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More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution
Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund check without drawing the ire of Donald “Tariff Is My Favorite Word” Trump, at least one reader asked why Tim Cook committin…
daringfireball.net
Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.
techcrunch.com
I Hope ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Knows What It’s Doing
With an iffy first movie and the games now MIA, can 'Mortal Kombat II' keep the franchise going another round?
gizmodo.com
Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027
"The Magician's Nephew" looks like a big next step in Netflix's thawing relationship with movie theaters.
techcrunch.com
AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
Bad news for Tilly Norwood.
techcrunch.com
OpenAI’s CFO Reportedly Wants to Delay the IPO from 2026 to 2027
OpenAI's revenue picture is reportedly not pretty, and a new report says its chief financial officer wants to calm spending down before going public.
gizmodo.com
International tech
New-Age Tech Stocks See A Mixed Week Amid Q4 Season, Unicommerce Worst Hit
New-age tech stocks witnessed a mixed response from investors amid the ongoing Q4 earnings season and tensions in West Asia.…
inc42.com
Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
inc42.com
Centre Notifies 100% FDI In Insurance Sector
The Centre has allowed up to 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies under the automatic route, weeks after…
inc42.com
How RoshAi Is Driving Autonomy In Ports And Mining Operations
Severe driver shortage is an issue not just in population-starved countries like the US, but also those like India, which…
inc42.com
Psychology says the loneliest people aren’t the ones living alone, they’re the ones surrounded by family who only ever ask about their health, their schedule, and their weekend plans, but never once about who they actually became
The deepest loneliness isn't living alone — it's sitting at a family dinner where everyone loves you and nobody knows you anymore.
siliconcanals.com
I’m 66 and I’ve spent years being someone people admire. Nobody tells you how lonely it is to be respected by everyone and truly known by almost no one
After decades of being the reliable electrician everyone turned to for solutions, I discovered that the armor of competence I'd worn so proudly had become a prison that kept everyone—including my own family—at arm's length.
siliconcanals.com

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NetHack 5.0.0
Article URL: https://nethack.org/v500/release.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988776 Points: 323 # Comments: 94
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EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained
Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.
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Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch control all sorts of …read more
hackaday.com
A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
In this article, we will learn how Kubernetes is a system of promises, and that every piece of it is a small program keeping one of those promises.
bytebytego.com
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883 Points: 461 # Comments: 209
github.com
Dav2d
Article URL: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504 Points: 277 # Comments: 95
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This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32
Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significantly …read more
hackaday.com
Pushing as Many Pixels as Possible to a CRT: Interlaced 4K
Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it’s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face …read more
hackaday.com
Peripherals Hacks
Custom peripheral projects are among the most rewarding. Especially if you’re like me and you sit at the computer eight hours per day, anything that you can use on a …read more
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