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Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre

news.ycombinator.com Josh Bressers 2025-11-23 10:32:17

Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist community that actually produces it. The conversation reveals this isn’t a new problem, but a long-standing reality whose consequences for security, stability, and the future of software we are only now beginning to truly confront. This episode is also

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What to do with C++ modules?

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-11-27 08:22:01

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 17:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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The Mortal Kombat II movie is postponed to a spring 2026 release

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 14:25:15

We'll have to wait until May to discover the fate of Earthrealm and Johnny Cage. Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to 2021's reboot of the video game adaptation, will be pushed back from its original October 24 release date to May 15, 2026. According to a post on X from the movie's official account, the "tournament demands a new time and place, worthy of its spectacle." The delay goes against the trailer and promotional images that Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema already put out, but the studios ma

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Code Is Debt

news.ycombinator.com Tornike 2025-11-27 11:58:07

“Tornike, what do you think of AI coding tools?” I like to answer this frequent question by way of an example. An example of two companies. It goes something like this: Imagine two very similar companies. Both companies generate similar revenue and produce a similar software product. The only difference between these companies is that Company A uses 1 million lines of code and Company B uses 100 thousand lines of code. Which company is better off? Clearly, the company with fewer lines of code

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The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome

news.ycombinator.com Debra May Macleod 2025-11-23 18:50:09

Ask twenty different people what led to the fall of Rome, and you’ll get twenty different answers. Experts will give you an array of opinions, depending on their area of specialization or what thesis paper they’re writing. There is no single right answer. Political squabbling, weakened borders, a diluted army, disease, economic crises... some even say it was because of lead in the pipes. The fall of the Roman Empire—why it happened, and when exactly—it’s a huge subject. Yet there were people li

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Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Solutions Engineers to Scale the OSS Security Stack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:00:06

About Infisical Infisical is the #1 open source secret management platform for developers. In other words, we help organizations manage API-keys, DB access tokens, certificates, and other credentials across all parts of their infra! In fact, we process over 100M of such secrets per day. Our customers range from some of the largest public enterprises to fastest-growing startups (e.g., companies like Hugging Face, Delivery Hero). Developers love us and our community is growing every day! Join us

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We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-11-27 14:22:01

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

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Touted As The Tesla-Killer, Lucid Scrambles to Stay On The NASDAQ

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-27 11:26:03

Beleaguered electric vehicle company Lucid Motors (LCID) has implemented a reverse stock split, consolidating shares to meet NASDAQ’s $1 minimum trading price and prevent delisting. As of Friday, Lucid’s share price was down over 96% from its all-time high of $64.86, reached in February 2021. While this move may protect the company from being removed from the exchange for now, it does little to address the underlying issues plaguing the struggling electric vehicle maker. Founded in 2014 by fo

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J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-27 14:00:34

The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and promote ads with seemingly fake models. The images, which were published to Instagram earlier this month, don't raise immediate alarm bells. Presumed human men are pictured embodying J. Crew's vintage Americana-prep aesthetic: vibing on boats, cycling past storefronts in muted colors, drawing and painting in their paint-splattered studio, and so on. But as style b

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Shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:34:13

shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer Introduction This is a write-up of the “behavioral analysis” of shared_ptr<T> reference count in GNU’s libstdc++. This smart pointer is used to share references to the same underlaying pointer. The mechanism beneath works by tracking the amount of references through a reference count so the pointer gets freed only after the last reference is destructed. It is usually used in multi-threaded programs (in conjunction with oth

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Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-27 10:12:18

Verizon said thousands of people who were affected nationwide by a massive outage now have service back. If your Verizon-backed phone was out most of yesterday or even still down today, you weren’t alone. The company said the blackout was caused by a “software issue” but did not respond to a request to elaborate on what exactly that meant. Verizon officials assured customers that their engineers were actively engaged in diagnosing and resolving the service disruption. By early evening, the com

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Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-27 12:05:36

