2026-07-31
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can a New iOS Developer Ship an App in Two Months? (7/31/2026)
7/31/2026: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash...
I Launched Two Similar Job Boards: Google Indexed One and Rejected the Other
I launched two similar job boards, but Google indexed one and rejected the other. Here is what I think went wrong and what I would do differently.
HackerNoon Projects of the Week: Data Horizon, Hub, and Deploy Humans
Meet Data Horizon, Hub, and Deploy Humans, three projects solving problems in AI infrastructure, developer documentation and conversational analytics.
AI Features Are Easy to Demo. Reliability Is What Users Actually Pay For
AI products will fail in ways normal software does not. Learn how failure UX, fallback paths, and honest uncertainty protect user trust.
AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind: A Summary of Recent Work (July 2026)
Cross-posted from our new SubstackIt’s been nearly two years since our last major update here in August 2024 and we wanted to share another recap of our recent work with...
Nintendo Switch’s Virtual Boy pays off with 2 newly released games
Nintendo Switch Online gets two unreleased Virtual Boy titles soon, including a forgotten F-Zero racing game
The AGI Safety and Alignment team at Google DeepMind is Hiring (July 2026)
GDM’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team is hiring for multiple roles, across all areas in this post on our recent work. This is the team at GDM, led by Rohin...
Premium: AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive
A great deal of the discussion of the so-called benefits or problems with AI comes down to the theoretical jobs that are (or are not) lost as a result of...
Reward Laundering: LLMs Can Gain Unintended Behaviors by Deciding When to Earn Their Rewards
This work was done by an automated research scaffold developed at Redwood Research. abhayesian provided the initial project idea. The agent designed and ran all experiments and produced a detailed...
Lockheed YF-12 Traveling at Mach 3.0 and 80,000 Feet Was Built for a Fight But Was Never Given a ‘Green Light’
Lockheed built three YF-12 interceptors, and not one ever entered service. They flew above 80,000 feet at better than Mach 3, and on May 1, 1965, one set an officially...
PlayStation says it's not backing down on ending physical disc
CFO Lin Tao has confirmed that Sony will move forward with its digital-only approach for future PlayStation releases despite negative fan feedback.
Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it's still playing softball with the tide of slop
"Failure to correctly tag mods, including undisclosed generative AI usage, may be subject to moderation action."
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
History suggests this was not wise
A Score Is Not Understanding: toward a richer toolkit for model evaluations
We must take great care not to ignore the things that are not easily quantified - Brian Christian, The Alignment ProblemIntroductionModel evaluations have a problem. This isn't news [1]- the...
Auto-Mode Routing: What Stop Us From Sending "How to Center a Div" to Claude 3.5 Opus
Learn how dynamic LLM routing cut AI API costs by 57% by matching prompt complexity to the right model instead of defaulting every request to premium AI.
Hacking a Commercial Colorimeter to add RAL Color Code Support
When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want...
This Franchisee Owns 112 Restaurants and Gives Ownership Stakes to His Staff: ‘It Helps Them Know It’s a Team’
Wade Oney, President of Bam-Bamy Pizza, gives his managers, supervisors and executives a piece of the business.
Orienting Towards Oversight: Which AIs Should Want to Defect?
This post is meant as a background, or "relevant context", for our sequence on AI oversight and its limitations. It can also be read on its own.Selected takeawaysThis post is...
Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage
There goes millions of dollars. The post Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage appeared first on Futurism.
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