Changes to how customers tip on Uber Eats and DoorDash have led to lower earnings for gig workers, according to a report from New York City. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber Eats and DoorDas...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Hi HN, I built Ayder — a single-binary, HTTP-native durable event log written in C. The wedge is simple: curl is the client (no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libs). There’s a 2-minute demo that s...
The US president said he had a "great" conversation with Delcy Rodriguez, who described her first call with Trump as "productive and courteous."...
Ugandan authorities shut down internet access nationwide on Tuesday, two days ahead of elections in which President Yoweri Museveni has overseen a crackdown on the opposition as he seeks to extend his...
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Polymarket partnered with the Golden Globes, showing viewers betting odds for each award category. Ultimately, Poly...
Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has made a number of claims about the state of his former company, Call of Duty, and the console market as part of a response to a lawsuit. Kotick, who left Activis...
Proposed policy changes could lead more consumers to turn to private or personal loans. Tatiana Maksimova/Getty Images New caps on student-loan borrowing could prompt more Americans to turn to private...
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
Four years after David Barnes was charged in Russia with abusing his children in Texas despite not being charged with a crime in the U.S., he is now in a penal colony....
Canada and China appear ready to kick-start trade talks after years of strained relations, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week coinciding with both countries question...
A Seoul court says an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his imposition of martial law in Decembe...
David Webb, the corporate governance activist renowned for his free public database and his explosive “Enigma Network” exposé that rocked the Hong Kong stock exchange, has died aged 60 of metastatic p...
Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an "eyes off" conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US . As first reported by German publication Handelsbla...
China’s central bank strengthened the yuan’s daily fixing for a third consecutive session to a nearly 16-month high, as the currency also held firm in offshore markets despite recent US dollar strengt...
The Acura RDX will be the automaker’s first two-motor hybrid. | Image: Honda Honda announced that the next-generation Acura RDX will be the brand's first SUV to feature a two-motor hybrid system. Whil...
The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...
Sid Meier's Civilization VII is headed to the Apple Arcade on February 5th, allowing you to play the strategy game across your iPhone, iPad, or Mac through the company's $6.99 / month subscription. Th...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
China and the Philippines have again exchanged barbs over confrontations in the disputed South China Sea, with each accusing the other of provocation and escalating tensions. The Chinese embassy in th...