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I've owned every Google Pixel flagship phone since the first - here's why 2025 will be different

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-01-06 03:14:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 10 is expected to receive significant upgrades this year, including a dedicated telephoto lens. Greater feature parity with the Pro models, combined with no expected price increases, makes the standard Pixel an enticing option. It still won't be the best option for power users, especially if you want the most capable camera system from Google. Google's non-Pro Pixel phone has always been the "safe pick." It's the model I recommend to mo

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Ditching GitHub

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 03:18:40

This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, with side notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’s just that I never seemed to have the focus time required to solve this once and for all. But now I decided to get moving, and it is already ongoing. If you are among those few with an interest in code I publish, do read on. What? I am moving all of my public source code repositories off of GitHub. My ambition is to completely end my own usage of GitHub, in

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Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 03:52:42

During what's supposed to be a year of redemption, Sonos has announced that its gadgets will become more expensive this year, complicating the company's comeback plans. Tariffs that US President Donald Trump announced last week take effect today, including a 19 percent tariff on goods imported from Malaysia (the levy is said not to apply to semiconductors and was cut down from a 25 percent tariff that Trump threatened in July.) Among other countries affected is Vietnam, which now sees a 20 perc

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OpenAI nearly confirms GPT-5 launch today - how to tune in

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-06 08:43:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's livestream at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET will likely launch GPT-5. GPT-5 will automatically select the best model for prompts, improving efficiency. That approach should help produce higher-quality answers more quickly. OpenAI just launched its highly anticipated open-source models on Tuesday, but the company is already moving on to what will likely be its biggest product launch of the year: GPT-5. Also: How ChatGPT actually works (and why

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Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 06:33:39

Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity I’ve just been on a bit of a summer break. Did a bit of travel locally. Visited Hvalfjörður. Walked a lot. I know from experience that if I don’t take a summer break, the winter becomes more of a slog and my thoughts become groggier. Often, as soon as you rest, your mind starts to “helpfully” come up with ideas to help fill your time. One of the invasive thoughts that kept prodding my brain during my break was about mo

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How to Sell if Your User is not the Buyer

news.ycombinator.com Nate Ritter 2026-01-06 08:09:02

I recently wrote about how your ideal customer is one who values your product the most”. And then quickly, in one of my private communities, I had this question pop up: But how you would talk to your ideal customer if they are not the ones who try the product? In my case -- I totally agree. CTOs / Director of Engineering are probably the ones who make decisions. But it is developers who try the product first. In the article you talk about messaging. I get it. But how practically you can reach o

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A Sonos Price Hike Is About to Make a Bad Situation Even Worse

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-06 08:12:48

As a company, there are lots of things you can do when people are upset with your product. You could offer concessions (discounts in an effort to drive demand), swap your CEO (that’s a statement and a vibe shift), or you could pledge to do better and actually fix issues making people upset (imagine that!). One thing I would not recommend doing when times are tough, however, is raising prices, but Sonos seems to have been forced into this exact scenario. According to Sonos’ newish CEO, Tom Conra

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI’s next chapter

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-01-06 12:00:00

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. It’s AI coding week at Decoder. You just heard Casey Newton’s interview with the CEO behind Cursor, Michael Truell. Now, I have a conversation with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the current AI coding boom. But since Thomas

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Cryptomixer founders pled guilty to laundering money for cybercriminals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-06 15:45:45

The founders of the Samourai Wallet (Samourai) cryptocurrency mixer have pleaded guilty to laundering over $200 million for criminals. Samourai CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Lonergan Hill admitted to their involvement in the Samourai money laundering operation, pleading guilty to conspiracy for operating a money transmitting business that handled criminal proceeds, and are now facing a maximum sentence of five years in prison. As part of their plea agreements, Rodriguez and Hill have a

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5 reasons I'm buying the Google Pixel 10 instead of the Pro this year (and won't regret it)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-01-06 17:24:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 10 is expected to receive significant upgrades this year, including a dedicated telephoto lens. Greater feature parity with the Pro models, combined with no expected price increases, makes the standard Pixel an enticing option. It still won't be the best option for power users, especially if you want the most capable camera system from Google. Google's non-Pro Pixel phone has always been the "safe pick." It's the model I recommend to mo

