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Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking

news.ycombinator.com Dan Motzenbecker 2025-10-23 18:48:53

Below is some code describing whatʼs happening on this site right now. Anyone on this page will connect directly to others in real-time, syncing mouse movement and clicks. (Try it, I dare you). Trystero can connect peers via 🌊 BitTorrent, 🐦 Nostr, 📡 MQTT, 🪐 IPFS, ⚡️ Supabase, and 🔥 Firebase. Right now youʼre the only person with the page open, but you can cheat and just open this URL in another tab to see what itʼs like with others. Hereʼs how you use it. Join a room with an app ID and a ro

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-27 11:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-27 16:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 19:11:23

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and two companies associated with North Korean IT worker schemes that operate at the expense of American organizations. These schemes involve placing in U.S. firms skilled tech workers with stolen or fabricated identities and using so-called “laptop farms” to hide the true location of the employees. The workers funnel their earnings to the DPRK regime to fund the regime's weapons program. They also often

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Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-27 15:00:00

“We’re not comfortable revealing that for various reasons,” Dean told me on our call. The total number is an abstract measure that changes over time, he says, adding that the company wants users to be thinking about the energy usage per prompt. But there are people out there all over the world interacting with this technology, not just me—and what we all add up to seems quite relevant. OpenAI does publicly share its total, sharing recently that it sees 2.5 billion queries to ChatGPT every day.

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Google's AI Live Translation and Learning Tools Are Here. How to Use Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 02:25:49

Google Translate is getting an AI upgrade designed to make real-time conversations and language learning easier. The update is rolling out this week in the Translate app on iOS and Android. The first tool, for live translations, lets you have a back-and-forth conversation with someone by surfacing audio and text translations as you speak, so you can easily follow along. Advanced Gemini models allow for support of more than 70 languages, including Arabic, French, Hindi, Korean and Spanish. Googl

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OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-28 06:05:00

Yifei Fang/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI is giving ChatGPT new safeguards. A teen recently used ChatGPT to learn how to take his life. OpenAI may add further parental controls for young users. ChatGPT doesn't have a good track record of intervening when a user is in emotional distress, but several updates from OpenAI aim to change that. The company is building on how its chatbot responds to distressed users by st

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Kobo ereaders are swapping out Pocket for Instapaper

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 10:06:15

Rakuten and Instapaper have announced a new integration that lets you access saved articles on Kobo ereaders. The new feature replaces a similar one Rakuten used to offer for Pocket users, which it was forced to replace after Mozilla decided to shut down the read-it-later service in May 2025. Instapaper on Kobo devices works nearly identically to the way Pocket did previously. With your Instapaper account linked, you can access any article you've saved to your library. Articles can be downloade

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Why I recommend this $700 Lenovo laptop to both college students and working professionals

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-28 10:09:27

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15-inch ZDNET's key takeaways The IdeaPad Slim 3i is on sale at Costco for $669. It's an affordable 15-inch laptop with a full-size keyboard and nice selection of ports. The battery isn't spectacular, and its display is lackluster. View now at Costco Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i is an affordable, versatile laptop with a competent set of hardware for students or professionals. It's got a full-size keyboard (something tha

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Service members deserve the right to repair

news.ycombinator.com Lt. Col. Cindy Serrano Roberts 2025-10-28 07:21:53

“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. The clock was ticking. I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. The only viable backup generator was on the other side of the country. I had two choices: ini

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Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:51:30

The startup bubble that no one is talking about August 28, 2025 Figure 1** Above is a graph that displays the amount of Form Ds filed, where the entity (read: company/firm) name contains the phrases "fund I", "fund II", "fund III", and "fund IV". The x-axis is not the prettiest, but it is broken down by quarter. You can see that the line for "fund I" sees by far the greatest peak around quarter 3 of 2022, with a steep drop off immediately after. The other lines have a similar, but less pronou

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Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-28 13:21:32

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called “Gambler Panel” that bills itself as a “soulless project that is made for profit.” The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim th

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High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 14:46:43

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit to gain administrative access to their vaults. The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate. From there, an attacker could pivot to the administrative section of the password manager. A CVE identifier isn’t

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Nvidia earnings takeaways: A 'full steam' AI spend, but China uncertainty remains

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-28 22:57:02

Nvidia stock fluctuated on Thursday as investors digested the company's latest earnings report, which signaled robust AI demand but provided little clarity on China. Sales surged 56% in the quarter to $46.74 billion, which was roughly in line Wall Street's projected $46.06 billion, according to LSEG. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, just topping the $1.01 per share estimated by analysts. The better-than-expected results were clouded by concerns over Nvidia's future in

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Passwordstate dev urges users to patch auth bypass vulnerability

