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Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 21:55:30

Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository npm i -g backlog.md or bun add -g backlog.md Backlog.md turns any folder with a Git repo into a self‑contained project board powered by plain Markdown files and a zero‑config CLI. Features 📝 Markdown-native tasks -- manage every issue as a plain .md file 🔒 100 % private & offline -- backlog lives entirely inside your repo 📊 Instant terminal Kanban -- backlog board paints a live board in your shell 🌐 Modern web interf

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Elon Musk's proposed America Party is already attracting the attention of the ultra-rich

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-09 00:00:30

Just a day after former White House advisor Elon Musk claimed on X that he's creating a new political party in the US, some deep-pocketed figures have offered support and potential interest. Replying to an X post that said the America Party would offer "independence from the two-party system," billionaire Mark Cuban and investment banker Anthony Scaramucci both replied to Musk, providing some possible next steps. After celebrating the America Party announcement post with emojis, Cuban said that

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Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 03:55:30

Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository npm i -g backlog.md or bun add -g backlog.md Backlog.md turns any folder with a Git repo into a self‑contained project board powered by plain Markdown files and a zero‑config CLI. Features 📝 Markdown-native tasks -- manage every issue as a plain .md file 🔒 100 % private & offline -- backlog lives entirely inside your repo 📊 Instant terminal Kanban -- backlog board paints a live board in your shell 🌐 Modern web interf

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Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 23:46:01

For the past 7+ years, I've been conducting a programming interview that has been a true personal favorite of mine. It was passed down to me from good friends (Jeremy Kaplan and Carl Sverre, and it was the latter whom I believe invented it). This interview has probably been given by us between 500-1000 times across different companies, and upon googling for "async queue interview", I see tons of results. So, it's probably fine for me to blog about it. My main goal with this blog post is to disc

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This 1800W Bluetti Power Station with 11 Outlets Is Dirt Cheap, Amazon Sells It at a Loss for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-09 02:19:45

Prime Day began early this weekend on Amazon, and there are already tons of Prime deals out to Prime members only. If you are not a Prime member, you can easily sign up for the 30-day free trial so that you can access these discounts. One of the best deals available right now is the Bluetti 1800W portable power station (AC180P) which is coming down to an all-time low: For just $499, down from $899 (44% off), this is the best value for money you’ll find if you consider the features packed into t

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Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus Is 40% Off, Now at a New All-Time Low Price for Prime Members

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-09 05:14:39

Prime Day is a unique even, and it offers the biggest savings you’ll find on Amazon all year—beating even Black Friday. Just a few days ago, the buzz was all about Amazon dropping the price of its Fire TV Soundbar Plus to $174 which was already a record low. Now, as Prime Day kicks off, the price has dropped even further to $149, a level never seen before. This is a Prime Deal so it’s only available to Prime members. If you’re not a member yet, you can join the free 30-day trial and receive this

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How to get started with Old English poetry

news.ycombinator.com Colin Gorrie 2026-02-06 23:56:15

The Shipwreck (1805), Joseph Mallord William Turner Most people who know anything at all about Old English poetry will be aware of the existence of Beowulf. Perhaps they will even have read it. But far fewer will be aware of the 90% of Old English poetry that is not Beowulf. It’s a shame, because the back catalogue of Old English poetry — the deep cuts — are well worth reading. And, in general, these poems are much easier (and shorter) to read than Beowulf. The entire corpus of surviving poet

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This iRobot Vacuum and Mop with AutoWash Dock Is 50% Off, Amazon Clears Out Stock at a Loss

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-09 04:23:21

iRobot and its Roomba line have been the benchmark for robot vacuums. When it comes to the top of home cleaning luxury, the Roomba Plus 405 combo robot vacuum and mop (including a a cleaning dock) is a real reference point. This product has only just been released and, up until now, has never been discounted. For (early) Prime Day, Amazon has an amazing 50% discount and brings the price down to $399 from its usual price of $799. Looks like Amazon is clearing out stock with no margin left, make

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Watch TikTok Sensations Savannah Bananas Free on Your Roku Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-08 22:00:05

There's a chance your TikTok feed has slipped in a few clips of the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team whose antics and gameplay style may remind you of the Harlem Globetrotters. In a league of their own, -- they play Banana Ball and no longer belong to other leagues -- the team can be seen dancing, singing and throwing curveballs on social media and your TV screen. This weekend, you can stream a game for free on the Roku Channel. If coordinated choreography for songs like the Cupid

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A Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to success

news.ycombinator.com Digital Writer 2026-02-08 23:56:56

A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn away from. A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown — which he later said he had no involvement with — creating a media frenzy that propelled the AI-assisted "band" to a million monthly listeners on Spotify. He spoke with CBC News over the phone Friday on condition that his r

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Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

news.ycombinator.com Associated Press 2026-02-09 00:11:48

By MICHAEL CASEY GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition. A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) document was a handwritten declaration titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,” signed by 116 New England ministers in Boston and adopted March 2, 1847. Until its discovery in May at the archives in Gr

