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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 04:24:23

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat 2023-08-31 For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. Moving to XMPP - usi

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DOJ Has a Copy of the Epstein Jail Video With the ‘Missing Minute’: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-25 04:00:24

When the U.S. Department of Justice released a nearly 11-hour video in early July that purported to show the last time Jeffrey Epstein was seen alive, people couldn’t help but notice that there was a full minute missing. Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted there was a simple explanation: That’s just how the jail’s antiquated camera systems work. But a new report claims Bondi isn’t telling the truth. The report from CBS News cites a “government source familiar with the investigation” who told th

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EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-26 20:11:08

EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens 51 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter and editor Share Save Getty Images EE is introducing new phone plans next month which it says will restrict the internet for teens - so long as they don't use wi-fi. Its new Sim-only mobile plans will filter the web at different levels depending on the age of the child using it, with three separate tiers of protections. The plans will also have other features suc

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Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 18:34:15

What is Pony?¶ Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language. If you are looking to jump in and get started with Pony right now, you can try it in your browser using the Pony Playground. Keep reading if you are interested in what makes Pony different and why you should consider using it. If you are interested in the early history of Pony and how it came into existence, you’re in luck: “An Early History of Pony”.

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My First Look at T-Mobile's Unique Starlink T-Satellite Service Made Me Head Far From Home

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 00:18:00

Is T-Mobile's new T-Satellite service worth $10 a month to be able to text from almost anywhere outside cellular coverage areas? The Starlink-based satellite service can be a convenience if you're camping or hiking remote areas, but also a communications lifeline for people who don't have regular cellular access or need emergency aid. To test it out, though, I had to find a cellular dead zone. T-Mobile estimates there are 500,000 square miles in the US with no cell coverage, so I left my home i

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Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 17:07:42

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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IBM Keyboard Patents

news.ycombinator.com Admiral Shark'S Keyboards 2025-12-29 09:30:27

JavaScript disabled or not supported It appears you have prevented JavaScript from running in your web browser or are using a web browser that does not support JavaScript. Admiral Shark's Keyboards presently requires JavaScript for quality-of-life features like switching between light/dark mode, navigating via title or image and copying search query links, and is necessary for the keyboard matrix simulators, keyboard property modals, interactable slideshows and image size optimisation. Please c

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The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

news.ycombinator.com Alasdair Armstrong 2025-12-29 03:59:00

Implicit parameters are always integers, and they must appear first before any other parameters in the function type signature. The first argument can then just be omitted when calling the function, like so: Functions may also have implicit parameters, e.g. we can implement a zero extension function that implicitly picks up its result length from the calling context as follows: Sail will also ensure that the output of our function has precisely the length bits('n * 'm) for all possible inputs

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Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 23:40:27

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 18:10:26

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change "The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us." Going Under Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels caused by climate change that mean, essentially, that the low-lying country has no feasible future. As Wired reports, the nation signed an agreement with Australia in 2023 to set up a migrati

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Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 09:13:52

One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers' personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban what they consider predatory surveillance pricing. In a press release, Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The law directly bans companies from using "surveillance-based" price or wage set

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Meta will stop running political ads in the EU

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 18:22:33

Meta will stop allowing political advertising on its platforms in the European Union as of October 2025, blaming the EU’s new "unworkable" transparency rules for what it called a "difficult decision." In a statement released by the company on Friday, Meta said the EU’s incoming Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulations presented it with "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties." As of early October, users on any of Meta’s platforms in the EU will

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Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-12-31 09:24:43

In response to the European Union’s incoming regulation of political advertising, Meta said on Friday that it will stop selling and showing political ads in the EU from October. Calling the legislation’s requirements “unworkable,” the tech giant wrote in a blog post that the law, dubbed Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA), introduces “significant, additional obligations to our processes and systems that create an untenable level of complexity and legal uncertainty for adv

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Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-01 00:22:51

AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend. Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the

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Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 14:39:08

The global payments processing market is dominated by two major players: Visa and Mastercard. These two companies account for 90% of all payment processing outside of China and have a combined market value of approximately $850 billion. How is it possible that, in the era of global competition, such a large market niche is completely dominated by only two players? Let's explore this in-depth and examine the increasing challenges they face in protecting their market positions. Key Insights Domi

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'Sullivan's Crossing' Is Dominating My Netflix Feed. Why Have I Never Heard of It?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 22:00:04

Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 14, we noticed that not one, but two seasons of a TV show called Sullivan's Crossing are sitting among the most-watched titles. The poster for the series features two actors I'm pretty well-acquainted with: Scott Patterson and Chad Michael Murray. They both co-starred in Gilmore Girls, although Murray's stint was just for a few episodes early in the series before he got his real

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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 03:28:31

If you are reading this article, you are most likely using a web browser, and you have some expectations or beliefs about online privacy and security. For example, I do not know what you are reading on other tabs on your web browser, and you would like to keep it that way. But the websites themselves know that you are reading a particular page on their website. They most likely know your IP address and if you are signed in to their website, they also know your identity. This is not unreasonable

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Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 11:51:15

