U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors' and other cybercriminals' malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN,...
The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator
Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. The common emitter amplifier and its variants are the most familiar, but the humble 3-legged...
OpenAI’s Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says
Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/media/openais-ad-business-is-on-pace-to-miss-its-own-forecast-by-90-analyst-says/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902599 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
People who get promoted do these things differently
One of the most common questions I get from young professionals is about promotions. How do you get noticed? What gets you ahead? How do you position yourself for bigger roles? I’ve watched lots of careers develop over the years. Some people rocket up the ladder while...
Microsoft Maps Year-Long ShinyHunters-Linked Salesforce Data Theft Across Three Paths
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended,...
I tried Google Maps’ new 3D Immersive View for Android Auto, and it fixed my biggest navigation problems
The update is the biggest visual change in a decade, and it makes navigating much easier.
Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase 2 as It Rethinks Contractor Cybersecurity Rules
A new CMMC review and reform task force will conduct a comprehensive review of the program. The post Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase 2 as It Rethinks Contractor Cybersecurity Rules appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic’s extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Claude looks substantially more token-hungry than OpenAI's GPT-5.x, thanks to the new tokenizer that Anthropic shipped with recent releases. Large language models (LLMs) use tokenizers to handle the mapping of text into tokens. There's no set definition of a token,...
Australia is offering free daytime electricity
Article URL: https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902320 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Want better outcomes? Start making bigger asks
One big consequence of our fear of embarrassment is that we’re almost all overly sensitive to rejection. We haven’t built up our acceptance-of-rejection muscles, and this is a major impediment to agency. I’ve found that the most efficient way to build these muscles is...
This habit leads to burnout. Are you at risk?
I used to think burnout was a scheduling problem.If I could just restructure my calendar, protect my mornings, say no to one more meeting—I’d find my way back. I was a VP, then a COO. I knew how to optimize. I was good at it. So when I started feeling hollow despite...
Big Blue thinks small, again, with 2U POWER tower
IBM has again teased small hardware, this time in the form of an update for its smallest POWER server. The model S1112, teased Tuesday in a customer announcement, is a 2U, single-socket POWER11 server IBM offers in rack-mountable and what the company calls...
Star Trek Was Right about Prompt Injection, Sorta
This following statement is a lie: “I am telling the truth”. Okay, now that it’s just us meatbags, let’s get down to brass tacks. Captain Kirk’s logic bombs couldn’t possibly work on modern LLMs, right? Surely that was just a bit of 1960s silliness from when computers...
YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database
Article URL: https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902026 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
America’s Other Elections Problem
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/07/13/americas-other-elections-problem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901788 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Agents.md – Dumb Human
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/skorotkiewicz/2d4db4ceaf83aa54eb7f2066fdb961ff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901695 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Our Amish Language
Article URL: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/amish-pennsylvania-dutch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901645 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business
Indian tech services giant and retro software house HCL has decided to get into the AI datacenter business. The company yesterday revealed its plan in an announcement [PDF] released alongside its Q1 results, which included news of three-percent year-over-year revenue...
Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
Article URL: https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.
Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
Article URL: https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]
Article URL: https://elasticity.institute/rsi-paper.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901224 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries
Article URL: https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/building-food-metadata-with-llm-juries-context-optimization-multimodal-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901275 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Can’t Find That ISA Sound Card? No Worries!
Many older hackers will have at some point gotten rid of an old piece of hardware that they later ended up regretting. All those ISA cards were next to useless back in 2006, but now their relative rarity plus the popularity of retrocomputing makes them sought-after....
ESBMC-Arduino: Closing the Deployment Gap for Formal Verification
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08550 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901020 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The Git history command deserves more attention
Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
Article URL: https://paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io/morpho/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901126 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
Article URL: https://sorting-machine.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900796 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Zuck’s AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America’s next big cloud provider
Meta seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. On Monday, the social networking singularity said it would spend $50 billion to expand its Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts. The news comes less than a week after a...
Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’
An AI rewrite of a popular Anthropic-owned JavaScript runtime and toolchain has sparked praise for the speed of its execution, but also criticism of the coding practices behind the project itself. Last week, Bun creator Jarred Sumner announced that he ported Bun from...