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What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

โœจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and their customers, parsing, ranking, summarising, and increasingly answering on the recipient's behalf. The same thing is happening to push, with two companies in control instead of four. Apple and Google run the only two pipes that matter, and every notification you have ever sent has passed through one of them. Over the last five years…
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Vertu wants CEOs to run companies with an AI-powered foldable device starting at $6,880

Vertu wants CEOs to run companies with an AI-powered foldable device starting at $6,880

โœจ Read this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Hardware,AI,Gadgets,Vertu,Vertu Alphafold,Hermes Agent ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Luxury smartphone brand Vertu on Thursday unveiled a foldable phone powered by an artificial intelligence agent that connects to enterprise software and coordinates workflows. The company targets executives who manage business operations and communications on the go. The foldable smartphone is called the Alphafold, and it starts at $6,880 for the calfskin version. High-end models feature custom finishes including alligator leather, 18-karat gold and natural diamond accents, as well as custom details. This is a continuation of Vertu's long-standing strategy of positioning its…
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BurntSushi/biff: A command line tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more. ยท GitHub

BurntSushi/biff: A command line tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more. ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A command line tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more. Dual-licensed under MIT or the UNLICENSE. The user guide should be your first stop for understanding the high level concepts that Biff deals with. Otherwise, consult biff --help or biff --help for more specific details. Alternatively, there is a comparison between other similar tools that might give you a quick sense of what Biff is like. Print the current time: $ biff Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:02:04โ€ฏAM EDT TipIf you get output like 2025…
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SOND, the sleep tech startup of former Bose sleep chief, emerges from obscurity with $7 million

SOND, the sleep tech startup of former Bose sleep chief, emerges from obscurity with $7 million

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Hardware,Startups,ai sleep coach,sleep earbuds,sleepbuds,sond ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Traditionally, sleep earbuds are designed to drown out outside noise and promote sleep with soothing sounds. But today, a Boston-based startup called SOND is introducing a new type of earbuds designed to actively intervene to encourage better sleep. Founded by two MIT graduates, one of whom was the former head of Bose's global sleep division, SOND emerged from obscurity on Wednesday with $7 million in funding. Along with the funding, the company introduced its first product: Dreambuds, a closed, in-ear system…
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Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle.

Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Published on: 26. May 2026 I recently jailbroke my 7th generation Kindle Paperwhite. While my motivation probably should have been "breaking free from Amazon's clammy and tightening grip", the truth is I wanted a way to use it as a clock on my nightstand. I found this project and figured I could just make some adjustments to the code. And that worked fine. But as I now had opened the door, I started thinking about if I could get Rust to work on the…
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Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days

Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,Biotech & Health,Climate,Crypto,Fintech,Fundraising,Government & Policy,Hardware,Media & Entertainment,Robotics,Security,Startups,Transportation,Venture,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch disabled 2026. Early bird prices end May 29 at 11:59 PM PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices go up. If you're planning to attend one of the most influential gatherings in technology this year, Now is the time to secure your pass Before prices rise again. Disruption: Where the technology ecosystem moves forward From October 13-15 at Moscone West…
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1.2M Messages to Obsidian – Building a Relationship Map from 20 Years of Chat History

1.2M Messages to Obsidian – Building a Relationship Map from 20 Years of Chat History

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In 2014, Tim Urban of WaitButWhy published Your Life in Weeks - a grid where each square is one week of one's life, and most of the grid is already filled. The image bothered me for years. I started tracking things partly because of it - I wanted the grid to mean something, not just count down. But the biometric data is an odd representation of how fulfilling my life has been. The grid suggests it's the events that matter - jobs, trips, schools, marriages…
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Google employee polymarket insider trading

Google employee polymarket insider trading

โœจ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Signage at the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket.Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to place trades correctly betting that singer d4vd would be Google's most searched person in 2025. Spagnuolo has been charged with money…
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Spotify now lets you “clip” moments from your favorite podcast

Spotify now lets you “clip” moments from your favorite podcast

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Social,clips,podcasts,Spotify,streaming ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: It's even easier to share your favorite moments from podcasts, with the introduction of Spotify's new Podcast Clips feature, launching on Wednesday. In the app, a new scissor icon in the Now Playing view will allow you to clip a specific clip from the podcast you're listening to, then share it more widely with your audience on social media, friends, colleagues, or anyone else. When you trim, you'll be able to trim the audio portion and preview it to hear it again…
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Founding GTM Engineer at RamAIn

Founding GTM Engineer at RamAIn

โœจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: RamAIn builds the world's fastest computer-use agents for enterprise work. We're a YC W26 company on a mission to eliminate repetitive, manual workflows by training AI agents that operate legacy systems, desktop apps, and web portals the same way humans do โ€” but 10ร— faster and more reliably. Founders RamAIn was founded by Shourya Vir Jain (CEO) and Vansh Ramani (CTO), who met at IIT Delhi and dropped out to build AI-native automation for enterprise workflows. Shourya previously worked at McKinsey, where he saw firsthand…
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