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Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

theverge.com Nilay Patel 2025-09-06 09:00:00

Today, I’m talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States — it’s rivaled only by Tinder, and both are owned by the massive conglomerate Match Group, which has consolidated a huge chunk of the online dating ecosystem. A fair warning here: I’ve never actually used a dating app — the algorithm that matched my wife and I was the university housing lottery, which put us in adjacent dorm rooms in the fall of 2000. And my wife is now a di

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LEGO Star Wars Phantom Menace Podrace Wasn’t This Cheap Last Prime Day, but Now It’s Practically Free

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-06 13:40:39

It’s hard to decide which is more surprising — the fact that Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is now 25 years old, or that LEGO has been creating amazingly detailed Star Wars-themed sets and models for just as long. The 25th anniversary celebration of LEGO Star Wars continues with this amazing diorama depicting the iconic podrace between young Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba on Tatooine, and Amazon’s selling this adult set for just $54. The LEGO Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Mos Espa Podrace Diorama

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Insta360 Flow Gimbal Stabilizer Drops to Lowest Price and Amazon Has Never Offered It This Cheap

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-06 17:10:55

If you consider yourself a vlogger or YouTuber or aspiring influencer, you can get yourself something that can take your videos up to the next level. The Insta360 Flow is a portable and foldable gimbal stabilizer. Right now, Amazon has is discounted to just $80 — a 27% discount down from $110. We’ve all been here. Something cool is happening around, or we’re walking through a museum, or just down the side of the road, or maybe we’re trying to shoot something on video we think would be funny to

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 16:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It's Too Late

wired.com Justin Ling 2025-09-07 01:00:00

In the span of just a few years, drones have become instrumental in warfare. Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, and elsewhere have shown how autonomous vehicles have become a quintessential part of modern combat. It’s a fact that Taiwan knows all too well. The island nation, fearing imminent invasion from China, has both the need, know-how, and industry necessary to build a robust and advanced drone program. Yet Taiwan, which has set an ambitious target of producing 180,000 d

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) – Founding Back End Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 21:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Bitcoin briefly sinks below $99,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran trigger crypto market sell-off

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-06 23:59:22

Bitcoin fell to its lowest level since May over the weekend, as rising tensions in the Middle East and renewed inflation fears triggered a sharp selloff across digital assets. Bitcoin dropped below the $99,000 mark on Sunday — its lowest point in more than a month — and ether was more than 10% lower at one point, as the digital asset market became the first to react to escalating geopolitical risk. Solana , XRP , and dogecoin also posted sharp losses, dragging the entire crypto complex deep int

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Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Robotaxi Gamble Is Here

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-06 23:37:29

The wait is finally over. After years of promises from its eccentric CEO, Tesla debuted its highly anticipated robotaxi service on June 22 in Austin, Texas, a launch that is central to the company’s entire future. This isn’t just about a new feature; it’s the cornerstone of Elon Musk’s narrative that Tesla is not merely a car company but a world-changing AI and robotics powerhouse. As the automaker faces fierce competition from Chinese rivals like BYD, the success or failure of its autonomous v

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$33.28/mo for a MacBook? Meet the MacBook Upgrade Program

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-09-06 21:46:50

With Apple’s latest MacBooks pushing performance further than ever, buyers are moving away from the old-school, pay-upfront model. And one company is quietly reshaping how Mac users get their next device. For years, Apple fans had two options: pay thousands of dollars upfront or finance through a 12-month plan (often with limited availability). But now there’s a third option that’s gaining traction: Upgraded, a MacBook subscription service built to make getting a new MacBook as easy and afforda

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iPadOS 26: Testing the new local capture for podcasting

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-06 22:30:00

If you’re a creator or podcaster, I’ll bet your ears perked up towards the end of the WWDC25 keynote, when Apple announced that built-in local audio and video capture during calls would be coming to iPadOS 26. And while I have tried (and repeatedly failed) to fit the iPad in my podcasting workflow, I knew Jason Snell would be one of the first to take the feature for a spin. And he did just that. Currently on iOS and iPadOS, once you’re on a call, you can’t run a second app in the background to

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Look Outside just got a big update bringing a bunch of new creepy experiences

