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The madness of SaaS chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-04 05:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

news.ycombinator.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-04 08:59:54

A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally. Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue … App Tracking Transparency hit Meta hard Meta relied heavily on selling personalized advertising, which required it to be able t

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Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 08:49:00

I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS. Since Tim Cook has yet to stand up at WWDC and announce "one more thing... Service Worker support in WKWebView, provided you add the correct entry to the WKAppBoundDomains array in your Info.plist " (and you know what, he should) ma

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Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 09:20:18

Hi HN, I’m Eric, CTO at Trigger.dev ( https://trigger.dev ). We’re a developer platform for building and running AI agents and workflows, open-source under the Apache 2.0 license ( https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev ). We provide everything needed to create production-grade agents in your codebase and deploy, run, monitor, and debug them. You can use just our primitives or combine with tools like Mastra, LangChain and Vercel AI SDK. You can self-host or use our cloud, where we take ca

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Being Underweight Might Be Deadlier Than Being Overweight

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-04 09:20:38

If asked whether one would prefer to be too skinny or fat, chances are most people would reply that they’d rather be too skinny. Distorted standards of beauty and their propagation on social media are certainly to blame for this, in addition to the knowledge that being overweight typically brings along a host of health risks. A new study, however, suggests that being too thin can actually be deadlier. Researchers used health data to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and

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Amazon Set to Unveil Upgraded Home and Entertainment Hardware Later This Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 08:41:41

Amazon is set to announce a slew of refreshed products at its annual fall hardware event, which the company announced Monday will take place Sept. 30 in New York City. Amazon has a wide-ranging product portfolio including Kindles, Echo smart speakers, Ring security devices and Fire TV products -- any of which could be candidates for upgrades. Back in February, Amazon upgraded its smart assistant Alexa with new conversational skills enabled by AI. Supercharged Alexa will be front and center in

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I Was Right Yet Again: iOS 26 Goes Live Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 09:13:57

Apple announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but it said at the time it would release the update to the general public this fall. So I looked at past Apple events in September and earlier iOS releases to predict when the company would release iOS 26. And I was right. Apple announced that iOS 26 will be released as a free update Monday. Apple usually releases updates around 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET), so that means your iPhone can get new features like a Liquid Glass design

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Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-04 09:02:42

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla’s board of directors by slightly increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through an irrevocable trust on September 12th, acc

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Samsung’s 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD is $100 for a limited time

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-10-04 09:06:21

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. If you’ve been running out of storage on your PC or PS5, or you just want an SSD that’s faster than what you have, here’s a great deal: the PCIe Gen 5-compatible 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD from Samsung is selling at a bargain today, with its 2TB and 4TB versions selling for $99.99 and $199.99, respectively, at B&H Photo. If you want to hop on

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Spotify’s free users can finally play the songs they want

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-04 09:47:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Spotify has removed restrictions that prevented free users from listening to specific tracks. With Lossless audio now finally rolling out to paying subscribers, the music streaming service has announced that it’s also allowing non-paying listeners to search, play, and share any song they want, without having to upgrade to a Premium subscription. The update is being rolled out globally and addresses one of t

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PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-04 09:58:26

PayPal is introducing a new way for people to send money to one another through peer-to-peer (p2p) payments made via personalized, one-time links. The system, called PayPal Links, complements the company’s existing feature called PayPal Me, which will continue to exist as a way to share your profile information and make it easier to get found and paid. The company explains that PayPal Me links are not payment requests tied to a specific amount — at least until the receiver inputs how much they

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Alphabet becomes fourth company to reach $3 trillion market cap

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-04 13:15:26

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Alphabet has joined the $3 trillion club. Shares of the search giant jumped more than 4% on Monday, pushing the company into territory occupied only by Nvidia , Microsoft and Apple . The stock got a big lift in early September from an antitrust ruling by a judge, whose penalties came in lighter than shareholders feared. The U.S. Department of Justice wa

