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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

news.ycombinator.com Your Name 2025-09-24 21:46:01

React-by-default has hidden costs. Here's a case for making deliberate choices to select the right framework for the job. React Won by Default – And It’s Killing Frontend Innovation React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default. That default is now slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem. When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; e

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Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 20:08:05

What is Dotter? Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater. Dotfiles are configuration files that usually live in the home directory and start with a dot. Often times, it is desirable to have a backup of all the configurations on your system, which is why a lot of users have their dotfiles saved in a git repository, then symlinking them to their target locations using ln -s . However, there are several issues with that barebones approach: Hard to keep track of what comes from where once you h

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Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 19:07:54

Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than visiting websites. Google AI mode advanced analysis Source: BleepingComputer Google AI mode can answer complex answers, process images, summarize information on the web, create tables, graphs, ch

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iOS 26 adds seven brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-11 00:10:28

The iPhone’s default ringtone is highly recognizable, but in iOS 26 Apple has a lot of alternate options coming. There are seven brand new ringtones, most of which are remixed versions of the familiar default. Listen to all of the new iPhone ringtones below. New ringtones in iOS 26 offer remixed versions of default ‘Reflections’ sound Apple has long offered a variety of iPhone ringtones that serve as alternatives to the system default. But iOS 26, for the first time, takes that very familiar

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Apple’s deals with Google largely unaffected in antitrust case ruling

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-15 04:47:32

Following months of testimony for the remedies phase of the Google antitrust trial, Judge Amit Mehta just issued his decision, and it is largely beneficial to Apple’s deals with Alphabet. Here are the details. Almost a year ago to the date, the Department of Justice won its case against Google, in which it was able to convince Judge Mehta that Google had a monopoly over online search. The case then entered the remedies phase, which collected testimony from multiple parties involved in Google’s

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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 21:12:06

Read the terms of service. Don’t make assumptions. Don’t pick defaults. Yesterday, Anthropic quietly flipped a switch. If you're a Claude user, your conversations are now training data unless you actively say no. Not when you give feedback. Not when you explicitly consent. By default, from day one. Here's what changed: Previously, Claude didn't train on consumer chat data without your explicit thumbs up or down. Clean, simple, respectful. Now? Everything you type becomes model training fodder

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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-18 22:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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SQLite's Durability Settings Are a Mess

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-19 23:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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California’s Next ‘Big One’ Might Not Follow the Script

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-08 22:20:46

On March 28, a devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked Myanmar, splitting the Sagaing Fault at speeds of over 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per second. You know which other fault resembles the Sagaing one? The San Andreas Fault in California, where seismologists have been expecting “the big one” for years. In a study published on August 11 in the journal PNAS, a team of researchers used satellite images of the Sagaing Fault’s movement to enhance computer models that predict how similar faults mi

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Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 18:15:04

It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of desktop users and 95% of mobile users. Even if you don't have Google Chrome on your device, you probably use Google Search multiple times a day without thinking about it. If you have an iPhone and you open the Safari app to perform a search, you're automatically using Google. That's no accident: Goog

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 17:09:34

What is Raft? Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems. We hope Raft will make consensus available to a wider audience, and that this wider audience will be able to develop a variety of higher quality consensus-based systems than are available today. Hol

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Prefer Chrome Over Safari? Here's How to Change Your iPhone's Default Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 11:00:03

Your default apps are the apps your iPhone uses automatically in certain situations. So if you tap a phone number on a website, for example, your iPhone will open your Phone app and place a call to that number. But if you like using a certain browser app, like Chrome or Firefox, you can make that app your iPhone's default browser app. When Apple released iOS 18.2 in December, that update made it easier to change your iPhone's default apps. You could change a few default apps prior to that updat

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Show HN: Vaultrice – A real-time key-value store with a localStorage API

news.ycombinator.com Inweso Ltd Liab. Co 2025-11-16 18:37:04

Everything You Need, Built-in. ⚙️ Familiar API ⚡ Built-in Real-Time 🛡️ Secure by Default.

