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Trump and Xi discuss future of TikTok in US

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-20 00:34:04

Trump and Xi discuss future of TikTok in US Watch: Trump says TikTok deal approved by Chinese President Xi TikTok, which is run by Chinese firm ByteDance, was previously told it had to sell its US operations or risk being shut down. China's official state news agency Xinhua left the outcome of their discussion less clear, with Xi quoted as saying that Beijing "welcomes negotiations over TikTok". Trump wrote on Truth Social that the call was "productive" and he "appreciated" Xi's approval of

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Here’s why sideloaded books might not be working on your Kindle

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:22:01

If you’ve recently tried to open a sideloaded book on your Kindle and hit a wall, you’re not alone. Starting this week, users across Reddit’s r/kindle community began reporting a sudden “Invalid ASIN” error message. The alert claims the selected title is not valid for Digital purchase on the Kindle, even when the book was loaded via USB or email rather than bought through Amazon’s storefront. Notably, the error only seems to affect unread sideloaded titles. Books that had been opened previously

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Your passkeys could be vulnerable to attack, and everyone - including you - must act

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-09-20 02:00:00

Vertigo3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A researcher developed an exploit that hijacks passkey authentication. The exploit depends on a non-trivial combination of pre-existing conditions. Neither the passkeys nor the protocol was proven to be vulnerable. At this year's DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, white hat security researcher Marek Tóth demonstrated how threat actors could use a clickjack attack

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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 00:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

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Mini: Tonemaps (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 23:04:21

Good day. One of the first things you learn about shaders is that color values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This is known as 8-bit “unorm” color, because each channel has 256 color values, is unsigned (meaning no negatives) and normalized to the 0.0 to 1.0 range. Most of the time, we don’t need to think about this because 8-bits is enough for outputting colors to the screen. Sometimes, blending 8-bit colors is just not enough though. Today I want to show demonstration when you should care and what to

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A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 16:24:14

This 3D-printed contraption is by Igor Daemen, an Eindhoven-based product designer. "I designed this businesscard embosser to be modular and 3D printable without using any support and without any hardware required to assemble," he writes. "The tolerances are tight," Daemen explains. "And some materials work better then others. I have had best results using Basic PLA." You can download the files for free here.

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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:37:14

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 17 after the late-night host commented on the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. His monologue suggested Trump supporters were trying to reframe the shooter’s political ties, which drew backlash from the FCC and major ABC affiliates. ABC replaced the program with reruns, sparking accusations of censorship and igniting a boycott campaign against Disney, its parent company. Overwhelming public reaction The suspension triggered strong resp

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Starfront Observatories

news.ycombinator.com Starfront Observatories 2025-09-17 02:59:13

Mini Pier Up to a 32" swing diameter & only OFP2 for FP $149/month

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Things managers do that leaders never would

news.ycombinator.com Team Simon 2025-09-20 02:11:18

Picture this: Two people walk into the same crisis. The project is behind schedule, the client is furious, and the team is falling apart. The first person immediately starts assigning blame, calls an emergency meeting to “get to the bottom of this,” and sends a tersely worded email about “accountability and expectations.” The second person takes a breath, gathers the team, and says, “This is tough, but we’re in it together. Let’s figure out how to make this right.” Same crisis. Same pressure.

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If all the world were a monorepo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 08:33:45

As a software engineer raised on a traditional diet of C, Java, and Lisp, I’ve found myself downright baffled by R. I’m no stranger to mastering new programming languages, but learning R was something else: it felt like studying Finnish after a lifetime of speaking Romance languages. I’m not alone in this experience. There are piles of discussions online revealing the difficulty of using R, with some users becoming so enraged as to claim that R is “not actually a programming language”. My strug

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Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 22:02:29

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts. Less is safer It may sound obvious but the primary way we reduce the risk of supply chain attacks is to avoid depending on third-party code. Obsidian has a low number of dependencies compared to other apps in our category. See a list of open source libraries on our Credits page. Features like

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The New Meta Ray-Bans Might Be Your Next Disneyland Tour Guide

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 23:02:48

Walt Disney Imagineering is in the early stages of prototyping a new augmented reality experience at its theme parks. This week, the team released a video showing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses used as a personal virtual assistant inside Disneyland. Meta is just one of the companies Disney Imagineering R&D is working with on AR. The Ray-Ban smart glasses allow Disney guests to ask questions out loud and receive real-time responses with information about rides, attractions, merchandise, food and d

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Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:18:44

Some time soon, perhaps next year, SpaceX will attempt to fly one of its enormous Starship rockets from low-Earth orbit back to its launch pad in South Texas. A successful return and catch at the launch tower would demonstrate a key capability underpinning Elon Musk's hopes for a fully reusable rocket. In order for this to happen, SpaceX must overcome the tyranny of geography. Unlike launches over the open ocean from Cape Canaveral, Florida, rockets departing from South Texas must follow a narr

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Trump hits H-1B visas with $100,000 fee, targeting the program that launched Elon Musk and Instagram

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-09-20 01:34:22

President Trump just made it a lot more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers through the H-1B program. The White House announced Friday that Trump signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee. H-1B visas allow U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in fields that typically require technical expertise like IT, engineering, mathematics, or medicine. The program is ca

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Samsung Announces Plans to Plaster Your Smart Fridge With Digital Advertisements

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 03:30:14

If it's digital, it can have a screen. And if it has a screen, it can show you ads. That's the logic that dominates the electronics and tech industry these days, and it's now coming to bear on an essential household appliance: the fridge. We call it a fridge, but after reading this, you may yearn for the days when they functioned as a mere icebox. Friend of the advertising industry Samsung announced that it will start plastering ads on its Family Hub™ refrigerators in the US, rendering your bl

