Gravity is a cruel mistress, slowly dragging the famed telescope ever closer to its ultimate demise with every day. Hubble is in no immediate danger of burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, but its time will run out in the early to mid 2030s unless its orbit is boosted. So NASA is taking proposals from … Read more
Let’s learn about Metrics via these 83 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. Metrics are quantifiable measures used to track and assess the status of a specific business process, project, or activity. They matter … Read more
On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.
While more cities are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety, just as many are discovering how difficult that can be in some instances. Plymouth, Minnesota’s city council voted to terminate its contract with Flock in September, but failed to respond to the city’s request. For over a month, the cameras remained up, and the city … Read more
In August 2011, a data center in Dallas lost power for roughly five hours. The facility had the usual markers of resilience — multiple utility service entrances, backup generators, and UPS systems — yet a single automatic transfer switch failed, and the building went dark anyway. Restoration was slow for a telling reason: as the … Read more
The short version: a generated track almost never loops on its own. To fix that, generate a steady instrumental and work from a lossless copy. Cut a whole number of bars on a downbeat, then crossfade the audio that follows the loop end into the loop start. Check the seam numerically and by ear, ship … Read more
Reddit user pdfu found hints hidden in the HomeView 27.2 code that Apple could be adding security camera features to its smart home hub. The strings describe a security camera mode with motion detection, live streaming, and recording options, as well as privacy functions. According to pdfu, there is a setup page that even explicitly … Read more
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The cryptocurrency exchange said it’s now covered 95% of the stolen assets.
Leakers have pieced together a playable version of the canceled Portal prequel F-Stop. Most of the assets came from the massive 12-terabyte leak that dropped this August. That didn’t include the game’s source code or map data, but those final pieces apparently hit the Valve Cut Content Discord this week, allowing a nearly complete version … Read more
Software engineering has always been a discipline defined by an ongoing tension between two competing forces: the desire to produce functionality quickly, and the need to ensure that the functionality produced actually matches what was originally intended. For most of the history of the field, these two forces existed in a manageable equilibrium. Human developers, … Read more
Ask an AI agent whether a treasury really bought back $50M of its own token and you get a fluent yes, usually with a source that cannot be opened. No block height. No transaction hash. No payload with a timestamp. In a market where money moves on claims, that is the whole problem in one … Read more
You added a cache so an expensive function would run once per key. Then you counted how often it really ran. For 50 keys, it ran about 400 times. The cache works. Every value it returns is correct. It just doesn’t do the one job you gave it. And the usual excuse, “Python has a … Read more
I’m Haris Ahmad, Founder & CEO of ZenithOps AI, an AI automation agency based in Burewala, Punjab, Pakistan. I design and ship AI automation systems and agent workflows for clients. For the Decentralize AI Hackathon, I’m proposing something I want to build: an autonomous AI agent orchestration service that runs on decentralized GPU infrastructure, starting … Read more
Let’s learn about Mental Health via these 351 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. If your mind is not right, nothing it produces or caters to will be. HackerNoon’s mental health stories address how … Read more
Google made a sturdy phone, but there is increasing competition in the foldable world.
The FBI says North Korea was behind the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist that hit Binance on October 29th. The FBI labeled the activity “TraderTraitor” and said that it had observed actors it has connected to hack converting the tokens to Ethereum and preparing for further laundering of the funds. The agency offered few other … Read more
Apple’s second-generation HomePod Mini is a nice upgrade, but the biggest improvement hasn’t arrived yet. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge When I first heard about the new $149 HomePod Mini 2 at Apple’s Welcome Home event last month, I was disappointed. It’s been six years since Apple launched its entry-level smart speaker, … Read more
Startup Everbloom’s new material, renoa, is the first new fiber in 25 years, and it feels very familiar.
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the biggest game releases of the year, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The two biggest games of … Read more