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Local-first software (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 20:45:39

Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, and Mark McGranaghan. Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud. 2019 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward!), October 2019, pages 154–178. doi:10.1145/3359591.3359737 This article has also been published in PDF format in the proceedings of the Onward! 2019 conference . Please cite it as: We share some of our findings from developing local-fi

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Major Satellite Suddenly Disappears

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-10 21:45:58

A satellite designed to monitor human-made methane emissions has gone missing in space. Dubbed MethaneSAT, the $88 million spacecraft was launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket in March 2024 and was expected to collect data on the potent greenhouse gas for at least five years. But for the past two weeks, the satellite's operators, the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund, have been unable to establish contact. Now, in a final blow, mission control says that MethaneSAT has lost power, crus

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Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today

news.ycombinator.com Liam Dawe 2025-08-11 01:33:00

Time really flies huh? GamingOnLinux has now been around officially for 16 years. Over the last year or two we've seen a good few other sites shut down, some had big layoffs, others got sold and turned into gambling sites, and various got sold off to the owners of IGN but we're still here to keep reporting on everything related somehow to Linux and the wider gaming industry. A big thank you as always to everyone reading, commenting and sharing our articles. An extra big thank you to all our sup

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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 01:45:39

Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, and Mark McGranaghan. Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud. 2019 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward!), October 2019, pages 154–178. doi:10.1145/3359591.3359737 This article has also been published in PDF format in the proceedings of the Onward! 2019 conference . Please cite it as: We share some of our findings from developing local-fi

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French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com A Nerd With A Passion For Open Source Software 2025-08-10 23:35:53

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services. Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure. Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without consent. This g

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VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention

news.ycombinator.com Woosuk Kwon 2025-08-09 10:16:20

GitHub | Documentation | Paper LLMs promise to fundamentally change how we use AI across all industries. However, actually serving these models is challenging and can be surprisingly slow even on expensive hardware. Today we are excited to introduce vLLM, an open-source library for fast LLM inference and serving. vLLM utilizes PagedAttention, our new attention algorithm that effectively manages attention keys and values. vLLM equipped with PagedAttention redefines the new state of the art in LL

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Pilou Asbæk on Playing the Mule, ‘Foundation’ Season 3’s Terrifying Villain

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-11 14:00:21

Long before joining Apple TV+ series Foundation as the Mule—season three‘s ruthless, flamboyant, and deeply complicated villain—Pilou Asbæk already had a fan base of genre TV watchers. He played Euron Greyjoy (a ruthless, flamboyant, deeply complicated villain) on HBO’s Game of Thrones. There’s a connection there, but to hear the Danish actor tell it, the similar characters are not a reflection of his actual personality whatsoever. “I’m the most boring guy alive,” Asbæk told io9 at a recent Fou

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Hacker leaks Telefónica data allegedly stolen in a new breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-12 14:11:26

A hacker is threatening to leak 106GB of data allegedly stolen from Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica in a breach that the company did not acknowledge. The threat actor has leaked a 2.6GB archive that unpacks into five gigabytes of data with a little over 20,000 files to prove that the breach occurred. Partial leak with data allegedly stolen from Telefónica The breach allegedly occurred on May 30 and the hacker claims they had 12 hours of uninterrupted data exfiltration before de

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Big Brother at the Border Is Searching for a ‘Hidden Language’ in People’s Text Messages

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-12 14:20:00

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a bad snooping habit, and it’s looking for a little help to get its fix. According to a report from Wired, the agency is currently asking tech companies to pitch it ideas for a digital forensics tool that would allow it to process and analyze data from seized phones and computers and potentially uncover “hidden” patterns. In a federal registry listing from June, CBP said it is seeking a tool that can scan text messages, pictures, videos, con

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Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 05:28:34

Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past. Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

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How AI on Microcontrollers Works: Operators and Kernels

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Mangum 2025-08-09 12:53:11

The buzz around “edge AI”, which means something slightly different to almost everyone you talk to, is well past reaching a fever pitch. Regardless of what edge AI means to you, the one commonality is typically that the hardware on which inference is being performed is constrained in one or more dimensions, whether it be compute, memory, or network bandwidth. Perhaps the most constrained of these platforms are microcontrollers. I have found that, while there is much discourse around “running AI

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How often is the query plan optimal?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 15:19:27

The basic promise of a query optimizer is that it picks the “optimal” query plan. But there’s a catch - the plan selection relies on cost estimates, calculated from selectivity estimates and cost of basic resources (I/O, CPU, …). So the question is, how often do we actually pick the “fastest” plan? And the truth is we actually make mistakes quite often. Consider the following chart, with durations of a simple SELECT query with a range condition. The condition is varied to match different fracti

