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Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board

Although the page itself is more just fun to have made and look at (I like the flip sound), the fun part is how I made it to verify the (and I hate to say it) vibe host service I've been working on. The recent flip board back and forth's on Twitter (X) are what inspired me. The idea here is that people (like me or you) can create something neat like this, and others can remix it, change it and publish their own version. This is that all in action and it worked great. I wrote a blog about it (the...
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Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM

For those who are using llms on macbook, Want to understand how macbook is different than dedicated GPU in running those models? and how to know how much a macbook is capable of running a model? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694802 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

Article URL: https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694853 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
When Prediction Becomes the Rarest Asset in the AI Era, manadia Defines Value Internet
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When Prediction Becomes the Rarest Asset in the AI Era, manadia Defines Value Internet

Over the past two decades, the internet created the information era. Over the past decade, blockchain accelerated the era of digital assets. Now, as artificial intelligence enters large-scale adoption, a new era is quietly emerging. More industries are realizing that the most critical resource of the future may no longer be data, traffic, or even computing power itself, but the ability to predict the future. Whether in financial markets where price movements are determined, in enterprise opera...
Claim your $70 Nosana GPU credits for the Decentralize AI Hackathon 🚀
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Claim your $70 Nosana GPU credits for the Decentralize AI Hackathon 🚀

Nosana is offering $70 in free GPU compute credits to participants in the Decentralize AI Hackathon's Decentralized Compute Track. To make the credits last, hackers are advised to change their deployment strategy from "Infinite" to "Simple" and manually stop inactive instances. Builders can win a share of a $51,750 prize pool by documenting their projects on HackerNoon using Nosana's sponsored tags.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Every AI Agent Is a Non-Human Identity That Needs Governance (6/26/2026)
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Every AI Agent Is a Non-Human Identity That Needs Governance (6/26/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 26, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, K. Benz Patented the Gasoline-Operated Motor Car in 1894, A US Navy Rocket Launch Failed to Orbit in 1958, The First Bar Code Reader in the US Was Introduced in 1974, The First Draft of the Hum...
The Long Road to Defect-Free Software
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The Long Road to Defect-Free Software

AI may help find and fix software defects, but human error, legacy code and cybersecurity risks mean flawless software remains a long-term challenge.
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Cybersecurity
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500 Blog Posts To Learn About Cybersecurity

Let's learn about Cybersecurity via these 500 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. Hacking is not a crime! Or is it? Well, it depends on which hat you are wearing. Find all about Offense-Defense dilemmas, theories, and practicals here! 1. How to Hack Facebook Accounts: 5 Common Vulnerabilities in 2023 There are 5 common vulnerabilities that attackers can...
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Our favorite Prime Day gadgets under $100 you don’t need but will really want

Prime Day has a funny way of convincing you to buy things you weren’t shopping for in the first place. You sign on intending to buy something sensible you actually need, like a pack of USB-C cables, and an hour later you’ve also added a gadget that can press your coffee maker’s power button and […]
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After covering Prime Day for 36 hours over four days, this is the one thing I bought

We’ve covered so many deals during Prime Day that my head is spinning. But after four days of doing our damndest to try and help folks save money, the thing I’m most hyped for is a simple tool for fixing my most egregious mistakes. I bought a pair of Vampliers. If you’re unfamiliar, Vampliers are […]
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My favorite Govee smart lamps are at their lowest prices ever for Prime Day

We’ve already rounded up the best Philips Hue deals of Prime Day, but if you’re looking for something a little more budget-friendly, Govee’s latest sale is worth checking out. The company has heavily discounted several of its color-changing smart lamps, including the Table Lamp 2 ($53.99, down from $79.99), Floor Lamp Basic ($59.99, regularly $99.99), the […]
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Approval-driven server ops: how I let contractors restart nginx without ever giving them SSH

I run a small WordPress + Cloudflare agency. Two recurring pains finally pushed me to build something instead of complaining: Pain 1: contractor access drift. I'd hand a contractor root SSH for "just this one task". Three jobs later, I'd realize four ex-contractors still had access I never rotated. The "I'll rotate keys later" lie compounds quickly. Pain 2: 3am Telegram from a client. "Site is down" while I'm on the subway with no laptop. Find Wi-Fi, SSH in, systemctl restart nginx . ...
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I Built Chromium in the Cloud in 2 Hours for $2 — What If Google Made This a One-Click Setup?