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-06 22:25:41

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . I didn't really need an excuse to begin another playthrough of Look Outside, but the developer just dropped an update that provides plenty of reasons to dip back into the survival horror RPG if you were looking for any. Update 1.5 brings new crafting recipes, new interactions with peop

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Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 13:02:24

Just a note of warning from personal experience. Companies don’t really need non-competes anymore. Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, where they consider doing any work in the industry during your lifetime an inevitable confidentiality violation. They argue it would be impossible for you to work elsewhere in this industry during your entire career without violating confidentiality with the technical and business instincts you bring to that domain. It do

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Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage

news.ycombinator.com Camilo Aguilar 2025-09-06 16:57:07

On Jun 12th, 2025, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experienced an unfortunate global outage triggered by an automated quota update to their API management system. What was a major outage for a large part of the internet was just another normal day for Redpanda Cloud customers. While GCP dealt with the widespread disruption that impacted many critical services, Redpanda Cloud clusters in GCP remained stable, thanks to being purposely designed for the SLA we offer, along with a cell-based architectur

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Are Ford and GM Still American?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-06 18:00:28

For decades, Ford and General Motors have been symbols of American industry, blue-collar pride, and heartland grit. From the rugged Ford F-150 to the all-American Chevy, the Detroit Big Three — Ford, GM, and Chrysler (now part of Stellantis) — have dominated the auto market with vehicles built and sold across the United States. The Ford F-150 is a cultural symbol. For many, Detroit remains the heartland of the U.S. auto industry, a perception reinforced by billions of dollars in recent investme

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Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses

news.ycombinator.com June 2025-09-05 05:11:34

This could’ve easily been 12 blog posts, but I opted for one that comprehensively captures how I feel about design on Apple platforms right now. The Pendulum Swing There was immediate criticism of iOS 7’s visual design. Concerns mounted pretty quickly about both style and accessibility. Some people remarked, “It’s only the beta,” implying significant change during the beta release phase was not just possible but probable. Yet, after it was released to the public largely the same as it was intr

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I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 00:14:28

How I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night The case for moving fast and breaking things (before your competitors kill you) The worst 7PM in my software engineering career Picture this: It's a Friday evening in Paris, and I'm wrapping up what should have been a routine week at Joe AI, the real-estate startup where we were building an AI agent that automated communications for property developers across France. I had just finished what I thought was a clean migration: moving our en

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Can Labubu Endure Collectible Hype?

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-06 21:15:45

The latest drop from Pop Mart’s the Monsters collection might be its most ambitious yet: putting the blind-box darling Labubu into a funky foodie product line that might turn off existing fans. With the Monsters: Wacky Mart, Kasing Lung’s original intention with the mischievous creature shines in a way that might appeal more to vinyl art collectors. Here they give Gremlins energy as they get into munchy mayhem in milk cartons or tempura shrimp. It’s a distinct move that leans into Labubus being

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Ancient termite poo reveals 120M-year-old secrets of Australia's forests

news.ycombinator.com Alistair Evans 2025-09-04 15:25:16

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: CT reconstructions of termite and mite coprolites. Credit: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113059 Imagine a lush forest with tree-ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers tower overhead, bearing triangular leaves almost sharp enough to pierce ski

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This Air Purifier for Large Rooms Is Now Practically Free, Amazon Clears Out 4.5-Star Top Picks

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-07 05:10:40

The air you breathe matters more than you might think. Between pollen, pet dander, dust, and whatever’s drifting in through open windows, it’s easy for indoor air to get a little stale or even irritating. That’s where a good air purifier comes in, and if you’ve been thinking about buying one, now’s a good time to jump in. You can get a great machine that can keep all the nasties out of your air at home while cleaning large spaces at a time. Because no one wants to have to buy multiple machines,

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West End Games’ Classic ‘Star Wars’ RPG Is Still Setting the Blueprint for Its Universe

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-07 09:48:43

In the years since Lucasfilm overhauled Star Wars continuity—reclassifying years of Expanded Universe material as “Legends” before wiping a clean slate of continuity it has developed over the last decade-plus—much of what has been rebuilt has been done so off of the back of re-canonizing elements of that old material. In some ways re-imagined, in others just lifted wholesale, the journey of modern Star Wars is as much about adding new stories as it is weaving the old ones back into them. There

