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Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-09 08:49:56

Meta is updating Instagram today with some familiar social network features from other services. For example, the photo- and video-sharing service is basically getting its own version of the classic retweet. Separately, Instagram continues to take inspiration from Snapchat with its own social map feature. Instagram is two months shy of turning 15, and as a sign of maturity, we’re getting the first official repost button: With reposts, you can repost public reels and feed posts, making it easie

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Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-10 02:00:00

Instagram is rolling out Instagram Map, a new feature that lets users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. The Meta-owned social network is also launching reposts, and making its “Friends” tab in Reels available globally. With its new map feature, Instagram is copying yet another popular feature from Snapchat, after cloning the app’s core Stories functionality back in 2016. Instagram is coming for Snap Map’s crown, a feature that recently surp

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Eleven Music

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 04:42:40

Today, we launched Eleven Music – the next step on our mission to build the most comprehensive AI audio platform in the world. With Eleven Music, businesses, creators, artists, and every single one of our users can generate studio-grade music from natural language prompts, with: - Complete control over genre, style, and structure - Vocals or just instrumental - Multi-lingual, including English, Spanish, German, Japanese and more - Edit the sound and lyrics of individual sections or the whole

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The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-15 11:47:00

Why we like it: The Apple AirTag is an affordable and accurate solution to keep track of your child's location. It works with the Find My app and seamlessly integrates with the Apple ecosystem. Apple's AirTags are about the size of a quarter, and there are countless accessories you can use to attach the small tracker to a jacket, backpack, or even slip it into your child's pocket. The device uses an easily replaceable CR2032 battery lasts that lasts around a year. The AirTag offers a solid per

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Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

news.ycombinator.com Taras Buria 2025-12-15 22:52:40

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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How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Hart 2025-12-15 12:01:17

To @AndrewHartAR: “Our app is shit and we know it’s shit”. My life changed forever when a senior exec from one of the world’s largest retailers messaged me on Twitter. This was back in 2017. My outdoor AR navigation demos had just gone viral, and my new open-source project for Apple had elevated me to be the top trending iOS developer on GitHub. Every developer meet-up I went to, everyone now seemed to know who I was. I was on top of the world. I agreed to meet the exec for coffee in London, a

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Another airline joins AirTag luggage tracking program, now supported by 30 carriers (list)

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-22 11:34:20

Introduced in iOS 18.2, the Share Item Location feature lets users share a live tracking link for AirTag or other Find My-compatible accessories, including with airlines to help locate lost luggage. Today, another airline joined the list of official partners. Here’s the full updated list. Saudi Arabia gets Share Item Location support When Apple announced the Share Location Feature for AirTag, it also started working with “more than 15 airlines” to implement a system that would let users secure

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Blog series on creating an OS in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Philipp Oppermann 2025-12-23 14:01:10

Writing an OS in Rust This blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language. Each post is a small tutorial and includes all needed code, so you can follow along if you like. The source code is also available in the corresponding Github repository. Latest post: Async/Await Bare Bones Interrupts CPU Exceptions CPU exceptions occur in various erroneous situations, for example, when accessing an invalid memory address or when dividing by zero. To react to them, we ha

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This Dinosaur Probably Chirped Like a Bird

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-29 21:00:59

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper published last week in the journal PeerJ, an international team of researchers describes a 163-million-year-old fossil found in northeastern China’s Hebei Province. The fossil dinosaur, which they’ve dubbed Pulaosaurus qinglong, measures just 28 inches (72 centimeters) and is largely complete, givin

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OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

news.ycombinator.com Michael R. Clarkson Et Al. 2025-12-29 17:18:38

OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful# A textbook on functional programming and data structures in OCaml, with an emphasis on semantics and software engineering. This book is the textbook for CS 3110 Data Structures and Functional Programming at Cornell University. A past title of this book was “Functional Programming in OCaml”. Spring 2025 Edition. Videos. There are over 200 YouTube videos embedded in this book. They can be watched independently of reading the book. Start with t

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Neon Now Runs in VS Code

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Christoffersen 2025-12-26 11:29:02

