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Data is growing, users not

26,7GB 149 tables

Google index containts 23k pages (raising) Bing around 33k pages (decreasing, maybe because Bing is mainly US only?)

Color schemes are so messy, so NiftyCent will be in blue.

New section "services" is added. So people can offer their services in this way. Jobs are still there, but are for advertisers.

Top menu is gone, replaced by left menu, next to search query window (more place for text, less links for people).

User menu is replaced with boxes (little bit

5y | 1x Good post | NiftyCent.com - ideas, news
Tinder cenniky

Tinder pouziva interne metriky na urcenie mesacnej ceny ich sluzby, kde cena sluzby sa lisi, napriklad na zaklade vasho veku...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-12/tinder-price-setting-more-expensive-for-older-people-looking-to/12549186

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Full Bodycam Footage of George Floyd Arrest

Len kvoli archivnym ucelom .

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Songs for listening..

Songs for listening...

[Till I Collapse]

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[Time of Dying]

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[You're going down]

    </div>

[Animal I have become]

    </div>

[Remember the name]

    </div>

[Undead]

    </div>

[Fight back]

    </div>

[I fucking hate you] http

5y | 1x Good post | Sports music
The 14 best gifts for moms

If you’re struggling to come up with just the right gift for your mom, you’re not alone. Mothers can be particularly difficult to shop for, especially if your mom is like many we know who insist that they don’t want or need gifts. Short of giving them some time back in their day to do what they want to do instead of things they need to do, the gift ideas we collected below can help you show the mother figure in your life that you care and want to spoil them a bit even when they claim it’s not

37m | Engadget
Epic Games takes aim at Apple and Steam with zero-commission policy for developers

Epic Games just announced some changes to its store that should please budding developers. The company will not charge a commission of any kind for the first $1,000,000 in revenue from an app per year. Once a piece of software goes past that threshold, Epic will begin taking its standard rate of 12 percent. The policy goes into effect in June.

This sounds

37m | Engadget
Gadgets that make great Mother's Day gifts

An electronic gadget might not be the “traditional” Mother’s Day gift, but just about every mom we know would prefer a cool new piece of tech over a short-lived bouquet of flowers and box of chocolates. A number of us on the Engadget staff collaborated to create this guide, filling it with the Mother’s Day presents we’ve received ourselves, have given to the moms in our lives, or have otherwise tested and can safely recommend as a welcome gift. Whether the mom in your life is into music, cook

37m | Engadget
Lyft Silver wants to keep your aging parents off the road

Lyft is rolling out a new service called Lyft Silver that's specifically designed to give aging and elderly people a way to get around when driving isn't an option.

The basic pitch is that while getting rides from friends and family is great, it can limit the sense of independence an elderly person has. According to Audrey

37m | Engadget
Microsoft just increased all Xbox prices: Grab one before the hikes go into effect
Microsoft just increased all Xbox prices: Grab one before the hikes go into effect
Microsoft just increased all Xbox prices: Grab one before the hikes go into effect
37m | Engadget
Show HN: Robot Unlock – an open-ended programming game/zachlike

Hello,

In 2010 I made an open-ended programming game based on Befunge and Brainf*k. I was young and didn't know what I was doing - coding it in AutoIT of all things and using borderless windows for sprites. Nevertheless, it was a full game and some people actually played it, sharing solutions with each other. I took it as a sign that the game had some potential - I appreciated this very much at the time.

It was zachlike at its core, except that it came out earlier than SpaceChem and the

37m | Hacker news
Lyft Silver Lets Older Adults Hail a Ride With Live Human Support

The simplified app layout is designed to lower barriers for people who aren't super tech savvy. It comes the same day as a similar offering from Uber. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/lyft-silver-lets-older-adults-hail-a-ride-with-live-human-support/#ftag=CADf328eec

2h | cnet.com
Amazon Plans to Invest $4B to Expand Rural Deliveries by 2026

The expansion is expected to create 100,000 new jobs, and will bring more and faster deliveries to rural areas and small towns. https://www.cnet.com/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-4b-to-expand-rural-deliveries-by-2026/#ftag=CADf328eec