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Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 04:28:47

Day zero model performance optimization work is a mix of experimentation, bug fixing, and benchmarking guided by intuition and experience. This writeup outlines the process we followed to achieve SOTA latency and throughput for GPT OSS 120B on NVIDIA GPUs at launch with the Baseten Inference Stack. The day an open source model like OpenAI’s new gpt-oss-120b is released, we race to make the model as performant as possible for our customers. As a launch partner for OpenAI’s first open-source LLM

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There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-06 22:42:09

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments The start of this year marked more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century. And though 2025 might not be full of flying cars and robot servants, there are a few sci-fi tropes that ended up panning out: novels like George Orwell's "1984," and Phillip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" are alive and well as real-world police use expansive surveillance networks to bust criminals before they even do anything wrong, while the sex robot m

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Free, offline ChatGPT on your phone? Technically possible, basically useless

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 22:00:35

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Another day, another large language model, but news that OpenAI has released its first open-weight models (gpt-oss) with Apache 2.0 licensing is a bigger deal than most. Finally, you can run a version of ChatGPT offline and for free, giving developers and us casual AI enthusiasts another powerful tool to try out. As usual, OpenAI makes some pretty big claims about gpt-oss’s capabilities. The model can apparently outperform o4-mini and scores quite close to its

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Sonos is raising prices this year to make up for tariff expenses

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-06 22:30:31

Sonos plans to raise prices across its products later this year in order to minimize the impact of tariffs on its earnings, the company has revealed alongside its financial results [PDF] for the third quarter of 2025. It hasn't listed the products and their new prices yet, but it said that it's evaluating any changes it might need to its promotional strategies and that it has flexibility to move production between Vietnam and Malaysia as needed. To note, the Trump administration had imposed a 20

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Google's Jules AI coding tool exits beta with serious upgrades - and more free tasks

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-01-06 22:36:09

Natalya_Yudina/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's Jules coding agent is out of beta, with clear pricing tiers. Even the free tier has newer, more generous usage limits. Updates include improved AI and better setup management. Google's coding AI Jules is out of beta. Announced in a blog post on Wednesday, the coding helper will be powered by Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro LLM. You might recall that Google also recently announced its Gemini CLI GitHub Actions coding tool. What do all these

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LG Promo Codes: 20% Off | August 2025

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2026-01-06 14:00:00

LG makes some of the best TVs you can buy. Its OLED TVs in particular are perennial favorites at WIRED, with C-series models like the C4 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) providing among the best performance for your dollars on the market. LG is about way more than TVs of course. The Korean brand offers multiple products across the A/V landscape, from soundbars to Bluetooth speakers, along with a host of other products like home appliances, laptops, and more. Save 20% With Today’s LG Promo Codes If you

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Welcome to dystopia: I helped ChatGPT pass a CAPTCHA and doomscroll my Facebook

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-07 08:00:19

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Last week, OpenAI released what may be the most ambitious (and potentially controversial) update to ChatGPT since its launch: Agent mode. Unlike the standard conversational interface, Agent mode gives ChatGPT control over a virtual machine running Chrome, allowing it to interact with websites like a human would. It can identify elements on websites, scroll, click buttons, fill out forms, and, if granted credentials, even log into your online accounts. For th

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 leaks, hinting at better math and coding abilities

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-07 09:23:45

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR Details about OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5 model have leaked. GitHub accidentally published details of the upcoming model and its four variants in a blog, which was later withdrawn. The leak points to better reasoning and improved agentic capabilities that may also come to ChatGPT after the model’s release. OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 models are expected to arrive very soon, and are likely to be available through APIs before ChatGPT. But a recent leak has

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Senior AI researchers desert Apple amid ‘a crisis of confidence’

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-07 09:40:49

There have been a number of reports of senior AI researchers leaving Apple, and the latest of these indicates the problem may be bigger than previously known. One AI recruitment company has suggested there is a crisis of confidence within Apple, with tech rivals now considering it open season on poaching the company’s engineers … We learned a month ago that Apple’s top AI exec, Ruoming Pang, had left the company to join Meta. Pang joined Apple from Google in 2021, and had been managing the ro

