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
Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck
Article URL: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710082 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
5 easy ways to get more range out of your EV
These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging.
Prompt injection is exploiting enterprise AI’s biggest design flaws by targeting agents, RAG pipelines and model routers
In the past two years, businesses have been trying to fit large language models (LLMs) into support, analytics, development, and internal automation like never before. Along with the increasing adoption of AI technology, another trend is gaining momentum —...
Sysco – 2,691,852 breached accounts
In June 2026, the food distribution company Sysco was targeted by a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data was subsequently published containing 2.7M unique email addresses belonging to staff and customers. The data also contained largely corporate...
Daisugi the Japanese Technique of Trees Out of Trees, Making Exact Straight Wood (2020)
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708859 Points: 27 # Comments: 8
Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from dematerialization
Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things?
Australia doubles the maximum penalty for its social media ban
The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million.
RF Hacking A Ceiling Fan Via The Remote
[Sam Wilkinson] recently installed a Dreo CLF513S ceiling fan in his place — it’s cheap, well-sized, and blows air around as you’d expect it to. The only problem is that it only works with an ugly cloud-only smart home setup out of the box. Never mind, though, because...
Teaching An AI To Play A Racing Game Via Screen Input
If you’re a fleshy human, you probably learn to play video games by looking at the screen and pressing the buttons, and maybe copying the way you’ve seen others play the game before. [tryfonaskam] has recently been trying to teach an AI to play games in much the same...
Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709187 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708795 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Daisugi the Japanese Technique of Trees Out of Trees, Making Exact Straight Wood
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708859 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Article URL: https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Zanagrams
Article URL: https://zanagrams.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708182 Points: 8 # Comments: 5
Does Your Paper Really Suck?
Article URL: https://www.sina.bio/posts/does-your-paper-really-suck.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708265 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Apple’s touchscreen MacBook reportedly won’t wait for the M7 chips
The new models will launch with the M5 Pro and M5 Max, according to Mark Gurman.
Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle’s I/O Processor
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708700 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
TechCrunch Mobility: All eyes on Tesla FSD
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Ownership Coins: Crypto’s Answer to Broken Token Holder Rights
Two things have been broken in crypto capital formation for years. The first is misalignment. A team raises money from token holders, and funds flow to the operating business with limited oversight. Eventually, the funds run out, or the foundation sells more tokens...
Troitsk Nu-Mass Hardware: WGTS, MAC-E Filter, and Multi-Pixel SDD Architecture
Table of links Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Troitsk nu-mass 3 Rear wall simulation 4 Results and References 2 Troitsk nu-mass The experiment consists of two main components, figure 1, which are a Windowless Gaseous Tritium Source and an Electrostatic Spectrometer with...
331 Blog Posts To Learn About Hacking
Let's learn about Hacking via these 331 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. Welcome home, OG Hackers. 1. How do You Hack Whatsapp Chats? -...
The TechBeat: Your Shared Staging Environment Is a Lie (6/28/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## When Copying The Physical World Helps The UI, and When It Doesn't By...
No AI Agent Without Identity (Part 3): Delegation, HITL, and Identity Propagation
Series Context In Part 2: Building the Layered Identity Model, we defined the architectural foundation for scaling agent identity: stable agent principals, temporal runtime or context instances, roles, policies, execution records, and audit records. In this part, we...
Return of the Exiled Sovereign
:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1998, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - VOLUME 1 Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1998: THE...
Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light
Researchers affiliated with ETH Zurich have devised a multifunction picture element, or pixel, that can both emit and measure light. Traditional pixels generally do one or the other – illuminating a display screen or capturing light in a camera sensor. A team led by...
Mesh Wi-Fi or a range extender? Here’s how to know which one you actually need
Wi-Fi extenders are cheap, but come with distinct drawbacks.
California legislature agrees to upload driver’s licenses to national database
Article URL: https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/06/27/california-legislature-agrees-to-upload-drivers-licenses-to-national-database/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708139 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707763 Points: 8 # Comments: 0