I Compiled 55 Days of Screen Activity Into Episodic Memory for My AI Agent
Disclosure: I built and maintain the open-source tool discussed in this article. It is MIT-licensed and free.My coding agent can quote any file in my repo. It can search the web, hit APIs, and refactor a module while I get coffee. Ask it "what was I working on before...
Why Xiaomi phones aren’t banned, but are rarely sold in the US
The Chinese company is allowed to sell its impressive phones in the States, but it doesn't. Here's why.
AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881043 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Speak Silently With An Ultrasound Probe
Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it’s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it’s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven’t seen before is this prototype tongue-reading system that uses machine learning and...
Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
Article URL: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880987 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The correct way to position your router’s antennas depends on your home
Know where to place your router and how to position its antennas should get you better coverage.
These are the application keywords that will bring in top creative talent
A recent Resume.org survey of 991 U.S. hiring managers found that creative skills have surpassed technical ones in perceived value, with 57% saying creative employees are harder to replace with AI than technical workers. The World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs...
Understanding the Odin Programming Language
Article URL: https://odinbook.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880499 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams
Article URL: https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.yt-dlp/Download%2520a%2520YouTube%2520Video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880384 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
IT administrators are “fed up” with Microsoft’s “useless” apps and Windows 11
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880233 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-07-10/woman-rescued-in-brazil-after-being-enslaved-for-55-years-by-three-generations-of-the-same-family.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880209 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Senator Lindsey Graham, 71, dies after a ‘brief and sudden illness’
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, died Saturday evening after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said in a statement posted on social...
Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all
It’s a good time to be in the memory business. As the AI datacenter business booms, SK Hynix and Micron’s revenues have tripled in the last year, and Samsung’s has roughly doubled. But while the trio have the AI revolution to thank for their good fortune, the deck is...
Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/microsoft-amazon-google-datacentre-carbon-emissions-france Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879950 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
Article URL: https://ca.pcmag.com/social-media/16790/the-death-of-the-status-update-why-55-of-americans-stopped-posting-on-social-media Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879902 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Oh dear, did someone steal something from Apple?
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-openai-trade-secrets-masimo-a123-jony-ive-2026-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879920 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Printing Fungal Art with Laser Control
Preservationists usually take great care to prevent fungi from appearing the world of art, but in the case of [Kexin Wang]’s Funguy project, the fungus itself is the art. It uses a laser diode to repeatedly trace an outline onto a dish of agar gel in which fungus is...
The 25 housing markets where home prices went parabolic over the past 40 years
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Single-family home prices have risen dramatically across the United States over the past four decades. But the gains haven’t been even across the board....
Multi-Layer Semantic Caching for Production LLM Systems
Introduction In a previous article, I described building an agentic search framework in Go. While that architecture handled the functional requirements well, operating it at scale revealed significant cost and latency challenges. At millions of queries per month, LLM...
78 Blog Posts To Learn About Backend Development
Let's learn about Backend Development via these 78 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. Backend development involves programming and...
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family with Sol, Terra, and Luna for Flexible AI Choices
Overview OpenAI has publicized a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 model family, which contains three models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) that will allow users and developers to select based on intelligence, speed, and price. The Three Models GPT -5.6 Sol (the flagship model)...
The best email hosting for small businesses in 2026: Expert tested
I tested Google Workspace, Proton Mail, Microsoft 365, Fastmail, and Spike to find the best email hosting for freelancers and remote teams in 2026.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, Dies at 71
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-dead.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879232 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
5 career truths nobody tells you
Below, Emily Durham shares five key insights from her new book, Clock In: No-BS Advice for Getting Ahead in Your Career (Without Losing Your Mind). Emily, also known as Emily the Recruiter on social media, is a recruiter-turned career-coach with an audience of over 3...
Software-Defined Vehicles Loom Closer Every Year
Vehicles long ago began to incorporate electronics and software, to the point that modern vehicles increasingly have a sort of architecture problem. The software end of things evolves ever more rapidly, but vehicles and their centralized architecture are poorly-suited...
Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
Article URL: https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878682 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
It’s an AI web, and we’re just rats in the walls
OPINION Things you might not know about me. I was the first person to write a popular article about the web. Little did I, or anyone else, know how it would change everything. Our lives were transformed when all of human knowledge became just a click away. That was...
Vinod Khosla to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B
Article URL: https://www.sportico.com/business/team-sales/2026/seattle-seahawks-sale-vinod-khosla-owner-billions-1234938616/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878666 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
The new rules of leadership start with emotional intelligence
Leadership has never been easy. Today there are additional challenges that make it increasingly difficult. Rapidly changing workplaces, employee stress, generational conflict, hybrid work arrangements, and growing calls for transparency all add extra layers that...
Companies keep talking about the motherhood penalty. They’re missing the motherhood advantage
Motherhood is one of the most intense leadership incubators many women will ever enter. And when mothers are supported, the growth can be profound. However, that is not the narrative most workplaces carry. I have worked with many clients who find that when they become...