2h | cnet.com
Uber Is Making It Easier for Seniors to Book Rides

Caregivers or family members can also submit pickup requests, track their rides and pay on their behalf in the app. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/uber-is-making-it-easier-for-seniors-to-book-rides/#ftag=CADf328eec

2h | cnet.com
Xbox price hikes are deluded and Microsoft should feel shame

OPINION: Microsoft is raising the price of a console that, five years in, is pretty much surplus to requirements. Gamers can and will say “no” The idiocy of 2025 has me really interested in existential nihilism, but that doesn’t pay the bills. As such, I’m contemplate ludicrous news like one of the world’s richest companies [...]

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Raspberry Pi’s fancy new soldering tech cuts product returns in half
Boox’s first color e-ink monitor offers rest for your weary eyes
Google’s ‘AI Mode’ search is ready to replace a list of links
Snag this 27-inch 1440p OLED gaming monitor for under $500
Google prepares to start testing AI Mode with regular Search users

When Google debuted AI Mode at the start of March, the company promised to work quickly on bringing the feature to more users, and now it's doing exactly. Following a smaller expansion last month, the company say

3h | Engadget
The best way to compost your food scraps

Composting was a big — and daily — part of my life for five years when I lived off-grid. Granted, we were composting more than just food, but I learned a lot about what goes into making a healthy compost pile. Mostly, it’s a lot of work — and now that I live in a city, I don’t do it myself. To be clear, I still believe in composting, especially when you consider that each person in the US throws away an estimated

3h | Engadget
VR is helping to make daunting medical treatments more bearable for patients

Stanley Johnson is not a fan of needles. The 67-year-old Air Force veteran has endured his fair share of pokes over the years, but when it was decided that IV infusions would be the best course of action to treat his iron deficiency, going into that first session felt nerve-wracking. So he brought along what’s become a staple in his personal anxiety toolkit: his Apple Vision Pro.

Johnson has taken to using the immersive wellness app,

3h | Engadget
Pinterest will now tell you when you’re looking at AI-generated content

Pinterest is fighting back against the onslaught of AI slop that is increasingly clogging up its platform following complaints from users. From now on, you’ll be able to see when image Pins that appear in your feed have been either generated or modified using AI. When users click on an image Pin in close-up they’ll see an “AI modified” label in the bottom left-hand corner.

In a

3h | Engadget
Show HN: Mechanical Computer Kit (Roons)

I built a mechanical computer kit: https://whomtech.com/show-hn

tl;dr: it's a cellular automaton on a "loom" of alternating bars, using contoured tiles to guide marbles through logic gates.

It's not just "Turing complete, job done"; I've tried to make it actually practical. Devices are compact, e.g. you can fit a binary adder into a 3cm square. It took me nearly two years and dozens of different approaches.

There's a sequence of

Why AI companies keep raising the specter of sentience

The generative AI revolution has seen more leaps forward than missteps—but one clear stumble was the sycophantic smothering of OpenAI’s 4o large language model (LLM), which the ChatGPT maker eventually had to withdraw after users began worrying it was too unfailingly flattering. The model became so eager to please, it lost authenticity.

In their blog post explaining what went wrong, OpenAI described “ChatGPT’s default per

Microsoft’s Q1 profits rose 18% thanks to AI and cloud computing

Microsoft’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence business helped deliver $70.1 billion in sales and boosted profits by 18% for the January-March quarter, a dose of relief for investors during a turbulent time for the tech sector and U.S. economy.

The company r

How Ziff Davis’s lawsuit against OpenAI redraws the battle lines with the media

In the early days of the current AI boom, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. It was a seismic move, but perhaps the most notable thing about it is what came after. In the subsequent months, publisher

Trump’s war with universities could hurt AI progress in the U.S.

Welcome to AI DecodedFast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

Trump harms AI progress by warring with universities

Donald Trump has done a lot to antagonize universities in his f

I Bond Rates Are 3.98% Today. Should You Invest?

I bonds offer higher interest rates than traditional savings accounts and can protect your investment from inflation. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/i-bond-rates-should-you-invest/#ftag=CADf328eec

4h | cnet.com