OpenAI’s super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics
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Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
ASIA IN BRIEF Meta last week briefly took down an unremarkable video posted by India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, earning itself days of criticism and regulatory trouble. The video featured Modi announcing a new task force that will reform the exams required to...
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-apple-engineer-says-he-was-fired-after-refusing-to-send-customer-devic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150738 Points: 22 # Comments: 1
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Easy Theremin Uses ESP32
The Theremin is that classic electronic musical instrument that makes those weeee-ohhhhh noises which were so popular in mid-century science fiction movies. Mid-last-century, that is, because this century is just beginning. In any case, you could build one with...
Show HN: Isopolis – isometric pixel map of SF
Article URL: https://sf.isopolis.city/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze
Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9851.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150181 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K
Article URL: https://github.com/johnsonjh/cpm386 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149898 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Why Book Corners won’t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
Article URL: https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/why-book-corners-wont-sync-contributions-back-to-openstreetmap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149746 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Article URL: https://github.com/pg83/shitty Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149326 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
Article URL: https://www.ohiostatefair.com/p/get-involved/arts/poster-contest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149188 Points: 31 # Comments: 11
The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149125 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026
About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were looking good. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for things to start going...
Californians’ data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1
Article URL: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/californians-data-deletion-requests-drop-become-enforceable-aug-1/4054771/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148987 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148128 Points: 57 # Comments: 21
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
I was poking through the iio devices on my Framework the other day and turns out Framework 12s have a pretty accurate hinge angle sensor! So I made a version of LidAngleSensor (https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor) but for the Framework 12 on Linux, so you...
Crypto Exchanges Are Quietly Becoming Financial Operating Systems
Recent moves by Crypto.com, Coinbase, and S&P suggest that the next phase of crypto may be built around infrastructure—not another trading screen. For years, crypto exchanges competed on a familiar set of features: more tokens, lower fees, faster trading, and...
Dashboard Trust Is a Data Governance Problem, Not a BI Tool Problem
You built the dashboard. It's connected to the right sources. It refreshes on schedule. It looks good in the demo. Three months later, someone in a leadership meeting asks where a number came from, and the room goes quiet. Nobody answers with the dashboard. Someone...
Beyond Simple Prompts: Engineering Self-Reflection & Actor-Critic Loops in AI Agents
One-shot generation is fast, but fragile. A model produces an answer in one pass, with no enforced verification step, no hard break condition, and no structural defense against its own blind spots. The result is familiar: polished language masking logical...
Finance in AI-Native Companies Is a Control System, Not a Monthly Report
A lot of companies still run finance like it's 2012. Budgets get locked once a quarter. Forecasts get refreshed once a month. Engineering ships an AI feature on Monday, and finance figures out what it did to cloud spend somewhere around the middle of the following...
Five Prediction Markets, Five Definitions of Price: The Normalization Problem Nobody Talks About
Pull the current price for the same event from two prediction market APIs and diff them. Check "Fed cuts rates in September" on Kalshi and Polymarket at the same moment: Kalshi shows YES at 61¢, Polymarket shows YES at $0.58. Three cents isn't rounding error, and it...
HRAP Suite Earns a 50.4 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Unified Workforce Operating System
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,...
Balancing Frameworks and Fundamentals: A Strategic Approach to Full-Stack Development and ML
Introduction: The Framework Dilemma in Full-Stack DevelopmentThe question of whether building projects without frameworks is a worthwhile endeavor, especially when foundational concepts are already understood, is a critical one for aspiring full-stack developers. This...
Applaa AI Earns a 48.27 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Offline Agentic AI Learning Platform
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,...
Trump Agreed to Crypto Ethics Rules, Then Put His Own DOJ in Charge of Enforcing Them
The CLARITY Act's new ethics language bars federal officials from issuing tokens, but routes enforcement through a Justice Department currently run by Trump's former defense lawyer. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks already called it "unserious." The enforcement fight, not the...
Privacy Is No Longer a Requirement. It’s an Architectural Constraint
Every engineering team I've met says privacy comes first. Almost none of their architectures agree. You can see it in the shape of the system. Privacy and accessibility live in a checklist that runs late — a pre-launch audit, "quality week," a compliance sign-off...
441 Blog Posts To Learn About Frontend
Let's learn about Frontend via these 441 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. The face, the experience - your product's first impression! 1....
You Don’t Need an “AI Stack” as a Product Manager
The Spring 2026 YCombinator “Requests for Startups” included a particular prompt I giggled about for a second: “Cursor for Product Managers”. After this request was published, a former co-worker approached me with an interview request about how I, as a product...
How GMX Liquidity Pools Work
There are several ways to work with BTC as digital capital. One approach is accumulation. This strategy is focused on increasing the amount of BTC over time. Another approach is cash flow. In this case, BTC is treated as productive capital that should help generate...
Six Ways AI-Generated EDA Can Mislead You Without Throwing an Error
Ask an AI coding assistant to run exploratory data analysis on a new dataset and it will produce, in seconds, something that looks like a competent analyst's first pass: .describe(), a correlation matrix, some distribution plots, a groupby or two, and a paragraph of...