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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Ronning 2025-12-03 20:02:03

In May 2025, during the same week Neon announced their acquisition, our databases went down four times. For hours. Database spin-ups, their entire value proposition, were completely disabled. Our "serverless" databases couldn't even start. That was the final straw in our decision to migrate to PlanetScale. Who We Are and Why Databases Matter More At OpenSecret, we're building something unique: a confidential computing platform powered by AWS Nitro Enclaves. Our flagship application, Maple AI,

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Experimental ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Cancer Vaccine Is Already Prolonging Lives, Study Suggests

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-03 20:25:25

An experimental “off-the-shelf” vaccine for recurring pancreatic and colorectal cancer is showing great promise so far. Early results show that the vaccine appears to be safe and is potentially prolonging people’s lives. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and elsewhere are developing the vaccine, called ELI-002. In Phase I trial data released this week, people who received ELI-002 often developed an immune response t

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Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-03 20:00:00

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section. Google’s top stories hub appears when you search f

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-03 20:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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Watch Prime Video's official trailer for Upload's final season

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 00:00:23

Amazon has just dropped a trailer for the final season of Upload, the tech-centric comedy about a digital afterlife that's way too real at times (mild spoilers ahead). Created by Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation, King of the Hill), it's set in an advanced future replete with things like holographic phones, killer self-driving cars and (killer) AI assistants. But since this advanced technology is run by the same irresponsible bros we have in charge today, naturally things go spectac

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The First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Wand Is Now Available

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 00:00:05

If you've ever had a Pap smear, you know how uncomfortable a cervical cancer screening can be, especially from inside a cold, clinical doctor's office. Cervical cancer is highly preventable with routine screening. To provide people with a cervix a comfortable and private screening option, women's health company Teal Health developed the Teal Wand, the first and only at-home vaginal sample self-collection device for cervical cancer screening in the US. Following its FDA approval in May, the Tea

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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-03 03:17:38

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to

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AOL pulls the plug on dial-up - a reminder that 'dead' tech has a long expiration date

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-04 04:19:00

AOL / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Generation X says goodbye to the past. Old technology can linger long after you thought it was dead and done. AOL, once a technology giant, is now little more than a footnote. For millions of people who first heard "You've got mail" over crackling phone lines, an iconic chapter in digital history is coming to a close. AOL, also known as America Online, has announced it will shut down its dial-up internet service on Sept. 30, 2025, eff

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3 ways Google Chrome and Wallet just made shopping a whole lot easer

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-04 05:00:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Google adds new features to give you more ways to pay online. See reward details for 100+ cards to find your best option. More "buy now, pay later" options, including Affirm and more. The next time you check out online with Chrome or Google Wallet, you might notice things look a little different. Google has announced several upgrades, each one designed to give you more flexibility and convenience when you shop online. 1. Support for m

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Apple's improved Siri voice assistant may finally have a release date - and I'm ready to ditch Gemini for it

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-04 05:09:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways: An upgraded version of App Intents could make Siri the true hands-free iPhone companion. Apple is currently testing these Siri App Intents with a handful of third-party apps. The revamped Siri could ship in the spring of 2026, reports Bloomberg. When Apple first announced an upgraded and more capable Siri, every one of its users was reasonably excited. Unfortunately, that promise never happened, and the new Siri continues to be delayed. However, ahead

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AOL pulls the plug on dial-up after 30+ years - feeling old yet?

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-04 10:19:00

AOL / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Generation X says goodbye to the past. Old technology can linger long after you thought it was dead and done. AOL, once a technology giant, is now little more than a footnote. For millions of people who first heard "You've got mail" over crackling phone lines, an iconic chapter in digital history is coming to a close. AOL, also known as America Online, has announced it will shut down its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025,

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Community and Events Manager (Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 10:00:48

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space. We’re looking for a Community & Events Manager to own our real-world developer presence from small scrappy meetups to major trade shows. This isn’t a polished field marketing role. You’re not coordinating keynote stages or passing off ideas to an agency. You’re the one planning developer happy hours, running trade show booths end-to-end, and figuring out how to create moments that developers actually care about. You’ll own our

