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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 17:51:38

Some people enjoy live coding interviews. I’m not one of them. Two days ago, I stumbled upon a post on LinkedIn: Sounds absurd at first. Why would a senior engineer, who has been writing code for years, struggle with something as simple as a basic algorithm? Did they suddenly forget how to code? Maybe. But I have a different perspective. A quick story # Four years ago, I applied for Toptal. I passed the initial stage(s). I passed a 90-minute Codility assessment (three problems as I recall it

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The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 15:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

news.ycombinator.com Eyal Press 2025-12-18 23:47:27

In 2021, an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers was attached to President Joe Biden’s pandemic-relief package. But the Senate parliamentarian removed the proposal from the bill, on procedural grounds. Bernie Sanders, then the Budget Committee chairman, forced a vote on the bill anyway, with the provision included. This decision sparked a furor among supposedly liberal lawmakers, according to Ari Rabin-Havt, S

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Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-19 08:38:38

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules 4 hours ago Share Save Ned Davies, Shayan Sardarizadeh & Matt Murphy BBC Verify Share Save Getty Images Social media companies are blocking wide-ranging content - including posts about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza - in an attempt to comply with the UK's new Online Safety Act, BBC Verify has found. The new legislation, which came into effect last Friday, imposes fines on social media companies and other websites which fa

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Figma’s stock soared in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hit $45B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-19 14:15:35

Figma began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after a long delay. It soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility. Within a minute of trading, its market cap hit $45 billion but the price spent the day bouncing between $101 and as high as $124. It closed at $115.50 and a $47 billion market cap, Yahoo Finance reports. The company and existing investors sold shares at the IPO price of $33 per share. Quite the pop. And after-market trading i

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Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-19 23:05:48

Australia is famous for hosting the weirdest creatures we’ve ever seen. Sometimes, these weird creatures also come extra-large—like the newly discovered stick insect that researchers believe may be the heaviest of all Aussie insects. The insect, named Acrohylla alta, is about 15 inches (40 centimeters) long—about the height of a bowling pin—and weighs around 0.1 pounds (44 grams), slightly lighter than the heaviest golf ball. In a recent Zootaxa paper, wildlife researchers Angus Emmott and Ross

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Your Roku TV is getting 4 new features soon - including a big one for movie nights

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-20 09:00:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If you're dealing with streaming overload and can't decide what to watch, Roku is rolling out new free features to help make your decision a little easier. Designed to help you discover new shows, these features showcase trending content, new content, and what's in theaters now. There's also a new "Surf Mode" that brings Reels and TikTok-style viewing to your TV. What's new on Roku Top trending: Roku will let you see what everyone is watching with new "Top 10 Movies" and "Top

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How to move your Google Chrome's address bar on an Android phone (and why you should)

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-20 09:07:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Nearly a month ago, Google announced a small but highly anticipated addition to Chrome on Android -- the ability to relocate the browser's address bar to the bottom of the screen. "Depending on the size of your hand and your device," Google explained, "one address bar position may feel more comfortable than the other." This update gives you the flexibility to choose your preferred location. Also: You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how

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You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-20 12:41:50

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology. While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have l

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Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 04:44:13

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Uber Eats Is Giving You a Taste of AI With These New App Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 12:36:24

Artificial intelligence features are popping up everywhere. From how you search the web to your photo editing skills, bots are probably a part of your day-to-day life. Now Uber Eats wants a bite. The food delivery service, powered by ride-share comoany Uber, shared a statement on Thursday about the rollout of AI features for restaurants and customers. A few of the updates bring Uber Eats in closer competition with DoorDash, which already has a few of Uber Eats' new features. AI won't control e

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Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-20 14:15:35

Figma began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after a long delay. It soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility. The price is currently bouncing between $101 and $112 with a mid-day market cap of $45 billion, Yahoo Finance reports. The company and existing investors sold shares at the IPO price of $33 per share. Quite the pop. There has been so much demand for this stock that people on X are posting funny pictures of their orders being

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Google Phone’s new look may already be available on your device

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 23:51:10

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google Android apps are going Material 3 Expressive, and Phone got started with a beta last month. In addition to the new look, Phone also added a new gesture select option for answering calls. This week, availability of both changes appear to be heading out much more widely. App by app, Material 3 Expressive is making its presence felt across Google’s Android software library, and we are here for it. This summer, we’ve been digging through Google’s Andr

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How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-20 23:03:16

Image credit: @ionut.stefan.92ish Română In today’s post, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely amazing book on the topic of Alzheimer’s disease. Written by Prof. Karl Herrup, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, “How Not to Study a Disease – The Story of Alzheimer’s” takes the reader on a journey of Alzheimer’s research from its inception by Alois Alzheimer to the contemporary understanding of this devastating condition. This is not just an

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A Deadly Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease Is Hitting NYC

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-20 23:05:01

A deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease is ripping through Central Harlem in New York City. Local health officials report that about two dozen residents have been sickened by the pneumonia-causing bacteria so far this month. The NYC Health Department issued its latest update on the outbreak Wednesday, following its first report last week. Since July 25, there have been 22 cases of Legionnaires’ disease diagnosed throughout the area, along with one death. Residents in the affected neighborhoo

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Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster with co-op

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 04:56:22

The iconic tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted heads to the Switch and Switch 2 on October 23, as revealed during this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. As the name suggests, it's a remake of the very first PvZ game, going all the way back to 2009. This is the first time we're seeing a version of the original title on a Nintendo platform since the DS . This is more than just a simple HD refresh. The graphics have been upscaled, whi

