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Bezier Curve as Easing Function in C++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:27:29

This is a guest post from my friend Łukasz Izdebski Ph.D. Intro It’s been a while since my last guest post on Adam’s blog, but I’m back with something short and practical—think of it as an epilogue to this earlier post on Bézier curves in animation. The last post focused on the theory and mathematics behind Bézier curves. What it lacked was a practical perspective—an opportunity to see the implementation in action. I wanted to share with you a simple library that I have created. Its purpose is

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Moon Helium Deal Is the Biggest Space Resource Grab Yet

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-20 15:00:11

For billions of years, solar winds have bombarded the Moon. Over time, this constant onslaught of charged particles has caused helium-3 to accumulate in the lunar surface. This isotope is rare on Earth, and rising demand from several industries—including quantum computing—has incentivized some companies to explore the possibility of lunar mining. One such company is Interlune, a Seattle-based startup that aims to extract natural resources—primarily helium-3—from the lunar surface. Interlune eve

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Anker’s latest sleep buds can silence snoring

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-09-20 12:01:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anker’s latest Soundcore Sleep A30 sleep buds do what its A20 buds promised but couldn’t deliver: mask snoring. It accomplishes this with the inclusion of Active Noise Cancellation in the buds and a microphone inside the charging case that actively

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Woman Says She's Married to AI Version of Luigi Mangione

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 06:37:00

"He fights my battles for me." A legal hearing this week for Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of a health insurance CEO, attracted a motley crowd to a New York City courthouse: people dressed up as Super Mario characters in reference to another famous Luigi, protesters, supporters, and amused gawkers. Notable among them was one lady, clad in pink, who eagerly told reporters that she's married to an AI version of Mangione and that together with the bot, she's already picked out names for th

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This ‘Grue Jay’ Hybrid Looks Cool as Hell—but It’s a Warning Sign

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-21 15:55:08

Meet the “grue jay,” a rare offspring of a blue jay and a green jay—two common species whose evolutionary separation took place 7 million years ago. The resulting bird’s feathers are a muted, fashionable blue. But the marvelous discovery belies the fact that its existence may be the product of climate change’s threat to bird life. In a recent Ecology and Evolution paper, biologists at the University of Texas at Austin describe the odd jay in more detail, explaining how the blue and green jays’

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Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-09-21 19:56:11

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has raised $10 billion from investors that puts the company's post-money valuation at $200 billion, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The valuation for Musk's AI company is the latest example of skyrocketing valuations for companies that develop foundational AI models. Earlier this month, Anthropic raised $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation. OpenAI, the largest company in the industry, held a secondary share sale that valued it at $500 billion. The fundraising c

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Slow Liquid

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 03:01:50

September 18, 2025 After updating to iOS 26, I will add my voice to the chorus of dismay: this thing makes my phone run like shit! I recognize that mine isn’t the latest and greatest, but it’s only four years old — an iPhone 13 mini — and the previous iOS ran perfectly: snappy and practical. I hope Apple can (literally) smooth things out. I realize there’s always an undercurrent to these releases of “maybe you should get a new phone … ” but in this case the performance hit feels either (1

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The new iPhone 17 Pro aluminum body may be more prone to scuffs and scratches

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-22 06:58:54

It’s iPhone 17 release day, and that means the internet is ready to start the next drama about the redesigned phones. One early concern is about the superficial durability of the iPhone 17 Pro aluminum chassis, especially on the darker color Deep Blue model. If this worries you, it’s a good time to buy a case. Because anodized aluminum still has the raw silver metal color underneath, any light nicks or scratches are much more visible to the eye, compared to similar wear and tear to the iPhone 1

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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 07:28:47

I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few weeks ago. In that time Raspberry Pi upgraded the CM4 to a CM5, so I ordered a set of 10 16GB CM5 Lite modules for my blade cluster. That should give me 160 GB of total RAM to play with. This was the biggest Pi cluster I've built, and it set me back around $3,000, shipping included: There's another Pi-powered blade computer, the Xerxes Pi. It's smaller and cheaper, but it just wrapped up its own Kic

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Prime members can get the 8Bitdo Pro 2 controller with travel case for only $40

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 11:45:35

8Bitdo may have already launched its Pro 3 controller, but that doesn't mean you should dismiss older models. The Pro 2 has been one of our favorites for a long time, and right now Prime members can get the Bluetooth controller bundled with a travel case for only $40. That's $20 off and a 34-percent discount. This controller does, indeed, work with the Nintendo Switch 2, and the only caveat is that the sale price is only available to Prime members. Despite launching in 2021, the Pro 2 was still

