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Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-30 09:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. It’s something that iOS Chrome users have been able to do since 2023, and it could help make the address bar more easily accessible, especially if you are using a phone with a bigger screen. “Depending on the size of your hand and your device, one a

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Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-08-30 09:19:32

Samsung has announced an Unpacked event that’s happening on Wednesday, July 9th at 10AM ET. Details are sparse, but it shared the tagline “Ultra Unfolds,” which suggests we’re about to learn a whole lot more about a premium foldable phone, and perhaps some other foldables. However, you don’t have to wait for the keynote to unfold to mark yourself as interested, and Samsung is offering a free incentive if you follow through with buying it. By filling out a reservation form for the upcoming devic

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Chrome for Android now lets you move the address bar to the bottom, too

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-30 09:00:00

Google Chrome’s web browser for Android devices is finally catching up to the notable design change that Safari made with the 2021 introduction of iOS 15: it’s offering a way to move the address bar to the bottom of the screen too. The company announced on Tuesday that the latest version of its Chrome for Android browser will now allow users who prefer the modernized experience, designed to be easier to use on mobile devices, to opt to set their address bar to appear at the bottom of their scre

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Retrieval Augmented Generation Based on SQLite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 21:11:32

Haiku SQLite RAG A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) library on SQLite. Features Local SQLite : No need to run additional servers : No need to run additional servers Support for various embedding providers : You can use Ollama, VoyageAI, OpenAI or add your own : You can use Ollama, VoyageAI, OpenAI or add your own Hybrid Search : Vector search using sqlite-vec combined with full-text search FTS5 , using Reciprocal Rank Fusion : Vector search using combined with full-text search , using

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Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 04:11:52

To update the Starship itself, rerun the above script. It will replace the current version without touching Starship's configuration. Add the init script to your shell's config file: Add the following to the end of ~/.bashrc : sh # ~/.bashrc eval "$( starship init bash)" Add the following to the end of ~/.config/fish/config.fish : sh # ~/.config/fish/config.fish starship init fish | source Add the following to the end of ~/.zshrc : sh # ~/.zshrc eval "$( starship init zsh)" Add the follo

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Show HN: Weather Watching

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 19:25:48

Where is the camera? I won't tell you. But it's somewhere in Manhattan, below 14th Street. Thanks to Brian for technical pointers, and James for the idea to do clothes in addition to umbrellas!

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Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 22:29:30

Why? Wifi networks collect a reference to your computer (called MAC address) when you login. That way, when you try to login again, even with different credentials, they detect that it is the same device and do not allow you to continue using it.

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Airpass – easily overcome WiFi time limits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 13:29:30

Why? Wifi networks collect a reference to your computer (called MAC address) when you login. That way, when you try to login again, even with different credentials, they detect that it is the same device and do not allow you to continue using it.

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Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-06 00:45:42

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science Watching a whole bunch of smut has some major side effects — and no, we're not just talking about stained bedsheets. In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers at the Chengdu Medical College in China found that people who watch a lot of pornography had lower cognitive performance and showed signs of neurological arousal akin to opioid addiction. It's new data in a swirling debate over whether watchi

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Homegrown Closures for Uxn

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 01:29:35

Homegrown closures for uxn at least, kind of... For a week or so now, I've been writing niënor, a "lispy environment for uxn". I did not want it to become a full-blown lisp but just another way of writing uxntal. Uxntal is a bit too dense for my liking, and I prefer lisp/scheme s-expression syntax. Niënor is just a compiler and a macroexpander that takes in scheme-like code and spits out uxn roms. This article describes my homegrown method of creating lexically scoped closures in this environ

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Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder bosses

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-06 01:32:55

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The bosses in Elden Ring Nightreign are already pretty tough. But if you’ve gotten good and need a harder challenge, you’ll be able to take on “Everdark Sovereigns,” which are more difficult versions of the game’s Nightlord foes you face to conclude a run. “These limited-time versions of the Nightlords are extremely challenging and pose an even greater threat to the Nightfare

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US recovers $225 million of crypto stolen in investment scams

