ESPN EVP Rosalyn Durant on the importance of shooting your shot
When I was in college at the University of South Carolina, I thought I wanted to work in media, but I didn’t really know what that meant or how someone like me was supposed to get there. I’m from a small town in South Carolina. I didn’t have family connections in...
Study: Blue light impairs the eye’s ability to distinguish fine detail most
Article URL: https://research.uga.edu/news/blue-light-has-a-surprising-effect-on-your-eyes-study-finds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507121 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
Article URL: https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507822 Points: 27 # Comments: 6
The craftsmanship revival we kept predicting might finally be real
In 2019, I published a book whose English title would be something like From Graft to Craft. I argued that craftsmanship isn’t a sector but a model of work that could in principle apply to any job. The distinction I built the book around was between graft (fragmented,...
Beauty brands have been waiting for this sunscreen moment
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved bemotrizinol (BEMT) as a sunscreen filter on June 9, the entire Ultra Violette office in Melbourne, Australia, erupted screaming. Stateside, the La Roche-Posay group chat exploded with messages and memes, including...
Governors who courted AI data centers are now trying to rein them in
AI may be booming, but the infrastructure powering it has become a political liability. For years, governors competed to lure data centers with tax breaks, expedited permitting, and promises of jobs and investment. Now, as sprawling AI campuses drive concerns over...
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route,...
Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach
FulcrumSec says it stole over 80 GB of data from Manchester Airports Group and plans to leak it online. The post Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The ISBN was invented in 1970. Your books don’t care
Article URL: https://www.shelvd.org/blog/isbn-invented-1970 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507976 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Gen Z is entering work in a confidence crisis. Employers need a new playbook
Nearly half of Gen Z workers, 48% to be exact, frequently or consistently feel they are not enough. That statistic should stop every leader who reads it, because it isn’t a motivation problem, a work ethic problem, or a talent problem. It’s a confidence problem. As an...
Nimiq’s Mini Apps Framework Charges 0% Where Apple Charges 30%: Inside Open Framework for Developers
Nearly a billion people in China open an application inside another application every month, and almost none of them think of it as an app at all. That is the model Nimiq is now importing into crypto payments, and it has put $50,000 behind persuading developers to...
The Data Center Your Neighbors Actually Want
What if the most hated building in American land use became the anchor of the local food system? Last week, at POLITICO's California Agenda summit in Sacramento, OpenAI's vice president for global policy, Ann O'Leary, said something you rarely hear from inside the AI...
Startup Founder Interview: afka, The AI Employee Built to Run a Business, Not Just Chat With It
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? afka. One AI Brain that runs your company. Not a chatbot and not a pile of separate...
Designing An AI 3D Logo Workflow With Honest Input And Review States
Disclosure: I work on AI3DLogo, the AI 3D logo workflow used as the concrete example in this article.An image-generation interface becomes much easier to reason about when it treats the user's starting material as an explicit contract. That idea connects to the...
Your Executives Are Faking It on AI. The Machines Aren’t Waiting
By Wendy Lynch, PhD Three out of four C-suite executives recently admitted, in a confidential survey, that they had projected more confidence in their AI strategy than they actually felt. Seventy-four percent. Read that again: by their own account, most of the people...
Your AI Is Grading Its Own Work. That’s Why Your Codebase Is a Mess
Fable writes. Kimi reviews. I decide. My two-AI loop for shipping real production code: one model plans and builds, a different model from a different company attacks its work, and the human keeps exactly one job. In February my main repo had 228 dirty paths in it....
Key Factors IT Managers Should Consider When Choosing an Enterprise Password Manager
A decade and a half ago, "password management" in most enterprises meant convincing employees to stop writing credentials on sticky notes. Today, the conversation is entirely different. The average enterprise now juggles thousands of human and non-human identities,...
Agents have Amnesia. I Gave It a RocksDB.
A shared, durable, cross-session memory in about 300 lines — and an honest look at where RocksDB is the wrong tool. TL;DR Coding agents start every session from zero. The usual fix — a hand-maintained static CLAUDE.md or rules file. RocksDB is a good fit for agent...
I Named My IOS App After My Own Diagnosis
I have a habit of doing something that a few years ago I would have had no word for. I open up the task and look at it. It is a visa application for a family trip to go on. It will take an hour to fill in. I know it will take an hour because I have estimated it...
I Built a Tools Directory Instead of Another SaaS, and It Became My Top Project
I ship a lot of small things. Most of them are SaaS products with a payment flow, a database, and a landing page promising the thing will change how you work. This one isn't that. It's a directory. Just over 300 curated tools across 20+ categories, plus a blog where I...
Why Pentesting Teams are Drowning in Tools
Pentest management is one of the harder parts of modern cybersecurity operations. It’s become all too necessary in 2026 to regularly test systems and networks for vulnerabilities. After all, in the first half of 2026 alone, attack claims rose by 25% year-over-year....
The Hidden API Problem in Google’s LSA-to-PMax Migration
Google's migration of Local Services Ads into Google Ads is being discussed mainly as an advertiser-facing change. The more consequential change for agencies may be happening underneath the interface: the way Local Services campaigns are represented in the Google Ads...
Fivetran vs. Apache SeaTunnel: Managed ELT or Open-Source Control?
In data engineering, Fivetran is often seen as the go-to choice for simplicity and low operational overhead, while open-source projects such as Apache SeaTunnel offer greater flexibility and more control over the underlying data infrastructure. So, should a data team...
GMX as a Capital-Growth Layer
IntroductionIf you have not read my earlier research on GMX, I recommend starting there. It explains the basic mechanics of GMX and gives some background on how GM pools can be used as part of a capital-growth strategy, link:...
Stepping Into the Spotlight? 5 Painful Public Presence Traps to Avoid
I've met a lot of devs who became founders, and a 15-second intro is easily one of the most underrated skills in tech.I'm a co-founder of the DecentWealth app, host of the Decentralized Voices podcast (70+ episodes featuring top builders in web3 and AI), and I...
The AI Skills Gap Has Become a Pay Gap. Which Side Are You On?
Careers now live and die by a single question: can you put AI to work, or can't you? For most of the last decade that question was optional, a nice-to-have line on a CV. In the space of about two years it has become one of the sharpest dividing lines in the labour...
Matching Blood Donors by GPS: The Geospatial Query Design Behind GeoBlood
At 2am someone's father is in an operating theatre in Lahore and the hospital is two units short of B negative. The family does what families have always done: they start calling. Blood bank one. Blood bank two. A cousin who knows someone. A WhatsApp group with four...
An Open-Source Telegram Server in C#: Four Years Later
When I decided to build an open-source Telegram server in C# four years ago, the first thingI needed was a transport. I wrote about that part inBuilding a High Performance TCP Server inC#. The post ended with a TCP echo server built around SocketAsyncEventArgs,...
5 Big Crypto Crimes Solved by Chain Transparency —The Last One Saved Lives
If you're ever robbed of cash, you know you'll most likely never see those bills again. If that same crime occurs digitally, with a bank account, for example, you can report it... But you still won't be able to see the movement of that money. You might not even...
We Keep Ranting About Aliens, Yet Nobody Has Produced One Clear Photograph
People have been ranting and raving about aliens for decades. Every few months, another supposed UFO video appears online, somebody claims the government is hiding crashed spacecraft, and a retired official turns up on a podcast talking about objects that move in ways...