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Did Google fix the Pixel 9’s lifeless photo colors on the Pixel 10? I’m shocked.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 10:00:51

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority What Google did to photo colors on its last few Pixel phones is criminal. There is no other way to say this, but the degradation in color quality and science was so palpable since the Pixel 6, culminating in the washed-out photos of the Pixel 9 Pro. Even me, a staunch Pixel camera fan, had somewhat given up on getting good, lively photos from my phone last year. Every time I snapped a picture, especially in a colorful environment or a warm indoor, the result c

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OmniFocus 4.8 gets on-device Apple Intelligence support

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-04 13:26:25

It should come as no surprise that Omni Group is ready for macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and visionOS 26 on day one, with a full Liquid Glass revamp across its entire suite of apps. But beyond the visual overhaul, one of the most interesting additions is the support for Apple’s Foundation Models framework in OmniFocus 4.8. Here’s what it can do. Quick recap on Apple’s Foundation Models framework With today’s updates, Apple is introducing the Foundation Models framework, which lets develo

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Apple Watch Series 11 receives FDA clearance for hypertension alerts

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:28:57

Apple's Awe Dropping event started with dramatic health testimonials from Apple Watch users, then revealed a key new feature for the new Watch Series 11: hypertension alerts. The function had yet to receive FDA clearance at the time, but that has now been granted, as first reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by Apple. As a result, it will reportedly be available to users in 150 countries when the Watch 11 and Ultra Watch 3 ship starting on September 19. Hypertension alerts can help detect hyper

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iPhone Air vs. iPhone 17 Pro Max: I compared the two flagship models, and here's the winner

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-04 11:04:43

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Apple's iPhone 17 lineup brings some of the biggest design changes the smartphone series has seen in years, and no two models better highlight this shift than the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The iPhone Air is one of the thinnest smartphones Apple has ever made, made for those who value a sleek, portable design. Meanwhile, the iPhone 17 Pro Max doubles down on power with a cutting-edge camera system and a new vapor c

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My First Year Without an iPhone

news.ycombinator.com Katie Lowe 2025-10-04 11:57:28

Last October, I switched off my iPhone, removed the SIM card, and inserted it into a Nokia 2780 that I ordered off the internet. I deactivated and archived my Instagram, left all the group chats, and got in touch with my European friends through email. Now, a full calendar year later, I can say without hesitation that I am never, ever going back. My north star Flip phones are somehow a contentious topic. This is because anyone that goes against the status quo creates a hostile environment. It’

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Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 07:28:09

Yes. Backdrop supports using custom video files and Rive animations to create a scene. You can import your own content via the Creator feature, and even submit it to the Community Platform for others to use.

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Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 13:44:55

Consider the cul-de-sac. It leads off the main street past buildings of might-have-been to a dead-end disconnected from the beaten path. Computing history, of course, is filled with such terminal diversions, most never to be fully realized, and many for good reason. Particularly when it comes to user interfaces and how humans interact with computers, a lot of wild ideas deserved the obscure burials they got. But some deserved better. Nearly every aspiring interface designer believed the way we

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Pgstream: Postgres streaming logical replication with DDL changes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 11:28:24

pgstream - Postgres replication with DDL changes pgstream is an open source CDC command-line tool and library that offers Postgres replication support with DDL changes to any provided target. Features Schema change tracking and replication of DDL changes Support for multiple out of the box targets Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Webhooks PostgreSQL Initial and on demand PostgreSQL snapshots (for when you don't need continuous replication) Column value transformations (anonymise your data on the g

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions

news.ycombinator.com V. E. Mchale 2025-10-04 12:29:50

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions V. E. McHale Defense I am not qualified to translate German, much less technical philosophical texts. However, Kondylis’ insights are criminally underappreciated and of interest to many today as they grapple with the dissolution of liberalism that Kondylis predicted in 1991–1992. Hopefully, his work will be translated with due care as its centrality is appreciated. The below is from Planetarische Politik Nach Dem Kalten Krieg, pp. 91–104 The Obsoles

