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I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083321I have a UK one-man company, through which I work as an IT contractor.Recently, I changed the address.TransferWise then KYCed, and requires;1. A bank statement.2. A utility bill.There are no other bank accounts, and it's a one-man company; there's no rental, no phone bill, no water bill - there is a server bill, for the server the company web-site is on, and this TransferWise have refused.To date, TransferWise stated in their communications that if I could not prove the address, the account would become emit-only; I could not pay money in.I have just received a message from TransferWise that in two days, all funds in the account will be refunded.This is wholly different to what was said before, and I'm not clear about what it means : refunded? to whom? me? to those who paid in the funds?This message from TransferWise has come Friday evening. It seems to me if I now move funds out of the account to other bank accounts, this will not occur over the weekend, and so not until Monday morninNov 28, 2025 10:24 PM
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White dwarf magnetic field study reveals inner accretion dynamicshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/White_dwarf_magnetic_field_study_reveals_inner_accretion_dynamics_999.htmlCambridge, MA (SPX) Nov 21, 2025 Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls material from the larger star into a swirling, accreting disk. The spiraling pair is what's known as an "intermediate polar" - a type of star system that gives off a complex pattern of intense radiatNov 26, 2025 9:07 AM
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Show HN: Ilseon, a Minimalist Focus Filterhttps://github.com/cladam/ilseonI’m excited to share a new productivity app I recently released on the Play Store. It was born out of pure necessity to solve a problem I am constantly faced with: cognitive overload and task paralysis.Since traditional to-do apps only added to the mental noise, I eventually built a small tool for myself called Ilseon. I needed something that would actually reduce cognitive load.I have added some features that helps me in my daily chaos:Context filtering: I work better when I only see what belongs to the role I’m currently in (Work, Family, Health, etc.). Switching context hides everything else, which stops me from bouncing between unrelated tasks or getting overwhelmed by a big master list.Time blocks with a big visible countdown: This externalises time for me in a way alarms or calendars never did. It gives me one clear block to focus on, and the timer helps with time blindness without being stressful. Still figuring out if adding alarms is a good idea or not..A quick reflection loopNov 23, 2025 8:17 PM
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We Built a GPS-Guided, Wire-Free Robot Mower for Large Lawnshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914061Hi HN,I’m Noor, part of the product team at Yarbo, where we’re building modular outdoor robots that handle lawn care, snow removal, and yard maintenance all using the same autonomous drive base.We recently finished a full-season field test of our wire-free, GPS-guided robot mower, and wanted to share what we’ve built, the technology behind it, and what we learned from real users maintaining large lawns.The Real Problem We Wanted to Solve Almost every robot mower on the market still depends on buried perimeter wires.For homeowners with large or complex lawns (½ acre and up), those wires are frustrating — they take hours to install, frequently break, and make even small landscaping changes painful.We saw this problem repeatedly in user feedback: “The mower works fine until a wire gets nicked — then I have to dig up half my lawn to find the break.”We wanted to remove wires entirely while keeping centimeter-level accuracy and full autonomy. That meant solving for GPS drift, multi-zone mappNov 13, 2025 12:23 PM
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Show HN: Qantify – GPU-Accelerated Trading Library with Advanced Math and AutoMLhttps://github.com/Alradyin/qantifyI've been building Qantify for the past 2 years - an open-source Python library for algorithmic trading that combines institutional-grade math models with modern ML/AutoML pipelines.*What makes it different:*Most trading libraries are either: - Too slow (Backtrader: ~5ms/point, Zipline: ~10ms/point) - Missing advanced math (no quantum finance, chaos theory, optimal execution models) - No AutoML pipeline (QuantConnect has basic ML but no AutoML) - No GPU accelerationQantify addresses all of these.*Performance:* - 0.008ms per data point (50-100x faster than alternatives) - GPU acceleration: 2-3x speedup on compatible hardware - 1767+ comprehensive tests, 100% code coverage - 106K+ lines of code*Advanced Math Models* (what hedge funds use):on # GARCH volatility modeling from qantify.math.econometrics import GARCHModel garch = GARCHModel(returns) vol_forecast = garch.forecast(horizon=10)# Heston stochastic volatility from qantify.math.stochastic import HestonProcess, MonteCarloEngine hestoNov 13, 2025 9:41 AM
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Ask HN: Help me understand Signal communication blurbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909780at bottom of signal communication on cellebrite [0] it states :>The completely unrelated>In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.can someone help me understand if this is serious or not and what it actually means?[0] https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/Nov 13, 2025 2:30 AM
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John McFall | Prosthetics, possibility & parabolic flights | ESA Explores #16https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/10/John_McFall_Prosthetics_possibility_parabolic_flights_ESA_Explores_16Meet John McFall – Paralympian, medical doctor and member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve. As part of ESA’s groundbreaking FLY initiative, John is helping prove that physical disability is no barrier to space. In this episode, he shares the results of a feasibility study showing no technical showstoppers for flying to the International Space Station with a prosthesis and talks about what’s next—from hardware certification and scientific proposals to astronaut reserve training and running in microgravity.Nov 11, 2025 11:00 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e2737ab04c889e317f5a2467d969&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0cb6a494526b0d7dfce4d0d8806&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e21cb9b24a41970864de403690ee&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85df88b6014f1ebc2f9625ba1674d7&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d988acdf4cc282108846996a2693&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e6745d7d44bea4f5effa7815087e&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e25d7a47418cae53d9c88b1d2942&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cab99af6439c922693cd7856f822&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d936a8b949a0bc23d6bc13df844b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e200f2874df9a3ac6d3b48f68c73&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85eaf13886499e85446e533cc7b030&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d30c930d4b8fb7431366aea61df7&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
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The Term ‘67’ Is ‘Impossible to Define.’ It Just Became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e65bb3f949b9bde699afcb62d671&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fsmart-news%2fthe-term-67-is-impossible-to-define-it-just-became-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-for-2025-180987650%2f&c=15144316561975146412&mkt=en-usIt’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...Nov 7, 2025 8:42 AM
