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Bumble BFF’s revamped app is here, focusing on friend groups and community building

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-19 13:19:41

With friendship apps continuing to gain popularity, Bumble announced on Wednesday the relaunch of its Bumble For Friends (BFF) app. With younger generations seeking to expand their social circles, the revamped app aims to help users connect with new friends beyond the traditional one-on-one matching that BFF has been known for. The app is built on Geneva, the community-focused social platform Bumble acquired last year. This also means that the Geneva app will be shutting down. The move should

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Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-21 05:36:38

A new social network has been quietly blowing up with Gen Z and younger, and it’s not from Meta. San Francisco-based Airbuds offers a mobile, social app that lets people express themselves through their music. Users can share what they’re streaming with friends through a smartphone widget that works with a range of streaming services. On Wednesday, Airbuds is announcing its raise of $5 million in funding from early-stage venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis

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Purple Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 30% Off

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-09-24 13:00:00

Good sleep is a priceless commodity, and a big factor is what you’re sleeping on, including your mattress and pillows. Purple is one of our favorites on that front, from the brand’s super supportive-yet-soft pillows to its cooling mattresses. All to say, there’s plenty of great bedding to shop at Purple, and right now you can get it at a serious discount. You can save up to 30% off of bedding, pillows, and more from Purple, from the PerfectStay Duvet Cover Set to the Purple Harmony Anywhere Trav

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XFN – XHTML Friends Network (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 23:32:25

Xhtml Friends Network XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ' rel ' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.: <a href="http://jeff.example.org" rel="friend met">... To find out how to write and use XFN, or to write a program to generate or spide

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I Hate My AI Friend

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-08 05:30:00

Schiffmann seems to be doing well, compared to the last times either of us spoke to him. When he first announced the Friend, he talked about how he had come up with the idea for an AI buddy while traveling alone and yearning for companionship. Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard, and he seems to have more real-life personal connections than when he first

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I kissed comment culture goodbye

news.ycombinator.com Sustainable Views 2025-10-08 08:11:39

It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a catchy title, quickly skim the piece, and then race to the comment section and type one out. Sometimes the comments were insightful or funny. At other times, curt or nitpicky. It was an exercise of

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The Day I Kissed Comment Culture Goodbye

news.ycombinator.com Sustainable Views 2025-10-08 13:11:39

It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a catchy title, quickly skim the piece, and then race to the comment section and type one out. Sometimes the comments were insightful or funny. At other times, curt or nitpicky. It was an exercise of

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Home Depot's Infamous Skelly Has a Voice This Halloween Thanks to a New App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 05:52:03

With Labor Day marking the unofficial end of summer, it's time to start thinking about setting up your Halloween decorations. And this year, Home Depot's infamous giant skeleton returns with an app that gives the new Ultra Skelly a voice and fresh moves to spook trick-or-treaters. Make no bones about it: Skelly's going high tech. The new animatronic version is shorter than the original, at 6.5 feet tall, but you can freak out your whole neighborhood with this skeleton's rotating upper torso, mo

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-17 13:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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Focus Friend Might Have Finally Solved My Doomscrolling Problem

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 13:00:03

I was recently asked to rank my smartphone addiction on a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 meaning "It's not a problem" and 10 meaning "It's a big problem." After considering for a second, I said 8. Despite my effort to keep my phone face down as much as possible, I still pick it up and check my notifications when I know there's nothing waiting for me. I still doomscroll. But now, at last, I might have found a way to break the spell of my 6-inch screen. Enter Focus Friend. The app calls itself a "gamifi

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Hank Green’s Focus Friend swapped my screen time for bean time

theverge.com Zachary Brown 2025-11-03 17:57:12

Earlier this week, a bean moved into my phone. Their name is Billie Bean King, and when I’m working, they work too, knitting socks and scarves. Billie’s knitted wares are more than just cozy clothes — they’re currency, used to buy lo-fi decorations for their barren room. But there’s a catch: Billie can only work when I’m not using my phone. That’s where the fun begins. Billie is a bean from the Focus Friend app, launched last month for iOS and Android by Hank Green of assorted internet fame. Th

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Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-11 09:36:19

You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ability to stay focused. This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green, the longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/sock salesman. Though the app was soft launched last month, Focus Friend is only now gaining momentum the App S

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How to use (or turn off) your Instagram Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 02:00:35

Instagram Map, the new Instagram feature copying Snapchat's Snap Map, makes it simple to share your location with friends. So simple you might not understand who you're sharing it without digging into your settings. That's naturally led to confusion from some Instagram users as to how the feature works. If you already spend a lot of time on Instagram and are looking for a way to see where your friends have been, it's worth familiarizing yourself with how Instagram Map works. And if you're worri

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-19 03:35:41

Instagram is working on a feature called “Picks” that aims to help users find common interests. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is an internal prototype and isn’t being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, people select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.

