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Blast from the past: Facit A2400 terminal

news.ycombinator.com Jan-Piet Mens 2025-11-01 16:53:38

The year is (roughly) 1989, and we have a small office with some Unix computers and a handful of Facit A2400 terminals connected to them. What we love most about these terminals is they are positive terminals with black text on a white background. We “grew up” with green on black and, later at Nixdorf Computer AG, with amber on black. Young readers might be surprised we used to get printed manuals with our terminals (and computers); don’t forget, the Web didn’t exist then, and “download the man

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New Paper Finds Cases of "AI Psychosis" Manifesting Differently From Schizophrenia

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-01 21:04:05

Researchers at King's College London have examined over a dozen cases of people spiraling into paranoid and delusional behavior after obsessively using a chatbot. Their findings, as detailed in a new study awaiting peer review, reveal striking patterns between these instances of so-called "AI psychosis" that parallel other forms of mental health crises — but also identified at least one key difference that sets them apart from the accepted understanding of psychosis. As lead author Hamilton Mo

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Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-01 21:00:00

Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from ChatGPT. The update, called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, rolls out starting Tuesday to all users in the Gemini app, as well as to developers via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI platforms. Gemini’s new AI image model is designed to make more precise edits to images — based on natural languag

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Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-01 21:21:22

A startup called Skylight is taking a different approach to short-form video. Instead of restricting users to an algorithmic main feed, as is common on social apps, Skylight is building a community around human curators who post and repost videos to build out their own custom feeds others can subscribe to. The option, which launched on Monday in the version 2.0 release of the app, could appeal to users who feel a growing sense of unease about traditional social media platforms and their algorit

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Waiting for Spotify Hi-Fi? Spotify built Messages instead, because of course they did

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 00:24:43

TL;DR Spotify is rolling out a new Messages feature that allows users to chat and share content within the app. The feature is available for free and premium users aged 16 and older in select markets. Users can have one-on-one conversations, share Spotify content, and react with text and emojis. Spotify announced its “HiFi” lossless tier in February 2021. While there have been recent signs of progress, the feature still hasn’t launched. If you’ve been holding your breath for Spotify’s lossles

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Logitech’s MX Master 4 leaks point to haptic feedback

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-11-02 01:15:29

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Logitech’s new flagship mouse may be about to launch, and bring with it an unexpected upgrade: haptic feedback. WinFuture claims to have obtained leaked details on the MX Master 4, which it says will launch on September 30 for €129.99 (around $150). While the broad strokes of the mouse’s

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No, Grok 2.5 has not been open-sourced. Here's how you can tell

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-02 05:39:26

X / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Grok 2.5's license blocks true open-source use. Musk's "open source" claim amounts to open-washing. Other AI projects offer real open access and freedom. Companies love to exaggerate about open-sourcing AI. It plays well with people, naive developers get excited, and stock buyers invest more cash in their businesses. There's only one little problem: It's not true. First, Mark Zucke

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Spotify is adding DMs

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-02 16:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Spotify is introducing a direct messaging feature that allows users to share music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations with each other without leaving the app. Messages is rolling out in “select markets” this week, according to Spotify’s press release, and will be available on mobile devices for Free and Premium users aged 16 years and older. The messaging feature can be accessed by tapping the share ic

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Spotify launches a messaging feature in a bid to become more social

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-02 16:00:00

Spotify is introducing a way for you to chat with your friends in a bid to become a more social content consumption app. Users have shared Spotify links for music and podcasts with others outside the platform for years. With this feature, Spotify wants users to do more within the app while also keeping the history of shared content, so users don’t have to search for a song. Messages are only one-on-one, and you can only start a chat with someone with whom you have previously shared content. Th

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about ‘vampire’ watch faces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:37:22

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely culprits. The update is rolling out, but we haven’t spotted it yet on our Galaxy Watch 8. Google is adding a small but handy feature to the Play Store on Wear OS watches. With the latest Play Store version 47.7 update, users will now see warning messages o

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about vampire watch faces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 18:37:22

