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The untold impact of cancellation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 05:12:04

Warning: towards the end of this post are references to suicide, which may be distressing to some readers. Discretion is advised. The Untold Impact of Cancellation I have never before been open about the impact that being cancelled had upon me. Cancellations try to silence their targets, so their stories are less often heard. This is my account. As you read about my experience over the last four years, you may come to understand why I have found it so hard to share. This is my own unique sto

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Yes in My Bamako Yard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 17:22:26

YIMBYs have been winning in some of the most productive cities on Earth. Legislative victories in California and the UK have made it easier — if still not easy — to build. The logic of pro-housing reforms is both straightforward and well-supported: Fewer regulatory barriers to building mean more houses, which leads to more affordable housing and, in turn, more people able to live in dense cities that offer all the benefits of urban life. City life makes workers smarter and more productive. Urban

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Lego’s Newest Collectible Minifigures Swing Into the Spider-Verse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-26 11:05:25

Lego’s Collectible Minifigure series has crossed with a bunch of licenses at this point, from Dungeons & Dragons to The Muppets and many more—including both Marvel Comics and the MCU. But we’ve never had an entire wave dedicated to Spider-Man before, and Lego is entering the Spider-Verse in style. Revealed today as part of the Spider-Man Day celebrations, Lego confirmed that its next wave of blind-boxed collectible minifigures will draw on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to give fans 12 dif

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Here’s how Android Identity Check will start taking advantage of your smartwatch (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:34:08

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Identity Check offers an extra layer of protection when someone steals both your phone and your PIN. By requiring biometrics, Identity Check attempts to limit the harm bad actors could do. Google is working to let you bypass that biometric requirement when your device is connected to a trusted smartwatch. We all want our devices to be secure, but practical considerations mean we’re often striking a balance between security and convenience. That’s not a ba

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Nintendo raising original Switch console prices due to ‘market conditions’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-26 16:42:35

Nintendo is raising the prices of its original Nintendo Switch game consoles, the company announced on Friday. The price increases, which are taking effect on August 3, are due to “market conditions,” Nintendo says. The company’s reference to “market conditions” likely hints at President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The affected products include the Nintendo Switch – OLED Model, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and select Nintendo Switch accessories. Other Nintendo products, including certain

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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-26 21:50:40

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, attending the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 9th, 2025. Palantir has inked a contract with the U.S. Army worth up to $10 billion to meet growing warfare demands over the next decade. As part of the deal, Palantir will help the military streamline efficiencies while preparing for threats, consolidating 75 total contracts into one enterprise deal, the release states. The agreement creates a "comprehensive framework for

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 20:27:38

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales. As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species. However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past

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Spotify update now lets you turn off the ‘Create’ button – here’s how

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-12-26 21:35:16

Spotify recently introduced a “Create” button along its bottom navigation bar, but it’s really not that helpful. Thankfully, Spotify has fixed this in a new update that lets you turn the “Create” button off. It’s been months since Spotify first rolled out its new “Create” button on the navigation bar, with the button moving from its previous location on the Library tab down to this dedicated position. Tapping the button reveals options to make a new playlist, collaborative playlist, “Blend,” A

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Hyrum's Law

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 20:58:06

Hyrum's Law Put succinctly, the observation is this: With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. Over the past couple years of doing low-level infrastructure migrations in one of the most complex software systems on the planet, I’ve made some observations about the differences between an interface and its implementations. We typically think of the interface as an a

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Wild Video Captures Alien-Like Creatures Thriving in the Deepest Ocean Ecosystem

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-26 21:25:42

Researchers recently dove more than 6 miles beneath the surface of the northwest Pacific Ocean to explore the bottom of two submarine trenches. In this harsh marine environment, they discovered flourishing communities of chemosynthesis-based sea creatures—the deepest and most extensive ones ever found. The groundbreaking findings, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, July 30, include photos and footage of the alien-like organisms going about their business in two of the most unforgivin

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Amazon already plans to put ads in Alexa+ conversations

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-27 02:02:32

Which would you rather have: an AI-powered Alexa+ that advertises to you, or an AI-lacking Siri that doesn’t? Hopefully Apple can sort out its AI struggles and users never have to face that decision. But if you’re an Alexa+ user, it sounds like more ads are definitely in your future. Amazon CEO touts opportunities for advertising through Alexa+ Amazon reported its quarterly earnings this week, and the AI-powered Alexa+ unsurprisingly came up. What perhaps was a surprise is how fast Amazon CEO

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TikTok launches ‘TikTok Pro’ in Europe with built-in charity program

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-27 02:30:11

In Brief TikTok is launching a new version of its app called “TikTok Pro” in Germany, Portugal, and Spain. The app features TikTok’s new “Sunshine Programme,” which allows users to support charitable organizations. Users can earn ‘virtual sunshine’ by inviting others to join and by interacting with charity-related content, such as liking or reposting videos, following charity accounts, or searching for charitable causes. They can then use this virtual sunshine on a charity, after which TikTok

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 05:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 04:54:06

A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights. There is a current class action lawsuit against Meta in which court documents note* that the the company may have breached the Wiretap Act. The analysis made in this post is based on content court documents and reverse engineering sections of archived Onavo Protect app packages for

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The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 03:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 06:37:44

