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I swapped my Sonos soundbar for one with detachable rear speakers - genius or gimmick?

zdnet.com Christian De Looper 2026-01-16 10:19:00

JBL Bar 1000MK2 ZDNET's key takeaways The JBL Bar 1000MK2 includes a soundbar, two detachable rear speakers, and an external subwoofer for $1,200. It's a versatile system, with powerful audio performance suitable for large rooms. It's not an ideal option for people who want permanent rear speakers. $1,199.95 at Walmart $1,199.95 at B&H Photo-Video $1,199.95 at Crutchfield more buying choices The original JBL Bar 1000 made a compelling case for itself as a versatile soundbar for those who want

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Building Bluesky comments for my blog

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 08:56:01

I hate disqus too much. August 6, 2025 · ~6 min read I’ve been running my blog without decent comments for years. Not by choice, really - I just couldn’t find a solution that didn’t suck. Disqus? Slow, heavy, tracks users, and I don’t own anything. Plus it makes every page 100x slower to load. Self-hosted solutions? Great in theory. (not really.) You’re signing up to manage users, moderate spam, maintain databases, and deal with all the headaches that come with running basically a miniature

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ChatGPT Is Getting a Big Upgrade. Here's What's New With GPT-5

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-16 10:00:03

Expect your ChatGPT experience to get faster and smarter today. OpenAI updated its flagship line of large language models Thursday, unveiling the GPT-5 generative AI model after months of anticipation. While the developer has released a lot of model updates in recent months, including new open-weights models just this week, it's been more than two years since the debut of GPT-4. With a new generation worthy of a new number, how big of a change should you expect? "I tried going back to GPT-4 an

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HBO Max plans aggressive crack down on password sharing starting next month

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-16 15:43:57

Another major streaming platform is set to crack down on password sharing. JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery, just told investors that HBO Max will begin an "aggressive" messaging campaign about the practice beginning next month, according to an earnings report. Beyond stricter messaging, the company is looking to close any and all loopholes that allow users to share account passwords by the end of the year. Perette said the company has been testing to determin

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SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 12:20:56

SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to The Perl and Raku Foundation The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is thrilled to announce a substantial $11,500 donation from SUSE, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux and cloud-native and AI solutions providers. This generous contribution bolsters the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund and demonstrates SUSE’s commitment to the open-source ecosystem. This donation from SUSE is actually made up of two parts. $10,000 is being donated by SUSE LLC and an additional $1,5

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Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 14:56:01

I hate disqus too much. August 6, 2025 · ~6 min read I’ve been running my blog without decent comments for years. Not by choice, really - I just couldn’t find a solution that didn’t suck. Disqus? Slow, heavy, tracks users, and I don’t own anything. Plus it makes every page 100x slower to load. Self-hosted solutions? Great in theory. (not really.) You’re signing up to manage users, moderate spam, maintain databases, and deal with all the headaches that come with running basically a miniature

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-16 15:52:42

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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Is the Xperia line dead? Sony clarifies the future of its smartphones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-16 20:15:31

It’s no secret that Sony Xperia smartphones aren’t the best-selling phones, nor are they the top choice for Android flagships . Sony built a loyal niche of fans who buy its Xperia phones, but the market beyond them doesn’t pick up on the phones with as much enthusiasm. When the company’s latest flagship, the Xperia 1 VII, began dying and disappearing across markets , many presumed that the end was near for Sony’s Xperia line of phones. Sony is laying rest to those fears, indicating it is around,

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Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-16 20:22:50

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity . Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future. "We're excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. The controversial AI company has found itself embroile

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

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-16 20:43:00

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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“We Miss All the Trains to Get Rich”: The Real Story of Crypto and the Black Community

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-16 20:23:51

I’ve been at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Annual Convention in Cleveland since August 6. I came expecting to hear about the state of our industry under Donald Trump’s second presidency, especially how to navigate the administration’s anti-DEI policies, which many in the Black community see as a direct attack on progress. I thought the talk would be about AI: how to use it, how to control it, and whether it was a threat to our profession. I definitely did not expect to ta

