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Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 17:09:20

In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked the beginning of a new era of censorship and restriction in this post-Soviet country. But let's rewind... The Tor Community has long been defending internet freedom, running relays and providing bridges to combat internet censorship. Over the years, the Tor Project has called for action to run more bridges, Snowflake proxies, while we've investigated and adapted our anti

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-22 23:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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Google says reports of a major Gmail security issue are 'entirely false'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 23:48:12

Google is officially debunking a series of reports that claimed Gmail has been hit with a "major" security issue in recent days. "We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective," the company said in a somewhat unusual statement. "Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. This is entirely false." Google doesn't detail the erroneous claims in its post. B

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 2, #814

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 02:00:03

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. We have GOT to talk about today's NYT Connections puzzle. Don't even go there with the purple category. As an English major I probably knew this category at one point, but not anymore. However, as the co-author of The Totally Sweet 90s, a pop-culture book about the 1990s,

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 2, #344

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 02:00:04

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. There's a person in the purple category that I'd never heard of before now. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday,

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Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 05:56:39

Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers. Customer Obsession is great, but I often see Amazonians taking this too simplistically: "Start with the customer" doesn't have to mean "ask customers what they want and then give them faster horses". In the early days of AWS I saw a lot of what I call "cool engineering driven" products: When EC2 l

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Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-23 11:48:03

Major social media platforms in China have started rolling out labels for AI-generated content to comply with a law that took effect on Monday. Users of the likes of WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu) are now seeing such labels on posts. These denote the use of generative AI in text, images, audio, video and other types of material, according to the South China Morning Post . Identifiers such as watermarks have to be included in metadata too. WeChat has told users they must pro

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Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 10:56:39

Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers. Customer Obsession is great, but I often see Amazonians taking this too simplistically: "Start with the customer" doesn't have to mean "ask customers what they want and then give them faster horses". In the early days of AWS I saw a lot of what I call "cool engineering driven" products: When EC2 l

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Behind the scenes and front-row access: Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 while you still can

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-23 11:41:46

Volunteers are needed, and time is ticking! With just over a month until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits San Francisco, we’re calling on students, aspiring founders, marketers, and event pros to step behind the curtain and help the TechCrunch events team pull off one of the largest and most anticipated startup events of the year, taking place October 27–29. The deadline to apply is September 30 Whether you’re looking to build your network, learn what it takes to launch a company, or get a front-r

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Can You Develop Film in a Jägerbomb?

news.ycombinator.com Jeremy Gray 2025-10-19 23:12:25

Analog photographers love trying new and unusual things. Whether it’s shooting on expired film, skipping film altogether, or developing film using odd ingredients. Sweet Lou Photography opted for this last type of experimenting and developed his film inside a Jägerbomb. Did it work? For those who have not had the displeasure of drinking a Jägerbomb, it is a bomb mixed drink that combines a shot of the alcoholic German digestif, Jägermeister, into an energy drink, typically a Red Bull. This is n

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Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 05:29:37

I always wondered, in age of almost digital cars, is custom ROM a thing? Like root access and custom features?

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India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

news.ycombinator.com Yashraj Sharma 2025-10-21 00:52:54

In the dead of a cold December night in 2023, at a dump near Delhi, hundreds of men huddled around small bonfires, clutching paper cups of tea. They tossed plastic bags into the flames as they waited for a fleet of trucks to arrive. The trucks rolled in one by one, full of electronic marvels now reduced to e-waste: Nokia, Itel, and Samsung smartphones; Sony and LG LCD screens; Tata air conditioners; Canon and Epson printers. As the trailer gates opened at the back of one truck, Rashid Khan and

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Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Yet Another Tech Guy'S Blog 2025-10-24 07:23:09

last updated on 6 Apr 2024 Being both a musician and a software engineer, I always felt that these two areas are almost completely separated. My developer skill-set seemed to have little to no use for my work as a musician. Which is a pity considering how cool it would be if there was some kind of a sinergy across these two sides of my life. Recently, though, I have found a useful possibility to utilize something I previously used solely for my development work, namely, git, the version contro

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Chronicle – Idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 14:37:02

Chronicle A pragmatic and type-safe toolkit for modern event sourcing in Go. Want to hire me? Quickstart Warning I recommend going through the quickstart, since all examples use the Account struct used below from the account package. Install the library go get github.com/DeluxeOwl/chronicle # for debugging go get github.com/sanity-io/litter Define your aggregate and embed aggregate.Base . This embedded struct handles the versioning of the aggregate for you. We'll use a classic yet very s

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'The Wrong Paris,' 'aka Charlie Sheen' and More New Netflix Movies You Shouldn't Miss This September