The stock of Google’s parent company ended Friday’s trading session relatively unchanged, as investors digested news of a major data leak and broader market developments. Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)’s shares closed at $213.53, up slightly from the day’s prior end price, despite Google‘s global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their information following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. The company immediately issued a network-wide alert telling use

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Best Smart Locks of 2025: Hold the Door

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 11:27:00

Smart locks are a highly visible part of your home that you'll use just about every day, so it's important to find a reliable pick that meshes well with your smart home. Here are the factors you should be thinking about as you shop. A retrofit smart lock like the August lock will replace the interior of your current lock but not the exterior keyhole or the deadbolt. CNET Full deadbolt or retrofit Most smart locks will replace your existing lock, including the interior thumbturn, the exterior

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The M4 Mac Mini Offers the Best Value I've Seen From an Apple Product, and It's $54 Off for Labor Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 14:18:00

Labor Day deal: With concerns over tariffs and price increases, Labor Day offers greater discounts on a ton of items, including top tech like the Apple M4 Mac Mini. Right now you can pick one up for$545 at Amazon. This powerful computer already offers great value, so saving $54 is a bonus. But if you were planning on picking one up, we can't promise this deal will last beyond Labor Day, so we suggest buying sooner rather than later. I bought the M4 Mac Mini after reading CNET laptop expert Josh

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These Hi-Fi Speakers Are Made out of Rocket Fuel Tanks

wired.com Kenji Takeda 2025-11-27 11:00:00

Momentum for space development is growing on a global scale. The rocket company SpaceX, led by CEO Elon Musk, has been carrying out numerous missions since putting its partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket into service. The company now boasts the highest launch frequency in the world, and this has helped boost the number of rocket launches worldwide to 254 last year. This is a dramatic increase of more than 20 percent compared to the previous year. In Japan, Honda has begun developing a reusable

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Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-11-27 14:17:49

Meta is changing some of the rules governing its chatbots two weeks after a Reuters investigation revealed disturbing ways in which they could, potentially, interact with minors. Now the company has told TechCrunch that its chatbots are being trained not to engage in conversations with minors around self-harm, suicide, or disordered eating, and to avoid inappropriate romantic banter. These changes are interim measures, however, put in place while the company works on new permanent guidelines. T

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The Verge’s favorite gifts for book lovers

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-11-27 15:00:20

PopSocket grips might be closely associated with smartphones, but they work surprisingly well with most e-readers. That’s because they let you prop up or securely hold any big-screen device with just one hand, making them a handy tool for those looking for a little more convenience. The fact that they come in an array of fun styles is just a plus.

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TechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-11-27 16:05:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Wow, y’all aren’t exactly bullish on EV sales in the U.S. once the federal tax credit expires. For those wondering what I am referring to: I included a poll in the last edition of TechCrunch Mobility. Yup, only email subscribers get to participate in polls. The question was: “What’s your prediction for E

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Acer just announced a Google TV box with all the ports you want (Update)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 09:50:26

Acer TL;DR Acer has announced the Acer 4K UHD Google TV Box. The gadget includes USB-A connectivity, an Ethernet port, a microSD card slot, and an S/PDIF Optical Audio port. The new streaming box has only launched in South Africa for now and costs ~$80. Update: August 31, 2025 (1:30 AM ET): Acer Africa has now issued corrections to its original press release, and its Google TV box is a little less impressive than it originally claimed. The company told Android Authority that the Acer 4K UHD

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Git Diagramming "The Weave"

news.ycombinator.com Dave Rupert 2025-11-27 09:59:57

We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has “the best words”: I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words. The man knows words. Says so right there. While some might view his non-sequitur ramblings as the nascent stages of dementia or an unfiltered ADHD brain launching into successive short (at times racist) bullet-point diatribes based on the last word or phrase he said like a cursed game of w

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‘Injustice 3’ is Coming—What Will DC Do With It?

