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Price of Switch 2 Might Increase Soon Because of Tariffs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 15:19:25

It's been more than a month since Switch 2 came out. As Nintendo's most expensive console, at $450, it has yet to see a price jump because of President Donald Trump's new tariffs, but that can still change. Trump first announced his plans for tariffs on April 2, the same day that the Switch 2 was revealed. The tariffs targeted two countries important to Nintendo: Japan, where the company is based, and Vietnam, where some of its products are manufactured. He did declare soon after the announceme

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Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe

news.ycombinator.com Kate Blackwood 2026-01-23 16:20:56

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The study indicates that belief in conspiracies may be less about a person’s needs and motivations and more about their failure to recognize that they might be wrong. Conspiracy believers not only consistently overestimated their performance on numeracy and perception tests, revealing they tend to be less a

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Bitcoin flies to new all-time highs, topping $118,000 as institutions pile into ETFs

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-24 17:19:15

On Thursday, bitcoin ETFs logged their biggest day of inflows of 2025 at $1.18 billion. Ether ETFs recorded their second-biggest day of inflows ever at $383.1 million, according to SoSoValue. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4% at $118,396.01, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $118,872.85. Ether rose nearly 7% to trade back above the $3,000 level for the first time since February. Bitcoin extended its rally on Friday, rising to new records overni

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Btrfs Allocator Hints

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 14:17:26

[PATCH RFC 00/10] btrfs: new performance-based chunk allocation using device roles From: Anand Jain <anand.jain-AT-oracle.com> To: linux-btrfs-AT-vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH RFC 00/10] btrfs: new performance-based chunk allocation using device roles Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 02:07:06 +0800 Message-ID: <[email protected]> In host hardware, devices can have different speeds. Generally, faster devices come with lesser capacity while slower devices come with larger capaci

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Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 02:51:19

diffsitter Disclaimer diffsitter is very much a work in progress and nowhere close to production ready (yet). Contributions are always welcome! Summary diffsitter creates semantically meaningful diffs that ignore formatting differences like spacing. It does so by computing a diff on the AST (abstract syntax tree) of a file rather than computing the diff on the text contents of the file. diffsitter uses the parsers from the tree-sitter project to parse source code. As such, the languages sup

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Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-27 16:06:01

Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff said during a presentation this week that AI tools are boosting productivity across sales, customer service, and software engineering, Bloomberg reports. Althoff noted AI has been so useful that Microsoft was able to save more than $500 million last year in its call center alone. The internal remarks come a week after Microsoft laid off more than 9,000 workers, the company’s third round of layoffs this year that put the total number of affecte

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‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-01-30 06:00:00

Few lifesaving tools are as effective as ready-to-use therapeutic foods, known as RUTFs, which are specially designed to treat severe malnutrition and often resemble fortified peanut butter. Despite announcing a $50 million pledged to fund RUTFs earlier this summer, the Trump administration's deep cuts to foreign assistance have wreaked havoc on RUTF distribution globally, and the State Department hasn’t placed orders with leading suppliers this year. Experts say the disruptions will result in m

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Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-30 11:40:20

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. In a 2024 interview wit

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You May Want to Buy a Nintendo Switch 2 Before Tariffs Drive Up the Price

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-31 16:41:34

Nintendo’s Switch 2 may have avoided a tariff-related disaster at launch, but today is a new day full of fresh economic horrors, and that means (unfortunately for everyone) potentially new and more draconian U.S. tariffs. In letters to 14 countries sent on Tuesday, President Donald Trump threatened to drastically hike tariffs by as much as 40% by the end of the month, which, for the record, marks a several-week extension of prior tariffs that were set to take effect on July 9. Among those countr

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Trump's Biggest Tariff Deadline Lifts Soon: These 13 Companies Have Already Hiked Prices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-01 02:30:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In many cases and for many products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans haven't hit yet -- but that could be about to change as the 90-day pause on the "reciprocal" tariffs is set to end this week. However things shake out, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they'll increase in the near-future -- including, most recently,

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Prime Day 2025: The Deals Are Here, but Beware of Looming Tariffs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-02 10:30:00

James Martin/CNET Amazon Prime Day, the mega retailer's summer shopping event, is here -- doubling in size from two to four days, Tuesday through Friday. Exclusive to Prime members, it offers some of the best Amazon deals of the year, but looming price hikes due to tariffs could leave you wondering how much of a savings you can expect. President Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" have plenty of us feeling antsy about prices. According to a recent CNET survey, 64% of shoppers said they've boug

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Why Jolly Ranchers Are Banned in the UK but Not the US

wired.com Alex Christian 2026-02-03 21:54:51

On June 11, the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued an alert declaring several candies manufactured by The Hershey Company “unsafe to eat.” Four products from the flagship Jolly Rancher brand—Hard Candy, “Misfits” Gummies, Hard Candy Fruity 2 in 1, and Berry Gummies—contain mineral oil hydrocarbons, banned from food in the UK. The offending substances are mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) and mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH). Both are derived from crude oil and are often use

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Stop Paying for Antivirus: This VPN Offers It for Free at a Bottom-Shelf Price

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-04 17:00:35

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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

news.ycombinator.com Posted June 2026-02-05 22:32:10

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel The history of the bcachefs filesystem in the kernel has been turbulent, most recently with Linus Torvalds refusing a pull request for the 6.16-rc3 release. Torvalds has now pulled the code in question, but also said: I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window. You made it very clear that I can't even question any bug-fixes and I should just pull anything and everything. Honestly, at that point, I don't really feel comfortable being involved