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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 06:19:35

@ -7682,6 +7682,113 @@ There are 6 samples at -4 dB, 62 at -5 dB, 286 at -6 dB, etc. In other words, raising the volume by +4 dB does not cause any clipping, raising it by +5 dB causes clipping for 6 samples, etc. @anchor{whisper} @section whisper It runs automatic speech recognition using the OpenAI's Whisper model. It requires the whisper.cpp library (https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp) as a prerequisite. After installing the library it can be enabled using: @code{./configure --en

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iOS 26 beta 6 adds six brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-24 05:47:25

iOS 26 looks set to greatly expand the ringtone options for the iPhone. A previous beta included one remixed version of the default Reflection sound, but now iOS 26 beta 6 has added another five more Reflection alternatives, plus a brand new Little Bird ringtone. iOS 26 now offers six alternate versions of default ringtone, plus new Little Bird option In earlier beta versions of iOS 26, Apple included a single new ringtone for users. It was labeled ‘Alt 1’ under the default Reflection ringtone

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iOS 26 beta 6 adds five brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-24 11:47:25

iOS 26 looks set to greatly expand the ringtone options for the iPhone. A previous beta included one remixed version of the default Reflection ringtone, but now iOS 26 beta 6 has added another five brand new alternatives. iOS 26 now offers six alternate versions of default ringtone In earlier beta versions of iOS 26, Apple included a single new ringtone for users. It was labeled ‘Alt 1’ under the default Reflection ringtone. Now, that new option has been given a proper name: Reflected. But m

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Viral Myanmar Earthquake Video Shows First Visual Evidence of Rare Seismic Phenomena

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-25 10:00:14

In May, we reported on a first-of-its-kind video that captured surface rupture during Myanmar’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake. While the YouTube video now has 1.6 million views, two geophysicists spotted something many people probably didn’t notice. The video seems like a gift that just keeps on giving. As the Kyoto University scientists explain in a study published last month in The Seismic Record, it also includes the first direct visual evidence of pulse-like rupturing and a curved fa

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‘Sleeping Giant’ Fault Under Canada Shows Major Earthquake Potential

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-09 02:00:09

After 12 millennia of relative inactivity, a geologic fault that stretches across the territory of Yukon, Canada, and Alaska now appears capable of producing a major earthquake, according to a new study. The findings point to an underrecognized source of seismic hazard in northwestern Canada. Scientists previously believed that the Tintina fault, which extends roughly 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from northeast British Columbia through the Yukon and Alaska, remained quiet for the last 40 millio

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You can now swap Gemini for a new assistant on Android, but you really shouldn’t

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 14:24:16

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR You can now replace Google Assistant or Gemini on any Android device with Meta AI as the default digital assistant app. This lets you launch Meta AI directly by long-pressing the home button or swiping inwards from the corner. However, beware that you can’t use it for voice chat, which can be limiting compared to other options. Meta has been bullish on overtaking Google, OpenAI, xAI, and other tech giants as a major AI services provider. Taking advantag

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iOS 26 adds a brand new iPhone ringtone, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-24 21:49:07

The iPhone’s default ringtone has become an iconic sound, but in iOS 26 Apple has a brand new ringtone option available as an alternative for users. Here’s what is sounds like. New iOS 26 ringtone available as alternative to default Yesterday Apple released the first iOS 26 public beta, bringing the latest version of the forthcoming iPhone software update to many more users. Headliner features include: iOS 26 also includes the Phone app’s biggest redesign ever. And accompanying that new loo

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Earthquake Causes 2.5-Meter Ground Slip in First-Ever Footage

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Fike 2025-12-31 04:15:22

A security camera in Myanmar captured something scientists have never seen before on film: the surface of the Earth lunging sideways during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake. In 1.3 seconds, the ground shifted 2.5 meters (a little over 8 feet), revealing something researchers have only been able to model or guess at until now. It’s the first direct video of a fault line in motion, offering a rare, horrifyingly calm glimpse at the forces that shape continents and rearrange cities. Videos by VICE Scie

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Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 00:42:30

Pogocache is fast caching software built from scratch with a focus on low latency and cpu efficency. Faster: Pogocache is faster than Memcache, Valkey, Redis, Dragonfly, and Garnet. It has the lowest latency per request, providing the quickest response times. It's optimized to scale from one to many cores, giving you the best single-threaded and multithreaded performance. Cheaper: Pogocache uses the fewest cpu cycles per request; minimizing server load, energy usage, and the overall cost to op

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Myanmar’s Devastating Earthquake in March Split the Earth at ‘Supershear Velocity’

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-04 02:00:27

On March 28, Myanmar was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed over 5,000 lives and caused damage even in neighboring countries. In a study published July 10 in The Seismic Record, seismologists confirmed previous research indicating that the southern part of the large earthquake’s rupture, or fracture, took place at astounding speeds of up to between 3.1 and 3.7 miles per second (5 to 6 kilometers per second)—at supershear velocity. This likely played a role in the earthquake’s dev