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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

wired.com Andrea J. Arratibel 2025-12-04 18:00:00

A Powerade bottle from 2001 was found on Yaya, a Peruvian beach south of Lima. A Coca-Cola bottle from 2002 was found on Robinson Crusoe Island, a World Biosphere Reserve, in Chile. These were the oldest of all the bottles collected. These discarded pieces of packaging were collected in a new macro-study that looked at the origin of plastic bottle pollution on beaches and cities along Latin America’s Pacific coastline. The research—the first to be conducted on a regional scale, thanks to a citi

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Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-12-04 20:00:00

A piece of advice if you’re meeting with Lisa Su: Wear sneakers. Su, the leader of AMD, moves fast these days, though I suspect that’s always been the case. Her company's chips underpin the artificial intelligence that’s changing the world at breakneck speeds. To hear Su and literally everyone else in semiconductors talk about it, the US is in an AI race with China—and the rules keep changing. The Trump administration has once again shifted its stance on what kind of chips can and can’t be ship

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GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-04 21:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will improve Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced performance, as well as support the enhanced version of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade

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The best ergonomic mouse for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 22:00:38

A mouse may seem like a small consideration for your workstation setup. But after you’ve addressed the crucial ergonomics — raising your monitor to eye-level, using the right keyboard and taking frequent breaks throughout your workdays — it’s a good idea to make sure the mouse you use is comfortable as well. People dealing with conditions like carpal tunnel and wrist pain may be interested in finding the best ergonomic mouse for them. Vertical and semi-vertical designs turn your palm towards you

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The Matter 1.4.2 update has the smart home upgrades you didn't know you needed

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-04 22:58:37

Maria Diaz/ZDNET The smart home world is gearing up for the Matter 1.5 update this fall, but the CSA just announced a 1.4.2 update as a precursor to prepare the field. Matter 1.4.2 makes devices more secure and efficient, enhancing the user experience, likely without you realizing that major changes have been made. That's the beauty of Matter: we're watching the connectivity protocol grow and blossom into a fully fledged and future-proof smart home wonder. The Matter 1.4.2 update includes Wi-F

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Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

news.ycombinator.com Sasha Rogelberg 2025-12-04 11:39:41

There’s getting cozy at a Starbucks to sip a latte and catch up on emails, and then there’s lugging your printer and desktop to the coffee chain to clock into work. Starbucks South Korea is experiencing this exact phenomenon and is now barring patrons from bringing in large pieces of work equipment, treating the cafés like their own amenity-stuffed office space. “Starbucks Korea has updated its policy so all customers can have a pleasant and accessible store experience. While laptops and small

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AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-04 15:26:24

AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years AOL is shutting down the dial-up service that introduced homes across the US to the internet. The firm's dial-up offering connects to the internet via a phone line and currently only exists in the US and Canada. Launched more than 30 years ago, AOL dial-up was known for its chirpy whirring start-up sound, but it has long since been replaced by faster alternatives. Fewer than 300,000 people in the US reported having only a dial-up internet con

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Computer Science Grads Are Being Forced to Work Fast Food Jobs as AI Tanks Their Career

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 21:17:03

Until very recently, studying computer science — or some variation thereof — was considered among the best bets an incoming college freshman could make. Now, as the New York Times reports based on interviews with experts and recent CS graduates alike, those who did are struggling to find work in fast food, nevermind as entry-level coders, amid massive tech industry layoffs — 592 per day, according to the Tech Layoff Tracker from the Trueup jobs platform — and rampant use of AI coding tools. Bo

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Intel CEO turns Trump around, but his job still hangs in the balance

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-04 17:27:57

Last week, President Trump called for the dismissal of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan over “highly CONFLICTED” ties to China, further escalating an already difficult situation for the executive. Today, following a meeting, Trump appeared to soften his stance, even if partially. A quick recap Before joining Intel, Tan worked as CEO for Cadence Design Systems, a firm that just pleaded guilty to an investigation by the Justice Department over charges of “selling its chip-design products to a Chinese milit

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FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:51:02

Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs Contact: OlivierCertner Motivation For the amd64 architecture, Intel started shipping hybrid CPUs with the rather confidential Lakefield and then more massively with Alder Lake (Gen12). Apart from some models of Alder Lake, it is now impossible to buy an Intel chip that does not have at least P (Performance) and E (Efficiency) cores. ARM first released incarnations of its big.LITTLE arrangement as soon as 2011. DynamIQ is an evolution where big and LITTLE CPUs can b

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Trump flip-flops on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-05 10:41:23

President Donald Trump said Monday that he and members of his cabinet met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, days after he called on the head of the chipmaker to resign. Intel shares rose 2% in extended trading. "I met with Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, of Intel, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are goi

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If You Try to Sell Your Cybertruck, You Are Going to Get a Terrible Surprise

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 10:13:33

Folks who shelled out to buy Elon Musk's ugliest electric car are in for an upset should they try to sell or trade in those Cybertrucks. As flagged by Gizmodo, the CarGurus vehicle marketplace and analytics firm found that over the last year, the value of a used Cybertruck has plummeted more than 30 percent, to an average of roughly $84,000. And with recent price cuts putting the Long Range Cybertruck, Tesla's entry-level version of its matte steel monstrosity, at just under $70,000, any poten

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Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 05:30:59

Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX's 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was the rocket's payload: two-dozen Project Kuiper satellites, which were dispensed into low-Earth orbit on target. This was SpaceX's second launch of satellites for Amazon, which is developing a constellation to deliver low-latency broadband Internet around the world. SpaceX, then, just launched a direct competitor to its S

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Your OnePlus phone might soon get a handy new Gemini feature (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 15:51:19

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Google app beta reference OnePlus Mind Space integration. Mind Space is a OnePlus app for saving notes, articles, screenshots, and other on-screen content. This could let Gemini quickly retrieve saved items, though there’s no indication of a rollout yet. Gemini might be getting a new trick on certain OnePlus devices. In the latest beta of the Google app (16.31.75.sa.arm64), we found strings suggesting the AI assistant might soon b

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Trump delays China tariff increases by another 90 days

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 15:14:43

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending lower tariffs with China for another 90 days, CNBC reports. The new executive order was signed before the previous agreement was set to end on August 12 at midnight. The extension will maintain the current 30 percent tariff on goods from China while representatives from both countries negotiate a new trade deal. The previous agreement lowered US tariffs down from 145 percent to 30 percent, and Chinese tariffs down from 145 percent t

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AP to end its weekly book reviews

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 11:25:57

Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor. AP to end its weekly book reviews Dear AP book reviewers, I am writing to share that the AP is ending its weekly book reviews, beginning Sept. 1. This was a difficult decision but one made after a thorough review of AP’s story offerings and what is being most read on our website and mobile apps as well as what customers are

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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 15:17:38

After 34 years of connecting Americans to the Internet through phone lines, AOL recently announced it is shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. Thi

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How Apple may revamp Siri to a voice assistant I'd actually use (and ditch Gemini for)

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-05 20:50:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways: An upgraded version of App Intents could make Siri the true hands-free iPhone companion. Apple is currently testing these Siri App Intents with a handful of third-party apps. The revamped Siri could ship in the spring of 2026, reports Bloomberg. When Apple first announced an upgraded and more capable Siri, every one of its users was reasonably excited. Unfortunately, that promise never happened, and the new Siri continues to be delayed. However, ahead

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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

Experimental ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Cancer Vaccine Is Already Prolonging Lives, Study Suggests

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

Watch Prime Video's official trailer for Upload's final season

The First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Wand Is Now Available

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

AOL pulls the plug on dial-up - a reminder that 'dead' tech has a long expiration date

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Apple's improved Siri voice assistant may finally have a release date - and I'm ready to ditch Gemini for it

AOL pulls the plug on dial-up after 30+ years - feeling old yet?

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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood

GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support

The best ergonomic mouse for 2025

The Matter 1.4.2 update has the smart home upgrades you didn't know you needed

Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years

Computer Science Grads Are Being Forced to Work Fast Food Jobs as AI Tanks Their Career

Intel CEO turns Trump around, but his job still hangs in the balance

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Trump delays China tariff increases by another 90 days

AP to end its weekly book reviews

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

How Apple may revamp Siri to a voice assistant I'd actually use (and ditch Gemini for)

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