What Happens During a Production Deployment? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide
You push your code. A few minutes later, it is live for real users. Between those two moments runs a long chain of machinery: builds, artefacts, migrations, health checks, traffic shifts. Every production engineer depends on that chain, and many teams still build and...
Sony’s disc-free PlayStation strategy could reshape China’s console market
On July 1, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it would stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games. This announcement was relatively ill-received by many around the world, but its implications are especially significant in China, where...
How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life
Over the past few years, the online education market has gone from niche courses to large-scale ecosystems capable of supporting people through different stages of life. One of the entrepreneurs who doesn't simply watch these changes but shapes them is Timur...
LinkedIn’s AI Slop Crackdown Could Expose the Fake Experts Flooding the Digital Marketing Industry
LinkedIn is taking aim at one of the biggest problems facing professional networks: the explosion of low-quality, AI-generated content designed to appear insightful, authoritative, and useful, but often delivering little more than recycled information dressed up as...
The TechBeat: AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think (8/9/2026)
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. ## AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think By @zbruceli [ 42 Min read...
92 Blog Posts To Learn About Infrastructure As Code
Let's learn about Infrastructure As Code via these 92 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. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of...
Cashelix Announces CASX Token Presale Ahead of Blockchain P2P Payment Platform Launch
Cashelix, a blockchain-powered payment platform focused on peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, today announced the CASX Token Presale, marking a major step toward the development of its utility-driven digital payment ecosystem. CASX is the native utility token of the...
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232221 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Tom Stanton’s supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
Article URL: https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232110 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
How to hide and unhide an app on your iPhone or iPad (and why you may want to)
There are several smart reasons most people should be hiding apps on their iPhone or iPad. Here's how to do it.
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
Article URL: https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231397 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android
If you're considering ditching iOS for an Android device, make sure you know what you might be losing.
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams
Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of those photons from radio to visible light, though? Well, now that’s rather interesting. [Daniel] aka [milar111]’s LYME...
This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Article URL: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231154 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/professor-israel-gaza-university-of-minnesota Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231260 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/09/israeli-startup-irregular-linked-to-ai-hacks-openai-anthropic-meta.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231022 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
The pros and cons of the switch to digital games
More gaming companies are moving toward stopping production of game discs and cartridges. Is it a bad thing?
I’ve gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it Go to Source This spring, my wife and I moved from the Denver suburbs into the Colorado Rockies. The high-altitude retreat presented a welcome reprieve from our otherwise...
This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.
Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center
Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center Go to Source Article URL:...
Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving “thinking” into latent space
Article URL: https://blog.n.ichol.ai/packaging-latent-reasoning-as-a-real-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230550 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
Article URL: https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230514 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Alcon – 218,395 breached accounts
In August 2026, the Alcon eye care company was named in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data allegedly sourced from Alcon containing 218k unique email addresses along with other largely corporate B2B contact fields,...
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230477 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
Article URL: https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230066 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT’s Greatest RISC (1998)
Article URL: https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230022 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Continously Extruding 3D Printed Tubes with Compressed Air
[Jan] of [Roetz 4.0] has a unique approach to multi-material 3D printing: he’s designed an extruder which takes two different materials and extrudes one as a shell around the other. This opens up some interesting possibilities, such as a conductive filament surrounded...