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Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 21:57:48

Raycast for Linux An open-source, Raycast-inspired launcher for Linux. For more background on this project, I have a post here. Disclaimer: This is a hobby project and is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, the official Raycast team. ✨ Features This launcher aims to recreate most of Raycast's core features on Linux: Extensible Command Palette : The core of the application. Search for and launch applications, run commands, execute quicklinks, and more. : The core of the application. Sear

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OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-03 02:08:47

OpenCut (prev AppCut) A free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile. Privacy : Your videos stay on your device : Your videos stay on your device Free features : Every basic feature of CapCut is paywalled now : Every basic feature of CapCut is paywalled now Simple: People want editors that are easy to use - CapCut proved that Features Timeline-based editing Multi-track support Real-time preview No watermarks or subscriptions Analytics provided by Databuddy, 100% Anonymize

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Cursed Phone Case Imitates Human Skin

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-03 00:15:43

Who asked for this? Skin Deep If for some reason you wanted your smartphone experience to be as off-putting as possible, you should check out this phone case that imitates human skin to a supremely unnerving degree. Not only does it look and feel like an epidermus, but it gets sunburned like one too. Morbid as this sounds, the "Skincase" is actually intended to help you. The idea is that seeing the faux skin wilt from spending too much time outdoors will remind you to protect yourself against

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Never mind the Galaxy Z Fold 7, I wish Samsung copied this foldable alternative

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-03 00:10:53

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has just launched, and it’s one of the thinnest foldables yet, while offering a larger folding screen than previous models. As cool as Samsung’s latest Fold is, though, I’ve been spending time with an old alternative to foldable phones, and I’d love Samsung to copy this trick. Yep, I’m talking about LG’s Dual Screen Case. The LG Dual Screen Case was first launched in 2019 for the LG V50, and most subsequent LG flagship phones suppor

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Microsoft Plans to Purge Passwords — Here's How to Protect Yours

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 20:00:00

Microsoft is moving closer to a password-free future, and if you're still using the Authenticator app to manage logins, big changes are coming fast. Starting Aug. 1, the app will no longer support passwords at all. This shift has already been in motion-new password creation was disabled in June, and autofill support was cut off in July. For years, Microsoft Authenticator was a go-to for managing both multi-factor authentication and saved passwords. But now, it's being refocused to support passk

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Why GM’s CEO is still betting on electric vehicles (and racing)

theverge.com Abigail Bassett 2025-08-02 21:00:00

GM was the first major US automaker to make the promise to go all-electric by 2035, just four years ago. Those promises have since turned into rough estimates under the second Donald Trump presidency, with the company softening language about its electrification goals. But GM is riding high on EV sales, and as CEO Mary Barra puts it, EVs are still the future — just on a delayed (and very flexible) timeline. “We still believe in an all-electric future,” Barra told The Verge in an exclusive inter

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 07:59:30

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

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Capturing the International Space Station (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 13:32:41

ENTER YOUR EMAIL HERE FOR MY TELESCOPE BUYING GUIDE My ISS transit shots tend to get the most questions, so I put together a write-up of exactly how I get them. See the uncropped version of my latest ISS Transit shot here (you can order print there as well, get some cool space art while supporting my projects) First- I check transit-finder.com. This is a web resource that allows you to put in your location, a time frame, and how far you're willing to drive, and it will spit out results of ne

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Should You Skip the Iced Coffee This Summer Because of Dehydration?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 22:51:04

You know the drill -- it's important to stay hydrated always, but especially in the summer heat. However, that message was taken to another level when the National Weather Service in Las Vegas advised residents across parts of Nevada, Arizona and California to avoid caffeine during extreme heat. The logic is that caffeine may speed up dehydration, which increases your risk for heat exhaustion or even heat stroke. The NWS advisory soon made headlines. To see if we should actually put down our ice

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What Makes a Car Lovable? It's Not the Tech, It's the Cup Holders

wired.com Carlton Reid 2025-08-03 01:00:00

Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results are revealing, to say the least. Want to know who was the worst performer? That ignominy goes to Audi, with an embarrassing 269 problems reported per 100 vehicles. However, one of the most interesting discoveries of the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (labelled as a “key finding”, no less) concerned not annoyance with the lack of physical buttons, nor, amazingly, intrusive b

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Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

news.ycombinator.com Kimm Fesenmaier 2025-07-30 18:10:37

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503003 What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic? "I think that is something that we, as a society, would be inte

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Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-02 17:45:03

Astronomers who examined the sound waves from the Big Bang say that the Earth — and the entire Milky Way galaxy we call home — could be trapped in a huge void billions of light years across. Their study, which was just presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in the UK, could solve one of cosmology's greatest mysteries: the Hubble tension, or why the older universe appears to be expanding more slowly than younger regions. "The Hubble tension is largely a local p

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Timescape’ is a big-picture calendar for year-round planning

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-02 20:30:00

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. Planning things accordingly can be hard. Timescape aims to make that easier by providing you a big picture look at your entire year, making it easy for you to see what long-term events you may already have booked. Top features There are obviously a lot of calendar apps on the App Store, but Timescape s

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Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-02 17:30:52

Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger explosive — and potentially deadly — volcanic eruptions around the world. As detailed in a new study presented at the Goldschmidt international geochemistry conference this week and due to be peer-reviewed later this year, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed six volcanoes in southern Chile to study how retreating ice sheets may have influenced past volcanic behavior. Using advanced argon