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Peloton pivots to wellness alongside another layoff

theverge.com Victoria Song 2026-01-16 20:02:53

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Peloton has pivoted many times over the past few years in its quest to return to profitability. The latest, as announced in its Q4 2025 earnings call, is leaning into health and wellness instead of “just” cardio fitness. “With each passing year, we are coming to understand better the importance of strength, stress management, sleep,

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Pranksters Interrupt Education Secretary Linda McMahon With Circus Music

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-16 23:30:23

Pranksters were able to play disruptive audio clips, including the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme and circus music, during an interview with Education Secretary Linda McMahon at the Young America’s Foundation student conference in Washington D.C., on Wednesday. And Trump supporters would like you to know that they aren’t bothered by it at all. Not one little bit. McMahon, who previously worked as a professional wrestling promoter, was appointed by Trump to dismantle the Department of Education and

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OpenAI Is About to Make Employees Millionaires

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-17 00:36:36

It’s a figure so large it almost loses meaning: $500 billion. That is the staggering valuation OpenAI, the company behind the revolutionary ChatGPT, could soon command. The company is in discussions with investors for a deal that would allow its current and former employees to sell their privately held shares, a source familiar with the matter told Gizmodo. This type of deal, known in financial jargon as a secondary sale or a tender offer, would more than double OpenAI’s recent $260 billion val

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HBO Max is going to get even more annoying about password sharing

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-17 00:32:50

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. HBO Max’s password-sharing crackdown is about to get stricter. During an earnings call on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery streaming head JB Perette said prompts surrounding account sharing will become more persistent starting next month, pushing people toward p

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-17 00:18:23

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially incre

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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-17 05:40:42

imagedepotpro / Getty images ZDNET's key takeaways Linux desktop share tops 6% in Lansweeper's 15 million-system analysis. Consumer PCs hit 6% Linux vs 1.9% on AD-managed business systems. Europe outpaces North America in Linux adoption by industry. In an interview, Lansweeper, an IT asset discovery and inventory company, revealed to ZDNET that, in its analysis of over 15 million identified consumer desktop operating systems, it found that Linux desktops currently account for just over 6% o

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Maybe we should do an updated Super Cars

news.ycombinator.com Anders Herman 2026-01-17 04:30:23

We spoke with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern, the creators of Super Cars. We love top down racers here at Spillhistorie.no, and one of our old favourites from the Amiga days is Super Cars II. This eminently playable game doesn’t just feature fun racing, but adds weapons and other dirty tricks to the mix. This game from 1991 was developed by British duo Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris, better known as Magnetic Fields, and we were lucky enough to get them to answer a few questions for us. So

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 16:28:47

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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How to watch OpenAI’s ‘longer than usual’ GPT-5 reveal, as teased by a Death Star

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-17 10:28:31

“That’s no moon,” as Obi-Wan Kenobi once said. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stirred intrigue with a cryptic post last night showing the Death Star from Star Wars as a hint that something big is coming. That “something big” is undoubtedly GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model coming to ChatGPT. The company shared a less ambiguous post on X yesterday teasing the upcoming livestream. Since then, Altman has added that OpenAI’s next livestream will be “longer than usual” with a runtime of “about an hour.”