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-06 13:33:01

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized more than $225 million in cryptocurrency linked to investment fraud and money laundering operations, the largest crypto seizure in the history of the U.S. Secret Service. The state's investigators used blockchain analysis to trace the funds stolen from over 400 victims, which were then laundered through a complex network of cryptocurrency addresses to obscure their origin. "The complaint alleges that the cryptocurrency addresses that held the over $225

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MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 04:59:47

This document lists changes made to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification since the previous revision, 2025-03-26. Major changes Other schema changes Add _meta field to additional interface types (PR #710), and specify proper usage. Add context field to CompletionRequest , providing for completion requests to include previously-resolved variables (PR #598). Add title field for human-friendly display names, so that name can be used as a programmatic identifier (PR #663) Full ch

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Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 08:40:32

Fang The CLI starter kit. A small, experimental library for batteries-included Cobra applications. Features Fancy output : fully styled help and usage pages : fully styled help and usage pages Fancy errors : fully styled errors : fully styled errors Automatic --version : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice Manpages : Adds a hidden man command to generate manpages using mango 1 : Adds a hidden command to generate man

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Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-07 17:56:00

The pro-Israel "Predatory Sparrow" hacking group claims to have stolen over $90 million in cryptocurrency from Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, and burned the funds in a politically motivated cyberattack. The attack occurred on June 18, 2025, with Nobitex first reporting the breach on X at 2:24 AM EST. "This morning, June 19, our technical team detected signs of unauthorized access to a portion of our reporting infrastructure and hot wallet," reads Nobitex's post. "Immediately upon de

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Grokking NAT and packet mangling in Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 12:40:03

grokking NAT and packet mangling in linux Source: Imgur Imagine a house full of devices connected to your Wi-Fi network. From any device, try finding your public IP by visiting https://www.whatismyip.com/. The IPv4 address field should be the same for all devices. This is the IP provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your router, which acts as a gateway for your internet. So what's happening here? If the IPv4 address is the same, how is the router able to differentiate between th

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'We Were Liars' on Prime Video: How to Stream the New Series

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 05:00:10

Watching ads is now the default when you stream Prime Video, but you can opt to pay an additional $3 per month to remove them. Live TV and sports events will still include commercials, and the fee is monthly even if you have annual Prime. Here are some highly rated shows to check out on the streaming service and details on the next Amazon Prime Day.

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Paddle settles for $5 million over facilitating tech support scams

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-09 05:14:18

Paddle.com and its U.S. subsidiary will pay $5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations that the company facilitated deceptive tech-support schemes that harmed many U.S. consumers, including older adults. Paddle, a UK-based payment processor, offers payments, tax handling, compliance, and checkout infrastructure for software and digital product sellers by acting as a "merchant of record." According to the FTC, Paddle failed to perform adequate screening and fraud prevention

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Locally hosting an internet-connected server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 12:58:53

[Interface] PrivateKey = privkeyhere ListenPort = 51820 Address = localaddr/32 [Peer] Endpoint = VPS:51820 PublicKey = pubkeyhere AllowedIPs = VPS/0 [Interface] Address = vpswgaddr/32 SaveConfig = true ListenPort = 51820 PrivateKey = privkeyhere [Peer] PublicKey = pubkeyhere AllowedIPs = localaddr/32 321.985.520.309 867.420.696.005 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 321.985.520.309 -j DNAT --to-destination 867.420.696.005 321.985.520.309 867.420.696.005 net.

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Google Pixel's VIP feature keeps your closest contacts a little closer - how to use it

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-11 01:13:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Although there were some disappointing absences in Android 16 (Material 3 Expressive being one of the biggest), there are some features that did make it to the release. One of which is called VIPs. Essentially, VIPs are important contacts you add so you can more easily stay connected with them. With VIPs, you can view your last call and message from an added contact, see their location (when shared), receive updates for events like birthdays, and more. VIPs automatically bypass

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New to MacOS? 8 beginner tips and tricks to try first - and why

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-11 23:30:12

Kerry Wan/ZDNET If you're considering a migration from Windows 11 to MacOS, you're in for a treat, as Apple's operating system is so much more user-friendly, stable, secure, and better designed than Microsoft's. When you first log into your new MacOS device, you should feel instantly at home. You'll instinctively understand how things work and won't have a problem getting up to speed. That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't a few quick tips you should know to make the experience even eas

