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Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike
Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of trust on the internet. But last week, volunteer editors and contributors were alarmed to hear that a small but important team of engineers at the nonprofit that supports it had been laid off. The layoffs didn’t just threaten to sever an important link between the Wikimedia Foundation … Read more
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch – because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch – is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on … Read more
This is MSI’s new Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld
It may only be available in this “Void Purple” color option. | Image: MSI MSI has unveiled a new Claw 8 handheld gaming PC ahead of the Computex 2026 show, and this model swaps out its predecessors’ Intel Lunar Lake mobile chip for a specialized handheld processor. MSI describes the Claw 8 EX AI Plus … Read more
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Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
It explained the process of how it made these edits beautifully, I’m just not terribly impressed by the results. | Images by Jess Weatherbed / The Verge AI image tools rarely make me feel like I’m part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can … Read more
Cease, Desist, and Pay Up: How Copyright Trolls Turned Legal Threats Into a Business Model
There is an entire category of commercial enterprise whose business model consists of hunting down small website operators and locating images of questionable or marginal legal exposure. These companies then threaten operators with financial demands that bear no rational relationship to any actual harm suffered, despite the fact that in the overwhelming majority of cases … Read more
Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor
New Glenn rocket explodes at Launch Complex 36 on Thursday night in Florida. | Image: Spaceflight Now While Blue Origin investigates the root cause behind last night’s spectacular explosion of its New Glenn rocket, it’s already clear that this will be a major setback for NASA’s Moon base plans and Amazon’s fledgling Leo space internet … Read more
Summer Street
:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. A ROOM WITH A VIEW – Chapter XII – Twelfth Chapter Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001: A ROOM WITH A VIEW – Chapter XII – Twelfth … Read more
Schumann Protocol
:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. A ROOM WITH A VIEW – Chapter XI – In Mrs. Vyse’s Well-Appointed Flat Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001: A ROOM WITH A VIEW – Chapter … Read more
The Trick Behind the AI Magic: Explain AI to Your Manager in Plain English
Maybe you already know what AI is. But then your manager, a friend, or your mom asks you to explain it, and suddenly it becomes harder than expected. This article is my attempt to explain AI in plain words — the way I would explain it to someone who does not care about tokens, weights, … Read more
308 Blog Posts To Learn About Founder Stories
Let’s learn about Founder Stories via these 308 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. Founders, very often, solve problems that we don’t know we have yet. 1. Building a Gaming Metaverse on 750 Acres … Read more
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during testing in Florida
The explosion is likely a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company, and its attempt to compete with SpaceX.
Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
The enterprise AI search startup tripled its annual revenue even as tech giants entered the category.
Waymo dominates autonomous vehicle registrations as Tesla trails behind
A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in Texas.
Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down
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Here’s Why You Should Start Estimating in Complexity Instead of Hours
When you estimate in complexity, the conversation is about the problem. Why is this a 5 and not a 3? What’s hiding inside it? What risks does it carry? Juniors learn by watching seniors reason. Seniors sometimes realize the “trivial” thing wasn’t trivial. The team understands what they’re about to do — together — before … Read more
AI Helped Me Ship a Feature in a Language I Barely Know – Here’s How
Using AI in a language I barely know wasn’t impressive. It was revealing. It showed me very clearly what parts of my skillset are portable — and what parts aren’t.
The internet is being rebuilt for machines
As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.