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A new Wear OS canary emulator reveals Wear OS 7.1 and a persistent in-app status bar coming in a later release.
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“Wear OS will gain a system status bar in apps, but not in Wear OS 7.1.”— Android Authority · full quotes → 3 sources
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A surge in AI-discovered bugs has forced major feature reverts and pushed the release beyond its traditional October window.
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“Postgres release is delayed due to the quality bar getting raised. New features are getting more eyeballs, and therefore leading to more rollbacks.”— flakes · full quotes → 4 sources
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Major outflows follow security breach at unidentified exchange attributed to North Korean actors.
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A longtime Mastodon user celebrates a decade on the decentralized platform, citing its resistance to corporate takeover and algorithmic…
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“Social networks often launch in a blaze of glory but limp out of existence within a year or so.”— Terence Eden · Terence Eden's Blog · full quotes → 2 sources
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A blog post argues that most Pratt parsing tutorials focus on implementation over the conceptual framework that actually matters.
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“And here's a secret: that's the least important thing you need to understand about Pratt's. In fact, you don't need to understand this piece at all!”— Vini Psmaker, Blog post author · vinipsmaker.github.io · full quotes → 4 sources
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The deal clears a major infrastructure hurdle as Britain competes for global AI investment against the US and Gulf states.
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“If Britain is serious about having its own AI capability, with sensitive data stored safely on British soil, it needs somewhere to physically put it, and I'd…”— Ben Houchen · full quotes → 3 sources
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The inventor who helped develop liquid crystal display technology for flat-panel screens has passed away.
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“The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.”— Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times reporter · full quotes → 3 sources
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Linus Torvalds says AI-generated patches are now integrated into normal development rather than flooding the stabilization phase.
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“I think that's a much healthier model… although they often get rewritten.”— Linus Torvalds · full quotes → 3 sources
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The kernel release cycle reached its largest size in history, with the source tree approaching 42 million lines.
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“This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity”— Michael Larabel · full quotes → 4 sources
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Reddit user discovers strings in HomeView 27.2 software suggesting Apple plans to add camera functionality to its smart home hub.
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“Your HomeView can be used as a security camera with HomeKit Secure Video.”— HomeView 27.2 code, Software code string · The Verge · full quotes → 3 sources
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New tool lets Windows users set up Linux on the same disk by creating a temporary FAT32 partition, mimicking USB installer behavior.
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“A USB installer is a FAT32 drive with the ISO's files on it, which the PC's firmware starts. hop makes the same thing on the internal disk: a small FAT32…”— hop documentation · GitHub (hop/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) · full quotes → 2 sources
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The lightweight Linux window manager/desktop ships its first major update in nearly two years, alongside a new release of its EFL toolkit.
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“Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence…”— Michael Larabel, Phoronix founder · Phoronix · full quotes → 5 sources
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A new website automatically identifies whether Eastern Time is currently on daylight saving or standard time.
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“The live clock at the top of the page checks the America/New_York time zone and labels it as Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) or Eastern Standard Time (EST)…”— edtorest.com · Hacker News · full quotes → 3 sources
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London's mayor calls for limits on autonomous vehicle rollout amid concerns over jobs, congestion, and regulatory gaps.
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“Great news for us to really invest in the market. But in terms of how it's going to be regulated, once the service is up and running, that's something that…”— Danny O'Gorman, Freenow by Lyft UK and Ireland general manager · full quotes → 3 sources
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Chinese BCI developer enters registration trial across 15 hospitals as investors back clinical validation over proof-of-concept.
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“fully implanted, fully wireless, fully functional”— NeuroXess, BCI developer · Press · full quotes → 1 source
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Britain's legacy PSTN will go dark in 100 days, affecting fire alarms, payment terminals, and vulnerable elderly on TeleCare.
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“Openreach and all providers need to coordinate a much more cohesive campaign that reaches customers directly…TV, billboards and newspaper advertising should…”— Paolo Pescatore · full quotes → 5 sources
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CEO Steve Huffman ties the shift to a steep drop in Google search referrals and AI scraping, with tests starting outside the US in Q4.
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“Moving to primarily logged-in will ensure our users have the best Reddit experience possible, and can find the content and communities most relevant to them…”— Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO · Shareholder letter / Ars Technica · full quotes → 8 sources
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A software engineer visiting Japan chronicles the frustrations of booking train tickets across fragmented systems designed around…
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“I have heard from some native Japanese people that it's all about efficiency—as in maintaining a comfortable level of inefficiency. Jobs at traditional…”— iamnothere · full quotes → 3 sources
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Designer and engineer shares how an unintended consequence of autoplaying sound backfired when the game launched on Google's homepage.