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New CrushFTP zero-day exploited in attacks to hijack servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 04:24:29

CrushFTP is warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-54309, which allows attackers to gain administrative access via the web interface on vulnerable servers. CrushFTP is an enterprise file transfer server used by organizations to securely share and manage files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP/S, and other protocols. According to CrushFTP, threat actors were first detected exploiting the vulnerability on July 18th at 9AM CST, though it may have begun

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CrushFTP zero-day exploited in attacks to gain admin access on servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 16:24:29

CrushFTP is warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-54309, which allows attackers to gain administrative access via the web interface on vulnerable servers. CrushFTP is an enterprise file transfer server used by organizations to securely share and manage files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP/S, and other protocols. According to CrushFTP, threat actors were first detected exploiting the vulnerability on July 18th at 9AM CST, though it may have begun

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Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 15:17:31

Petrichor An offline music player for macOS Summary ✨ Features Everything you'd expect from an offline music player! Map your music folders and browse your library in an organized view. Create playlists and manage the play queue interactively. Browse music using folder view when needed. Pin anything (almost!) to the sidebar for quick access to your favorite music. Navigate easily: right-click a track to go to its album, artist, year, etc. Native macOS integration with menubar and

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Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action

news.ycombinator.com University Of Texas At Austin 2026-01-28 03:00:17

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Tectonic setting around Japan. Centroid Moment Tensor solution shows the mechanism of the 2024 Hyuga-nada earthquake (b) Pre-seismic SSE (contour interval: 5 cm) 10 July, 2023–6 August, 2024. Pre-slip with Mw6.0 was detected in the down dip extension of the 2024 Hyuga-nada earthquake, Japan, from late 2023. (c) Cumul

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Millions of Brother Printers Are Full of Hackable Bugs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-15 02:00:35

Brother makes some solid, reliable printers. Indeed, for several years running, The Verge named it the best printer you should buy. Unfortunately, the company’s devices appear to be riddled with new zero-day bugs that could allow a savvy cybercriminal to hijack them. The vulnerabilities were discovered by cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which published a blog about the bugs last week. The blog explains that, after some research, Rapid7’s cyber pros came across a total of eight new zero-day vulnerabi

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Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-15 11:20:23

Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one of which cannot be fixed by patching the firmware, were discovered in 689 kinds of Brother home and enterprise printers by security company Rapid7. The flaws also impact 59 printer models from Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh, and Konica Minolta, but not every vulnerability is found on every printer mode

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Is classic Outlook crashing when you open or start an email? There's now a fix for that

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-17 02:34:16

ZDNET Those of you who use classic Outlook may have noticed the program acting more temperamental than usual. There's a reason for that. In a recent support article, Microsoft acknowledged that Outlook may crash when you start a new email or when you reply to or forward an existing email. Well, fret no more because a fix is afoot. On Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed that it has squashed the bug with the latest builds of Outlook for versions 2021, 2024, and several enterprise editions. The fix is a

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Latest Tech News

React is winning by default and slowing innovation

Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default

iOS 26 adds seven brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

Apple’s deals with Google largely unaffected in antitrust case ruling

The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

SQLite's Durability Settings Are a Mess

California’s Next ‘Big One’ Might Not Follow the Script

Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

Prefer Chrome Over Safari? Here's How to Change Your iPhone's Default Apps

Show HN: Vaultrice – A real-time key-value store with a localStorage API

FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

iOS 26 beta 6 adds six brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

iOS 26 beta 6 adds five brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

Viral Myanmar Earthquake Video Shows First Visual Evidence of Rare Seismic Phenomena

‘Sleeping Giant’ Fault Under Canada Shows Major Earthquake Potential

You can now swap Gemini for a new assistant on Android, but you really shouldn’t

iOS 26 adds a brand new iPhone ringtone, listen here

Earthquake Causes 2.5-Meter Ground Slip in First-Ever Footage

Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

Myanmar’s Devastating Earthquake in March Split the Earth at ‘Supershear Velocity’

New CrushFTP zero-day exploited in attacks to hijack servers

CrushFTP zero-day exploited in attacks to gain admin access on servers

Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action

Millions of Brother Printers Are Full of Hackable Bugs

Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw

Is classic Outlook crashing when you open or start an email? There's now a fix for that

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