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 22:16:20

Click Studios, the company behind the Passwordstate enterprise-grade password manager, has warned customers to patch a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability as soon as possible. Passwordstate works as a secure password vault that enables organizations to store, organize, and control access to passwords, API keys, certificates, and various other types of credentials via a centralized web interface. Click Studios says its Passwordstate password manager is used by over 370,000 IT prof

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American military service members deserve the right to repair

news.ycombinator.com Lt. Col. Cindy Serrano Roberts 2025-10-28 22:21:53

“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. The clock was ticking. I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. The only viable backup generator was on the other side of the country. I had two choices: ini

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How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-28 22:05:57

The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets increasingly digitized and artificial intelligence creeps its way into every aspect of life, data centers become more and more important. But that data comes with a catch: the servers in these data centers have monstrous energy demands that eat up natural resources like water, and that puts a significant burden on local communities where data centers are located. Some companies think they’ve found the solution to this problem by sending th

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Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:46:17

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. Many of those services are still around in some form—someone who really

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Kobo replaces Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers in a free update

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-28 22:16:22

A big draw of Kobo e-readers has always been Pocket integration. But, when Mozilla announced in late May that it was shutting down the read-it-later app in July, the Kobo community was left in a bit of a lurch. To the company’s credit, in late July, it announced that it would be replacing Pocket with another stalwart of the scene, Instapaper. And, just a month after that, support is already live and available as a free firmware update for all currently supported Kobo readers (and the list is sur

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I love Nothing’s Android phones, but it’s getting harder to trust them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 02:00:05

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Since the launch of the Nothing Phone 1 in 2022, Nothing has marketed itself as “not like the other phone brands.” From product design to offbeat videos showing CEO Carl Pei reacting to reviews, the company has constantly tried to demonstrate how it stands apart from other smartphone makers. However, Nothing has recently been involved in a photo-fakery scandal. Between this latest controversy and previous ones, it’s clear that Nothing isn’t really different from

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Deals: 1TB M4 MacBook Air, AirPods 4 now even lower, iPhone 15 Pro Max $725 off, MagSafe stands, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-10-29 02:45:08

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is starting off with our growing collection of Apple gear Labor Day deals you’ll find organized for you right here. We are also highlighting a 1TB M4 MacBook Air configuration with 24GB of RAM at $200 off the list ($600 under the MSRP on the comparable MacBook Pro), price drops on all of Apple’s most affordable current-gen iPad models starting from $299, and an even lower price on AirPods 4 ANC at $139. The 1TB iPhone 15 Pro Max has now dropped even lower at over $72

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Miss your landline? Verizon's new Family Line lets 5 phones share one number

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-29 02:05:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number. You can share the number across as many as five smartphones. Verizon Family Plus with Family Line will cost you an extra $10 a month. My wife and I got rid of our landline years ago, relying solely on our individual mobile phones to make and receive calls. One feature I miss about our home phone was the way we could shar

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Birth of 86-DOS – By Nemanja Trifunovic

news.ycombinator.com Nemanja Trifunovic 2025-10-26 02:48:08

Forty-five years ago, in April 1980, a young employee at Seattle Computer Products began developing a small disk operating system for the new Intel 8086-based board. Against all odds, this modest project evolved into software that would power the PC industry for over a decade: Microsoft’s MS-DOS. This is a story about development of 86-DOS, better known by its code name QDOS before it was sold to Microsoft. The two main sources I used are Tim Paterson's blogs from 2007 and Vintage Computer Fed

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One-time WordPress competitor TypePad ends its slide into obscurity by shutting down

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 02:46:17

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. Many of those services are still around in some form—someone who really

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No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-29 02:15:51

Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users, has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico. This double-unicorn milestone comes at a time of hype for website builders — including direct competitors like Figma, Squarespace and Wix, as well as rising ‘vibe coding’ platforms such as Cursor and Lovable. In 2023, Framer raised a $27 million Series C led by Meritech at a

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Apple pulls torrenting app from a third-party store in the EU

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 06:30:40

As first reported by TorrentFreak , Apple is preventing downloads of the iTorrent app on iPhones in the EU. Developer Daniil "XITRIX" Vinogradov's app was a popular BitTorrent client available from AltStore PAL , which is among the most popular third-party iOS app stores overseas. The company revoked the app developer's ability to distribute apps on such third-party marketplaces. While Apple has historically banned torrent clients from iOS devices in the United States, the EU's Digital Markets A

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Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 05:00:10

Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell security services. The latest example of the runaway hype that can come from such pitches is research published today by SquareX, a startup selling services for securing browsers and other client-side applications. It claims, without basis, to have found a “major passkey vulnerability” that undermines the lofty security promises made by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and thousands of other companies tha

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