Year: 2026

Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) โ€“ Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hey HN, weโ€™re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes, virtual machines) by discovering not just which apps are being used but also how they are connected to other data sources via MCPs. We also have an open-source dynamic MCP pentesting tool https://github.com/traceforce/mcp-xray to detect vulnerable MCPs.The purpose of Traceforce is to:- Give a companyโ€™s employees a standardized way to ensure that AI software running…
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Review of Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter โ€“ A Brave View of Bereavement | Audio books

Review of Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter โ€“ A Brave View of Bereavement | Audio books

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Audiobooks,Books,Culture,Fiction,Max Porter โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: toLess than a week after his wife's sudden death, a grieving man opens his door to a giant crow that scoops him into his suite and says, "I'm not leaving until you don't need me anymore." The man is still in shock, facing the prospect of raising his two young sons alone. Altaรฏr, wandering around the family's apartment at night, notices a house in "deep mourning, every surface of a dead mother, every crayon, jar, coat, well covered with a…
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Guide to data tools landscape for developers ยท OlegWock

Guide to data tools landscape for developers ยท OlegWock

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Some time ago, I joined Deepnote as a software engineer. Deepnote makes a cloud notebook for data teams. I, however, didn't have any background in data. But I knew what a notebook was and I thought it would be interesting to work on this kind of project. I didn't think the data field was that far from software engineering, I always thought of them as adjacent fields. Soon after joining I realized that I didn't know a thing about it! There are so many data…
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The F Ward review โ€“ Anna Friel’s medical drama Never Quite Clean | Australian TV

The F Ward review โ€“ Anna Friel’s medical drama Never Quite Clean | Australian TV

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Australian television,Stan,Television,Culture,Drama,Television & radio โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AAmong The Pitt's many virtues is the way it illustrates the power of hospitals as dramatic settings: inherently interesting pressure-cooker environments, which bring together people from all walks of life, in varying states of distress. It's a great series, and it has resonated so strongly with audiences that every new drama set in a hospital for the foreseeable future will be judged by it.That's not good news for shows like Stan's six-part series The F Ward, which by comparison…
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Editorโ€™s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlanticโ€™s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are so resource-hungry that tech companies may be purchasing 70 percent of the worldโ€™s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage. As a result, the prices of computer memory and storage are skyrocketing: Hard drives that I bought for my reporting…
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Dinshatech attack! Review โ€“ It’s Time to Get on Board the Kickflipping Trains | games

Dinshatech attack! Review โ€“ It’s Time to Get on Board the Kickflipping Trains | games

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Games,PC,PlayStation 5,Xbox series S/X,Nintendo Switch 2 โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: eEvery now and then a game comes along with a premise so outrageous that you stop in your tracks to take it all in. Denshattack!, a game about kicking trains through a dystopian future in Japan, is an example of this feeling. The film is set in a post-climate catastrophe world, where people take refuge in corporate-owned domed cities to live out their days in air-conditioned comfort. Except for a handful of outcasts, the rest of the…
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Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love

Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Everyone has a way of tracking what has left a mark on their life, whether itโ€™s a book, a movie, a TV show, an anime, or a song. Sometimes itโ€™s an online service with a massive catalog, but youโ€™re always at the mercy of the platform deciding what stays and what goes. Other times, itโ€™s a delightful, well-designed offline mobile app, but your varied interests rarely fit into a single predefined catalog or data model. Plus, those apps and services could vanish tomorrow. After cycling…
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WATCH LIVE: Epstein survivor, fired DOJ pardon attorney testifies at Blanche’s confirmation hearing

WATCH LIVE: Epstein survivor, fired DOJ pardon attorney testifies at Blanche’s confirmation hearing

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from PBS News Hour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: confirmation hearings,Todd Blanche,U.S. Justice Department ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced skeptical questions at a Senate hearing Wednesday about the creation of a fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies and a tax immunity deal for the president as he aimed to secure Republican support needed to advance his nomination. Watch Thursday's hearing live in the video player above. Blanche insisted that the $1.776 billion Arms Control Fund, which was canceled after a bipartisan backlash, "is not moving forward."…
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The Act and the Outcome of Creation

The Act and the Outcome of Creation

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act of Creation The act of creation is an outlet. It gives joy to us when we create something out of nothing, we block out anxiety or boredom. Creating should be done like: a kid in mind: effortless, exploring your thoughts, and seeing where it leaves you,…
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Biden is scheduled to publish his memoirs, โ€œPromise Me, America,โ€ after the midterm elections in November

Biden is scheduled to publish his memoirs, โ€œPromise Me, America,โ€ after the midterm elections in November

โœจ Check out this insightful post from PBS News Hour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: joe biden news โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) โ€” Former President Joe Biden will publish a memoir called โ€œPromise Me, Americaโ€ that he says will touch on everything from the economy to his decision to abandon his reelection bid. The memoir is scheduled to be released on November 17, publisher Little, Brown & Company told The Associated Press. The timing of the book โ€” two weeks after the midterm elections in which Democrats are seeking to regain control of Congress โ€” could raise…
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