8 ways I optimize Zorin OS for peak performance – from a decades-long Linux user
Like most Linux distributions, Zorin OS offers a lot, especially in terms of customization. These are my favorite tweaks, and why you should do them, too.
Dead touchscreen? This Android tool lets you extract files from an unresponsive phone
If you've ever broken your phone's screen but still wanted to get data or files from it, you know how painful that can be, but there is a way to do it.
Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation
Article URL: https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381211 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
It is an amazing time for programmers
It is an amazing time for programmers Go to Source Article URL: https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381211 Points: 46 # Comments: 27
A Diffraction Grating Makes This Clock Readable
We’ve seen just about every possible way to make a clock here at Hackaday over the years. So it’s rare to have a first, but here we are with [Twisted & Tinned], who’s made a novel clock with a diffraction grating. The display of the clock looks for all the world...
ChatGPT may be able to diagnose medical issues, but we still need actual doctors. Here’s why
A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an...
AI Engineers aren’t safe from being replaced by AI
Article URL: https://dmanco.dev/2025/08/17/fear-not-even-ai-engineers-will-be-replaced-by-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380987 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Why I Wrote My Own Terminal Emulator (and How)
I've written before about the wrapper I built around Claude Code - a TUI that hot-swaps API backends underneath it. You configure your backends once and switch between them mid-session with a hotkey; the normal way to change backend is to edit a config file and...
How I Stress-Tested 3 AI 3D Generators on the Same Inputs: What the Numbers Actually Show
TL;DR: I'm Marcus Chen from the Meshy team. I ran the same five prompts through Meshy 6, Tripo v3.1, and Rodin Gen-2.5 and compared the outputs on latency, mesh cost, geometry quality, and topology. No single tool won across the board. Meshy was fastest on text-to-3D...
Building A Powerful Earnings Surprise Radar with Python
Introduction: Why Earnings Season Needs a Radar Earnings season can get noisy very quickly. Hundreds of companies report within a short window, and not every report deserves the same level of attention. For a financial media team, that creates a coverage problem. For...
AI Agents Don’t Fail Because of the LLM. They Fail Because of the System Around It.
Most production (AI) agents don't fail due to an unreliable language model (LLM). Agents most commonly fail because of an unreliable environment in which they are running. The same issues that cause an individual action by the agent to be poor include retries causing...
Tokenized Markets Need Guardrails, Not Gatekeepers
Traditional finance is going all-in on tokenized markets. The NYSE announced the development of a 24/7 tokenized trading platform and JP Morgan launched a tokenized money-market fund on Ethereum. With Robinhood releasing an Ethereum L2 testnet for 24/7 trading and...
The RAG Data-Flow Audit: A Practical Framework for Enterprise AI Teams
Most enterprise AI teams are moving too fast through the wrong part of the problem. They start by asking: Which LLM should we use?Which vector database is fastest?Which orchestration framework has the cleanest developer experience?Can legal approve the vendor...
I’m Proudly AI-Assisted. I’m Done Apologizing for It.
From Technical Mastery to Conceptual Mastery in the Age of AI — and Why That Makes People So Uncomfortable There is something that fascinates me about the current debates around artificial intelligence. And when I say "fascinates," I mostly mean: sometimes worries me,...
Why LLMs Rewrite History (And How Multi-Agent Systems Can Help Restore It)
Recently, while reading about historical document restoration and archaic text retrieval, I noticed a recurring, catastrophic failure mode. When standard Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines process 18th-century manuscripts, the software chokes on irregular ink...
Someone Is Selling Your Data to Train AI. Why Isn’t It You?
Every major AI lab is quietly running into the same wall — data. Most frontier models have been trained on Common Crawl — a nonprofit web archive running since 2008, totalling more than 10 petabytes and cited in over 12,000 research papers. The low-hanging fruit is...
On-Device Summaries: Surviving Transcript Pressure
Yesterday's transcript in today's prompt budget The first article in this series solved the isolated summary call: a typed NoteSummary binding cleanly to SwiftUI, with a schema-validity gate to prove the shape still held. That is enough for a single request. Add a...
Iconic Brand Guidelines And Logo Manuals From 90S
A Trip Down Memory Lane: Iconic Brand Guidelines from the Golden Eras of Branding Remember those days? The 60s, 70s, and 80s – a vibrant tapestry of cultural shifts, technological leaps, and, crucially for us at Brandkity, a burgeoning era of sophisticated branding....
The Ultimate Guide to Google Antigravity 2.0 – Complete Automation Without Any Code
Table of Contents Introduction: What Is Google Antigravity 2.0? The Core Architecture: How Antigravity Works — In Plain English Built-In Tools: What Your Agent Can Already Do Custom Skills: Teaching Your Agent New Things Multi-Agent Teamwork: When One Agent Calls for...
The Real Problem With AI Isn’t AI. It’s the Marketing.
How a genuinely transformative technology got buried under the same hype playbook we used for "smart" toasters. Do you remember when everything had to be "smart"? Smart fridges. Smart toothbrushes. Smart water bottles. For roughly a decade, the bar for being "smart"...
7 Security Problems Nobody Is Solving in the Age of AI Agents
A few years ago, most AI systems simply answered questions. Today, AI agents are doing the work. They can schedule meetings, create reports, interact with customers, analyze financial data, update cloud infrastructure, and coordinate with other AI systems. Some...
WhatsApp Web Privacy Mode Earns a 51 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Auto-Blur Protection for Screen Sharing
WhatsApp Web was never designed to be watched by 40 colleagues. This free browser extension fixes that - it auto-detects screen sharing and blurs your chats instantly, so you can keep WhatsApp open during calls without the anxiety. No setup, no data collection, no cost.
Kafka Won’t Save Your Architecture If You Don’t Understand Coupling
Message queues are powerful tools, but they do not magically make distributed systems simpler. Imagine this: your system consists of several services communicating over HTTP. Most of the time, everything works fine. But eventually, one service starts slowing down,...
Weedhack Attacks Minecraft Users, CountLoader Hits 86K, Miners Spread via Pirated Content
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new campaign targeting Minecraft players via YouTube to spread malware capable of gaining control of victims' systems. The Minecraft-focused malware-as-a-service (MaaS) campaign has been codenamed Weedhack by McAfee Labs,...
Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/doubling-down-controversial-claims-microsoft-accelerates-quantum-computing-plans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380516 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Poland wants to ban phones and smartwatches in schools
The Polish government has approved several bills, including one that would ban phones in the classroom.
Google will allow websites to exclude themselves from AI search results
The company says opting out won't impact placement in regular searches.
Turning an Old 3D Printer Into a Vinyl Cutter for Cheap
Replacing a 3D printer’s extruder with a cutting blade seems like an easy way to do things like vinyl cutting, but you cannot just put on any blade and expect good results. The right type of blade is called a drag knife and it’s designed so that it follows the...
3 questions to ask before you cut a benefit
From the spreadsheet, cutting a benefit looks like one of the cleanest decisions available to a leader under cost pressure. It removes a recurring expense, it saves cash fast, and the workforce will absorb it. At least that is the assumption. It is sometimes a correct...
America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/americas-data-center-build-out-is-falling-way-behind-schedule-e408a9a8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379704 Points: 8 # Comments: 0