team that builds version one will be the same team...
The 5 AWS Services Every Developer Must Know to Build AI Products in 2026 (With Real Projects)
Why Most AWS Tutorials Miss the Point If you search "learn AWS," you will find courses that cover 50+ services across 40+ hours of video. You finish the course knowing what Route 53 is, what Glacier does, and why you might use Lightsail, but you still cannot build an...
TradFi Volumes Triple, 12M Users Reached as BTCC Exchange Marks 15 Years
George Town, Cayman Islands, July 17th, 2026/Chainwire/--BTCC, the world's longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, today released its Q2 2026 Growth Report, highlighting a quarter shaped by explosive TradFi growth, a milestone 15th anniversary, and a World Cup...
MC2: The Best Marvel Alternate Universe You Never Heard of
Besides the main Marvel universe, there are a ton of alternate universes with a ton of great stories and characters. There’s the Ultimate Universe, the 2099 Universe, and even the zombie universe. But there’s one amazing alternate universe that doesn’t get the love it...
“That’s Just How the System Works”
When people are forced to adapt to software, rather than the other way around Some seemingly trivial moments reveal far more than we might expect. One of them happened to me while I was spending some time abroad. The hotel was very large, with hundreds of rooms and a...
212 Blog Posts To Learn About Cloud Infrastructure
Let's learn about Cloud Infrastructure via these 212 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. Cloud infrastructure consists of the hardware and...
Windows 11’s High Storage and Memory Demands: Necessary for Functionality or Unneeded Bloat?
Introduction: The Windows 11 Storage DebateWindows 11’s storage and memory demands have sparked a heated debate among users and tech enthusiasts. With requirements like 4GB of RAM and dozens of gigabytes of disk space, many are left wondering: Is this truly necessary...
The iPad mini’s biggest update in 5 years is expected this fall – here’s what we know
The next iPad mini is rumored to feature an OLED panel and a more powerful processor. A new base iPad is also in the works.
I tested Nothing’s new pink earbuds, and they look as good as they sound
The Nothing Ear (3a) have surprised me for several reasons - the price is one of them.
TikTok is no longer banned on US government devices
US government officially lifts TikTok ban on federal devices.
Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js)
Article URL: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/signal-in-the-dark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955740 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
You can get Apple’s iOS 27 on your iPhone today. Try these 5 features first
In June, Apple previewed its next major iOS update, iOS 27, which will become widely available for supported iPhones in September. As with all major iOS updates, installing the new operating system feels like getting an entirely new smartphone without having to buy...
Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index
Article URL: https://ikea.greg.technology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955042 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
7 ways to instantly turn a potential argument into a respectful, productive conversation
When we installed a new furnace in a rental property, the city’s mechanical inspector told me it didn’t pass code due to how the natural gas line was run. I started to argue—I know the code—but challenging building inspectors is often counterproductive, whether on the...
Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser
Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to heat its surroundings. This makes them good at cutting away material...
NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management. The Reg FOSS desk is intrigued. Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository – but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there...
Regressive JPEGs
Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954851 Points: 92 # Comments: 5
Your company doesn’t have a talent shortage. It has a talent visibility problem
Most companies say they’re invested in their people. Yet many employees experience something different. According to the TalentLMS Skills Visibility Report, four in 10 employees say it’s easier to find a new job elsewhere than a new role within their own company. That...
Why high achievers can’t just ‘be nicer’ to themselves
If you’re a high achiever, you’ve probably been told—in various formats and with varying degrees of sincerity—to be kinder to yourself. Choose kindness. You are enough. For most, that advice likely lands somewhere between mildly irritating and completely useless. This...
Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol
3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came away with one solid tip for releasing TPU from a build platform to which it has unfortunately welded...
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves
Article URL: https://www.macworld.com/article/3189951/apples-latest-game-porting-toolkit-beta-changed-how-i-think-about-mac-gaming.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955159 Points: 4 # Comments: 0