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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-12 12:16:02

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, an

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Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 17:07:46

I couldn't help but notice - GitHub UI has been getting slower and slower recently. Some things that were snappy before are hellishly slow nowadays. GitHub is doing something weird and I just can't wrap my head around what's going on there. You guys developing at GitHub, you're using GitHub to develop it, right? Do you not see this? What's going on? Whenever I bump into slow website which drives me nuts, I open the devtools and profile it. Who knows, maybe I find something to report and the pr

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GitHub pull requests are down

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 16:39:25

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 21:47:35

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) released its Report of Investigation (ROI) Tuesday on the loss of the Titan submersible, which imploded during a June 2023 dive to the Titanic, killing five people. The more than 300-page ROI outlines key findings and contributing factors in the casualty and includes 17 safety recommendations aimed at strengthening oversight of submersible operations, improving coordination among federal agencies and closing gaps in internati

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C10kday

news.ycombinator.com Https 2026-01-13 00:07:25

From March 20, 1998 when the first curl release was published, to this day August 5, 2025 is exactly 10,000 days. We call it the curl-10000-day. Or just c10kday. c ten K day. We want to celebrate this occasion by collecting and sharing stories. Your stories about curl. Your favorite memories. When you used curl for the first time. When curl saved your situation. When curl rescued your lost puppy. What curl has meant or perhaps still means to you, your work, your business, or your life. We want

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All PS Plus Subscribers Can Play Lies of P and Other Games All August Long

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 12:00:09

Lies of P is an award-winning game that reimagines the story of Pinocchio as a soulslike action role-playing game set in a grimy world overrun by killer mechanical puppets. And all PlayStation Plus subscribers can play that award-winning game, and others, at no additional cost now. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, which each have uniq

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The best USB-C hub for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-13 21:00:37

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 . It’s impressive what tablets and ultraportable laptops can do. But to get the most functionality out of them, you may want a few more ports at your disposal, which is where a USB-C hub comes into play. By connecting to just one port, these handy devices give you extra USB connections,

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The Morning After: Could the next PlayStation have triple the power of the PS5?

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-13 23:15:05

Leaks claim it could even land at the same launch price. Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive information on the PlayStation 6’s possible specs, starting price and release timing. Caveat: Moore’s Law is Dead adds in the video a disclaimer that the info was sourced from a leaked AMD presentation to Sony back in 2023, adding that some of thes

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uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 21:01:54

uBO Lite (uBOL) 是一个基于最新浏览器扩展接口（Manifest Version 3）打造的的内容屏蔽工具。该扩展预设的规则列表对应 uBlock Origin 的预设过滤规则列表： - uBlock Origin 内置过滤规则列表 - EasyList - EasyPrivacy - Peter Lowe 的广告和跟踪服务器列表访问选项页面，点击弹出面板中的 _齿轮_ 图标，即可启用更多规则集。 uBOL 的过滤规则是完全声明式的，并不需要固定保留一个 uBOL 扩展进程，基于 CSS/JS 注入的内容过滤更是交由浏览器进行调度，比起扩展本身更为可靠。这也即是说当内容被过滤时 uBOL 自身并不占用额外 CPU 和内存资源，_只有_在您打开弹出面板或是设置页面时才会生成 uBOL 扩展进程。

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Someone is folding the Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 times live on YouTube (Updated: Still going)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 22:12:16

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A YouTuber is currently folding and unfolding the Galaxy Z Fold 7 live on YouTube. The phone has already survived over 160,000 folds. The goal of the YouTuber is to manually fold the device 200,000 times and see if it survives. Update: August 5, 2025 (12:57 AM ET): The YouTuber has now surpassed 160,000 folds and shared some noteworthy findings along the way. Between 6,000 and 10,000 folds, the YouTuber reports that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 experienced a rebo

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Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-15 22:19:40

Some 280,000 people live in the five northernmost counties of Idaho. One of the key public officials responsible for their health is Thomas Fletcher, a retired radiologist who lives on a 160-acre farm near Sandpoint. Fletcher grew up in Texas and moved to Idaho in 2016, looking for a place where he could live a rural life alongside likeminded conservatives. In 2022, he joined the seven-member board of health of the Panhandle Health District, the regional public health authority, and he was appo

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Lyft and China’s Baidu look to bring robotaxis to Europe next year

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-15 22:55:05

Lyft’s European expansion will include Chinese-made robotaxis. The U.S. ride-hailing company announced Monday it has made a strategic partnership with Baidu to deploy the Chinese tech giant’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles across several European markets. The companies want to launch robotaxi services in Germany and the United Kingdom in 2026, pending regulatory approval. If approved, Baidu’s RT6 vehicles, which are equipped with its Apollo Go self-driving system, will be integrated into Lyft

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Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-16 08:20:48

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed plans for paid subreddits earlier this year but now says that the initiative has been de–prioritized. However, he says that the company still believes in the opportunity, suggesting that a Reddit paywall of some kind will be introduced at some stage … Paid subreddits plan Huffman first hinted at the plan last year, but didn’t go into any details. We will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive con

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Someone is folding the Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 times live on YouTube

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-16 17:15:16

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A YouTuber is currently folding and unfolding the Galaxy Z Fold 7 live on YouTube. The phone has already survived over 100,000 folds. The goal of the YouTuber is to manually fold the device 200,000 times and see if it survives. A Korean tech YouTuber is currently putting the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 through an extreme durability test, folding and unfolding it live on YouTube with a goal of hitting 200,000 folds. Yes, by hand. And no, we don’t recommend tr

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The Subway Game (1980)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 16:02:19

