Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules
The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.
IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996
Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in another consumer-related thing that was popular in the 1990s, being smart home automation in the form...
I Think I Have LLM Burnout
Article URL: https://www.alecscollon.com/blog/llm-burnout/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839984 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter
OpenAI has released a new voice model that can produce human-sounding speech, or scour the web in response to spoken queries. GPT-Live, according to the company, makes chatbot banter feel more like a real conversation, something of a bold move for a company battling...
A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
Article URL: https://krisshamloo.com/blog/007 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839434 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League
https://mira-wm.com/blog-post/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839355 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Remote Attestation
Article URL: https://www.liamcvw.com/p/remote-attestation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839397 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838876 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838611 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
Volkswagen is employing 100 sheep at a solar farm in Poland
It's more of a baa-ter arrangement.
Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5 million SEC settlement
The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now called X) has come to an end.
Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement
The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.
An Analog Synth For The Modern World
We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. Such a project is polyUAnalog, a very modern take on an analogue synthesizer. If you are...
Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)
Article URL: https://opensourcebarware.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837809 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Rewriting Bun in Rust
Article URL: https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837877 Points: 51 # Comments: 8
Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities’ Roundcube mailservers
Suspected Chinese spies have been breaking into major US and Canadian universities since May, exploiting vulns in Roundcube mailservers to steal data belonging to physics and engineering administrators and professors, according to Proofpoint threat researchers....
The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey
To say Elon Musk's AI company has trained some of the most unhinged models on the internet would be an understatement. Grok’s sordid past includes cosplaying as “MechaHitler” and a foray into deepfake porn generation that briefly got the platform banned in some...
Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B
The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837396 Points: 73 # Comments: 32
Apple’s Foldable iPhone Timeline: Mass Production Reportedly Underway
Apple’s first foldable iPhone reportedly remains on schedule, though questions remain over launch timing, retail availability, and early supply. The post Apple’s Foldable iPhone Timeline: Mass Production Reportedly Underway appeared first on TechRepublic.
Smartwatch Blood Sugar Alerts: 5 Settings That Make Readings Easier to See
Check the settings on Apple Watch, Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Huawei Watch, and Garmin that can affect glucose alerts, visibility, and context. The post Smartwatch Blood Sugar Alerts: 5 Settings That Make Readings Easier to See appeared first on TechRepublic.
Human-in-the-Loop Doesn’t Scale – Human-on-the-Loop Does
Stop measuring your agent governance by how many actions a human approves. That number going up is the problem, not the proof. The question that matters: when the action that could actually hurt you fires, does it land in a batch of 300 to be swiped past — or does it...
5 Common Alt Text Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Alt text is a short description of an image. It gives screen reader users the context of what's in a photo, graphic, or illustration. Without it, the screen reader will either skip the image or read the file name, for example, "image1.jpeg". The word “Image1.jpeg”...
Building an AI Dream Analysis Engine, Part 2: Designing a Production-Ready LLM Pipeline
In Part 1, we built the foundation of our AI Dream Analysis Engine. We accepted user input, cleaned the text, performed basic NLP tasks, and detected dream symbols. However, recognizing words like snake, water, or mountain isn't enough. The real intelligence begins...
Decent Colors for pi.dev on a Bare Linux VT
pi.dev is a terminal-based coding agent, similar in spirit to Claude Code but minimal by design: a handful of tools, an editable system prompt, and a theme system with 51 color tokens covering the UI, markdown rendering, syntax highlighting, tool diffs, and...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Api
Let's learn about Api via these 500 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. Because defining interactions is important… 1. RESTful API...
OpenMatter Network Joins HOL Initiative to Help Define Standards for Verifiable AI Collaboration
Melbourne, Florida, United States, July 8th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--OpenMatter Network today announced that it has joined the founding group of organizations participating in the Hashgraph Online (HOL) Partner Program, where the company will help develop standards,...
Building a Local LLM-as-Judge Pipeline for Image Dataset Curation
I run a travel app that needs a real photo for every place it recommends. Most of those photos are searched automatically, but they are often wrong. Here is the system I built to fix them. I’m building MonkeyEatingMango, a planner that writes day-by-day travel...
We Call It African Tech But the Stack Says Otherwise
I was debugging a freight tracking agent at 11 pm in Abuja when the real problem announced itself. Not the bug I was chasing — a webhook timing issue between the Twilio handler and the Google Sheets state layer. The other problem. The one you don't see until you're...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Michael Saylor Better Hope Bitcoin Doesnt Rise Too Much (7/8/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 8, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Final Space Shuttle Mission Launches in 2011, First Issue of The Wall Street Journal Published in...