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The madness of SaaS chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-01 02:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

news.ycombinator.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-01 05:59:54

A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally. Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue … App Tracking Transparency hit Meta hard Meta relied heavily on selling personalized advertising, which required it to be able t

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-01 06:00:41

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season was weird as hell. Not just for the wild swings in tone and genre the series went for in its latest round of boldly going, but for a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half. But now that the season is over, and work on the next has already concluded, its producers are beginning to acknowledge that stumble. Speaking to TrekMovie recently after a screening of season 3

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Samsung’s 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD is $100 for a limited time

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-10-01 06:06:21

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. If you’ve been running out of storage on your PC or PS5, or you just want an SSD that’s faster than what you have, here’s a great deal: the PCIe Gen 5-compatible 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD from Samsung is selling at a bargain today, with its 2TB and 4TB versions selling for $99.99 and $199.99, respectively, at B&H Photo. If you want to hop on

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Gemini’s improved home screen is coming soon, and it could get new tweaks (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:10:33

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini could be getting a refreshed home screen, as we’ve also seen before. Google has begun testing it with a small set of users using the latest beta version of the Google app. Google is also testing suggestions for queries based on your Google activity, although this is currently in the early stages of testing. Update, September 15, 2025 (10:10 AM ET): Gemini’s new landing screen, plus the new options button, is now rolling out to users in the stab

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My First Year Without an iPhone

news.ycombinator.com Katie Lowe 2025-10-01 08:57:28

Last October, I switched off my iPhone, removed the SIM card, and inserted it into a Nokia 2780 that I ordered off the internet. I deactivated and archived my Instagram, left all the group chats, and got in touch with my European friends through email. Now, a full calendar year later, I can say without hesitation that I am never, ever going back. My north star Flip phones are somehow a contentious topic. This is because anyone that goes against the status quo creates a hostile environment. It’

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Pgstream: Postgres streaming logical replication with DDL changes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 08:28:24

pgstream - Postgres replication with DDL changes pgstream is an open source CDC command-line tool and library that offers Postgres replication support with DDL changes to any provided target. Features Schema change tracking and replication of DDL changes Support for multiple out of the box targets Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Webhooks PostgreSQL Initial and on demand PostgreSQL snapshots (for when you don't need continuous replication) Column value transformations (anonymise your data on the g

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‘Andor’ Leads the Big Genre Wins of the 2025 Emmys

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-01 10:00:41

The 2025 Emmys took place this past weekend, and Andor walked away with several wins for its final season, among many highlights for genre media across both nights of awards. While the sci-fi series didn’t win its Best Drama or Best Directing nominations, it took home Best Writing in a Drama for “Welcome to the Rebellion”. During Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmys, the episode “Who Are You?” took home awards for Outstanding Production Design in a Narrative Period/Fantasy Drama, Picture Editing, and

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Zoom’s Eric Yuan and Emergence’s Santi Subotovsky on navigating the second act at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-01 10:00:00

You’ve built the hit product — now what? That’s the question Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Emergence Capital general partner Santi Subotovsky will take on in their session, What Comes After Breakout Success?. From expanding into new markets to launching the next product bets, this panel will explore how great companies avoid becoming one-hit wonders. Expect insights into the tough calls between focus and diversification, how to keep innovating at scale, and what investors look for in a second act. The

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Introducing our new WhatsApp and Telegram channels, and more ways to follow Android Authority

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:07:56

Media is an increasingly tough business. With Google and other platforms now summarizing articles and diverting web traffic away from publishers, it’s harder than ever for independent outlets like ours to sustain quality reporting. That’s why we rely more and more on readers like you to find us directly, rather than through big platforms. Every time you choose to engage with us directly, you help keep Android Authority strong, independent, and focused on bringing you the tech insights you can’t

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Samsung’s latest Good Lock module could supercharge the Gallery app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:22:39

