Target pulls Halloween costume that drew comparisons to blackface caricatures, apologizes
Target has removed a children’s Halloween costume from its website after social media users pointed out that it closely resembled imagery from Jim Crow-era blackface minstrelsy. The $25 costume—listed as “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume...
Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B
We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.
A 1990s Homebrew OS With GUI And Web Browser, In AM29000 Machine Code
The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture in a British educational computer, the 68000 series was still a major player, and it was by...
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
Latin America’s parks are being overtaken by teens fighting fierce’aura farming’ battles
Almost anywhere in the world, the six-seven hand gesture and the dab are simply nonsensical relics of internet culture. But in public squares and university courtyards across Latin America, these moves are the weapons of choice among teenagers and college students in...
I Planted 10 Goroutine Leaks to Test Go 1.27’s New Leak Detector
A worker blocks on a channel nobody reads, the handler that spawned it returns, and your process now carries a goroutine that will live until the next deploy. Nothing in your logs mentions it. Do that once per request, and you have a memory graph that climbs for days...
Building Memory for AI Agents: From Episodes to Knowledge
Why episodic, semantic, procedural, and working memory should not be dumped into the same bucket. An AI agent completes a task successfully. It finds a flight, compares the options, applies the travel policy, and books the right itinerary.What should it...
Best AI Crypto Trading Bots in 2026: A Complete Guide to AI-Powered Crypto Trading Platforms
Introduction: The Evolution of AI Crypto Trading The cryptocurrency market operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, creating both opportunities and challenges for traders. Unlike traditional financial markets, crypto markets never close. Monitoring price movements,...
FlyEdge Opens Public Preview of Aviation-Focused Blockchain for Tokenized Airline Loyalty
Seoul, South Korea, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/--FlyEdge, a B2B platform focused on tokenizing airline loyalty value, has opened a multilingual public preview that allows airlines and travelers to experience and independently verify the full on-chain process—from...
human.tech Launches Wallet Protocol on Ika Network for Decentralized Apps and AI agents
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/--The human.tech Wallet Protocol is live today on the Ika decentralized network. This extension lets developers build multi-chain apps across EVM, Sui, and Solana, with additional chains to be added. CEO of the...
149 Blog Posts To Learn About Networking
Let's learn about Networking via these 149 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. Diplomacy is the art of going to hell in such a way that...
Your HubSpot Permission Set Is Not Governance: A Five-Gate Change-Control Model for Enterprise CRM Teams
The revenue meeting starts with a number nobody trusts. Pipeline creation is down, but only in one region. Marketing says demand has not changed. Sales says leads stopped routing correctly two days ago. The CRM team finds the cause: a well-intended workflow edit...
Why Semiconductors Are Becoming One of the Most Important Markets of the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is usually discussed through the products people can see. New models become more capable, AI assistants enter more workplaces, image and video generation improve, and autonomous agents begin handling increasingly complex tasks. But beneath...
The Privacy Problem – TOR vs VPNs: Down The Rabbit Hole Part 2
In the first part of this series we laid the foundations, covering what the internet really is, how the web works, how search engines crawl and index it and why 96% of it remains invisible to Google. If you haven’t read it yet I’d recommend starting there before...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Prompt Injection Is Now an RCE Primitive (8/24/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 24, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Shipped Windows 95 in 1995, The Waffle Iron was Patented in the United States in 1869, Steve...
How to use Samsung’s new My FanCam feature to make yourself the main character in your videos
Zooming in on your kid's performance in the school play is about to get a whole lot easier. It's going to look better, too.
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
The Flocklash is getting louder—and more creative
Lots of people—dare we say most people—hate Flock. And, lately, they’ve been going to increasingly creative lengths to make it known. Privately held Flock Safety is an Atlanta-based surveillance technology company that operates a nationwide network of automated...
How does converting a video to 4K actually work?
Upscaling software is getting better all the time, but there are still some caveats to be aware of.
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425819 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg Go to Source Eigen Labs, a five-year-old tech biz based in Seattle, Washington, estimates that owners of Apple Silicon hardware can earn $120 to $200 per month on average...
Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today
Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today Go to Source Today marks the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 becoming available on August 24, 1996. Windows NT 4.0, codenamed “Tukwila,” went on retail sale exactly 30 years...
Greg Abbott says data centers:’basically dug their own grave’
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/greg-abbott-texas-data-centers-backlash-2026-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424882 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case
Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.
64 major housing markets where home prices are falling
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Based on our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, nationally aggregated U.S. home prices are up +1.1% year-over-year between July 2025 and July...
Showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and book an exhibit table while there’s still space
Showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and book an exhibit table while there’s still space Go to Source Make the most of Disrupt's crowds of potential investors and partners by exhibiting your startup from October 13-15.
Crypto’s biggest rally since 2023: With bitcoin price at high, here’s what history, Ray Dalio, and Kalshi predict comes next
Crypto is having an extended 3-day rally, and it looks a lot like what happened back in 2023, according to at least one analyst. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum and crypto-related stocks are up today, starting the week on a high note, amid worries about...
Threads is testing a podcast transcription feature
Meta keeps trying to entice audio content creators to Threads.
An Electronic Explanation Of 1960s Fuzz Boxes
It’s likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects pedal. The raspy distorted sound has been at the heart of so many very well known recordings. Behind it is a...