Panem et circenses. Bread and circuses. I didn’t see it in the movie “Gladiator,” but in the TV show “Spartacus.” I think. A little bit of fighting, then “hydration breaks” with loaves of bread thrown to the ecstatic audience. Civis sum Romanus. Life sucks. Everything...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a feature added to software applications. It is becoming a fundamental part of how modern software is designed, developed, tested, and maintained. From AI-powered coding assistants to applications that can understand natural...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

The Voyage Interfaces CTO is developing a silent-speech system by working backward from a central question: what kind of interface can keep pace with increasingly capable computers? Two years ago, Ivan Bokarev was couch-surfing through Europe and eating leftovers...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

The evolving shape of risk In modern enterprise software development, visibility has overtaken velocity as the primary constraint. AI-accelerated development, sprawling legacy systems, and fragmented teams have transformed how software is built and, more critically,...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

While interviewing candidates for a management role, I couldn't help but notice a pattern. When asked about leadership, one after another, candidates were describing their authority instead: the decisions they were allowed to make, the title they held, things their...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

Incogni is taking 58% off annual plans with our code this month only, dropping the Standard plan to $6.79 per month.

The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramatically.

Britain is putting Google AI in the flight-planning loop to see whether airliners can dodge the patches of sky where their vapor trails are most likely to stick around and warm the planet. The UK government is backing a trial to predict where persistent contrails will...

Hackers stole names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and financial information from a third-party platform. The post Heights Finance Data Breach Impacts at Least 1.2 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were...

Article URL: https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342719 Points: 16 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342530 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

Fewer skilled overseas workers are applying for UK tech visas, with numbers down for the third year running even as ministers talk up Britain's chances in the global technology race. The tally fell 7 percent, from 37,376 applications in 2024 to 34,936 last year,...

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit. Spirit hit financial turbulence when COVID-19 blew in during 2020 and started making losses. Its balance sheet never climbed back to a safe altitude and in May 2026 the airline grounded itself permanently. The...

The process of training an AI model becomes a paradox at scale – the more it remembers, the less it remembers about the source of its memories. MIT computer scientists went looking for a way to attribute AI model output to specific training data, in the hope that...

The security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete user data and public projects. The post GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Every year, I look at how much money I earn from each client. Some years, my earnings are very skewed toward one client (or two). If something had happened to that working relationship, my year could have looked much different. Before I became a solopreneur, I worked...

Article URL: https://caiustheory.com/git-git-git-git-git/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342601 Points: 36 # Comments: 11

Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project which purports to store a song on a single sheet of paper via QR code and transmit the data over LoRA. If it was...