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ZX Spectrum graphics magic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 07:22:34

Hey friends! (Or just curious readers peeking under the hood of good old retro games). My previous article on calculating angles with integers was well-received. Several people wrote to me, some asked questions, others offered their own algorithm variations, and it turns out there are quite a few ZX Spectrum programming enthusiasts – it’s fascinating, and that’s what all this is for! In my new article, I wanted to talk in detail about drawing lines and other primitives on the Speccy, but I sud

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Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-11 23:24:10

The man who allegedly assassinated a Democratic Minnesota state representative, murdered her husband, and shot a state senator and his wife at their homes in a violent spree early Saturday morning may have gotten their addresses or other personal details from online data broker services, according to court documents. Suspect Vance Boelter, 57, is accused of shooting Minnesota representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, in their home on Saturday. The couple died from their inju

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Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 00:14:55

Jokes and Humour in the public Android API Previously I have covered a relatively obscure now-removed placeholder string in Android that doubles as an easter egg, the fictitious carrier by the name of El Telco Loco. But this time it is about methods and other parts of the publicly facing Android API that may generally be more humourous than they are useful. Easter eggs, jokes, whatever you want to call them, that are visible to Android app developers rather than regular users. ActivityManager.

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ChatGPT's AI coder Codex now lets you choose the best solution

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-14 00:59:41

ChatGPT's Codex, which is an AI agent that lets you code and delegate programming tasks, is now testing a new feature that lets you choose the best solution. OpenAI launched Codex in April, and it's a great tool, but it's nowhere close to replacing entry-level engineers. OpenAI insists Codex could help developers achieve more by delegating their tasks to different agents, and a new update brings it closer to the expectations set by the company. As per the release notes, ChatGPT Codex can now

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All the Kookiest Things to Remember About ‘Wednesday’ Before Season 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-14 09:15:46

Happy Friday the 13th, you Wednesday fandom kooks. The Jenna Ortega-starring Addams Family spin-off series from Tim Burton follows the Addams’ eldest as she attends a boarding school filled with other supernaturally inclined youths in a sprawling mystery that has only begun. Wednesday returns to Netflix in less than two months, so we’re taking this spooky occasion to pull out our Nevermore notes before school gets back in session. Here’s what you need to remember—besides Wednesday having a Frid

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iPhone XS now vintage, here’s what that means for repair and support

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-14 13:17:44

Apple has officially added the iPhone XS to its list of vintage products, marking the end of an era for one of the more iterative chapters in the iPhone’s history. Here’s what that means if you’re still rocking yours. Last November, Apple added the iPhone XS Max to its vintage list. And today, as noted by Macrumors’ Joe Rossignol, the device’s junior sibling has also officially joined the club. Apple classifies a device as “vintage” once five years have passed since it stopped being sold by of

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Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-03 08:34:37

21 FEB • 2025 8 minutes TLDR: I wanted to generate an up-to-date disk image for a Rock Pi 4 using Yocto that included CUPS and Docker to both get a better understanding of Yocto and test the new SBOM generation feature. As with many single-board computers (SBCs) from China, the issue often isn’t the board itself but rather the software. RockPi from Radxa is no exception. If you go and download the latest disk images for this board, you will notice that they are all end-of-life (EoL). However,

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Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom

Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable

Chrome for Android now lets you move the address bar to the bottom, too

Retrieval Augmented Generation Based on SQLite

Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

Show HN: Weather Watching

Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits

Airpass – easily overcome WiFi time limits

Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous

Homegrown Closures for Uxn

Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder bosses

US recovers $225 million of crypto stolen in investment scams

MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes

Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto

Grokking NAT and packet mangling in Linux

'We Were Liars' on Prime Video: How to Stream the New Series

Paddle settles for $5 million over facilitating tech support scams

Locally hosting an internet-connected server

Google Pixel's VIP feature keeps your closest contacts a little closer - how to use it

New to MacOS? 8 beginner tips and tricks to try first - and why

ZX Spectrum graphics magic

Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

ChatGPT's AI coder Codex now lets you choose the best solution

All the Kookiest Things to Remember About ‘Wednesday’ Before Season 2

iPhone XS now vintage, here’s what that means for repair and support

Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images

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