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“It was, frankly, a terrifying proposition. The homepage was then a very important destination, and my job title was only adjacent to "software engineer."”— Marcin Wichary, Google UX designer and engineer · Hacker News · full quotes → 4 sources
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Microsoft says removing Windows 10's drag-and-drop taskbar repositioning was a deliberate design choice, not a missing feature.
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“It's a deliberate design decision not a missing capability”— Microsoft, Software maker · Windows Central · full quotes → 3 sources
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Space.com publishes overview of SpaceX's Starshield, distinguishing it from Starlink and detailing its military uses.
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“SpaceX is building and operating two satellite networks at the moment, Starlink and Starshield. What's the difference between the two, and who uses them?”— Space.com · full quotes → 4 sources
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A hobbyist homebrew project gets Apple's iPadOS running on Nintendo's handheld console.
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“i put ipados on my nintendo switch because fuck it why not”— @brunostjohn, Developer · X · full quotes → 2 sources
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The $13 app uses cinematographer Steve Yedlin's color processing from Johnson's films, becoming the top paid iOS download after its October…
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“I write all of my own image processing that we use on the movies. It's just this curated app that takes the pictures the way we like.”— Steve Yedlin · full quotes → 2 sources
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A new blog post has an AI coding agent rebuild an identical app in multiple JavaScript frameworks to test unproven "better for agents"…
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“One thing I learned from this experiment is that everything I'm measuring is very stochastic.”— Nolan Lawson · full quotes → 4 sources
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New IDE mimics JetBrains' interface with Rust backend, but Hacker News questions whether it's truly Rust and if benchmarks are fair.
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“Calling it "OpenIDEA" is a bit misleading...saying that it was rebuilt in Rust is at least as much misleading: the code processing is still standalone LSP…”— avallach · full quotes → 3 sources
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A programming video showing manual implementation of standard Unix tools sparks discussion on software engineering complexity and the role…
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“GNU utils are very maximalist though. Busybox touch is much simpler, especially if you cut out the optional ifdeffed susv3 features”— zokier, Hacker News commenter · Hacker News · full quotes → 3 sources
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The Chinese BCI startup will use the RMB 700 million round to fund clinical trials, regulatory filings and a 10,000-unit manufacturing…
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A developer flags 12px font size and text-scaling failures in the GitHub alternative's new UI, citing WCAG violations.
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“A base font size of 12px in this decade truly is beyond the pale. It doesn't so much *call into question* their competence as much as *utterly disprove* it.”— chrismorgan · full quotes → 2 sources
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An old writeup on building clever domain names from unusual Unicode characters was resubmitted to HN and mirrored by aggregator bots.
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After backlash over a planned 50% cut, OpenAI doubled usage limits for Pro, Business Premium plans effective Oct 29.
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“ChatGPT Pro users, don't forget that your usage limits are getting cut in half in just 3 days.”— @TokenGremlin, X user · X · full quotes → 6 sources
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A two-month hardware project turned a free robot from MIT Swapfest into a pocket-sized Arduino gadget.
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“My 12-year-old son and I spent about two months on, what we call, the Altoids project.”— uvdn7, Blog author · Hacker News · full quotes → 3 sources
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A short blog post laying out an API-design rule of thumb draws sustained discussion on Lobsters and Hacker News.
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“That's a good observation, that there are many different ways to cut the interfaces such that pure business is on the one side, and side-effecting syscalls are…”— matklad · full quotes → 2 sources
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Frustrated with YouTube's recommendation algorithm, Andrej Karpathy used Claude Opus to mine 15+ years of Hacker News comments into a video…
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“It was Friday night at 11pm, I was tired, I went to YouTube to watch something and realized that I was looking at an enshittified wall of slop.”— Andrej Karpathy, Creator of HackerTube · Hacker News · full quotes → 3 sources
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Eike Hein's experimental project pairs Ghostty's libghostty-vt library with Qt Quick/Kirigami for a faster alternative to Konsole.
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“Kwi is designed to provide users of KDE Plasma and other free desktops with a modern and fast terminal, built on a robust tech stack and following the latest…”— Eike Hein, KDE developer · KDE blog · full quotes → 5 sources
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Meta has developed a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese startup Fourier and is working on a second version, The Information reports.
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“Meta has built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese startup company Fourier and is working on a second version”— The Information · full quotes → 4 sources
