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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:28:11

Long Term Support The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050. At this writing, 2050 is still 25 years in the future. Nobody knows what will happen in that time, and we cannot absolutely promise that SQLite will be viable or useful that far out. But we can promise this: we plan as if we will be supporting SQLite until 2050. That long-term outlook affects our decisions in important ways. Cross-platform Code → SQLite runs on any platform with an 8-bit byte, two's com

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-12-20 02:24:04

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. The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-20 02:00:43

Instagram users now need a public account with a minimum of 1,000 followers to go live on the platform, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch. Until now, Instagram has allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account is public or private. The move will be a blow to smaller creators on the platform who fall under the 1,000 followers requirement, as well as regular users who just liked to go live with their friends for fun. Users who don’t have public a

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OpenAI reportedly raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-20 02:09:14

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, reports The New York Times. The deal is part of OpenAI’s broader strategy to secure $40 billion this year. The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, per the NYT. OpenAI initially raised $2.5 billion from VC firms in March when it announced its intention to raise $40 billion in a round spearheaded by Softbank. The AI giant had planned to take on an additional $7.5 billion by the end of the year, but beat itse

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Truecaller’s call recording feature won’t work on iPhones from Sept. 30

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-20 02:36:07

Truecaller is discontinuing its call recording function on iOS — just over two years after the feature was launched — as the Swedish company opts to focus on its core offering: fighting spam calls. On Friday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that its call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-20 06:30:47

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. The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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These Are the Switch 2 Launch Games You Should Actually Consider

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 10:00:07

The Nintendo Switch 2 hasn't been out long but it's still somewhat disappointing that not many new games are available yet to use the new hardware. Yes, Donkey Kong Bananza is probably the biggest hit for the Switch successor that everyone should pick up but aside from that and Mario Kart World, there's not much else to get. For those who are still looking for something else to play on their Switch 2, here's a list of some of the more interesting launch games to pick in the meantime. Cyberpunk

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Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-20 11:04:38

With search today so full of AI slop and sites spamming SEO tricks, it’s not unusual for people to append “reddit” to their queries in hopes of finding useful answers to their questions. Google has tried to integrate results from Reddit in its search interface, and taking notice of the trend, Reddit has been experimenting with its own AI search as well. But the company has loftier ambitions: it wants to become the go-to search engine people use. Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, said as much during

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Samsung TV glitch locks users out of apps worldwide

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:15:51

Samsung TVs seem to be facing a widespread issue where apps won’t load properly. The problem appears to be affecting users globally. A Reddit thread with over 700 comments shows that many Samsung TV owners are unable to use any apps on their TVs. According to users, most apps, including popular ones like Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, are visible in the menu but won’t open. Instead, they show a “202 error” message, which usually points to an internet issue. However, affected users sa

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Android Auto now plays nicely with your phone’s color scheme

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 22:53:01

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google is fixing the previous issues with wallpaper-based theming on Android Auto. With this update, base palettes in Android Auto sync more seamlessly with your phone. The update is currently in beta, but some people have also started seeing it in the stable version, suggesting a gradual rollout. Since the official launch of Android 16’s stable version, Google has been refreshing many apps with its new “Expressive” design language. Meanwhile, Android

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Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-20 22:02:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsung’s community forum started reporting issues with their TVs at around 5PM ET on Thursday, finding themselves unable to open apps like YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu, and Prime Video. While apps were still visible on the Samsung TV menu, attempting to open them would display a variet

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“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

news.ycombinator.com Eyal Press 2025-12-20 11:47:27

In 2021, an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers was attached to President Joe Biden’s pandemic-relief package. But the Senate parliamentarian removed the proposal from the bill, on procedural grounds. Bernie Sanders, then the Budget Committee chairman, forced a vote on the bill anyway, with the provision included. This decision sparked a furor among supposedly liberal lawmakers, according to Ari Rabin-Havt, S

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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-20 21:49:25

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 made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media criticism and represents a striking example of how quickly privacy concerns can derail even well-inten

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Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-12-20 21:00:00

A Singapore-based deep tech startup called SixSense has developed an AI-powered platform that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and detect potential chip defects on production lines in real time. It has raised $8.5 million in Series A bringing its total funding to around $12 million. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, FEBE, and others. Founded in 2018 by engineers Akanksha Jagwani (CTO) and Avni Agarw

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-20 23:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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Figma's top VCs are sitting on $24 billion worth of stock after massive IPO pop

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-12-21 06:48:28

Figma Inc. signage during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. You can almost smell the bubbly wafting across Silicon Valley. Following Figma's blockbuster market debut on Thursday, four of the most iconic names in venture capital — Index Ventures, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia — are collectively sitting on roughly $24 billion worth of the design software vendor's stock. Until recently, there's b

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Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 06:39:22

AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the way. That's the takeaway from the latest survey of 49,000 professional developers by community and information hub StackOverflow, which itself has been heavily impacted by the addition of large language models (LLMs) to developer workflows. The survey found that four in five developers use AI too

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Apple shipped its 3 billionth iPhone