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Show HN: Semlib – Semantic Data Processing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 12:45:56

Semlib Semlib is a Python library for building data processing and data analysis pipelines that leverage the power of large language models (LLMs). Semlib provides, as building blocks, familiar functional programming primitives like map , reduce , sort , and filter , but with a twist: Semlib's implementation of these operations are programmed with natural language descriptions rather than code. Under the hood, Semlib handles complexities such as prompting, parsing, concurrency control, caching,

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Programming Deflation

news.ycombinator.com Kent Beck 2025-10-04 13:11:43

The genies are out of the bottle. Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost, skill barriers, and time needed to develop software. (Interesting debate to be had—another day.) Will this lead to fewer programmers or more programmers? Economics gives us two contradictory answers simultaneously. Substitution . The substitution effect says we'll need fewer programmers—machines are replacing human labor. Jevons’. Jevons’ paradox predicts that when something becomes c

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CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:02:02

These are CubeSats. Satellites that are going to space—or at least, the ones I have here are prototypes. But these have one thing in common: they're all powered by either a Raspberry Pi, or a microcontroller. There are already Pis in space, like on Mark Rober's SatGus, on GASPACS, and the Astro Pis on the Space station. Another Pi is going up this weekend, which is why I'm posting this today. I'll get to that one, but I wanted to spend some time talking about two things that fascinate me: Raspb

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AirPods Pro 3 Review: Skating to Where the Puck Is Going, Not Where It Has Been

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-04 11:00:03

2025 Almost three years after Apple introduced the original AirPods Pro 2 (updated with USB-C in 2023) with category-defining sound quality and active noise cancellation (ANC), I can safely say that just about every company making ANC wireless earbuds has caught up or surpassed them, and often with buds that are sold for less than $250. Basic wireless earbuds features—good audio, good ANC, and good battery life—are table stakes, and each of these is improved on AirPods Pro 3. Apple’s third-gen

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Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 13:05:03

One of the first things I learned while testing AI image generators is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong when you're trying to get the image you see in your head to appear on your screen. If you've ever used an AI image or video generator, you know what I mean. I've spent the past year testing and reviewing different AI image generators, and I've generated hundreds of images across services like Google's nano bananas model, Midjourney and Dall-E. But the images I created haven't

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NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:26:27

NASA is changing the way that its employees come in contact with, and remember, one of its worst tragedies. In the wake of the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew, NASA created a program to use the orbiter's debris for research and education at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Agency employees were invited to see what remained of the space shuttle as a powerful reminder as to why they had to be diligent in their work. Access to the Columbia Research and Preservation Off

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Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:38:52

General Motors will temporarily lay off workers at its Wentzville assembly plant in Missouri. According to a letter sent to employees by the head of the plant and the head of the local union, a shortage of parts is the culprit, and as a result the factory will see "a temporary layoff from September 29-October 19." The plant is about 45 minutes west of St Louis and employs more than 4,000 people to assemble midsize pickup trucks for Chevrolet and GMC, as well as full-size vans. Not every employe

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The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-04 13:33:45

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The US and China have reached a “framework” deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. As noted by Reuters, Bessent confirmed that “the framework is for a switch to a U.S.-controlled ownership.” He said Trump will confirm the deal with Chinese Preside

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Here’s why usage of Gemini’s Nano Banana image editor is growing

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-04 13:59:52

Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT’s shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines. Google launched Nano Banana in late August. It hyped the model as a way to “transform images in amazing new ways” inside the Gemini app. To get the “perfect picture,” you simply pop an image into Gemini and “tell it what you’d like to change,” the company said. Google’s suggestions include redecorating your house, giving yourself a ’60s

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Latest Tech News

The madness of SaaS chargebacks

Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

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Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock

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PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto

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Apple Watch Series 11 receives FDA clearance for hypertension alerts

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My First Year Without an iPhone

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CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space

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NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal

Here’s why usage of Gemini’s Nano Banana image editor is growing

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