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Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Article URL: https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421536 Points: 80 # Comments: 32
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Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade. S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421806 Points: 49 # Comments: 5
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The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 , https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422784 Points: 147 # Comments: 55
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What Is a Syslog Server?

Article URL: https://blog.greencloudvps.com/what-is-a-syslog-server.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423799 Points: 19 # Comments: 8
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Your "File" Menu Isn't About Files

Article URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/your-file-menu-isnt-about-files/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423886 Points: 24 # Comments: 34
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Anger, Anxiety and Agency

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424082 Points: 40 # Comments: 30
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Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
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Netflix reportedly considers opening its app to other streamers

Netflix executives have considered making third-party streaming services available within its app, according to a report from The New York Times. The recent discussions reportedly centered around bringing Peacock and Fox One to Netflix, though it's unclear whether the streaming giant would sell subscriptions to the other services or add their content to its app. […]
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How GoFundMe became America’s backup plan

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Tim Cadogan, the CEO of GoFundMe. You know GoFundMe — it’s a major fundraising platform where you can donate to help people with everything from medical expenses to little league uniforms to starting a new business. Tim took over as CEO in March 2020 — a fascinating and chaotic […]
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Apple’s four-pack of second-gen AirTags is $20 off

Apple’s four-pack of second-generation AirTags is down to $79 (originally $99) at Amazon and at Target, which is the bundle’s lowest price yet. You can get an AirTag for $24 right now piecemeal, but getting four together as a set is a way to save even more. Why pay $96 for four when you can […]
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Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck

Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to get away from cyberdecks this year." Tiny portable computers made out of things like purses, jewelry boxes, and other thrifted or recycled parts have gone viral on TikTok and other social media platforms over the past year, […]
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ESPN streaming plans are getting more expensive

ESPN is hiking the price of its subscription on September 17th, a change that will also impact its bundles with Disney Plus. In a support page spotted earlier by Sports Media Watch, ESPN says its ad-supported Select membership will cost $13.99 instead of $12.99 / month, while its Unlimited plan will rise to $31.99 from […]
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The Witcher 4 developers target a 2028 release

CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video. CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a target release window for when the […]
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
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Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny

In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to slow it down and avoid a "catastrophic intersection collision."
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How treating my job search like a product problem helped me see what’s really making software engineering recruitment hard in 2026

Get ready for a bit of a ramble about looking for a job as a software engineer in 2026. No, it's not about AI changing the definition of software engineering in 2026. But there's obviously some truth in that. It's about product engineering. Specifically, it's about the challenges engineers face when searching for new opportunities because of the massive shift toward product engineering. I should preface what comes next with this: Searching for a software engineering job in 2026 is reall...
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How We Cut AWS Staging Costs by 87% With EventBridge Scheduler (Zero Code Changes)

How We Cut AWS Staging Costs by 87% With EventBridge Scheduler No code changes. No Lambda functions. No complex scripts. Just 4 schedulers and a realization that nobody uses staging at 3am. Here's a question every engineering team should ask themselves: "When was the last time someone actually used our staging environment at 2am?" For us? Never. Not once. Yet we were paying for it — EC2 running, ECS Fargate tasks spinning, compute burning money — every single hour of eve...
reCAPTCHA: It’s Not Just “I’m Not a Robot”
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reCAPTCHA: It’s Not Just “I’m Not a Robot”

How CAPTCHA evolved from typing distorted text to analyzing behavior, context, and risk When most people hear CAPTCHA, they imagine a small checkbox: ☐ I’m not a robot Or perhaps a challenge asking them to select traffic lights, bicycles, buses, or crosswalks. But modern reCAPTCHA is much more interesting than that. In many cases, you don't actually solve anything. You simply open a webpage, move your mouse, click a button, fill out a form—and somewhere in the background, a...