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What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

news.ycombinator.com Emil Rosendahl 2025-12-30 04:27:17

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

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Archaeologists Unearth 6-Foot-Tall Bronze Age Warrior Clutching a Spear

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-30 10:10:52

In a massive burial mound in the plains of western Azerbaijan, archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient, towering warrior still clutching a four-pronged spearhead in his hand. The man’s skeleton measures over six feet six inches (two meters) in height and dates back to the Middle Bronze Age, approximately 3,800 years ago. Scientists believe he may have been a prominent military leader, due to the way in which he was laid to rest. The discovery offers a glimpse into the social and rel

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Xfinity vs. Verizon Fios: Which Provider Offers the Best Internet for Your Home?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 10:00:00

Is Verizon Fios or Xfinity better? Verizon Fios and Xfinity are some of the top providers nationwide, and while both offer competitive internet services and price guarantee of up to five years, CNET picks Verizon Fios as the better provider overall --largely due to its 100% fiber network, straightforward pricing and promotional offers. The two providers advertise comparable download speeds, but Verizon Fios can deliver symmetrical (or close) upload speeds and superior reliability over a fiber-

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses 'painful' layoffs, discusses ambitious AI plans in company memo

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-27 08:03:00

What just happened? Microsoft is facing one of the most turbulent phases in its history, balancing massive investments in artificial intelligence and infrastructure with significant job cuts, creating a climate of uncertainty within the company. On Thursday morning, CEO Satya Nadella addressed employees in a memo that directly acknowledged the contradictions they are experiencing. "I want to acknowledge the uncertainty and seeming incongruence of the times we're in. By every objective measure,

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This new AIO cooler packs more displays than your entire setup

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-27 10:04:00

Because, Why Not: There has been a growing trend among many PC builders recently: in-case displays. Not only have these screens been getting bigger and more advanced, but some people find that one just isn't enough. That's where Chinese firm Jonsbo comes in. The company's new AIO cooler series packs a bewildering four customizable LCDs. Jonsbo's TF3-360SC series initially looks like a typical AIO cooler with a 3.5-inch 640 x 480 screen built into the pump block – a design we've seen many times

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Layoffs surge in tech: More than 100,000 jobs cut in 2025 so far

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-27 16:16:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Big quote: As Frank Herbert writes in Dune, "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." We've now entered the second half of the year, and tech-related layoffs have already skyrocketed past the 100,000 mark. The Bridge Chronicle has compiled a list of the most outstanding mass layoffs a

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I loved the Galaxy Z Flip 7’s new cover screen until the software ruined it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 18:00:19

I love flip phone foldables. More specifically, I love flip phones with big cover screens. Being able to comfortably reply to texts, check notifications, and use apps on a large, high-quality cover screen is one of my favorite things about the flip phone form factor — and it’s why I was so excited to get my hands on the Galaxy Z Flip 7. For the last couple of years, Samsung’s cover screen tech has paled in comparison to its competitors, namely Motorola in the US. For all Samsung has gotten righ

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I was a Niagara Launcher doubter until I built my ultimate productivity home screen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 20:30:33

Andy Walker / Android Authority There was a time when Nova Launcher was the only home screen app I’d consider using on my Android phones. It was the pinnacle of the genre, offering a dizzying array of customization options and a wealth of search features. However, as my need for a launcher that enhances focus and productivity grew, Nova fell off my radar. I began exploring the many alternatives available. My current launcher choice is Kvaesitso, thanks to its unique vertically biased design an

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Claude Code Router

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:19:23

Claude Code Router 中文版 A powerful tool to route Claude Code requests to different models and customize any request. ✨ Features Model Routing : Route requests to different models based on your needs (e.g., background tasks, thinking, long context). : Route requests to different models based on your needs (e.g., background tasks, thinking, long context). Multi-Provider Support : Supports various model providers like OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, Gemini, Volcengine, and SiliconFlow. : Support

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The Meeting Culture

news.ycombinator.com Emil Rosendahl 2025-12-30 22:27:17

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

Topics: meeting meetings people things time

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NASA may lose close to 4,000 employees after latest deferred resignation round

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 15:44:52

The second round of deferred resignations for NASA staff closed on Friday, and the agency says roughly 3,000 employees applied to leave, according to Bloomberg . The Trump administration first offered the deferred resignation program as a buyout to government workers in January as it gutted the federal workforce under the guidance of DOGE — then led by Elon Musk — asking employees to resign while still receiving benefits and pay for a period of time. In the earlier round, 870 NASA employees repo

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Bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 17:24:44

bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser July 24, 2025 The most interesting thing I wanna share is my browser switch. I’ve always been using Arc. As that is done, I made the switch to Zen. Pretty buggy but ok. The biggest problem I had was the power draw. As I’m preparing a more nomadic lifestyle, I really need to care for my battery. The power draw is really just way too high. By accident, I stumbled upon Orion. I’ve had it in the back of my head but for whatever reason never even looked at

