The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth
Article URL: https://www.effort.news/p4ne Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264352 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01828 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264583 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products
Article URL: https://www.suzanne3d.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264755 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Optimizing Apache Spark for Large-Scale Data Processing: Techniques, Tuning, and Best Practices
Modern E-commerce systems generate massive volumes of data, orders, customers, payments, shipments, returns, browsing analytics. A production data lake must process this data efficiently and reliably on Databricks.This guide explains every important PySpark...
Your AI-Generated Website Is Failing at SEO: Here’s Why
The Rise of AI Website BuildersIf you've used tools like v0 by Vercel, Bolt.new, or other AI website generators recently, you know how incredibly fast they are at spinning up beautiful UIs. Within seconds, you have a fully functional web app. But there is a hidden...
I Cut a Startup’s AWS Bill by 40%: Here’s How
A few months ago, I was brought in by a Series A B2B SaaS startup. They were burning through their runway at an alarming rate, and their biggest expense outside of payroll was their AWS bill, which was sitting at a staggering $14,000 per month. They were preparing to...
Alloy Raises $8M Seed Led by Square Peg To Build The Debugging Layer for Robotics
Robotics sells machines that work around the clock and quietly employs some of the best engineers alive to work out why they stopped. When a robot fails in the field, the investigation can consume days and sometimes weeks inside log files, dashboards and custom...
394 Blog Posts To Learn About Iot
Let's learn about Iot via these 394 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. Where we can read how startups are attempting to make our...
$ZAMA Lists on Revolut, Bringing Blockchain Privacy Into The Mainstream
Paris, France, August 11th, 2026/Chainwire/--Zama, the fastest growing confidentiality protocol for onchain finance, has listed its native token $ZAMA on the main Revolut app across the EEA, putting a leading privacy project (and the case for onchain privacy) in front...
HireQuotient’s EasySource Delivers $60,000 Cost Savings for Stern at Home Therapy
San Francisco, USA, August 11th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--HireQuotient, a pioneer in artificial intelligence-driven talent acquisition solutions, who announced their strategic partnership with Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) last week to empower frontline industries with AI...
What Project Hail Mary Can Teach IT Professionals (Part 1)
Pre-Launch Checklist What follows are some observations and ideas that are inspired by “Project Hail Mary”, both the book by Andy Weir and the movie it inspired. If you haven’t read/watched them (and I highly recommend you do!) and you don’t want it spoiled, you...
AITX’s SARA Shows Why Most Agentic AI Never Leaves the Alert Screen
Photo courtesy of AITX Every agentic AI demo ends in the same place. The system notices something, produces a clean summary of what it noticed, and hands the decision back to a person waiting on the other side of the screen.That handoff is where most of what gets...
Disproportionate Collapse: What Building Codes Know About Your Cascading Failures
A 1968 tower collapse forced civil engineers to design for the failure of any single element. Distributed systems have the parts — circuit breakers, bulkheads, failovers — but not always the discipline. This piece continues a habit I lean on: exploring other...
The Internet, The Web and Its Layers Explained: Down The Rabbit Hole Part 1
Everything that Google can show us is roughly just 4% of the internet, the remaining 96% lies in depths that the majority of us have never been to. These are rough and widely cited numbers that are generally considered to be approximate, but the true depths of the...
Why Agentic AI Systems Fail in Production (And What Reliable Architecture Actually Requires)
The moment the agent performs a sequence of tasks for the first time, feels like a breakthrough. The moment the agent repeats it for the second time, it seems repeatable. But once it performs the task hundred times and even more, people think it’s ready for...
Why Every Enterprise SaaS Platform Is Becoming a Workflow Engine
When I started researching enterprise HR platforms for my company, I expected to spend most of my time comparing feature lists. Which platform had better reporting? Which one offered more integrations? Which one had AI capabilities? The deeper I went, the less those...
MCP Security: Trust Boundaries, Confused Deputies, and the Threats the Spec Won’t Catch For You
The short version: The Model Context Protocol's authorization spec is actually pretty good. The way the world has implemented it is not. Only about 8.5% of public MCP servers implement OAuth at all, a quarter have no authentication whatsoever, and over half rely on...
Joash Boyton of Acquiry on Why Buying Software Can Beat Building It
I have always thought the build-versus-buy question is framed too narrowly. A company decides it needs a new product, capability or market position, then someone asks what it would cost to build internally. That number becomes the benchmark for whether an acquisition...
Readers Can’t Agree on Tech’s Most Overhyped Trend
Welcome to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's brand-new Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! If you were hoping our readers would decisively...
Why AI Agents Break When Trying to Use Crypto Wallets Directly
AI agents are moving beyond chat interfaces into systems that can perform real work. In crypto, that often means connecting an agent directly to a blockchain wallet and expecting it to execute transactions, interact with smart contracts, or manage onchain assets...
Beyond the Prompt: Building Agentic AI with Built-In Brand Guardrails
Beyond the Prompt: Building Agentic AI with Built-In Brand Guardrails A few months ago, John had developed an agent that clearly executed instructions up to the letter of the spirit, but it still messed up with things. It had clear access to a customer knowledge base...
A Language Model Can Be Honest in Prose and Still Fabricate in JSON
Ask a language model a question it can't answer, and it will usually tell you so. This is trained behavior, and the industry measures it — there are benchmarks scoring models on their willingness to say "I don't know."Every one of those benchmarks asks the model in...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Has Reinvented Drug Discovery. Now Come the Borders (8/11/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 11, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Steve Wozniak's Birthday in 1950, Neptune's Ring Arcs Found in 1990, The First Patent for Wifi...
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.
Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes
Article URL: https://www.simulationslabs.com/blogs/AI_Is_Solving_CTF_Challenges_in_Minutes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264578 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/wisconsin-cops-tracked-a-man-with-flock-cameras-to-arrest-him-for-weed-2000795424 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264273 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Marketing isn’t a cost center anymore
For most of its history, marketing lived on the expense side of the ledger. It was the function that built awareness and made the company look good. Its budget was treated accordingly: nice to have, first to cut, hard to defend in a downturn. But that era is ending....
Why software factories are back – and how they work in the age of AI
Imagine submitting your vibe-coded app to a service that validates, tests, and then mass-produces it in a repeatable, automated fashion for delivery to a wide audience.
Government workers can officially waste time scrolling TikTok again
The app was banned from government devices in 2022.