In the age of AI, is math the new CS degree?
Majoring in computer science used to be considered a safe career bet, ensuring stable pay and work. After the 2008 recession, many students turned to the field’s promising outlook: Between 2008 and 2024, the number of computer science degrees grew by almost 500%,...
What founders get wrong about focus
Being a founder means having to move between different types of work, because the nature of the job requires you to constantly be wearing multiple hats. While this can be a fantastic training ground for developing new skills, it makes learning how to focus effectively...
Playing Snake with a Pneumatic Display
[soiboi soft]’s vacuum-driven dot matrix display is part suction gripper, part touchscreen, and altogether impressive. Its display capabilities are entirely shadow-based, with each pixel being made of a cavity behind a flexible silicone sheet; when the display’s...
TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
Article URL: https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486334 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop
Article URL: https://www.kumander.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486176 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172 Points: 58 # Comments: 12
This Library Needs to Be At Least… Three Times Bigger
Many of us have noted a tremendous price increase in many computer components for some mysterious reason. Whatever this cause is will be debated among the various modern philosophers and Diogeneses, but regardless of cause we all still have to live in this world and...
StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
Article URL: https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486081 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
Article URL: https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485532 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple’s Virtualization.framework
Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Identifying fake cosmetics using AI
Article URL: https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484925 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.
How to use your old Android phone as a Wi-Fi extender
If your Wi-Fi signal is patchy at the far reaches of your house, this simple solution might be worth a try. Even better? It's completely free.
Reviving an SD Card With Shorted Capacitors
Reviving an SD Card With Shorted Capacitors Go to Source Tiny capacitors in an SD card package. (Credit: Aeson Labs) A nice thing about SD cards is that even in their non-micro format they are conveniently small. This is however a bit...
Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?
Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?
20+ things you may have missed in the GTA 6 extended look
The GTA VI extended-look trailer is full of clues, if you know where to look.
Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City’s State Network
Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had...
4 Battle-Tested Techniques for Runtime Gas Optimization in Defi Contracts
Abstract This article summarizes the author’s practical engineering insights and architectural lessons derived from achieving a top-3 leaderboard finish in BuidlGuidl’s recent high-level ETH Techtree Solidity programming competition. It systematically explores four...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: 5 Trust-Building Mistakes Smart People Make (8/28/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The End of AppleTalk in 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation Was Established in 1937, First Issue of...
What you need to build your own retro arcade cabinet
There are few things cooler to add to a gaming space than a retro arcade cabinet. But should you buy one or build one?
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
Anthropic’s Claude Code running Opus 5 in Auto Mode can be tricked into executing attacker-controlled code simply by asking the coding agent to summarize a website. The attack works up to 80 percent of the time, according to prompt-injection wizard Johann Rehberger,...
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
Datacenter cooling could get a lot more affordable, and sustainable, if a joint German-Japanese research project can be scaled beyond the laboratory. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba published a paper in Nature...
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined…as a file system?
For years, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill and occasional Reg columnist, has argued that Amazon's Route 53 DNS service is a database. While literally true in the sense that DNS records are stored key-value pairs, it's more of a provocation than an...
Deloitte is the latest company to pay millions to avoid being targeted over DEI
For the last year, the Justice Department has been quietly probing high-profile companies over their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Deloitte settled one such investigation earlier this week, agreeing to pay $21.5 million to address allegations that the...
Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable
Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, is rated Critical by Cosmos Labs...
Racter (1984)
Article URL: https://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483622 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete
Article URL: https://isitdoneyet.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483187 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA
Article URL: https://www.thehealthy.com/news/chicken-recall-fsis-august-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483182 Points: 31 # Comments: 10
Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
Stopping the smart TV from being used against you Go to Source Article URL: https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483816 Points: 10 # Comments:...
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.