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Injection Rejection (2006)

news.ycombinator.com Alex Papadimoulis 2026-02-09 02:07:39

Matthias Winkelmann's company decided to go the ole' outsourcing route and hand off all development work for a fixed-bid project to a certain overseas company. As it turned out, the hourly rate for certain overseas programmers were less than half that of the in-house folks, so management did the math and figured they could profit that much more. The in-house programmers were told to spend "only a little bit of time" on the project -- no technical advice, no coding assistance, and no even lookin

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Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 18:42:19

The last few pgstream releases have focused on optimizing snapshot performance, specifically for PostgreSQL targets. In this blog post, we’ll walk through the key improvements we made, share the lessons we learnt, and explain how they led to significant performance gains. But first, some context! What is pgstream? pgstream is an open source CDC(Change Data Capture) tool and library that offers Postgres replication support with DDL changes. Some of its key features include: Replication of DDL

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Why government red tape is draining your phone’s battery potential

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-08 22:00:15

Robert Triggs / Android Authority You’re not alone if you’re pining for longer battery life from your latest smartphone. Despite emerging technologies like silicon-carbon cells, we’ve seemingly hit a ceiling just above the 5,000 mAh mark — at least for phones sold in the US and Europe. Meanwhile, glance over at models in China or India, and you’ll spot far larger batteries in otherwise identical handsets. For example, the new Nothing Phone 3 packs a 5,150mAh battery globally, but bumps that up

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The Moat of Low Status

news.ycombinator.com Cate Hall 2026-02-05 09:08:34

This post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book (and builds on a couple paragraphs in my original post on agency). I’ll be running a few excerpts here in the next couple months, in hopes of getting feedback on the kinds of content people are excited to see in the book (which is a signal about what to expand or scale back). Let me know what you think! Fear of being temporarily low in social status stops human beings from living richer lives to an unbelievable degree. It happens on the micro sc

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Everything You Can Do in the Photoshop Mobile App

wired.com David Nield 2026-02-08 18:30:00

You know your software is a success when its name becomes a verb: You'll now commonly hear about images being photoshopped, even if the editing wasn't done with the Adobe image editor. Adobe might not like it, but the usage shows how dominant its flagship product has become. On mobile though, Photoshop hasn't achieved the same kind of ubiquity or brand recognition. We've had official Photoshop apps of various types down the years, but none of them have really translated the power and feature se

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I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with Samsung's flagship soundbar, and it's pretty dang close

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2026-02-08 22:00:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung HW-Q990F home entertainment system is available for $2,000, including a soundbar, external subwoofer, and two rear speakers. The Q990F is packed with software features, plenty of audio modes, and delivers big, room-filling sound. There aren't many substantial upgrades over last year's model, leaving no urgency to upgrade. $1,597.99 at Amazon $1,599.99 at Samsung $1,597.99 at Walmart more buying choices For a limited time, Samsung is selling the HW-Q990F sound

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My favorite AirTag wallet alternative is tough and super thin - and it's on sale with an exclusive code

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-08 22:35:54

ZDNET's key takeaways KeySmart's SmartCard is available on Amazon for $40 (3-pack for $90). It's super thin, has a wireless rechargeable battery, and is IPX7-rated. It needs to be recharged every 5 months or so. View now at Amazon Save 20% on the KeySmart SmartCard when you check out with the ZDNET exclusive promo code 'KSPRIME20' at checkout. Apple AirTags have changed my life, saving me countless hours looking for keys and other items that I absent-mindedly misplaced. But AirTags have a f

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Prime Day deal: Pick up this Roomba combo robot vacuum and mop while it's nearly 50 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-10 09:00:37

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Prime Day 2025 begins soon on July 8, but members can already save on a bunch of tech available on Amazon's site. One such early deal is on the Roomba Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo, which is down to $140 for Prime members right now. That's nearly half off its usual price and a far cry fro

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Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-10 16:45:46

AI Kirk Despite being stumped by simple children's games and uncontrollably hallucinating, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT to "operate as an autonomous agent controlling a pursuit spacecraft." To their amazement, as detailed in a paper s

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Early look at EU energy labels suggest no IP rating upgrade for Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-10 18:48:02

Evan Blass TL;DR Leaked EU energy labels have revealed key specs for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7, and Flip 7 FE. The labels highlight each device’s IP rating, battery capacity, and battery endurance. The devices’ repairability and free-fall reliability ratings are also included. Samsung is having a tough time keeping a lid on its upcoming foldables. In just the past few days, a flood of leaks has revealed key details about the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7, and Flip 7 FE, from their design to thei

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AI claims and a hoax spokesman: Viral band confuses the world of music

