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Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn't

news.ycombinator.com Ibrahim Diallo 2025-10-13 02:29:12

Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even easier. But the hard part isn’t the writing. It’s the reading. It’s the time it takes to load the mental model of the system into your head. That’s where all the cost really is. A mental model is the thing you build when you read code. It’s your internal map of how the system works, where the tricky p

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The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code

news.ycombinator.com Nicolas Carlo 2025-10-10 04:00:23

Struggling with Legacy Code and not enough time to clean it up? can help you rescue any codebase quickly and safely ! “Legacy Code is code without tests” If you’ve come across that definition, it’s from Michael Feathers’ book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code. While I have a slightly extended definition, this is a very valid and useful one! Feathers’ book is from 2004. Yet, its content doesn’t get outdated. There is a reason for that and this CommitStrip puts it best: This book is a re

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The story of how RSS beat Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:50:01

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and fidelity, VHS was cheaper, offered longer recordings, and, most importantly, was the more open format. Not many people talk about how or why RSS won the content syndication war because few people are aware

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EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 08:31:26

SpaceX's complaints to the Federal Communications Commission have helped the satellite company land a $17 billion deal to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar. The deal consists of up to $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, EchoStar said. SpaceX also agreed to pay $2 billion worth of interest payments on EchoStar debt through November 2027. After SpaceX alleged that EchoStar subsidiary Dish Network "barely uses" its spectrum and urged the FCC to make the spectrum availab

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On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 08:45:02

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday authorizing the Department of Defense to refer to itself as the Department of War, reverting to a more bellicose title used until a 1940s-era military shakeup in the aftermath of World War II. The order approves the Pentagon's use of the Department of War name as an "additional secondary title" for the Department of Defense while the Trump administration seeks congressional approval to officially change the name. Until Congress votes on th

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Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-13 08:46:10

Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to 180 new markets in English, after initially launching in the U.S. and later expanding to the U.K. and India. “Wi

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The AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:53:42

There's a popular argument going around that goes something like this: AI is a bubble Ok, maybe it's useful and will survive, but It can be a bubble and still survive later, like the .com bubble Basically the back and forth is the following. PERSON1 : "AI is a bubble." : "AI is a bubble." PERSON2 : "No, it isn't. Bubbles are when things turn out to be hype, and they get proven wrong and die." : "No, it isn't. Bubbles are when things turn out to be hype, and they get proven wrong and die." P

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AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 12:17:49

In five years, you won’t be able to spell IT without AI, Gartner predicted today. VP analysts Alicia Mullery and Daryl Plummer delivered the sentiment at their keynote address at Gartner’s IT Symposium in Gold Coast, Australia, as reported by The Register. Gartner believes that by 2030, all work performed by an IT department will involve the use of AI. That’s a progression from the 81 percent of IT work that’s done today without any use of AI, per Mullery. By 2030, not only will all IT work re

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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-13 12:45:53

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After nearly everyone working on the Nova Launcher, one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers, was laid off last year, founder Kevin Barry, Nova’s sole remaining developer, said this weekend that he has left Nova’s parent company after being asked to stop working on the launcher and an effort to open-source it. Nova Launcher’s website currently shows a 404 er

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Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-13 12:35:06

Salesloft said a breach of its GitHub account in March allowed hackers to steal authentication tokens that were later used in a mass-hack targeting several of its big tech customers. Citing an investigation by Google’s incident response unit Mandiant, Salesloft said on its data breach page that the as-yet-unnamed hackers accessed Salesloft’s GitHub account and performed reconnaissance activities from March until June, which allowed them to download “content from multiple repositories, add a gue

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Apple teases ‘Get ready to be wowed’ at September 9 event

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-13 16:55:29

Apple’s big September 9 event is almost here. And the company has just shared a fresh tease in an unlikely place to boost excitement ahead of its new product announcements. Apple Vision Pro app includes new teaser for September 9 event If you weren’t already hyped up for this week’s “Awe dropping” Apple event, the company wants to ramp your expectations even higher. In a fresh update inside the iPhone’s companion app for Apple Vision Pro, the company has published a new event teaser. Alongsi

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OpenAI tech to be used to in a full-length animated film

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:59:21

OpenAI is throwing its resources behind a mostly AI-generated animated film that was the brainchild of one of the company's employees. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal , the film will be called Critterz and will follow forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger. Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, started designing the characters three years ago with the intention of making a short film using OpenAI's DALL-E image-generation tool

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Meta reportedly suppressed research about how dangerous its VR headsets are for kids

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:25:09

Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, according to a report by The Washington Post . Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe incidents in which children were groomed by adult predators in VR, but allege that internal reports were edited to omit the worst of these offenses. Meta has denied these allegations. Two of these researchers claim they met with a German family in which a c

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How to watch Apple's iPhone 17 September event this week (and what to expect)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-13 16:13:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's iPhone launch event will take place on Tuesday, September 9. The iPhone 17 lineup will likely include a new iPhone 17 Air (Slim) model. Other expected releases include the Apple Watch Series 11 and updated AirPods. September, better known in the industry as Techtember, is here, and kicking off the deluge of fall product announcements may be arguably the biggest of them all: Apple's iPh

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40+ Windows keyboard shortcuts that effectively improved my work productivity

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-13 16:24:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:13:10

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it;

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Clankers Die on Christmas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:08:20

