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Vibe code is legacy code

news.ycombinator.com Steve Krouse 2025-12-31 06:13:20

Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists." Legacy code We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code. Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have the code, right? Can't you figure it out from there? Wrong. Code that nobody understands is tech debt. It takes a lot of time to understand unfamiliar code enough to debug it, let alone intro

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These ‘Haunted Mansion’ Figures Evoke the Spirit of the Classic Disneyland Ride

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-31 06:20:01

As summer draws to a close, The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland prepares for Jack Skellington to take over with his spooky Christmas mashup through the end of the year holidays. But the ghostly retreat evokes Halloween all year long and has become a Disney Store staple for collections inspired by the beloved attraction. With the latest Haunted Mansion merch drop, you can bring some of the spectral energy of the ride home for your seasonal fall decor. Two of the most standout pieces from the colle

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Senate confirms CDC director as top FDA official resigns under political pressure

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 06:09:06

As of yesterday, Susan Monarez is in and Vinay Prasad is out among top federal health officials. In a 51–47 vote along party lines, the Senate confirmed Monarez as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the first nominee for CDC director to be required to get Senate confirmation, following a 2022 law requiring it. She is also the first person to serve in the role without a medical degree since 1953. Monarez has a PhD in microbiology and immunology and previously

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SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-31 06:47:20

When longtime supervisor Robert Markert warned SpaceX leaders that one part of the rocket fairing recovery process could “easily cause serious injury or death,” he alleges he was ignored because “it was the more economical solution,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. A few months later, he was out of the job. Markert is one of two former SpaceX employees who have filed separate wrongful-termination lawsuits, both of which were removed to federal court earlier this month. The two complaints

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How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28M for their AI marketing automation startup

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-31 05:00:00

AI-powered marketing automation startup Conversion, founded five years ago by two UC Berkeley dropouts, has raised a $28 million Series A led by Abstract, with participation from True Ventures and HOF Capital. The company’s founding story sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” The story begins all the way back when co-founder and CEO Neil Tewari, now 24, was in high school. He got busted one day watching a TechCrunch Disrupt livestream during class, was sen

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Google proposes to open Play Store to more real-money games in India

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-31 11:57:19

Google has proposed sweeping changes to its Play Store and advertising policies in India, aiming to allow more real-money gaming apps onto its platforms in a bid to settle an ongoing antitrust case with a local online gaming platform WinZO. On Wednesday, India’s competition watchdog issued a public notice (PDF) inviting comments on a “commitment proposal” from Google, offering to expand access to its Play Store and advertising policy for more real-money gaming apps in the South Asian market. G

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 16:03:10

Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then said to be released Tuesday. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the initial decision to withhold the funding came from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration and Project 202

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iOS 26 updates for AirPods preview: Enhanced audio recording, camera remote and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 02:30:36

Of all the new iOS 26 features that Apple previewed at WWDC in June, AirPods updates were only briefly mentioned. Studio-quality audio recording and improved call clarity got top billing, while the addition of a camera remote control was also quickly discussed. However, when the beta software arrived last week, it turned out there were actually more features than described at the event, making this a meatier update for Apple’s recent AirPods than initially indicated. I’ve spent some time testing

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DJI's Amflow e-bikes are available to order in the US, but they don't come cheap

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 02:45:38

DJI's Amflow electric mountain bikes are now available to buy in the US , one full year after they made their way to European customers. These bikes include the company's proprietary and impressive Avinox drive system, which is built around a 1000W motor capable of producing 120Nm of max torque. This system is also light and compact, allowing for efficiently-designed bikes like the Amflow line. The Amflow PL e-bike weighs just over 40 pounds and includes a four-bar linkage structure, a rear sho

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it greatly improved performance)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-01-01 02:20:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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I tried Google's new agentic IDE, and it blows away the popular VS Code - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-01 02:36:48

MarinaZg/Getty Images For the longest time, Microsoft's VS Code has been one of the most popular IDEs (Integrated Developer Environment) on the market. It's free to use and includes all the features developers need to get the job done. Microsoft might have been shaking in its boots when Google revealed Project IDX, which was eventually rebranded as Firebase Studio. Also: The best AI for coding in 2025 (and what not to use) Firebase Studio is a full-stack (both front-end and back-end) AI work

