Meta Settles Teen Social Media Addiction Case for Up to $18B
Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion and introduce new Facebook and Instagram limits for teens under a US state settlement over addiction claims. The post Meta Settles Teen Social Media Addiction Case for Up to $18B appeared first on TechRepublic.
Rooftop Camper For Roofless Vehicle
The Honda Goldwing is one of the more famous motorcycles ever produced. It’s known for its reliability and comfort, but also for being one of the first motorcycles Honda rolls out new technology with. It was the first to have a factory-installed airbag as well as...
Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
Article URL: https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471965 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Bluesky has a new setting to help you avoid accidentally going viral
The setting will prevent your posts from being recommended in the algorithmic "discover" feed.
Rubrik shares drop on raised outlook as SentinelOne slides on profit guide
Shares in Rubrik Inc. and SentinelOne Inc. both fell in late trading today despite the two cybersecurity companies posting fiscal second-quarter beats on revenue and earnings. Rubrik dropped about 8%, a reaction that came even as the security and AI operations company...
Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model
Hi HN, we built an open source model gateway. It's a single place to manage our own self hosted, frontier, and open source models in one place.It’s is rust native, built for concurrency, and implements all the config quirks across models and providers (streaming...
Your Coding Agent Keeps Rebuilding the Project
Coding agents are getting very good at doing work. The part that still looks wrong to me is what happens between the steps: the system keeps rebuilding project state that already exists. A planner creates a plan. A coding worker changes the repository. A tester finds...
Two Acquisitions Deep, Two Still Standing: What’s Really Happening to Open-Source LLM Observability
The part nobody checks before self-hosting Picking an open-source observability tool for your LLM app usually starts the same way. You scan a "best of" list, you docker compose up whichever name comes up most, and within an afternoon you're looking at real traces. The...
58 Blog Posts To Learn About Object Oriented Programming
Let's learn about Object Oriented Programming via these 58 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. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a...
I Gave an AI Assistant Nine Faculties Instead of a Bigger Prompt. Here’s Why.
Our son was three days old, deeply yellow, and we were back in the emergency room. We’d had four tracking apps between us during his first days home. Every one of them could log a feed. Not one of them looked at the pattern. The colostrum he wasn’t getting enough of,...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The ‘Backrooms’ Problem of Using AI to Write (8/27/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 27, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Compaq Introduced Presario in 1993, Mars approached closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC in 2003, NASA...
You won’t be able to hot-wire every car in GTA 6
Stealing cars in GTA 6 will require different approaches depending on their make and model.
The most popular Android phone brands rarely sold in the US
People in the US don't have much choice beyond Apple, Google, and Samsung phones. But there are so many more choices that aren't sold in the region.
Educational Byte: What Happens If Your Hardware Wallet Company Disappears?
Once you’re inside the crypto community, you’ll hear this everywhere: keep your private keys offline, take care of your own crypto, you'd better buy a hardware wallet. These small devices are designed to store your coins offline, far from hackers and exploits. But...
$900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040628.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470996 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
GTA 6 ‘demo’ delivers malware directly to your PC
Despite what some scam sites may try to tell you, Rockstar has not made any of GTA 6 available to play in advance.
Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470949 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
James Pond’s creator is not happy with the series’ allegedly AI-generated legacy collection
The developers don't have "a scrap of respect" for the series, according to Chris Sorrell.
OpenAI, Google and dozens of other companies publish open letter calling for collective action on cyber defense
Dozens of companies came together to publish an open letter titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense."
Lawsuit says Oura sleep tracking has ‘a coin flip’s chance of being correct’
The class action lawsuit claims that Oura's sleep-tracking mechanisms sell 'faulty AI-based inference as reliable science.'
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election
Police in Mauritius are conducting a criminal investigation into possible forgery related to the annulled June 2025 board election staged by the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC). AFRINIC is the regional internet registry (RIR) for 54 countries in Africa...
AI girlfriend review site’s secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we explore the frightening and amusing world of foolish infosec errors. This week, it's all about a test site that exposed real information. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share...
Omarchy distro gains serious backing
The controversial Omarchy distro is attracting both criticism and fans – and financial support, too. Omarchy is an opinionated respin of Arch Linux and a pet project of Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH. Although the first release was...
Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages
Google has declared that Android apps distributed through Google Play will have to meet new memory performance thresholds, starting in early 2027. Google is cracking down on poorly optimized code that might otherwise squander what's now a precious commodity, as RAM...
Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code
If it walks like a robot duck and quacks like a robot duck, it’s probably a Microduck robot from Hugging Face subsidiary Pollen Robotics. And it's ready to work with AI. Bordeaux, France-based Pollen announced the Microduck on Thursday, describing it as a robot...
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims
Picture this: You’ve just undergone one of the most harrowing experiences of your life, and you’re trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building. You’re injured, air is running out, and human rescuers can’t reach you. But crawling through the rubble to administer...
Guns, cars and chihuahuas: Breaking down the GTA 6 extended look
Let's break down what Netflix viewers got to see ahead of the YouTube crowd in excruciating detail.
Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash
Article URL: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470380 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place...
Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company
Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.