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This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-09 03:00:00

The bean just wants to knit. With their back to me, Poe, the name I gave the animated brown bean in the Focus Friend app, is stitching up a little storm that will eventually become socks—if I can leave them alone. Unfortunately, I need to check my texts. I cancel the timer after six minutes, which warns me that Poe’s knitting will unravel and “they’ll be really sad.” Their shoulders slump as their work falls apart and a little bubble appears over their head. “It’s ok, we tried,” they reassure m

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-09 02:39:50

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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WhatsApp is working on a voicemail-like feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-09 02:24:44

Heads up if you tend to dodge, ignore, or genuinely miss calls on WhatsApp: the app is working on a voicemail-like feature. Here’s how it will work. According to WABetaInfo (via Tecnoblog), the feature was introduced in the latest Android beta, but not yet on iOS. They explain that if a call goes unanswered, a new “Record voice message” button pops up at the bottom of the screen, alongside the Call again and Cancel options. This lets the user quickly record a voice message, rather than either

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Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-09 00:46:26

A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national living legally in Houston, worked for an Ohio-based company, reportedly Eaton Corporation, from 2007 until his termination in 2019. After a corporate restructuring and subsequent demotion in 2018, the DOJ says that Lu retaliated by embedding malicious code

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-09 02:34:33

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 00:13:39

Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers Note This work is sponsored by Monibot - Website, Server and Application Monitoring. Try out Monibot for free at https://monibot.io. For benchmarks I used the following libraries: bvinc, github.com/bvinc/go-sqlite-lite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql driver. craw, github.com/crawshaw/sqlite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql driver. eaton, github.com/eatonphil/gosqlite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql dri

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Netflix’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Brings Sam Fisher Out of Retirement

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-09 02:30:21

Fans of stealth video games likely have a soft spot in their hearts for Splinter Cell. Ubisoft’s sub-series of stealth-action games endorsed by Tom Clancy has been MIA for over a decade, even with a remake of the original game on the horizon. After doing guest roles in other Clancy games and in Netflix’s Far Cry anime, series lead Sam Fisher is back in all his shadowy glory in Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Developed by John Wick alum Derek Kolstad, the animated series sees Fisher—voiced by Liev Sc

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Netflix Anime Hits Anime NYC: 'Blue Eye Samurai,' 'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 02:00:03

Netflix's panel at this year's Anime NYC convention brought on a string of announcements and sneak peeks at its upcoming anime slate, including drops for the new season of the Emmy-award-winning series, Blue Eye Samurai. But you didn't have to be there in person to see everything revealed. The streamer just debuted trailers and visuals for existing hits Sakamoto Days, Devil May Cry and Record of Ragnarok along with the release date and teaser for its new entry: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Deathw

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iOS 26 adds the fix I’ve always wanted for accessing credit cards

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-08 20:23:43

Making payments on your iPhone is easy with Apple Pay. But what about those occasions when you need to input credit card details on a website or in a form? Not so easy. Fortunately, iOS 26 has the fix I’ve always wanted thanks to new AutoFill support for credit cards. The problem with accessing saved credit cards iOS 26 is packed with big updates for Apple Wallet, including a new feature that lets you manually save full credit card details for your Apple Pay cards. But Apple has long had a se

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New iPhones and iPads in Russia must ship with state-backed messaging app preinstalled

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-09 11:51:33

Earlier today, the Russian government announced a new rule requiring all phones and tablets to ship with MAX, its state-backed messenger app, preinstalled. Here are the details. As reported by Reuters, starting September 1, “gadget” makers will have to include MAX among the apps that must come preinstalled. That includes phones and tablets. RuStore, the country’s domestic application store, which up to now came preinstalled on Android devices, will also have to come preinstalled on all “gadget

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Workday beats estimates but CEO warns of challenges in education and government

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-09 16:34:36

CEO of Workday Carl M. Eschenbach and Ana Eschenbach attend the Allen and Company Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at The Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 10, 2025. Workday reported an earnings beat on Thursday, but issued guidance that was inline with estimates and warned of pressure in some areas. The shares slipped in extended trading. Here's how the company did relative to LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $2.21 adjusted vs. $2.11 expected $2.21 adjusted vs.

