LLMs Aren’t Inevitable
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Amazon to Retire Fire Tablets, Replace Them With Android-Based Alexa Tablets
The new tablets cost more than any of Amazon's Fire models.
What’s the difference between RAM and ROM memory?
RAM and ROM are two core types of memory used in every computing device, but their meanings haven't stayed the same since their inception.
How to change your Apple ID country (and what you should do beforehand)
Jumping between countries can be a hassle when it comes to Apple apps and services. Luckily, there's a few easy ways to get everything prepared for when you do.
Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry
Article URL: https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031653 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Engadget review recap: The best of 2026
A roundup of recent reviews from Engadget.
The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn’t
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but...
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare’s free tier
Article URL: https://github.com/rociiu/talorys Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031614 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
This Cooler Company Is Putting Diamond in Its Data Center Waterblocks
This is a new level of precious material usage beyond silver heatpaste.
A grief-stricken road trip, The Traitors on the go and other new indie games worth checking out
Here's our weekly roundup of indie games to look forward to.
It’s not ‘AI,’ and it’s not ‘superintelligence.’ So, what is it?
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence” made the technology sound fake. Instead, he said, his government would start calling it “superintelligence,” or “SI.” Not long after...
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is now called Assisted Driving in Europe
Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving in Europe, as it seeks to get it approved in more countries.
Why Every Microwave Has a “Popcorn” Button, But Every Bag Warns You Not to Use It
[Hyperfixed] has a podcast episode that does a deep dive into exactly why bags of microwave popcorn advise against using your microwave’s popcorn setting (in North America, anyway.) The answer is probably more complex than one expects, and involves the long history of...
Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison
The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers. The post Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Nobody trusts HR. It’s up to companies to fix it
Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I also challenged HR leaders to seize the moment and help drive the requisite cultural change within their organizations. Many people...
Googlebooks mark the end of the old Google
Does Google still believe in the open web? With the launch of its new Googlebooks, it doesn’t feel that way. Googlebooks are Google’s attempt to establish a new platform of Android-based laptops, with native Android app support and tight connectivity with Android...
This free tool fixes your copy-paste headaches
Have you ever pasted text into Slack or Google Docs and noticed that everything looks just plain wrong? You’re not alone. Formatting is a mess on the internet right now, mostly because different apps use different standards. There’s rich text, used by the likes of...
RAMageddon: 3 tips to handle the rising cost of computer memory
Unless you happen to live with a software engineer or avid gamer, you may not be aware of the current shortage in computer RAM—which your resident computer expert may be calling RAMageddon or the RAMpocalypse. The RAM shortage is a familiar story if you’ve ever dealt...
Home price shifts across local housing markets, as told by 3 maps
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. When we make county-level home price maps at ResiClub, we usually shade each county by its result. That works, but it has a blind spot: It treats every...
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Researchers say two characters available to typosquatters and phisherfolk can trick Chromium browsers into displaying lookalike URLs as genuine web addresses. Wangling a domain name to look an awful lot like that of a popular website is nothing new. We’ve all...
AI Isn’t Escaping. We Built an Agent and Expected a Human.
Agents are doing what the setup allows. Open goals, short briefs, and soft “be good” rules do not ship the constraints a person was already carrying. Someone holds up an empty leash. “Darling, the AI has escaped again.” The joke works because it is how we talk: as if...
Build Your Own AI Agent Execution Trace in Python.
AI agents are getting better at doing things, not just answering questions. They can call APIs, search databases, execute functions, inspect files, make decisions, and continue working through a task without waiting for a human after every step, and that sounds great...
The Weakest Link in Satellite Security Might Never Leave Earth
Picture a satellite hack, and most people imagine a hacker somehow reaching up into orbit. That image is mostly wrong, but it’s a useful place to start because the real weak point is usually sitting in a building on the ground: a control room, a network switch, a...
How I Proved a 12-Million-Record Data Migration Was Actually Correct
The first time my team compared our migrated data against the original, only 86% of records matched on the field that mattered most. By the final run, 99.9994% of 12.3 million records matched, and we could explain every record that did not. Nothing in the gap between...
64 Blog Posts To Learn About Digital Health
Let's learn about Digital Health via these 64 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. Digital health integrates information and communication...
This AI Model Has Native Text, Image, and Video Capabilities: Here’s What You Should Know
OverviewQwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-GGUF is a locally runnable, text-to-text GGUF release with native text, image, and video capabilities. LuffyTheFox built it from the uncensored HauhauCS Qwen3.6-35B-A3B base, applied the Genesis tensor-repair process,...
How to Run vLLM Natively on Windows
Disclosure: I'm the author of vllm-windows-build, the open-source project (MIT license) this article describes. It is my own project, not affiliated with the vLLM team. I built it with heavy AI-assisted coding using Claude Code, and I tested the results myself, mainly...
Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it...
`123456′ password used in Danish CPR data breach
`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach Go to Source Article URL: https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031269...
Can Apple keep its AirPods from becoming ‘PervertPods’?
Apple’s AirPods are arguably the most iconic headphones ever. The small, glossy, stylish buds are lauded for both their sound and design and are worn by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. But come next year, those hundreds of millions of AirPods owners...