Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country’s electricity
Electricity used by datacenters in Ireland increased by 10 percent during 2025, despite an effective moratorium on most new datacenter grid connections in the Dublin area. The latest figures from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that giant server farms...
Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can’t Make a Medical Glove
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-07/why-it-s-so-difficult-to-produce-100-american-made-medical-gloves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870258 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
iMessage kinda stinks now. Can new Apple CEO John Ternus fix it?
Apple’s incoming CEO John Ternus steps into the chief executive role in less than two months. He’s got some massive Tim Cook-sized shoes to fill. The outgoing CEO is leaving with Apple stock (Nasdaq: AAPL) currently near an all-time high of over $300 per share and a...
Surge pricing hurts gig workers and consumers. Here’s how to fix it
Millions of Americans tap their smartphone screens daily to order rides, groceries, or dinner, hooked on the seamless convenience of the gig economy. Yet beneath this frictionless interface lies a brewing war. On one side, consumers are squeezed by volatile and...
Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/14/companies-are-scrambling-to-curtail-soaring-ai-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870035 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Why you should be skeptical about financial advice from chatbots
Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings to minimize the tax hit. She opens an AI chatbot, types in the details, and gets a calm, well-organized...
The key to a more productive life is to pace yourself
Below, Elizabeth Svoboda shares five key insights from her new book, The Art of Pacing: A Guide to Balancing Short-Term Demands With Long-Term Thriving. Svoboda is an award-winning science writer and contributor to Scientific American, Psychology Today, and The Boston...
A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator
Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext data merged into the analog TV signal, special equipment was needed, of which...
Critical Zimbra Flaw Could Let Crafted Emails Run Malicious Code in User Sessions
Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has been described as a case of stored cross-site scripting (XSS) that could...
What’s the best way to do authentication in modern applications
Article URL: https://neciudan.dev/most-secure-way-to-store-auth-token Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869243 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms
Article URL: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868996 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Stop hiring for the résumé. Start hiring for obsession
Over the past four years, I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates and extended offers to about 40 people. I’m 27 years old and to this day, I have never been on the other side of the job interview. Instead, I’ve started two companies and successfully raised venture...
Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture Go to Source After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal...
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
I’ve been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
Article URL: https://peakd.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867364 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C.
We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a fetus– which makes it all the more impressive that he’s written his own text editor, from...
Meta deactivates feature that let you generate AI images of any public Instagram account
Meta has deactivated the Muse Image capability to create AI deepfakes of any public Instagram account you @-mention.
FreeCAD in the Browser
Article URL: https://magik.net/freecad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867264 Points: 6 # Comments: 4
The iconic blue IKEA FRAKTA bag comes with a free lifetime warranty
Article URL: https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/the-story-of-ikea/beloved-bag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867220 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Show HN: We beat Cloudflare’s bot detection (open-source stealth browser)
Article URL: https://tilion.dev/blog/cloudflare-blocks-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867124 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
CISA said it "missed" an opportunity to get ahead of the security incident by not creating a response plan ahead of time.
Count Binface, Nigel Farage’s space-warrior foe
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief/2026/07/11/b240d63f-2768-43dd-89b6-2bdceb6df745 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866943 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend, Sophia Kianni, is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg...
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.
Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Article URL: https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866134 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry well, jammed impeller or power issues. This is where pump monitors like the older SymCom (now...
87% of Companies Were Hit by an AI Cyber Attack. The Fix Is a Skills Problem, Not a Headcount One
For most of its history, cybersecurity has been a contest between human attackers and human defenders, throttled on both sides by how fast people can work. That throttle is gone. Over the past two years, generative AI crossed from the defender's side of the table to...
218 Blog Posts To Learn About Aws Lambda
Let's learn about Aws Lambda via these 218 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. Serverless computing. 1. Simple Steps to Avoid the Retry...
Pace Layers: What Urban Planning Knows About Your Software Boundaries
A boundary rule stolen from urban planning: sort by rate of change, push irreversibility down, point dependencies at the slow layer. Architects across different subject areas - like civil engineers, urban planners, and hardware designers spent decades on problems we...
Your Intelligence Heist: When Help Isn’t Actually Help
The inside man is already in your building. Last week, a service provider emailed me offering to help find Forward Deployment Engineers. I almost forwarded it to my head of talent.Then I looked up what the role actually was.Every major technology wave creates a new...