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The first game to feel truly cinematic is back - years after its creator left

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-31 00:58:36

The first game to feel truly cinematic is back - years after its creator left 4 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Konami EVA, one of the main characters in the remade game (image brightened from source) Metal Gear is one of the best-selling video game series in history, shifting more than 60 million copies. The series pioneered cinematics in gaming by blending cutting-edge cutscenes, voice acting and dynamic camera angles to create something that would have looked

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Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 02:47:47

This is not the usual type of content you will have come to expect from Piccalilli, but I feel like this topic, specifically, is an important aspect of our work to cover because as I see it, making or encouraging your development staff to use AI tools in their work is extremely short-sighted and risky. I want to support that stance with some conversations I’ve had with people actually doing the work and their mostly less than favourable experiences. I asked this across question social media:

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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2025-08-30 12:03:09

In which I attempt to be pragmatic. Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess. Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed by developers who have registered their name and other legal details with Google. To many people, this signals the death of "sideloading" - the ability to install apps which don'

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New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 16:15:44

A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, and that none of the generations born after 1939 will reach 100 years of age on average. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study by Héctor Pifarré i Arolas of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, José Andrade of the Max Planck Institute for Demographi

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Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

news.ycombinator.com Sascha Pare 2025-08-30 23:53:39

Hurricane Florence made landfall in South Carolina in September 2018. It was a Category 1 hurricane, but the devastating flooding that followed killed 55 people. A new hurricane categorization system could help people better prepare for storms by incorporating risks from storm surges and rainfall into the categories, a study published this month reveals. Storm surges — elevated seawater levels near coasts — and rainfall cause almost 80% of hurricane deaths, yet they are not accounted for in th

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Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment

news.ycombinator.com Hey There Buddo 2025-08-27 20:09:50

I spent some time before making Datalogs that translated into SQL. https://www.philipzucker.com/tiny-sqlite-datalog/ There are advantages. SQL engines are very well engineered and commonly available. SQLite and DuckDB are a pretty great one-two punch. A new twist on how to do this occurred to me that seems very clean compared to my previous methods. Basically, the relational algebra style of SQL actually meshes with manipulating the Datalog body environments (sets of named variables bindings)

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A24's Empire of Auteurs

news.ycombinator.com Alex Barasch 2025-08-27 03:04:43

In November of 2015, the upstart film studio A24 had a problem. Executives had acquired the writer-director Robert Eggers’s stark, unsettling début, “The Witch,” at the Sundance Film Festival and wanted to make it their first release to open on thousands of screens. But both Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred as a teen-ager tempted by unholy forces, were then unknown. The story, set in the sixteen-thirties and scripted in Early Modern English, was a tough sell. To generate buzz, the company

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How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 3)

news.ycombinator.com Jan Claußen 2025-08-27 14:09:18

How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. 3) Since its release in 2011, the Traktor Control Vinyl MK2 has sparked curiosity among digital DJs and audio developers alike. Its timecode format stands apart from Serato’s, which we explored in the previous posts. With the MK2 system, Native Instruments introduced a more advanced timecode that boosts resolution and accuracy by applying advanced cryptographic techniques. In this post, we’ll break down how it works at a basic level and how Mixxx is

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Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 12:10:31

As of early 2025, we’re deploying all of our applications with Kamal using Docker as our containerization platform. The container registry that holds our app images is one of the most integral pieces of our deployment pipeline. Like many organizations, we’d been using external container registries for years. Our ecosystem was tightly coupled to both Dockerhub and Amazon’s Elastic Container Registry. However, as part of our cloud exit and kamalization journey, several issues started emerging:

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‘Injustice 3’ is Coming—What Will DC Do With It?

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-30 21:00:02

Nearly 10 years ago, NetherRealm released Injustice 2, the second game in its DC superhero fighting series. (And it’s the third superhero fighting game, beginning with 2008’s Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.) After continuing and rebooting the story of Mortal Kombat, it seems NetherRealm is going back to superheroic punch-ups, as Green Lantern and Aquaman voice actor Phil LaMaar reportedly told a fan at a recent convention a third game is happening. This will come as little surprise to anyone pay

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 31, #342

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-31 04:01:51

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. The purple category does that thing where the editors chop up a team name and expect you to find it. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its deb

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Scammers Will Try to Trick You Into Filling Out Google Forms. Don’t Fall for It

wired.com David Nield 2025-08-30 11:30:00

One of the lesser-known apps in the Google Drive online suite is Google Forms. It's an easy, intuitive way to create a web form for other people to enter information into. You can use it for employee surveys, for organizing social gatherings, for giving people a way to contact you, and much more. But Google Forms can also be used for malicious purposes. These forms can be created in minutes, with clean and clear formatting, official-looking images and video, and—most importantly of all—a genuin

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Profit’ is an excellent investment tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-31 00:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. If you’re someone who invests, things can easily become messy, and you can end up with a wide variety of brokerage accounts for varying purposes. Profit makes tracking everything a whole lot easier, bringing everything together in one cohesive and beautifully designed interface for iOS and macOS. It does

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xAI sues an ex-employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets about Grok