TL;DR Samsung has started testing a new Good Lock app dubbed Gallery Assistant beta. The app brings a number of photo and video editing options under one umbrella. These features include advanced watermarks, media compression, and saving images as a PDF. Samsung has a ton of apps under its Good Lock umbrella, giving users a variety of extra options beyond the One UI platform. These Good Lock apps cover categories like the camera, home screen, audio, and notifications. Now, it looks like Samsu

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Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:00:13

There must be something in the water at Spotify HQ. Less than a week after delivering long-promised lossless audio, the company has another treat. Free listeners can finally listen to any track they want. After enhancing Premium, perhaps Spotify figured it could add a free perk without shedding subscribers. Spotify accounts on the free plan can now choose any track and immediately listen to it. Previously, that was paywalled for Premium subscribers. Non-paying ones had to shuffle through an alb

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Pick up an Anker magnetic battery pack while they are up to 42 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:06:26

Whether you you intend to pick up the new iPhone Air or just need some extra juice for your existing iPhone, a MagSafe power bank is an essential accessory. Luckily, Anker both makes some of our favorites and has great sales going on right now on just this kind of gear. One of the most affordable is the Anker 622 Magnetic Battery, which is 42 percent off and down to $28 right now. This steep discount is also available at Anker's online store with a coupon code that the company provides. This mod

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My hardest-working power station just got an upgrade, and I highly recommend it

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-01 14:13:00

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Power 1000 V2 is an expanded version of one of my favorite rugged power stations: the Power 1000. Unfortunately, the Power 1000 V2 is not yet available in the US. However, the original version, the Power 1000 is, for an accessible $499 When DJI unveiled their new power station lineup last year, I was intrigued to say the least. DJI makes the best consumer and prosumer drones, gimbal

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Spotify Free's Upgrade Lets You Pick Any Song You Want

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 14:00:03

Music streaming service Spotify is rolling out improvements to its free music tier, including the new ability to listen to any song you want, and this follows the company granting Premium users access to lossless streams. The company outlined three new ways ad-supported users can now access the specific song they want to listen to without shuffling: Pick & Play to choose any song from the interface, including your library; Search & Play to use the app's search function; and Share & Play to list

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Android brands should learn honesty from Apple’s fast charger (?!)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 17:45:30

TL;DR Apple’s new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max provides more transparent marketing than most other fast chargers. The charger’s branding differentiates between sustained power (40W) and peak power (60W). It supports the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol, a step toward more open charging solutions, unlike many proprietary Android chargers. Apple launched the iPhone 17 series last week, but there was one new piece of hardware launched alongside it that flew under the radar: Apple’s new 40W Dyna

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Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 18:21:21

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Here are five fintechs that could be next to IPO after Klarna

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-02 00:23:52

In this article KLAR Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Specialist traders work at the post for Swedish fintech Klarna, during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 10, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters After Swedish payments group Klarna's $17 billion initial public offering, investors are pondering which big fintech name will be the next to go public. Klarna popped as much as 30% on the day of its New York IPO, before settling to close aro

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China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-02 01:18:14

China is one of Nvidia's largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. China's market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country's anti-monopoly law, according to a preliminary probe, adding that Beijing would continue its investigation into the U.S. chip giant. Shares of Nvidia were down around 2% in premarket trading. Late last year, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) opened an investigation into Nvidia

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First calls and texts, now Pixels could detect scams from chat apps (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 01:02:59

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google’s Scam Detection feature is coming to chat apps. The feature will display scam detection alerts in chat app notifications. It’s possible that apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, and Twitter could support this functionality. Google introduced Scam Detection functionality to Pixel phones last year, which alerts you if you’re on a phone call with a suspected scammer. The company has also brought t

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Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 01:30:52

Streaming platforms once again dominated the 2025 Primetime Emmy awards (77th edition), while network TV was shut out of the the major filmed categories. Apple TV+ came out on top with seven total wins including four for The Studio: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Seth Rogen), Outstanding Directing (Rogen and Evan Goldberg) and Outstanding Writing. "I've never won anything in my life," Rogen said during his off-the-cuff acceptance speech. "When I was a kid I bought a used bowl

