ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe
Article URL: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380671 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Code as an Artifact
Article URL: https://pradeeproark.com/posts/code-as-an-artifact-means-to-an-end/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380482 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Citizen Devs: Everyone is an engineer now
Article URL: https://www.massdriver.cloud/blogs/the-citizen-developer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380491 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
The Most Expensive Bug in My Trading System Was Me
Every automated system that still has a human with override permissions is not an automated system. It is a hybrid, and the human half never gets profiled. I spent years shipping trading rules I described as systematic. Entry conditions in code, stop distance in code,...
MemeCore Arrives on Nasdaq Through $1 Billion Landmark Treasury Transaction!
August 20, 2026 — Singapore — MemeCore today announced a landmark strategic transaction involving Puple AI Inc. and Blockcat Pte. Ltd., principals of the MemeCore ecosystem, and Nasdaq-listed ZeroStack Corp. (“ZeroStack”). Under the definitive agreement, Puple AI Inc....
Why I Didn’t Put a Proxy Between My App and OpenAI
Every AI cost-attribution tool I looked at works the same way. You point base_url at their gateway, they see every request before it happens, and in exchange you get real-time blocking if a call is about to blow your budget. That's a fair trade for a lot of teams. It...
110 Blog Posts To Learn About Microservice Architecture
Let's learn about Microservice Architecture via these 110 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. Microservice architecture is an architectural...
Airlock Digital Completes Independent IRAP Assessment at the PROTECTED Level
Adelaide, Australia, August 19th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Independent assessment provides Australian organisations with additional evidence when evaluating application control for sensitive, government, defence and critical infrastructure environments. Airlock Digital, a...
THEO is Now Live on Hydrex — Autheo’s Internet Operating System Token Begins Trading
Sheridan, Wyoming, August 20th, 2026/Chainwire/--Autheo confirmed that THEO, the native utility token powering its Internet Operating System, is now live on Hydrex, the Base-native Omni-Liquidity MetaDEX. THEO entered the public market at a reference price of $0.05...
How to Build Fault-Tolerant Blockchain RPC Infrastructure
I've spent enough time debugging production blockchain infrastructure to see a pattern. Teams spend months auditing their intelligent contracts, and then treat their RPC layer as an afterthought, a single endpoint pointed at Infura or Alchemy with no fallback plan....
9 Ways to Secure Your Home Wi-Fi in 2026
Your home Wi-Fi is the front door to everything connected in your house — phones, laptops, smart TVs, cameras, thermostats, even that cheap smart plug. Leave it unlocked, and you’re inviting strangers in. They can steal bandwidth, spy on your traffic, hijack devices,...
Is the AI Commerce Era Upon Us?
The AI commerce revolution has already begun. Amazon, Shopify and other e-commerce platforms are now using AI recommendations to trigger autonomous workflows. Yet one question hasn’t been answered: who is going to control the business context, permissions and...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Coinkites AI Audit Didnt Fail. It Was Pointed in the Wrong Direction (8/20/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 20, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NY Times Article on Need to Preserve Obsolete Hardware and Software was published in 1995, Viking 1...
HyperX’s first open-back gaming headset brings the bass
The Cloud Alpha Air is reasonably priced at $150 and sports super comfy earpads.
Apple Music will reportedly label any AI-made tracks later this year
The upcoming feature expands its Transparency Tags for marking slop songs.
Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads
The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during...
The Enhanced Games — tech’s steroid extravaganza — didn’t pay off, as company posts $60 million loss
An effort to transform the world of sports through steroid use doesn't exactly seem to be bearing financial fruit.
Google Pixel Watch 5 vs. Garmin Fenix 8 Pro: Which has more accurate GPS?
Google says its new Pixel Watch 5 outperforms the location tracking on the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro. I put them to the test.
Riot is ending active development of 2XKO in December
The fighting game will still receive content updates through October 2026.
Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?
Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Article URL: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550 Points: 41 # Comments: 6
OpenAI chases Anthropic’s biz customers with zero data retention pledge
OpenAI appears to have found a way to balance AI model safety with commitments to retain no customer data, a feat rival Anthropic hasn't yet managed. For orgs concerned about who has access to their data, this could be a game-changer. The free-spending AI biz on...
US Bank investigates LockBit’s claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline
US Bank says that it's investigating ransomware crew LockBit’s claims that it breached the financial institution and stole data, which the crims threaten to leak on September 3 unless the bank pays an extortion demand. “We’re aware of claims regarding a potential...
Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla
To reach their destinations safely, autonomous vehicles have just milliseconds to ingest and process streaming data from more than a dozen cameras. It's a job that's been handled with off-the-shelf AI components thus far, but Waymo has begun rolling its own AI ASICs...
Bought a home between 2022 and 2025? You could be most vulnerable to this housing market shift
The share of homeowners sitting pretty on a huge chunk of home equity just hit a nearly five-year low. In a new report, property data company Attom found that just 41% of U.S. homes with mortgages were equity-rich in the second quarter, down from 43% in the first...
Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and...
After one week wearing the Pixel Watch 5, here’s what I want most
The Google Pixel Watch 5 is a faster, intelligent smartwatch with some helpful health and wellness features under the hood.
Homebrew 68K Machine Has A PCI Bus
The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus was first introduced all the way back in 1992. It quickly became the standard way to interface add-on cards on the PC platform, supplanting earlier buses like ISA and various other oddball standards. You wouldn’t expect...
Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure
A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using Google Docs as a way to deliver malware.