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How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: Operators and Kernels

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Mangum 2025-08-09 17:53:11

The buzz around “edge AI”, which means something slightly different to almost everyone you talk to, is well past reaching a fever pitch. Regardless of what edge AI means to you, the one commonality is typically that the hardware on which inference is being performed is constrained in one or more dimensions, whether it be compute, memory, or network bandwidth. Perhaps the most constrained of these platforms are microcontrollers. I have found that, while there is much discourse around “running AI

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Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 11:42:46

June 30, 2025 Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when you want to read a given piece of data, you don't have to go all the way back to some backend database or API server or SSD and can instead just read from some faster location like memory for the same data. Caching is thus a tool to improve performance. My feelings now are that t

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Walmart’s Android 14 update for Onn devices returns after widespread bricking issues

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 06:08:38

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR Walmart paused the rollout of its Android 14 update for Onn streaming devices after widespread reports of bricked units. The company recently started rolling out a fresh build with update-related bug fixes to address the issue. The update is available for the Onn 4K Pro, Onn Stick, and newer Onn 4K models. Walmart recently released the long-awaited Android 14 update for its Onn 4K Pro streaming box. In a surprise move, the company also extended the updat

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Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-14 06:36:44

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device spilled email addresses, plain-text passwords, and other sensitive data belonging to 62,000 users, a researcher discovered recently. A security flaw in the app, branded Catwatchful, allowed researcher Eric Daigle to download a trove of sensitive data, which belonged to account holders who used the covert app to monitor phones. The leak, made possible by a SQL injection vu

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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 02:42:46

June 30, 2025 Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when you want to read a given piece of data, you don't have to go all the way back to some backend database or API server or SSD and can instead just read from some faster location like memory for the same data. Caching is thus a tool to improve performance. My feelings now are that t

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A Game Called 'Date Everything' Literally Lets You Date Everything—Except People

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-08-14 18:45:13

Lux, a catty, bottle blonde personification of my house lights, has just informed me we’re dating—as long as I can follow a few rules. The influencer, whose head is haloed by a ring light, has a few notable ones: I need to take them out to the most chic restaurants for every meal. Sex only when they want to film for their “Fans Only” account. The relationship ends when they find someone “richer or more famous.” Agree, and their brittle love is mine. I want to unplug all my lamps and throw them

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One UI 8 will let any app show a Live Notification in Samsung’s Now Bar

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 22:31:09

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s One UI 8 will enhance its Live Notifications feature by adopting Android 16’s new “Live Updates” API for broader third-party app support. This new API allows any app to create live, ongoing notifications, a major improvement from the previous version limited to mostly first-party Samsung apps. The feature is currently available in the One UI 8 beta behind a developer flag but is expected to be enabled for everyone in the final stable release.

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IdeaLab confirms data stolen in ransomware attack last year

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-14 22:14:56

IdeaLab is notifying individuals impacted by a data breach incident last October when hackers accessed sensitive information. Although the organization does not describe the type of attack, the Hunters International ransomware group has claimed the breach and leaked the stolen data on the dark web. IdeaLab is a California-based technology startup incubator that since 1996 has launched over 150 companies, including GoTo.com, CitySeach, eToys, Authy, Pet.net, Heliogen, and Energy Vault. Being o

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Best Cellphone Plans of 2025: Our Top Picks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 17:40:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you're feeling overwhelmed when evaluating all the phone plan options out there, you're not alone -- and it's not an accident. Carriers need to appeal to every type of customer, from people who want all the options to those who need only a small slice of features on a budget. We've put together recommendations from major carri

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Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 19:39:00

If you compare the specifics of T-Mobile's Essentials and Essentials Saver plans, you might think the company forgot to update one or the other -- they're Essential-ly the same. With both, you get 50GB of fast Premium 5G data (depending on the network capabilities in your area), which drops to 3G speeds of still-unlimited data after that allotment is used up. You can use your phone as a mobile hotspot with unlimited data, but only at 3G speeds and restricted to paltry 2G speeds when you're in Ca

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Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-08-16 02:41:19

The Datadog stand is being displayed on day one of the AWS Summit Seoul 2024 at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea, on May 16, 2024. Datadog shares were up 10% in extended trading on Wednesday after S&P Global said the monitoring software provider will replace Juniper Networks in the S&P 500 U.S. stock index. S&P Global is making the change effective before the beginning of trading on July 9, according to a statement. Computer server maker Hewlett Packard Enterpri

