Google Pixel 11 Pro vs. Apple iPhone 17 Pro: How the new Pixel competes with its biggest rival
I've tested both phones, and they're neck and neck. Here's where they each succeed (and have room for improvement).
Google Pixel 11 vs. Pixel 9: Why I’m considering the upgrade this year
If you didn't upgrade last year (or the year before), there's a good case to be made for the new Pixel 11.
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog – defensive AI security CEO says it’s not ruff to do
Corma CEO Alon Pluda says his AI security startup aims to close the "defense gap," where models are better at offensive security. He tells the story of one customer, a security executive who was walking his dog when he received a notification on his watch from a Corma...
Coldcard’s Entropy Bug Exposed a Hidden Weakness in Hardware Wallet Security
The whole point of a hardware wallet is that it's unreachable.The private keys never touch the internet. The device never connects to anything except the moment you plug it in to sign a transaction. An attacker who can't physically hold the device in their hands is,...
What Project Hail Mary Can Teach IT Professionals (Part 3)
Outer Solar System Entering the area of gas and ice giants What follows is part 3 of my ongoing observations and ideas inspired by “Project Hail Mary”. You can find part 1 and part 2 linked here. Once again, I will warn those wary of spoilers to maybe stop reading,...
9 Questions That Expose Fake AI on a Product Roadmap
I have sat in the room where a vendor demo got a standing reaction, then watched the same product fail a single edge case in week two of the pilot. The demo was a chatbot with three canned branches. The deck called it an autonomous agent.This happens because...
91 Blog Posts To Learn About Kafka
Let's learn about Kafka via these 91 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. Kafka is a distributed streaming platform enabling applications to...
Your Healthcare Integration Is Only as Good as Its Data Mapping Decisions
Ask anyone who has sat through a failed healthcare integration what went wrong, and the answer almost never traces back to the interface engine or the network layer. It traces back to data mapping decisions made too early, with too little information, and never...
4 quick software tweaks to extend your phone’s battery life by 30 percent
Modern smartphones don’t run out of juice mid-afternoon because their batteries are defective. They run out because dozens of invisible background services are constantly running full-throttle in your pocket. Apps are pinging GPS satellites, pulling fresh data over...
Why one of the most common brain disorders is also one of the most misunderstood
“It’s all in your head.” By the time many people with functional neurological disorder arrive in our clinic, they have heard these five words more times than they can count. They are told their brain scan was normal. Their electroencephalogram, a test that measures...
These practices improve your well-being and actually stick
Below, Matt Bloom shares five key insights from his new book, Lasting Wellbeing: Science-Based Practices for Tranquility, Authenticity, Meaning, and Joy. Matt is a social psychologist and emeritus professor of business at the University of Notre Dame where, for almost...
What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Researchers Hack an Airline Analog
Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of computers. But, as hackers, we know that any computer can be hacked...
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has weighed in on the difference between a pull request description and comments embedded in the code. Both matter, but they serve very different purposes. As Chen noted on his The Old New Thing dev blog: "The PR description is...
Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
Article URL: https://github.com/jitpass/jit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317546 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations Go to Source Article URL: https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316872 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316611 Points: 31 # Comments: 11
Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316685 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/12/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-desperate-for-ideas-on-iran-01033217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317234 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern recognition if nothing else. NASA is on the same page, and to take advantage of that pattern recognition, they’ve...
‘Holiday hoarding’ is a workplace crisis
There is a certain irony in writing this piece during the summer. This is usually when offices begin to thin out, when conversations drift toward flight deals and city-break plans, and when out-of-office auto-replies get drafted by the dozens. Yet leaders might look...
The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
Article URL: https://breck.lol/plMakers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316888 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
I checked 30 frontier model cards. Here are the benchmarks labs report
Article URL: https://koutian.is-a.dev/benchmark-radar/?view=leaderboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316791 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn’t stand up to scrutiny: Nassim Taleb
Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316611 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316395 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
Article URL: https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315995 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
It’s How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13328 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316242 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
Article URL: https://www.micdrop.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315742 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA
Article URL: https://github.com/PhillipChaffee/big-pickle-swe-atlas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315563 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
Article URL: https://waku.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315709 Points: 7 # Comments: 1