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The MacBook Air is on sale for $799 - Here's why I recommend it for most people

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-04 19:09:00

Apple MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon for $799, a competitive price for its latest ultraportable. The M4 Air supports up to two external monitors with the lid open, and scales up to 32GB of unified memory. There are still only two USB-C ports on the left side, and I wish there were a nano-texture display option. View now at Bhphotovideo View now at Apple View now at Amazon more buying choices The MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is

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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why you should ASAP

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-04 19:13:44

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Smart TVs track viewing habits with ACR tech. Collected data fuels billions in targeted ads. Turning off ACR protects privacy but takes effort. Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about eve

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Unplugging these 7 household devices saved me $200 a year in electricity

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-04 19:24:00

Adela Stefan / 500px / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Unplugging idle devices can save on power bills. TVs, consoles, coffee makers, and mini-fridges are top culprits. Small daily changes help cut energy waste and lower electricity costs. With costs climbing across the US, energy prices stand out -made worse by record-breaking summer heat and recent waves scorching multiple states. Having endured several of them this season, I'm alw

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)

news.ycombinator.com V. E. Mchale 2025-10-04 17:29:50

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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Cory Doctorow: "centaurs" and "reverse-centaurs"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 08:39:19

Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, d

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Creating a VGA Signal in Hubris

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 19:04:24

A while ago I got a ST Nucleo-H753ZI evaluation board because I wanted to try out Hubris, Oxide's embedded operating system. After getting the basic demo app with the blinking lights running I set it aside for a lack of an idea what to do with it. A few weeks ago I was looking through old Raspberry Pi accessories on the hunt for a project. What stuck out to me wasn't any of the Raspberry Pi stuff, but the old 4 by 3 VGA monitor I had standing around. Could I just wire those pins in the VGA cable

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The Culture novels as a dystopia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 12:32:12

A couple of people have mentioned to me: “we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence – utopias like the Culture novels”. And they’re right, AI can be tremendously positive, and some beacons lit into the future could help make that come around. But one of my hobbies is “oppositional reading” – deliberately interpreting novels counter to the obvious / intended reading. And it’s not so clear to me that the Culture is all it is cracked up to be. Most of the novels take the pers

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The madness of SaaS chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-04 15:30:46

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 18:59:54

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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Show HN: Daffodil – Open-Source Ecommerce Framework to connect to any platform

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 18:32:22

Daffodil - Storefront that can connect to any ecommerce backend. Daffodil is an ecommerce development framework for building high-quality storefronts that can connect to any ecommerce backend. daff.io | demo.daff.io Demo Wanna see what we're trying to do? Check out the demo. Quickstart From a new Angular app, simply run npx ng add @daffodil/commerce Documentation Get started with Daffodil, learn the fundamentals and explore advanced topics on our documentation website. Contributing

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 18:41:41

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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Remember That TikTok Ban? A Deal This Week Could Finally Bring Closure

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 18:56:24

The Trump administration is working on a deal with China to determine TikTok's fate, which could be finalized by the end of this week, according to reports citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. President Trump has plans to meet on Friday with China's President Xi Jinping, and the two are expected to discuss the fate of the Chinese-owned social media platform. That means the deadline of Wednesday, Sept. 17, may pass before there's a definitive resolution on the matter. The key question is whe

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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 19:02:42

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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Alphabet becomes fourth company to reach $3 trillion market cap

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-04 23:15:26

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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Gemini’s improved home screen is coming soon, and it could get new tweaks (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:10:33

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini could be getting a refreshed home screen, as we’ve also seen before. Google has begun testing it with a small set of users using the latest beta version of the Google app. Google is also testing suggestions for queries based on your Google activity, although this is currently in the early stages of testing. Update, September 15, 2025 (10:10 AM ET): Gemini’s new landing screen, plus the new options button, is now rolling out to users in the stab

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Apple Watch Series 11 receives FDA clearance for hypertension alerts

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:28:57

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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Stop waiting on NVD — get real-time vulnerability alerts now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:01:11

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, cybersecurity is no longer optional - it’s essential. Vulnerability management has become a core component of every security strategy and keeping track of vulnerability alerts is an issue facing many businesses. It doesn’t take much for even a small business to have hundreds, if not thousands of software across their systems. With nearly 10% of vulnerabilities exploited in 2024, a business could easily have dozens of possible breaches in the offing if

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:44:55

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 21:28:24

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 22:29:50

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 22:45:56

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 23:11:43

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 23:02:02

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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‘Andor’ Leads the Big Genre Wins of the 2025 Emmys

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-04 23:00:41

The 2025 Emmys took place this past weekend, and Andor walked away with several wins for its final season, among many highlights for genre media across both nights of awards. While the sci-fi series didn’t win its Best Drama or Best Directing nominations, it took home Best Writing in a Drama for “Welcome to the Rebellion”. During Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmys, the episode “Who Are You?” took home awards for Outstanding Production Design in a Narrative Period/Fantasy Drama, Picture Editing, and

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NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:26:27

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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