Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
Article URL: https://www.mturk.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
Article URL: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456929 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Clerky Is Joining Stripe
Article URL: https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455956 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Paul Thomas Anderson’s forthcoming concert film is buzzword bingo for fans of indie music and movies
Right as awards season kicked up at the end of 2025, before Paul Thomas Anderson took home the Best Director Academy Award for One Battle After Another, he was taking in a concert at Carnegie Hall by singer-songwriter Cameron Winter. He wasn’t in a seat, though—he was...
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1
Wednesday's release of Kubernetes v1.37 shows how the team behind the popular open source resource orchestrator is prioritizing production readiness, pruning outdated features even while it adds new ones. Overall, the release, nicknamed Garhwal after India’s lush...
Meta’s new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
If you’re going to build a custom AI accelerator, inference is a good place to start. The clusters are smaller, the chips can be simpler, and at the end of the day they only need to do one thing: serve tokens. OpenAI’s spicy new Jalapeño inference chips are just the...
Australia’s recording association bans AI-made music from charts
Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed, so long as they're "substantially human made."
Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps
The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing you what’s happening on the wire. [James Bowman] worked on the TermDriver 2, and...
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI. The company said Mechanical Turk...
CrowdStrike and Okta shares jump on second-quarter beats and raised outlooks
Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Okta Inc. both jumped in late trading today after the two security companies beat expectations in their July quarters. CrowdStrike shares were up more than 10% after the bell and Okta shares more than 19%. Both raised their...
Researchers traced the American West water crisis to just 122 companies
As some of the largest water reservoirs in the United States fall to record-level-lows, it’s not just drought to blame, with 122 oil and cement companies responsible for around half of the water lost to climate change in the West, according to a recent study. In the...
Durable Agent Workflows Need Idempotency Before They Need Checkpoints
Checkpointing is an easy feature to sell: If the agent crashes, it resumes where it left off. That sentence is reassuring and incomplete. A workflow engine can restore its own state. It cannot atomically restore the external world. Between “call the refund API” and...
CoinMarketCap Obtains SOC 1 & 2 Attestations and Dual ISO Certifications
Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, August 26th, 2026/Chainwire/--CoinMarketCap has obtained a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation report, following an independent examination of the controls protecting the systems behind its market data. CoinMarketCap also completed the SOC 1 Type 1...
54 Blog Posts To Learn About Nodejs Tutorial
Let's learn about Nodejs Tutorial via these 54 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. A guide explaining how to use Node.js, a JavaScript...
Carbon Frames Don’t Win Races: Why AI Doesn’t Replace Infrastructure
Every pitch deck in fintech now contains one identical slide. Around page 6, an AI assistant appears, smiling in a chat bubble, eager to "transform the customer experience." I have sat through many of these decks, even built a few myself, and I have come to a simple...
Mara Raises $7M Led by Khosla Ventures and a16z Speedrun to Build Spike, a Counter-Swarm Platform
A THAAD interceptor costs somewhere between twelve and fifteen million dollars. A Patriot PAC-3 MSE round is listed at roughly $5.3 million in the US Army's most recent budget request. The FPV drone that a great deal of modern air defense is now being asked to shoot...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Final Wojak (8/26/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 26, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Miss Manners Addressed Computer Correspondence in 1984, First German to go into Space in 1978, and we...
Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners
The console was subject to added fees under the Trump administration's original tariff regime.
OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.
Qwen 3.8 27B Uncensored – Testing the Uncensored Qwen Model
Article URL: https://imageat.com/models/qwen-3-8-27b-uncensored Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456134 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale Go to Source The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game
Article URL: https://pushup.quest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455695 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
What will be left for us to work on
Article URL: https://ICML.cc/virtual/2026/invited-talk/67274 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455613 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Nvidia’s Q2 revenue tops $96.2 billion on strong AI chip demand
Nvidia‘s latest quarterly results once again blew past Wall Street’s expectations as revenue for the computer chip company’s high-end artificial intelligence chips soared, the latest sign that AI infrastructure spending remains strong. The company reported on...
Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker
We've been building open source embedded ADS-B receivers for a while, and spent the past 8 months smallifying our existing receiver tech with a new chip from Semtech. Ask me anything about ADSB or hardware manufacturing! Comments URL:...
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor
Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455471 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule
Article URL: https://cradrill.com/research.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455097 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI
Article URL: https://openai.com/webmcp-challenge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455713 Points: 3 # Comments: 0