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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A $17 Hotdog and a Humanoid Robot Serving Popcorn: WIRED’s Day at the Tesla Diner

wired.com Jason Parham 2026-01-04 09:00:54

Renuka Veerasingam believes Elon Musk is humanity’s last hope. “I want to go to Mars, and he is going to take us,” she says. “Space is the final frontier. It’s in our DNA to find the final frontier—to keep going until we get to the edge.” Though Veerasingam is 140 million miles from Mars, she is currently on the edge of Santa Monica Boulevard and North Orange Drive, in the heart of Hollywood, for the opening of the new Tesla Diner, modeled in the likeness of the same kind of retro-futuristic sp

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Checklists are hard (but still a good thing)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 05:51:15

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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I'm Unsatisfied with Easing Functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 16:24:28

I'm unsatisfied with easing functions You've probably encountered easing functions before. If you're a creative coder, you've likely heard of them or used them. If you're a user, you've certainly interacted with them. They're everywhere, and they give a little more life to computer generated animations. Taking it easy For the uninitiated: let's say you've got a circle that you want to move from left to right over the course of a second. We can conceptualize this by converting the time into pr

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Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-08 04:13:36

Some of the attacks that targeted organizations using an exploit in Microsoft’s SharePoint server platform over the last few days have been linked to hacking groups affiliated with the Chinese government, according to a new Microsoft security blog. “As of this writing, Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploiting these vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers,” Microsoft said on Tuesday. “In addition, we have obse

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Show HN: My GPU Fan Saga – A DIY ATX Fan Controller

news.ycombinator.com Ayan Shafqat 2026-01-08 12:41:21

Having a problem-solving mindset is incredibly valuable and rewarding, especially when it leads to exciting DIY adventures. My latest experience with a noisy GPU fan turned into just such an opportunity. It guided me through fascinating explorations involving ATX power, MOSFET motor drivers, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), ATTiny85's bit-banged 1-wire bus, and a DS18B20 temperature sensor. While many ready-made solutions exists, this project provided me with invaluable learning and immense satisfa

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Nokia hasn’t made phones for years, but it isn’t finished milking its name yet

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-09 11:12:55

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Nokia has confirmed via Reddit that it’s looking to team up with phone makers for licensing opportunities. The company was answering a question regarding future licensing deals for mobile phones. This also comes as HMD and Nokia’s partnership draws to an end. HMD and Nokia have been winding down their brand licensing partnership in recent years. This deal saw HMD releasing smartphones and feature phones under the Finnish brand’s name. Nokia has now tak

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What happens when housing prices go down?

news.ycombinator.com Charles Marohn 2026-01-11 06:16:42

There’s a theory about housing that has taken hold with a kind of religious fervor: If you want to make housing more affordable, just build more of it. Supply and demand. Simple economics. This narrative is now dominating housing policy discussion across the political spectrum. Deregulate, upzone, speed up approvals, let the market work. And if you build enough homes, the theory goes, prices will come down. But here’s the question almost no one asks: What happens when prices actually start to

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From idea to first check: Raising pre-seed and seed capital with Charles Hudson and Navin Chaddha at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-01-11 09:15:00

More than 10,000 founders, investors, and tech insiders will convene at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29 for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — one of the year’s most anticipated tech conferences. Of the 250+ tech leaders taking the stage, don’t miss this standout panel on the Builders Stage featuring two of the most respected early-stage investors in venture: Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures and Navin Chaddha of Mayfield. Their session dives into one of the toughest moments in any s

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The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

wired.com Charlie Wood 2026-01-11 18:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally interwoven threads of space and time seem to stop short. These mysterious points are known as singularities. Singularities are predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. According to this theory, clumps of matter o

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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

news.ycombinator.com Tomáš Baránek 2026-01-11 12:51:59

Now for my more detailed arguments. Reason 1: I don’t want to become cognitively lazy In a recent study by MIT researchers (Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task) demonstrated using LLMs when writing essays reduces the originality of the resulting work. More notably, when measured using an EEG, LLMs also diminish brain connectivity compared to when participants were allowed to use only their brains or a search engine. People who

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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

wired.com Umair Irfan 2026-01-11 14:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that by waiving permitting regulations and reviews under the California Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality A

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A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

news.ycombinator.com Steve Nadis 2026-01-12 20:19:17

Kunzinger and Sämann wanted to use their new way of estimating curvature to determine whether these singularity theorems would still be valid if they no longer assumed space-time is smooth. Would singularities persist even in rougher, more realistic-looking spaces? It’s important to find out if the smoothness condition can be waived, Sämann said, because doing so would bring the theorems closer to physical reality. After all, he added, “we believe non-smoothness is an inescapable part of the nat

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Latest Tech News

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

DOJ Has a Copy of the Epstein Jail Video With the ‘Missing Minute’: Report

EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens

Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

My First Look at T-Mobile's Unique Starlink T-Satellite Service Made Me Head Far From Home

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

IBM Keyboard Patents

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

Meta will stop running political ads in the EU

Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)

'Sullivan's Crossing' Is Dominating My Netflix Feed. Why Have I Never Heard of It?

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

A $17 Hotdog and a Humanoid Robot Serving Popcorn: WIRED’s Day at the Tesla Diner

Checklists are hard (but still a good thing)

I'm Unsatisfied with Easing Functions

Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks

Show HN: My GPU Fan Saga – A DIY ATX Fan Controller

Nokia hasn’t made phones for years, but it isn’t finished milking its name yet

What happens when housing prices go down?

From idea to first check: Raising pre-seed and seed capital with Charles Hudson and Navin Chaddha at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

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