Meta Is Rethinking Its Bizarre Subscription Plan That Put Even Offline Functions Behind a Paywall
SwiftList Earns a 83.84 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI Platform for Generating Complete Property Listings
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itsfolio.tech Earns a 50 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Resume-to-Portfolio Converter
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Designing for Human Confidence: Why Trust Alone Isn’t Enough for AI Products
There is a subtle moment that happens every time we use an AI product.It rarely lasts more than a few seconds, and most of us barely notice it.GitHub Copilot suggests a function. Cursor proposes a refactor across half a dozen files. Perplexity answers a question with...
Smart Care Triage Earns a 35.03 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Decision-Support Tool for Hospital Intake
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Agent Memory Has a Lock-In Problem. Open Formats Are How We Fix It.
The bug in the ecosystem Run this thought experiment. Your agent has been in production for a year. It has accumulated thousands of memories: user preferences, resolved decisions, corrections, domain facts. Now you want to move to a different memory system — better...
HostLens AI Earns a 55.35 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Agentic GraphRAG AI Assistant for Rental Market Insights
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Electric Vehicles Have Gotten Better, But Have They Earned Your Trust Yet?
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's Weekly Newsletter that curates results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thank you for having voted in our polls in the past. This week's question has been floating around for years,...
The Next AI War Will Be Fought Over Access, Not Models.
For the last three years, we’ve all been asking the same question. “Who will build the smartest AI?” Will it be OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI? etc. It’s a fascinating race, but I think it’s distracting us from a much bigger story. The more I watch what’s...
The TechBeat: A Developer’s Guide to Agentic AI Frameworks and Components (7/28/2026)
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. ## The Anatomy of AI: A Developer's Field Guide to the Internals By...
91 Blog Posts To Learn About Dotnet Core
Let's learn about Dotnet Core via these 91 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. .NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework for...
AI vs Google: The Quest for Visibility
Google search has been a part of our lives for decades now, and unless one was born under a rock and stayed there all these years, we have all had occasion to use it to obtain information for practically everything under the sun. In fact, to digital natives, anybody...
AI Security Startup Mate Surpasses $50M in Funding Amid Growing Enterprise Adoption
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is changing how organizations think about cybersecurity. Security operations teams are expected to investigate incidents faster, respond more quickly, and manage increasingly sophisticated attacks that can evolve at...
Why Linux Firewalls Are Moving From iptables to nftables
For many years, Linux firewall management was dominated by iptables. It became the standard tool used by system administrators to protect servers, networks, and production environments. However, modern Linux systems introduced a new firewall framework: nftables....
Cybersecurity in 2026 Is a Race Against Speed
For years, cybersecurity advice sounded simple: use a strong password, turn on two-factor authentication, and don’t click suspicious links. That advice still matters. Agencies such as CISA still recommend stronger authentication, password managers, software updates,...
AI-found bugs aren’t proving any easier to exploit despite the hype
Anthropic's Project Glasswing may have uncovered tens of thousands of potential security flaws, but new research suggests AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has yet to produce the wave of real-world attacks many expected. In research shared with The Register,...
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears
CAF Bank, which serves 14,000 charities, has suspended online banking as it fixes a vulnerability in how third-party software connects to its portal. The outage has left some organizations struggling to run payroll after being cut from their accounts. In a message to...
DEF CON bans Meta-style ‘pervert glasses’
Ahead of DEF CON 2026 opening its doors in Las Vegas next week, conference organizers said they have imposed a ban on “Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities.” Statements made via its social media channels went on to say that no exceptions will be made for...
The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain
Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers.
Rethinking Ransomware Defense at the Filesystem Layer
Most ransomware post-mortems start at the wrong moment. They start with the ransom note, because that's the moment everyone noticed. But the note is the end of the story. By the time it appears, the attacker has usually had two or three weeks of quiet, unsupervised...
Formatif Earns a 44 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a 100% Offline, Local-First Desktop Media Processing Suite
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How to remap the Copilot key on your keyboard to something more helpful
Pressing the Copilot key on your laptop keyboard launches Copilot. But whether or not you use Microsoft's AI, you can remap the key to trigger a different feature.
The Future of Human Work: Finding Our Place in the Age of AI
The explosive rise of ChatGPT at the beginning of 2023 marked, for the general public, the beginning of the generative artificial intelligence era. Within just two months of its launch, the system had reached an estimated 100 million monthly active users [1], despite...
How Do I Profile eBPF Code?
How Do I Profile eBPF Code? Go to Source Article URL: https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-07-22-how-do-i-profile-ebpf-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085811 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Xbox explains what caused this week’s ‘unacceptable’ major outage
An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."
Britain hopes £7.3M will help electric and hydrogen aircraft take off
The UK is stumping up a modest £7.3 million ($9.7 million) to develop the infrastructure needed for electric and hydrogen-powered flight. The Department for Transport (DfT) says the money will be shared among eight projects covering airport charging, hydrogen storage,...
Show HN: XY – Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated charts, written in Rust
Show HN: XY – Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated charts, written in Rust Go to Source Article URL: https://github.com/reflex-dev/xy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085798 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be ‘Last to Breaking News’
Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' Go to Source Article URL: https://www.slow-journalism.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085731 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Zig’s Incremental Compilation Internals
Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals Go to Source Article URL: https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085666 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid Go to Source The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.