Spotify is adding a playback mode to its app

Spotify is adding a playback mode to its app

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: TC,Apps,Spotify,running โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Spotify is adding a new mode to its mobile app for people who like to listen to music while running. The new playback mode prepares songs based on different stages of playback, and selects tracks based on your preferences and tempo. Paying subscribers can find the running mode in the Fitness Hub, and can choose from 25 presets. Users can choose their type of exercise from options such as interval running, steady state running, or pyramid running, and can customize the duration, number of beats…
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DJ Kavinsky, known for his track ‘Nightcall’, found dead at his Paris home

DJ Kavinsky, known for his track ‘Nightcall’, found dead at his Paris home

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: By&nbspEtienne Paponaud&nbspwith&nbspAFP Published on 29/07/2026 - 12:04 GMT+2โ€ขUpdated 13:49 French DJ Kavinsky has been found dead at his Paris home, according to local authorities. The body of the 50-year-old, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, was discovered on Tuesday evening. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kavinsky was a leading figure of the house music movement, 'French touch', alongside Daft Punk, Justice, Cassius and DJ Mehdi. The Paris prosecutor's office said that "an investigation to establish the causes of death" had been opened, noting that no suspect was found…
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Fast Metals processes waste with more waste to extract important minerals

Fast Metals processes waste with more waste to extract important minerals

โœจ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Climate,critical minerals โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Aluminum has left an indelible mark on the world, with more than 3 billion tons of red clay, a waste product of the refining process, currently stored in open-air vats or piles. But for Sumedh Justo, co-founder and CEO of Fast Metals, there is treasure in caustic waste. โ€œIt's a very rich resource,โ€ he told TechCrunch. โ€œIf you attack with the right chemistry, it can be very profitable.โ€ Justo believes Fast Metals has found that the chemistry, which happens to be partly made up…
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A Whirlwind Tour – SpecForge User Guide

A Whirlwind Tour – SpecForge User Guide

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This section is a quick introduction to SpecForgeโ€™s main capabilities through a hands-on example. Weโ€™ll explore how to write specifications in the Lilo language and analyze them using SpecForgeโ€™s VSCode extension. Lilo is an expression-based temporal specification language designed for hybrid systems. Here are the key concepts: Primitive Types: Bool, Int, Float, and String Operators: Standard arithmetic (+, -, *, /), comparisons (==, <, >, etc.), and logical operators (&&, ||, =>) Temporal Operators: Liloโ€™s distinguishing feature is its rich set of temporal logic…
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OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies

OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company.Hugging Face was thought to be the only victim of the unprecedented hack - but OpenAI now admits its bot attacked several "publicly-available services". The out-of-control AI found four logins online which allowed it to access four separate, unnamed services.Meanwhile, in an emergency briefing with hundreds of cyber security professionals, Hugging Face has described what it was like to be on the receiving end of the world's first fully…
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Hooray for the sockets interface

Hooray for the sockets interface

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Generated with AI. In 1983, the University of California, Berkeley campus (UCB) released version 4.2 of its UNIX operating system, the Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD). For many people, this is the โ€˜epoch eventโ€™ that defines the birth of online services, because it is the version that released the BSD โ€˜socketsโ€™ model of networking into the world. In effect, the โ€˜right place, right timeโ€™ combined for computing systems and an operating system to run on them. This led to a massive increase in access to network…
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SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers for Low-Latency App Servers

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Demystifying the "Local-Only" Myth of SQLite Historically, SQLite has been relegated to the role of an embedded database for mobile clients, IoT devices, and local development environments. Conventional wisdom dictated that for any serious production-grade web application, a client-server database like PostgreSQL or MySQL was mandatory. However, this assumption overlooks a massive shift in modern hardware architecture. With the ubiquity of high-speed NVMe SSDs, ultra-fast local storage, and the trend toward single-tenant edge deployments, the network roundtrip latency of traditional databases has become the…
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User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: User Interfaces of the Demo Scene Exploring the tools of the trade July 2026 Ahh, the demo scene - a digital art subculture, a motley gang of creative nerds, and a favourite pastime of mine. So much amazing art, music and code has been produced by sceners, and anyone who comes into contact with the scene might start to wonder exactly how - apart from hours of dedicated grind, of course. The scene has a long and storied tradition of building its own tools.…
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Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Louis-Francis Rattรฉ-Boulianne July 28, 2026 RADV is the open source Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs. Over the years, it has become a cornerstone of the Linux graphics stack. It has now effectively become the de facto Vulkan driver for AMD hardware on Linux. AMD even discontinued their PAL-based (Platform Abstraction Library) alternative in its favor, consolidating their open-source efforts around Mesa. On Windows however, AMD users are still served only by the proprietary driver. But don't panic, we have a solution: porting RADV…
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Sam Altman is ready to slow down

Sam Altman is ready to slow down

๐Ÿš€ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,sam altman โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says it may be time to "accelerate" AI development so the world is ready for it. โ€œWe may have to accelerate the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time so that society can tighten up around some of these new levels of capabilities, while also trying to figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't look like regulatory control over anyone, and doesn't look like collusion between frontier labs,โ€ he told Invest Like the…
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