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 22:00:29

xAI doesn't want its secret recipe for Grok to get out, and it's filing a lawsuit to make sure of that. In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, xAI claimed that former employee Xuechen Li stole the company's confidential info and trade secrets before joining the team at OpenAI. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company also alleged that Li copied documents from an xAI company laptop to at least one of his personal devices. According to the suit, Li stole "cutting-edge AI technologies with featu

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Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 23:22:09

Meta may be interested in more than Google and OpenAI's employees when it comes to artificial intelligence. According to The Information, Meta is considering using its competitors' models to improve its own apps' AI features. The report said that leaders at the Meta Superintelligence Lab have looked at integrating Google Gemini into its Meta AI chatbot to help it provide a conversational, text-based solution to its users' search questions. Not only with Google Gemini, Meta has also had discussi

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TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-31 00:44:13

TikTok is taking another step towards becoming more than just a platform for infinitely scrolling through short videos. The social media app told TechCrunch that its users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in direct messages or group chats. According to a TikTok spokesperson, these features will roll out in the next few weeks. As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the trend but is capping the length of its voice notes to one minute. For images an

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What to read this weekend: Two thrilling horror novels in one

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-31 01:15:44

Once again (or twice, really, because this book is two novels in one), Stephen Graham Jones delivers on some really gripping, fun horror that spins some classic tropes into something unexpected. This double feature contains The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, the first being a story about a night of babysitting gone horribly, supernaturally wrong on the eve of Halloween, and the latter a road trip from hell situation in which a hitchhiker-targeting serial killer sets his sights on a run

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FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Lyons 2025-08-30 17:43:44

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official. "There's a good chance this espionage campaign has stolen information from nearly every American," Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for the FBI's cyber division, told The Register. "There's a thought among the public that if you don't work in a sensitive area

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GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 20:53:05

RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Report to Congressional Requesters July 2025 GAO-25-107196 United States Government Accountability Office Highlights For more information, contact Alicia Puente Cackley at [email protected]. Highlights of GAO-25-107196, a report to congressional requesters RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Why GAO Did This Study Some policymakers have raised questions about the use of property technology tool

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The space race is transforming Southern California's economy – again

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-08-31 00:32:52

In a giant Long Beach warehouse near where Boeing used to build the C-17 cargo jet, Vast is fabricating what could be the first commercial space station to circle Earth. Just up the road in El Segundo, Varda Space Industries has grown molecular crystals in microgravity with few impurities for pharmaceuticals that one day could be injected in cancer patients. And a little south in Seal Beach, a scrappy company called AstroForge aims to land a satellite on an asteroid just a football field wide

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Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

news.ycombinator.com Al Newkirk 2025-08-27 16:52:42

Most organizations enforce one-way accountability. The CBC framework flips that, making commitments mutual, visible, and enforceable. In CBC, ambiguity is a leadership failure, and credibility comes from delivering results — not titles. When things go wrong, it’s easy to point down the org chart, much harder to look up. In most organizations, accountability flows one way. Teams are held to deadlines, deliverables, and performance metrics, while leaders enjoy a looser standard — insulated by hi

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Building a Jeopardy Game for Laravel Live Denmark

news.ycombinator.com Dotsquare Llc 2025-08-28 00:31:00

August 27, 2025 By Mathias Hansen A crazy idea that turned into a fun mashup of software and hardware...and all of it with Laravel As a co-organizer and the MC of Laravel Live Denmark, I was tasked with helping to come up with an idea for entertainment during the conference. Entertaining on stage gets me pretty excited. Inspired by PHP Jeopardy, we decided to give Laravel Jeopardy a go this year. But this wasn't going to be just Jeopardy. I decided to go a little bit wild and build an enti

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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 22:12:06

Read the terms of service. Don’t make assumptions. Don’t pick defaults. Yesterday, Anthropic quietly flipped a switch. If you're a Claude user, your conversations are now training data unless you actively say no. Not when you give feedback. Not when you explicitly consent. By default, from day one. Here's what changed: Previously, Claude didn't train on consumer chat data without your explicit thumbs up or down. Clean, simple, respectful. Now? Everything you type becomes model training fodder

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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Marder 2025-08-30 16:26:35

This checklist will walk you (and me) through the settings and extensions I use to improve my privacy when using Firefox. If you’re looking for a web browser that offers a high degree of privacy out of the box with minimal setup, Brave is a common choice. However, I prefer Firefox for several reasons: Firefox is developed by the nonprofit organization Mozilla. I value Mozilla’s commitment to open source software. Firefox is not based on Chromium. Brave, like most browsers, is based on Chromi

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From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 10:45:24

From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms Vinithavn 7 min read · 15 hours ago 15 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context. However, not all the tokens within this context equally contribute to the prediction, because some tokens might be more relevant than others. The attention mechanism addresses this by allow

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Spectrum – catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 21:28:14

spectrum A library for doing static analysis of Clojure code, catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time. Wait what? It's like core.typed, but it relies on clojure.spec annotations. So it's an optional static type system? Kind-of. It finds errors at compile time, and predicates kind of look like types. So sure. Current Status Developer Preview, not yet ready for any kind of use. Current development is working towards making spectrum self-check. Goals usable pragmatic readab

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-08-31 00:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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