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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 01:37:11

For nearly 11 years, Hack Club - a nonprofit that provides coding education and community to teenagers worldwide - has used Slack as the tool for communication. We weren’t freeloaders. A few years ago, when Slack transitioned us from their free nonprofit plan to a $5,000/year arrangement, we happily paid. It was reasonable, and we valued the service they provided to our community. However, two days ago, Slack reached out to us and said that if we don’t agree to pay an extra $50k this week and $

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Boring is good

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 01:51:27

The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good reason. It’s time to trade the out-of-control hype for a more pragmatic, even “boring,” approach. A recent MIT report shows that 95% of companies implementing this technology have yet to see a positive outcome. It’s understandable to feel confused. When I get confused, I write. This is why I wrote the first part of this series, Hype is a Business Tool as the online debate had become so overheate

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The Wacom One, now one size bigger

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-20 13:17:20

Wacom has introduced a new 14-inch creative display tablet to its entry-level product line for students and hobbyists. The Wacom One 14 is a smidge larger than the One 12 and One 13 touch pen display tablets that Wacom launched in 2023, providing a bigger digital canvas for users to sketch, edit photos, and sculpt 3D models while still being compact and light enough to toss into a backpack. It’s available to buy today for $299.95. That’s significantly less than the $400 launch price for the sma

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The Pixel 10 made me fall back in love with small phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 05:00:52

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Remember a time when we used to call devices with 7-inch screens tablets? Does your memory go back to the era of phablets — phones with a “large” 5.5-inch display? Screen sizes have gone up so much that almost 7 inches is now considered a standard phone size, while we call 6 inches mini. I fall in the former category: I used the iPhone 16 Pro Max, a massive brick of a phone, for the majority of the last year. And if my wrist had vocal cords, you could hear it s

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Lumina-DiMOO: An open-source discrete multimodal diffusion model

news.ycombinator.com Equal Contributions 2025-09-26 15:45:58

A striking photograph of a glass of orange juice on a wooden kitchen table, capturing a playful moment. The orange juice splashes out of the glass and forms the word "Smile" in a whimsical, swirling script just above the glass. The background is softly blurred, revealing a cozy, homely kitchen with warm lighting and a sense of comfort. A collection of vibrant red roses is artfully arranged on a rustic wooden surface. The roses, in full bloom, display their intricate petal layers and deep red hu

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Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 13:15:14

I run a small business in Canada. Oddly, if you search my brand name, my own site doesn’t show up at all on the first page. Instead, Facebook, Instagram, and random sites that link to me outrank me. I’ve submitted my sitemap to GSC, checked indexing, and built branded backlinks—but Google still ignores my homepage. It’s bad because people looking for me are funneled into other platforms where I lose control of the user journey. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this Google punishing small/n

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Contracts for C

news.ycombinator.com Jens Gustedt 2025-09-30 11:36:49

C++ seems to finally converge with their contracts proposal, https://wg21.link/p2900. I decided to give it a try and come up with ideas how such a thing would look for C. This is in early stages, not a full proposal yet, and still would need implementation by some of the major compilers. In particular, the C++ feature is full of sidetracks that I don’t like at all, such as user-defined global handlers and ignorability. But there is a core of ideas, syntax and semantics that I found interesting

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Apple could reintroduce iPhone mini thanks to this recent lineup change, here’s how

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-06 03:28:59

In 2020, Apple surprised a lot of people by re-entering a neglected segment of the smartphone market: small phones. With iPhone 12 mini, Apple did something fairly special, by squeezing all of the same technologies of the iPhone 12 into a 5.4-inch form factor. Unfortunately, it didn’t live for too long, but thanks to a recent lineup change, a new window might’ve opened for its resurgence. iPhone mini history The iPhone mini ultimately lived a 2 year life. There was the iPhone 12 mini, then a s

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Indian grocery startup Citymall raises $47M to challenge ultra-fast delivery giants

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-15 12:30:00

Indian e-commerce startup Citymall, which focuses on budget-focused grocery delivery for tier 2 and tier 3 towns, said today that it has raised $47 million in Series D funding led by Accel, with participation from existing investors including Waterbridge Ventures, Citius, General Catalyst, Elevation Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Jungle Ventures. The Series D round comes three years after the company’s $75 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners. The valuation of the comp

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Lessons from building an AI data analyst

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 11:40:24

AI/ML Data Analytics Malloy Malloy TL;DR Text-to-SQL is not enough. Answering real user questions requires going the extra mile like multi-step plans, external tools (coding) and external context. Answering real user questions requires going the extra mile like multi-step plans, external tools (coding) and external context. Context is the product. A semantic layer (we use Malloy ⎋) encodes business meaning and sharply reduces SQL complexity. A semantic layer (we use Malloy ⎋) encodes busines

