ESP32 Music Sequencer is Clearly Nailing the Y2K Aesthetic
Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency was chic. [3DSage] sure does, which is why he went to great lengths to make a clear case for his Clear Retro Music Sequencer. The sequencer itself is...
Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps, Ditches Quirky ‘Mico’ Mascot
He was never going to be Clippy, anyway.
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave little trace in the corresponding source repositories. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, Shai-Hulud was the name of the giant self-sustaining desert...
Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal
Stripe and private equity firm Advent previously offered a deal PayPal didn't take, the Wall Street Journal says. Now, they're negotiating a new price.
Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions
Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309050 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Using GCC’s Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
Article URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308685 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Using Zmanim-WP Shortcodes for Shabbat
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. This blog series is designed to help you dig deeper into the plugin and understand what it does, how it works, and whether it’s right for your...
5 Spider-Man Villains Who Have Yet to Appear in a Live-Action Movie
There have been a total of 9 live-action Spider-Man movies. We’ve seen him go up against iconic villains such as Green Goblin, Mysterio, Vulture, and many more. However, Spider-Man’s rogue’s gallery is so vast that there are a ton of villains who haven’t even been...
118 Blog Posts To Learn About Js
Let's learn about Js via these 118 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. "Not a real programming language" since 1995. 1. A Beginner's Guide...
AI Code Review in Regulated Environments: What a Human Expert Still Has to Own
A landmark study of 1,689 Copilot-generated programs found 40% contained vulnerabilities. Every one of those PRs almost certainly had a human's name on the approval. That's the part of "human in the loop" nobody likes to examine too closely. A name on a PR isn't proof...
BTCC Exchange Joins TOKEN2049 Singapore as Platinum Sponsor, Unveiling Flagship Theme
George Town, Cayman Islands, August 14th, 2026/Chainwire/--BTCC, the world's longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, announces its participation in TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 as a Platinum Sponsor. Taking place October 7-8 at Marina Bay Sands, the world’s largest...
Clippy Is Back and Less Chatty
Codex pets bring back Clippy's character without the interruption, turning animated assistants into ambient status lights for long-running agent tasks. Something appeared on my screen while I was in Codex the other day, and I didn’t know what it was. A little animated...
No space for bookshelf speakers? The Victrola Soundstage sits neatly under my turntable
The Victrola Soundstage is ideal for those who want to build their vinyl system up rather than out, with plenty of digital and analog connections for every kind of listener.
Jif’s new logo is a rebrand done right
Jif just rebranded for the first time in 30 years, and it’s a (rare) example of how to modernize a beloved brand without killing its quirk. The updated branding will appear across all of Jif’s products starting this fall, and includes a new wordmark, logo, fonts, and...
7 Best Self-Hosted Inference Servers for Open-Source Models, Compared (2026)
The great decision to self-host has landed. Model weights are free, your data is your own, and no more per-token bills addressed to the accounting dept. Then you open a list of serving options, and there are more than a dozen of them. Not a single one gives you a...
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308553 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/jason-arday-found-dead-after-resigning-from-cambridge-over-plagiarism-claims Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308748 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
How to change your self-perception and beliefs
Below, Owen Fitzpatrick shares five key insights from his new book, Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds Through Turbulent Times. Fitzpatrick is a social psychologist, behavioral change expert, and international speaker who has spent three decades studying how...
As weather gets harder to predict, which iPhone weather app is best?
As weather gets harder to predict, which iPhone weather app is best? Go to Source Ask people which app they use most frequently on their phones, and they’re likely to pick one of five types: a messaging app, a maps app, a web browser,...
Lego’s supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Lego has released its largest Hubble Space Telescope yet – a model built at approximately minifig scale that dwarfs the observatory included with its Space Shuttle Discovery set. The first thing to say about this set is that there is an awful lot of grey. This is...
A Tape Deck Gets a Service
If there’s an engineer’s equivalent to those YouTube ASMR videos, then perhaps it comes in a good repair or servicing journey filmed without edits at the bench. Relaxing to watch, has an interesting outcome. So it is with [Ken’s Shop], as he performs a full service on...
This 1 high school class is worth $100,000—and most students still don’t take it
A Baylor College of Medicine pediatrician just told Texas lawmakers that “high school seniors are legally walking around with Vegas in their pockets.” Lindy McGee was describing prediction-market apps such as Kalshi and Polymarket, where users as young as 18 bet real...
“That’s not SoC 2 compliant”
Article URL: https://ampcode.com/notes/thats-not-soc-2-compliant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308073 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
In the last 2-3 years, mostly because of AI, keeping up with interesting articles on HN has become harder and harder.How do you deal with it? Besides the simple solution of simply ignoring interesting stuff more and more. Comments URL:...
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
Article URL: https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307700 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Rent vs. buy, backtested across 241 US metros with pinned data
Article URL: https://github.com/assumptionsshown/RunTheNumbers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307653 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
The other Sean Byrne doesn’t exist
Article URL: https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307592 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab
Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-generated robots. Well, the MegCell Pulse might be the coolest robots-playing-music thing we’ve seen since Animusic. Built by [Bruce] over six years’ time,...
Who is pointing out your blind spots?
Who is pointing out your blind spots? Go to Source “I don’t understand. The deal was moving forward. My team’s reports said we were on track. I had lunch with their CEO last month, and everything felt solid.” Andy was talking about a...
Why stability might be the smartest career move right now
Why stability might be the smartest career move right now Go to Source Employees today are stressed, angry and sad, and they’re experiencing these emotions more than even before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gallup. A big reason...