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I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:46:16

Our senior DevOps engineer thought I'd lost my mind. He didn't join a startup to do sales. So he promised me 5 calls and I guaranteed he'd never have to do it again. It was a bit of a back-and-forth but I strongly believe it fundamentally changed how we build products. When I sat in on the calls, I observed a few things: - Seeing them explain why our competitor's platform was "too complex for non-technical users." - Seeing them assure the customer that the continuous monitoring was actually w

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In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author Box-Sizing Border-Box Display Flex Flex-Wrap Wrap .Wp-Block-Post-Author__Byline Font-Size Margin-Bottom Margin-Top Width 2025-11-09 14:10:39

The comfort we get when offloading our cognitive load to LLMs is bad for us. Cognitive load should exist, and if we reduce it too much – if we stop thinking – we can actually unlearn how to think. Kids who always choose the easy route and copy their homework from other students eventually find themselves completely clueless about what’s going on in school. Someone who always lets their spouse handle all the bills and banking may one day be unable to manage even a simple payment on their own. A

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Paramount poaches key Apple TV+ exec

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-09 21:01:38

On the same day that Apple TV+ announced a 30% price rise, news has broken that one of its key TV execs is leaving the company. Creative executive Chris Parnell is leaving Apple and is joining Paramount+, per Deadline. Parnell joined Apple back in 2020 and spearheaded development of many high-profile TV+ originals, including Dark Matter, Bad Monkey, and the upcoming Vince Gilligan series Pluribus. Before Apple, Parnell worked at Sony Pictures. If you recall, the co-heads of Apple TV+ are Zack

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Karen Gillan Joins the New ‘Highlander’ and Has the Best Reaction to the News

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-09 21:15:22

The cast of the upcoming reimagining of Highlander is just getting better and better. Henry Cavill leads the ensemble that includes Russell Crowe and Dave Bautista, and now we know that Karen Gillan, the genre queen best known for her roles in Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Jumanji franchises, is joining the mix. In a way, it’s a film she was born to be in. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of Gillan’s casting, and she reposted it on X with the comment “Dialect coach can sit t

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YouTube Music at 10 wants to make fandom more interactive

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:03:14

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is celebrating 10 years with new features, including playlist comments. The update also brings daily refreshed “taste match” playlists and more concert info via Bandsintown. Fans will be able to earn more badges and help push official videos to milestone view counts. Just yesterday, we dug through the YouTube Music app and found evidence that playlist comments were coming. Less than 24 hours later, YouTube has announced the feature. We’ll le

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The unbearable slowness of AI coding

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:39:31

The Unbearable Slowness of AI Coding 19 Aug, 2025 I’ve been coding entirely with Claude Code for the past two months. At first it was exhilarating. I was speeding through tasks. I was committing like mad. Now, as I’ve built up a fairly substantial app, it’s slowed to a crawl. Ironically, the app I’m building lets me parallelize many instances of Claude Code at once. Often, I’ll have 5 instances running while I’m thinking about new features. The slowness comes in when I actually need to revi

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An interactive guide to SVG paths

news.ycombinator.com Josh W. Comeau 2025-11-06 06:19:05

Introduction The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky. When I first encountered it, I found it totally inscrutable. Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of “what on earth?” vibes. At the same time, <path> elements are also incredibly useful. They’re the only way to create curved shapes in SVG, beyond full ellipses. And once you get the hang of it, they’re actually quite a lot of fun to use! In this blog post, we’ll cover all of the basic commands, including the

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How does the US use water?

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-11-09 17:21:38

Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure. Both the Federal Highway Administration and the Department of Energy have annual budgets around $46 billion dollars. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has an annual budget of $60 billion. The closest thing the federal government has to a department of water infrastructure, the Bureau of Reclamation, has an annual budget of just $1.1 billion. Water in the US is generally both widely availabl

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Sean Gunn Wants You to Think Maxwell Lord Is Part of the (Justice) Gang

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-10 02:15:40

In a conversation with the Reel Rejects, actor Sean Gunn discussed his role as Maxwell Lord as a connective thread between Superman and Peacemaker. Portraying the megabucks metahuman investor as someone who wants to work alongside metahumans is key to Gunn, and his take is to make sure he’s in the know of the choices being made, from outfits to the mural in the Hall of Justice. “There’s no way that somebody in charge like that wouldn’t be aware of what’s going on, and we can tell,” he shared.

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China’s Great Firewall Mysteriously Severed Connection to the World for an Hour

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-10 02:25:05

For about an hour on Wednesday, China appeared to go dark—or at least internet access across the country did. According to an analysis published by the Great Firewall Report, a group that monitors internet censorship efforts in China, something happened in the wee hours of Wednesday morning that resulted in China blocking almost all traffic to TCP port 443, the standard port for HTTPS traffic. Between the hours of 12:34 and 1:48 AM in Beijing, someone was observed “unconditionally injecting for

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The Unbearable Slowness of AI Coding

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 06:39:31

The Unbearable Slowness of AI Coding 19 Aug, 2025 I’ve been coding entirely with Claude Code for the past two months. At first it was exhilarating. I was speeding through tasks. I was committing like mad. Now, as I’ve built up a fairly substantial app, it’s slowed to a crawl. Ironically, the app I’m building lets me parallelize many instances of Claude Code at once. Often, I’ll have 5 instances running while I’m thinking about new features. The slowness comes in when I actually need to revi

