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Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640646 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
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Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640646 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Sep 10, 2026 | Google
I spent the first phase of my Shipaton build getting a weather satellite pipeline to work. It worked. Then I looked at what it produced and cut it from the core of the app.Amana is an iOS app with one job: put the sky that is...
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Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2-5 words? “Your recordings become LinkedIn...
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Author Kevin Purdy Contributor Alex Kretzschmar This blog post, originally published in April 2024, was updated in July 2026 to reflect the most modern and convenient ways to install a Tailscale app in Home Assistant and use it...
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***New York, 17 August 2026*** Here’s the founder version of the PR math that agencies rarely spell out. A boutique PR retainer runs $3,500 to $10,000 a month according to AMW’s 2026 pricing data, with an...
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The privacy conversation tends to stop at the moment someone taps allow. A person grants an app access to their location so it can find nearby stores, and the interaction feels complete right there. The more interesting question...
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Who this is for: anyone migrating an on-premises SQL Server database that has Transparent Data Encryption turned on to RDS for SQL Server, and wants to understand why the restore fails before hitting it in a maintenance window.A...
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For fifteen years, every contact form, every submission box, every “get in touch” widget on the web has run on one quiet assumption: a person is typing on the other end. That assumption is running out of runway fast,...
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Sleep tech gives you a score. It doesn’t ask what you dreamed. I connected Oura, Supabase, and a lightweight AI layer to find out if that gap is actually worth closing. The gap nobody’s building for Sleep tech has...
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I’m building an AI companion system that treats memory not as a list of facts, but as a...
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Remember when ordering a taxi meant calling a dispatcher?A real person would pick up the phone, ask where you were, find an available driver, pass the request along, and sometimes even help resolve a disagreement between the...
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For a long time, I treated bugs as a list of work: close the ticket, investigate the support request, handle the incident, fix the flaky test everyone has learned to rerun. Mobile development doesn’t work without that mode. But...