The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind. Natural gas was next, and there was zero new coal or nuclear, according to the Energy Information Administration. Through 2030, the US energy landscape looks a lot like these last six months in terms of the mix of new power plants, with solar and batteries leading the way, according to the EIA’s list of planned power

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Joby, L3Harris partner on hybrid defense craft that can be piloted or autonomous

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-27 11:58:37

An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation sits at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City, Nov. 12, 2023. Joby Aviation and defense manufacturing giant L3Harris announced a partnership Friday to develop a next-generation military craft that can be piloted or fly autonomously. The partnership brings together Joby's hybrid vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft and L3's expertise in military systems and certification. The companies expect to begin testing this fall, followed by o

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Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 10:39:09

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The Untold Impact of Cancellation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 11:12:04

Warning: towards the end of this post are references to suicide, which may be distressing to some readers. Discretion is advised. The Untold Impact of Cancellation I have never before been open about the impact that being cancelled had upon me. Cancellations try to silence their targets, so their stories are less often heard. This is my account. As you read about my experience over the last four years, you may come to understand why I have found it so hard to share. This is my own unique sto

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Yet, U.S. Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-27 10:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

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6 reasons why I prefer self hosted apps — and why you should too

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 21:30:50

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Lately, there’s a lot of hype around self-hosting and running your own apps on a home lab or NAS. But you might be wondering what you stand to gain from it? After all, Google, Apple, and many others offer perfectly competent app suites. That’s what I thought too. But for the last few years, I’ve dived deep into the world of open source and self-hosting. And if you’re curious why, saddle up — I’ve got some thoughts to share. When I first dived into self-hosting

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Own a Samsung phone? 10 settings I always change first for the best user experience

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-27 20:25:11

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I've been fairly vocal recently that Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: The best Samsung phones to buy From setting the highest available

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How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Hart 2025-12-24 12:01:17

To @AndrewHartAR: “Our app is shit and we know it’s shit”. My life changed forever when a senior exec from one of the world’s largest retailers messaged me on Twitter. This was back in 2017. My outdoor AR navigation demos had just gone viral, and my new open-source project for Apple had elevated me to be the top trending iOS developer on GitHub. Every developer meet-up I went to, everyone now seemed to know who I was. I was on top of the world. I agreed to meet the exec for coffee in London, a

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Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 15:31:20

How many satellites are in space? There are thousands of satellites in the sky above us at this moment, orbiting Earth. Satellites have many uses for the government, military, and even civilians. They provide us with the ability to have things like Internet access, television, GPS, and much more. They also have scientific purposes such as Earth and space observation and provide the means for high-level technology development. More than half of the 4,550 satellites orbiting Earth are used for com

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SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P Review: A Big Upgrade From Budget Gaming Headsets

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-27 21:00:57

Voice chatting in games is important; everyone who’s ever played a co-op shooter knows that. And as someone who plays dumb baby games like Fortnite constantly, I can attest. The thing about comms, or more specifically, in-game audio, is that it can be unstable, which is why investing in a gaming headset to minimize hiccups is key. On that front, I’ve been slacking; I’ve been using a terrible gaming headset that looks like a Fisher-Price version of a real one, which has gotten me by with a very b

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Just Yet, a New Paper From the Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-27 22:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

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The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 21:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-27 21:30:00

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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14 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I’ve Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-12-27 21:33:00

How to Sit Properly at a Desk AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron It's not just about finding a chair you like. We've rounded up several tips on how to set up your desk properly here, but here are a few highlights. Sitting for too long in a day is not good for your health, no matter what chair you use. It increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. The best thing you can do is get up and move every half hour. If you can, a 40-minute walk per day can, according to a re

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Nothing just snubbed its biggest market while defending Phone 3 price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 21:41:22

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has defended criticism about the Phone 3’s price by saying that the device isn’t meant for every region. Specifically, a Nothing spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company’s largest market isn’t the core focus for Phone 3 — a statement fans might find problematic. The company also noted it has no plans to lower the price of the device. The Nothing Phone 3 is proving to be divisive by design…literally. Its offbeat camera layout, new Glyph Mat

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Latest Tech News

The untold impact of cancellation

Yes in My Bamako Yard

Lego’s Newest Collectible Minifigures Swing Into the Spider-Verse

Here’s how Android Identity Check will start taking advantage of your smartwatch (APK teardown)

Nintendo raising original Switch console prices due to ‘market conditions’

Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

Spotify update now lets you turn off the ‘Create’ button – here’s how

Hyrum's Law

Wild Video Captures Alien-Like Creatures Thriving in the Deepest Ocean Ecosystem

Amazon already plans to put ads in Alexa+ conversations

TikTok launches ‘TikTok Pro’ in Europe with built-in charity program

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2014)

The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

Joby, L3Harris partner on hybrid defense craft that can be piloted or autonomous

Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended

The Untold Impact of Cancellation

AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Yet, U.S. Federal Reserve Says

6 reasons why I prefer self hosted apps — and why you should too

Own a Samsung phone? 10 settings I always change first for the best user experience

How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P Review: A Big Upgrade From Budget Gaming Headsets

AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Just Yet, a New Paper From the Federal Reserve Says

The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

14 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I’ve Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them

Nothing just snubbed its biggest market while defending Phone 3 price

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