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely culprits. The update is rolling out, but we haven’t spotted it yet on our Galaxy Watch 8. Google is adding a small but handy feature to the Play Store on Wear OS watches. With the latest Play Store version 47.7 update, users will now see warning messages o

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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-11-02 10:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-03 00:17:49

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When OpenAI launched GPT-5 about two weeks ago, CEO Sam Altman promised it would be the company’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet.” Instead, the launch triggered one of the most contentious user revolts in the brief history of consumer AI. Now, a simple blind testing tool created by an anonymous developer is revealing the complex

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Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 03:41:51

Fenster Fenster /ˈfɛnstɐ/ -- a German word for "window". This library provides the most minimal and highly opinionated way to display a cross-platform 2D canvas. If you remember Borland BGI or drawing things in QBASIC or INT 10h - you know what I mean. As a nice bonus you also get cross-platform keyboard/mouse input and audio playback in only a few lines of code. What it does for you Single application window of given size with a title. Application lifecycle and system events are all handle

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Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-11-03 04:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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An illustrated guide to OAuth

news.ycombinator.com Aditya Bhargava 2025-11-03 00:29:48

OAuth was first introduced in 2007. It was created at Twitter because Twitter wanted a way to allow third-party apps to post tweets on users' behalf. Take a second to imagine designing something like that today. How would you do it? One way would just be to ask the user for their username and password. So you create an unofficial Twitter client, and present the user a login screen that says "log in with Twitter". The user does so, but instead of logging into Twitter, they're actually sending the

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Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-03 15:00:00

Bounce, a new technology that adds a critical component to the open social web, launches to the public on Monday. The cross-protocol migration tool offers a service that allows users of open social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon to move their follow graphs between their accounts, even though the networks rely on different underlying protocols. Today, Mastodon users unhappy with the service can opt to move their account to a different Mastodon server, while Bluesky is developing technology t

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The MiniPC Revolution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 23:45:19

Over the past couple of years I’ve been experimenting with MiniPCs, and the more I do, the more I’m convinced this is the future I want to invest in. The Many Advantages Of MiniPCs # Before I ramble on about how great something I like is, first let me assure you that I know they’re not perfect either, and might not be what some people want. Nevertheless, here are my own reasons and explanations for how I came to be swayed in this direction, why I think it’s a good idea, and why I would recomme

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As Health Questions Swirl, Weird Spot Appears on Trump’s Hand

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 05:08:00

Image by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty / Futurism Treatments Over the past few months, a small media circus has ignited after the White House announced that 79-year-old president Donald Trump, who had been photographed with swollen ankles, had been diagnosed with a disorder called chronic venous insufficiency that causes blood to pool in the extremities. Now, amid the increasing scrutiny about those "cankles," it appears the president or his aides are obfuscating another visible ai

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Building the mouse Logitech won't make

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 04:34:50

Building the Mouse Logitech Won't Make My absolute favorite mouse is the MX Ergo from Logitech. It's a trackball mouse with a good number of buttons and a comfortable, ergonomic tilt. It clicked with me as soon as I tried it, and I've been using one since they came out back in 2017. However, it's not without its issues. There are 3 main areas where the sheen of perfection wears off: It uses a micro-USB port to charge. The switches are a little loud and clicky. The software is bloated. After

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A four-pack of Apple AirTags drops to $70 for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 20:07:40

If you're thinking about getting some of Apple's AirTags, now's the time to act — Amazon currently has a four-pack on sale for $70. That's one of the lowest prices we've seen outside the big sales on Black Friday and Prime Day. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow your search between a couch and love seat in the same room. Over larger distances,

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An Illustrated Guide to OAuth

news.ycombinator.com Aditya Bhargava 2025-11-04 18:29:48

OAuth was first introduced in 2007. It was created at Twitter because Twitter wanted a way to allow third-party apps to post tweets on users' behalf. Take a second to imagine designing something like that today. How would you do it? One way would just be to ask the user for their username and password. So you create an unofficial Twitter client, and present the user a login screen that says "log in with Twitter". The user does so, but instead of logging into Twitter, they're actually sending the

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Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 17:15:20