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Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Stewart 2026-01-17 09:24:58

For 9 years, from 8:30 am and 9:30 am, Danish photographer Peter Funch stood at the southern corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. In the rush of commuters, what he found was a glimpse of universal habits and the long trek to work. From 2007 to 2016 Funch carried out his project 42nd and Vanderbilt in which he captures the same person twice, mid-commute, leaving the viewer to wonder if they were photographed days, months, or even years apart. This simple surveillance exercise lets viewer

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Leonardo Chiariglione: “I closed MPEG on 2 June 2020”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 08:09:41

I needed an organisation that would create digital media standards for consumers to seamlessly communicate and industry operate in a global market of interoperable products, services and applications. I conceived that organisation in 1987, established it in 1988I, and called Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In four years, MPEG had ushered in the digital media age with MPEG-1, a standard for interactive media used in Video CD, digital audio broadcasting (MP2), and personal music (MP3). Starti

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Opendoor tanks after earnings as CEO thanks new investors for 'increased visibility'

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2026-01-16 02:25:42

With Opendoor shares up almost fivefold since the beginning of July and trading volumes hitting record levels, CEO Carrie Wheeler thanked investors for their "enthusiasm" on Tuesday's earnings call. "I want to acknowledge the great deal of interest in Opendoor lately and that we're grateful for it," Wheeler said, even as the stock sank more than 20% after hours. "We appreciate your enthusiasm for what we're building, and we're listening intently to your feedback." Prior to its recent surge, Op

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

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-17 21:23:45

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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The Emperor's New Trade Deal – Paul Krugman

news.ycombinator.com Paul Krugman 2026-01-17 21:26:33

On Tuesday Donald Trump went on CNBC to explain why the European Union is facing a tariff of “only” 15 percent. But what he said was simply delusional — and the delusion should be even more concerning than the tariffs. The Europeans, Trump asserted, had agreed to cough up $600 billion, which he described as a “gift,” not a loan. And he emphasized that this is “$600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want with it.” So Trump apparently believes that the European

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Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

news.ycombinator.com Rick Edmonds 2026-01-13 14:35:33

This article is part of The Poynter 50, a series reflecting on 50 moments and people that shaped journalism over the past half-century — and continue to influence its future. As Poynter celebrates its 50th anniversary, we examine how the media landscape has evolved and what it means for the next era of news. The decline of newspaper print classifieds and the ripple effects that gutted newsrooms began, by many accounts, in 1995. That’s when Craig Newmark invented Craigslist, the homely but oh-so

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About AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 18:05:43

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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"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure forces had hijacked it."

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 20:09:41

I needed an organisation that would create digital media standards for consumers to seamlessly communicate and industry operate in a global market of interoperable products, services and applications. I conceived that organisation in 1987, established it in 1988I, and called Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In four years, MPEG had ushered in the digital media age with MPEG-1, a standard for interactive media used in Video CD, digital audio broadcasting (MP2), and personal music (MP3). Starti

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Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results

wired.com Emily Mullin 2026-01-17 20:30:00

An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of more than 12 percent of body weight in individuals with obesity, according to initial trial results announced by the drugmaker on Thursday. The pill is meant to be taken daily and would be an alternative to the company’s popular anti-obesity drug Zepbound, a once-weekly injectable drug. Called orforglipron, it’s part of a growing class of drugs known as GLP-1s, which include Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy. The drugs mimic a

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Microsoft accidentally confirms GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano ahead of launch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-17 21:49:12

OpenAI is hosting a live stream at 10AM PT to announce GPT-5, but Microsoft has already confirmed the details. In a GitHub document, which has now been taken offline, Microsoft confirmed GPT-5 is launching later today. While it was obvious, this is the first official confirmation. Microsoft also offered more details on GPT-5 models, including the base model, which is called just GPT-5. It is designed for logic and multi-step tasks. We also have GPT-5-mini, which is a lightweight version for c

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I swapped my Sonos soundbar for one with detachable rear speakers - genius or gimmick?

Building Bluesky comments for my blog

ChatGPT Is Getting a Big Upgrade. Here's What's New With GPT-5

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Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog

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

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“We Miss All the Trains to Get Rich”: The Real Story of Crypto and the Black Community

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OpenAI Is About to Make Employees Millionaires

HBO Max is going to get even more annoying about password sharing

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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

Maybe we should do an updated Super Cars

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Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017)

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About AI

"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure forces had hijacked it."

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