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 The best tech of 2025 so far –the 17 finest gadgets we've tested this year

TechRadar has spent days testing products across phones, TVs, laptops, cameras, smartwatches and more in 2025. These are the best ones we've reviewed so far this year.

https://www.techradar.com/tech/the-best-tech-of-2025-so-far-the-17-finest-gadgets-weve-tested-this-year

A surrealist documentary about climate change and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of indie game news and releases. It's a shorter edition than usual this week, but there are still a few interesting games here that are worth having on your radar. 

Also, there's still plenty of time to pick up some bargains in the Steam Summer Sale. So if you're planning on bringing your Steam Deck (or ROG Ally or whathaveyou) to a cookout this July 4 weekend and have some change to spare, why not pick up a game or two and try it out? There are a bun

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Paramount+ deal: Get two months of Essential or Premium for only $2

Another hot streaming deal has arrived to match the summer heat. This time it comes from

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Hisense TVs are finally a theat to Samsung

Right after CES 2025, I wrote that Samsung was facing a threat from both Hisense and TCL this year – and what do you know, it turns out it really is facing a threat from both. According to research carried out by Counterpoint, the first quarter saw both Hisense and TCL increase their revenues by [...]

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This $400 Surface Laptop 3 deal won’t last long—and it’s loaded with an Intel processor
 Just days after joining Game Pass, the Xbox PC edition of Call of Duty: WW2 is taken offline for "an issue"

Call of Duty: WWII launched on Xbox and PC Game Pass just a few days ago, but RCE hackers wasted no time hitting new players with exploits and taking over PCs. The Call of Duty team has temporarily taken the PC edition of WWII offline to investigate the exploits, but refuses to outright explain to players what the "issue" is.

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Show HN: Tinykv – minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust

I built tinykv because I kept reaching for simple persistent storage in Rust projects but found existing solutions either too complex (sled) or unmaintained (pickledb).

tinykv focuses on simplicity: JSON-based, serde-powered, with optional TTL. Perfect for CLI tools, game saves, config storage.

Would appreciate any feedback from the HN community!


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468380

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Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

My company is increasingly pushing prompt engineering as the single way we "should" be coding. The CEO & CTO are both obsessed with it and promote things like "delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new one" rather than manually address test failures.

I'm a 'senior engineer' with ~5 years of industry experience and am considering moving on from this company because I don't want

1. Be pushed into a workflow that will cause my technical growth to stall or degrade 2. Be overs

10 Important Tips for Driving Safely at Night

Driving after dark comes with hazards, from eye fatigue to bad visibility. Try these tips to get to your destination safely at night. https://www.cnet.com/health/personal-care/10-important-tips-for-driving-safely-at-night/#ftag=CADf328eec

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 I got tired of running out of room on my Legion Go — Here's how I upgraded the SSD

I needed more game storage space in my Legion Go, so I upgraded the 1TB SSD to a 2TB SSD. Here's how I did it so you can, too.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pc/legion-go-ssd-upgrade-instructions

Supergiant’s latest Hades II patch is likely its last before launch

Despite it having upward of 61,000 reviews on Steam, Hades II isn’t actually out yet. The sequel to Supergiant Games’ hugely successful roguelite dungeon crawler has been in early access on PC for over a year, and even the early builds were extremely polished and content-rich for what is still a work-in-progress game. But we (and Switch owners) have been waiting patiently for that 1.0 release date, and it looks like it might be just around the corner, with Supergiant confirming that

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Pick up our favorite air purifier while it's $37 off for Prime Day

Prime Day 2025 is coming soon on July 8-11, but you don't have to wait to grab good tech deals — and that goes for everyone, not just Prime members. Early deals have already started popping up on Amazon, and one of the best at the moment is on an Engadget-approved air purifier. The

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How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox

It's been a rough week at Microsoft. Following the news that 9,000 people are being laid off at the company, one Xbox executive offered some questionable words of advice for people on their way out: Find solace in Microsoft Copilot.

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I Love This Bluetooth Speaker and It’s 14% Off This July 4th

This Soundcore by Anker Boom 2 Bluetooth speaker is one of the best deals we've found and it's on sale for Independence Day. https://www.cnet.com/deals/i-love-this-bluetooth-speaker-and-its-14-off-this-july-4th/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Fairphone 6 lands a perfect 10 for repairability

Dutch company Fairphone continues to lead the charge on consumer- and planet-friendly electronics, proving that a great phone doesn't have to be impossible to repair or environmentally unsustainable. The Fairphone 6 has just been released, coming two years after the

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Prime Day deal: Pick up this Roomba combo robot vacuum and mop while it's nearly 50 percent off

Prime Day 2025 begins soon on July 8, but members can already save on a bunch of tech available on Amazon's site. One such early deal is on the

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I Tried Using AI to Help Me Tackle an $18K Debt. It Went Brutally Wrong

A financial plan, devised by artificial intelligence, managed to both overpay my debts and allocate more than my income to achieving my goals. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/i-tried-using-ai-to-help-me-tackle-an-18k-debt-it-went-comically-wrong/#ftag=CADf328eec

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8 Hobbies That Can Boost Your Mental Wellness This Summer

Looking to pick up a new hobby over the summer? Try these eight activities to improve your happiness and mental wellness. https://www.cnet.com/health/mental/8-hobbies-that-can-boost-your-mental-wellness-this-summer/#ftag=CADf328eec

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The AI Chatbots We Use Most, and How We Use Them

91% of AI users have a default artificial intelligence assistant they turn to for their AI tasks, a Menlo Ventures report has found. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-ai-chatbots-we-use-most-and-how-were-using-them-according-to-a-new-survey/#ftag=CADf328eec

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 ExpressVPN faces a class action in the US over alleged "illegal" auto-renewal fees

ExpressVPN is yet another VPN facing a class action in the US over its auto-renewal payment system. Is it time for providers to change how they handle users' subscriptions?

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/expressvpn-faces-a-class-action-in-the-us-over-illegal-auto-renewal-fees

The Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale for $100 off for Prime Day

Prime Day 2025 will be here in a few days, but you can already shop great tech deals on Amazon before the July 8-11 event. Case in point: the

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Resident Evil is getting a new mobile spin-off game

Less than a month after Capcom’s surprise announcement of the next Resident Evil game, another new entry has been confirmed. But before Resi fans get too wild with excitement, this one is a mobile spin-off for iOS and Android called Resident Evil Survival Unit. It’s a strategy game that somehow fits into the broad

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