Hacker News with Generative AI: Technology

Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? (ycombinator.com)
Google ignores "must have" quotes<p>Zocdoc insists on giving me appointments weeks away even when I set a date range<p>Amazon insists on showing me products that they can't deliver tomorrow.<p>What happened to deterministic search parameter results? It's like every search function now just take what I ask for as a suggestion and then ignores it.

Search Engines, User Experience, Online Shopping, Technology

7 points by sathackr 1 hour ago | 4 comments

NOAA all services [going down] (URGENT) (safeguar.de)

NOAA, Technology, Weather, Emergency, Services

14 points by driverdan 3 hours ago | 1 comments

Captured: How Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose (codastory.com)
AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers.

Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Society, Technology

6 points by defrost 4 hours ago | 1 comments

So what are people MCP-ing, anyway? (medium.com)
Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short. Released in November 2024 to quiet applause in San Francisco startup accelerator basements. Launched into the tech mainstream in March 2025, confusing nerds everywhere.

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Tech Trends

5 points by dannyighsu 5 hours ago | 0 comments

The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem, and Why It Matters (mainframesociety.com)

Mainframes, Software, Technology, Computer Science, Programming

14 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 7 comments

Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up use of AI (cnbc.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Fast Food, Technology, Partnerships

7 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 0 comments

Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, Bloomberg reports, suggesting that the company is wary of expanding its cloud computing infrastructure too rapidly.

Microsoft, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Business, Technology

6 points by pera 7 hours ago | 1 comments

Bill Gates on first OS he wrote: 'Code remains the coolest I've ever written' (fortune.com)
Bill Gates offers to let anyone download the first operating system he and Paul Allen wrote 50 years ago: ‘That code remains the coolest I’ve ever written’

Software, History, Programming, Technology, Bill Gates

6 points by CharlesW 7 hours ago | 1 comments

What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? (quantamagazine.org)
Quantum computing promises unprecedented speed, but in practice, it’s proven remarkably difficult to find important questions that quantum machines can solve faster than classical ones.

Quantum Computing, Science, Technology, Computing

3 points by four_fifths 7 hours ago | 0 comments

What MCP Gets Wrong – and How We Solved It (featureform.com)

Software, Programming, Technology, Open Source

27 points by simba-k 9 hours ago | 5 comments

AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

Artificial Intelligence, Predictions, Future, Technology

320 points by Tenoke 10 hours ago | 224 comments

What is "MicroSD Express," and why is it mandatory for the Nintendo Switch 2? (arstechnica.com)
The microSD Express standard has existed for a long time, but it hasn't seen wide adoption in a mass-market consumer device. Enter Nintendo's new Switch 2.

Gaming, Technology, Hardware, Nintendo, Storage

3 points by kwiktrip 12 hours ago | 0 comments

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% (arstechnica.com)
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.

Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia, Technology, Bandwidth, Wikimedia

5 points by HypnoticOcelot 12 hours ago | 2 comments

Sam Altman's Firing from OpenAI (msn.com)
On a balmy mid-November evening in 2023, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel threw a birthday party for his husband at YESS, an avant-garde Japanese restaurant located in a century-old converted bank building in Los Angeles’s Arts District. Seated next to him was his friend Sam Altman.

OpenAI, Leadership, Technology, Business

21 points by smu 19 hours ago | 7 comments

I just saw the future. It was not in America (nytimes.com)
I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowland — the massive new research center, roughly the size of 225 football fields, built by the Chinese technology giant Huawei? I went to Huawei’s.

China, Technology, Future, Research

14 points by jimnotgym 21 hours ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: For the privacy minded, How do you prepare for gadget Border Searches? (ycombinator.com)
This is coming up a lot these days in the news- but Customs and Border Patrol have increased the amount of searches they do for travelers coming to and leaving the US. I find this fascinating- because it feels like an area that should have answers -but that there are only some.

Privacy, Security, Travel, Technology, Law Enforcement

16 points by OrbitalShotput_ 22 hours ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: How to write better tech blogs (ycombinator.com)
I have a blog but it seems most people who are with my content hardly like it.

Writing, Blogging, Technology, Content Marketing

8 points by sonderotis 23 hours ago | 2 comments

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb contrasts fragile systems—those that suffer serious harm under volatility—with robust systems that can endure stress with minimal damage. He extends this concept with antifragile systems, which can actually benefit from disorder, but we’ll focus here on the divide between fragile and robust.

Technology, Longevity, Fragility, Robustness

561 points by Fred34 1 day ago | 521 comments

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)
You might not have noticed, but year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

Markdown, Document Formats, Technology, Trends, Writing

11 points by cratermoon 1 day ago | 6 comments

Ford Patents a Manual Gear Shifter for EVs (insideevs.com)

Ford, Electric Vehicles, Patents, Automotive Industry, Technology

6 points by geox 1 day ago | 0 comments

Amazon submits bid for TikTok as ban deadline nears (cnbc.com)

Amazon, TikTok, Acquisitions, Technology, Business

8 points by Element_ 1 day ago | 1 comments

Watts Should Replace MAh as Essential Spec for Mobile Devices (theverge.com)
Forget mAh, and stop sweating megahertz. The watt reigns supreme, if only companies would share it with us.

Mobile Devices, Battery Life, Technology

8 points by m463 1 day ago | 6 comments

Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)

Email, Technology, Competition, Mozilla, Gmail

410 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 309 comments

What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test (tines.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Technology

90 points by 1as 1 day ago | 40 comments

Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal data to build 28nm-capable fabs (tomshardware.com)

Espionage, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Technology, China

18 points by thebeardisred 1 day ago | 3 comments

Google Gemini is shaking up its AI leadership ranks (semafor.com)
Google is replacing the leader of its consumer AI apps as the focus of the AI race shifts from the underlying models to the products built around them, according to memos reviewed by Semafor.

Google, Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Technology, Business

4 points by rococode 1 day ago | 0 comments

We Moved Off Next.js (documenso.com)
When we started building Documenso, choosing Next.js was a no-brainer. We wanted SSR (server-side rendering), easy routing, and the vibrant community that came with it. It helped us ship fast, iterate quickly, and provided all the essentials in one neat package. For a while, it was exactly what we needed.

Web Development, Next.js, Software, Technology, Frameworks

13 points by ko_pivot 1 day ago | 2 comments

Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last (arstechnica.com)
Apple only supported RCS on the big three carriers in the first iOS18 releases.

Apple, Google, Messaging, Mobile Carriers, Technology

4 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 0 comments

Do smartphones and social media harm teens' mental health? (nature.com)
Concerns about young people’s use of phones and social media has spurred some authorities to restrict their use.

Mental Health, Social Media, Teenagers, Technology

4 points by rntn 1 day ago | 0 comments

Water vapor quantification in raw product gas by THz quantum cascade laser (sciencedirect.com)
Online quantification of water vapor in hot and complex gases, like raw product gas from biomass gasification, is essential for process understanding and control.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Gasification, Water Vapor

4 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 0 comments