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Yet another Android brand is copying the iPhone’s Action button

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:10:48

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple replaced the mute switch with a customizable Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro models. OnePlus recently copied this move and replaced its iconic alert slider with a customizable button on the OnePlus 13s. Another Android brand could soon follow suit and add a customizable button on an upcoming phone. After including a silent switch on every iPhone model since the original, Apple dropped it in favor of a customizable button starting with the iPhone

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James Gunn Says ‘Get Off Matt’s Nuts,’ ‘The Batman’ Sequel Will Happen When It Happens

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-07 15:45:02

Cool your jets Batman fans, James Gunn has heard you loud and clear over the highly anticipated sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman. So much so that he recently expressed his frustration with the demand in defense of the time DC Studios was taking. “Listen, we’re supposed to get a script in June. I hope that happens. We feel really good about it,” Gunn told Entertainment Weekly, and colorfully added, “People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amo

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Rolling the ladder up behind us

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 19:51:02

Rolling the ladder up behind us Published on 2025-06-20 , 5674 words, 21 minutes to read Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise. A picture of two patches of wild grass bifurcated by a retaining pond. - Photo by Xe Iaso, Canon EOS R6 Mark 2, unknown lens Cloth is one of the most important goods a society can produce. Clothing is instrumental for culture, expression, and for protecting one's modes

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Soundcore Waterproof Speaker Is Going for Peanuts, Anker Offers This Deal With Limited Stock

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-07 21:10:10

A little bit of music goes a long way. Whether you’re working out and trying to push out one more set, you’re reading a book and want something instrumental in the background, or you’re just sitting and zoning out. Heck, even in the shower or bath, it’s nice just to listen to some tunes and relax a little bit. It just so happens we’ve got a great deal for that exact situation today. See at Amazon That’s because you can currently get this Soundcore Select 4 Go bluetooth shower speaker while it’

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HCP Vault Secrets End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 00:47:21

HashiCorp will be decommissioning HCP Vault Secrets. The team is shifting focus to bringing the ease of use learnings from HCP Vault Secrets to HCP Vault Dedicated. Current HCP Vault Secrets users are encouraged to migrate to HCP Vault Dedicated. Important Timelines End of Sale: June 30, 2025 New customers will no longer have access to HCP Vault Secrets Existing customers will be able to add new HCP Vault Secrets applications until the end of life End of life: August 27, 2025 (pay-as-you-go

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-05 07:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Best Buy Offers Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15.6″ Laptop for Nearly 50% Off, and Amazon Missed Out

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-08 05:40:58

It’s that time again. Time to buy a new computer. You’re probably wondering how you’re going to get one for a decent deal. Sometimes if you’re asking too much, you might not find the exact deal you’re looking for. But there are tons of affordable, budget-friendly laptops out there that can get the job done that won’t cost you an entire paycheck to pick up. Whether you need a device for school, remote work, streaming, or everyday browsing, we’ve found a discounted laptop that’s designed to keep u

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Everything we know about Tesla's robotaxi launch in Austin

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-08 09:16:55

Tesla 's long-overdue robotaxi is finally hitting the streets this weekend, but the rollout may face some roadblocks. The Elon Musk-led electric vehicle company is expected to roll out robotaxis in Austin, Texas, on June 22, with the first driverless trip from the factory to a customer house expected on his birthday, June 28. Musk shared news of the tentative debut in a post to social media platform X last week. Here's what we know about the Tesla event so far. When and where The launch wil

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Amazon’s Best-Selling 50,000mAh Portable Power Bank Is Almost Free, Now 79% Off With Limited Stock

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-08 13:10:12

If you’ve ever spent time frantically searching for an outlet in a crowded airport, panicked over your phone battery at a music festival, or just wished you could charge everything without lugging around a mess of cables, you’re not alone. It’s frustrating (and can be kind of scary) when you don’t have any charge left on your phone. What if you have an emergency? What if the group chat keeps texting you and you can’t respond? We kid, but hey, sometimes it truly is a dire situation. But a power b

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A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-06 03:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

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