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-10 05:07:54

AI claims and a hoax spokesman: Viral band confuses the world of music Critics say even the image of the band is AI-generated A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago - without anyone knowing for sure what it is. The band has a verified page on the music streaming platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners. However, none of the four named musicians in the band have given any interviews or ap

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How to Choose the Right Soundbar (2025): Size, Price, Surround Sound, and Subwoofers

wired.com Parker Hall 2026-02-10 23:03:00

if you've just bought a fancy new TV, you may be surprised to find it sounds just as bad as your old one (or worse). Even the best TVs we've tested need a hand to provide sound that keeps up with their fantastic displays. But it can be tough knowing where to start when it comes to upgrading your TV audio. Never fear, intrepid buyer: The easiest and most affordable solution is to just get a soundbar. Modern soundbars come in all shapes, sizes, and prices. Here, we've made a checklist of sorts to

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The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-02-11 09:10:00

Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap has opened largely because India has chronically underinvested in R&D, institutions, and invention. Meanwhile, since no one native language is spoken by the majority of the population, training language models is far more complicated than it is elsewhere. So when the open-source foundation model DeepSeek-R1 suddenly outperformed many global peers, it struck a

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Pixel Watch 4 leak reveals every color and band option that is coming this year

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-11 16:50:21

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak suggests the Pixel Watch 4 will be coming with five color options spread across the 41mm and 45mm watch sizes. A wide range of band materials and colors are also said to be coming, including two-tone leather, crafted leather, active, metal mesh, performance loop, woven, and more. The Pixel Watch 4 is expected to come with a thicker casing, slimmer bezels, and a new wireless charging mechanism without magnetic pogo pins. As we approach the n

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Batteries and Buildings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 16:49:53

Batteries and Buildings [2025-07-01] In categorizing software, a new classification that slides under people's noses is batteries vs no-batteries. TL;DR. software is said to be battery included if it works out of the box and it has all the necessary materials to build your software without external packaging While the latter means you add your own packages. burn the batteries# First principles are the most important part of learning anything. For instance, Express is moderately battery-incl

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Billionaire Mark Cuban Says AI Gives Workers ‘Superpowers,’ but Crypto Is ‘Not Even Close’ to Its iPhone Moment

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-11 18:00:27

Mark Cuban has always been tech’s most pragmatic and outspoken billionaire. As an early internet entrepreneur, a prolific investor on Shark Tank, and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s seen multiple hype cycles come and go. He was an early advocate for crypto’s potential but has remained a sharp critic of its excesses. Now, as the twin forces of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency dominate the conversation, we asked Cuban to weigh in. In this exclusive Q&A, he explains why he thinks

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Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-02-11 20:30:46

The new Fairphone 6 is smaller and more modular than older models in the series, but it’s just as repairable. The phone picked up a perfect score in iFixit’s teardown test, despite no longer offering tool-free battery replacements. It helps that the only tool you do need — throughout the phone — is a T5 Torx screwdriver, and only seven screws sit between you and a battery swap. Fairphone itself has shown you can get from shutdown to reboot with a new cell in just two minutes, so it’s still a si

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Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-11 23:07:54

Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago - without anyone knowing for sure what it is. The band has a verified page on the music streaming platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners. However, none of the four named musicians in the band have given any interviews or appear to have individual social media accounts, and there are no r

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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-02-11 23:42:39

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company's home state of Washington. Nearly a dozen game design workers in the state were part of the layoffs, along with three audio designers, two mechanical engineers, one optical engineer and one lab technician, according to a documen

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Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

Elon Musk's proposed America Party is already attracting the attention of the ultra-rich

Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)

Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

This 1800W Bluetti Power Station with 11 Outlets Is Dirt Cheap, Amazon Sells It at a Loss for Prime Day

Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus Is 40% Off, Now at a New All-Time Low Price for Prime Members

How to get started with Old English poetry

This iRobot Vacuum and Mop with AutoWash Dock Is 50% Off, Amazon Clears Out Stock at a Loss

Watch TikTok Sensations Savannah Bananas Free on Your Roku Screen

A Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to success

Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

Injection Rejection (2006)

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

Why government red tape is draining your phone’s battery potential

The Moat of Low Status

Everything You Can Do in the Photoshop Mobile App

I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with Samsung's flagship soundbar, and it's pretty dang close

My favorite AirTag wallet alternative is tough and super thin - and it's on sale with an exclusive code

Prime Day deal: Pick up this Roomba combo robot vacuum and mop while it's nearly 50 percent off

Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

Early look at EU energy labels suggest no IP rating upgrade for Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7

AI claims and a hoax spokesman: Viral band confuses the world of music

How to Choose the Right Soundbar (2025): Size, Price, Surround Sound, and Subwoofers

The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

Pixel Watch 4 leak reveals every color and band option that is coming this year

Batteries and Buildings

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says AI Gives Workers ‘Superpowers,’ but Crypto Is ‘Not Even Close’ to Its iPhone Moment

Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability

Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes

Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

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