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Capital One builds agentic AI to supercharge auto sales

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-15 04:26:12

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 Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems. At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business. Milind Naphade, SVP of Technology and Head of AI Foundations at Capital One, said during VB Transform that the company wanted its agents to function

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New macOS malware targets crypto and Web3 startups with fake Zoom update

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-16 14:53:43

North Korean hackers are behind a new and unusually sophisticated macOS malware campaign that targets the crypto industry using fake Zoom invites. Here’s how it works. Dubbed “NimDoor” by researchers at SentinelLabs, the attack is more sophisticated than the typical macOS threat, and it chains together AppleScript, Bash, C++, and Nim to exfiltrate data and maintain access in compromised systems. Here’s SentinelLabs’ executive summary of the hack: DPRK threat actors are utilizing Nim-compiled

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Tinder Users Must Start Logging In With Their Faces

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-16 18:06:00

California Tinder users will find a new feature when they open up the dating app on July 7: A mandatory Face Check on their phones will be required before they can log into their profiles. The Face Check step will begin with a new request to record a video of your face, a more casual version of setting up Apple's Face ID login. Tinder will then run checks comparing your face data to your current profile pics and automatically create a small face badge for your profile. We know just how it works

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Android 16 QPR1 adds full support for Live Updates, but apps will need changes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-16 22:10:07

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is preparing to launch “Live Updates,” a feature similar to iOS’s Live Activities that prominently displays progress-style notifications. Once live, these special notifications will appear fully expanded on the lock screen and as a persistent chip in the status bar for at-a-glance updates. The feature is already fully functional in the latest Android 16 QPR1 beta, suggesting it will likely roll out in the next quarterly update. Google’s stable

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Google’s mandatory Pixel 6a battery management starts arriving next week

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-16 22:52:56

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google updated the Pixel 4a for battery management concerns earlier this year. We recently spotted Google planning a similar approach to battery failures on the Pixel 6a. Google now shares its full Pixel 6a strategy, with an update heading out July 8. Google’s got a battery problem with Pixel phones. Early this year, we learned of Google’s plan to issue a new update for the aging Pixel 4a, but rather than giving the phone a fresh version of Android, this

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Spain arrests hackers who targeted politicians and journalists

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-16 22:30:05

The Spanish police have arrested two individuals in the province of Las Palmas for their alleged involvement in cybercriminal activity, including data theft from the country's government. The duo has been described as a "serious threat to national security" and focused their attacks on high-ranking state officials as well as journalists. They leaked samples of the stolen data online to build notoriety and inflate the selling price. "The investigation began when agents detected the leakage of p

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The Ultrahuman Ring Air Shamed Me Into Ditching Unhealthy Habits

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-16 22:00:00

This is a little embarrassing to admit as someone who reviews wearables for a living, but the Ultrahuman Ring Air is my first-ever smart ring. I've tested just about every smartwatch and fitness tracker on the market, but never a ring. And honestly, that probably makes me the perfect person to review it -- not as a biohacking pro, but as someone who went into this exactly how most buyers would: curious, slightly skeptical and wondering whether it would make me ditch my smartwatch. Better yet, wo

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Latest Tech News

Local-first software (2019)

Major Satellite Suddenly Disappears

Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention

Pilou Asbæk on Playing the Mule, ‘Foundation’ Season 3’s Terrifying Villain

Hacker leaks Telefónica data allegedly stolen in a new breach

Big Brother at the Border Is Searching for a ‘Hidden Language’ in People’s Text Messages

Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

How AI on Microcontrollers Works: Operators and Kernels

How often is the query plan optimal?

How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: Operators and Kernels

Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

Walmart’s Android 14 update for Onn devices returns after widespread bricking issues

Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

A Game Called 'Date Everything' Literally Lets You Date Everything—Except People

One UI 8 will let any app show a Live Notification in Samsung’s Now Bar

IdeaLab confirms data stolen in ransomware attack last year

Best Cellphone Plans of 2025: Our Top Picks

Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index

Capital One builds agentic AI to supercharge auto sales

New macOS malware targets crypto and Web3 startups with fake Zoom update

Tinder Users Must Start Logging In With Their Faces

Android 16 QPR1 adds full support for Live Updates, but apps will need changes

Google’s mandatory Pixel 6a battery management starts arriving next week

Spain arrests hackers who targeted politicians and journalists

The Ultrahuman Ring Air Shamed Me Into Ditching Unhealthy Habits

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