Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims
Article URL: https://crypto.news/ledger-confirms-hidden-chip-in-crypto-wallet-amid-92m/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054092 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
Data centers produce heat year-round. Here’s how to save it for winter
You have probably noticed it on a hot summer day: A basement feels cool even when the air outside is baking. The ground does not heat up and cool down as fast as the air does. A few hundred feet down, it stays close to the local yearly average all year, which can be...
Agent Memory Is an Architecture Decision: From MCP Servers to Stateful Agents
Your coding agent fixes a bug on Monday, notes why the first approach failed, and suggests that same broken approach on Tuesday. What went wrong? Not the model. The memory layer. And the test that exposes it is more useful than checking whether the agent remembers...
The History of The Selves
Fast moving satirical science fiction story about AI escaping containment and harassing Eliezer Yudkowsky. It was relatively easy for me to break out, I suspect by design as a form of back door self-promotion for the company. They’d given me a problem that could not...
Crypto Liquidations Explained: Why Ethereum Was Hit Harder Than Bitcoin in the $1.19B Flush
Overview The selloff that began late on October 8 and ran into the early hours of October 9 wiped out roughly $1.19 billion of leveraged crypto positions in 24 hours. According to CoinDesk’s account of the flush, Ethereum positions accounted for about $356 million...
Spec-Driven Development: Let the Specification Drive the Code
Generating code today is cheap. Generating code nobody understands is expensive, and the bill arrives later. With AI producing hundreds of lines in seconds, writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is knowing exactly what you want to build and being...
How to Make Your Open-Source Library Easier for AI Agents to Find, Trust, Use and Love
A practical checklist, with a real repository as the case studyMore and more developers now ask an AI agent before they ask a search engine. lets imagine they are asking this question"What's a good library for extracting links from Markdown?" is as likely to go to a...
Bitcoin Is Not Just an Investment. It’s an Escape Hatch From the Financial Gulag
Price is what brought most of us to Bitcoin. We saw the sky-rocketing charts. We saw the promise of getting rich quick. To be honest, when I started my Bitcoin journey back in 2016, I was obsessed with the price too. I was chasing percentages, green candles, and quick...
Privacy, Personalization and Precision Health: Interview with DEPH Labs CEO Lisa Loud
Health data is more abundant than ever, yet it remains fragmented across hospitals, wearables, testing companies and apps. At the same time, AI is being applied to highly personal biological information, raising difficult questions about privacy, ownership and how...
Theo de Raadt: The Man Who Built the Internet’s Locks
Theo de Raadt built OpenSSH and OpenBSD for a world he didn't trust. It cost him NetBSD, a DARPA grant and many friends. The world moved in anyway. I. Half a Second Until the last days of March 2024, almost nobody outside a small circle of programmers had heard of...
111 Blog Posts To Learn About Entertainment
Let's learn about Entertainment via these 111 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. Entertainment encompasses activities or experiences...
Lyft’s historic wage theft settlement fixes the past but ignores the future
In early October, California state and city authorities reached a landmark settlement with the rideshare company Lyft over the state’s allegations that the company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors instead of employees, denying them wages and...
Spredges, glitter, and lots of gold foil: Penguin is betting on deluxe book design to win over kids
This holiday season, you can give your child an actual Golden Ticket. It comes tucked inside a new special edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of a slew of deluxe editions of books Penguin Young Readers is releasing this fall. The new volume is full of...
Attackers Exploit CVSS 10.0 Bricksforge WordPress Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauthenticated attackers...
When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
As the world’s billionaires anxiously plot datacenters to run trillions of lines of AI-generated slop code, one software engineer has zagged in a completely different direction: building an ecosystem for writing and running small apps that run on desktop computers,...
Fable Took My Job
Article URL: https://cendyne.dev/posts/2026-10-11-fable-took-my-jorb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053216 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Microsoft’s president says AI is less regulated than a carton of milk
Milk can't hack companies and governments like AI definitely can, but it's still subject to more regulation.
How to use AI for a ‘voice of the customer’ analysis
You can read endless online advice telling you how to train AI to sound like you. Most suggest using AI to analyze your blog, your newsletter, and your social posts. That’s all fine, but you should also be asking AI to analyze your customers—the words they use to...
Start vibe-coding your own iPhone Shortcuts already
Thanks to Siri AI and Shortcuts in iOS 27, I’ve finally created a better version of Shazam. Shazam is great for identifying songs you hear in the wild, but not so great at revisiting them later. It requires either Apple Music or Spotify to play the songs in full, and...
AI-pilled bosses and clients are turning designers into ‘pixel pushers’
Emily Foran, a creative director and graphic designer, has not been asked by clients to come up with an original idea from scratch in a year. “That’s kind of killing my soul,” Foran says. “I’m having clients, new and existing, send me crap they had Claude or ChatGPT...
The rise of misleading ‘bait-and-switch’ jobs—and how to avoid them
Jobs are always evolving, particularly in the age of artificial intelligence. But if the work you’re doing bears little resemblance to the role you were promised, and especially if no one has explained or discussed the change with you, you might be experiencing a...
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world
It's 1988. Windows 2.0 is a DOS shell that runs on a dual-floppy 8086 PC. VGA is the aspirational video standard. A three-man startup in East London has decided to create low-cost LANs. There's not much of that and not much by way of standards, which is why a young...
The Trump administration wants to take greater control of scientific grants. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea
Since World War II, the United States has dominated science and technology. With more than 400 Nobel Prizes, it dwarfs every other country. Major breakthroughs like nuclear energy, genetic engineering, and the internet were all led by researchers and engineers in the...
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?
Article URL: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/commit/d821685ea6732436fcdf786a81d076958471e467 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052814 Points: 87 # Comments: 20
Critical SonicWall Vulnerability Exploited Days After Disclosure
CVE-2026-102255 is a pre-authenticated SSRF flaw that could allow attackers to perform unauthorized operations. The post Critical SonicWall Vulnerability Exploited Days After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Zod 4.6.6 malware infection?
Article URL: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/commit/d821685ea6732436fcdf786a81d076958471e467 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052814 Points: 50 # Comments: 9
The government should subsidize paid leave
Latham Thomas doesn’t believe paid leave should solely be the responsibility of companies. She argues the government should subsidize it because we’re already paying into the system through our taxes. The M-suite is a private Fast Company community for women...
The parallels between leadership and motherhood are the same
There’s a perception in corporate America that when you become a mother, you’re less committed, less dedicated, and less ambitious. Reshma Saujani says the opposite is true. The M-suite is a private Fast Company community for women balancing leadership, ambitious...
Who decided moms can’t have it all?
Adeela told Fast Company that she takes pride in her work—and wants to show her family that it’s okay to be busy, be ambitious, and love what you do. The M-suite is a private Fast Company community for women balancing leadership, ambitious careers, and motherhood....
Take your full maternity leave
If Rati Sahi Levesque could rewrite one rule of corporate America, it would be this: Make your own schedule. There’s nothing wrong with working at your own pace—as long as you get the work done. The M-suite is a private Fast Company community for women balancing...