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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-07 04:16:54

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 03:06:15

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application? — (@jvmncs) January 21, 2025 This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" devenv solved this for development environments differently: instead of making developers package everything with Nix, we provide tools through a simple languages.rust.enable . You get cargo

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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-07 09:41:31

Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced Friday in a post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring its technology into future AI models and products. “To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach,” Wang said. “This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap,

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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 10:41:48

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks). For someone like me, who cares about privacy and runs as much as possible

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Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-07 14:25:30

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small packages, have resulted in postal services across the world simply choosing not to ship to the United States until things get sorted out, according to Bloomberg. Central to th

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Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-07 14:30:49

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law. In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification f

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Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 21:06:15

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application? — (@jvmncs) January 21, 2025 This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" devenv solved this for development environments differently: instead of making developers package everything with Nix, we provide tools through a simple languages.rust.enable . You get cargo

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Away from Gmail, Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 04:41:48

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks). For someone like me, who cares about privacy and runs as much as possible

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Kimbal Musk on Elon's Tesla pay package: 'My brother deserves to be paid'

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-08 08:33:10

Kimbal Musk, the younger brother of the world's wealthiest person, said Elon Musk "deserves to be paid," as Tesla remains locked in a legal saga over its CEO's pay package. "I think my brother deserves to be paid," Kimbal Musk said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday. "He has zero pay for the past six to eight years. I don't think that's right. I'll let Tesla shareholders make that decision, but I believe that it does need to be. He needs to be paid." Elon Musk isn't paid a salary or any cash bon

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If I were starting again with Apple kit, I’d own less of it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-08 09:00:00

My colleague Michael Burkhardt posed an interesting question earlier in the week: if you had to start again with your Apple kit, what would you buy? There’s already one Apple product category I no longer use, and a second one I use only on a technicality … I no longer wear an Apple Watch Despite not initially seeing the appeal, I did end up wearing one for nine years. A couple of random events ended up changing that, and I now instead rely on a smart ring. I’m totally sold on a much smaller

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If You've Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:15:41

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Have you gone outside recently and smelled an acrid odor, perhaps accompanied by a hellish orange sky? Check the news, and you were likely downwind of massive wildfires like those in the Canadian province of Manitoba or the Florida Everglades— an increasingly regular event as millions of people find themselves in the path of noxious smoke, sometimes from a country away. Wildfires are becoming more common than ever amid the ravages of climate change — and thos

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All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 10:50:39

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm. The real

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Best Massagers for When You’d Rather Not Pay Spa Prices (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-08 18:00:00

The best massagers shouldn't feel like a luxury reserved for special occasions. Getting some tension out of your shoulders should be as accessible as your morning coffee. After all, between work, workouts, and the existential crisis that is life, who isn't carrying muscle tension somewhere? I've dedicated countless hours to trying (almost) every type of massage tool. Testing these contraptions might sound like the dream gig, but it's not all bliss. Some felt like having a personal therapist at m

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Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 22:59:07

Hi HN, we are Liam and Eoghan of Inconvo ( https://inconvo.com ), a platform that makes it easy to build and deploy AI analytics agents into your SaaS products, so your customers can quickly interact with their data. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlZL3XGWTQ and a live demo at https://demo.inconvo.ai/ (no signup required). Docs are at https://inconvo.com/docs. SaaS products typically offer dashboards and reports, which work for high-level metrics but are clunky for dr

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The Management Skill Nobody Talks About

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 22:50:39

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm. The real

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This $1,000 Drone Is Built for the High Seas

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-08 23:52:28

Zero Zero Robotics, the makers of the HoverAir line of drones, is suddenly more taken with water than air. The upcoming $1,000 HoverAir Aqua—which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo—may be the first drone built for Atlanteans or anybody who spends their free time on open waters. The one major drawback will hinder your total flight times while reminding you of your grade school lessons about why electricity and water don’t mix. Welcome to the drone life aquatic. Now, I know what you’re proba

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Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-11-09 15:00:00

That idea is not without its detractors. Among other issues, many feel AI is not capable of the creative thought needed in research, makes too many mistakes and hallucinations, and may limit opportunities for young researchers. Nevertheless, a number of scientists and policymakers are very keen on the promise of AI scientists. The US government’s AI Action Plan describes the need to “invest in automated cloud-enabled labs for a range of scientific fields.” Some researchers think AI scientists c

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5 apps you should use instead of Messenger

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:30:59

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Messenger is one of the most popular messaging services around, especially in the US, but it has its faults. Group chats, for example, are not end-to-end encrypted by default, meaning the company that runs it — Meta — can technically read your messages. And since Meta owns it, we can assume it collects a lot of user information that’s then used for targeted ads, just like most big tech companies do. Users also criticize the app for being bloated, as it has e

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Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands' products

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:29:43

Since it was announced in June, Trump Mobile has committed to an increasingly-surreal smoke-and-mirrors approach to its promised T1 smartphone. Despite the initial claims that the phone would be made in the United States, it seemed highly unlikely from the start that it was accurate. The "Made in USA" claims were quietly removed from the Trump Mobile website at a later date. AppleInsider spotted the latest bizarre wrinkle to this story, which is that the actual phone still does not exist. The p