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Tariff Impacts Are Real: These 13 Companies Have Confirmed Price Hikes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-07 05:00:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In many cases and for many products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans haven't hit yet -- but they could soon, unless the 90-day pause on some rates is extended. Still, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they'll increase in the near-future -- including, most recently, a popular and CNET-approved brand of smart lights. Th

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The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Hoyt 2026-02-09 15:45:27

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful A friend of mine, bright, driven, and relatively new to programming, asked me a heavy question the other day. “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose the right career?” The question hung in the air. It wasn’t born from a bad day or a frustrating bug. It came from a much deeper place of anxiety, one that I suspect many in our industry are feeling right now. They saw recent waves of layoffs, they read the headlines about Artificial Int

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How Much Will the iPhone 17 Cost? End of Tariff Pause Puts $2,400 in Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-09 23:02:00

The rumored iPhone 17 is likely to cost more than the iPhone 16. Let's just get that out of the way up front. But why it may cost more -- and how much more -- is still in question. President Donald Trump's self-imposed deadline of July 9 for the "reciprocal tariff" pause could finally cap his months-long trade roller coaster, which has resulted so far in tentative trade deals with Vietnam, the UK and China. However, there's still plenty up in the air, including how tariffs could impact a new iP

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A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 18:34:42

We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, called Gord. (A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, named for the Higgs boson, a particle which was theorized in the 1960s but only found in 2013.) In this post I’ll walk you through the process I took to debug it. I tried to write down relevant details as they came up, so see if you can guess what the b

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The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Hoyt 2026-02-10 03:45:27

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful A friend of mine, bright, driven, and relatively new to programming, asked me a heavy question the other day. “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose the right career?” The question hung in the air. It wasn’t born from a bad day or a frustrating bug. It came from a much deeper place of anxiety, one that I suspect many in our industry are feeling right now. They saw recent waves of layoffs, they read the headlines about Artificial Int

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancellations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-02-11 05:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancelations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-02-11 11:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-02-11 11:08:25

Microsoft announced layoffs today affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and as part of the changes, more than 70 people will be let go at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios, according to a source familiar with the situation. The cuts were made on a call with Microsoft HR representatives this morning, and are hitting the “vast majority” of the studio. One source described the layoffs as leaving enough people behind to keep Forza Motorsport up and running. Managers at Turn 10 didn’t disc

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Public companies bought more bitcoin than ETFs did for the third quarter in a row

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-02-15 02:49:15

In this article MARA KDLY PCAPU GME BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ozan Kose | Afp | Getty Images Corporate treasuries have surpassed ETFs in bitcoin buying for a third consecutive quarter as more companies try to benefit from the MicroStrategy playbook in a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment. Public companies acquired about 131,000 coins in the second quarter, growing their bitcoin balance 18%, according to data provider Bitcoin Treasuries. ETFs showed an

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Google makes first foray into fusion in venture with MIT spinoff Commonwealth Fusion Systems

cnbc.com Kate Dore 2026-02-17 21:00:01

Google on Monday announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which marks the tech giant's first commercial commitment to fusion. The company unveiled plans to buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant, known as ARC, based in Chesterfield County, Virginia. ARC is expected to come online and generate 400 megawatts of clean, zero

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Google bets on fusion power as its greenhouse gas emissions grow

theverge.com Justine Calma 2026-02-17 21:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Google has agreed to purchase electricity from a forthcoming nuclear fusion power plant, the so-called holy grail of clean energy that scientists have been chasing for more than half a century. While the fusion industry reached a significant milestone a few years ago, the tec

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Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-02-17 21:00:00

Fusion power got another boost on Monday as Google announced it will buy half the output of Commonwealth Fusion System’s first commercial power plant. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) will send Google 200 megawatts of electricity from its Arc power plant, which is expected to come online in the early 2030s. Meanwhile, Google is sending CFS a check as part of a new, unannounced funding round. The new round will be “comparable” to the previous one, CFS co-founder and CEO Bob Mumgaard said. CFS’

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Is being bilingual good for your brain?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 15:50:19

R eams of papers have been published on the cognitive advantages of multilingualism. Beyond the conversational doors it can open, multilingualism is supposed to improve “executive function”, a loose concept that includes the ability to ignore distractions, plan complex tasks and update beliefs as new information arrives. Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have faile

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Tariff Impacts Are Real: I Found 13 Companies With Official Price Hikes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-17 23:30:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In a lot of ways and for a lot of products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans are still a ways off in the near future. Still, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they will be increased in the near future -- including, most recently, a popular and CNET-approved brand of smart lights. The fact of the matter is that tariffs

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Tesla recently lost two key execs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-18 16:15:18

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Yesterday, reports from Forbes and CNBC said that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, who formerly led operations in North America and Europe and was a close confidant of Musk’s. (Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal also reported that Afshar left the company, but did not say he was fired.) The firing follows a major slump in sales for Tesla’s automotive business – last quarter, rev

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Tesla loses key execs but hires a new one from GM’s failed robotaxi company

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-19 16:43:30

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. There’s some executive shuffling going on at Tesla. Two key leaders have left recently – one of them being fired by CEO Elon Musk – but the company also hired an exec from Cruise, GM’s failed robotaxi company. Yesterday, reports from Forbes and CNBC said that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, who formerly led operations in North America and Europe and was a close confidant of Musk

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