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Apple to announce Q3 2025 earnings today, here’s how to listen in live

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-21 09:35:41

Apple is set to release its Q3 2025 earnings results later today, followed by a conference call set to start at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. Here’s how you can listen in live. Trade tensions to play a major role in today’s results Right after the market closes later today, Apple is set to report its Q3 2025 earnings, offering a clearer picture of how its many businesses did between April and June, as well as how ongoing trade tensions with key supplier countries like China and India have impac

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Meta, Microsoft roar higher on strong earnings as AI spending booms

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-21 14:50:53

Shares of Meta soared 12% and Microsoft popped 5% on Thursday, after the companies reported better-than-expected earnings that beat on top and bottom lines. Microsoft topped the $4 trillion market cap benchmark with the move, joining Nvidia in the club. Both Meta and Microsoft have been investing heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure in recent years, and the companies said they expect to continue to shell out billions in capital expenditures. Meta said capital expenditures will ra

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Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 12:40:05

Creating a performance gate in a CI environment, preventing significant performance regressions from being deployed has been a long-standing goal of dozens of software teams. But measuring in hosted CI runners is a particularly challenging task, mostly because of noisy neighbors leaking through virtualization layers. Still, it's worth the effort. Performance regressions are harder to catch and more expensive to fix the longer they go unnoticed. Mostly because: Catching issues in production is

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The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-21 18:10:00

—Will Douglas Heaven For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz, CEO Sam Altman overshadows all other big names on the firm’s roster. But Altman is not the one building the technology on which its reputation rests. That responsibility falls to OpenAI’s twin heads of research—chief research officer Mark Chen and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. Between them, they share the role of making sure OpenAI stays one step ahead of

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Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 02:50:28

TL;DR Google is bringing several new features to the Android Photo Picker tool. These features include the ability to change the photo grid view size, as well as a new way to choose multiple photos. These additions seem to be rolling out via the latest Android Canary release. Google introduced the Photo Picker tool in Android 13, allowing you to choose which photos an app can access. Now, this tool has received a few more quality-of-life additions. Authority Insights story on Android Authori

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These are the drawing apps I recommend, but one sticks out from the rest

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 05:00:32

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Drawing is the oldest form of human expression, dating back to a time far older than writing. I, as a visual learner, rely heavily on illustrations or sketching out things like a prospective DIY furniture project or even cable management under my desk to visualize better. And there are a few incredible apps that help me achieve that. While Procreate is the most recommended drawing app for iPad, there is little unanimity on the Android side. Since I belong to th

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GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

news.ycombinator.com Alan 2025-12-22 04:07:19

Washington — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks. In an 8-7 vote, Hawley and Senate Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted the legislation out of committee, with all other Republicans on the committee voting against it. It's not yet clear if the legislation, which Hawley introduced, will receive a floor vote

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How Apple’s New Spotlight Compares to Raycast

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-12-22 05:00:00

There are all kinds of actions included out of the box. You can add calendar appointments and reminders and set timers. You can send text messages or start FaceTime calls. You can even set dedicated keyboard shortcuts for any of these actions. It's also the exact kind of thing that, until now, Raycast did that Spotlight could not. The difference is one of implementation. Apple's approach currently only works with Mac applications that implement the Spotlight feature. Right now, it’s basically l

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The 10 apps I can't live or work without - on Windows, Mac, and mobile

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-12-22 05:27:55

berkozel/Getty Images Every five years or so, I make an inventory of the apps I use most frequently. It's always fascinating to see how the list has changed over time, and it usually says something about the computing landscape. When I did that exercise this year, I was astonished at the changes. Half of the apps I used five years ago are no longer on my list at all in 2025. They've been replaced, in most cases, by apps that are tightly linked with web-based services and cloud storage and can

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The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-12-21 17:00:00

As with any fledgling romance, Trumpworld and big money cryptocurrency interests were bound to have their first fight at some point. It was late June heading into July, and two highly anticipated bills were in the pipeline to help fulfill President Donald Trump’s promises to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet” and usher in what his supporters believed would be a “golden age” of digital assets. Congress had one shot at passing something before the August recess. Coinbase, the cryptoc

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Figma’s IPO price hit a $19.3B valuation out of the gate

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-22 09:04:41

Figma will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2025. The IPO is 40x oversubscribed, VCs confirmed to TechCrunch and Bloomberg previously reported. That means demand for shares is 40x the number of shares the company and its existing investors are selling. So it should surprise no one that Figma, which offers design software, has priced its initial shares at $33 per share, above its previously announced range. On Monday, the company sa

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Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:11:57

As US-Russia relations deteriorate — with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine — the two countries' intertwined space exploration programs remain as strange as ever. Look no further than Texas, where the two nations' space agencies are looking to hang out in person. As Reuters reports, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Bokanov, arrived in Houston this week to meet with interim NASA administrator and transportatio

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Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 21:30:48

Overview Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. This repository contains Java-based back-end service. It supports more than 200 GPS protocols and more than 2000 models of GPS tracking devices. Traccar can be used with any major SQL database system. It also provides easy to use REST API. Other parts of Traccar solution include: There is also a set of mobile apps that you can use for tracking mobile devices: Features Some of the available features include: Real-time GPS tracking Dri

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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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Figma’s stock soared in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hit $45B

Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

Your Roku TV is getting 4 new features soon - including a big one for movie nights

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Uber Eats Is Giving You a Taste of AI With These New App Features

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Google Phone’s new look may already be available on your device

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Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos

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Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

These are the drawing apps I recommend, but one sticks out from the rest

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The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over

Figma’s IPO price hit a $19.3B valuation out of the gate

Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas

Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

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