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Amazon Prime Is Ending Shared Free Shipping. What to Know and When It Happens

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 17:15:07

If you've been using someone else's Amazon Prime membership for free shipping, but you don't live in the same house, you may need to pay another subscription fee soon. According to Amazon's updated customer service page, the online retail giant is ending its Prime Invitee benefit-sharing program Oct. 1. Amazon's Prime Invitee program is being replaced by Amazon Family, as reported earlier by The Verge. It includes many of the same benefits, but Amazon Family only works for up to two adults and

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Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 06:32:55

Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we suspect that they may become more permanent additions to Samsung fridges and/or other types of screen-equipped smart home appliances. In a statement sent to Ars Technica, Samsung confirmed that it is “conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and

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Elements of C Style (1994)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 07:21:03

Notes on Programming Practices More Purity More Speed More Correctness Other notes on C programming Style Snobbism Your Friends, the Header Files Your Friend, the Compiler Function and Procedure Names Variable Names Notes on Formatting Style Indentation Braces Spacing Comments Function declarations Cute Tricks in C Powers of Two Unrolling Small Loops Unrolling Bigger Loops Counting Bits Random Essays on Programming Meaningless Variable Names Considered Useful GOTOs Considered Us

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How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 02:22:47

How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs R. Kent Dybvig August 2002 When a program fails to operate as it should, it is said to have a bug. A bug is the root cause of an observed behavior, such as failure to terminate, failure to perform some action, termination with an error message, or merely producing incorrect results. The process of debugging a program is one of finding all of the bugs and "exterminating" them. This process first requires feeding the program a representative set of test cases,

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 17:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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Pixel 10 series finally joins the Android Beta Program

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 17:50:04

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 series can now join the Android Beta Program. Pixel 10 phones now show up with an option to opt in to the Android 16 QPR2 Beta Program. Google has finally opened up the Pixel 10 series to the Android Beta Program. When the phones first launched, they weren’t eligible to enroll, but that’s now changing. If you own a Pixel 10, 10 Pro, or 10 Pro XL, it should now appear alongside your other supported phones on the Android Beta Program page.

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In Defense of C++

news.ycombinator.com Dayvi Schuster 2025-09-26 09:40:34

Dayvi Schuster 12 min read Tuesday, September 9, 2025 In Defense of C++ Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape. The Reputation of C++ C++ has often and frequently been criticized for its complexity, steep learning curve, and most of all for its ability to allow the developers using it to not only shoot themselves in the foot, but to blow off their whole leg in the process. But do these criticisms hold up under scrutiny? Well, in this blog post,

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Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-26 13:49:20

Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect — but where you do, at the very least, get to "vibe code," or use an AI model to write code and even build entire pieces of software. But rarely does the process go smoothly enough for prime time. The jury's still out on whether experienced programmers actually benefit from using AI coding assistants, and the tech's shortcomings are even more obvious when it's being relied on by untrained amateurs who openly embra

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Programming Deflation

news.ycombinator.com Kent Beck 2025-09-29 18:11:43

The genies are out of the bottle. Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost, skill barriers, and time needed to develop software. (Interesting debate to be had—another day.) Will this lead to fewer programmers or more programmers? Economics gives us two contradictory answers simultaneously. Substitution . The substitution effect says we'll need fewer programmers—machines are replacing human labor. Jevons’. Jevons’ paradox predicts that when something becomes c

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PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 16:29:47

Introduction Python-BPF offers a new way to write eBPF programs entirely in Python, compiling them into real object files. This project is open-source and available on GitHub and PyPI. I wrote it alongside R41k0u. Published Library with Future Plans Python-BPF is a published Python library with plans for further development towards production-ready use. You can pip install pythonbpf but it’s certainly not at all production ready and the code is hacky at best with more bugs than I could count

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11 Best Protein Powders, According to Years of Testing (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-09-30 05:00:00

Compare Top 11 Protein Powders Product Protein Source Protein Per Serving Flavors Price per Serving Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Protein blend (whey protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, hydrolyzed whey protein) 24 grams 20 $1.55 Dymatize ISO100 Hydrolyzed whey protein 25 grams 14 $1.28-$2.25 Transparent Labs Grass-Fed Whey Protein Isolate Grass-fed whey protein isolate 28 grams 16 $2 Orgain Organic Vegan Protein Powder Organic protein blend (organic pea protein, organic brown rice prot