Microsoft is working to resolve an Exchange Online issue causing email access problems for Outlook mobile users who use Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA). HMA is a Microsoft Exchange Server feature that allows users to access on-premises mailboxes using authorization tokens from the cloud. Tracked under EX1137017 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, this known issue is caused by a recent service change, designed to improve the efficiency of mailbox syncs, which is triggering 12-hour sync delay

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First Netflix House opens its doors on November 12th

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-11-05 00:00:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The first two Netflix House venues now have their grand opening dates. Netflix House Philadelphia will open on November 12th at King of Prussia Mall, and Netflix House Dallas will open on December 11th at Galleria Dallas. These real-world manifesta

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I tried ChatGPT Go, and I don’t think I can ever go back to the free version

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 10:00:49

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Love it or hate it, ChatGPT is the search engine of choice in 2025. Even with its many flaws and quirks, there’s no denying that ChatGPT has become an integral part of everyday research and productivity for so many people. The free version has served me well enough for quick answers and casual use, but it has its limitations. So, when OpenAI announced ChatGPT Go, a new $ 5-per-month plan, I was immediately curious. I’ve been intrigued about the capabilities of

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These 7 household gadgets were secretly driving up my power bill - unplugging them helped

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-05 08:30:22

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. With costs climbing across the US, energy prices stand out -made worse by record-breaking summer heat and recent waves scorching multiple states. Having endured several of them this season, I'm always searching for ways to cut back on energy use. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off

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Changing these 6 settings on my iPad greatly extended its battery life by hours

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-05 10:00:21

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET As an avid iPad user, I'm all too familiar with the internal struggles that course through me when the battery is about to die. I love using either the iPad 11 or iPad Air to write and work, but I also use it to stream content, play games, and browse the internet after work. This makes me appreciate the iPad's long battery life, yet my anxiety grows when I start getting 'low battery' alerts without a charger nearby. Also: How you're charging your tablet is slowly killing

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Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently

news.ycombinator.com Cornell University 2025-11-05 10:03:53

Researchers at Cornell University have developed an electronic chip that they describe as a "microwave brain." The simplified chip is analog rather than digital, yet can process ultrafast data and wireless communication signals simultaneously. We are so used to thinking of computers as digital machines running on binary code that it's easy to forget that these are only one type of computer. In fact, both historically and today, many devices that we can classify as computers are analog in functi

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Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:24:40

cascache Provider-agnostic CAS like (Compare-And-Set or generation-guarded conditional set) cache with pluggable codecs and a pluggable generation store. Safe single-key reads (no stale values), optional bulk caching with read-side validation, and an opt‑in distributed mode for multi-replica deployments. Contents Overview CAS safety: Writers snapshot a per-key generation before the DB read. Cache writes commit only if the generation is unchanged. Writers snapshot a per-key before the DB rea

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Everything I know about good API design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 04:10:09

Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time working with APIs, both building and using them. I’ve written public APIs for third-party developers, private APIs for internal use (or consumption by a single frontend page), REST and GraphQL APIs, and even non-network interfaces like the ones for command-line tools. Like designing good software systems, I think much of the advice floa

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Blast from the past: Facit A2400 terminal

New Paper Finds Cases of "AI Psychosis" Manifesting Differently From Schizophrenia

Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade

Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

Waiting for Spotify Hi-Fi? Spotify built Messages instead, because of course they did

Logitech’s MX Master 4 leaks point to haptic feedback

No, Grok 2.5 has not been open-sourced. Here's how you can tell

Spotify is adding DMs

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about ‘vampire’ watch faces

Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about vampire watch faces

Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you

Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

An illustrated guide to OAuth

Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

The MiniPC Revolution

As Health Questions Swirl, Weird Spot Appears on Trump’s Hand

Building the mouse Logitech won't make

A four-pack of Apple AirTags drops to $70 for Labor Day

An Illustrated Guide to OAuth

Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

First Netflix House opens its doors on November 12th

I tried ChatGPT Go, and I don’t think I can ever go back to the free version

These 7 household gadgets were secretly driving up my power bill - unplugging them helped

Changing these 6 settings on my iPad greatly extended its battery life by hours

Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently

Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

Everything I know about good API design

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