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I took Gemini shopping with its new visual guidance on the Pixel 10: Here’s how it went

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 05:30:51

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google keeps giving Gemini more tricks on our phones, like a magician stuffing rabbits in a hat. On the Pixel 10 series, Gemini talks to apps, performs unreal voice translations, helps take better photos, and basically shows off its abilities every chance it gets. Visual guidance is also one of Gemini’s newest party tricks to debut alongside Google’s latest flagships. So last week, I grabbed my fresh-out-of-the-box Pixel 10 Pro XL and headed out for some retail

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Your favorite e-ink sketchbook might be getting smaller

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 13:55:24

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR A very short reMarkable “special event” on YouTube teases a new device heading to shelves. Interested shoppers can tune in on September 3 at 8 AM ET to find out more details. For now, speculation suggests a smaller form factor. It appears reMarkable isn’t done scribbling in the e-ink margins. The company dropped a cryptic teaser video, showing off what looks like a downsized tablet with familiar Paper Pro DNA. While the clip doesn’t confirm much beyon

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Malleable Software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 15:04:02

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended spaces where it can design, assemble, and adapt — but in Linear, the major design choices have already been made. At best, AI might shave a few seconds off repetitive tasks or auto-fill a few fields, but it can’t reinvent the core process, because

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Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 20:04:02

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended spaces where it can design, assemble, and adapt — but in Linear, the major design choices have already been made. At best, AI might shave a few seconds off repetitive tasks or auto-fill a few fields, but it can’t reinvent the core process, because

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SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 23:29:02

SmallJS is a free and open source implementation of the elegant and powerful Smalltalk-80 (ST) language. It compiles to JavaScript (JS) that runs in modern browsers or in Node.js. SmallJS is file based, not image based, so you can develop in your favorite IDE. The default setup is for Visual Studio Code, with ST syntax coloring and step debugging! You code separately from the SmallJS base libraries (image) and only the parts you use are imported automatically when running your app. SmallJS is

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Astronomers Discover a Previously Hidden Moon Orbiting Uranus

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-03 23:58:03

Astronomers spotted a never-before-seen, bite-sized moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the ice giant’s follower count to 29. The moon is so small and faint—well below the detection threshold of NASA’s Voyager 2 probe—that scientists believe Uranus may host many more undiscovered, tiny moons. The moon, provisionally named S/2025 U1, first entered the view of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on February 2, 2025. Further imaging led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) shows that it sits at

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The James Webb Space Telescope Finds New Moon Orbiting Uranus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 17:58:00

No joke: Science has found a new teeny, tiny moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced on Tuesday that the James Webb Space Telescope found yet another moon floating around Uranus, an ice giant that already had 13 other known moons. The discovery was made thanks to images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. A team from the Southwest Research Institute noticed an unfamiliar object that appeared to be orbiting Uranus. The images have been stitched together in a slideshow on YouTube of the moon, w

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How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

wired.com Diego Barbera 2025-11-23 22:00:00

Considering the widespread use of contactless payment systems, it's no surprise that portable point-of-sale thefts are making a comeback. This type of robbery is enjoying a new wave of popularity, and is much harder to spot given how quickly those transactions take place. But how much risk is there, really? And how can you protect yourself from POS scams? The Case of Sorrento A recent example of POS theft happened recently in Italy, when topic exploded again a few days ago when the news agency

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Hoto Snapbloq Tools Review: Attractive Power Tools

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-11-22 04:00:00

Tools often have a utilitarian design. Their purpose is to get stuff done, so their shape is exclusively focused on getting stuff done. This is where the Hoto SnapBloq toolkit is unique: These tools emphasize style and design to prove that functionality doesn’t need to have a rugged, utilitarian, and (typically) unappealing style. Hoto’s SnapBloq line is a set of three small power tools meant for tinkerers and hobbyists. The full set consists of a screwdriver, a rotary tool, and a drill, along

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China Opens ‘Robot Mall,’ Its First Mall for Robots

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-25 08:40:25

China opened its first full-scale shopping center dedicated entirely to robots on Friday, as part of a broader push to bring robotics from research labs into people’s homes. The four-story Robot Mall, located in Beijing’s high-tech E-Town district, showcases more than 100 robots from over 40 brands, including Chinese companies like Ubtech Robotics and Unitree Robotics. The store operates like a car dealership, but for robots. It follows the “4S” model common in China, offering sales, service, s

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Framework Desktop Review: A Delightful Surprise

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-11-28 08:00:00

The Framework laptops did something no other laptop could. With the ability to upgrade or swap out nearly every internal component, they are sustainable, unlike any other. But the Framework Desktop isn’t so unique. After all, one of the primary reasons people buy (or build) desktop PCs is the ability to upgrade the system on their own. This 4.5-liter mini-ITX PC isn’t so different from many of the compact PCs you can already buy. And yet, Framework’s distinctive approach makes this stand out.

