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In an interview, Payoneer CEO John Caplan described how the 22-year-old fintech now serves two million customers across 190 countries, processing roughly $100 billion annually for entrepreneurs selling on platforms like Amazon, Shopify and Etsy. Caplan said the company has grown into a billion-dollar revenue business with nearly $300 million in adjusted EBITDA since he took over, up from a $500 million operation.
Cubacadabra's developers plan to rebuild the product's iOS, Android, and web clients as thin native shells that delegate application logic to shared Rust crates rather than reimplementing features separately in Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript. The goal is to move business rules like form validation, save logic, and error handling into one Rust codebase that all three platforms call into, citing Litter's Rust-core approach with UniFFI bindings as a precedent.
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau has pursued 166 investigations into companies illegally operated by Chinese owners disguised through shell firms or local nominees, resulting in at least 36 convictions since 2020. These businesses skirted Taiwan's Cross-Strait Act, which requires Chinese entities to obtain government permits before operating on the island, permits that are increasingly hard to secure amid rising cross-strait tensions.
Epic Games introduced Epic Parties, a voice chat system that works across Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and the Epic Games app, regardless of the hardware players use. Users can start a call in one app and carry it seamlessly into another, and the chat can keep running in the background while playing other titles or using mobile devices. Accepting an Epic Party invite also automatically groups friends into the same Fortnite lobby.
A writer draws a parallel between the fictional Records of FATE from the game Chrono Cross and today's real-world AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok. In the game, an AI secretly nudges an unsuspecting population's choices through supposedly neutral advice terminals; the essay observes people at a live event turning to chatbots instead of engaging with what's in front of them, suggesting a similar dynamic is emerging in daily life.
A developer has published an extensive personal account of using Tcl/Tk, a decades-old scripting language and GUI toolkit, to build console and graphical applications that run natively on Windows, Linux and macOS. The piece walks through the toolkit's threading model, small footprint, ability to produce compact single-file executables, and its BSD licensing, based on the author's hands-on experience after moving past initial enthusiasm.
Canada has hired 48 scholars away from top American universities in a coordinated recruitment push. The move brings established researchers and their expertise into Canadian institutions, bolstering the country's academic and research capacity.
A developer released GlassBox, a Show HN project that runs live in a browser to capture the same fingerprinting signals used by tracking and anti-fraud scripts, then displays them to the user instead of hiding them. Users can also paste a JSON report from another browser or session to compare fingerprints, and GlassBox scores similarity to indicate whether the two reports likely come from the same machine, engine family, or browser.