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Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 08:08:05

What is Dotter? Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater. Dotfiles are configuration files that usually live in the home directory and start with a dot. Often times, it is desirable to have a backup of all the configurations on your system, which is why a lot of users have their dotfiles saved in a git repository, then symlinking them to their target locations using ln -s . However, there are several issues with that barebones approach: Hard to keep track of what comes from where once you h

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 15:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

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Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:02:12

Back in August 2023, attackers tied to the Scattered Spider group didn’t exploit a zero-day vulnerability to hack Clorox. They simply called the service desk (run by Cognizant), claimed to be locked-out employees, and asked for password and MFA resets. According to court filings and reporting, the attacker repeatedly phoned Cognizant’s service desk, obtained repeated resets without meaningful verification, and used the resulting access to move quickly toward domain-admin footholds. Clorox says

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Apple's New Hypertension Notifications: Everything to Know About the High Blood Pressure Alerts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 03:32:10

After years of waiting, Apple announced at its "awe dropping" event that the Watch Series 11 will have Hypertension Notifications. This joins similar, alert-based Apple Watch health features including notifications for noise, sleep apnea and heart health. The groundbreaking new Hypertension Notifications feature is designed to alert users if signs of hypertension (or chronic high blood pressure) are detected. But how exactly does the feature work, and when will it be available? This is everythi

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As AI Reigns, Students' Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 07:41:07

The US Education Department, which the Trump administration is actively attempting to dismantle, has released the latest math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors — and they're an absolute disaster. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the scores have hit an all-time low, even by America's historically underwhelming standards. It's a worrying sign that the rapid rise of technologies like AI — combined with other likely factors, like the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pande

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Hypertension alerts are coming to these existing Apple Watch models

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-06 16:19:09

Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 debuted today, with one of the tentpole new features being hypertension notifications. But it turns out, certain older Apple Watch models will support these hypertension alerts too. Hypertension notifications coming to three existing Apple Watch models in watchOS 26 Today after the conclusion of its ‘Awe dropping’ event, Apple debuted the RC (release candidate) version of watchOS 26. The forthcoming Apple Watch software update will ship to all users next Mond

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:45:48

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Gmail update hint at some new Google Chat features in testing. Notification summaries in Gmail might work independently of Android 16’s system-wide version, bringing the feature to more devices. Gmail may also offer auto-generated conversation summaries and finally notify you when someone reacts to your Chat messages. Update, September 9, 2025 (06:45 AM ET): Google has announced that real-time push notifications for reactions are n

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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 12:13:10

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it;

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CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:15:33

Months after debuting Cluely, the "undetectable AI that thinks for you," 21-year-old tech entrepreneur Chungin "Roy" Lee is decrying the dismal state of education due to AI. Indeed, there's little doubt that AI has completely flipped education on its head. The availability of large language models (LLMs) at the press of a finger is all but obliterating the minds of an entire generation of students, making literacy a thing of the past as big tech money floods into schools and teachers unions. I

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Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 09:40:55

Campfire Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you'd expect, including: Multiple rooms, with access controls Direct messages File attachments with previews Search Notifications (via Web Push) @mentions API, with support for bot integrations Campfire is single-tenant: any rooms designated "public" will be accessible by all users in the system. To support entirely distinct groups of customers, you would deploy multiple instances of the application. Runn

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The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 23:26:44

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back in 2003 I gave a talk citing how bad Apple’s definition was. At the time it stated: A view object knows how to display and possibly edit data from the application’s model… A controller object acts a

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The MVC definition has been abused

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 04:26:44

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back in 2003 I gave a talk citing how bad Apple’s definition was. At the time it stated: A view object knows how to display and possibly edit data from the application’s model… A controller object acts a

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The growing debate over expanding age verification laws

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-10 05:00:00

Technologists and policymakers are reckoning with a generation-defining problem on the internet: while it can be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connection across the globe, it can also pose dangers to children when they have completely unfettered access. There is no simple way, however, to monitor children’s internet access without surveilling adults, paving the way for disastrous online privacy violations. While some advocates praise these laws as victories for children

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Microsoft now enforces MFA on Azure Portal sign-ins for all tenants

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 00:32:05

Microsoft says it has been enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for Azure Portal sign-ins across all tenants since March 2025. The company's Azure MFA enforcement efforts were announced in May 2024 when Redmond began implementing mandatory MFA for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. One year ago, in August 2024, Microsoft also warned Entra global admins to enable MFA for their tenants by October 15, 2024, to ensure users don't lose access to admin portals. After comple

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Worried AI will take your job? OpenAI's new platform could help get you one

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-11 04:12:26

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI introduces its OpenAI Jobs Platform. The experience is meant to connect users to job opportunities. This comes at a time when people fear AI will replace human jobs. While AI is typically implicated in replacing humans in the workforce, OpenAI's new undertaking is looking to wield those AI capabilities to get you a job. OpenAI Jobs Platform On Wednesday, the company unveiled

