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Robinhood Wants to Redo Wall Street on the Blockchain

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-10 22:27:24

Robinhood, the company behind one of the most popular trading apps for everyday investors, just revealed a sweeping new vision for the future of finance. And its bold plan seems to leave traditional Wall Street institutions behind. The company announced a daring set of new products this week from Cannes, France. These offerings are designed to move traditional financial assets, like company stocks, investment funds (ETFs), and even complex trading tools called derivatives, entirely onto the blo

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Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-07 10:01:59

Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency. Flint empowers developers to use their personal style and formatting preferences locally, while maintaining a consistent remote codebase. By integrating with Git, Flint automatically formats code during pull and push operations. This approach prevents commits from being cluttered with formatting changes, making code reviews cleaner and collaboration smoother. Note Flint is currently in alpha. Contributions are warmly welcomed. Table of Co

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Yurei – Open source social media researcher powered by Exa AI API and YouTube v3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 11:40:25

yurei app still in progress, not live on https://yurei.app/ yet, but you can clone it and try it out a simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v3. built with vercel's ai sdk. what it does: searches youtube for videos searches reddit for posts searches linkedin (kinda fucked rn, working on it) using grok-21212 as the llm how to install clone this repo npm install or yarn make a .env.local with: NEXT_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000 # For development NE

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AirTag’s newest feature is perfect for travel, here’s how it works

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-13 21:37:05

Vacation season is here, and for many, this could be the first time traveling since Apple gave AirTag a brand new feature in iOS 18.2. Here’s how that feature works, and why it’s perfect for your upcoming trip. Recover lost luggage faster with new AirTag feature One of the most popular uses for AirTag is as a luggage tracker. Airlines lose luggage every day, and AirTag provides an easy way for you to track down your belongings fast. But recently, that was made a whole lot easier with a featu

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A simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 21:40:25

yurei app still in progress, not live on https://yurei.app/ yet, but you can clone it and try it out a simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v3. built with vercel's ai sdk. what it does: searches youtube for videos searches reddit for posts searches linkedin (kinda fucked rn, working on it) using grok-21212 as the llm how to install clone this repo npm install or yarn make a .env.local with: NEXT_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000 # For development NE

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Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-08-14 05:06:17

A spokesperson using ICE's general press email referred WIRED to a statement issued by acting director Todd M. Lyons on June 30, but did not provide further comment. The White House did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. In the statement, Lyons called CNN’s coverage of the app “reckless and irresponsible.” When reached for comment, Emily Kuhn, senior vice president of communications at CNN, pointed WIRED to a statement from the network saying that reporting on the existence

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Locality of Behaviour (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 16:17:19

Locality of Behaviour (LoB) Carson Gross May 29, 2020 “The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.” – Richard Gabriel Locality of Behaviour is the principle that: The behaviour of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code The LoB principle is a simple prescriptive formulation of the quoted statement

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ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

news.ycombinator.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-14 19:26:37

In Brief ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings. The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there. Most of ICEBlock’s users — about 20,000 — were in Los Angeles, where ICE raids have become commonplace over recent weeks, according to CNN. Following Bondi’s remarks late Monday, the app went vira

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ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings

news.ycombinator.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-16 21:26:37

In Brief ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings. The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there. Most of ICEBlock’s users — about 20,000 — were in Los Angeles, where ICE raids have become commonplace over recent weeks, according to CNN. Following Bondi’s remarks late Monday, the app went vira

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Nuki, my favorite smart lock, is now available in the US; I can’t recommend it enough

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 01:03:15

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Europe’s best smart lock, the Nuki Smart Lock, has launched in the US. The Matter-compatible lock costs $159 alone, or $299 with the fingerprint-supporting keypad (currently $229 on Amazon). A $5.9 premium monthly subscription enables remote access via the Nuki app and notifications, but it’s free for a lifetime for early adopters. If you ask me about my favorite product I’ve ever reviewed in my 19 years as a tech writer, the answer would be pretty st

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How to install a smart lock on an existing deadbolt - and why this model is my top pick

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-17 05:00:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuki smart lock is now available for $159 on its own, and $229 when combined with the Keypad 2. This smart lock fits into an existing deadbolt, supports Matter for easy integrations with smart home systems, and features hands-free unlocking. Though innovative, the Nuki smart lock requires a subscription for full remote access; it's also very loud when locking and unlocking, and the Keypad 2 is somewhat slow. View now at Nuki I'm all for smart home technology, but I c

