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The Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
1•alexjplant•57s ago•0 comments

Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate

https://medium.com/@ognian.milanov/forcing-rust-how-big-tech-lobbied-the-government-into-a-langua...
1•akagusu•1m ago•0 comments

PanelBench: We evaluated Cursor's Visual Editor on 89 test cases. 43 fail

https://www.tryinspector.com/blog/code-first-design-tools
1•quentinrl•3m ago•0 comments

Can You Draw Every Flag in PowerPoint? (Part 2) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztF7MODsKI
1•fgclue•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-baepsae – MCP server for iOS Simulator automation

https://github.com/oozoofrog/mcp-baepsae
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Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

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2•DesoPK•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

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Hello world does not compile

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2•mfiguiere•23m ago•0 comments

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2•meszmate•25m ago•0 comments

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Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
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Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•51m ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

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2•gmays•53m ago•0 comments

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1•0xUnavailable•58m ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

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1•benrules2•1h ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

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2•oidar•1h ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

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Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

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1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

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3•geox•1h ago•1 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

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2•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

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4•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

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4•alephnerd•1h ago•5 comments

If CNN Covered Star Wars

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1•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

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2•Wiar8•1h ago•3 comments

AI agents from 4 labs predicting the Super Bowl via prediction market

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EU bans infinite scroll and autoplay in TikTok case

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7•miohtama•1h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Salesforce no longer sells Slack directly in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan

6•dt060•2mo ago
Received email from Slack

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Hello,

As you may know, on July 24, 2019, Salesforce and Alibaba announced a strategic partnership, establishing Alibaba Cloud as the exclusive provider of Salesforce CRM to customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, as described in more detail here. In connection with this partnership, Slack (a Salesforce company) will not be renewing subscriptions in these regions. We’re contacting you because you’re an Admin of an impacted workspace.

You may maintain access to Slack by purchasing via Alibaba Cloud, a Salesforce reseller. You can do so with the steps listed below: - Navigate to the Contact form - Enter your organizational details and contact information - From the How can our sales team help you? dropdown, select I want to buy licenses or upgrade. - In the Anything else form, enter “Purchase Slack via Alibaba Cloud” - A member of our team will reach out and guide you through the next steps.

If you do not take action, we will suspend access to your Slack workspace, NAME_REMOVED, effective February 1, 2026. Your workspace and all associated data will be deleted within 90 days thereafter. If desired, workspace owners can perform an export of workspace data with the steps listed in our Help Center prior to February 1, 2026.

If your team would like to delete your workspace after exporting workspace data, the Primary Owner of your workspace can do so in the workspace settings. If you're not the person in this role, contact your Primary Owner for help.

Regards, The Team at Slack

Comments

disinfeqt•2mo ago
As a smaller team we got a different email, no alternative just termination:

We are writing to let you know that due to changes in how Salesforce services are provided in mainland China, Slack will no longer be renewing your workspace.

We’re contacting you because you’re an Admin of an impacted workspace. Effective February 1, 2026, we will suspend all access to your workspace and you will no longer be billed for your paid workspace. After this date, your team will not be able to access your workspace. You will receive a refund for your unused contract. Your workspace and all associated data will be deleted within 90 days of February 1, 2026.

starsang•2mo ago
Yes I have received the same. Do you know what to do next? I have been contacting both Slack team and our sales rep at Alibaba Cloud, but haven't heard anything yet.
disinfeqt•2mo ago
I also reached out to them but didn’t hear back.
starsang•2mo ago
They have replied to me. Seems that Slack is no longer selling in China mainland, neither by SFDC nor by Alibaba Cloud.

However if your are a Hong Kong entity, then you can purchase via Alibaba Cloud.

Yes I am gonna try to change the country setting for our workspace too... Not sure if this would work.

disinfeqt•2mo ago
I changed the address in [workspace].slack.com/admin/billing/settings in hopes that it helps.
dt060•2mo ago
further media coverage

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-s...

Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee.

The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in mainland China, according to the Alibaba employee, adding that Alibaba has started helping Slack customers with the change in recent days.

Some Slack customers with billing addresses in these four regions were told earlier this week that their subscriptions wouldn’t be renewed, according to the Alibaba employee. They were told they could maintain access by buying the service through Alibaba Cloud, according to emails reviewed by The Information.

A Salesforce spokesperson said that “Slack workspace creation and user provisioning are not currently supported in all markets. Our paid customers can provision individual user access for employees working anywhere legally permitted.” Alibaba didn’t reply to a request for comment.

Salesforce and Alibaba announced a strategic partnership in 2019 in which Alibaba would be the exclusive cloud provider of Salesforce services in these four regions, but that agreement wasn’t put into full practice until the recent days.

Salesforce is the latest U.S. company to separate its Chinese customer service, after Zoom in 2020 and Microsoft’s LinkedIn in 2021 began working with local partners or replaced their services with a local product, underscoring the deepening technological divide between the U.S. and China as companies increasingly operate on separate networks.