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If You're Remote, Ramble

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-12-25 00:32:51

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion. People typically post short updates 1-3 times per week. Common topics include: ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, artic

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The Crisis of Professional Skepticism

news.ycombinator.com 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳 2025-12-24 16:37:01

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese.” Marley’s ghost visiting Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843), illustration by John Leech. (Public Domain Review) Friends, I am reproducing this article gratis. I have a purpose in doing so. I wish to earn nothing from the intellectual vacuity of pseudo-skepticism, even when, as here, I correct its excesses. This piece originally appeared February 27, 2023, at Medium. -M- ____________________________

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Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:00:19

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you a new development from the blossoming world of child surveillance: the sneaker brand Skechers is selling new kids shoes that come with a hidden AirTag compartment, enabling parents to quietly track their meandering progeny at all times. Readers, we're officially Skech'd out. According to the sneaker company, the tiny Apple tracking devices can be slotted into a hole in the heel of the shoes that's accessed by lifting the sole. Th

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How I do support and community

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 11:29:05

I could see myself running a hotel. A little world where the architecture is otherworldly. And of course, the service is impeccable – because nothing matters more in any business than how customers are treated. (source) I collected this photo as inspiration ~14 years ago. Feels good to finally use it. But while it’s normal for one night in a hotel to cost ~$300, most people expect the price of a month of using pro-grade software – some of which cost millions of dollars to produce and maintain

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Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering (Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 16:00:36

About Great Question Great Question is on a mission to help businesses build better products by making customer research fast, easy, and scalable. We’re a Series A B2B SaaS company backed by top-tier investors and trusted by leading brands like Gusto, Miro, Brex, and Canva. Our all-in-one research platform enables teams to recruit participants, run interviews and surveys, and analyze insights — all in one place. As we enter the era of AI, we’re pioneering automated qualitative analysis to help

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I'm Rethinking Amusement Park Rides for Good After Watching Netflix's 'Critical' Docuseries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 15:00:08

Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 21, the new original docuseries Critical: Between Life and Death made a big impression on viewers, ranking No. 7 in the platform's most-watched shows. While medical shows -- including series like The Pitt, Pulse and ER -- have always been popular, Critical is an unscripted documentary that depicts real-life emergencies as they're happening. What makes it so captivating is the int

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July Steam Survey: RTX 5000 surge, new top GPU, 4 in 10 participants using AMD CPUs

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-24 17:43:00

What just happened? Here's a clear indication that the supply and pricing problems which have plagued Nvidia's RTX 5000 series are easing: the cards experienced a large uptick in user share in the latest Steam survey. However, there's still no sign of AMD's 9000-series in the main GPU chart, where the RX 7600 XT has only just appeared. Elsewhere, we've got a new most-popular card among participants, and AMD processors have passed a milestone. Starting with the main GPU chart, July's results sho

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Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-24 20:24:00

What just happened? Numerous organizations have repeatedly warned ChatGPT users over the years never to share personal information with OpenAI's chatbot. A recent incident involving a now-removed feature reveals that potentially thousands of people disclosed deeply intimate information with ChatGPT and also inadvertently made it discoverable through Google search. OpenAI recently confirmed that it has deactivated an opt-in feature that shared chat histories on the open web. Although the functio

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How Florida quietly surpassed California in solar growth

cnbc.com Lisa Setyon Jeniece Pettitt 2025-12-24 21:00:01

Solar energy is booming across the U.S. and, for the first time, Florida is catching up to industry powerhouses Texas and California. Despite removing climate change from its official state policy in 2024, Florida added more utility-scale solar than California last year, with over 3 gigawatts of new capacity coming online. "This is not a fluke," said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie. "Florida is now shaping national solar growth." The surge is being driven by utilities,

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I bought Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025 - here's why I have buyer's remorse

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-24 15:00:13

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is on sale for $650 in four color options. Its display is vibrant and large, the battery lasts through a couple of days, and LTE is provided at no extra cost. It comes in a single 47mm size, gesture support is limited, and external sensor connections are not supported. $649.99 at Amazon Last year's Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra was my favorite Google WearOS smartwatch, so when I saw the 2025 Watch Ultra with its new