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Visual programming is stuck on the form

news.ycombinator.com Wil Chung 2025-09-30 02:53:31

Underlying great creations that you love—be it music, art, or technology—its form (what it looks like) is driven by an underpinning internal logic (how it works). I noticed this pattern while watching a talk on cellular automaton and realized it's "form follows function" paraphrased from a slightly different angle. Inventing a form is a hard task, so you must approach it obliquely—by first illuminating the underlying function. This made me realize something crucial about visual programming: it’

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Trump Clears the Way for a Dystopian Air Taxi Future

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-29 22:30:45

Donald Trump, who was backed by a bunch of tech billionaires during this past presidential election, is busy transforming America into a corporate dystopia straight out of the 1980s science fiction films that those billionaires have long admired for all the wrong reasons. For one thing, Trump has fully embraced AI—helping to cut what little regulation existed under the Biden administration, in an effort to further liberate the already blossoming and disruptive new industry. He also recently pave

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AI Coding

news.ycombinator.com The Singularity Is Nearer 2025-09-30 01:28:30

In my old age I’ve mostly given up trying to convince anyone of anything. Most people do not care to find the truth, they care about what pumps their bags. Some people go as far as to believe that perception is reality and that truth is a construction. I hope there’s a special place in hell for those people. It’s why the world wasted $10B+ on self driving car companies that obviously made no sense. There’s a much bigger market for truths that pump bags vs truths that don’t. So here’s your new

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The Free Ride for EVs in the Carpool Lane Is Coming to an End

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-09-30 01:00:00

A rough year for electric vehicle adoption just got a little rougher for owners in some parts of the US. Starting next month, EVs will no longer be able to ride in the fast lane in California, after the US federal government and Congress failed to reauthorize a popular program that has given hybrid and electric vehicles access to state carpool lanes—and worked to promote the sale of electrics for more than 25 years. Under the program, California drivers with qualifying electric, plug-in hybrid,

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OpenAI announces new mentorship program for budding tech founders

cnbc.com Jaures Yip 2025-09-30 14:21:02

OpenAI on Friday introduced a new program, dubbed the "OpenAI Grove," for early tech entrepreneurs looking to build with artificial intelligence, and applications are already open. Unlike OpenAI's Pioneer Program, which launched in April, Grove is aimed towards individuals at the very nascent phases of their company development, from the pre-idea to pre-seed stage. For five weeks, participants will receive mentoring from OpenAI technical leaders, early access to new tools and models, and in-pe

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Yearly applications now open to Apple’s Security Research Device Program

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-30 14:09:35

For the past few years, Apple has been inviting experienced researchers to apply to its security program, which issues iPhones that are especially modified to make it easier to investigate vulnerabilities. Now, applications are open to next year’s program. Here’s how you can apply. This year’s application period ends October 31 This is how Apple describes its Security Research Device Program: “The Security Research Device (SRD) is a specially fused iPhone that allows you to perform iOS securi

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:47:14

Instagram fixed a bug that caused the reach of some users' Stories to shrink when they posted more than one Story a day, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared on Friday. The fix addresses a common complaint shared by creators in the last year that they were disincentivized to use Stories because of how regularly using the feature impacted the number of people who actually saw their posts. "People were complaining about getting less reach with their Stories if they posted lots of Stories in the sam

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New FAA program will let eVTOL startups test some operations before full certification

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-01 10:33:06

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced a new pilot program that will let electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startups test some operations before they receive full regulatory certification. It’s a potentially big change for these companies, as they’ve spent the last few years performing limited test flights of their aircraft while working toward FAA approval. But the program has its limits. Companies will have to partner with state, local, tribal, or territorial gove

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Joby and Archer join FAA's eVTOL pilot testing program