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Ookla launches Wi-Fi Speedtest Certified program to help prove network quality

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-02 03:10:00

Ookla Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Ookla, a top internet speed test service, now offers venue Wi-Fi certifications. The certification service is still rolling out. Once in place, you should look for hotels and business locations with Speedtest Certified ratings. You might pick your hotel for its location or price, but one of the things I consider is whether its Wi-Fi is fast and reliable. I make my living working online. If I can't count on a

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The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-02 03:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 21:30:19

Interactive Planetarium Celestia serves as a planetarium – for an observer on any celestial object. You can easily navigate to any world and land on its surface. When used as a planetarium, Celestia shows accurate positions of solar system objects in the sky. You can switch labels and other supporting features on and off with hotkeys, or zoom in and out on an object of interest, for example Jupiter’s system of moons.

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Folks, we have the best π

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:10:03

In the past couple of months, I published a number of articles on recreational math. I did my best to keep them accessible and fun, but my goal was usually to shed light at deeper mathematical truths. For example, the discussion of 0.999… = 1 served as a springboard to highlight some of the subtler properties of real numbers and the different meanings of infinity. Today, I have no agenda. This article exists because I discovered a somewhat obscure paper that says something unexpected and cool.

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Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 08:25:11

Zstandard's long range mode works wonders for genome sequences without newlines September 12, 2025 First released with Zstandard 1.3.2 in 2017, the --long range match finder increases the compressor’s search window to at least 128MiB, improving deduplication inside large files. This optional feature had substantial performance overheads at launch, but various optimisations have since brought its performance within shooting distance of Zstandard’s fast defaults. As a fan of Zstandard’s speed an

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RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 01:47:18

🦀 Rust LLM from Scratch RustGPT-demo-zoon.mp4 A complete Large Language Model implementation in pure Rust with no external ML frameworks. Built from the ground up using only ndarray for matrix operations. 🚀 What This Is This project demonstrates how to build a transformer-based language model from scratch in Rust, including: Pre-training on factual text completion on factual text completion Instruction tuning for conversational AI for conversational AI Interactive chat mode for testing f

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Robots Could Help Kids Conquer Reading Anxiety, a New Study Suggests

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 02:10:02

For many children, reading aloud can be nerve-wracking. The fear of stumbling over the text, mispronouncing words and being judged for it in front of a group of peers can spike anxiety and dampen confidence. A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin–Madison suggests a surprising ally — robots — may ease that stress. As AI sparks concerns about whether it undermines learning and the effort required to think critically, t

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How CNET Editors Save Money With Cheap Smart Gadgets in Their Own Homes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 03:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you're shopping for an energy-saving gadget such as a smart plug or want the added capabilities of a smart display, you probably want to snag one while still saving money. Paying hundreds for a single home device is a lot to ask. The good news? Smart tech like this can still be very cheap. That’s why my fellow CNET editors an

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Here are the five fintechs that could be next to IPO after Klarna

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-02 03:21:03

In this article KLAR Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Specialist traders work at the post for Swedish fintech Klarna, during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 10, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters After Swedish payments group Klarna's $17 billion initial public offering, investors are pondering which big fintech name will be the next to go public. Klarna popped as much as 30% on the day of its New York IPO, before settling to close aro

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The madness of SaaS chargebacks

Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better

Samsung’s 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD is $100 for a limited time

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Samsung’s latest Good Lock module could supercharge the Gallery app

Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

Pick up an Anker magnetic battery pack while they are up to 42 percent off

My hardest-working power station just got an upgrade, and I highly recommend it

Spotify Free's Upgrade Lets You Pick Any Song You Want

Android brands should learn honesty from Apple’s fast charger (?!)

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty

Here are five fintechs that could be next to IPO after Klarna

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First calls and texts, now Pixels could detect scams from chat apps (APK teardown)

Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

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Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

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Robots Could Help Kids Conquer Reading Anxiety, a New Study Suggests

How CNET Editors Save Money With Cheap Smart Gadgets in Their Own Homes

Here are the five fintechs that could be next to IPO after Klarna

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