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I test smart locks for a living, and the most reliable one I've used is on sale for $135

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-17 05:32:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Aqara U100 smart lock was originally priced at $230, but it is currently discounted to $143. This smart lock is the most versatile I've tested; it offers a variety of unlocking options, a user-friendly app, and easy integration with Apple Home. The Aqara U100 drains the battery quickly, and the app doesn't always alert users, resulting in reduced performance within four months of use. $165.46 at Amazon $179.99 at Best Buy more buying choices The Aqara U100 Smart Lock

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Nuki’s Smart Lock is a better retrofit door lock

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-08-17 05:00:00

is a smart home reporter who’s been testing connected gadgets since 2013. Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. The new Nuki Smart Lock ($159), the company’s first designed for US deadbolts, is the most advanced retrofit smart lock I’ve tested. It features a sleek, compact design that looks and works like a regular doorknob, but it’s much more than a doorknob. It can automatically unlock as you approach, lock behind you, unlock using a keypad or your fingerprint, an

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ICE-tracking app tops App Store

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-17 05:11:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, has soared up App Store charts after receiving criticism from the Trump administration. On Monday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded to CNN’s coverage of ICEBlock in a post on X, calling it an “obstruction of justi

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White House condemnation sends ICEBlock to the top of the App Store charts

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-17 22:49:10

White House condemnation of a free app has drawn substantial attention to it, helping ICEBlock become the most popular social networking app in the App Store, beating out apps like X and Instagram. ICEBlock alerts people to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area, following a major immigration crackdown by the White House … While the ICE operation is supposed to target illegal immigrants, there have been multiple examples of legal residents and even US citiz

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Tired of surprise plan changes? AT&T’s new Wireless Account Lock feature has you covered

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-18 00:35:04

AT&T TL;DR AT&T has introduced a new Wireless Account Lock for postpaid and prepaid subscribers. The feature prevents anyone from making unauthorized changes to your account, such as billing updates, line changes, or device changes. It’s available as a toggle on the myAT&T app. AT&T is introducing a new Wireless Account Lock feature that lets you lock your subscriber account to prevent any unauthorized changes. People often complain about reps making changes to their accounts without their k

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ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-18 05:09:38

In Brief ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. app store rankings. The upshot: criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there. ICEBlock had about 20,000 users, mostly in Los Angeles, where ICE raids have become commonplace over recent weeks, according to CNN. Following Bondi’s remarks late Monday, the app went viral overn

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Lock down your AT&T account to prevent SIM swapping attacks - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-18 17:06:00

AT&T SIM swapping is a popular type of fraud in which someone transfers your mobile number to a SIM in their own device. By intercepting any messages or phone calls sent to you, they're able to access your two-factor authentication codes and other sensitive information. Now, AT&T is offering customers a way to combat this kind of crime. Available starting today, Wireless Account Lock is an option for AT&T subscribers with postpaid or prepaid wireless accounts. Simply by turning on a switch in

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AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-19 05:36:28

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly co

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AT&T's New Lock Option Thwarts Thieves Who Try to Access Your Account

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 08:00:02

AT&T is rolling out a new feature in its MyAT&T app intended to prevent nefarious individuals from accessing customers' online accounts. Wireless Account Lock, which has been rolling out in waves but will reach wide availability on Tuesday, disables some key actions that are frequently used to circumvent a legitimate owner's access to their account. This type of access is different from large data breaches, such as the two incidents that AT&T has recently agreed to settle for $177 million. Wire

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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-08-20 05:00:00

Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites. Web crawlers have trawled the internet for information for decades. Without them, people would lose vitally i

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Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-20 05:00:00

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement a “Pay Per Crawl” fee. The Pay Per Crawl program will let publishers set a price for AI scrapers to access their content. AI companie

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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-08-21 09:33:59

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate secur

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Got a Galaxy phone? Samsung says you should turn on these security features now!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 11:20:55

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has advised Galaxy users to activate a set of security features to protect their phones in case of theft. Most of these features made their way to Samsung devices with the One UI 7 update. The company says more Galaxy devices will get these features in the future. Samsung is asking Galaxy users to activate a set of security features on their phones. The company says that because phone theft incidents are rising worldwide, all Galaxy users must