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-10-01 14:33:44

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it's launching a pilot program to speed up the rollout of air taxis. Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation , major players in the electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, space, said they are participating in the program. Shares of each were higher on Friday. The program will establish at least five projects through public-private partnerships with state and local governments to promote safe usage of electric vertical takeoff and landing airc

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How Bill Gates’ fellowship program is adapting to global uncertainty

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-01 23:00:00

There’s plenty of uncertainty to go around this year, including a global trade war, shifting policy priorities, and an economy that’s starting to stumble. Breakthrough Energy, a climate tech organization founded by Bill Gates, has also been shifting in response. The group always placed long bets, though it appears to be reappraising some of them. Its policy team was scrapped in March, for example, and it didn’t continue funding a publication that covered the climate tech world. Still, its inves

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The rise of async AI programming

news.ycombinator.com Braintrust Team 2025-10-03 09:20:19

19 August 2025 Ankur Goyal I spend a decent amount of time reviewing code I didn't write. An AI agent takes a detailed problem description, writes code (primarily Typescript, Rust, and Python), adds tests, and commits the changes to a branch. I tap back in when everything's ready for review. This used to feel like a futuristic scenario, but it's how I work now, and it's how many developers are starting to work. The shift is subtle but powerful: instead of writing code line by line, we're learn

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The Rise of Async Programming

news.ycombinator.com Braintrust Team 2025-10-04 00:20:19

19 August 2025 Ankur Goyal I spend a decent amount of time reviewing code I didn't write. An AI agent takes a detailed problem description, writes code (primarily Typescript, Rust, and Python), adds tests, and commits the changes to a branch. I tap back in when everything's ready for review. This used to feel like a futuristic scenario, but it's how I work now, and it's how many developers are starting to work. The shift is subtle but powerful: instead of writing code line by line, we're learn

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How Bill Gates’s fellowship program is adapting to global uncertainty

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-04 06:00:00

There’s plenty of uncertainty to go around this year, including a global trade war, shifting policy priorities, and an economy that’s starting to stumble. Breakthrough Energy, a climate tech organization founded by Bill Gates, has also been shifting in response. The group always placed long bets, though it appears to be reappraising some of them. Its policy team was scrapped in March, for example, and it didn’t continue funding a publication that covered the climate tech world. Still, its inves

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Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 18:04:32

Since its debut in 2009, Grammarly has only been available in one language: English. Sure, you could switch between dialects, including Canadian and Indian English, but if you wrote in any other language, you were out of luck. That's changing today with Grammarly rolling out beta support for five additional languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The update is available to all Grammarly customers — whether you live in a country that speaks the language you want to write in o

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Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-06 14:00:00

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Por

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Grammarly now offers spelling and grammar check for five more languages

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-06 14:00:00

Grammarly built its reputation on being a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing tips in English. The company is now expanding the scope of these features to support five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian. The company said it will now suggest paragraph-level rewrites for tone, style, and flow for the new languages. Users writing in any of these five languages, as well as English, will also be able to translate text in-line in 19 languages. The multilingua

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I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:09:53

Why I Still Love PHP and Javascript After 20+ years 01 Aug, 2022 Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I love janky programming languages. In particular, I really enjoy PHP and Javascript. Here's why. They are used by people who get shit done. This makes it easy to find people who: understand business needs, can iterate quickly have shipped and maintained many projects in th

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I still love PHP and JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:09:53

Why I Still Love PHP and Javascript After 20+ years 01 Aug, 2022 Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I love janky programming languages. In particular, I really enjoy PHP and Javascript. Here's why. They are used by people who get shit done. This makes it easy to find people who: understand business needs, can iterate quickly have shipped and maintained many projects in th

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Synthesizing Object-Oriented and Functional Design to Promote Re-Use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 10:39:25

Synthesizing Object-Oriented and Functional Design to Promote Re-Use Shriram Krishnamurthi, Matthias Felleisen, Daniel P. Friedman European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 1998 Abstract Many problems require recursively specified types of data and a collection of tools that operate on those data. Over time, these problems evolve so that the programmer must extend the toolkit or extend the types and adjust the existing tools accordingly. Ideally, this should be done without modifyi

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Amazon Prime Is Ending Shared Free Shipping. What to Know and When It Happens

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