How It Started I was using Chrome one day and noticed something that looked like a UI bug in the bookmarks side panel, a small visual inconsistency after moving a bookmark. As a developer, my first instinct was to look at the source and see if I could fix it. I found the relevant code, understood the likely cause, and thought: "This is probably a one-line fix." Then I looked at what it takes to actually build and test a Chromium change. 100+ GB of disk space. Hours of build time. Dozen...
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Sandboxing Reality: How to Spoof iPhone Locations for Advanced Penetration Testing

Listen up. If you’re still playing by the rules Apple wrote for you, you aren’t testing security. You’re just clicking buttons and praying the red text doesn’t show up. Real penetration testing isn’t about running a script kiddie tool and calling it a day. It’s about bending the fabric of the digital world until it screams. And right now, one of the easiest ways to make the Matrix glitch is by spoofing GPS coordinates on an iPhone. I’ve been doing this since before the App Store existed. I’ve...
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AINAScan Found Two Security Bugs in a Real Open-Source App — Here Is What Happened

Last week, I ran AINAScan — our AI-powered static analysis tool — against FlaskBlog , a popular open-source Flask project. It found two security issues back-to-back. Here's the breakdown. Issue #1: IDOR — Direct Object Reference Without Authorization Check The bigger finding was a classic IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) vulnerability. A user could directly reference another user's resource by ID without any authorization check. This is issue #254 . Issue #...
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I Built a Tribology Expert System from Scratch — No Frameworks, No Backend, Just Vanilla JavaScript

Industrial tribology failures — wear, friction, and lubrication problems — cost billions annually. Yet diagnosing a failed bearing or selecting the right lubricant requires expertise spanning mechanical engineering, material science, and fluid dynamics. Most engineers don't have instant access to a senior tribologist. Instead, they rely on manually searching through thousand-page reference books, scattered spreadsheets, and trial-and-error that extends downtime from hours to days. I experi...
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How We Built a P2P Crypto Wallet for Ethiopian Remittances — And Why We Started With Africa

When my family sends money home to All african countries and Ethiopia, Western Union takes 8%. SWIFT transfers take 4 days. For a $500 remittance, that's $40 gone before the money even leaves. We built SEMWallet to fix this. What We Built SEMWallet is a crypto wallet and P2P trading platform built specifically for Ethiopians and the African diaspora. Users trade USDT, BTC, and ETH directly with each other — with escrow holding funds until payment is confirmed — then withdraw t...
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How I Built a Personal AI Knowledge Base with Amazon Aurora pgvector and Next.js — AWS H0 Hackathon

I built ChatScroll for the AWS H0 Hackathon — an app that lets you save AI answers as searchable "Scrolls" using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector for semantic search. The Problem Every day people ask AI assistants valuable questions and get great answers — then lose them forever. Chat history is linear, unsearchable, and ephemeral. I kept re-Googling the same questions knowing I had already found the answer somewhere but couldn't find it again. The S...
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Total System Dominance: Chaining RFID, Sub-GHz, and Infrared Exploits

The amateur hits one vector. The professional chains them all and walks out before the alarm even thinks about ringing. Let me tell you something that nobody in the “cybersecurity industry” wants to hear. Most of these people are playing checkers while the real players are three moves ahead on a board they don’t even know exists. They write their little blog posts about “how to clone a garage door” and they think they’ve hacked something. Cute. Really cute. Like watching a toddler try to pick...
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Malware on Your Machine: A Developer's Complete Incident Response Guide

🛡️ Your Computer Got Infected — Now What? A Developer's Survival Guide to Malware Removal A practical, no-BS walkthrough of detecting, containing, and eliminating malware — with real scenarios and the commands that actually work. So it happened. Your machine is acting weird. Maybe Chrome is opening tabs you didn't ask for. Maybe your CPU is pegged at 95% doing... nothing. Maybe your antivirus just screamed at you. Whatever it is, that sinking feeling in your stomach is valid — but pa...
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Mobile App Authentication: Best Practices for iOS and Android Developers (2026)

The mobile app authentication best practices question is the single hardest one to answer well in mobile application security, because the answers that work for web applications fail in subtle ways on mobile devices. The browser does most of the heavy lifting in a web application's authentication flow — cookie handling, redirect orchestration, session storage with reasonable defaults. The mobile application has to build the equivalent capability itself, against a platform where the application...