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We're improving search results when you use quotes
How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,664 posts.
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Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Network data confirm the restriction of Twitter on multiple internet providers in Turkey as of Wednesday 8 February 2023. The incident comes as authorities raise concerns over disinformation online, although ...
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UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores and calendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have open alternativ...
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9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard.
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Qwen Image 2.1
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases. Getting here wasn’t an easy journey, filled with enriching…
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I’m Terrified of My New TV
From facial recognition to personal data collection, this thing is downright scary -- and so are the implications.
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Apple previewed a new software design, crafted with Liquid Glass, that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful.
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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
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Megafail
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past few days, Kim Dotcom (of Megaupload infamy) has launched his new cloud storage site, Mega. Mega has an impressive sales pitch, promising secure cloud storage where only the user has the key to decrypt his or her files, and the encryption and decryption happens securely…
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Resetting Xbox
This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful
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VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
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A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted
More than a decade ago, a man named Nick Merrill approached the NYCLU and ACLU with an unusual request for help. At the time, Nick ran a small Internet access and consulting business, called Calyx, in New York City.
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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
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Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill. We’re disappointed to see the committee advance this misguided bill. If enacted, EARN IT will put massive legal pressure on internet companies both large and small to stop using encryption and instead scan...
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive…
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We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
How a team of 16 parallel Claude agents wrote a Rust-based C compiler from scratch, capable of compiling the Linux kernel, and what it taught us.
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Qwen3-Coder-Next
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices—customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of...
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The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
Modern web applications load and execute a lot more JavaScript code than they did just a few years ago. While JIT (just-in-time) compilers have been very successful in making JavaScript ...
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Claude Integrations
Claude can now connect to your apps and tools through Integrations, while advanced Research searches across the web, Google Workspace, and connected services to quickly deliver comprehensive reports.
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