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From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’

Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but Electron is without question a scourge. I think the Mac will prove more resilient than Windows, because the Mac is the platform that attracts people who care. But I worry. In some way…

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Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring

Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the other. The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of your device. You can choose to show…

Day One Journal

My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac and iOS ever since. Day One’s apps exhibit a commitment to technical and design excellence, and, more importantly, everything…

How America's 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligence

Imagine if you could bring 250 people together in a massive room and have them discuss and debate an important issue, arguing the points and counterpoints, and converging on answers that accurately reflect their collective knowledge, wisdom, values, and sensibilities. Now imagine…

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Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models

Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a spe…

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International tech

We tend to think using AI well is a technical skill, but the evidence from early adopters suggests it is almost entirely a clarity skill — the people getting extraordinary results are simply unusually clear about what outcome they are actually after

We tend to treat being good at AI as a technical skill, something to do with clever prompts, the right settings and a stock of secret phrases. Watch the people who actually get extraordinary results from these tools, though, and a different pattern shows up. They are rarely the m…

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Chongqing Inaugurates Three Gorges Laboratory, Completing Four-Lab Technology Innovation Framework

Chongqing officially inaugurates the Three Gorges Laboratory, completing its four-laboratory framework targeting digital intelligence, life health, new materials, and green low-carbon technologies.

We assume tech clusters form around talent, but the AI boom is increasingly chasing cheap power — how Northern Virginia, Iowa and Ireland became data-centre capitals

Where the internet physically lives is being redrawn, and what’s pulling it isn’t engineers — it’s electricity. Across the industry, the biggest new data-centre campuses are chosen first for access to cheap, plentiful power. The old draw of a nearby talent pool now comes a distan…

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The truth about 10,000 steps a day: the number wasn’t science, it was the brand name of a pedometer a Japanese company launched around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics — and later research finds real health benefits from as few as 4,000 steps

The daily step goal on hundreds of millions of wrists and phones did not come out of a laboratory. It came out of a marketing department. In the mid-1960s, riding the fitness buzz around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese clock and instrument company Yamasa released a step cou…

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From Gigabit to 10-Gigabit: Huawei AI-FAN Architecture Drives Broadband Home Upgrade

Huawei unveils AI-FAN architecture for home broadband, targeting the shift from gigabit to 10-gigabit connectivity with AI-powered network intelligence.

Psychology says people who reach retirement age without close friends aren’t cold or difficult, they were often the person everyone leaned on so heavily that no one thought to ask what they actually needed

When someone reaches retirement age without close friends, the easy assumption is that they must have pushed people away. We imagine a cold person, a difficult person, someone too guarded or demanding to build lasting bonds. Psychology suggests another possibility. Some people ar…

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Researchers Built a Scuba Suit for Cyborg Cockroaches

The 3D-printed diving suit allowed cockroaches with electrodes attached to them to survive underwater for up to three hours.

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785485 Points: 260 # Comments: 120

Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today

Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions of how much of the computer needs to be actually …read more

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Article URL: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788283 Points: 238 # Comments: 100

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Article URL: https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786781 Points: 419 # Comments: 213

Disk Polishing Goes Open Source

Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for. If not well cared for, well, it’s only relatively durable, and we’ve …read more

Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock

A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a theatrical setting, where time …read more

Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested

For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap they’re becoming, they can still only gather around 20-30% of the energy …read more

Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique

For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.

Multi-Region Architecture: Going Global Without Going Broke

When an application grows geographically, it is logical to start serving it from a second region to improve latency and availability.