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Verizon makes customers wait 35 days to unlock fully paid-off phones
Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.
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Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
“This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.
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The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices
Don't expect big changes yet.
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The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979
Article URL: https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/one-of-the-rarest-the-sharp-pc-2000-computer-boombox-from-1979.10341/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006055 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
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Building a TUI is easy now
Article URL: https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509 Points: 48 # Comments: 35
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
Article URL: https://ios-countdown.win/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064 Points: 1165 # Comments: 574
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Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information
The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries.
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$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
MST3K 's 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward.
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11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
Article URL: https://homolova.sk/missingvoters/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006738 Points: 29 # Comments: 14
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594 Points: 112 # Comments: 44
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Why I'm not worried about AI job loss
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006513 Points: 44 # Comments: 36
Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
I've been working on CloudRouter, a skill + CLI that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to start cloud VMs and GPUs. When an agent writes code, it usually needs to start a dev server, run tests, open a browser to verify its wo
Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBQveBCtKY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006316 Points: 26 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills
Hey HN. I'm Fabien, principal engineer, 25 years shipping production systems (Ruby, Swift, now Rust). I built Moltis because I wanted an AI assistant I could run myself, trust end to end, and make extensible in the Rust way using traits and the type
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OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model
The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.