Developers love using Neon branches for a local development, due to the agility they provide (e.g. fast resets, isolated environments, and the ability to test without polluting production data). But using Neon branches still requires you to manage separate connection strings for different branches and ensure your application and its environment is properly set up to connect. Today, that gets a lot easier, especially if you’re a VS Code user! We’re launching Neon Local Connect, a new VS Code ext

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Home Safe? Snap Map Will Let Your Friends and Family Know With Alert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 18:42:25

"Let us know when you're home." How many times have you heard that from friends or family at the end of the night, but forgotten to follow up when you get through the door? Snapchat has added a feature to its popular Snap Map that will take care of it for you. The messaging app launched a new feature on Thursday called "Home Safe," which will alert friends and/or family that you're home safely even when you forget to do so. It's ideal to let folks know when you're back from a vacation, a night

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Snapchat can automatically let a trusted friend know you got home safe

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-03 16:00:10

Snapchat can now let your friends know if you're back home from an outing safe and sound without you having to send a message. The app has launched a new feature called Home Safe, which sends one-time alerts to contacts of your choice. You can only send these alerts to people you already share your location with, and since that off by default, you'd have to activate it on Snap Maps for all your friends or for specific ones. Your friends will only get the notification once, and it will shut off a

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Snapchat will notify your friends when you’ve made it home safe

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-03 16:00:00

Snapchat is launching a new Home Safe feature that makes it easier to inform your loved ones when you have arrived safely after making your way home. Building on the app’s existing location capabilities, Snapchat’s Home Safe allows you to send an automatic alert to chat conversations with friends to let them know you’re back at home without having to remember to send direct messages. While many communications apps like Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger enable you to share live location

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Snapchat will now let your friends know you’ve made it home safe

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-03 16:00:00

Snapchat is launching a new way for users to let their friends and family know they’ve made it home safe after an outing, called “Home Safe,” the social network announced on Thursday. To use the feature, you need to set your home location by tapping your Bitmoji on Snap Map and then “My Home.” When you head out and want to notify a friend when you get home, open the conversation, tap the Map icon, and then the Home Safe button. Your friend will receive an automatic alert in your chat conversat

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Are we witnessing the final days of Mozilla?

news.ycombinator.com Bryan Lunduke 2026-01-07 03:46:56

50% off Monthly, Yearly Subscriptions! Lifetime Subs for $100! Let's get everyone subscribing to The Lunduke Journal! The number of free subscribers to The Lunduke Journal has absolutely exploded — across a bunch of platforms — which is truly amazing. The real Tech News is spreading farther than ever. In fact, the free subscriber growth is so utterly massive, that if even a tiny fraction of you became a paying subscriber… The Lunduke Journal would become comfortably financially set for a very

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Show HN: Header-only GIF decoder in pure C – no malloc, easy to use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 03:36:33

I built a lightweight GIF decoder in pure C, ideal for embedded or performance-critical environments. It’s header-only, zero dynamic memory allocations, and fully platform-independent. Supports both static and animated GIFs, with turbo and safe decoding modes. Works great on microcontrollers, IoT devices, and anything with a framebuffer. Would love feedback or ideas where this could be useful. Github: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...

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Tesla Diner: Photos show opening of Musk's futuristic California drive-in

cnbc.com Krysta Escobar 2026-01-09 06:49:42

People dine inside during the opening of the Tesla Diner and Drive-In restaurant and Supercharger on Santa Monica Blvd in the Hollywood neighborhood Los Angeles, California on July 21, 2025. Elon Musk's flagship Tesla Diner opened Monday in Hollywood, California, and the CEO is already eyeing expansion "If our retro-futuristic diner turns out well, which I think it will, @Tesla will establish these in major cities around the world, as well as Supercharger sites on long distance routes," Musk w

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The ‘Hail Mary’ That Saved NASA’s Juno Camera From Jupiter’s Radiation Hell

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-09 06:26:35

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which launched in 2011 to investigate Jupiter’s origin and evolution, travels through the solar system’s most intense planetary radiation fields. When the spacecraft’s JunoCam—a color, visible-light camera—began to suffer the consequences in December 2023, the mission team back on Earth had to think of a remote fix before they lost their chance to photograph the Jovian moon, Io. A relatively simple process was ultimately what enabled the long-distance save: heating the i

