Big Tech’s $1.1 Trillion Cloud Computing Backlog
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft each reported hundreds of billions in RPO (remaining performance obligations) – signed contracts for cloud computing services that can’t yet be filled and haven’t yet hit the books. Collectively, the big three cloud providers reported a $1.1 trillion backlog of revenue.

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Finland To Introduce ‘Green Wave’ Automated System For Emergency Vehicles
alternative_right writes: Fintraffic’s national traffic priority system, which is set to be introduced this summer, will recognize the location of an emergency vehicle and automatically change the lights to green to facilitate its passage. (Why isn’t everyone doing this already?)

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Xbox Hardware Revenue Craters 32%
Microsoft’s Xbox hardware revenue fell 32% in the final quarter of 2025 and overall gaming revenue declined 9% year-over-year, according to the company’s latest quarterly earnings, released as part of results showing Microsoft’s total revenue exceeded $80 billion.

Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5%.

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Autodesk To Cut 1,000 Jobs
Autodesk said today it plans to cut approximately 1,000 jobs, or roughly 7% of its workforce, as part of what the company described as the final phase of a global restructuring effort aimed at strengthening its sales and marketing operations.

The maker of AutoCAD and other digital design software said a significant portion of the cuts will fall within customer-facing sales functions.

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Batman TV Series Premiered 60 Years Ago Today
60 years ago today, ABC aired the first episode of its live-action Batman television series, introducing Adam West as the deadpan Caped Crusader in what became a pop culture phenomenon blending high-camp humor and cliffhanger thrills. The mid-season replacement ran for 120 episodes over three seasons before ending in March 1968.

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AI-Powered Social Media App Hopes To Build More Purposeful Lives
A founder of Twitter and a founder of Pinterest are now working on
“social media for people who hate social media,” writes a Washington Post columnist.

“When I heard that this platform would harness AI to help us live more meaningful lives, I wanted to know more…”

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US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC
The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From a report: As of Dec. 23, a total of 2,012 cases have been reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S.

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Operation Bluebird Wants To Relaunch ‘Twitter’ For a New Social Network
A startup called Operation Bluebird is petitioning the US Patent and Trademark Office to strip X Corp of the “Twitter” and “tweet” trademarks, hoping to relaunch a new Twitter with the old brand, bird logo, and “town square” vibe. “The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.’s products, services, and marketing, effe … ⌘ Read more

Epic’s Sweeney Says Platforms Should Stop Tagging Games Made With AI
The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has argued that platforms like Steam should not label games that are made using AI. From a report: Responding to a post on Twitter from a user who suggested that storefronts drop this tag, the industry exec said that it “makes no sense” to flag such content. Sweeney added that soon AI will be a part of … ⌘ Read more

Jack Dorsey Funds diVine, a Vine Reboot That Includes Vine’s Video Archive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s backing. On Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restor … ⌘ Read more

Researchers Surprised That With AI, Toxicity is Harder To Fake Than Intelligence
Researchers from four universities have released a study revealing that AI models remain easily detectable in social media conversations despite optimization attempts. The team tested nine language models across Twitter/X, Bluesky and Reddit, developing classifiers that identified AI-generated replies at 70 to 80% ac … ⌘ Read more

Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
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Visual Studio 2026 Released
Dave Knott writes: Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2026, the first major version of their flagship compiler in almost four years. Release notes are available here. The compiler has also been updated, including improved (but not yet 100%) C++23 core language and standard library implementations.

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PostgreSQL deserves better than libpq
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Sam Altman Subpoenaed on Stage
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Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android
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Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link.

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FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher
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John Carmack on Mutable Variables
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Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
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I Bought $250k Worth of Physical Nickels
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Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android
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Meta Erases Gaza Journalist’s Instagram
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Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
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Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
Article URL: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493358

Points: 501

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Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here – Basic features include:

• Clean layout & typography
  
• Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
  
• Accessible copy-code button
  
• “On this page” collapsible TOC
  
• RSS, sitemap, robots
  
• Archives, tags, tag cloud
  
• Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
  
• Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
  
• Ready-to-use 404 page
  

As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:

$ zs newpost

to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right “stuff”™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞

#awesome #zs

$560 Bounty: How Twitter’s Android App Leaked User Location

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A Silent Broadcast That Let Any App Spy on You Without Asking

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Breaking Twitter’s VPN: $20,160 Bounty for a Pre-Auth RCE via Pulse Secure Chain

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The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464

Points: 501

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$840 Bounty: How I Stole OAuth Tokens from Twitter

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A critical OAuth misconfiguration allowed stealing tokens with just a click

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FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt

Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
Article URL: https://twitter.com/EthanEvansVP/status/1895845734177452369

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43232255

Points: 500

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Is Arch Linux Woke? Looks like it: Forum Censors Mentions of “Lunduke”, Discord Goes on Lockdown
Following Arch Linux Discord voting to ban “links to X / Twitter” & death threats towards a journalist, all official Arch Linux channels begin mass censorship campaign. ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux Discord Voting to Ban Links to X / Twitter (Because “Nazis”)
Following Debian’s lead, the Arch community is preparing to take a stand against Elon Musk, Conservatives, & X. And they’re banning anyone who disagrees. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Tor project twitter is compromised

Our X (Twitter) account has been compromised. We are working to regain access. Please do not trust or interact with any posts, DMs, or links from our account until further notice.

