Solana’s Local Fee Markets Reveal the Limits of TPS as a Metric
Solana is often evaluated by one number: transactions per second. That number is useful, but it hides a more important question for application developers:What happens when one application suddenly becomes extremely popular?A blockchain can process enormous volumes of...
Solana’s Local Fee Markets Reveal the Limits of TPS as a Metric
Solana is often evaluated by one number: transactions per second. That number is useful, but it hides a more important question for application developers:What happens when one application suddenly becomes extremely popular?A blockchain can process enormous volumes of...
Exploring Feasibility of Universal Computing with Basic Unix Tools: Echo, Ed, Test, and Exec
The Unconventional Path to Universal ComputingUniversal computing, the ability to perform any computable function, is often associated with complex programming languages, sophisticated hardware, and extensive resource allocation. Yet, a provocative exploration in...
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: Which Should You Build?
AI Agents and Agentic AI are often used interchangeably, but they're not the same. In this guide, we'll break down the differences, explore real-world use cases, and help you understand when to build an AI agent and when you need a coordinated agentic system.An AI...
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: Which Should You Build?
AI Agents and Agentic AI are often used interchangeably, but they're not the same. In this guide, we'll break down the differences, explore real-world use cases, and help you understand when to build an AI agent and when you need a coordinated agentic system.An AI...
Israel v. Alkamalat and the Legal Standard for AI-Assisted Forensics
Artificial intelligence has spent the last several years generating headlines about the future. AI will replace jobs. AI will transform industries. AI will revolutionize medicine, law, engineering, and science.The courtroom, however, moves differently. Courts are not...
The Real Goal of a Data Platform Migration Is Not New Technology
Data platform migrations are often presented as technology upgrades.A company moves from an older warehouse to a lakehouse (such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery). Teams replace legacy pipelines with distributed processing. Storage and compute are separated. New...
One Bug, Three Faces: Building a Performance Analysis AI Agent
Performance problems rarely appear as one clear failure. A slow database call may first show up as rising HTTP latency. Then application threads start filling up. Pending database connections increase. Memory usage climbs. Eventually, Kubernetes restarts the...
Satellite Messengers vs LoRa Mesh Devices: Which Off-Grid Comms Solution Fits You?
People ask me this one more than almost anything else: "Should I just get a Garmin inReach and call it done?" And my honest answer is usually another question — done for what? Satellite messengers and LoRa mesh solve different problems, and the gear bag I pack depends...
When Not Acting Is Not Avoidance
Agency, deficit, and the distinction between “not yet” and “not now” After the article about systems thinking as a possible form of avoidance, I discovered a problem in the argument. If avoidance and anxiety are a plausible explanation, then almost any unfinished task...
FoxPlug Earns a 67.19 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Automated White-Label Launch Kit Generator
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,...
PaperPulse Earns a 62 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Daily Digest for Chinese-Speaking Researchers
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,...
TransactionLink Earns a 66.13 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Automated KYB and KYC Onboarding Workflows
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,...
Laraplugins.io Earns a 93.09 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Algorithmic Health Score and MCP Server for Laravel Plugins
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,...
3D-Printed ‘Flock Sock’ Protects Controversial Surveillance Cameras From the Sun
3D-Printed 'Flock Sock' Protects Controversial Surveillance Cameras From the Sun Go to Source Unfortunately, it also blocks the camera lens.
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study
Article URL: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332981 Points: 87 # Comments: 53
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and tells you why.Demo: https://youtu.be/no2LY2gRh-cTypical production...
Ask HN: GitHub employees what’s going on? Why?
Pretty self explanatory. Could you folks shed some light on why these issues keep happening?I’ve noticed most posts and replies are just people coming to their own conclusions based on whatever published data.I think it would be helpful to get some actual,...
Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
Article URL: https://piszczek.pl/blog/qwen38-27b-256k-50-tps-24gb-gpu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331607 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
The upcoming California trial against Meta seeks financial damages that could soar to $1.4 trillion
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California.States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion, plus...
Grocery Outlet store closures: See a list of locations that have shuttered across 6 states in 2026
Back in March, discount grocery chain Grocery Outlet Bargain Market announced plans to close 36 underperforming locations. The store closures are part of a broader restructuring aimed at strengthening its long-term profitability and optimizing its existing store...
Uber aims for 1 million daily drone deliveries with Zipline partnership
The first Zipline drone deliveries for Uber Eats orders will start later this year.
Toy Computer Restored
In the 1960s, the home computer was barely a twinkle in anyone’s eye. This was the decade in which computers were used by a handful of companies and organizations and took up entire rooms. It was the decade that saw the birth of the first integrated-circuit computer,...
Is an iPhone 15 still worth your money in 2026?
Buying an older iPhone is a great way to save money while taking advantage of Apple's long support. But is the iPhone 15 too old to be worth it now?
That Apple Screen Sharing bug has now been seen in the wild, so please update macOS
A bug in macOS screen sharing lets attackers view your screen, open files and do just about anything else they want.
GitHub has been down for most of the morning
If you hear lots of grumbling in coffee shops this morning, GitHub's outage may be why.
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project Go to Source Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South Go to Source African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52...
Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-think-theres-a-lot-of-value-in-these/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331621 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Eve Software Factory
Build a software factory in minutes with this free OSS template Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331599 Points: 3 # Comments: 0