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 14:00:04

Netflix's September movie lineup is a sampler of everything the streaming service has become known for: riveting, real-life documentaries, family-friendly romances and great films from all over the world. One of the month's biggest titles is sure to be aka Charlie Sheen, the two-part documentary about the actor's life. Sheen has been on a path to sobriety and reflects on his often chaotic life, which was fodder for tabloids for decades. That film arrives on Sept. 10. In The Wrong Paris, out Se

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First Z Fold 6, now Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners complain of paint peeling

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 00:31:12

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Some Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners have reported chipped paint on their phones. Many owners claimed that they haven’t dropped their devices. It’s possible that chargers are affecting the anodized body of the Z Fold 7, much like the Z Fold 6. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has been on the market for just over a month now, and we praised the foldable phone in our review. However, some owners are discovering a rather weird hardware issue that we previously sa

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Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 00:42:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon had a very eventful August, thanks mainly to the unpopular decision to cut loyalty discounts. The company had to resort to damage control by offering new discounts instead of the old ones, but some customers felt tricked into accepting lower discounts. If you were willing to look past all of this, the carrier just bounced back after a rough weekend where it suffered a service outage. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a pre

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Chronicle – idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 05:37:02

Chronicle A pragmatic and type-safe toolkit for modern event sourcing in Go. Want to hire me? Quickstart Warning I recommend going through the quickstart, since all examples use the Account struct used below from the account package. Install the library go get github.com/DeluxeOwl/chronicle # for debugging go get github.com/sanity-io/litter Define your aggregate and embed aggregate.Base . This embedded struct handles the versioning of the aggregate for you. We'll use a classic yet very s

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Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-24 20:33:40

Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities 5 hours ago Share Save Isaac Ashe BBC News, Derby Share Save BBC Passengers in the East Midlands will be the first to test the ticketing technology Ticketless train travel that works by tracking passengers' locations is being trialled in the East Midlands. The location-based technology will be tested by East Midlands Railway (EMR) from Monday, by up to 1,000 people travelling through Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and the stations in between.

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Bayes, Bits and Brains

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 07:51:05

Bayes, bits & brains This site is about probability and information theory. We'll see how they help us understand machine learning and the world around us. A few riddles More about the content, prerequisites, and logistics later. I hope you get a feel for what this is about by checking out the following riddles. I hope some of them nerd-snipe you! 😉 You will understand all of them at the end of this minicourse. 🧠 Intelligence test Test your intelligence with the following widget! You will be

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 21:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1 #547

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 14:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a neat theme, though it took me a while to hunt down some of the answers. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword an

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 1, #343

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 21:03:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is pretty fun -- especially if you're into athletes who share the same first name, or know the teams that don't actually play in the city on their jerseys. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Spor

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Use One Big Server (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Computer Systems Engineer 2025-10-24 16:29:07

A lot of ink is spent on the "monoliths vs. microservices" debate, but the real issue behind this debate is about whether distributed system architecture is worth the developer time and cost overheads. By thinking about the real operational considerations of our systems, we can get some insight into whether we actually need distributed systems for most things. We have all gotten so familiar with virtualization and abstractions between our software and the servers that run it. These days, "serve

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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:55:56

Fastly’s July 2025 survey of 791 developers found a notable difference in how much AI-generated code is making it into production. About a third of senior developers (10+ years of experience) say over half their shipped code is AI-generated — nearly two and a half times the rate reported by junior developers (0–2 years of experience), at 13%. “AI will bench test code and find errors much faster than a human, repairing them seamlessly. This has been the case many times,” one senior developer sai

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People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 16:13:03

U.S. consumers continued to open their wallets in July, a new study from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed on Friday, underscoring the resilience of household demand even as inflation held above the Federal Reserve’s target. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t wince while doing it. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal-consumption expenditures price index, rose 0.2% on the month and 2.6% from a year earlier. The core measure, which strips out food and energy, advan

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‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ and ‘Devilman Crybaby’ are Thankfully Getting Blu-Ray Releases

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-24 17:50:33

To everyone’s benefit, Netflix has been gradually putting out physical versions for some of its fan-favorite shows. For the anime fans, you’ll be more than happy to hear are Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Devilman Crybaby are the next two series to leave Netflix jail by the end of 2025. Earlier in the week, Crunchyroll opened up pre-orders for the box sets for both shows. Devilman’s Blu-Ray puts the entire 10-episode series on two discs. Developed by Science Saru, the anime is based on Go Nagai’s D

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1, #813

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 19:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun one. As an English major, I especially liked the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to

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Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-24 20:06:24

Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania deployed tactics described by psychology professor Robert Cialdini in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion to convince OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini to complete requests it would normally refuse. Th

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FTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-24 16:03:57

Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently expressed concern that “Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects.” In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Ferguson pointed to a recent story in the New York Post describing complaints by Targeted Victory (a consulting and PR firm that’s worked with the Republican National Committee and Elon Musk’s X) claiming that Gmail flags emails linking to the Republican fundrais

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Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

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First Z Fold 6, now Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners complain of paint peeling

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Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

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