An AI broke Snowflake’s code. Then another AI agent exploited it
An AI broke Snowflake’s code; then another AI, an attack agent, autonomously found the bug, exploited it, and extracted credentials without human intervention. Luckily, this wasn’t yet another case of rogue AI agents doing evil things. It was a sanctioned bug hunt,...
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate
Microsoft's GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository content downloads. GitHub Copilot is also "experiencing degraded availability." The problems began at 1340 UTC, when the company's status page reported "impacted performance for some...
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS
Firefox for iOS now includes an optional ad blocker, or it will soon. According to Mozilla, the experimental feature "is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout." As such, it might not have turned up for every user just yet. Off by...
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers
Do you love lasers and hate mosquitoes? For $1,000, you can install your very own bug-zapping surface-to-air missile rig at home – no military-grade budget required, provided the startup behind it delivers on its promises. The Chinese company behind Photon Matrix has...
Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release
Windows 11 has moved one step closer to matching Windows 10 after Microsoft slid a movable taskbar into the Release Preview Channel. The feature allows the Windows taskbar to be positioned at the top, left, or right of the screen, as well as at its default location...
Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028
The cost of agentic AI workflows is forecast to increase more than fivefold by the end of 2028 as users adopt more complex applications of the technology. As Nvidia and other tech giants push inference and agentic AI as the next stage of the AI wave, Gartner warns...
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures
Despite the outcry over Capita's performance on the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), the UK government has awarded the beleaguered outsourcer a £31 million contract to build a public health contact center that could be called upon during another pandemic. The...
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
A cybercrook claims to have siphoned millions of employee records from the Microsoft Azure environments of major companies including McDonald's, Vodafone, Kyndryl, and Tata Consultancy Services. The alleged haul spans nine organizations and is being advertised for...
Excel’s Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin
Microsoft will retire Excel's COPILOT() function on September 14, barely a year after its preview debut. Introduced in August 2025, initially for Beta Channel users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and later for Excel for the web users through the Frontier...
Be a hater all you want, AI’s here to stay
AI gets things wrong, it kills jobs, and when the bubble bursts, it will take the economy down with it. When all's said and done, however, AI will still be standing and fundamentally change our lives and work. Get used to it. I get it. There's a lot to hate about AI....
Samsung might be making a new foldable that’s even wider than the Galaxy Z Fold 8
Samsung may have as many as five different foldable phones next year.
I turned an old Android phone into a server for my LAN – here’s how and why
Got an old Android phone or tablet lying around? Turn it into a test server for experiments and development - it's simpler than you think.
How this massive online retailer, Russia’s version of Amazon, is in the Ukraine’s crosshairs
The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren’t oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes,...
Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study
Article URL: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332981 Points: 172 # Comments: 172
How the Ukraine is bringing the war home in Russia with drone strikes on this e-commerce staple
The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren’t oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes,...
ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models to protect Hollywood IPs
TikTok's parent company signed a memorandum of understanding with The Motion Picture Association.
If you’re ignoring iPhone focus modes, you’re missing out on Apple’s best productivity tool
Go beyond Do Not Disturb: control what alerts you get and when instead of being overwhelmed with pings all the time.
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
How to Find and Validate a Shipaton Idea in Three Days
App Store releases have exploded, and the reason isn't mysterious: the tooling got good. What got expensive is deciding what to build — because, as RevenueCat's Rik Haandrikman put it on a recent Shipaton live stream AI can also help you build the wrong thing at...
Meet the Programmer Who Scaled a Pizza Restaurant Into an International Company
What's your current role and what do you like about it? I am a Dubai-based Software Architect at Dodo Brands. I lead the development of the architecture of Dodo IS, a system that underpins everything behind the Dodo Pizza and Drinkit brands, which are present in 27...
Meet the Programmer Who Scaled a Pizza Restaurant Into an International Company
What's your current role and what do you like about it? I am a Dubai-based Software Architect at Dodo Brands. I lead the development of the architecture of Dodo IS, a system that underpins everything behind the Dodo Pizza and Drinkit brands, which are present in 27...
How to Find and Validate a Shipaton Idea in Three Days
App Store releases have exploded, and the reason isn't mysterious: the tooling got good. What got expensive is deciding what to build — because, as RevenueCat's Rik Haandrikman put it on a recent Shipaton live stream AI can also help you build the wrong thing at...
69 Blog Posts To Learn About Learn Javascript
Let's learn about Learn Javascript via these 69 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. Learning JavaScript involves acquiring proficiency in...
69 Blog Posts To Learn About Learn Javascript
Let's learn about Learn Javascript via these 69 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. Learning JavaScript involves acquiring proficiency in...
The TechBeat: Vibe Orchestration Will Get You Killed: I Rebuilt My Coding-Agent Harness on Army Doctrine (8/17/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley...
The TechBeat: Vibe Orchestration Will Get You Killed: I Rebuilt My Coding-Agent Harness on Army Doctrine (8/17/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley...
That Time a Rolling Deployment Almost Corrupted Our Data
During what should have been a routine deployment, our pipeline briefly ran two copies of itself at the same time. Nothing failed. No alerts fired. For that window, though, the system was producing output that could not be trusted. Some context. We had recently...
That Time a Rolling Deployment Almost Corrupted Our Data
During what should have been a routine deployment, our pipeline briefly ran two copies of itself at the same time. Nothing failed. No alerts fired. For that window, though, the system was producing output that could not be trusted. Some context. We had recently...
Exploring Feasibility of Universal Computing with Basic Unix Tools: Echo, Ed, Test, and Exec
The Unconventional Path to Universal ComputingUniversal computing, the ability to perform any computable function, is often associated with complex programming languages, sophisticated hardware, and extensive resource allocation. Yet, a provocative exploration in...