The Subway Game Copyright © 1980, Peter R. Samson (to home page) The Subway Game was a diversion that developed out of the frequent visits to New York by myself and various friends at M.I.T. In its basic form it requires two participants: an innocent victim, called the Contestant; and a more knowledgeable companion, called the Monitor. With some allowances, the game can be viewed as a simulation of the following scenario. A stranger to New York is going to visit some friends there. He gets a

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Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 03:03:31

Starchive A browser extension and local backend system that automatically archives YouTube videos when visited. The system consists of a Firefox extension that detects YouTube video pages and a Go backend that downloads the videos using yt-dlp. Components Backend (Go) HTTP Server ( main.go ): Runs on port 3009 with two endpoints: / : Basic health check endpoint /youtube : POST endpoint that accepts video IDs and triggers downloads ( ): Runs on port 3009 with two endpoints: Video Downloader

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I want Gemini to be my DJ in YouTube Music

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-16 06:00:57

Stephen Headrick / Android Authority Imagine having your very own DJ in your pocket, ready to mix your favorite songs at a moment’s notice. No, not your dad’s 3-5 second crossfade, but instead a completely customized mix that makes the two songs you’re transitioning between meld together like they were designed that way by the artists themselves. That’s the idea behind Apple Music’s upcoming AI-powered AutoMix feature, which is coming with this fall’s iOS 26 release. As a former Spotify user a

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Instagram public accounts with less than 1,000 followers can no longer go live

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-16 05:30:49

Instagram is no longer allowing public accounts to go live if they have less than 1,000 followers. Users have been reporting over the past few days that their accounts aren't eligible for Live broadcast on the app anymore. "We changed the requirements to use this feature," reads the notice that pops up when people try to host a livestream broadcast to their followers. "Only public accounts with 1,000 followers or more will be able to create live videos." Now Meta has confirmed the new eligibilit

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YouTube is testing Instagram-style collabs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-16 08:30:46

YouTube has started testing a new collaboration feature, similar to Instagram's and TikTok's. A Google employee explained on YouTube Help that it will allow creators to add collaborators to a video so that they can be recommended to each other's audiences. The test is only available to a small group of creators for now, but it sounds like YouTube has plans to expand its availability in the future. Lindsey Gamble, an influencer marketing consultant and advisor, has posted a screenshot showing how

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Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

news.ycombinator.com June 2026-01-16 08:15:27

Politics | Recovery | Current Obsessions Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis? Substack's content woes are bound up with its shaky business model in ways that are bad for all of us. I can smell the burnt coffee from here. It's Substacks All the Way Down Last week, Terry Moran announced that he’d be the latest high-profile journalist to take his brand to Substack, following his dism

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The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

news.ycombinator.com Jp Camara 2026-01-16 06:37:51

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching. A class took an array of strings, and you could call a method to see if an input

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The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 06:31:58

The Challenge I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else. Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com an

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Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

news.ycombinator.com Taras Buria 2026-01-16 04:52:40

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Microsoft has plenty of open-source projects, and these days, the company is much more open to community contributions. Still, plenty of code remains closed-source, and the company constantly receives more requests to open it. One of them is WinUI, Windows 11's user interface framework. While Microsoft is not opening it fully yet, the company shared details about plans for the next six months,

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RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-16 10:05:25

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its operations after the White House deemed NPR and PBS a "grift" and pushed for a Senate vote that eliminated its entire budget. The vote rescinded $1.1 billion that Congress had allocated to CPB to fund public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. In a press release, CPB explained that the cuts "excluded funding for CPB for the first time in more than five deca

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Twentyseven 1.0

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 17:10:07

Twentyseven 1.0.0 Posted on August 1, 2025 Twelve years of Haskell Twentyseven is a Rubik’s cube solver and one of my earliest projects in Haskell. The first commit dates from January 2014, and version 0.0.0 was uploaded on Hackage in March 2016. I first heard of Haskell in a course on lambda calculus in 2013. A programming language with lazy evaluation sounded like a crazy idea, so I gave it a try. Since then, I have kept writing in Haskell as my favorite language. For me it is the ideal bl

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Is Shutting Down

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-16 16:15:13

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will start winding down operations, purging most of its staff by Sept. 30, according to a press release, after nearly 60 years in operation delivering public media in the United States. The news comes after Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, stripped the non-profit company of its funding over claims of bias against conservatives. CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison says that a small transition team will be in place through Jan. 2026 to make s

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Figma stock pops 5% in second day of trading after colossal debut

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-01-17 03:05:12

Figma celebrates its initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Shares of design software vendor Figma popped more than 5% on Friday, a day after the stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut. Figma opened at $85 on Thursday under the ticker FIG, and shares closed at $115.50 for a 250% gain. On Friday, the stock traded above $120. Figma is the latest tech company to hit the public markets after an extended IPO drought. Artificial intelligence i

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OpenAI is removing ChatGPT conversations from Google

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-17 08:47:35

OpenAI has removed a feature that made shared ChatGPT conversations appear in search results. The "short-lived experiment" was based on the chatbot's link creation option. After complaints, OpenAI's chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said the company is working to remove the chats from search engines. The public outrage stems from a Fast Company article from earlier this week (via Ars Technica). Fast Company said it found thousands of ChatGPT conversations in Google search result

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 04:56:40

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Cong

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Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 10:58:51

TraceRoot is an open-source debugging platform that helps engineers fix production issues 10x faster by combining structured traces, logs, and source code context with AI-powered analysis. Contributing | TraceRoot.AI | Community | SDK | Documentation Join us (Discord) in pushing the boundaries of debugging with AI agents. Please 🌟 Star TraceRoot on GitHub and be instantly notified of new releases. TraceRoot Framework Design Principles 🤖 Intelligence The framework enables multi-agent systems

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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

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Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

I want Gemini to be my DJ in YouTube Music

Instagram public accounts with less than 1,000 followers can no longer go live

YouTube is testing Instagram-style collabs

Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

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