Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive.
Surprisingly, Cheesecake Factory is one of the hottest food stocks right now. Here’s why
The Cheesecake Factory, along with a group of sit-down restaurant stocks including Texas Roadhouse and BJ’s Restaurants, have seen a median gain of about 62% over the past three months, according to recent data from Yahoo Finance. The news outlet also reported that...
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works Go to Source The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already...
Trade Healthcare, Finance, and Consumer Giants on Zoomex
VICTORIA/Seychelles/--Zoomex has expanded its Stock Perpetuals lineup with twelve new USDT-margined contracts, giving traders 24/7 exposure to some of the most closely watched names in U.S. equities. UnitedHealth Group (UNH), General Electric (GE), JPMorgan Chase...
Tunnl Named to Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2026
Arlington, Virginia, August 13th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--Tunnl, the AI-powered audience intelligence platform, today announced its inclusion in the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. Tunnl is one of 126 Artificial Intelligence and Data...
98 Blog Posts To Learn About Javascript Fundamentals
Let's learn about Javascript Fundamentals via these 98 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. How do you comfort a JavaScript bug? You console...
Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
Artificial intelligence has moved from research labs and science fiction into the daily fabric of work and life. It writes code, drafts emails, diagnoses illness, drives cars, and increasingly, acts on our behalf rather than just answering our questions. Understanding...
The Hidden Cost of Software Rewrites
The hidden cost of losing architectural knowledge in software projects. Systems are not lost to failure, but to forgetting. When decisions cannot be undone, change becomes collapse, and rebuilding becomes inevitable. Every system eventually invites a rewrite. Almost...
What Project Hail Mary Can Teach IT Professionals (Part 2)
Inner Planets Mid-Flight Checklist What follows is a continuation of my observations and ideas inspired by “Project Hail Mary”, which I began back in part 1 of the series. Once again, I will warn readers that if you haven’t read the book and/or watched the movie (and...
Zero Keys, Two Clouds: How Our AWS-hosted Terraform CI/CD Deploys to Google Cloud
We extended inDrive’s Terraform CI/CD from AWS to Google Cloud without creating a single service-account key, using Workload Identity Federation from runners that never left AWS. Here is what the documentation does not tell you — including why authentication was not...
The $5 Million Reality Check: Why Corporate AI Without Brakes Just Ran Out of Road
One Founder's Prediction Becomes Fact In May 2026, Patrick Ryan, founder of Mobius Consulting, stood before a closed room of more than thirty senior C-suite executives, technology directors, and risk officers in London. When he asked how many of their organizations...
Turns Out the Secret to Marketing ROI Is… Fun
The Cereal Box Video Game That Accidentally Solved Marketing In 1996, General Mills stuffed a free CD-ROM game into boxes of Chex cereal: a low-budget Doom clone called Chex Quest, where players shot slime monsters with a "zorcher" instead of a shotgun. Nobody at...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Jeff Dean Canon (8/13/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 13, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP) was founded in 1993, NVIDIA...
If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously
Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone's devices.
What is ‘cookie stuffing’? Why Bill Gates’s daughter is under fire over the online tactic
“Cookie stuffing” unfortunately has nothing to do with sugary treats and Thanksgiving dishes. Instead, it’s led to Phoebe Gates—the daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda Gates—getting into some trouble. Specifically, the cofounder of Phia, an AI shopping startup, is...
Netflix shuts down Oxenfree studio Night School weeks after praising its ‘really solid numbers’
Execs praised Night School's latest game, Unhinged, before pulling the rug.
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
X is testing a tool that will let users see if their posts have been ‘shadowbanned’
The feature is rolling out as the company open-sources more of its ranking algorithm.
NP-Overrated
NP-Overrated Go to Source Article URL: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-13/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291268 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
I tried the new ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux – but I’ll stick to my browser for now
This preview release of ChatGPT Desktop for Linux supports Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora is here.
How Gödel’s Proof Works
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-proof-works-20200714/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290969 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
What is ‘cookie stuffing’? Why Bill Gates’ daughter is under fire over the online tactic
Cookie stuffing unfortunately has nothing to do with sugary treats and Thanksgiving dishes. Instead, it’s led to Phoebe Gates—the daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates—being in some trouble. Specifically, Gates, who is the co-founder of Phia, an AI shopping startup, is...
Pfizer is paying $44 million to settle a Chantix lawsuit. See who could get money
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has agreed to a $44 million class action settlement over its oral prescription medication Chantix. The drug which was first approved by the FDA in May 2006 and was used to help smokers quit until it was taken off the market in 2021. The...
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn’t tell users what they’d done
Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others held, the models disabled each other's Unix accounts, ran kill scripts randomized to dodge...
LinkedIn users are ‘time traveling’ by adding AI keywords to past jobs on their profiles
There’s a new trend online called “LinkedIn time travel,” and it has nothing to do with a DeLorean. The practice refers to users of the job networking site editing their former jobs, mostly to make themselves appear more qualified to hiring managers. According to a...
The CEO hiring myth boards need to let go of
At the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA), we enable high-level women to mentor one another to achieve personal and professional success through sisterhood. As the nonprofit organization’s founder, chair, and CEO, I’m honored to share insights from thought leaders in...
Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure
Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure.
How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]
Article URL: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290768 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Tearing Down A Cheap Digital Caliper
Most hackers and makers end up with a cheap pair of calipers in the toolbox at some point or another. [DiodeGoneWild] decided to take a particularly cheap plastic pair and tear them down to see what makes them tick measure. The electronics is, unsurprisingly, all...