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21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2026-01-09 06:59:35

Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar weren’t planning to raise a Series A so soon. Their AI compliance startup, Delve, which announced a $3 million seed round in January, was growing fast and signing customers at a steady clip. Then, inbound interest started rolling in, COO Kocalar told TechCrunch. Delve, which automates regulatory compliance with AI agents, ended up fielding multiple term sheets, eventually closing a $32 million Series A at a $300 million valuation. The round was led by Insight Pa

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Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 00:42:30

Pogocache is fast caching software built from scratch with a focus on low latency and cpu efficency. Faster: Pogocache is faster than Memcache, Valkey, Redis, Dragonfly, and Garnet. It has the lowest latency per request, providing the quickest response times. It's optimized to scale from one to many cores, giving you the best single-threaded and multithreaded performance. Cheaper: Pogocache uses the fewest cpu cycles per request; minimizing server load, energy usage, and the overall cost to op

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Apple details how it trained its new AI models: 4 interesting highlights

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-12 06:58:15

During WWDC25, Apple announced new versions of its on-device and cloud-based foundation models. Now, they have published a tech report detailing how those models were trained, optimized, and evaluated. And the report includes some genuinely interesting under-the-hood tidbits. In a comprehensive document called “Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models – Tech Report 2025“, the company walks through multiple aspects of the new models, including their architecture, data sources, pre-training,

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ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:41:23

Everyone knows Daikin make some of the best air conditioners out there, mechanically speaking. Sadly their WiFi control modules are not so good, especially the latest models which are all cloud based, require an internet connection to even work, and are slow. This code/module provides local control via web interface, MQTT, and HomeAssistant integration, all with no cloud crap. There is also a new Faikin Remote Control available, BLE linked to the Faikin, with environmental sensors, available o

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Feature Request: Apple should make these three changes to the Find My app

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-12 16:26:26

We saw recently that many Gen Z people have a much more relaxed attitude to location privacy than the rest of us, happily sharing their location 24/7 with entire groups of friends. But for those of us who prefer a more restrained approach to sharing our location, I’d like to see one basic change, and a couple of intelligent features added to the Find My app … 9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive inf

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Trump’s claims of a Coca-Cola agreement quickly go flat as nutritionists groan

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-15 11:38:35

Late Tuesday, President Trump announced on social media that he had convinced Coca-Cola to agree to use "REAL Cane Sugar" in Coke, in lieu of the current, cheaper sweetener used in the US version of the drink: high-fructose corn syrup. "I'd like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them—You’ll see. It's just better!" Trump wrote. On Wednesday, Coca-Cola failed to confirm that supposed agreement. On its website, the beverage giant posted a brief, vag

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Some Cities in China Are Advertising Exclusive Subsidies for Huawei-Powered Cars

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2026-01-15 16:04:10

In some parts of China, local governments are offering cash subsidies to people who buy electric or plug-in hybrid cars powered by Huawei software. Experts say the deals are fairly unusual. Since May, at least 10 Chinese provincial and municipal governments have announced consumer subsidies ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 RMB (about $280 to $700) per car, according to social media posts collected by WIRED. The exact amount and conditions vary, but they all have one thing in common: The rebates can

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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Cane Sugar

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-15 20:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Sugar Cane

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-16 02:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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How to run an LLM on your laptop

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2026-01-16 11:01:29

For Pistilli, opting for local models as opposed to online chatbots has implications beyond privacy. “Technology means power,” she says. “And so who[ever] owns the technology also owns the power.” States, organizations, and even individuals might be motivated to disrupt the concentration of AI power in the hands of just a few companies by running their own local models. Breaking away from the big AI companies also means having more control over your LLM experience. Online LLMs are constantly sh

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Many Gen Z use Find My and other apps to share their location with friend groups 24/7

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-17 22:11:43

A new report suggests that many people who belong to Gen Z use Find My and other apps to permanently share their location with groups of friends. A study earlier in the year found that 40% of Gen Z adults share their location with three or more people, and a new piece found it was common to location-share with double digit numbers of friends … Gen Z is generally defined as those born between 1997 and 2012, so current ages would be roughly 13 to 28. A CivicScience study back in April found tha

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