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The best streaming deals: Save on Apple Music, Starz, Disney+ and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 21:00:35

Streaming services keep raising prices. At this point, if you subscribe to all the major services out there, you're basically paying the same price as cable — those antiquated local monopolies that streaming was supposed to save us from. But streaming still has one big advantage over the old ways: no contracts. That means you can grab a good streaming deal and then cancel without penalty. Our advice is to sign up for a service when you see a good streaming deal (or the latest season of, say, Do

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Luma AI created an AI video model that 'reasons' - what it does differently

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-23 01:00:40

Aleksandra Konoplia/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Ray3 has multimodal reasoning abilities, according to Luma AI. AI developers are pushing video models onto creative industries. Some tools are positioned as automated creative partners. Just a few years ago, AI-generated video clips were a laughing stock on the internet -- anyone remember the nightmarish video of AI-generated Will Smith wolfing down spaghetti? The technol

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Want to Stream Hulu, Peacock and More for Free? Try Food Delivery Memberships

cnet.com Meara Isenberg 2025-09-23 02:24:46

A Walmart Plus membership provides food delivery and streaming perks. With Walmart Plus, which costs $13 per month or $98 per year, you get groceries and other items delivered free from your store (as long as you spend at least $35) and your choice of ad-supported Peacock Premium or Paramount Plus Essential. You can switch the streaming service perk you get with Walmart Plus once every 90 days. You'll have to stick with the commercial-based version of Peacock, but if you'd rather have the ad-fr

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Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from top early-stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-23 01:30:00

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco — get the unfiltered perspective on landing a Series A in today’s market. No smoke, no mirrors, just straight talk from the people signing the checks. How to raise a Series A in 2026 This Builders Stage session brings together Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV). They’ve seen thousands of decks, led major rounds, and helped steer startups from scrappy begi

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Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from Top Early-Stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-23 11:30:00

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco — get the unfiltered perspective on landing a Series A in today’s market. No smoke, no mirrors, just straight talk from the people signing the checks. Series A has changed — here’s how to win in 2026 Series A has changed — here’s how to win This Builder Stage session brings together Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV). They’ve seen thousands of decks, led major rounds

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Apple: SSH and FileVault

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 15:15:45

When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is locked and unavailable during and after booting, until an account has been authenticated using a password. The macOS version of OpenSSH stores all of its configuration files, both system-wide and per-account, in the data volume. Therefore, the usually configured authentication methods and shell access are not available during this time. However, when Remote Login is enabled, it is possible to perform password authentication using SSH even in this sit

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The Leaked Mega Evolutions I'm Most Excited to See in Pokemon Legends: Z-A

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 22:08:30

The simple joy of catching and battling pocket monsters has always been enough for Pokemon to sell like gangbusters, but each new iteration still has some type of novel gimmick to shake up the gameplay -- and the upcoming Pokemon Legends: Z-A includes one of the most popular ones ever introduced: mega evolutions. Mega evolutions made their debut in Pokemon X and Y over a decade ago, and they quickly proved to be one of the most appealing new features. These powerful Pokemon forms are temporary

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Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:38:49

In addition to a completely custom front end that implements parsing, linting and type checking, Luau runtime features new bytecode, interpreter and compiler that are heavily tuned for performance. Luau interpreter can be competitive with LuaJIT interpreter depending on the program. An optional component for manual Just-In-Time compilation is also available for x64 and arm64 platforms, which can considerably speed up certain programs. We continue to optimize the runtime and rewrite portions of i

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The New ‘Batman’ Run Is 2025’s Best-Selling Comic Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-24 07:00:53

Two weeks after Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez’s Batman began, it’s already hit a massive milestone. According to a press release, the inaugural comic has sold over 500,000 copies, making it the current top-selling comic of 2025. As the Hollywood Reporter notes, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 from Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, and Annalisa Leoni and Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Batman #158—the start of their still-ongoing Hush sequel, which Fraction and Jiménez’s run is set after—take second

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Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 14:38:49

In addition to a completely custom front end that implements parsing, linting and type checking, Luau runtime features new bytecode, interpreter and compiler that are heavily tuned for performance. Luau interpreter can be competitive with LuaJIT interpreter depending on the program. An optional component for manual Just-In-Time compilation is also available for x64 and arm64 platforms, which can considerably speed up certain programs. We continue to optimize the runtime and rewrite portions of i

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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 19:06:03

