The TechBeat: How We Rebuilt Photon’s Shared iMessage Routing to Handle 10M+ Messages a Day (7/14/2026)
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Memory Just Got a Price Tag
You don't have to take my word that agentic memory is an asset. The market just repriced it in front of you. Two years ago, the running joke was that AI agents were goldfish — brilliant for one turn, blank by the next. In 2026 that joke is dead, and memory has become...
Nobody Panic-Sells Because They’re Bad at Math
Every trading forum has the same thread, over and over: someone sells at the bottom, watches the price recover a week later, and posts something like "I knew better, I just couldn't watch it anymore." The replies are always some version of "should've done the math."...
AI Video Comes Out Silent. Here Is the Sound Design Workflow I Run on Every Shot
Most AI-generated video comes out of the model with no real soundtrack: no room tone, no footsteps, no distant traffic, sometimes a generic music bed that has nothing to do with your scene. Sound design for AI video means building all of that by hand, in layers, after...
Smart Money Short Nvidia $13 Million on Hyperliquid — Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
The crypto trading world is currently buzzing about one eye-catching piece of on-chain data: smart money has been recorded opening massive short positions on NVDA (Nvidia) perps on Hyperliquid, with the value reaching $13 million. What makes it even more interesting...
Stop Asking QA to Find Your Bugs. Learn to Write Tests Yourself.
If you looked at our Jira board from eighteen months ago, it told a very sad, very common story.The "In Progress" column was humming with activity. Developers were churning out features, closing tickets, and proudly moving cards to the right. Velocity looked great on...
The Data Layer Is Changing Not the Way Everyone Thinks
Twelve years of building data integration tools teach you to notice things that don't make the headlines. Not the model releases and the benchmark wars, but the quieter stuff: how support tickets shift, what questions customers start asking that they never asked...
How to Add Multi-Currency Crypto Payments to BTCPay Server
A lot of us use BTCPay Server because it lets us accept Bitcoin without a payment company holding the money. But I am definitely not the only one who has wondered: how do I accept other currencies too, without giving up self-custody? Bitcoin is great, but not all...
The Lip-Sync Checklist That Keeps AI Dialogue From Sounding Like a Bad Dub
Five things I check before a single line of dialogue leaves the script and enters a generation pipeline. The first time I put dialogue into a Lost Garden shot, I didn’t notice anything wrong for almost a full day. The line read fine. The voice was right. Then I...
Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they’re… quite good
Microsoft has made good on a promise to make Windows Search less of a chore to use, making tweaks to remove "promotional content" from web results and options to focus on local results. The changes are currently limited to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel....
Google Search will let you instantly generate AI images for free – here’s how
With the latest update to Google Images, you can generate your own images directly inside the AI Overviews.
Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
What Would You Let an AI Agent Do Alone? Mostly, Nothing
Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web.Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations!Today, we look into the future -- the kind of future we...
Leaked Google Pixel Watch 5 images show four different color options
Google is expected to officially reveal the Pixel Watch 5 on August 12.
I’m a serial Linux distro hopper – these 7 signs mean it’s time to switch
If you're looking to try a different Linux distribution, it's time you do the 'distro hop.' But why does this phenomenon seem inevitable for so many users?
‘We faltered’: IBM stock collapses after a grave warning about AI
IBM is in free fall. As of this writing, shares of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) are currently down more than 23%. The reason? The hardware and software giant released a preliminary earnings report that warned its Q2 will come in below...
A new report explains why rent is getting cheaper in some cities—but not yours
Many renters will continue to see more affordable rentals on the market through 2026, though that depends entirely on where you live—and whether a lot of construction is happening nearby. Across the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, the median asking rent fell 1.5% in June...
Trump weighs 20% toll at Strait of Hormuz and says blockade is back on, threatening ceasefire with Iran
The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate an American blockade of Iranian ports and charge ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded with attacks on Middle East allies of the...
IBM’s mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock loses more than a quarter of its value
IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course. Ahead of its full calendar Q2 earnings release next week, IBM took...
RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet
Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC-style BIOS for RISC-V computers. The Harmonic Firmware Initiative, or HFI for short, is simple and appealing in principle, but will be considerably harder to implement. From the...
Fibrous Muscles for Humanoid Robotics
At the current rate of robotics development, you might assume that we’re close to Skynet taking over. However, while we likely wouldn’t do well in a physical fight against a robot, we can at least keep the bragging rights of having the cooler actuators. Or at least,...
If you’re still on a single monitor, this is the best workflow upgrade you can make
This simple, and sometimes free, change will enhance both your productivity and entertainment.
Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
This came from an idea that had been knocking around in my head for several years. I had been collecting opening lines of famous works and thought it would be cool to see one everyday as I opened the browser. I tried different styles but landed on the simple...
Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Article URL: https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908178 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.
Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.
New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/new-york-becomes-first-state-impose-data-center-moratorium-2026-07-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907296 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907290 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members
Article URL: https://www.yubico.com/blog/openai-mandates-hardware-backed-passkeys-for-trusted-access-cyber-members-to-log-into-chatgpt-accounts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907214 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.