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A New ‘Foundation’ Clip Digs Into Some Prickly Family Dynamics

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-30 22:00:42

When Foundation fans first met newlyweds Toran (Cody Fern) and Bayta (Synnøve Karlsen) Mallow, two things stood out: first, that last name, signifying Toran’s connection to season two hero Hober Mallow; second, the way their self-aware glamour made them very much resemble futuristic versions of the social media influencers we have today. But it was also apparent there was substance beneath the sparkle—and episode five, “Where Tyrants Spend Eternity,” explores that idea even more. io9 has an exc

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Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

news.ycombinator.com Hope Hodge Seck 2025-12-02 06:05:17

On the heels of fielding the military’s first attack drone team, the U.S. Marine Corps added another weapon to their drone-fighting arsenal: a 90-page handbook all about employing small, unmanned aerial systems against the enemy and integrating them into formations. The 1st Marine Division Schools’ Small UAS/Counter-small UAS Integration Handbook was published in June and approved for public release. It’s intended to support the 10-day sUAS/C-sUAS Integration Course recently launched at Camp Pe

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Diet Swap Study Reveals How Ultra-Processed Foods Can Derail Weight Loss

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-05 17:10:37

In case you needed more incentive to cut down on ultra-processed foods, a new diet swap study out today reveals that people experienced greater weight loss while eating minimally processed foods than they did when they ate a nutritionally similar, ultra-processed diet. In a six-month trial led by scientists at University College London, study participants were assigned one of the two diet regimes to follow for eight weeks, and then took a four week break before swapping to the other diet for an

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A short post on short trains

news.ycombinator.com Shaked Koplewitz 2025-12-13 10:15:07

Epistemic status: Main part is well-supported but may have some minor errors. The parts about potential future lines are inherently speculative. Small Train is Good Train A while ago, I wrote about how elevated trains are the greatest urbanism cheat code, increasing the amount of track miles you can build per dollar (or per year) by a factor of 2-4. And while I don’t have anything else on that order of magnitude, I do have one more easy 20-50% gain: Run shorter trains. The basic idea is simpl

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TernX Review (2025): Travel With Young Kids Just Got Easier

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-12-13 09:07:00

I procrastinated flying anywhere with my son until he was almost 3. There were so many things needed—a car seat! Stroller! In-flight entertainment! His own luggage! A crib when we landed!—that it felt like too much to coordinate. And who can blame me? It's just parenting in a new location, after all, rather than a vacation. Still, a trip we wanted to take finally presented itself. We booked a long weekend in San Francisco and the nearby wine country to see family and friends we haven't seen sin

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Apple to close Parkland Mall store in China amid intense worldwide retail reshuffle

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-18 11:09:58

In a first in the country, Apple has confirmed that it will close its Parkland Mall store in Dalian City, Northeast China, on August 9. Here are the details. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple decided to shut down the store due to the “departure of several retailers at the Parkland Mall”. Here is the full statement provided to Mark Gurman: “We’re always focused on providing an exceptional experience for all of our customers both online and at more than 50 Apple Store locations across Greater Chin

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A small web July

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 08:41:55

A Small Web July 29 Jun, 2025 I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others blogs about this on RSS, a 32-bit Cafe thread, sporadic guestbook/cbox comments, idk!) for spending less time on the corporate web for the month of July. I am interested in seeing how my brain wiring shifts with some new rules and a new month. My (personal) rules for July are: Almost no walled garden social medi

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I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 11:01:09

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone! My name is Eric Migicovsky and I love small phones. It’s weird because I am 6'6" but I never enjoyed using a large phone. I loved the Sony Xperia Compact series. RIP... I love small phones because they fit nicely in pocket are much lighter are easy to use one-handed without dropping won't fall out of my pocket while bicycling And of course, some people with smaller hands hate how big phones feel! The drawbacks of a small phone (smaller screen, s

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Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 03:50:56

The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what “significant in history” means. So let’s talk about some “mostly dead” languages and why they matter so much. Disclaimer: Yeah not all of these are dead and not all of these a

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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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The Pixel 10 made me fall back in love with small phones

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Framework Desktop Review: A Delightful Surprise

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A short post on short trains

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I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

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