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...
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Article URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506819 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
‘If we don’t use this, it’s going to disappear.’ Bright Horizons and the perils of employer-sponsored, profit-driven childcare
By the time Katie returned to work after parental leave, her daughter had started attending a day care close to her apartment. But on days when the day care was closed or she needed childcare coverage, there was a childcare center conveniently located in her office. ...
The Pentagon spent decades chasing Iron Man. The exoskeletons that actually work are much simpler
This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The soldier of the future doesn’t carry his weapon into battle—he simply wears it. In Robert Heinlein’s beloved 1959 novel...
People think this is healthy, but it was just linked to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and death
Xylitol is a popular sugar substitute and a naturally occurring alcohol in the body and in some foods. And many people may think it’s healthy, because it has zero sugar, is low in calories, and it’s marketed as an alternative to more conventional artificial sweeteners...
Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’
The ruling is part of Anthropic's legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The post Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ appeared first on...
DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ...
Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft
The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta Security Researcher’s AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails
Article URL: https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506655 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady
A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady Go to Source Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an altogether...
Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI
British energy company SSE Energy Supply refused to believe that there was no unit 8b at the property of Lyle Hopkins, a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. For more than 20 months, the company billed Hopkins at business rates, a total of £1,091.01, for an...
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn’t mind a bit
ANALYSIS VMware is about to lose its status as the undoubted leader of the virtualization market after a 20-year reign – a result it doesn’t mind one bit, but which also signals an industry-wide end to significant innovation for traditional server virtualization. The...
More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities
PaperCut has released a second emergency patch for the exploited vulnerabilities, which are now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The post More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Who, me? Techie with three months’ experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
WHO, ME? “Where to begin?” is a marvelous question. To get you going at the start of the working week, The Register thinks the answer is a new instalment of “Who, Me?” the column that shares your admissions of error. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Martin”...
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Article URL: https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-accidentally Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505310 Points: 13 # Comments: 7
I’m a mother and C-suite exec. Here’s how I let go of guilt
When my boys were young, a neighbor’s grandson asked them: “Is your mommy dead?” Every Wednesday, this little boy would visit his grandparents across the street. He would see my husband and my sons, but he never saw me. I was at work. Thankfully, my boys came home...
Making a Robot to Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks
Sometimes regarded as a less violent form of tennis, badminton is still a pretty challenging sport. One which suffers like so many sports from requiring at least two players since magically flying balls and shuttlecocks haven’t been invented yet. After years of...
4 devious email scams hitting inboxes right now, and how to spot them
For the last decade, email scams have run rampant on the internet. And corporate IT departments have handed out the exact same advice like clockwork: Look for bad grammar, hover over links, and turn on two-factor authentication. But those recommendations have fallen...
UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations
Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/after-second-ice-threat-uc-berkeley-indefinitely-suspends-international-student-work-authorizations/article_0e9ae0c0-dd4d-4455-a25b-e8be7b47e350.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505288 Points:...
The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers
Article URL: https://tokenstead.ai/guides/eu-ai-act-first-enforcement-security-rfis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505351 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
Article URL: https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505219 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Flock Safety’s controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/the-ceo-of-americas-biggest-surveillance-network-just-got-a-taste-of-his-own-medicine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505040 Points: 11 # Comments: 1