I turned NotebookLM into a personal finance coach and it exposed my bad habits
TL;DR A writer repurposed NotebookLM as a personal finance assistant by uploading cleaned bank and credit-card data plus goals and…
PromptQuest: the frustrating text-adventure experience of using modern chatbots
TL;DR An opinion piece compares the trial-and-error of working with contemporary chatbots to playing old text-adventure games. The author describes…
Google begins gradual rollout to let users change their @gmail.com address
TL;DR Google has posted support documentation indicating a new option to change an account address that ends with @gmail.com, and…
How a small Spanish virus led Google to set up a cybersecurity hub in Málaga
TL;DR Bernardo Quintero tracked down the creator of a 1992 program known as Virus Málaga after 33 years, closing a…
Ask HN: International distribution and country statistics of Hacker News visitors
TL;DR A Hacker News user asked whether site traffic is concentrated in the US and how much comes from regions…
Salesforce Reverses Course After Cutting 4,000 Support Roles for AI
TL;DR Salesforce says it moved too fast replacing human customer-support staff with AI after cutting about 4,000 roles in 2025,…
Using Google Maps features to make daily commutes less stressful
TL;DR Anu Joy describes how she uses Google Maps features — notably the Leave/Arrive option, live traffic layer, saved places,…
Microsoft says Windows 11 will not be rewritten in Rust using AI
TL;DR Microsoft denied plans to rewrite Windows 11 in Rust after a senior engineer’s LinkedIn post suggested replacing C and…
Pixel 8 receives Pixel 9’s Panorama mode — try the upgraded camera
TL;DR Google has pushed a rebuilt Panorama mode to Pixel 8 devices via a Pixel Camera app update discovered by…