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I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Conner 2025-11-10 04:16:54

Ibiza coast. August 2025. I went through a phase where I Anki’d every useful-seeming Japanese word I came across as well as all of the standard 2,136 kanji. I was teaching English in Japan at the time, which meant I was thinking about language learning all day. I’d arrived with no knowledge of the language and a resolve to be able to read a contemporary fiction novel on my flight home, so I felt I needed all the help I could get. That’s when I found Anki. Fig. 1: My idea of a good time. Review

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Birds Across the World Are Singing All Day for a Disturbing Reason

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-10 06:00:30

If the songbirds in your neighborhood are waking you up earlier and chirping well into the evening, blame light pollution. Artificial light touches nearly every corner of Earth’s surface, and a new study shows that it’s messing with birds’ biological clocks. Researchers analyzed a global acoustic dataset of more than 60 million recorded birdsongs representing more than 580 diurnal bird species. The findings, published Thursday, August 21, in the journal Science, show that light pollution has pr

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Explaining the Internet’s obsession with Silksong, which (finally) comes out Sept. 4

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-10 05:51:50

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be released on September 4. It will come out simultaneously on Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, the Nintendo Switch, and the Nintendo Switch 2. On paper, "game gets release date" isn't particularly groundbreaking news, and the six-year wait between the game's announcement and release is long but nowhere near record-breaking. People have waited longer for Metroid Prime 4 (announced 2017, releasing this fall), Duke Nukem Forever (announced 19

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Struggling fusion power company General Fusion gets $22M lifeline from investors

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-10 06:12:29

General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much. A subset of General Fusion’s existing investors ultimately ponied up for wha

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Here’s everything new for FaceTime in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-10 11:56:17

iOS 26 gives the FaceTime app a whole new design and layout, plus new tools for filtering calls, the powerful Live Translation feature, and more. Here’s everything new. New home screen When you first open FaceTime, you’ll be met by an entirely redesigned home screen. The previous list of recent calls and contacts has been replaced by a new, card-like interface. Cards prominently display contact photos for the people you’ve recently FaceTimed, or suggestions of people you might want to call.

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Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

news.ycombinator.com Gio Silva 2025-11-10 10:59:30

In what sounds like a scene from a comedy movie, a squad of Marines successfully outsmarted an advanced artificial intelligence system by employing tactics that would make any child playing hide-and-seek proud. The remarkable demonstration revealed both the impressive capabilities and surprising limitations of modern AI technology. The experiment took place as part of DARPA’s Squad X program a while back. It aimed to develop advanced surveillance systems capable of identifying human threats in

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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

news.ycombinator.com Josh W. Comeau 2025-11-06 18:19:05

Introduction The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky. When I first encountered it, I found it totally inscrutable. Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of “what on earth?” vibes. At the same time, <path> elements are also incredibly useful. They’re the only way to create curved shapes in SVG, beyond full ellipses. And once you get the hang of it, they’re actually quite a lot of fun to use! In this blog post, we’ll cover all of the basic commands, including the

Topics: command ellipse path point svg

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Forced every engineer to take sales calls.They rewrote our platform in 2 weeks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 09:46:16

Our senior DevOps engineer thought I'd lost my mind. He didn't join a startup to do sales. So he promised me 5 calls and I guaranteed he'd never have to do it again. It was a bit of a back-and-forth but I strongly believe it fundamentally changed how we build products. When I sat in on the calls, I observed a few things: - Seeing them explain why our competitor's platform was "too complex for non-technical users." - Seeing them assure the customer that the continuous monitoring was actually w

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This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

WhatsApp is working on a voicemail-like feature

Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

Netflix’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Brings Sam Fisher Out of Retirement

Netflix Anime Hits Anime NYC: 'Blue Eye Samurai,' 'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' and More

iOS 26 adds the fix I’ve always wanted for accessing credit cards

New iPhones and iPads in Russia must ship with state-backed messaging app preinstalled

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I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

Paramount poaches key Apple TV+ exec

Karen Gillan Joins the New ‘Highlander’ and Has the Best Reaction to the News

YouTube Music at 10 wants to make fandom more interactive

The unbearable slowness of AI coding

An interactive guide to SVG paths

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Sean Gunn Wants You to Think Maxwell Lord Is Part of the (Justice) Gang

China’s Great Firewall Mysteriously Severed Connection to the World for an Hour

The Unbearable Slowness of AI Coding

I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead

Birds Across the World Are Singing All Day for a Disturbing Reason

Explaining the Internet’s obsession with Silksong, which (finally) comes out Sept. 4

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Here’s everything new for FaceTime in iOS 26

Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

Forced every engineer to take sales calls.They rewrote our platform in 2 weeks

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