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Xero vs. QuickBooks: Which accounting platform is better?

zdnet.com Ritoban Mukherjee 2025-11-11 05:15:19

Allison Murray/ZDNET If you're trying to select an accounting platform that will grow with your business while managing costs effectively, both Xero and QuickBooks offer competing products starting at $29 per month. However, they're each good at different things. Also: The best budgeting apps of 2025 Xero stands out for its user-friendly interface and flexible pricing structure that includes unlimited users across all plans. The platform excels in international business support with multicurr

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We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test – They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

news.ycombinator.com Nati Tal 2025-11-11 00:03:56

This is the new reality we call " Scamlexity " - a new era of scam complexity , supercharged by Agentic AI. Familiar tricks hit harder than ever, while new AI-born attack vectors break into reality. In this world, your AI gets played, and you foot the bill. We built and tested three scenarios, from a fake Walmart store and a real in-the-wild Wells Fargo phishing site to PromptFix - our AI-era take on the ClickFix scam that hides prompt injection inside a fake captcha to directly take control of

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SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 22:29:02

SmallJS is a free and open source implementation of the elegant and powerful Smalltalk-80 (ST) language. It compiles to JavaScript (JS) that runs in modern browsers or in Node.js. SmallJS is file based, not image based, so you can develop in your favorite IDE. The default setup is for Visual Studio Code, with ST syntax coloring and step debugging! You code separately from the SmallJS base libraries (image) and only the parts you use are imported automatically when running your app. SmallJS is

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iPhone 17 Launch: Everything We Expect to Be Announced at Apple's September Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 05:00:06

There is nothing in this world that is certain, except for death, taxes and the reveal of a new iPhone every year. We're likely weeks away from Apple's iPhone 17 event, but we've already seen a lot of the product lineup through leaked photos and rumors. In addition to the base model, you can expect an iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max and a slim version, nicknamed the iPhone 17 Air to be revealed during the event. We're also likely to see an Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 and maybe an Ap

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If you’re a student, these are the Apple products you should get for Back to School

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-10 10:50:30

School is about to start back up for a lot of people, and with how integral technology is to the classroom, having a good computer is always important. If you’re looking to pick up a new Apple device for school or college, I’ll be going over the best picks right here. Obviously, when it comes to Apple gear for school, you have to go over the most important Apple debate: iPad or Mac. I won’t be giving advice in that regard, though I will say that iPadOS 26 makes using an iPad as your all-in-one

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Apple’s refurbished store might seem like a good deal, but is that actually the case?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-10 22:27:54

Apple has long offered a refurbished store on its website, where it sells recent generation products at a pretty sizable discount. Unlike other refurbished offerings, Apple guarantees a replaced outer shell, battery, and glass – ensuring no wear and tear. You also get a 1 year Apple warranty and the ability to add AppleCare if you’d like. That sounds great, but is it actually worth it? Well, it depends. We’ll be delving into Apple refurbished listings, and comparing it to other offerings on the

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 25, #336

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 03:50:22

Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. How well do you know your Premier League teams? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players tha

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A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-11-11 06:00:00

When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate that the tiny proto-nation—which had no permanent residents, barely any buildings, and a tendency to flood—was on track to fulfill its goal of becoming “the freest country on the planet.” But these days, Liberland has friends in high places. Liberland was founded in 2015 by Vít Jedlička, a euro-skeptic politician from Czechia who had come to view European democracies as blighted

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-10 10:00:35

In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which i

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Ether rises to a fresh record, bitcoin erases gains from Jackson Hole rally

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-11 02:28:39

Ether rose to a new record over the weekend, after hitting an all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency rose as high as $4,954.81 on Sunday afternoon. It was last higher by less than 1% at $4,776.46. Meanwhile, bitcoin at one point erased all the gains from its Friday rally, falling as low as $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. It was last trading lower by nearly 2% at about $112,000. The flagship cryptocurrency hit its most rec

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You’ll Squint and Wipe Your Glasses When You See This Leaked Data on How Much Microsoft Engineers Are Getting Paid

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:45:59

One of the more salient side effects of the incredible shrinking tech sector is the loss of so many high-paying jobs, many of which young jobseekers were encouraged to apply for by those who implored them to "learn to code." As such, we generally expect inflated salaries when we learn what people who work at Big Tech firms make — between $120,000 and $160,000 for entry-level positions, say, and up to a half a million dollars for middle management. That's what makes it so weird when, upon looki

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The first premium handheld from Ayaneo's budget brand arrives in September

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 21:35:33

Known for its premium handhelds that often go for more than $1,000, Ayaneo announced a higher-end version of the first handheld to release under its more affordable sub-brand called KONKR. Ayaneo revealed the new Android gaming handheld, called the Pocket Fit Elite, in a YouTube video that detailed most of its specs. The Pocket Fit Elite will be built with a six-inch 1080p display that has a 144Hz refresh rate, an 8,000 mAh battery, and Hall effect joysticks and triggers. However, Ayaneo didn't

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Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 17:01:24

Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le

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The two versions of Parquet

news.ycombinator.com Jerónimo López 2025-11-06 20:34:32

A few days ago, the creators of DuckDB wrote the article: Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format, which explained how the engines that process Parquet files as SQL tables are blocking the evolution of the format. This is because those engines are not fully supporting the latest specification, and without this support, the rest of the ecosystem has no incentive to adopt it. In my experience, this issue is not limited to Query Engines but extends to the tools within the ecosystem.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 25, #806

