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Google is quietly giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/16/google-amazon-ebooks-apps/
14•bookofjoe•3h ago

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bookofjoe•3h ago
https://archive.ph/7sUdc
latein•2h ago
nice one and thank you...
palata•2h ago
> Google said Amazon doesn’t have a special deal. The company and Amazon declined to offer specifics.

> Google and Amazon say the payment options aren’t new. Google said Amazon was among a few companies that had been able to offer non-Google payment options for their existing customers, under a test program.

"It's not a special deal. It's just that only a few companies can benefit from it."

Who are they kidding, seriously?

StopDisinfo910•1h ago
I thank the US for voluntarily deciding to run the experiment on what decades of voluntary non enforcement of competition laws will do to companies. I suggest we have the results now and it could safely be stopped.

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/
4•ibobev•4m ago•0 comments

A Bot That Turns News into Brainrot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkjHiqw7H8
1•vuciv•5m ago•0 comments

AI SQL Generation: Overcoming Dialect-Specific Syntax

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/overcoming-dialect-sql-generation-limits
1•gavinray•6m ago•1 comments

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim? (2020)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118
1•Tomte•6m ago•0 comments

Ricepedia

https://ricefact.com/
1•Tomte•6m ago•0 comments

Scientists Say Earth Has Made Enough Hydrogen to Power Humanity

https://singularityhub.com/2025/05/16/scientists-say-earth-has-made-enough-hydrogen-to-power-humanity-heres-how-to-find-it/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Giant Robotic Bugs Are Headed to Farms

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ground-control-robot-insects
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

AI Sandbox Benchmark

https://github.com/nkkko/ai-sandbox-benchmark
1•nkko•10m ago•0 comments

Building software on top of Large Language Models

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/
2•thunderbong•12m ago•0 comments

Why strong engineers are rarely blocked

https://www.seangoedecke.com/becoming-unblockable/
2•swah•14m ago•0 comments

The Gems in the Windows Source Code [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnt5_qWX0eg
1•redbell•14m ago•0 comments

The Software Update – The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY
1•daemonologist•14m ago•2 comments

Living beings emit faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to study

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death.html
2•OutOfHere•19m ago•3 comments

ThinkUp Tribute

https://macwright.com/2025/05/16/thinkup-tribute
1•stevekrouse•24m ago•0 comments

Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you – to apply for a fake consulting gig

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/16/attn_fired_us_govt_workers/
1•rntn•29m ago•0 comments

AI Agents Face One Last, Big Obstacle

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-agents-face-one-last-big-obstacle-ef3ea7f5
4•spartee•30m ago•0 comments

Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/alternative-device-fair/682837/
2•fortran77•35m ago•0 comments

Share your AI agents with a simple link

https://nelly.is/news/share-agents-with-a-link
1•gitmagic•36m ago•0 comments

The 80% of UI Design – Typography [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-oefwZ6Z74
3•vinhnx•37m ago•0 comments

Apple's A.I. Ambitions for China Provoke Washington's Resistance

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/technology/apple-alibaba-ai-tool-china.html
2•mistersquid•38m ago•0 comments

Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05587
2•PaulHoule•40m ago•0 comments

Analyzing, Predicting, and Controlling How a Reasoning Model Will Think

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10185
2•simonpure•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A MCP server to evaluate Python code in WASM VM using RustPython

https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp/tree/main/examples/plugins/eval-py
1•tuananh•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Foreshadow?

2•ksec•45m ago•3 comments

Orchestrator: The AI agent operating system

https://www.orchestratoros.com/
1•obitracks•47m ago•0 comments

Coming to a Brain Near You: A Tiny Computer

https://www.wsj.com/tech/brain-implant-musk-als-tbi-neuralink-f733998f
2•bookofjoe•52m ago•2 comments

Show HN: X-RAY – A student-built tool to audit OS behavior via ISO comparison

2•tangtian•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Insert-tools – bulk insert with schema check and column match in CH

https://github.com/castengine/insert-tools
1•castengine•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SRE Assistant – An AI-powered agent for Kubernetes and AWS operations

https://github.com/serkanh/sre-bot
3•serkanh•56m ago•0 comments

Community Stewardship of Faster CPython

https://discuss.python.org/t/community-stewardship-of-faster-cpython/92153
4•bratao•58m ago•0 comments