Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files
Hello world, this is Abhay from Poly (https://poly.app). We’re building an app to replace Finder/File Explorer with something more intelligent and searchable. Think of it like Dropbox + NotebookLM + Perplexity for terabytes of your files. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqCySU4Ln0. Poly can search your content in natural language, across a broad range of file […]
Go Cryptography State of the Union
# Instead, you’re probably going to just use crypto/tls, which by default now uses a hybrid of X25519 and ML-KEM-768 for all connections with other systems that support it. Why hybrid? Because this is new cryptography. So we are still a little worried that somebody might break it. There was one that looked very good […]
Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
When it comes to sharing moments between family and friends, what device you have shouldn’t matter — sharing should just work. But we’ve heard from many people that they want a simpler way to share files between devices. Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop. This makes file transfer easier […]
The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
Today, a young man down on his luck in a new city is more likely to land in jail or on the street than on his feet. Fifty years ago, he had another option. A place to wash up, get a hot meal, meet other young men—even start over. All he had to do was […]
Nano Banana Pro
How Nano Banana Pro helps you bring any idea or design to life Nano Banana Pro can help you visualize any idea and design anything – from prototypes, to representing data as infographics, to turning handwritten notes into diagrams. With Nano Banana Pro, now you can: Generate more accurate, context-rich visuals based on enhanced reasoning, […]
Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects [pdf]
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210 IQ Is Not Enough
Going as Former Gifted Child for Halloween and the whole costume is just gonna be people asking “What are you supposed to be?” And me saying “I was supposed to be a lot of things.” — @leahtriss 2019/10/26 Christopher Langan Chris Langan became famous when television networks interviewed him for allegedly scoring ~170 on an […]
Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users’ home directory. The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application data files, configuration files, cached assets, […]
Judgement on Dr Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) vs. Dr Roy Schestowitz (Techrights.org)
1. This is a dispute between prominent ‘free software movement’ activists. The free software movement advances a philosophy and practice which values the freedom of users to create and share software enabling internet access, and challenges the dominance of ‘big tech’ software and systems over the online experience. That includes a preference for internet relay […]
Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
At the core of every DE engine there’s some form of persistent durable execution log. You can think of this a bit like the write-ahead log of a database. It captures the intent to execute a given flow step, which makes it possible to retry that step should it fail, using the same parameter values. […]