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The surprising revival of road bowling, Ireland's ancient sport

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 15:53:57

Analysis: From Cork and Armagh to TikTok and Instagram, young and old road bowlers are taking up the bowl and keeping this unique tradition alive By Conor Heffernan, Ulster University On a quiet country road in Co Cork, traffic comes to a halt as a small iron ball hurtles around a bend, chased by a cheering crowd on foot. For those unaccustomed to the scene, it looks like 'an unusual and even archaic sport, a throwback to the days when roads were not monopolized by fast moving traffic.’ Yet ac

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The ‘Knights of Guinevere’ Pilot Brings Some Good, Surreal Sci-Fi

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-05 17:45:29

For years, animation fans have clamored online for new, original works to fall in love with alongside cherished, already established IP. After this summer’s KPop Demon Hunters provided a successful (and ongoing) bit of originality, that momentum continues with Knights of Guinevere, whose pilot premiered this past weekend on YouTube. Created by Dana Terrace, Zach Marcus, and John Bailey Owen, the creator and key writers on Disney’s The Owl House, Guinevere feels at once like its own distinct, fr

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A Generalized Algebraic Theory of Directed Equality

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:22:43

? What's it about? Summary of the content, explained at different levels of background knowledge.

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This new Gemini feature is the best and worst thing that’s happened for my learning

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 10:00:00

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’m typically a generative AI skeptic, but this doesn’t mean I’m not open to new AI tools that could be useful. After all, I found ways to use NotebookLM in my daily life even though I’m not a student. I even use Gemini’s Live mode to practice my second language. So when Guided Learning rolled out to the Gemini app, I wanted to test out whether it could turn my eagerness to learn new things into actual knowledge. The results were mixed, however. Have you found A

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LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 05:59:54

Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of parameters can encode the essential patterns from terabytes of text. However, what’s less obvious is that this process can be reversed: we can systematically extract structured datasets from trained models that reflect their internal knowledge representation. I’ve been working on this problem, and the results are promising. We’ve successfully applied

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Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 13:50:33

Create your account and connect with a world of communities. New to Reddit? By continuing, you agree to our and acknowledge that you understand the

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Show HN: Aris – a free AI-powered answer engine for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 00:44:47

"Safe access to the world's knowledge for all ages"

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We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 10:38:59

The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything” Dear Zettlers, This scam is decades old now and it is quite surprising that people still fall for it. The search engines, old note-taking apps (you know, those with an elephant icon and the like) and AI have something in common: They claim that the effort of remembering things is outdated like using a candle in the age of electric light. The following is, by the way, from my Zettelkasten (2016): To find what you need online, you require

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6 Best Baby Monitors We've Tested and Reviewed (2025)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-29 02:09:00

This smart baby monitor goes a little further than your standard monitor. It combines a “Dream Sock” smart sock wearable that you attach to your baby's foot and a Cam 2 monitor that you place in the nursery. You can then keep an eye on your baby as it streams 1080p HD video over Wi-Fi to the very comprehensive Owlet App on your smartphone. With the sock wearable in place, you can track your baby’s heart rate and average oxygen level. We found this effective enough, though of course it won’t be a

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We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Étienne Fortier-Dubois 2025-10-28 02:18:27

“Στόλος Ρωμαίων πυρπολῶν τὸν τῶν ἐναντίων στόλον,” i.e. “the fleet of the Romans setting ablaze the fleet of the enemies.” i.e. the Byzantines using their Greek Fire weapon. From the Codex Skylitzes Matritensis (12th century) A common trope in the land of fantasy fiction and games is that of lost technology. The hero stumbles upon some ancient ruins, and then finds an ancient weapon, or an ancient vehicle, or an ancient intelligent robot, that helps him in his quest. Nobody alive could possibly

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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-11-13 12:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-11-13 18:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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Graph databases are exploding, thanks to the AI boom - here's why

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-11-22 18:31:28

Cobalt88 / iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The graph database market, driven by AI, is growing at a rate of almost 25% annually. Graph databases support knowledge graphs, providing visual guidance for AI development. There are multiple dedicated graph database vendors on the market. Over the past decade, there has been endless churn in technologies shaping the databases behind the applications we run. The rise of NoSQL

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From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-11-28 08:28:47

Key Takeaways Beyond building technical skills, new software engineers need to develop soft skills that enable them to work well with other team members. Understanding the unique needs of each industry in which a professional wants to work makes it easier to make meaningful contributions to the organization. SWEBOK streamlines your transition into the working world because it outlines certifications that give graduates a competitive edge in the technology job market. According to the U.S. Bu

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Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:47:05

All the opinions expressed in this article and on this website are entirely my own and do not represent my employer in any way. Ever heard about the “Bus factor”? It is a concept that measures the risk of losing all knowledge about a particular thing – a software development project for example – by estimating how many team members could get crushed by a bus before nobody knows how to work on the project anymore. As an example, if 3 people on your team know how to restore a backup of your datab

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Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

news.ycombinator.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-12-07 03:30:57

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-12-07 18:14:22

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 22:39:53

Welcome to the FFmpeg School of Assembly Language. You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. These lessons will give you a grounding in the way assembly language is written in FFmpeg and open your eyes to what's actually going on in your computer. Required Knowledge Knowledge of C, in particular pointers. If you don't know C, work through The C Programming Language book High School Mathematics (scalar vs vector, addition, multipl

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What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Scott Young 2025-12-16 17:29:46

We tend to assume that if people today and people five hundred years ago do things differently, it’s because we’ve figured out a better way to do it. After all, we have microscopes, democracy and penicillin. People in the middle ages lit cats on fire for fun. Yet despite overwhelming progress, it’s ironically in the area of education that we may be the ones who have it backward. Apprenticeships were, for a long time, the dominant way of learning professional skills. A master agrees to show you

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Participate in Standards Development for P2807.9

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-12-23 02:07:31

“Guide for Application of Knowledge Graphs for Rail Transit,” designated by the Project Number P2807.9, is a groundbreaking standard that has significantly impacted the rail transit industry. By providing a comprehensive framework for the development and implementation of Knowledge Graphs (KG), specifically tailored for the rail transit sector, referred to as rail-transit-oriented KG (RTKG), this guide addresses the critical need for consistent knowledge patterns and unified interface standards.