Link: https://mastodon.social/@torproject/113918614226738202

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Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786962

Points: 511

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Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more

I’m usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, “Everyone’s got their own problems to worry about” kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision 🤣🤦 Read nothin’ out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem that’s what everyone else’s been using it for all this time.

A Bsky would be even better! 😂 I’d get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digress…

I FU_ing despise this … whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.

and sorry you had to read this if you did.

3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
Article URL: https://twitter.com/3blue1brown/status/1876291319955398799

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612494

Points: 504

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[WTS] [$120+] ‘Fire The Empire’ artwork

“Fire the Empire.” Acrylic on fine-grain 200g/m² paper, 11.7 x 16.5 inches. Original artwork No. 3 of 8 from an upcoming collection. Stay tuned for more. /SID

Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/EFTY/

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@eapl.me@eapl.me why not https://domain.com/.well-known/twtxt/:domain/:user ?

the business card test is this can you write it on your business card and have someone you give it to be able to figure it out without added context?

• phone number: yes because everyone knows what a phone number is.
  
• email address: yes, everyone knows an email and their aol or prodigy will let them email.
  
• twitter/x/insta/pintrest handle: no, whats a twitter? do i need to sign up?
  
• domain name: yes its simple and you just type it in a browser right?
  
• twtxt url: kinda? its a bit long and is that a forward slash? or a backward slash?

Btw about social: found very interesting thing about twitter:

The legal basis that X asserts in the filing is not terribly interesting. But what is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, specific viewpoints and help his friends. In the filing, X’s lawyers essentially say—like many other software companies, and, increasingly, device manufacturers as well—that the company’s terms of service grant X’s users a “license” to use the platform but that, ultimately, X owns all accounts on the social network and can do anything that it wants with them.

Ignite Realtime Blog: Florian, Dan and Dave Elected in the XSF!
In an annual vote, not one, not two, but three Ignite Realtime community members have been selected into leadership positions of the XMPP Standards Foundation!

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给独立游戏制作人的进阶建议
感谢 @ComfyFinn 提供的封面图

之前我写过一篇给新手独立游戏开发者的入门级建议，经过三年的开发，对于独立游戏制作这件事我有了一些新的理解和看法，所以是时候补充一篇进阶级的建议了。如果你希望成为一个独立游戏制作人或者希望了解相关行业的部分知识，也许这篇文章会给你一些有用的帮助。

特别的，本文的内容更多的偏向于独立游戏制作人和小型团队，并不适用于所有的情况，所以在阅读时请注意保持个人的独立思考，对所有内容应仅当参考。

需要探索的第一个问题是独游发展方向的问题，本篇的核心主题其实只有一个，那就是独游和商业手游的区别。

这里有一个很大的误导在于，对商业手游的解释，毕竟独立游戏也是需要赚钱的，部分独立游戏的商业收益甚至是非常可观的。所以它们之间最核心的区别并不在于营收能力，而是两者在立项时的指导 … ⌘ Read more

This might be quite unpopular, but I truly dislike Wordle. The reason isn’t rooted on any psychological issue, it is much, much more simple: people share their Wordle result(s)—I figure they feel good about themselves—and for me it is only uneven, unaligned, wasteful noise. I don’t even want to show you an example, but I am sure you know what I am talking about.

Thank gods those posting their hideous squares have finally quieted down. LOL.

OrangePi 5 Max SBC with M.2 Key Slot and 2.5GbE LAN Port
Orange Pi recently showcased their latest single-board computer, the OrangePi 5 Max, on their Twitter account. This device is powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3588 and includes key interfaces such as a 2.5GbE LAN port and an M.2 M-Key slot for expansion. The OrangePi 5 Max features the RK3588 SoC, an 8nm LP process chip […] ⌘ Read more

Did Lunduke just scare The Register off Twitter?
The Register victim blames Red Hat employee who files discrimination lawsuit. Gets called out. Immediately deletes Twitter account. Note: This is not important… just goofy. More from The Lunduke Journal: http://lunduke.com ⌘ Read more

How to Delete an X (Twitter) Account Permanently
Social networking is a huge part of the modern internet experience, and X / Twitter remains one of the more unique and biggest social networks out there, functioning as a sort of digital town square, where anyone can say or reply to just about anything. The X/Twitter experience is really what you make it, and … Read More ⌘ Read more

@sorenpeter@darch.dk this makes sense as a quote twt that references a direct URL. If we go back to how it developed on twitter originally it was RT @nick: original text because it contained the original text the twitter algorithm would boost that text into trending.

i like the format (#hash) @<nick url> > "Quoted text"\nThen a comment
as it preserves the human read able. and has the hash for linking to the yarn. The comment part could be optional for just boosting the twt.

The only issue i think i would have would be that that yarn could then become a mess of repeated quotes. Unless the client knows to interpret them as multiple users have reposted/boosted the thread.

The format is also how iphone does reactions to SMS messages with +number liked: original SMS

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de s/twitter\.com/nitter.net/