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-27 05:00:02

Nearly 10 years ago, NetherRealm released Injustice 2, the second game in its DC superhero fighting series. (And it’s the third superhero fighting game, beginning with 2008’s Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.) After continuing and rebooting the story of Mortal Kombat, it seems NetherRealm is going back to superheroic punch-ups, as Green Lantern and Aquaman voice actor Phil LaMaar reportedly told a fan at a recent convention a third game is happening. This will come as little surprise to anyone pay

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xAI sues an ex-employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets about Grok

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 06:00:29

xAI doesn't want its secret recipe for Grok to get out, and it's filing a lawsuit to make sure of that. In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, xAI claimed that former employee Xuechen Li stole the company's confidential info and trade secrets before joining the team at OpenAI. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company also alleged that Li copied documents from an xAI company laptop to at least one of his personal devices. According to the suit, Li stole "cutting-edge AI technologies with featu

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The space race is transforming Southern California's economy – again

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-11-27 09:32:52

In a giant Long Beach warehouse near where Boeing used to build the C-17 cargo jet, Vast is fabricating what could be the first commercial space station to circle Earth. Just up the road in El Segundo, Varda Space Industries has grown molecular crystals in microgravity with few impurities for pharmaceuticals that one day could be injected in cancer patients. And a little south in Seal Beach, a scrappy company called AstroForge aims to land a satellite on an asteroid just a football field wide

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Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

news.ycombinator.com Al Newkirk 2025-11-23 09:52:42

Most organizations enforce one-way accountability. The CBC framework flips that, making commitments mutual, visible, and enforceable. In CBC, ambiguity is a leadership failure, and credibility comes from delivering results — not titles. When things go wrong, it’s easy to point down the org chart, much harder to look up. In most organizations, accountability flows one way. Teams are held to deadlines, deliverables, and performance metrics, while leaders enjoy a looser standard — insulated by hi

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University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 06:20:32

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Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-27 05:35:44

You’ve seen them before. McDonald’s brings back the McRib. Disney rolls out a limited time only specialty menu. Starbucks uses social media codes to “unlock” new drinks and combinations. And of course, there was Burger King’s Whopperito. Now, Taco Bell is once again getting back into the game, saying Friday that it will bring back a special “Y2K” menu with nostalgia-based items from the ’60s to the ’90s. That includes the Cool Ranch Doritos locos tacos, the 7-layer burrito, tostada, meximelt, a

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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-11-27 11:54:13

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM

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Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-27 11:40:49

Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two customers, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On Wednesday, the chipmaker reported record revenue of $46.7 billion during the quarter that ended on July 27 — a 56% year-over-year increase largely driven by the AI data center boom. However, subsequent reporting highlighted how much of that growth seems to be coming from just a handful of customers. Specifically, Nvidia said that a single customer

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Google’s new Passwords app just made it easier for me to ditch Chrome

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 06:00:23

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been on a mission to de-Google my life as much as possible in an attempt to control how much information a single company has about me. While there are some essential Google services I will never part with, switching my browser from Chrome has been a priority. I slowly started doing this by trying out some of the best Chrome alternatives, finally settling on Brave. But I kept encountering hurdles as I tried to migrate everything to a new browser. Now that G

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Latest Tech News

Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre

What to do with C++ modules?

What Is Complexity in Chess?

The Mortal Kombat II movie is postponed to a spring 2026 release

Code Is Debt

The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Solutions Engineers to Scale the OSS Security Stack

We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules

Touted As The Tesla-Killer, Lucid Scrambles to Stay On The NASDAQ

J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

Shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019)

Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage

Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

Best Smart Locks of 2025: Hold the Door

The M4 Mac Mini Offers the Best Value I've Seen From an Apple Product, and It's $54 Off for Labor Day

These Hi-Fi Speakers Are Made out of Rocket Fuel Tanks

Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots

The Verge’s favorite gifts for book lovers

TechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000

Acer just announced a Google TV box with all the ports you want (Update)

Git Diagramming "The Weave"

‘Injustice 3’ is Coming—What Will DC Do With It?

xAI sues an ex-employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets about Grok

The space race is transforming Southern California's economy – again

Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

Google’s new Passwords app just made it easier for me to ditch Chrome

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