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‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cast and Creators Lift the Lid on Their New Series

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-30 15:00:25

Thanks to San Diego Comic-Con, we know quite a bit more about Star Trek‘s next new series, Starfleet Academy. We got a teaser trailer and character details—and the show’s cast and creators took to the Hall H stage to share even more hints about what’s to come. Though Paul Giamatti—who portrays the show’s “half-Klingon, half-Tellerite” villain, a blend clarified by executive producer and co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman—was not in attendance, Holly Hunter, who plays Academy chancellor Captain Nahla A

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Computing’s Top 30: John Werner

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-30 12:00:44

What drives a master inventor? If it’s IBM’s John Werner, it’s both voracious curiosity and a passion for solving real-world problems. These dual drives have resulted in more than 270 patents filed and 139 issued—and in Werner’s being named an IBM Master Inventor in 2018. Today, Werner is a Senior Electromagnetic Compatibility and Product Safety Designer Engineer at IBM, where he specializes in compliance testing and thrives in what he calls the company’s “ecosystem of brilliant minds.” He is

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Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:30:42

Braving the dance floor in broad daylight — or even just when the overhead lights are on — frequently does not end well. Your clumsy moves, weird facial expressions, or catastrophic blunders will likely be captured by someone with their phone out, who will then quickly deliver the footage to potentially millions of eyeballs online. On that note, we now report that a robot has eaten dirt after trying to show off some of some dashing choreography — and seemingly had its soul sucked out of its cor

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9 signs its time to upgrade to a new phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:00:14

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority The question “Should I buy a new phone?” holds more weight than we imagine. For most of us, phones are our trusted associates, and parting with them isn’t easy. For others, the upgrade to a new phone may be too insignificant to warrant the expense. Regardless of the emotional value your phone holds, getting a new one every few years can be a cathartic experience. Besides addressing some of the issues of your older phone, a new Android phone will bring a variety

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Constrained languages are easier to optimize

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:21:13

jyn, what the fuck are you talking about a recurring problem in modern “low-level” languages is that they are hard to optimize. they do not reflect the hardware, they require doing complex alias analysis, and they constantly allocate and deallocate memory. they looked at the structure/expressiveness tradeoff and consistently chose expressiveness. what does a faster language look like consider this paper on stream fusion in Haskell. this takes a series of nested loops, each of which logically

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4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:17:03

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday. The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce, and will reduce the agency from 18,000 to 14,000 employees, NASA spokesperson Cheryl Warner said in a statement shared with NPR. The total number includes the agency's loss of 500 other workers due to normal attrition, she said. During a second round of the program, which closed at midni

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Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

news.ycombinator.com Chris Simms 2025-12-25 16:13:52

Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995, over 60 years after their eradication from the national park. Yellowstone's wolves are helping a new generation of young aspen trees to grow tall and join the forest canopy — the first new generation of such trees in Yellowstone's northern range in 80 years. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) had disappeared from Yellowstone National Park by 1930 following extensive habitat loss, human hunting and government eradication programs. Without these top predat

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I Put 3 Popular Smart Rings to the Test. This One Improved My Wellness Habits the Most

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 11:00:00

The Oura ring was my favorite smart ring because its app was easy to understand and I liked some of the newer features from its latest software update. At the steep price of $299, this smart ring is made up of aerospace-grade titanium – one of the strongest materials on earth -- according to the site. Before I received my Oura ring, I was sent a ring sizer to figure out my ring size. Other smart rings did the same since sizing varies per brand. Once I received the Oura ring, I downloaded the Ou

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EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-30 09:02:36

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault' EE says it carried out further work overnight to fix a technical problem which left some customers unable to make or receive calls. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of people who use the mobile provider have told the BBC they have experienced service issues. It comes after thousands were left unable to make or receive calls earlier this week due to a technical issue which impacted both mobile and landline phones. On Saturday, a spokesperson f

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pics2PDF’ turns your best photos into a quick document, and more

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-30 09:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. As the name suggests, Pics2PDF lets you select a bunch of photos from your photos library, and convert it into a PDF. This can be great if you want to quickly print out photos from your photos library in one swift process, or if you’re otherwise trying to share multiple photos at once in a more formal ma

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This humanoid robot can do cartwheels, handstands and roundhouse kicks at less than $6,000

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:45:00

For less than the price of a fully decked-out MacBook Pro, you can buy Unitree's latest humanoid robot called the R1. You only have to shell out $5,900 for a robot that weighs around 55 lbs, stands about four feet tall, and is built with a Large Multimodal Model to handle complex tasks. If you're wondering what the R1 will be used for, your guess is as good as ours. Unitree said its robot is "fully customizable" and demoed its capabilities in a video showing off cartwheels, handstands, boxing,