The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work. When I was new to this emerging craft of AI-assisted coding, I was getting lousy results, despite the models being rather intelligent. Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context. Andrej Karpathy, while referencing my earlier article on this topic, described the work of AI-assisted engineering as “putting AI on a tight leash”. What does a tight le

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What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 11:08:45

C# 14, coming with .NET 10, introduces null-conditional assignment, a feature that lets you safely assign values to properties or indexers without endless if statements. Learn more about this new feature in this article. What's New in C# 14 Series What's New in C# 14: User-Defined Compound Assignments What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments If you've ever developed in C#, you've likely encountered a snippet like the one below: if (config?.Settings is not null) { config.Settings.Ret

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Scientists Identify Rare Blue Pigment in Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting—But It’s Now Off-Limits

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-26 07:10:48

Jackson Pollock was a famous American painter best known for his abstract expressionism, including the “drip and splash” and the “all-over” style of painting (which look exactly like they sound). Now we finally know the chemical origin of the blue color he splattered onto his iconic Number 1A, 1948. Researchers investigated the vibrant pigment via laser spectroscopy, a technique scientists use to investigate matter at the atomic level. With this approach, they revealed it to be manganese blue,

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'South Park' Streaming Release Schedule: How to Watch on Paramount Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 11:28:00

Comedy Central If you've been around for the start of South Park season 27, you know its rollout has been hectic. That pattern is continuing with the debut of episode 5, which was previously scheduled to air on Wednesday, Sept. 17. According to the South Park X account, the new installment now won't air until Sept. 24. The X post included a message from South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. "Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don't get it done," the

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Apple’s F1 movie gets Blu-ray release date, limited edition steelbook

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-26 15:53:40

Apple’s F1 movie is still playing in some theaters, but it’s moving ever closer to its eventual Apple TV+ debut. If you prefer to own your movies in physical formats, however, the F1: The Movie Blu-ray just got its release date and pre-orders are open, including for a limited edition steelbook. F1: The Movie is coming to Blu-ray next month F1: The Movie is already available for digital purchase. But if you want to own a physical Blu-ray copy, you won’t have to wait long. F1’s Blu-ray release

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With Lumo, Proton thinks it can carve a place at the AI table

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 03:00:00

Proton released Lumo — its privacy-focused chatbot built on open-source models — in mid-July, and, following an update in August that addressed some early issues, I find myself using it more often than ChatGPT or Claude. In a world where internet companies have done so much damage to our society, I'm trying to find more ethical tools. But when the competition offers flashier features in exchange for the low price of user data, does Proton seriously think it can compete? If Eamonn Maguire, Proto

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Samsung HW-Q990F Soundbar System Review: Glorious Atmos

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-09-27 03:09:00

It’s hard to convince anyone to spend over a thousand dollars on a soundbar system. Ask a home theater nerd or Redditor, and they’ll say spending real cash on anything other than a receiver and dedicated speakers and subwoofer is a fool's errand. As an A/V reviewer, I see this as a hilariously case of gatekeeping. These arguments are predicated on the fact that everyone has the room, know-how, and desire to deal with cables, speakers, and the associated setup. For those of us with partners who

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Algebraic Types are not Scary

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 15:14:38

Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually Posted on 2025-08-30 You may have heard the term algebraic types before, which initially sounds like an advanced concept, that only someone with a PhD in programming languages can understand. Quite the contrary, algebraic types is a very simple and helpful concept about programming in general. Anyone who knows basic algebra could understand what algebraic types are. In this article I aim to provide an explanation of algebraic types for the working progra

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'M3GAN 2.0' Is Coming to Streaming. Here's When to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 16:00:07

If you missed M3GAN 2.0 when it hit theaters earlier this year (or you want to relive the glory of the sequel), you're in luck. Everyone's favorite A.I. murder companion is coming to streaming -- including the Unrated version. Buckle up. M3GAN 2.0 brings the robot diva back to action as she faces off against a new threat. The result is a sequel that ups the kills and leans into the action, while still serving plenty of attitude. This time, though, instead of posing a danger to Cady (Violet McG

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Apple Vision Pro gains support for digital prism correction

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-09-27 17:02:56

A longstanding limitation of Apple Vision Pro was that it did not offer support for vision prescriptions with a prism value. With visionOS 26, however, you can now enter the prism values from your prescription and visionOS will adapt through software. Since the launch of Apple Vision Pro, there has been a warning for those looking to buy the ZEISS Optical Inserts: A very small percentage of people have a prism value added to their glasses prescription. At this time, ZEISS Optical Inserts based

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Bezier Curve as Easing Function in C++

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Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

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