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New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 09:15:24

When you're online, a browser plugin can block all those annoying ads that pop up and clutter up your screen — but unfortunately we can't do that to ads in real life. Yet, at least. That could all change after an enterprising software engineer posted an experiment with a pair of smart augmented reality glasses. When you don a pair of the specs and look at a billboard, or even the label on a food container, a red rectangle pops up to block the offending visual clutter from your view. "It’s stil

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I switched to a Wi-Fi-enabled smart lock with facial recognition - and can't go back

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-22 05:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways As part of its Zeno Series, Lockly's Visage smart lock is available now for $349. The Lockly Visage comes with facial ID support, automatic unlocking when you're near, and Apple Home Kit compatibility. The Lockly app can be more user-friendly, as it's difficult to find certain settings, and it's pricier than most locks. $349 at Amazon $349.99 at Best Buy more buying choices I've always been drawn to Lockly because of its PIN Genie technology -- a system that displays a u

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Stablecoins go mainstream: Why banks and credit card firms are issuing their own crypto tokens

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Jordan Smith 2025-08-22 02:00:01

In this article PYPL SHOP COIN CRCL V MA JPM Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A $44 billion IPO. A Senate bill with bipartisan momentum. And now, a wave of Fortune 500 firms launching crypto tokens of their own. Stablecoins — once a niche corner of the cryptocurrency world — are entering the corporate and policy mainstream, potentially reshaping how money moves in the United States and around the world. "Many of the users out there today are not aware of stablecoins, or not

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How to lock in your Xfinity rate for 5 years, get unlimited data, and score a free mobile line

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-24 01:35:00

Jeff Fusco / Stringer / Getty Images Comcast has overhauled its home internet plans with price guarantees that will keep the cost from rising for as long as five years. Aimed at both new and existing subscribers, the new plans also add unlimited data, a free Xfinity WiFi Gateway, and a free year of Xfinity Mobile. Also: Want to lock in your internet rate for 5 years? Comcast Xfinity has a deal for you Announced on Thursday, the plans are available in 12 different variations depending on the p

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One UI 8 beta introduces a shape-shifting lock screen clock design

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 12:01:44

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The latest One UI 8 beta brings a clock widget for the lock screen. Similar to iOS’ depth effect for the clock, Samsung’s clock automatically wraps around faces in real or animated images. The clock can also be moved around the lock screen, where its text adjusts to the available space. Samsung has already begun beta testing its upcoming interface, One UI 8, and is speculated to release it alongside the Galaxy Z Fold and Flip 7 phones in July. Unlike the

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Google’s Find Hub network is unreliable, but this simple change could fix it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-28 01:33:50

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google could improve its Find Hub network by convincing users during device setup to select a more reliable, but less private, tracking option. This new setup screen rebrands the existing network options to better explain that the default option may be less reliable, while the alternative can find items anywhere. By getting more people to choose the more effective setting, Google aims to make its network a more dependable alternative to Apple’s and Samsun

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Robinhood Wants to Redo Wall Street on the Blockchain

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Yurei – Open source social media researcher powered by Exa AI API and YouTube v3

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Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional

Locality of Behaviour (2020)

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings

Nuki, my favorite smart lock, is now available in the US; I can’t recommend it enough

How to install a smart lock on an existing deadbolt - and why this model is my top pick

I test smart locks for a living, and the most reliable one I've used is on sale for $135

Nuki’s Smart Lock is a better retrofit door lock

ICE-tracking app tops App Store

White House condemnation sends ICEBlock to the top of the App Store charts

Tired of surprise plan changes? AT&T’s new Wireless Account Lock feature has you covered

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism

Lock down your AT&T account to prevent SIM swapping attacks - here's how

AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks

AT&T's New Lock Option Thwarts Thieves Who Try to Access Your Account

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

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I switched to a Wi-Fi-enabled smart lock with facial recognition - and can't go back

Stablecoins go mainstream: Why banks and credit card firms are issuing their own crypto tokens

How to lock in your Xfinity rate for 5 years, get unlimited data, and score a free mobile line

One UI 8 beta introduces a shape-shifting lock screen clock design

Google’s Find Hub network is unreliable, but this simple change could fix it

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