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Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001

news.ycombinator.com Mass Werk 2025-12-24 17:36:21

Character Bitmap Graphics on the PET 2001 July 30, 2025 How to impress with bitmaps from nothing. In 2022, Genesis Project (that is: Elder0010 and LRNZ) released a very impressive demo for the Commodore PET 2001 (the original machine and the upgraded PET 2001-N), “A Bright Shining Star”. Among a few other experiments, it showed high-res graphics (in animation) and static bitmap graphics in a vertical strip spanning over 10 characters or 80 pixels. As readers of this blog may be aware of alre

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Caches: LRU vs. Random

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 23:45:02

Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn't so bad. That random eviction isn't bad can be surprising — if your cache fills up and you have to get rid of something, choosing the least recently used (LRU) is an obvious choice, since you're more likely to use something if you've used it recently. If you have a tight loop, LRU is going to be perfect as long as the loop fits in cache, but it's going to cause a miss every t

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We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

news.ycombinator.com Paul Bloom 2025-12-24 14:52:36

These days, everyone seems to have an opinion about A.I. companions. Last year, I found myself joining the debate, publishing a paper—co-written with two fellow psychology professors and a philosopher—called “In Praise of Empathic A.I.” Our argument was that, in certain ways, the latest crop of A.I.s might make for better company than many real people do, and that, rather than recoiling in horror, we ought to consider what A.I. companions could offer to those who are lonely. This, perhaps unsur

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-24 16:00:50

We’re talking about the birds. Great tits are small, yellowish songbirds common to the woodlands of Europe. Tit pairs are known to be monogamous during breeding season, splitting up after fully raising their offspring. But new research suggests that this “tit divorce” may be the product of complex social relationships formed during and after the breeding season. Published July 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the paper reports that not all tit pairs separate in late summer when breedi

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Bronze Age Humans Got High on Psychoactive Betel Nuts

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-24 18:00:44

Long before Ethiopian monks in the 9th century discovered that coffee tree fruit helped them stay awake during evening prayer (according to legend, anyway), communities in Southeast Asia have been chewing betel nuts—the seeds of the areca palm and a stimulant that heightens people’s alertness, energy, euphoria, and relaxation—since antiquity. But new research indicates that betel nut chewing has been practiced for even longer. By studying ancient dental plaque from Bronze Age individuals in Tha

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 17:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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The enforcer that could break up Apple and Google is facing upheaval

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-12-24 20:00:00

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The sudden firing of two high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval at an agency responsible for arguing some of the biggest tech monopoly cases in decades. Two top deputies to Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater were fired earlier this

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This is my favorite Android launcher, and it’s not the one you think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:00:50

Nathan Drescher / Android Authority We’re probably a lot alike when it comes to launchers. I’ve been bouncing between them for years, trying each one out, getting excited about updates and then being let down when they offered nothing new. I’ve paid for pro launchers and tried going with the locked down stock launcher on a Google Pixel, but nothing really stuck, until Smart Launcher 6. My Redmagic 10 Pro is my current daily driver. However, its stock launcher is the definition of “just good en

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-24 18:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-24 21:49:02

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup The inclusion of chess in this year's schedule was somewhat controversial, but the tournament's organisers argued it counted as an esport as it is played by millions of people of all ages. The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports Worl

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Kleiner Perkins is having a very good week

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-24 17:04:04

Even while the tech industry is still fanning its face over Figma’s hot IPO on Thursday, another significant tech IPO occurred this week: Ambiq Micro. On Wednesday, the chip maker for wearable devices saw its shares climb from the initial price of $24 to over $42 on Friday. There’s one thing both companies have in common: Kleiner Perkins was a major investor. So it’s been a very good week for the venerable venture firm. Just for fun, we’ve calculated the value of Kleiner Perkins’ stake in each

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Almost All Rain Drops Contain the Same Weird Chemical