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Before Nvidia, founder and CEO Jensen Huang designed microprocessors for...

techspot.com Unknown 2026-01-01 06:50:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: AMD When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for dial-up Internet? Long before Nvidia became a global leader in AI and computing, Jensen Huang was already making his mark in the semiconductor industry. After beginning his studies at Oregon State University at just 16 years old, Jensen graduated in 1984 with a degree in electrical engineering. He began his journey as a

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 06:17:07

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg . The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on the grounds that it's an educational tool. This irked other platforms, with Meta and TikTok urging the coun

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Show HN: A High-Altitude Low-Power Flight Computer for High-Altitude Balloons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 04:51:10

Tiny4FSK - The Lightweight Horus Binary Tracker Built for HABs WORK IN PROGRESS - Please do not rely on this as your only tracking system. Tiny4FSK is still in the R&D phase of development and testing. NEW - Incorporated new Rev. 4 PCB files and code (12/21/24). STATE - Rev. 4 is fully working! Currently testing. What is the Tiny4FSK project? Tiny4FSK aims to be an ultra-tiny high-altitude tracking system. It runs on 1 AA battery that lasts for 10-17 hours (a few seconds between position up

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Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 23:30:43

Researchers needed less than 48 hours with Google’s new Gemini CLI coding agent to devise an exploit that made a default configuration of the tool surreptitiously exfiltrate sensitive data to an attacker-controlled server. Gemini CLI is a free, open-source AI tool that works in the terminal environment to help developers write code. It plugs into Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s most advanced model for coding and simulated reasoning. Gemini CLI is similar to Gemini Code Assist except that it creates or

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PlayerZero raises $15M to prevent AI agents from shipping buggy code

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-01 06:00:00

As Silicon Valley races toward a future where AI agents do most of the software programming, a new problem is created: finding the AI-generated bugs before they are put into production. Even OpenAI is dealing with such issues, a former employee has described. Newly funded startup PlayerZero has created a solution: use AI agents trained to find and fix problems before the code is put into production, the startup’s CEO and sole founder, Animesh Koratana, tells TechCrunch. Koratana created Player

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How a New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-01-01 06:09:47

Skyrocketing demand for copper promises to push prices to new heights. As the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels, it is going to need twice as much copper in the coming years than humanity has mined throughout all of its existence. Still Bright, a New Jersey-based startup founded in 2022, thinks it has found a novel (and cleaner way) to slash those costs. “The fact that we’ve already mined the easily mineable stuff, and the fact that we need many more mines to come into producti

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A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-01 06:17:11

Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators. Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has since come back online and is available to download, TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, so Meta is rea

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NotebookLM's latest trick turns your notes into AI video slideshows - here's how

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-01 11:33:00

Google's NotebookLM went viral due to its Audio Overviews feature, which creates AI-generated podcasts between two hosts based on your content. Now, Google has also made a much-anticipated leap into video. Also: ChatGPT's study mode could be your next tutor - and it's free On Tuesday, Google launched Video Overviews, a feature originally unveiled at Google I/O, that creates narrated slides from your content. The feature adds visual components to Audio Overviews, with the AI hosts creating new

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Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 11:54:02

Hi HN, we’re Abhinav, Andy, and Jeremy, and we’re building Lucidic AI ( https://dashboard.lucidic.ai ), an AI agent interpretability tool to help observe/debug AI agents. Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/Zvoh1QUMhXQ. Getting started is easy with just one line of code. You just call lai.init() in your agent code and log into the dashboard. You can see traces of each run, cumulative trends across sessions, built-in or custom evals, and grouped failure modes. Call lai.create_step() with any metad

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How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-01 11:00:00

AI-powered marketing automation startup Conversion, founded five years ago by two UC Berkeley dropouts, has raised a $28 million Series A led by Abstract, with participation from True Ventures and HOF Capital. The company’s founding story sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” The story begins all the way back when co-founder and CEO Neil Tewari, now 24, was in high school. He got busted one day watching a TechCrunch Disrupt livestream during class, was sen

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The New ‘Zootopia 2’ Trailer Puts Nick and Judy Through Therapy

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-01-01 16:00:38

Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a closer look at its upcoming animated sequel film, Zootopia 2. While this isn’t our first look at the sequel to the 2016 Academy Award-winning film, the latest Zootopia 2 trailer offers more than just a catchy beat and character concepts. We now have a glimpse of the story. This time, rookie cop Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) are fresh off solving the biggest case in Zootopia history. Their next advent

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AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2026-01-01 15:15:00

The combined forces of escalating geopolitical tensions and rising defense budgets are spurring many electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) makers to take a two-pronged approach to building their aircraft: crewed vehicles for personal or commercial taxi use, and uncrewed vehicles meant for logistics and defense purposes. AIR, an Israel-based startup developing eVTOLs, thought it prudent to adopt a similar approach from the get-go, designing both its uncrewed and piloted aircraft with the

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At 10 years old, Ethereum's future is brighter than ever despite recent setbacks

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-01 21:30:55

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images It's been a decade since Ethereum's inception, and although its native ether token has largely struggled for the last half of it, its future looks brighter than ever. Ether has become more attractive to institutions in recent weeks largely due to legislation around stablecoins – most of which are issued on Ethereum – being signed into the first-ever U.S. crypto law. There's also th

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Runloop lands $7M to power AI coding agents with cloud-based devboxes

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-01 21:01:00

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 Runloop, a San Francisco-based infrastructure startup, has raised $7 million in seed funding to address what its founders call the “production gap” — the critical challenge of deploying AI coding agents beyond experimental prototypes into real-world enterprise environments. The funding round, led by The General Partnership with participati

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AT&T will give you $200 in gift cards for trying fiber internet - but time's running out

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-01 21:40:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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This Windows laptop is my pocket pick for best MacBook Pro alternative - and it's $800 off

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-01 21:47:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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We Tried Splendid Spoon. Here's What We Thought of the Vegan, Gluten-Free Meal Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 20:17:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.8 / 10 SCORE Splendid Spoon See at Splendid Spoon Pricing Starting at $8/meal Type Pre-made Regional Availability Continental United States Number of Meal Options per Week 40+ Menu Options/ Diet Types Plant-based, gluten-free non-GMO Score Breakdown Freshness 8 /10 Taste/results 8 /10 Value 6 /10 Recipe variety 9 /10 Healthiness 8 /10 Pros All meals are

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Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-01-01 21:00:00

Observe, an observability platform, was founded in 2017 in response to the changing nature of software observability. Companies started pushing out new versions of their software more frequently — and producing significantly more data because of it. Now, Observe is responding to the latest big shift in technology: AI. San Mateo-based Observe helps companies get an inside look at the status of their software, which makes it easier for engineers to spot and solve disruptions and outages. The re

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Robinhood's 175% rally this year is best among U.S. tech stocks

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-02 02:36:04

As Robinhood investors await second-quarter earnings, expectations are sky-high. The online broker, known for popularizing stock and crypto trading with young investors, has seen its shares surge 177% this year, outpacing all other U.S. tech companies valued at $5 or more, excluding those that went public in 2025. The next best performer is Palantir , up 107%. Robinhood's pop this year follows a 192% rally in 2024. The company's market cap now sits at $91 billion, putting it slightly behind Co

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Vibe code is legacy code

These ‘Haunted Mansion’ Figures Evoke the Spirit of the Classic Disneyland Ride

Senate confirms CDC director as top FDA official resigns under political pressure

SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

iOS 26 updates for AirPods preview: Enhanced audio recording, camera remote and more

DJI's Amflow e-bikes are available to order in the US, but they don't come cheap

How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it greatly improved performance)

I tried Google's new agentic IDE, and it blows away the popular VS Code - here's how

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

Show HN: A High-Altitude Low-Power Flight Computer for High-Altitude Balloons

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

PlayerZero raises $15M to prevent AI agents from shipping buggy code

How a New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs

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Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production

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