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CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Anderson 2025-11-09 23:04:39

To speak with an expert, contact IPS Deputy Communications Director Olivia Alperstein at (202) 704-9011 or [email protected] . For recent press statements, visit our Press page . Introduction This 31st annual Institute for Policy Studies Executive Excess report takes an in-depth look at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay, a group we have dubbed the “Low-Wage 100.” For each of these companies, we analyze CEO and worker pay trends since 2019. We also compare, for the

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Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

news.ycombinator.com Anant Bhasin 2025-11-06 03:43:31

QR codes are everywhere. They’re incredibly functional, connecting our physical and digital worlds with a simple scan. But let's be honest: most of them are an eyesore. The standard black-and-white pixelated square often feels like a necessary evil that disrupts an otherwise beautiful design. The common solution has been to leverage the QR code's built-in error correction to place a logo in the center. While functional, it’s still an overlay—a sticker on top of the data. We thought, what if the

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Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe over faulty crash reporting

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-10 14:22:17

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Elon Musk's Tesla is facing a federal probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after the U.S. auto safety agency found that the company was not reporting crashes as required. According to documents posted to NHTSA's website on Thursday, the agency's Office of Defects Investigation had "identified numerous incident reports" from Te

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Google is selling a version of Gemini for government agencies

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:42:21

Google has announced plans to sell a custom version of its Gemini AI models for government agencies. "Gemini for Government" includes access to existing tools like NotebookLM, and "Google-quality enterprise search, video and image generation capabilities." The AI platform is in direct competition with similar offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. A big focus of Google's pitch for Gemini for Government is the idea of automating administrative tasks with AI agents. The company touts pre-built

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Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:44:44

There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about electric vehicle adoption here in the US. The current administration has made no secret of its hostility toward EVs and, as promised, has ended as many of the existing EV subsidies and vehicle pollution regulations as it could. After more than a year of month-on-month growth, EV sales started to contract, and brands like Genesis and Volvo have seen their customers reject their electric offerings, forcing portfolio rethinks. But wait, it gets wo

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I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Conner 2025-11-10 16:16:54

Ibiza coast. August 2025. I went through a phase where I Anki’d every useful-seeming Japanese word I came across as well as all of the standard 2,136 kanji. I was teaching English in Japan at the time, which meant I was thinking about language learning all day. I’d arrived with no knowledge of the language and a resolve to be able to read a contemporary fiction novel on my flight home, so I felt I needed all the help I could get. That’s when I found Anki. Fig. 1: My idea of a good time. Review

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Insta360’s New Detachable Action Camera Makes GoPros Look Even More Outdated

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-10 15:29:45

Insta360 wanted to upset the staid design of action cameras two years ago with its Insta360 Go 3 and its odd magnetic camera pod. As much as I may want to stick a camera on my fridge, most users still want a device that will shoot video of the same quality as their average GoPro—no matter if the camera itself is the size of their thumb. As with most lenses, inevitably, you have to go bigger. The new $450 Insta360 Go Ultra trades out the old pop-out pod shape for a cube. It makes this magnetic ac

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Google just made it a whole lot easier to access Password Manager

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:41:27

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has launched a new Password Manager app. The app makes it faster and easier to access Password Manager on your phone. The app does not come with a themed icon. For those times when you forget a password, you can always check Google Password Manager, which is built into your Android phone. And if you want to see if any of your passwords have been compromised, it can do that too. While Password Manager can be a pretty helpful tool, there isn’t re

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The Core of Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 22:27:22

NOTE: this is not a rust tutorial. Every year it was an incredible challenge to fit teaching Rust into lectures since you basically need all the concepts right from the start to understand a lot of programs. I never knew how to order things. The flip side was that usually when you understand all the basic components in play lots of it just fits together. i.e. there's some point where the interwovenness turns from a barrier into something incredibly valuable and helpful. —Jana Dönszelmann Visio

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Insta360′

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-10 21:29:45

Insta360 wanted to upset the staid design of action cameras two years ago with its Insta360 Go 3 and its odd magnetic camera pod. As much as I may want to stick a camera on my fridge, most users still want a device that will shoot video of the same quality as their average GoPro—no matter if the camera itself is the size of their thumb. As with most lenses, inevitably, you have to go bigger. The new $450 Insta360 Go Ultra trades out the old pop-out pod shape for a cube. It makes this magnetic ac

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The Tiniest Action Camera Is Now Slightly Larger, and So Much Better for It

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-11 09:29:45

Insta360 wanted to upset the staid design of action cameras two years ago with its Insta360 Go 3 and its odd magnetic camera pod. As much as I may want to stick a camera on my fridge, most users still want a device that will shoot video of the same quality as their average GoPro—no matter if the camera itself is the size of their thumb. As with most lenses, inevitably, you have to go bigger. The new $450 Insta360 Go Ultra trades out the old pop-out pod shape for a cube. It makes this magnetic ac

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