SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers
SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were...
When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old
Article URL: https://twitter.com/sean_geiger/status/2089487682305216534 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343187 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
Article URL: https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342719 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Rethinking Database Programming
Article URL: https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342530 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
UK’s tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7%
Fewer skilled overseas workers are applying for UK tech visas, with numbers down for the third year running even as ministers talk up Britain's chances in the global technology race. The tally fell 7 percent, from 37,376 applications in 2024 to 34,936 last year,...
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit. Spirit hit financial turbulence when COVID-19 blew in during 2020 and started making losses. Its balance sheet never climbed back to a safe altitude and in May 2026 the airline grounded itself permanently. The...
AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find
The process of training an AI model becomes a paradox at scale – the more it remembers, the less it remembers about the source of its memories. MIT computer scientists went looking for a way to attribute AI model output to specific training data, in the hope that...
GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability
The security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete user data and public projects. The post GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
What to do if your biggest client is a risk to your solo business
Every year, I look at how much money I earn from each client. Some years, my earnings are very skewed toward one client (or two). If something had happened to that working relationship, my year could have looked much different. Before I became a solopreneur, I worked...
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Article URL: https://caiustheory.com/git-git-git-git-git/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342601 Points: 36 # Comments: 11
Store Tunes on Paper and Stream Them Over LoRA
Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project which purports to store a song on a single sheet of paper via QR code and transmit the data over LoRA. If it was...
Google is reportedly planning to move all Pixel production out of China
Google told its suppliers that it will no longer manufacture Pixel devices in China starting next year, according to Nikkei Asia.
Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028
Article URL: https://www.storagereview.com/news/micron-and-sk-hynix-commit-billions-to-memory-capacity-but-almost-nothing-lands-before-2028 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341774 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
Article URL: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126004052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341411 Points: 3 #...
Apple appears to have leaked its camera-equipped AirPods
Apple may have leaked its camera-equipped AirPods in a video tucked into macOS Tahoe 26.7.
CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing...
Expert Witness to ChatGPT: “Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault”
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341009 Points: 30 # Comments: 8
Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates
The bugs could be exploited to crash Safari, corrupt memory, leak sensitive data, escape the sandbox, and exfiltrate data. The post Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.
I don’t enjoy the Internet any more
Article URL: https://btao.org/posts/2026-08-17-i-dont-enjoy-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341551 Points: 36 # Comments: 14
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you’re struggling to stay up to date with Redmond’s regular product re-branding exercises, here’s the site for you: The Microsoft Rebrand Registry. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Loryan Strant created the site because he thinks it’s a valuable resource,...
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
The Xen Project, home of the open-source hypervisor, has decided it’s time to get serious about formal safety. That’s not an admission of security woes, but a push to ensure the hypervisor complies with formal safety standards like IEC-61508, which defines the...
This free speed-typing tutor will supercharge your workflow
One of the simplest ways to boost your productivity has nothing to do with using a new app, overhauling your to-do lists, or mastering some novel note-taking system. Instead, you just have to type faster—not only on your phone but on a computer, too. By remembering...
Using Acoustic Resonators as Thrusters for Small Robots
There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al. with a paper in Science Advances and associated summary article by EPFL’s School of...
Introductions might be getting in the way of building meaningful relationships. Try this instead
When we introduce people to each other, we typically open with titles, companies, schools, affiliations, and achievements. Is it any wonder that connections feel transactional? That data might serve a purpose once a relationship is established, but when we start with...
How Airbnb reinvented its HR department
“Don’t mess up the culture as we scale!” That’s the family-friendly version of what one of the founders of Airbnb told the employee experience specialist Mark Levy when he arrived at the company in 2013 and was cotasked with modernizing the human resources function. I...
The Benchmarkpocalypse
Article URL: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340299 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
What’s Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187
Article URL: https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-187-whats-better-than-binary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340315 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
Article URL: https://grist.org/transportation/californias-new-tire-efficiency-rules-could-save-drivers-1b-a-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340710 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/google-spirit-airlines-bankruptcy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339599 Points: 34 # Comments: 10
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
New software releases? Who cares. Learning new CS concepts? Whatever. Studying for the next interview? Job probably won't even exist in a year. Working on that side project? No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy...