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AT&T is launching a digital bouncer to block unwanted calls

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 01:09:03

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is testing out an agentic AI tool that can identify and filter out robocallers. The “digital receptionist” screens calls to determine if the caller is human, how urgent the call is, and whether it meets your customized criteria before passing the call to you. If the caller won’t identify themselves, it’s a wrong number, or the call doesn’t meet your criteria, the receptionist will either disconnect or take a message. Are you tired of being bothe

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Launch HN: Rowboat (YC S24) – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 17:01:16

Let AI build multi-agent workflows for you in minutes ⚡ Build AI agents instantly with natural language | 🔌 Connect tools with one-click integrations | 📂 Power with knowledge by adding documents for RAG | 🔄 Automate workflows by setting up triggers and actions | 🚀 Deploy anywhere via API or SDK ☁️ Prefer a hosted version? Use our cloud to starting building agents right away! Quick start Set your OpenAI key export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key Clone the repository and start Rowboat (re

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Gboard’s advanced proofreading tool sneaks onto one more Pixel phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 23:01:14

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s Writing Tools, an on-device AI feature, is reportedly being rolled out to the Pixel 8 series. A user with a Pixel 8 Pro running the latest Gboard beta release has received the feature. The feature’s expansion suggests that Google may gradually add more older devices to the list of supported phones. AI features formed some of the Pixel 10 series‘ core new highlights, one of which was Writing Tools in Gboard. Thanks to its integration into the

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Programming Deflation

news.ycombinator.com Kent Beck 2025-09-24 13:11:43

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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Pulling an Inverse Conway Maneuver at Netflix (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Juan Ignacio Vimberg 2025-09-25 03:26:32

Pulling an Inverse Conway Maneuver at Netflix When I first joined the Netflix Platform team circa 2020, the Observability offering was composed of a series of tools serving different purposes. There was Atlas for metrics, Edgar for distributed tracing, Radar for Logs and Alerts, Lumen for dashboards, Telltale for app health, etc. It was a portfolio of about 20 different apps. Big and small, ranging from business-specific tools to analyze playback sessions to low-level tools for CPU profiling.

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I bought this $15 cordless screwdriver just for fun - then it totally impressed me

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-28 21:51:14

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. $14.98 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwdri

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OpenAI Hopes Animated 'Critterz' Will Prove AI Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 14:00:04

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, will have a budget of less than $30 million. Producers hope to make the movie in about nine months, in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to The Wall Street Journal. The original short

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All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:06:58

all vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme 09 Sep, 2025 i wrote a piece earlier about why I won't be vibe coding anymore. i think of it less as vibe coding now, i kinda hate the term because it makes it seem like its not an involved process. it is very involved, and you can't just vibe it. all of the different tools selling the dream of building your own $1bn startup from just simple prompting are fooling people. yes all of them. trust me i've tried most of these tools. you c

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 05:39:25

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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All the Dyson Hair Tools You’ll Ever Need (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-03 13:00:00

Dyson launched its first hair dryer, the Supersonic, back in 2016. Since then, Dyson's hair tools include dryers, stylers, and straighteners. Among the lineup is a wet-to-dry straightener, the infamous Airwrap and all of its accessories, and a teeny, tiny blowdryer, in addition to the aforementioned standard-size hair dryer. Regardless of whether you’re new to the world of hair tools or a seasoned professional, it can feel overwhelming. There are a lot of factors at play in choosing the right o

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I did not expect this $15 cordless screwdriver to be as good as it is

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-04 06:13:46

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwd

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I was wrong about this $15 cordless screwdriver - here's how it fared in my workshop

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-04 07:45:18

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwd

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Turn Live Footage Into CG Scenes for Free With AutoDesk

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 17:22:00

If you edit videos on the regular, you know how expensive certain software and tools can be, especially when you start playing with special effects. Things like CGI are often not accessible by the average person. But with AutoDesk, you can bring Hollywood right to your laptop with its Flow Studio tool. This tool is a cloud-based and AI-powered to bring your live-action footage into editable CG scenes. Software like this seems like it would cost a fortune. But what if it it didn't cost you anyth

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-05 06:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, inclu

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OpenAI Wants This Film to Prove AI Animation Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 17:11:00

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, has a budget of less than $30 million, and producers hope to make the movie in about nine months -- in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The sho

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Nova Launcher’s demise is another death knell for the Android I remember