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Co-op puzzle game Lego Voyagers will arrive on September 15

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:39:16

We got our first look at Lego Voyagers back at Summer Game Fest in June. As it turned out, Light Brick Studio ( Lego Builder's Journey ) and publisher Annapurna Interactive weren't kidding about the "coming soon" aspect of the reveal trailer. That's because Lego Voyagers is set to hit PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) on September 15 . Lego Voyagers is a physics-based, co-op puzzle game for two players. You and a buddy will each control Lego bricks a

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 03:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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How to Watch Man United vs. Fiorentina From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 15:45:03

The Red Devils' preparations for the upcoming English Premier League campaign come to a close on Saturday as Man United takes on Italian outfit Fiorentina on home turf in its final preseason friendly. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this friendly match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Ruben Amorim's team has had an encouraging couple of weeks, with three wins from thre

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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-11-25 16:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Friendslop is coming for the Switch 2

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-28 06:38:00

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. During today’s Nintendo Indie World showcase, I had two epiphanies. The first was the realization that friendslop games are about to hit the Switch 2 like a falling piano in a Road Runner cartoon. The second was that I love that for me, because that means I can finally play them. My friends love “friendslop,” the initially

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Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 17:34:21

Get Started npm install --global octofriend And then: octofriend About Octo is a small, helpful, cephalopod-flavored coding assistant that works with any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible LLM API, and allows you to switch models at will mid-conversation when a particular model gets stuck. Octo can optionally use (and we recommend using) ML models we custom-trained and open-sourced (1, 2) to automatically handle tool call and code edit failures from the main coding models you're work

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Instagram lets you see your friends' locations now, and vice versa - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-30 02:44:00

Instagram / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Instagram is unveiling several new features. Its new Snapchat-style map lets you see where your friends are. There's also a new way to see content your friends are interacting with. Meta has unveiled a number of changes to Instagram, all aimed at helping you better connect with your friends and their favorite content. A new location-sharing map is on the way, along with new ways to find content. A Snapchat-style friend map Maybe t

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Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 08:29:40

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends, though the long-awaited reposting tool is nothing ot sneeze at, either. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Fri

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Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 11:08:11

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Friends, selected accounts or nobody at all. This data can be restricted wh

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Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-02 14:49:56

Meta is updating Instagram today with some familiar social network features from other services. For example, the photo- and video-sharing service is basically getting its own version of the classic retweet. Separately, Instagram continues to take inspiration from Snapchat with its own social map feature. Instagram is two months shy of turning 15, and as a sign of maturity, we’re getting the first official repost button: With reposts, you can repost public reels and feed posts, making it easie

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The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ryu 2025-12-05 06:57:55

There’s a special kind of emotional drain that comes from talking to someone who disagrees with everything you say. And thanks to a string of viral TikToks, this particular red flag now has a name: the “contrarian friend.” This type of companion isn’t just occasionally opinionated or a stickler for proper grammar. No matter the topic, the “contrarian” is always chiming in with a buzzkill rebuttal. You rave about a new “must-try” restaurant? The “contrarian” will shut you down with an instinctiv

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I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Kui Mwai 2025-12-07 20:18:41

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

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I Asked Four Former Friends Why We Stopped Speaking-Here's What I Learned (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Kui Mwai 2025-12-08 08:18:41

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

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Home Safe? Snap Map Will Let Your Friends and Family Know With Alert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 00:42:25

"Let us know when you're home." How many times have you heard that from friends or family at the end of the night, but forgotten to follow up when you get through the door? Snapchat has added a feature to its popular Snap Map that will take care of it for you. The messaging app launched a new feature on Thursday called "Home Safe," which will alert friends and/or family that you're home safely even when you forget to do so. It's ideal to let folks know when you're back from a vacation, a night

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The Best Co-op Games to Play With Your Friends in Every Scenario

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 06:01:00

Despite how gaming has changed over the years, one thing remains the same -- people love playing games together. Whether you're solving a puzzle, hunting monsters or escaping Hell, it's better with a friend (or three). It should come as no surprise that games like Split Fiction and It Takes Two from Hazelight Studios, which focus on cooperative play, were critical successes. Some of my best memories are marathon gaming sessions with friends, squished together on a couch or logging in online fro

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Snapchat can automatically let a trusted friend know you got home safe

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:00:10

Snapchat can now let your friends know if you're back home from an outing safe and sound without you having to send a message. The app has launched a new feature called Home Safe, which sends one-time alerts to contacts of your choice. You can only send these alerts to people you already share your location with, and since that off by default, you'd have to activate it on Snap Maps for all your friends or for specific ones. Your friends will only get the notification once, and it will shut off a

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