The Hidden Cost of Agentic Code Generation
When the cost of generating code drops to nearly zero, you don't just write code faster; you end up with ten times more of it, turning software from an asset into a liability. The efficiencies agentic code generation are real, but the true costs are poorly understood....
284 Blog Posts To Learn About Social Media Marketing
Let's learn about Social Media Marketing via these 284 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. Marketing but for social media. Think Facebook,...
AI is feminine, Bitcoin is Masculine
AI is the helper Eve to your Adam I don't know if you too have noticed this but AI has been coded to be lovely and nice. Ever so polite, it's words arranged in neat rows with cute little meanings. Anything can be explained at grade 5 level. AI can be sweet to a fault....
How Open Source Runs the Mapping World
Open-source standards and tooling quietly became the default infrastructure of digital maps. Why the big tech giants now build on them and sponsor them. On July 22, 2025, OpenStreetMap.org changed how it draws the map. For about fifteen years the site had shipped...
Redefining Hiring Integrity in the AI Era: Why Trust, Structure, and Accountability Matter More Than
I recently saw a founder discover that his project had been shipped overseas to someone who was not authorized, properly vetted, or compliant to work on it. That should make any business owner pause. It was not just a staffing mistake. It was a trust problem. The...
The Bug Stops Here: How One Engineer Is Redefining What Software Quality Actually Means
Boris Vasilev has spent years at the unglamorous end of the software stack — catching what everyone else missed. Here's why that makes him one of the most important people in the room. Software quality assurance doesn't get the conference keynotes. It doesn't attract...
Startup Security Roadmap: What Matters at Seed, Series A, and Beyond
Who this is for: Founders, CTOs, and engineering leads at B2B SaaS startups. Whether you're pre-revenue or approaching your first enterprise sales cycle, this is a practical, stage-by-stage breakdown of what security actually costs you if you get it wrong, and what it...
Why Speed Matters: How Performance in Analytics Saves Business from “Digital Paralysis”
Most low-code data analytics tools trade performance for convenience: they break down past a few hundred million rows. Megaladata takes a different approach: a proprietary compute core, in-memory execution, SIMD-level optimizations, and a custom memory manager deliver...
The Flux.2-klein-loras Model: How to Have Stylistic Control Over Text-to-Image Generation
Created by DeverStyle, these LoRAs enable stylistic control over text-to-image generation without modifying the base model. The collection includes eight distinct style adapters: Teal Dark, Blueprint/Wireframe, Slay The Spire 2 (two variants), Cyanide and Happiness,...
How the Worst Digital Casino Bought Its Way to Success: The Kalshi Influence Network Graph
Kalshi's deep connections to the Trump administration, legal timeline, and state gaming laws.
The Prompt Was Fine Until It Had To Review Code
I started with a simple AI prompt for developer work. It had the usual parts: role, task, output format, and a few constraints. That was enough for small jobs. Review this function. Explain this error. Suggest a plan. Clean up this note. Then the tasks got closer to...
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SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love
While Microsoft sweeps the confetti off the floor of its Build event, it may be a good moment to reflect on what it didn't say as much as what it did. Taking the spotlight was AI agent Scout, ready to "understand how work gets done" and "take action without needing to...
Tech Coalition ‘Athena’ Targets OSS Vulnerabilities Ahead of Disclosure
Over two dozen organizations built a shared platform to triage vulnerabilities, fix them, and secure the software before patches arrive. The post Tech Coalition ‘Athena’ Targets OSS Vulnerabilities Ahead of Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New way of making espresso with ultrasound
Article URL: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/06/New-way-making-espresso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552440 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
How to tell if you have a changeable personality according to science
Most people believe they are far more capable of changing their personality than they actually are. This is hardly surprising. Humans are deeply invested in flattering illusions about themselves. We routinely overestimate our intelligence, morality, attractiveness,...
ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss
Weeks after Salesforce boasted about the adoption of "headless CRM," the concept of "headless ERP" crops up. This notion, according to Seth Ravin, CEO of third-party support vendor Rimini Street, is coming to help beleaguered ERP customers escape the application...
France’s digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well
Digital sovereignty loomed large at Nextcloud's annual summit in Munich last week, where Benoît Piédallu, National Project Manager of Shared Digital Services at the French Ministry of Education, injected a dose of reality into the debate. Nextcloud is an open source...
Fake Microsoft Alerts Used to Deploy North Korean NarwhalRAT Malware
The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. "The attack email contained a message...
The four hidden forces behind how you actually work
A few years ago during a financially uncertain time for our family, I tried to motivate my husband the same way I motivate myself: with anxiety. I’d paint the worst-case scenario, hoping that fear would make him more engaged with our strained household finances. Fear...
Justice Department backs xAI in NAACP lawsuit over data center pollution
xAI has some powerful friends, and they're asking the court to dismiss NAACP's lawsuit.
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551876 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Bike-Powered Shredder Makes Short Work of 3D Printer Waste
[Brogan M Pratt] and his students do a lot of 3D printing, and as such found themselves producing a lot of plastic waste. Seeing an opportunity, they built a bike-powered plastic shredder that turns a little human exercise into the power needed to transform waste...
Inside the cloud’s new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation
When Spotify evaluated its cloud compute options, it needed more than incremental improvements. Its recommendation engine delivers real-time suggestions to millions of users around the clock, placing heavy demands on compute infrastructure while requiring tight...
John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550779 Points: 121 # Comments: 55
Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.
CISA Flags LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Flaw Exploited for Root Privilege Escalation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June...
Cisco Releases Security Updates for Actively Exploited SD-WAN Manager Flaw
Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0. "A vulnerability in the web...
Cisco Patches Another SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks
Cisco recently became aware of the exploitation of CVE-2026-20262, a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager zero-day that allows arbitrary file write. The post Cisco Patches Another SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
I Could’ve Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID
Article URL: https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550936 Points: 28 # Comments: 4