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US and China agree to agree on a TikTok deal

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 04:12:54

The long-promised deal to "save" TikTok remains elusive even as the US and China seem to be inching toward an agreement. On Friday, President Donald Trump did little to clarify where the deal currently stands following a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said both that the two had "made progress" on "approval of the TikTok Deal" and that he "appreciate[s] the TikTok approval." Trump also told reporters in the Oval Office that "he approved the TikTok deal,"

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Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 04:15:17

Presidential Actions RESTRICTION ON ENTRY OF CERTAIN NONIMMIGRANT WORKERS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor. The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program h

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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 05:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

Topics: contributions help problem wayland work

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Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 03:02:29

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts. Less is safer It may sound obvious but the primary way we reduce the risk of supply chain attacks is to avoid depending on third-party code. Obsidian has a low number of dependencies compared to other apps in our category. See a list of open source libraries on our Credits page. Features like

Topics: code dependencies dependency obsidian version

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CDC Panel Votes to Nix Current Covid Vaccine Recommendations

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-20 02:05:48

On Friday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to drop its recommendation that U.S. adults should generally receive the covid-19 vaccine, instead endorsing an individualized approach. In a unanimous decision, the ACIP members agreed that adults 65 and older should decide on their own or with their doctor whether to get vaccinated for covid-19. The ACIP also recommended that people between the ages of 6 months and 64 years make an individual decision about covid-19 vacc

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‘Night of the Reaper’ Is a Retro Babysitter Slasher With a Mystery Twist

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-20 04:47:02

Night of the Reaper begins with a familiar slasher movie scenario: a babysitter being stalked by a killer. The masked menace puts on a big show of toying with her, leaving creepy notes that almost feel like a prank until the danger gets all too real. It’s a freaky opening sequence that signals director and co-director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born, Z) is well familiar with the horror tropes his movie is leaning into—and you can tell he knows his audience will pick up on them too. Night of th

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Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner calls the FCC’s threats ‘out-of-control intimidation’

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-20 03:01:09

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Michael Eisner, Disney’s former CEO who ran the company for 21 years and oversaw its acquisition of ABC in 1995, does not think his successor, Bob Iger, made the right decision in moving to put Jimmy Kimmel Live! on indefinite pause following thre

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Trump claims the US is about to get a tremendous fee for taking TikTok out of China

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-09-20 04:13:36

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A 10 percent stake in Intel, 15 percent of Nvidia’s China sales, a “golden share” of Nippon Steel — what price will Trump extract next in exchange for favorable treatment? Well, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Administration is “expe

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Elon Musk Fires 500 Staff at xAI, Puts College Kid in Charge of Training Grok

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-19 23:04:24

Remember when Elon Musk hired a bunch of youngsters to gut the federal government? Well, now he's put one in charge of a key division at his company xAI. Business Insider reports that the data annotation team that helps train the company's AI chatbot Grok is now being led by Diego Pasini, a college student who graduated from high school in 2023 — and who's been at the company for less than a year. His promotion comes right off the back of a brutal round of layoffs at the team which saw more th

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Trump's $175 Billion Golden Dome is Turning Into a Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 04:41:00

Months after US president Donald Trump signed off on a long-range missile defense system called the "Golden Dome," officials and the public are still in the dark on how to finish the project — and experts warn its price tag will be far higher than previously disclosed. After being given a 60-day deadline to come up with a plan for the project, Space Force General Michael Guetlein said the blueprint is complete — but wasn't able to give any details about the scope, timeline, or cost, Bloomberg r

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Hot deals: Take an awesome portable projector home for as low as $135

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 08:32:44

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority These offers are all available from Amazon. Most are “limited time deals.” The only exception is the XGIMI Elfin Flip, which has a timer that ends in a bit over four hours. If you want that one, you might want to act quickly. Yaber Projector L2s Home Cinema Yaber Projector L2s Home Cinema Yaber Projector L2s Home Cinema See price at Amazon Save $65.01 Limited Time Deal! Our friends at SoundGuys.com have already reviewed the Yaber L2s, and they were pretty h

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Get the latest Amazon Fire tablet for $90 right now

zdnet.com Monica Bell 2025-09-20 05:13:57

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If you're looking for a back-to-school tablet, our top-rated Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet is now available for 36% off at Amazon as an early October Prime Day deal, meaning you can score the latest model of the Fire HD 10 for just $90. We found this tablet to be an excellent option for those looking to stream media, game, or read e-books, and it's particularly well-suited for kids. Also: The best kids' tablets you can buy Our expert Maria Diaz previously reviewed the Amazon Fire

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Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 07:55:43

Zedis 🚀 A Redis-compatible in-memory data store written in Zig, designed for learning and experimentation. Zedis implements the core Redis protocol and data structures with a focus on simplicity, performance, and thread safety. Features Redis Protocol Compatibility : Supports the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP)locks : Supports the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP)locks Multiple Data Types : String and integer value storage with automatic type conversion : String and integer value stor

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Tonemaps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 09:04:21

Good day. One of the first things you learn about shaders is that color values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This is known as 8-bit “unorm” color, because each channel has 256 color values, is unsigned (meaning no negatives) and normalized to the 0.0 to 1.0 range. Most of the time, we don’t need to think about this because 8-bits is enough for outputting colors to the screen. Sometimes, blending 8-bit colors is just not enough though. Today I want to show demonstration when you should care and what to

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Rails Needs New Governance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 07:41:11

The title card of Tom Stuart’s presentation, The DHH Problem. Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name. The DHH Problem Back in 2014, Tom Stuart delivered a pithy yet salient lightning talk at the Scottish Ruby Conference titled The DHH Pr

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Your passkeys could be vulnerable to attack, and everyone - including you - must act

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