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 23:00:04

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 was all over the place for me. I solved the blue category right away, but did not even see the purple theme coming. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there aft

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Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 17:45:22

In a blog post this week, Microsoft's head of AI Mustafa Suleyman responded to the drastic rise in mental health crises stemming from AI use, calling for caution "about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence." At the core of Suleyman's argument isn't the dystopian threat of AI gaining consciousness — an idea currently grounded more in fantasy than scientific evidence, according to many researchers — but the belief that it already is. "My central worry is that many people will sta

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The days of custom Android ROMs are numbered, and Google is to blame

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 16:00:34

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android used to be synonymous with freedom. If you didn’t like your phone’s interface or bloatware, you could simply install a custom ROM — the colloquial term for a forked version of the Android operating system. But that golden era is quickly disappearing, as yet another major Android fork has run into troubles. CalyxOS, a major privacy-focused Android distribution, announced a sudden freeze on future releases earlier this month. While the project isn’t di

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The Pixel 10 is unquestionably the best phone for people fed up with the iPhone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 20:00:04

Google has tried for years to lure iPhone owners to Pixel phones. This has even manifested in the company’s Best Friends Forever series of videos, as well as an RCS messaging campaign targeting Apple. That’s in addition to features like the Android Switch app and wired transfer capabilities to help make it easier to move your data. Now that the Pixel 10 phones are here, though, they might just be the best Android phones for people coming from iPhones. And it doesn’t have anything to do with qui

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These are the Apple products that students should start with – Back to School Guide

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-10 22:50:30

School is about to start back up for a lot of people, and with how integral technology is to the classroom, having a good computer is always important. If you’re looking to pick up a new Apple device for school or college, I’ll be going over the best picks right here. Obviously, when it comes to Apple gear for school, you have to go over the most important Apple debate: iPad or Mac. I won’t be giving advice in that regard, though I will say that iPadOS 26 makes using an iPad as your all-in-one

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 00:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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Google Pixel 10 Pro vs. iPhone 16 Pro: I've used both handsets, and there's a clear winner

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-10 16:00:25

Kerry Wan/ZDNET After the success of launching four flagship phones last year, Google is set to continue the trend with the new Pixel 10 series. The Google Pixel 10 Pro stands out as potentially the best option for many people. With a starting price of $999, it offers a compelling blend of premium features borrowed from its more expensive sibling, all in the more manageable size of the standard Pixel 10. Also: Everything announced at Made by Google 2025: Pixel 10 Pro, Fold, Watch 4, and more

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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: I compared both Androids, and here's the winner

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-10 18:00:20

Joseph Maldonado and Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold has finally arrived, and it isn't taking on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a generational design leap. Instead, it competes by adding quality-of-life features -- a couple of which are industry-firsts for a foldable phone. If you are ready to upgrade from a slab phone to a foldable one, now is the best time to do so. However, it can be confusing to make a decision when both Google and Samsung book-style foldables are so good this year.

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Turning Claude Code into my best design partner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:06:03

Published on August 18, 2025 When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about

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US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices

news.ycombinator.com Spencer Kimball 2025-11-10 22:22:36

Witthaya Prasongsin | Moment | Getty Images President Donald Trump's attack on solar and wind projects threatens to raise energy prices for consumers and undermine a stretched electric grid that's already straining to meet rapidly growing demand, renewable energy executives warn. Trump has long said wind power turbines are unattractive and endanger birds, and that solar installations take up too much land. This week, he said his administration will not approve solar and wind projects, the lates

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A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 18:15:03

A Short Introduction to Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distance These notes provide a brief introduction to optimal transport theory, prioritizing intuition over mathematical rigor. A more rigorous presentation would require some additional background in measure theory. Other good introductory resources for optimal transport theory include: Why Optimal Transport Theory? A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to come up with useful measures of “distance” between pairs o

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Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:01:24

Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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Can't Get Your Baby to Calm Down? Try This Hidden iPhone Feature

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 17:00:03

Comforting a crying baby can be difficult, especially if you aren't getting enough sleep. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, playing calming sounds via a white noise machine can help soothe your baby and get them to settle down -- and give you a moment of respite. But instead of buying a white noise machine, you could save money and use your iPhone instead. When Apple released iOS 15 in 2021, the operating system brought a hidden feature to your iPhone called Background Sounds. It

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First World Humanoid Robot Games: Highlights and Fails

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 20:00:05

China hosted the first World Humanoid Robot Games last week, featuring events like kickboxing, soccer, and track and field as well as real-world tasks like cleaning and climbing stairs. There were plenty of robotic triumphs, including China's own Unitree, which took home the most medals, including four Golds in track and field events. There were also plenty of robot fails, including brutal knockouts in kickboxing, flops on the race track and painful pile-ups on the soccer field where robots fe

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8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-11-10 20:00:00

The Nintendo 64 was a fantastic console, home to generation-defining games such as Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. With its four built-in controller ports, it revolutionized multiplayer gaming in front of the TV, and it was the first mainstream console to introduce an analog stick, essential for navigating the burgeoning 3D worlds the medium was starting to deliver. Unfortunately, the controller it did all that with was an abomination, an unholy three-pronged monstrosity that earned my lifelo

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