The caregiving crisis is a workforce crisis
The U.S. has complex systems in place to support nearly every major financial milestone in life, from student loans for education and mortgages for homeownership to tax advantages for retirement. So why is caregiving for our loved ones—something that nearly 1 in 4...
Custom Hybrid Drivetrain Powers Boat
Offloading acceleration and braking to an electric motor in a hybrid configuration allows the less efficient combustion engine run in a more narrow set of RPM and torque ranges. In some cases the motor is decoupled from the mechanical drivetrain entirely and used...
Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses
Wants to revive the lost art of the National Internet Registry, which APNIC has deprecated and isn’t keen to bring back The government of Malaysia has commenced a consultation on whether it should regulate management of IP addresses and autonomous systems numbers,...
Some Simple Economics of AGI
Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6298838 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714919 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529 Points: 51 # Comments: 3
Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids
Australia’s government has decided to double the fines it can levy companies that don’t take appropriate steps to enforce the country’s ban on children under 16 accessing social media – and said Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube are under investigation...
Prime Day is over, but these 5 deals are still live (and you don’t want to miss them)
Amazon Prime Day is over, but some of my favorite offers are still available, including deals on the Ninja Slushi, Garmin Fenix 8 Pro, Walmart Plus, and more.
Tell Congress: Don’t Force Age Checks Online
Article URL: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713887 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
Phone Stand Aims To Fight Addiction
Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through the slop of the day. [PushpendraC2] has been working on a solution to this problem that would ideally discourage such behavior — a nifty little...
Better Images of AI
Article URL: https://betterimagesofai.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713051 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers Go to Source Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/28/ai-boom-risks-global-financial-crash-central-bankers-warn/ Comments URL:...
Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM
Article URL: https://www.phantafield.com/whitepaper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713686 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
I built a whole-home ad blocker with a $7 ESP32-S3 board – and it took just minutes
Raspberry Pi boards have gotten expensive, so I found a cheap alternative in a tiny ESP32-S3 board.
We need tech news sources which exclude AI
Its now clear that we need to preserve tech press for non AI related things. Techmeme for example is now completely overrun with AI stories.HN is getting closer to that every day.If AI kickback deals, phony new model ratings, high RAM prices and your surprise at how...
Cigarettes
Article URL: https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2026/06/28/on-cigarettes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712762 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI
Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how to implement expressive, local conversational AI complete with head movements and antenna wiggles. It’s...
Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712420 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Building AI-Powered CMS Automation With Event-Driven Architecture
Content management systems were designed for humans. A content editor logs in, creates a page, adds metadata, and publishes. The workflow made sense when the content volume was manageable. It doesn't make sense when you're managing tens of thousands of product pages,...
178 Blog Posts To Learn About Information Security
Let's learn about Information Security via these 178 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. The practice of protecting information systems...
Building Medicaid Data Platforms That Scale Across States
Multi-state Medicaid platforms become difficult to scale when state-specific business rules are embedded directly in application code. This article argues for configuration-driven adapter architectures, allowing X12 834 variations, enrollment mappings, validation...
The Missing Layer Between Prompt Engineering and Production AI
Most LLM products start with a prompt. That is a sensible place to start. The prompt is where the first prototype happens, where the first internal demo lands, and where the first stakeholder starts to believe the product might work. But the prompt is not where...
A One-Person AI Studio Is Still a Whole Studio
It’s a Sunday and I am the entire crew. The writer, the director, the camera department, the editor, the sound team, the colorist, the producer, and the person who answers the emails. None of them get the day off, because all of them are me. I make a dark-fantasy...
SwiftUI’s @State Is Now a Macro – What It Means for You
Apple recently updated the documentation for State and now describes it as a macro. The public declaration looks verbose: @attached(accessor, names: named(init), named(get), named(set)) @attached(peer, names: prefixed(`_`), prefixed(__), prefixed(`$`)) macro State()...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Search Before a Search Engine (6/28/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Mike Tyson Bit Evander Hollyfield in 1997, Elon Musk Was Born in 1971, The Saxophone Was Patented in...
California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter this week.
Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs
Bash4LLM is a single-file Bash wrapper for interacting with LLMs from the terminal. I created it because I wanted something simple that worked without installing Python, Node, or any other runtime.It uses only Bash, curl, and jq. You can send prompts, start a small...
Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch
Hi everyone,I started working on nanoeuler after the ban of anthropic's fable because my ambition and dream is to work in the AI field in anthropic. The two interesting reasons that led me to create nanoeuler were (1) interfacing with llm does not mean understanding...
TOP500 at ISC’26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/top500-at-isc26-we-have-a-new-number Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710775 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Historical memory prices 1960-2026
Article URL: https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710092 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The cost YAGNI was never about
Article URL: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710082 Points: 30 # Comments: 8