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...
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...
This afternoon I wrote some tips on how to present a new* programming language to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608577 . It occurred to me that HN has a tradition of posts called "The {na...
The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo w...
My husband and I sold our house and spent a year traveling. Jason Prokowiew After my husband was laid off from his tech job, we decided to sell our house and travel for a year. During our time abroad,...
A few simple design mistakes could be ruining the look of your living room. sheilasay/Getty Images Interior designers told us the top mistakes people make when styling and decorating a living room . T...
Good morning, everyone! If you, like me, popped open Animal Crossing: New Horizons before work today for a stroll around your island, you were greeted with a pleasant surprise: the 3.0 update just dro...
Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So...
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Tesla Model Y electric vehicles (EV) at a dealership in Colma, California, US, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. As its sales continue to slip and its robotaxi strategy seems to falter , Tesla CEO Elon Musk s...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI I realized the cruise may have been a mistake on the second night of my voyage. I asked a bartender what time the rooftop jacuzzis closed, and he matter-of-factly told me it ...
Activists report that more than 2,400 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, according to updated figures from the Human Rights Activist News Agency, which says most of th...
A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images An Air France flight from India to Paris diverted to Turkmenistan. It was already running almost a ...
William Edwards/Business Insider Wide-leg, high-waist pants are the top trend for women in finance this season. Popular brands include Aritzia, Lululemon, Abercrombie, Arcteryx, and Club Monaco. Premi...
I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring structure visually has been helping me ...
Lil Nas X, Olivia Newton-John, Mariah Carey, and Shaboozey. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Erik Hein/American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty Images;...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here . First came efficiency. Then came i...
Rick Havacko. Courtesy of Rick Havacko Rick Havacko moved from Orange County to Austin for the affordability and a lifestyle change. He chose Dripping Springs for its rural charm, lower costs, and vib...
It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the enti...
Microsoft is getting ready to show the first gameplay of Forza Horizon 6 next week , and it might also be ready to put a date on its release, too. X poster Xbox Infinite claims they received a Forza H...