Three CEOs on why their unlikely majors were the best choice for careers in business
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages...
Welsh environment regulator’s FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees who worked at the environmental regulator between April 2013 and March 2018 was exposed in a classic Freedom of Information (FoI) blunder. The Welsh...
Smartphone makers don’t bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
One year into the EU's repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still lack the necessary repair information, Right to Repair Europe reports. The campaign group says that mobile devices available in the trading bloc must include...
Microsoft to Cap Xbox Cloud Gaming Hours Starting This November
Players can buy additional hours, but there's no word yet on how much they will cost.
Are stores open on Labor Day 2026? Holiday hours for Costco, Target, Walmart, banks, stock markets, CVS, and more
In 2019, a viral-tweet-turned-TikTok-audio lamented that no one “dreams of labor.” Maybe it isn’t wrong. Nevertheless, most people have to make a living and owe a debt of gratitude to labor organizers who helped make workplaces everywhere safer and more humane. Today...
The First Spacecraft Launched To Orbit From Europe
The First Spacecraft Launched To Orbit From Europe Go to Source The history of European space exploration is a long and distinguished one, with many decades and whole families of launch vehicles. It might therefore come as a surprise...
Impedance Matching
Article URL: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596274 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks
A UK watchdog is warning that cyber criminals making moves against online systems in the food supply chain could cause serious upset, following damaging attacks on the Co-op and Marks & Spencer last year. The National Audit Office (NAO) named cyber-attacks as one...
I coach world No. 1 tennis player Aryna Sabalenka. Here’s what productivity culture gets completely wrong about pressure
I learned to perform under pressure at thirteen, sleeping rough on the street, where reading a room wrong could cost you far more than a meal—sometimes it was the difference between making it through the night and not. So when I tell you that most of what productivity...
I Bought a $30 Toy Drone and Started Reverse-Engineering It Into an Autonomous Machine (Part 1)
Autonomous vehicles are the future, and they're not just cars. Boats, trucks, aircraft, and everything is quietly going driverless. As an AI researcher, the corner of that world I care about most is fully autonomous, AI-integrated unmanned systems, including UAVs and...
Trading Has Always Had Levels. RISE Is Finally Making Them Visible.
What if a trading platform could show not only what you did but how far you have come? Trading platforms have spent years competing on “more”: more charts, more indicators, more tools, more complexity. RISE starts with a different question: what would make the...
Six WebRTC getStats Mistakes to Avoid
A broken monitoring dashboard is relatively easy to catch. A dashboard showing believable but incorrect numbers is much more dangerous. That is one of the traps with WebRTC's getStats() API. In my work on real-time communication systems, I have used WebRTC statistics...
The Safe Way to Ship Production Code Written by AI Agents
There's a specific kind of pull request happening right now that would have been unthinkable three years ago: a feature branch opens, tests run, a bot writes the implementation, a human clicks "approve," and the change ships — and the human never typed a line of the...
Startup Founder Interview: YourVoiceCraft Founder, Arshavir Blackwell Answers
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? AI that writes like you. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? Because...
Flock OS Investigate and the Civil-Liberties Risks of AI Vehicle Tracking
Flock AI Now Tracking People Based on BehaviorFor years, Flock Safety, a leading vehicle surveillance company, has marketed its technology as simply reading license plates. This technology entered the marketplace as a tool for "crime prevention", although it's not...
Streaming Agents with Pydantic AI over Typed WebSockets: Tools, Approvals, and a Generated Client
I’ve been building realtime products for years: group chat, voice pipelines, streaming AI assistants. Two kinds of pain kept following me around. The first was WebSockets. Every project grew the same untyped receive_json handler with an if/else chain, hand-written...
The $0 Email Engine: How I Used Notion, GitHub, Amazon SES to Outsmart Email Service Providers
If you walk into any modern marketing department or tech startup, you’ll find them paying $300 to $1,000 every single month for bloated Email Service Providers (ESPs) like Mailchimp, SendGrid, or Klaviyo.And what do they get for that monthly enterprise ransom? A slow,...
GPT-6 Astra Can Drive Your Desktop, but It Won’t Drive Us to AGI
OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 Astra, and the tech community is undergoing the usual benchmark observing ritual. Did we actually finally cross into the “AGI era”? The numbers behind Astra are, yes, crazy: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, which might be a sign of...
How AI is Accelerating the Growth of Biotech into a $31.87 Trillion Global Industry
Artificial intelligence has the potential to be a revolutionary innovation for supercharging the development of the global biotech industry, transforming it from a trial-and-error-driven industry into a data-oriented rapid-discovery ecosystem. According to BioSpace...
A Green Import Report Is Not a CRM Cutover Test
Imagine a migration rehearsal with a reassuring result: every expected deal has arrived, the import error queue is empty, and the pipeline total matches. Then someone opens a renewal. It belongs to the wrong subsidiary. Nothing in the import summary has to turn red...
AI Coding Tip 035 – Split Every Skill Description Into Three Sentences
A skill nobody finds in time is a skill you don't have. TL;DR: Split every skill description into three sentences: when to read it, when to use it, and what it does. Common Mistake ❌ You write a skill description as one long paragraph. It explains everything the skill...
What the Heck is Renart?
Introduction Not long ago I wrote about Duckle, a local-first desktop ETL studio built on DuckDB. That article struck a chord with people who are tired of needing a cloud account and a Kubernetes cluster to move some data around. So when I came across Renart, I...
5 Open-Source and Free ChatGPT Alternatives You Can Support with Kivach
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and especially Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, have become part of everyday life for millions of people. There are some concerns around them, though, including data privacy and concentration of power in a...
Your HubSpot Attribution Report Is Not a Revenue Ledger: A Four-Ledger Reconciliation Model for Enterprise GTM Teams
Featured image credit: Original AI-assisted illustration created for this article. Imagine a quarterly business review. Ten minutes in, three defensible numbers appear on the screen. Marketing reports $4.2 million in attributed revenue. Sales reports $3.8 million in...
What 15 Years of Pre-AI CPQ Got Right That AI Teams Now Re-Learn
I keep reading agentic AI postmortems that arrive at a conclusion I learned in 2011: the model is only as good as the product catalog underneath it.The framing is new. The lesson is not. I have spent 15 years working with Salesforce CPQ and CLM, currently serving as...
‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-1236853513/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596119 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Live map of public transport in Belgium
Article URL: https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595865 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth...
This 3D-printed alarm clock has an arcade-style snooze button
This alarm clock is almost comically easy to snooze once, but much harder to ignore a second time. [Photo: Endothermal Systems] The CinderClock is a 3D-printed alarm clock with a big, red 10-millimeter (0.4-inch) arcade button on top that designers sized so you can...
Digital critical infrastructure should be built and managed better. Here’s how
What do the water system in Flint, Michigan, the electrical grid in Puerto Rico and your search engine have in common? They are all critical infrastructure—systems essential to everyday life. People expect critical infrastructure to be reliable, to minimize risk and...