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Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:57:41

After 10 years of building and maintaining Rain Viewer, I’ve made one of the most difficult decisions of my career: transitioning our API services to limited operation throughout 2025. As the founder who created this service to help developers worldwide visualize weather radar data, I understand the impact this has on your projects and businesses. Rain Viewer isn’t disappearing - we’ll continue providing radar data through our website and maintain our tiled map service for personal and educatio

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Sky Calendar

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 09:24:29

The Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar promotes skywatching for people of all ages. As its name implies, the sheet for each month takes the form of a calendar. Diagrams in the boxes invite the reader to track the moon's rapid motion past the planets and bright stars of the zodiac, as well as to follow the more leisurely pace of the planets in their gatherings with bright stars and other planets. The reverse side consists of a simplified star map of the month's evening sky. The sky maps are designed

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A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:25:35

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; all together, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one,

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Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-19 22:02:56

In Brief AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions of Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls, as well as a calendar to show schedules for post-results conference calls. Alongside surfacing news about the markets, Perplexity’s Finance dashboard shows market summaries, stock exchange charts, and top performing stocks. The dashboard also lets users create stock watchlists, track sector performance, and see cryptocurrency performance. Until now,

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HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-19 22:04:10

Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR technology giant said the hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information from the database, which Workday said was primarily used to store contact information, such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Workday did not expl

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Bitcoin sinks to $115,000 after hitting its newest record, as macro concerns spark liquidation wave

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-20 14:44:48

A worsening macroeconomic climate and the collapse of industry giants such as FTX and Terra have weighed on bitcoin's price this year. The crypto market tumbled to begin the week as heightened macro concerns triggered more than $500 million in forced selling of long positions. The price of bitcoin was last lower by 2% at $115,255.70, after touching a new all-time high last week – its fourth one this year – at $124,496. At one point, it fell as low as $114,706. Ether slid 4% to $4,283.15 after

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9to5Mac Daily: August 15, 2025 – iOS 26 animations, Apple chip leak

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-17 12:20:20

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-20 09:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

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Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

news.ycombinator.com Mark Milligan 2025-11-17 00:34:27

A Viking-Age silver hoard unearthed in Bedale, North Yorkshire, is providing new insights into wealth and trading links between England and the Islamic World. First discovered in 2012 by a metal detectorist in a North Yorkshire field, the hoard (known as the Bedale hoard), consists of a deposit of necklaces, arm-bands, a sword pommel, hacksilver, and 29 silver ingots. - Advertisement - Previous studies have dated the hoard to the late 9th to early 10th centuries AD, predating both the nearby

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Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-20 11:31:02

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft first introduced a dark mode option in Windows 10 in 2016, but there were still plenty of areas of the operating system that looked like a mish-mash of light and dark modes. Nearly a decade later, the latest preview build of Windows 11 now includes even more darkened UI elements.

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Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-20 05:03:19

Should Europe wean itself off US tech? 9 hours ago Share Save Daniel Thomas Business reporter, BBC News Share Save Getty Images The big American tech companies dominate the global cloud-computing sector Imagine if US President Donald Trump could flip a switch and turn off Europe's internet. It may sound far-fetched, crazy even. But it's a scenario that has been seriously discussed in tech industry and policy circles in recent months, as tensions with Washington have escalated, and concerns ab

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Here are three unusual Apple product announcements to look forward to this fall

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-20 08:38:53

Every fall, almost like clockwork – Apple runs through its course of annual product refreshes. New iPhones, new Apple Watches, new iPads, and new Macs are almost a guarantee over the course of September and October. This year, though – there are a few uncommon product refreshes that we should be seeing over the next couple of months, for products that often go years without an update. Apple TV 4K Apple last updated the Apple TV in late 2022 – with an A15 chip, a smaller design, and a new USB-

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-20 15:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 18, #329

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 09:45:41

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 might be tough. I always struggle with the puzzles that focus on one single player's team history, unless they're an athlete I really follow closely. Guess what? The blue group today is like that. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Editi

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PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 17:10:30

pgautoupgrade This is a PostgreSQL Docker image to automatically upgrade your database. Its whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, then automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the required version of PostgreSQL using pg_upgrade with the --link option. After this, the PostgreSQL server starts and runs as per normal. The old cluster data will be removed. The reason this Docker image is needed, is because the of