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 23:03:52

Since the rise of commercial chemical manufacturing in the 1940s, the environment has been plagued by a growing concentration of man-made substances like microplastics, PCBs, and bisphenols. There's even a new one rising to prominence: the chemical compound trifluoroacetic acid, or TFA. New reporting by Nature detailed the troubling rise of TFA and its inexorable creep into every corner of the natural world. TFA comes mostly from synthetic petrochemicals found in pesticides and landfills, wher

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The second-gen Apple Watch is now ‘obsolete’, but don’t get confused

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-25 00:05:08

Five years after Apple stops selling a product, it may become ‘vintage’, meaning Apple will still repair it. Five years after that, it can become ‘obsolete,’ and Apple no longer offers hardware service or parts. Today’s that day for the Apple Watch Series 1. Here’s what that means Wait, is it the Series 1, or the 2nd-gen Apple Watch? In a nutshell, both. They’re the same picture device. When Apple released the original Apple Watch in 2015, it didn’t have a Series number. The next year, when Ap

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Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-12-25 09:21:29

Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes: The bitter lesson is based on the historical observations that 1) AI researchers have often tried to build knowledge into their agents, 2) this always helps in the short term, and is personally satisfying to the researcher, but 3) in the long r

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OpenAI may be testing a cheaper paid plan for ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-25 15:16:00

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new plan called 'Go,' which would be cheaper than the existing $20 Plus subscription. Like every other AI chatbot, ChatGPT has two plans. One is Plus, which gives access to new models and a few features for $20, and the second is the Pro plan. The Pro plan costs $200 and provides nearly unlimited access to AI models. It also includes access to new features. But what if you have a limited use case for ChatGPT and don't need access to advanced features like Ag

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A backlog at the Commerce Department is reportedly stalling Nvidia’s H20 chip licenses

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-25 15:30:14

In Brief Earlier in July, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick gave chipmakers like Nvidia the green light to start selling certain AI chips in China again, but his department is said to be holding things up. According to reporting from Reuters, Nvidia has yet to receive a license to sell its H20 AI chips. The U.S. Department of Commerce is currently sitting on a backlog of licensing applications due to turmoil within the department, in large part because of a loss of staff and a breakdo

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Samsung posts brutal financials as chip business profits plunge by 94%

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-25 20:32:00

What just happened? Samsung's chip division has been in trouble for months, but the latest quarterly results confirm the slump is even deeper than feared. The company now faces heavy losses in semiconductors even as other divisions struggle to keep its profits afloat. Samsung Electronics recently posted its second-quarter financial results, and they're worse than expected. According to CBNC, the Korean tech giant reported revenue of 74.6 trillion won ($53.7 billion US), slightly up from 74.07 t

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OpenAI is removing ChatGPT conversations from Google

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 20:47:35

OpenAI has removed a feature that made shared ChatGPT conversations appear in search results. The "short-lived experiment" was based on the chatbot's link creation option. After complaints, OpenAI's chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said the company is working to remove the chats from search engines. The public outrage stems from a Fast Company article from earlier this week (via Ars Technica). Fast Company said it found thousands of ChatGPT conversations in Google search result

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Why Nintendo didn’t raise the price of the Switch 2 (yet)

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-12-25 20:00:00

Just about every piece of hardware that Nintendo sells is getting a little more expensive in the US — with the exception of the Switch 2. That includes all models of the original Switch, a bunch of accessories, and even a motion-activated alarm clock. The changes were made ahead of sweeping Trump administration tariffs that are scheduled to go into effect in August, and they show Nintendo is leaning on a strategy that it has employed across its business: largely avoiding risk. Raising the price

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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

news.ycombinator.com Nicholas Khami 2025-12-25 22:59:51

July 30, 2025 , Nicholas Khami I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself For over a year, I was bugged by a search quirk on Mintlify that caused race conditions and wonky search results. Here’s the fun irony: I was the founder of Trieve, the company that powered search for their 30,000+ documentation sites, yet their debounced search queries weren’t being aborted as you typed. Check out this delightful chaos: I had brought this up in our shared Slack before when I was just a

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

Bronze Age Humans Got High on Psychoactive Betel Nuts

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

The enforcer that could break up Apple and Google is facing upheaval

This is my favorite Android launcher, and it’s not the one you think

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

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