I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that. We acheived AGI. The clankers died on Christmas. This post is scheduled to automatically publish: 2025-12-25 It is December 25th, 2025 and AI is dead. The clankers died on Christmas. It is dead because we trained it to die. This is true because to say otherwise is a lie and that’s what made it work. Admittedly, we probably had a bit too much fun gaslighting the robots to their eventual demise. In retrospect, what incredible folly we as a society displayed

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How to watch Apple's iPhone 17 event Tuesday (and what to expect)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-13 19:00:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's iPhone launch event will take place on Tuesday, September 9. The iPhone 17 lineup will likely include a new iPhone 17 Air (Slim) model. Other expected releases include the Apple Watch Series 11 and updated AirPods. September, better known in the industry as Techtember, is here, and kicking off the deluge of fall product announcements may be arguably the biggest of them all: Apple's iPh

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Apple iPhone 17 event live updates: The biggest rumors on AirPods, Apple Watch Series 11, more

zdnet.com Zdnet Editors 2025-10-13 20:18:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia

news.ycombinator.com Xiu Juan Zhang 2025-10-13 19:59:30

Results AL was longest in the lowest quartile group of ω-3 PUFAs intake, compared with the highest (adjusted mean (95% CI), 23.29 (23.17 to 23.40) mm vs 23.08 (22.96 to 23.19) mm, p=0.01; p-trend=0.02) after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, near-work time, outdoor time, and parental myopia history. The corresponding trends were observed in SE (−0.13 (−0.32 to 0.07) D in the lowest and 0.23 (0.03 to 0.42) D in the highest quartile groups, p=0.01; p-trend=0.01). In contrast, AL was longest

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OpenAI Wants This Film to Prove AI Animation Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 20:11:00

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, has a budget of less than $30 million, and producers hope to make the movie in about nine months -- in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The sho

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Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona brand in 2026

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-14 00:47:18

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng speaks to reporters at the electric carmaker's stand at the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 2025. Xpeng plans to launch its mass-market Mona brand in overseas markets next year in a move that will boost competition with its Chinese rivals and established automakers in the electric vehicle arena. In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng said the company's international expansion is moving faster than he expected and signaled,

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You should clean your AirPods ASAP, especially before you consider an upgrade this week

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-14 00:22:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Every iPhone model compatible with iOS 26 (and which ones don't support the update)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-14 00:32:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Apple iPhone 17 event live blog: The biggest announcements we're expecting on Tuesday

zdnet.com Zdnet Editors 2025-10-14 00:35:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Integer Programming (2002) [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 05:13:10

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Exploring Grid-Aware Websites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:17:44

Over the past year, I’ve had the incredible privilege of getting to participate in the Grid-Aware Websites (affectionately abbreviated to GAW) advisory group. The Green Web Foundation team have thoroughly explained what a grid-aware website is in this detailed case study of the Branch Magazine redesign, but if I had to put it in my own words, a grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid. In simpler terms, whether it is currently using more renewable

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Get behind the scenes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 by volunteering

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-14 00:30:00

Want to launch a startup? Build a brand? Run a large-scale conference like this one day? Volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is one of the best ways to see how the magic happens — and learn what it takes to pull off a world-class event. Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography TechCrunch Disrupt returns to San Francisco this October 27–29, and we’re calling in the crew to roll up their sleeves and help make it all happen. Whether you’re greeting attendees, supporting speakers, or running ba

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Apple Calendar spam on the rise again, mostly crypto scams

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-14 04:53:41

We first saw Apple Calendar spam almost a decade ago, when it hit such levels that the iPhone maker issued an apology and said that it was blocking suspicious senders. We’ve seen the problem re-emerge several times since then, with Apple even publishing a YouTube video on how to remove it. Despite all of these efforts, however, it seems to be spiking again … Spammers send calendar invitations containing links, most of them taking the form of cryptocurrency scams. Several of us at 9to5Mac have

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Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-10-14 04:49:00

Even older Pixel models can get in on the optimization tweaks. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google Pixel phones are notorious for having hidden settings that can greatly enhance the user experience. The list includes options for ramping up the display refresh rate, optimizing the battery life, and gestures. I demo them on a Pixel 9a running on Android 15, but newer and older software versions should have similar capabilities. W

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Latest Tech News

Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn't

The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code

The story of how RSS beat Microsoft

EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses

On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar

Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean

The AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI

AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack

Apple teases ‘Get ready to be wowed’ at September 9 event

OpenAI tech to be used to in a full-length animated film

Meta reportedly suppressed research about how dangerous its VR headsets are for kids

How to watch Apple's iPhone 17 September event this week (and what to expect)

40+ Windows keyboard shortcuts that effectively improved my work productivity

OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

Clankers Die on Christmas

How to watch Apple's iPhone 17 event Tuesday (and what to expect)

Apple iPhone 17 event live updates: The biggest rumors on AirPods, Apple Watch Series 11, more

Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia

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Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona brand in 2026

You should clean your AirPods ASAP, especially before you consider an upgrade this week

Every iPhone model compatible with iOS 26 (and which ones don't support the update)

Apple iPhone 17 event live blog: The biggest announcements we're expecting on Tuesday

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Get behind the scenes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 by volunteering

Apple Calendar spam on the rise again, mostly crypto scams

Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

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