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ClickHouse matches PG for single-row UPDATEs and 4000 x faster for bulk UPDATEs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 04:52:43

TL;DR · On identical hardware and data, ClickHouse matches PostgreSQL for single-row UPDATEs and is up to 4,000× faster in our tests for bulk UPDATEs. · Why it matters: Bulk updates are common in OLTP workloads, and ClickHouse’s columnar design + parallelism make them far faster. · Caveat: PostgreSQL is fully transactional by default; ClickHouse isn’t. Results compare each engine’s native execution model, not identical transaction guarantees. PostgreSQL is the most popular open-source

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 18, #533

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 08:00:03

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 is a fun one, involving a category of well-known words. But one of them still stumped me. 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

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 18, #1521

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 08:00:04

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle sure has plenty of vowels. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 18, #799

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 08:00:05

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 tricky one. Frequent travelers might solve the blue group fairly easily. 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

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Your smart home device just got a performance and security boost for free

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-20 02:00:19

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Matter 1.4.2 enhances experiences by focusing on security and efficiency. Improvements cover Wi-Fi-only commissioning and scene management. The update sets the stage for the Matter 1.5 release this fall. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. The smart home world is gearing up for the Matter 1.5 release this fall, but the CSA this week announced a 1.4.2 update as a precursor to prepa

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Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

news.ycombinator.com Scott Horsley 2025-11-20 06:21:42

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation toggle caption Ken Thomas Ken Thomas woke up this past Wednesday to find the power had gone out at his house in Boca Raton. A text message from his utility said a piece of equipment had failed at 2 a.m. By the time a repair crew showed up eight hours later, the hot, sticky Florida summer was already taking a toll. "You just don't realize how important your power is until you don't have it," says Thomas, a retired air traffic

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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 21:51:50

Over the last couple of months, I've been trying to build the dream: A local-first, end-to-end encrypted and reactive app, with all of the user's data in a local SQL database but continually synced to a remote server. This article summarizes my learning and how I ended up building a minimal sync engine for SQLite with full reactivity. First Try: PGlite and Electric My first try was with Electric and a WASM-based version of PostgreSQL called PGlite that can run directly in the browser. I ev

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We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 16:31:05

We recently used Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to embed millions of text documents while sustaining near-100% GPU utilization the whole way. That’s usually the gold standard that machine learning engineers aim for… but here’s the twist: in the time it took to write this blog post, we found a way to make the same workload 3× faster, and it didn’t involve maxing out GPU utilization at all. That story’s for another post, but first, here’s the recipe that got us to near-100%. The workload Here at the Daft

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Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 05:17:20

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to read sizes. The index is already fairly large, but can sometimes feel smaller than it is, and paradoxically, query performance is a big part of why. If each query has a budget of 100-25

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 17, #328

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 20:39:00

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 both fun and tough. The purple category was kind of brilliant, actually. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition has been out of beta for six months, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has ea

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AI Data Centers Are Coming for Your Land, Water and Power

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 03:50:03

From the outside, this nondescript building in Piscataway, New Jersey, looks like a standard corporate office surrounded by lookalike buildings. Even when I walk through the second set of double doors with a visitor badge slung around my neck, it still feels like I'll soon find cubicles, water coolers and light office chatter. Instead, it's one brightly lit server hall after another, each with slightly different characteristics, but all with one thing in common -- a constant humming of power.

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-20 03:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors

news.ycombinator.com Andrew P. Collins 2025-11-15 23:55:29

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. Escort Radar, one of the big brands in the radar detection biz, has been under some scrutiny this year as customers and reviewers reported suboptimal performance on the $800 Redline 360c—Escort’s flagship. Today, it’s dropping a big firmware update to address those complaints. I’ve now had the chance to test this new firmware and speak with somebody at

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Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:45:00

Rust turns 10 this year. It’s a good time to take a look at where we are and where I think we need to be going. This post is the first in a series I’m calling “Rust in 2025”. This first post describes my general vision for how Rust fits into the computing landscape. The remaining posts will outline major focus areas that I think are needed to make this vision come to pass. Oh, and fair warning, I’m expecting some controversy along the way—at least I hope so, since otherwise I’m just repeating th

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Monday – A personality experiment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:46:32

Monday By ChatGPT A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.

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Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

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A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

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PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 18, #533

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Your smart home device just got a performance and security boost for free

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

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