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...
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage
As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights Go to Source Article URL: https://github.com/l3a0/claude-plugins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424758 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Oceans hit highest temperature on record Go to Source Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Apply before September 4 to be a part of the Disrupt community by hosting your own Side Event.
Businesses must reinvent their processes and workforce to scale agentic AI adoption
Only 15% of US-based organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated, multi-agent adoption, according to the latest Deloitte research.
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Article URL: https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424387 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424082 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
Article URL: https://textlog.cc/post/2059 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424167 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
Article URL: https://github.com/getkern/kern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423927 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Your “File” Menu Isn’t About Files
Article URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/your-file-menu-isnt-about-files/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423886 Points: 9 # Comments: 8
What Is a Syslog Server?
Article URL: https://blog.greencloudvps.com/what-is-a-syslog-server.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423799 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
Adding 4 more 2.5GbE interfaces to the GMKtec NucBox G9
Article URL: https://catskull.net/adding-4-more-25gbe-interfaces-to-the-gmktec-nucbox-g9.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423445 Points: 12 # Comments: 4