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-12-21 06:35:40

is a reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism over the past year, from its AI missteps to a strong distaste for its new design ethos. But the numbers don’t lie, and if Apple knows how to do anything it’s sell iPhones. Specifically, three billion of them, as CEO Tim Cook announced on the company’s earnings call tod

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Google must open Play Store to Epic Games and others after appeal loss

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:59:59

Be on the lookout for the Epic Games Store, as it should appear on the Google Play Store soon. After losing its appeal of a judge’s order, Google will now have to overhaul its app store policies. This includes letting third-party app stores onto its platform. Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided (via Bloomberg ) to uphold the ruling from the original Epic v. Google lawsuit. This decision found the Play Store and the tech giant’s payment systems to be monopolies. As a result, Google

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The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-21 11:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

Topics: antitrust homebuilders homebuilding housing market

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Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-21 11:05:48

Australia is famous for hosting the weirdest creatures we’ve ever seen. Sometimes, these weird creatures also come extra-large—like the newly discovered stick insect that researchers believe may be the heaviest of all Aussie insects. The insect, named Acrohylla alta, is about 15 inches (40 centimeters) long—about the height of a bowling pin—and weighs around 0.1 pounds (44 grams), slightly lighter than the heaviest golf ball. In a recent Zootaxa paper, wildlife researchers Angus Emmott and Ross

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 1, #782

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 10:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. But I admit I really liked the nostalgic blue category. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and t

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YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:27:34

Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system. Throughout the first half of August, YouTube will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18. No new user data will be collected, but those signals could include things like "the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of t

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Reddit wants to be a search engine now

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-21 11:01:14

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is “concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results f

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The Legacy of ‘Scavengers Reign’ Lives on Through Video Games

gizmodo.com Toussaint Egan 2025-12-21 16:15:57

It’s been little over a year since Scavengers Reign was canceled. Co-created by animator-producers Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, Scavengers Reign garnered a modest yet passionate fanbase and went on to earn an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program. Despite this, however, HBO Max—and by extension Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO Max’s parent company—chose not to renew the show for a second season, effectively canceling the series. Set in the distant future, the animated sci-fi drama

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Astonishing ‘Megaflash’ Sets World Record for Longest Lightning Strike

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-21 21:35:49

A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from eastern Texas to Kansas City. That “megaflash” shattered the previous record for longest lightning flash of 477 miles (768 kilometers), set in 2023. An international team of researchers documented the record-breaking flash in a new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Scientists were able to capture the flash thanks to advances in satellite techn

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Meta faces antitrust investigation over AI chatbot integration in WhatsApp

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-22 00:31:00

In brief: Meta began integrating its AI chatbot into WhatsApp in 2024, offering users easy access to its large language model service. This move may have breached Europe's antitrust laws, and Italian authorities are now weighing whether to impose a substantial fine on the US company. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) recently launched an antitrust investigation into Meta AI's integration within WhatsApp. In March 2025, Meta began pre-installing its AI chatbot in the messaging app, which

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Proton launches free and open-source Authenticator app to take on Google and Microsoft

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-12-22 02:20:00

What just happened? Swiss technology company Proton has expanded its privacy-focused software lineup with the launch of Proton Authenticator, a free and open-source two-factor authentication app. Best known for its encrypted webmail service, Proton also offers a VPN, password manager, cloud storage, and an online document editor. Proton Authenticator is positioned as a privacy-focused alternative to authentication apps from Google, Microsoft, Authy, and Duo. It replaces legacy SMS-based verific

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Hibernation’s Hidden Healing ‘Superpowers’ Could Be Locked in Our DNA

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-22 02:00:12

After spending months without eating, drinking, or moving, hibernating mammals must rebound from extreme physiological changes. Two new studies suggest that the genetic “superpowers” underlying this incredible resilience may also be present in the human genome. For these studies, published Thursday, July 31, in the journal Science, researchers at the University of Utah honed in on the specific DNA regions that help hibernators rapidly recover from muscle atrophy, insulin resistance, and brain d

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Latest Tech News

Long Term Support

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live

OpenAI reportedly raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

Truecaller’s call recording feature won’t work on iPhones from Sept. 30

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’

These Are the Switch 2 Launch Games You Should Actually Consider

Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine

Samsung TV glitch locks users out of apps worldwide

Android Auto now plays nicely with your phone’s color scheme

Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working

“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

Figma's top VCs are sitting on $24 billion worth of stock after massive IPO pop

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

Apple shipped its 3 billionth iPhone

Google must open Play Store to Epic Games and others after appeal loss

The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 1, #782

YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

Reddit wants to be a search engine now

The Legacy of ‘Scavengers Reign’ Lives on Through Video Games

Astonishing ‘Megaflash’ Sets World Record for Longest Lightning Strike

Meta faces antitrust investigation over AI chatbot integration in WhatsApp

Proton launches free and open-source Authenticator app to take on Google and Microsoft

Hibernation’s Hidden Healing ‘Superpowers’ Could Be Locked in Our DNA

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