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A Kentucky Town Experimented With AI. The Results Were Stunning

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-25 00:34:47

A county in Kentucky conducted a month-long “town hall” with nearly 8,000 residents in attendance earlier this year, thanks to artificial intelligence technology. Bowling Green, Kentucky’s third largest city and a part of Warren County, is facing a huge population spike by 2050. To scale the city in preparation for this, county officials wanted to incorporate the community’s input. Community outreach is tough business: town halls, while employed widely, don’t tend to gather a huge crowd, and w

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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 11:57:06

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? But ChatGPT got the correct answer in a few seconds. Flag of Dominica features the Sisserou parrot, which is only found in Dominica. Great Britain established a small colony on the island in 1805.

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Sonos Roam speakers are overheating and partially melting, company admits

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-03 12:08:22

Complaints on Reddit shared over the past week have exposed a problem with Sonos’ first-gen Roam speakers overheating and partially melting, which the company just acknowledged while downplaying the number of known cases. Reports of overheating Sonos Roam speakers acknowledged Chris Welch writes at Bloomberg: Sonos Inc. acknowledged a “very low” number of complaints from customers who claim the audio brand’s first-generation Roam speaker has overheated and partially melted near the USB-C port

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Beyond Retrieval: The Expanding Universe of Augmented Generation in AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-03 20:00:01

Introduction Standard large language models (LLMs) possess vast knowledge but struggle with limitations like hallucinations and accessing real-time information due to their static training data. This has spurred the development of dynamic AI architectures. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a key solution, integrating external knowledge into the generation process. However, the field is rapidly evolving beyond basic RAG. Newer models like RASG (Retrieval-Augmented Self-Generate

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Age Verification Doesn't Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

news.ycombinator.com View Archive 2026-01-10 00:19:54

“Won’t someone think of the poor children?” they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. If you’re totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of “verifying you’re an adult” before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a reasonable thing to do. But it’s a patently stupid idea at every level. Age Verification Makes Th

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C8 Health started with an AI that gives anesthesiologists guidance on demand — now it’s targeting whole hospitals

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-14 16:23:06

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Medicine is one of the most highly regulated fields in the world, and for good reason — the difference between doing a process correctly and incorrectly can often be that of life or death. But think of the many people involved in providing care at hospitals: it’s not just doctors and nurses, but also the entire medical support staff who ha

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Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-25 08:56:44

I also want to acknowledge the uncertainty and seeming incongruence of the times we’re in. By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving — our market performance, strategic positioning, and growth all point up and to the right. We’re investing more in CapEx than ever before. Our overall headcount is relatively unchanged, and some of the talent and expertise in our industry and at Microsoft is being recognized and rewarded at levels never seen before. And yet, at the same time, we’ve undergon

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My favourite German word

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-28 21:11:14

My favourite German word¶ 30th June 2025 A documentation colleague recently challenged me with a question: Nowadays, more and more people reach for an LLM tool to provide the information they want. If human beings don’t actually read it, what is the point of writing and structuring documentation for humans? Newer generations (she said) are becoming unskilled at finding information for themselves. They seem less able to digest what they find, to apply it to their problems. But it’s not just t

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“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of

news.ycombinator.com Assaf Pinhasi 2026-02-03 12:33:46

“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well… sort of. Assaf Pinhasi 3 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share TL;DR There is no dichotomy between domain knowledge vs. “general purpose methods that leverage data+compute”. They are both powerful tools that compensate for each other and need to be balanced and traded off during the model building process. “The bitter lesson” in 30 seconds “The bitter lesson” is one of the most popular opinion pieces about AI research and it’s future. In his w

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This smart sock was one of my best purchases as a new mom

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-16 08:10:38

ZDNET's key takeaways The Owlet Dream Sock is an FDA-cleared baby sleep tracker that costs $299 and is FSA/HSA-eligible, though it is currently discounted for a limited time. It goes beyond your standard baby monitor by tracking your child's heart rate, blood oxygen, and sleep patterns with three alarms: a yellow incorrect fit alarm, a purple abnormal reading alarm, and a blue alarm when the sock is out of range or low battery. While false low oxygen and abnormal heart rate alarms are exceedin

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Latest Tech News

The surprising revival of road bowling, Ireland's ancient sport

The ‘Knights of Guinevere’ Pilot Brings Some Good, Surreal Sci-Fi

A Generalized Algebraic Theory of Directed Equality

This new Gemini feature is the best and worst thing that’s happened for my learning

LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

Show HN: Aris – a free AI-powered answer engine for kids

We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds

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We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

Graph databases are exploding, thanks to the AI boom - here's why

From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero

Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

Participate in Standards Development for P2807.9

A Kentucky Town Experimented With AI. The Results Were Stunning

AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

Sonos Roam speakers are overheating and partially melting, company admits

Beyond Retrieval: The Expanding Universe of Augmented Generation in AI

Age Verification Doesn't Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

C8 Health started with an AI that gives anesthesiologists guidance on demand — now it’s targeting whole hospitals

Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo

My favourite German word

“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of

This smart sock was one of my best purchases as a new mom

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