Hacker News with Generative AI: Communications

Discord is planning an IPO this year, and big changes could be on the horizon (arstechnica.com)
As previously rumored, Discord, a popular communications platform, is working with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase to plan an IPO as soon as this year, according to a recent report by Bloomberg.
Integrated sensing and communication based on space-time-coding metasurfaces (nature.com)
Programmable metasurfaces (PMs), also called reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), are planar structures capable of dynamically manipulating electromagnetic waves in real-time.
Social media and messaging that respects you and your privacy (communick.com)
Communick takes the best open communications and social networking systems and hosts them for you. With our generous group packages, privacy-aware people now have an alternative for themselves and their friends.
Amazon Ends Support for Chime (amazon.com)
Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application.
Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026 (amazon.com)
Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application.
Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (cacm.acm.org)
Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the past few years, science fiction writer Ted Chiang staked out a contrarian position. “Artificial intelligence,” he insisted, was just a “poor choice of words … back in the ’50s” that had caused “a lot of confusion.”