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Why I'm considering the Google Pixel 10 over the Pro models this year (and I'm not alone)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-01-07 06:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google's non-Pro Pixel phone has always been the "safe pick." It's the model I recommend to most users, so long as they can live without the Pro features -- whether that's an extra telephoto camera, more RAM, or better hardware. Also: This rumored Pixel 10 feature puts Google above Samsung and OnePlus for me - here's why While there's little left to the imagination as far as what the upcoming Google Pixel 10 phones will look like, if the leaks and rumors are true, there will b

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40 Years of the Amiga

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2026-01-07 04:36:15

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. As an Atari guy in the 80s, I was somewhat aware of Amiga before 1985 because it would occasionally get mentioned in Atari magazines or by an Atari columnist. I remember seeing a brief note about it in ANALOG Computing and also the Atari column in Creative Computing. Early History As many people

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Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 15:53:44

Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models Markus Schütz, Christoph Peters, Florian Hahlbohm, Elmar Eisemann, Marcus Magnor, Michael Wimmer. 2025–06 in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. HPG) 44, 8. Official version Abstract We present Splatshop, a highly optimized toolbox for interactive editing (selection, deletion, painting, transformation, ...) of 3D Gaussian Splatting models. Utilizing a comprehensive collection of heuristic approaches, we carefully balance between exact an

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About AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 06:05:43

For the last 1.5 years, I have forced myself to work with and learn AI, mostly because the future of software engineering will inevitably have more AI within it. I’ve focused on optimizing my workflow to understand when AI is a genuinely useful tool versus when it’s a hindrance. Now, 1.5 years later, I feel confident enough to say I’ve learned enough about AI to have some opinions, which is why I’m writing this post. AI has become a race between countries and companies, mostly due to status. Th

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40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2026-01-07 10:36:15

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. As an Atari guy in the 80s, I was somewhat aware of Amiga before 1985 because it would occasionally get mentioned in Atari magazines or by an Atari columnist. I remember seeing a brief note about it in ANALOG Computing and also the Atari column in Creative Computing. Early History As many people

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We replaced passwords with something worse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 04:19:25

We replaced passwords with something worse Too many services have been using the following login method: Enter an email address or phone number The website will send a 6-digit code Use the 6-digit code to log in Please stop. This is terrible for account security:

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Cracking the Vault: How we found zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2026-01-07 10:01:42

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data. They’re not just a part of the trust model, they are the trust model. In other words, if your vault is compromised, your infrastructure is already lost. Driven by the understanding that vaults are high-value targets for attackers, our research team at Cyata set out to conduct

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Out-Fibbing CPython with the Plush Interpreter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 06:18:07

Out-Fibbing CPython with the Plush Interpreter In the last post I talked about Plush, the toy programming language with actor-based parallelism I've been tinkering with. The implementation is still immature, but it's reached a point where I can write fun programs that produce 2D/3D graphics and parallelize things over multiple CPU cores. Something I'd like to try soon, for the fun of it, is to animate a spinning cube with software rendering (rasterization). Before I get to that though, I'd like

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The Day MOOCs Died: Coursera's Preview Mode Kills Free Learning

news.ycombinator.com Dhawal Shah 2026-01-03 09:23:21

Last week, Coursera’s new CEO, Greg Hart, delivered something the company’s investors had been eagerly awaiting: growth. In his first full quarter as CEO, Greg’s leadership helped drive Coursera’s stock price up 36% following the earnings call, pushing the company’s valuation past the $2 billion mark. However, this pursuit of prioritizing Wall Street could come at a cost to learners worldwide. The company is rolling out a “Preview Mode,” a feature that would lock almost all course content, inc

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New ‘persona vectors’ from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLM’s personality

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-01-07 17:11:20

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from the Anthropic Fellows Program reveals a technique to identify, monitor and control character traits in large language models (LLMs). The findings show that models can develop undesirable personalities (e.g., becoming malicious, excessively agreeable, or prone to making things up) either in response to user prompts or as an

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The initial reactions to OpenAI’s landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-07 21:24:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s long-awaited return to the “open” of its namesake occurred yesterday with the release of two new large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B. But despite achieving technical benchmarks on par with OpenAI’s other powerful proprietary AI model offerings, the broader AI developer and user community’s initial response h

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40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre

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The initial reactions to OpenAI’s landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed

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