The Ghost Town in Your Flash Array
The Ghost Town in Your Flash Array Go to Source Why 90% of Hot Storage Is Dead Weight (and How Modern Archiving Fixes It) There is an unspoken rule etched into every storage engineer’s whiteboard, sometimes called the Fundamental...
Dawn Myers is making it easier to style, detangle, and care for curly hair
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Testing Provenance-Based Controls Against Indirect Prompt Injection in AI Agents
Testing Provenance-Based Controls Against Indirect Prompt Injection in AI Agents Go to Source Most defenses against prompt injection are built around one question: does this text look malicious?I spent a weekend betting that's the...
Here’s how long your Google Pixel phone will get software updates
Your Google Pixel phone has a set lifetime of support based on when it first went on sale. After that, you have few options for using it securely.
Designing Deterministic Value Resolution for Competing Gameplay Systems in Unreal Engine
Designing Deterministic Value Resolution for Competing Gameplay Systems in Unreal Engine Go to Source VRS, the Value Resolution System, grew out of DAS, an Unreal Engine plugin for abilities and effects in the spirit of Unreal's...
Comparing JEV and LLMs on Structured Decision Tasks
Comparing JEV and LLMs on Structured Decision Tasks Go to Source I began with a simple thesis: For decisions, accuracy matters more than speed. JEV is fast because it constrains a task to a bounded decision contract. I assumed that...
We’re in the middle of a PS5 Pro shortage and GTA 6 will only make it worse
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to become the most popular game ever and Sony is finding it very difficult to satisfy demand for the PlayStation 5 Pro.
The hidden features every Waze user should know about
There are a load of features tucked away in Google's 'other' mapping app.
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043682 Points: 50 # Comments: 11
Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis
This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children
Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-source-microsoft-office-excel-powerpoint-and-word-replications-autodesk-tools-and-other-subscription-based-services-may-come-next Comments URL:...
Why it’s important to backup data saved on your older thumb drives
Transferring important files to a thumb drive is brilliant for portability, but not always great for longevity. Here's why you should back them up elsewhere.
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Article URL: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Inside a Mystery 1980s Filter IC Featuring Switched Capacitors
Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips. Labelled only with a date code of the 47th week of 1985 and a mysterious F1-10-5 alongside a logo that didn’t lead to any hits in the typical IC...
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
How HN: Go-dev-auth zero-dependency authentication library for Go
Article URL: https://github.com/go-dev-auth/go-dev-auth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042942 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Here’s how much the PlayStation 5 cost in 2020 vs. 2026
The PS5 hasn't seen a major price cut or bundle like its predecessors. Instead, you'll pay even more for one today than at launch.
Bot traffic plunged to near 0 following the strike on its Vladimir data center
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/perevaa.bsky.social/post/3mxlm6w2wcs26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042896 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
What is the oldest Samsung device that still gets software updates in 2026?
Knowing how long your phone will get updates is important for deciding when to upgrade.
What’s the difference between Android Automotive and Google Built-In?
One is a set of apps while the other can run almost everything inside of a car.
Why CPU overclocking is mostly now a thing of the past
The performance gains you get with modern chips aren't as noteworthy as they used to be.
Scandinavia’s first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scandinavia-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-population.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042370 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Don’t Put Tilde In Your Path
Article URL: https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042425 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Valen’s Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
Article URL: https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042362 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
How to properly clean your solar panels (and why it’s important)
Dirt can cut solar output, but cleaning only pays off when the numbers make sense.
Here’s how much the MacBook Pro cost in 2021 vs. 2026
You'll be shocked to learn things are getting a lot more expensive.
AI is creating a ‘human premium’ for art created by people
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5vgjm3gk7rzo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042107 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things
Article URL: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/using-ai-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-persist-hard-things Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041765 Points: 16 # Comments: 10
The list of AI insiders sounding the alarm on their own companies keeps growing
Last week, OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigned from the company, becoming the latest to join what is, in his words, a “parade of former colleagues” who have left roles at AI companies amid concerns about the tech or its use. In a subsequent essay for The...
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody’s ready
Autonomous AI systems are fully capable of carrying out a nightmare cyberattack scenario – finding and attacking critical operational technology and industrial equipment, and shutting down access to water, power, and other daily life necessities. If this happens,...