SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream – Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are....
Cheap AI Token Resellers: The Secret Ingredient is Fraud
[Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the secret is to get tokens for free from anywhere they can and by any means necessary. Then wrap them...
Queryable Executables
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
AI company Perplexity has already tried its hand at search services, advertising, personal assistants, browsers, and a hosted agent platform – and now it's getting into local AI services. The biz, having already built a hybrid agent inference orchestrator that...
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues Go to Source Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman...
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others
Article URL: https://github.com/runetes/maiao Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441666 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
More Fucked Today Than Yesterday
Article URL: https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucked-today-than-yesterday Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441781 Points: 28 # Comments: 1
Intel’s 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough
DEEP DIVE Intel's Xeon 7 platform, better known by its codename Diamond Rapids, was supposed to launch this year with up to 192 cores backed by a whopping 16 memory channels. But that's not going to happen. This being Intel, the launch was, to no one's great surprise,...
Adam Mosseri says it’s ‘news to me’ that Instagram employees limited his exposure to teen safety data
The head of Instagram is the first high-profile exec to testify in the latest social media addiction trial.
Carhartt – 12,933,413 breached accounts
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses....
Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid
Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your use case, as long as you keep the Reynold’s number in mind– or are just looking for...
Alice raises $140M as its AI security business grows more than 500%
AI trust, safety and security company Alice today announced a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds. Until a rebrand earlier this year the company was called ActiveFence. It sells adversarial testing and guardrails for AI models, with frontier labs and...
Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits behind a paywall. Since I didn't want to pay subscriptions for...
Universal adapter vs. travel charger: Confused? Here’s the device you need most
These are two different products, but consumers end up confused because of misinformation and poor marketing copy.
Here are three sick Gibson guitar controllers made for Stage Tour’s Dec. 10 release
CRKD is mining nostalgia for its latest guitar trio.
One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool
Article URL: https://rvier.fr/posts/why-i-wrote-my-own-monitoring-tool-EN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441101 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis
Apple on Tuesday heralded the imminent refresh of its headless Mac kit with new versions of the Mac Studio and the Mac mini that you can pre-order now for shipping on September 22, 2026. The diminutive desktops promise a high level of local AI performance with memory...
McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally ‘on the road to ROI’
Four years into the generative AI revolution, consulting giant McKinsey reckons we've finally started the engine and are officially "on the road to ROI." Whether that road leads to actual profit-making and how long it takes to travel is anyone's guess, because the...
Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you
Anthropic’s Claude chatbot knows a lot about its users, and now it's sharing its memories with the company’s everything-but-coding assistant, Cowork. The frontier lab on Tuesday announced that Claude and Cowork now share a memory, meaning that what Claude remembers...
Lego Skylines is a cozy city builder from the studio that’s repairing Cities: Skylines II
Iceflake Studios is preparing a cozy new city builder centered on the famous bricks.
Stop Asking AI to Write the PRD
Ask an LLM to write a PRD and it will often produce a beautiful lie. The headings are right. The tone sounds professional. User stories appear in a tidy list. Edge cases have names. The document feels complete because language models are exceptionally good at...
FlowX.AI Brings Mission-Critical Industry AI Agents to Gemini Enterprise
Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-grade AI built for complex, high-stakes work where making a mistake is not an option....
HireQuotient Delivers 70% Reduction in Manual Recruiting Effort for NYC’s Alliance Building Services
San Francisco, United States, August 25th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--HireQuotient, which recently announced its strategic partnership with Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) and its induction into their elite partner marketplace, delivers another strong return on investment (ROI)...
150 Blog Posts To Learn About No Code
Let's learn about No Code via these 150 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. No-code development platforms allow users to create...
Measuring Decision Confidence in Business Intelligence and Analytics
Your Dashboards Don't Have a Data Problem. They Have a Trust Problem. Why the most valuable analytics KPI isn't dashboard adoption—it's Decision Confidence. Every organization wants to be data-driven. The playbook usually looks the same: collect more data, build more...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: What Would Shannon Think About Todays AI? (8/25/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 25, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Netscape Created Navio to Compete with Microsoft in 1996, First Spacecraft Entered Interstellar Space...
How Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library helps millions of kids discover reading
Legendary music star Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The Queen of Country built an impressive career as a singer, songwriter, country music icon, actor, and businesswoman. She was also a philanthropist who dedicated much of her life to helping others. Parton...
Instagram adds feature that automatically trims clips for Reels
First Draft takes care of the busywork of video editing.
Python’s pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Article URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441033 Points: 4 # Comments: 0