This C++ Refactor Cut the Code in Half and Made It Faster
2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Community Choice Winners Selected Through 80,000 Votes
2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Community Choice Winners Selected Through 80,000 Votes Go to Source Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today announced the winners of the 2026...
Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow
Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow Go to Source Previously in the series The Bare Minimum Setup CLAUDE.md Done Right Models, Tiers, and Effort The Context Window Tax Hooks That Guard Your Code MCP Servers Worth Adding Skills...
Meet the Writer: Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa, Principal Product Marketing Manager at SUSE
Meet the Writer: Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa, Principal Product Marketing Manager at SUSE Go to Source Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some...
How to Write API Documentation That Developers Actually Read
How to Write API Documentation That Developers Actually Read Go to Source 84% of developers use technical documentation for learning APIs. Yet most API docs are so badly written that developers abandon integrations within an hour....
Inside Coins.ph: Wei Zhou on Stablecoin Payments, USDC and Global Expansion
Inside Coins.ph: Wei Zhou on Stablecoin Payments, USDC and Global Expansion Go to Source Ask Wei Zhou to explain the stablecoin economy and he does not reach for a whitepaper. He reaches for a shipping metaphor. Money, in his telling,...
An Agent That Cannot Protect Itself Cannot Work
An Agent That Cannot Protect Itself Cannot Work Go to Source We usually discuss AI self-preservation as if it were an optional and dangerous feature that developers might accidentally add to an autonomous system. This framing is...
How to Build Fast Client-Side Tools Without Heavy Frameworks
How to Build Fast Client-Side Tools Without Heavy Frameworks Go to Source In today’s web ecosystem, npm dependencies are inflated, JavaScript bundles regularly breach megabytes, and server-side render times dictate user experience....
The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think (8/4/2026)
The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think (8/4/2026) Go to Source How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 4, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight...
Upwind First to Detect One of the Most Deceptive npm Compromises Yet Recorded
Upwind First to Detect One of the Most Deceptive npm Compromises Yet Recorded Go to Source Most security incidents map onto an existing budget line. This one does not.The compromise Upwind Security was first to report did not exploit...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175248 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon’s injunction on its AI shopping bot
Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon's injunction on its AI shopping bot Go to Source Amazon's public fight with Perplexity over online shopping started in November 2025.
We just got our first real look at how small X’s ad business is
Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform.
The Creator Economy Is Bigger Than Hollywood: Here’s Why
The Creator Economy Is Bigger Than Hollywood: Here's Why Go to Source Hollywood has been the stuff that dreams have been made of for more than a century and a quarter now. It has given us epic movies, larger-than-life film stars and...
SpaceX’s first public earnings statement shows the financials of an AI company in 2026
That's a lot of capital expenditure.
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192 Points: 49 # Comments: 4
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT
In the face of an epidemic of AI-enabled cheating and research suggesting its products hamper learning, OpenAI is doing the sensible thing and pushing more AI on students and teachers. Wait, did I say sensible? My mistake. The House of Altman announced a trio of new...
Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages
Next.js coders toiling on complex React applications live with an ongoing low-grade anxiety about running out of memory. It’s not dementia; it’s the software. The dev can fill RAM all day long until the JavaScript engine (often V8) chokes, causing the underlying...
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller
Getting a small local language model running on a notebook or even smartphone in 2026 is trivial. But what about something even smaller and lower-power. Say, like an ESP32 microcontroller that costs less than $10? It might sound impossible — the device is primarily...
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174407 Points: 30 # Comments: 8
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 332 # Comments: 16
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174369 Points: 16 # Comments: 16
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers.
SpaceX posts strong revenue in first earnings report since IPO
SpaceX posts strong revenue in first earnings report since IPO Go to Source SpaceX reported it lost more than half a billion dollars in its first quarterly report as a public company, but the loss was less than Wall Street expected...
Stripe CEO says his ‘urgency’ to drop out of MIT ‘was a bit unnecessary’
Stripe CEO says his ‘urgency’ to drop out of MIT ‘was a bit unnecessary’ Go to Source Patrick Collison dropped out of MIT twice before going on to become the cofounder and CEO of Stripe. In an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup...
SpaceX doubles revenues on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.
The data center boom’s climate blind spot
I spend my days helping companies build business resilience, lowering risk, and driving impact through decarbonization. Lately, almost every one of those conversations comes back to data centers. The global race to build data centers is accelerating at a breathtaking...