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Purple Earth hypothesis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 00:43:38

Astrobiological hypothesis regarding early photosynthetic organisms Artist's impression of Earth in the early Archean with a purplish hydrosphere and coastal regions Purple culture of Haloarchaea (left) and isolated purple and red membrane components (right) The Purple Earth Hypothesis (PEH) is an astrobiological hypothesis, first proposed by molecular biologist Shiladitya DasSarma in 2007,[1] that the earliest photosynthetic life forms of Early Earth were based on the simpler molecule retina

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The ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Trailer Welcomes You Back to School

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-30 10:48:41

Star Trek faces an uncertain future at the moment, as shows that helped define its streaming renaissance end one by one, and little is known about what lies on the horizon (especially thanks to current events in our own world). So it’s perhaps fitting, then, that the one new show we do know is coming is all about welcoming a new generation back to Star Trek‘s fundamental ideals after a similar period of uncertainty: Starfleet Academy. To close out today’s packed Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-

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These 8 features on my Pixel secretly boost my daily productivity

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 06:00:13

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Android is a treasure trove of features — Pixels even more so. The deeper you dig, the more you find. Our own Mishaal Rahman can probably vouch for that, considering he manages to unearth more features than Google even advertises. And that says a lot about a platform most of us rely on daily, on our primary devices, our phones. After spending years immersed in the bright and colorful world of Android, I’ve naturally developed a few personal favorites; features t

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5G promised a revolution, but here’s what we actually got

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:00:07

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Depending on where you live, you’ve likely had 5G in your pocket for at least a couple of years — or possibly close to half a decade. In any case, the wireless tech has certainly been around long enough to have had time to accomplish the numerous lofty promises that CEOs piped up to upsell us, which included everything from rejuvenating retail to traffic lights pushing updates to your car. While some of those promises might have come to pass, quite a lot of th

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No, Reed Richards Won’t Lead the Avengers in ‘Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-30 08:45:34

We may not know much about Avengers: Doomsday right now, but we’ve known for months the Fantastic Four will be a core part of it. Now, we know something else about it: Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards isn’t taking of the whichever Avengers team he winds up meeting. Earlier in July, Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman described Reed to Variety as a man who “goes from being a nerdy scientist to the husband and father who’d do anything to protect his family, to the guy who’s leading the

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Does Rocket Money Work? I’m Convinced After Saving $400 in Subscription Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 05:00:00

You could be losing money to subscriptions you don't even use. This popular budgeting app can help you cut costs. Getty Images/Rocket Money/Amy Kim/CNET No one likes losing money, yet many of us are allowing dollars to drain from our bank accounts without realizing it. The average US consumer spends around $200 a year on subscriptions they don't even use, according to a recent CNET study. It's easy to see why. You sign up for a free trial or service and forget about it, but the subscription pr

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New Speed Test Results Reveal the Fastest Internet Service Provider in the US

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 09:00:00

There's been a lot of talk about internet speed lately. From various company taglines -- "Don't take slow for an answer" -- to the latest news about Japan's internet data transmission record, it's all about the speed. This week, Ookla released its Speedtest Connectivity Report for the first six months of 2025, and AT&T Fiber topped the list as the country's fastest fixed internet service provider. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) What does that mean? Does it tell

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Latest Tech News

What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

Archaeologists Unearth 6-Foot-Tall Bronze Age Warrior Clutching a Spear

Xfinity vs. Verizon Fios: Which Provider Offers the Best Internet for Your Home?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses 'painful' layoffs, discusses ambitious AI plans in company memo

This new AIO cooler packs more displays than your entire setup

Layoffs surge in tech: More than 100,000 jobs cut in 2025 so far

I loved the Galaxy Z Flip 7’s new cover screen until the software ruined it

I was a Niagara Launcher doubter until I built my ultimate productivity home screen

Claude Code Router

The Meeting Culture

NASA may lose close to 4,000 employees after latest deferred resignation round

Bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cast and Creators Lift the Lid on Their New Series

Computing’s Top 30: John Werner

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

9 signs its time to upgrade to a new phone

Constrained languages are easier to optimize

4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

I Put 3 Popular Smart Rings to the Test. This One Improved My Wellness Habits the Most

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault'

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pics2PDF’ turns your best photos into a quick document, and more

This humanoid robot can do cartwheels, handstands and roundhouse kicks at less than $6,000

Purple Earth hypothesis

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These 8 features on my Pixel secretly boost my daily productivity

5G promised a revolution, but here’s what we actually got

No, Reed Richards Won’t Lead the Avengers in ‘Doomsday’

Does Rocket Money Work? I’m Convinced After Saving $400 in Subscription Costs

New Speed Test Results Reveal the Fastest Internet Service Provider in the US

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