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 21:00:00

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Like many fans, news that Nova Launcher has hit the end of the road is a bad way to start my week. I’ve been a paid-up Nova Prime user since my Galaxy S2 and currently have the launcher padding out all the missing creature comforts on my OPPO Find X8 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL. It might not be everyone’s preferred third-party launcher these days, but it’s been my pick for as long as I can remember. As someone who swaps phones regularly, Nova has been my consisten

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This oddball screwdriver is one of the most ergonomic tools I own (and it's only $15)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-05 21:01:00

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwd

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-05 21:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audio books and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, incl

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 20:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 06:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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API Blueprint

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 11:43:21

API Blueprint. A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs. Tutorial Tools section # GET /message + Response 200 (text/plain) Hello World! Focused on Collaboration API Blueprint is built to encourage dialogue and collabora

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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

news.ycombinator.com Ashanty Rosario 2025-10-08 21:37:42

AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I watched a classmate discreetly shift in their seat, prop their laptop up on a crossed leg, and highlight the entirety of the chapter under discussion. In seconds, they had pul

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Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 21:27:41

Hi HN! – We’re Pranjali, Dhruv and Harsha, building Slashy ( https://www.slashy.ai ). We’re building a general agent that connects to apps and can read data across them and perform actions via custom tools, semantic search, and personalized memory. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeApHMHhccA While working on a previous startup, we realized we were spending more time doing busywork in apps than actually building product. We lost hundreds of hours scraping LinkedIn profiles, updati

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This PowerToys update just ended Windows hotkey conflicts for good - and more

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-10 05:53:36

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways PowerToys now offers a way to resolve hotkey conflicts. The new version adds a search box to help you find specific tools. The next version will let you schedule light and dark modes. As a diehard Windows user, I love hotkeys and keyboard shortcuts. Pressing Ctrl+S to save a file, Ctrl+V to paste content from the clipboard, and Ctrl+X to cut content are all tremendous ti

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Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are coming to more Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 21:45:18

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s AI-powered Writing Tools feature, which debuted on the Pixel 10, is now rolling out to some non-Pixel devices. Powered by the on-device Gemini Nano model, the feature helps users proofread and rephrase text directly within the keyboard. Availability is tied to devices supporting the multimodal Gemini Nano, such as those with the latest high-end chipsets. Update 1, September 3, 2025 (2:45 PM ET): Google has confirmed that Gboard’s AI Writing T

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Netflix adds Twitch-like clipping function, complete with an editor

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 09:45:18

Netflix has upgraded its Moments feature for the mobile app. It already lets users save iconic scenes, but now there's a simple editor to bring it in line with something like Twitch's clipping tool. Viewers can use the tool to set start and end points, so they can turn preferred scenes into "full clips to save, relive and share anytime." Just tap the "Clip" button when watching something on mobile and the new editor will pop up. Once something is saved, it'll reside in the "My Netflix" tab. The

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Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are already rolling out to non-Pixel phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 21:35:18

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s AI-powered Writing Tools feature, which debuted on the Pixel 10, is now rolling out to some non-Pixel devices. Powered by the on-device Gemini Nano model, the feature helps users proofread and rephrase text directly within the keyboard. Availability is likely tied to devices supporting the multimodal Gemini Nano, such as those with the latest high-end chipsets. When Google unveiled the Pixel 10 series last month, the company highlighted new A

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Amazon is selling the Milwaukee 9-tool kit for $200 off this Labor Day - here's what you get

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-17 16:17:00

I'm old enough to remember a time before the widespread availability of power tools. Back then, you had to drill, screw, saw, and run fasteners all by hand. Those days are gone, and we're now in a time when you can pick up cordless power tools at prices that will make you look twice! Milwaukee has a great deal on its M18 nine-tool combo kit for Labor Day at Amazon. Yes, nine power tools. In this massive kit, you get a 1/2-inch drill/driver, a 1/4-inch hex impact driver, a Hackzall reciprocatin

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Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-10-17 16:55:56

For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it. According to a July survey of 791 US developers from cloud services platform Fastly, around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those d

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Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 14:47:47

This is not the usual type of content you will have come to expect from Piccalilli, but I feel like this topic, specifically, is an important aspect of our work to cover because as I see it, making or encouraging your development staff to use AI tools in their work is extremely short-sighted and risky. I want to support that stance with some conversations I’ve had with people actually doing the work and their mostly less than favourable experiences. I asked this across question social media:

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