Code Smell 321 – Getter Piggybacking
Code Smell 321 - Getter Piggybacking Go to Source One broken window invites another TL;DR: Don't reuse an existing getter to bolt on new business logic from outside the object. Problems 😔 Duplicated business rules Broken encapsulation...
Hack the Age Clock and Search for Eternal Life
Hack the Age Clock and Search for Eternal Life Go to Source The science, the systems, and the very expensive question of who gets to keep living Every human being who has ever lived has been party to a contract none of us signed. The...
When loving where you work becomes a problem
Below, Claire Stapleton shares five key insights from her new book, Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape From Big Tech. Stapleton spent 12 years at Google, joining straight out of college in 2007 and rising to become a senior communications leader...
Casio decides it’s about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter
Casio has added Bluetooth and step tracking to a £55 digital watch without turning it into a smartwatch or sacrificing replaceable-battery convenience. The snappily named F-B100W pairs with Casio's smartphone app to record activity, adjust settings, and keep its clock...
SoulCycle had a cult following. Then, one decision changed everything
I used to schlep from my office to a 6:30 p.m. Soul Survivor class, shower, and make dinner by 8 p.m. Every week. The waiting lists were insane. The bike you got mattered. Thirty-four dollars for a cycling class and nobody blinked. That wasn’t about fitness. SoulCycle...
Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight
The spyware-equipped Manic, a persistent Grandoreiro campaign in Latin America and Europe, and an expanded ToxicPanda 2.0 malware. The post Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sleeper E-bike has Solenoid Display
[GRMNT] decided to bring his grandpa’s beautiful road bike into the future by making a sleeper e-bike conversion. Going into the project, [GRMNT] didn’t really know what he was working with, but it turned out grandpa had good taste and was rocking a Bianchi. No...
Golf Canada – 568,972 breached accounts
In mid-2026, hundreds of thousands of user records allegedly sourced from Golf Canada began circulating via Telegram. The data included 569k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, dates of birth, genders and approximate geographic locations (city,...
Canada will match US tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’ as trade talks break down
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397074 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice
One of the best ways to lower your AWS bill by 99 percent or more is by not checking your keys into public GitHub repositories. Many of us have done this inadvertently over the years, and the defenses against it have improved dramatically (my personal favorite being...
GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396590 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
The hidden cost for women of being ‘easy’ to work with
Heather (a pseudonym) was a senior leader at her firm, one level below the C-suite. And the C-suite had some really big personalities. Heather was excellent at reading those personalities. She understood them, anticipated what they needed and often served as the...
4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content
Article URL: https://www.tuigroup.com/en/newsroom/news/travel-in-the-age-of-scrolling-tui-musement-research-reveals-4-in-10-travellers-visit-tourist-sites-to-capture-social-media-content Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396620 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Hacking A Cat Litter Box
[Joseph DiGiovanni] is the owner of a Litter Robot 4. It’s a convenient mechanized litter box for cats that can clean itself to reduce unwelcome odors inside the home. He wanted to run automations based on the operation of the litter box, but was not eager to use the...
Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
Article URL: https://www.history.com/articles/early-human-ancestors-diet-sugar-carbs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396086 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Apple reportedly cut more than 200 jobs across Vision Pro and Siri software teams
Apple has laid off employees in its Vision Pro and Siri teams as it shifts focus to smart glasses and next-gen AI tech.
US Debt-to-GDP Ratio
Article URL: https://www.us-debt-clock.com/debt-to-gdp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395663 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
How the Grid’s Harmonic Filters Keep the Power Clean
A fun way to think about a national electrical grid is as a massively upscaled electrical circuit, one in which you have multiple power supplies injecting AC power, with various bits and bobs involving resistors, inductors and capacitors in between working to...
There’s no reason for software to be slow anymore
Article URL: https://danluu.com/perf-opt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395628 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395605 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and...
HN: The Good Parts (2016)
Article URL: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395171 Points: 9 # Comments: 5
Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M
Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 million).
Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding
Article URL: https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2026/08/03/paul-atkins-misreads-adam-smith-and-the-american-founding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395040 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team
I think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not sure who exactly wins it, but I want my knowledge to grow/go with me.A lot of the “knowledge” ie research, analysis, reasoning will be done by agents as...
Three important steps in my maturation process
Article URL: https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394496 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
I own 28,000 books – here’s what I’ve learned
Article URL: https://www.shelvd.org/blog/28000-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394759 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
‘Ghost Job’ Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ghost-job-ads-are-getting-so-bad-that-lawmakers-want-to-ban-them-2580bc3e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394373 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine Go to Source Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the...
Building a Hammond Organ to Understand How They Work
Building a Hammond Organ to Understand How They Work Go to Source The Hammond organ is an early form of electronic– or perhaps electromechanical– musical instrument. It solved the very real problem of organs normally being the sort of...