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Purposeful animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:34:57

When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience? Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose. Purposeful animations Before you start animating, ask yourself: what

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You Don't Need Animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 10:34:57

When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience? Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose. Purposeful animations Before you start animating, ask yourself: what

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Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-12 13:14:40

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is giving away Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions to all US college students. This subscription gives students free access to Microsoft’s Office apps and the Copilot AI assistant integration for a year, after which the students are eligible for a 50 percent discount to continue

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What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 19:36:50

Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three. Home Menu About Documentation Download License Support Purchase Search About Documentation Download Support Purchase Search Documentation Search Changelog What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? Introduction Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include: Smaller documents Faster File/Save times Faster startup times Less memory used Document

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Who Owns ‘Telepathy’?

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-13 00:10:12

Elon Musk’s neural implant startup Neuralink has been trying to trademark two product names: Telepathy and Telekinesis. Musk has previously claimed that his company will be able to give people “superpowers,” so the desire to take ownership over these special abilities makes sense. Unfortunately for Neuralink, patent applications for Telepathy and Telekinesis have already been filed by a different business. Wired reports that a lucid dreaming startup (who knew there was such a thing?) called Pro

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Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-13 00:28:57

First Lady Melania Trump hosted a meeting of the White House’s AI education task force where several CEOs touted their commitments. President Donald Trump is expected to host tech CEOs in the Rose Garden later on Thursday, with an invite list that includes Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, The Hill reported . Google said it would allocate $150 million of the $1 billion it already pledged toward education and job training to “grants to support AI education and di

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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-13 12:47:28

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing pending applications by another person for the same trademarks. Neuralink, the brain implant company co-founded by Elon Musk, filed to trademark the names in March. But in letters sent to Neuralink in August, the trademark office is refusing to allow the applications to move forward. It says Wesley Berry, a computer scientist and co-founder of tech star

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LinkedIn takes on hiring scams with recruiter verification

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-14 08:00:00

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. LinkedIn is trying to help put a stop to recruitment scams by requiring anyone with a recruitment-related job title to verify their place of employment. Executives will have to go through the same process, while company page verification is now rolling out more widely too. Existing recru

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Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 13:17:27

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Roblox will require age verification for all users to access communication features

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 12:36:53

Roblox announced that it aims to roll out age estimation technology to all of its users by the end of 2025. Users on the gaming and social network will have to confirm their age in order to access communication features within the platform under the new policy. Roblox initially rolled out an age verification option to teen accounts in July as part of an effort to keep users younger than 13 from accessing select chat features. In addition to confirming ages for individual accounts, Roblox also s

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They know where you are: Cybersecurity and the shadow world of geolocation

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-16 12:02:12

Tony Soprano knew. When one of his follow poker players in season 5, episode 4 of The Sopranos asks Tony how he likes his new Cadillac Escalade, the fictional mobster responds, “I love it. After I pulled out that global positioning [system].” OK, his language was a little more spicy than “system,” but the point is that Tony knew the dangers of being trackable. The rest of us might not have the same concerns Tony had about being findable just about anywhere, but we should all realize how danger

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I'm ditching passwords for passkeys for one reason - and it's not what you think

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-10-16 16:47:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Adoption of passkeys is fragmented across sites and devices. Users still need passwords for recovery and new device setup. Phishing protection makes passkeys worth adding, despite confusion. OK. Fine. I've finally decided to embrace passkeys. But why does it feel so icky? As you probably know, passkeys are the tech industry's answer to The Password Problem. Unlike password data, which

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Indices, not Pointers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 03:21:30

Indices, not Pointers There is a pattern I’ve learned while using Zig which I’ve never seen used in any other language. It’s an extremely simple trick which - when applied to a data structure - reduces memory usage, reduces memory allocations, speeds up accesses, makes freeing instantaneous, and generally makes everything much, much faster. The trick is to use indices, not pointers. This is something I learned from a talk by Andrew Kelley (Zig’s creator) on data-oriented design. It’s used in Z

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OpenAI starts building out its app team

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-17 18:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-18 00:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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Latest Tech News

Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

Apple's New Hypertension Notifications: Everything to Know About the High Blood Pressure Alerts

As AI Reigns, Students' Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low

Hypertension alerts are coming to these existing Apple Watch models

Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (Updated: Rolling out)

OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application

The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

The MVC definition has been abused

The growing debate over expanding age verification laws

Microsoft now enforces MFA on Azure Portal sign-ins for all tenants

Worried AI will take your job? OpenAI's new platform could help get you one

Purposeful animations

You Don't Need Animations

Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Who Owns ‘Telepathy’?

Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world

Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

LinkedIn takes on hiring scams with recruiter verification

Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

Roblox will require age verification for all users to access communication features

They know where you are: Cybersecurity and the shadow world of geolocation

I'm ditching passwords for passkeys for one reason - and it's not what you think

Indices, not Pointers

OpenAI starts building out its app team

OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

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