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Our favorite smartphone accessories at Android Authority

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-02 18:00:04

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s all well and good having a great Android phone, but an ecosystem of accessories can also make for a more enjoyable experience. Just take a look at all the handy add-ons for Galaxy phones and iPhones that you can buy on Amazon or the millions of other retailers — there are so many! Unsurprisingly, we love phone accessories here at Android Authority, but not all of them are created equal. So I thought it would be a good idea to ask my colleagues about thei

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Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 20:50:30

Good questions. And as Monday came and went without any sign of the missing Mercedes, the mystery deepened, and more theories continued to pour in: had it been hotwired and moved to a chop shop? Was it used for a joy ride and ditched in some remote corner of the island? The family asked the Current to share a photo of the vehicle, and the fact that it had been reported stolen. The post set off a deluge of messages along the lines of: "Who steals a car on Nantucket? Where are they going to go?"

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Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Buys Another $100 Million of Trump’s Memecoin

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-02 21:10:52

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain, announced this week that he had purchased yet another $100 million of Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP. Sun already owns a substantial amount of the asset. The crypto mogul also announced that the coin would soon be tradable on his blockchain. All of this is complicated by the fact that Sun still appears to be bogged down in a civil fraud case brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2023, the SEC launched a lawsuit against

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The 20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (July 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-08-02 17:00:00

In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and they’re all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our picks for the best movies on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are included

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Sequoia bets on silence

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-08-02 10:50:00

There is a time-honored crisis management strategy, wherein one says nothing and waits for the outrage to pass. For Sequoia Capital, the strategy worked pretty well this week. While partner Shaun Maguire initially weathered criticism over an inflammatory social media post, that initial indignation cooled quickly. Now, some seem to think that Maguire’s defiant stance may even be strengthening his position. Business Insider actually called it “good for deal flow” — controversy as competitive advan

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Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 01:32:36

sonoserve Simple server for my 5 year old to control his Sonos Play:1 speaker using an M5Stack CardPuter v1.1 esp32s3 device. As a kid, I'd like to restart my favorite playlist so that I can listen to my favorite music. As a kid, I'd like to play my favorite tracks. The plan to implement these user stories is to put most of the logic in a Go executable and use the cardputer as a simple hotkey controller. Ideally he will be able to turn it on, wait for a green light, then push one button to d

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How passkeys work: Going passwordless with public key cryptography

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-08-02 23:00:00

Vitalii Gulenok/Getty Images For the last five years, the FIDO Alliance -- led by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (with other companies in tow) -- has been blazing a trail toward a future where passwords are no longer necessary in order to login to our favorite websites and apps. This so-called passwordless future is based on a new form of login credential known as the passkey, which itself is largely based on another technology -- public key cryptography -- that's been around for decades. Why t

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The 6 Best Prime Day Action Camera Deals for Thrill Seekers (2025)

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-08-02 21:29:48

Prime Day is the perfect time to upgrade your camera gear. Whether you're looking for a tiny travel action camera, the perfect vlogging cam, or something you can strap to your head before leaping into the void on your next bungee jump, these cameras can handle it. If you're hunting for more deals this week, be sure to check out our Best Amazon Prime Day Deals roundup and dip into our Prime Day liveblog. Updated July 11, 2025: We've added the GoPro Hero 12 and checked all prices. WIRED Feature

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Million Times Million

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 13:49:21

Million Times Million By Susam Pal on 03 Jul 2025 Is a million times a million a billion or is it a trillion? For my entire childhood, it was a billion, only for me to grow up and realise, as an adult, that it had better be a trillion! Growing Up With the Long Scale As a child, I stumbled upon an old dictionary lying around our house, and that was where I discovered the names of large numbers. The dictionary used the long scale system, which is based on powers of a million. According to the

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DJI Mic 2 plummets to new record-low price, saving you $100!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-03 05:42:53

Are you a content creator, or are you looking to become one? Finding the right equipment can be daunting. If you want a microphone that offers good quality, excellent portability, and ease of use, the DJI Mic 2 is among our favorites. Deals on this product are very uncommon, so we can’t ignore today’s sale. Buy the DJI Mic 2 for just $249 ($100 off) This offer is available from Woot, an Amazon-owned deals-focused website. It’s in new condition and comes with a 90-day Woot warranty. That said, t

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9to5Mac Daily: July 11, 2025 – Apple’s plans for new Macs, iPads, and more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-08-03 05:17:07

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Roborock:The smartest vacuums just got more affordable. Roborock’s Prime Day sale has arrived—with exclusive, limited-time savings on their top models. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or

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Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-03 08:18:56

Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a seriously weird trick. In a new investigation, reporters from Japan's Nikkei Asia found more than a dozen academic papers that contained invisible prompts meant to trick AI review tools into giving them glowing write-ups. Examining the academic database arXiv, where researchers publish studies awaiting peer review, Nikkei found 17 English-language papers from 14 separate institutio

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Man’s heart stopped after common bacterium caused ultra-rare infection

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-03 09:35:11

A 51-year-old man showed up at a hospital in Germany looking as though he was wasting away, with swelling and tenderness in his ankles and knees. Then, his heart stopped. Doctors were able to resuscitate him. Then, they got to work trying to figure out what was wrong. The man told them that for three months he had been suffering from diarrhea, weight loss, joint pain, and fever. His case was reported in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Blood tests didn't detect any inf

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Subnautica studio co-founder says he's suing parent company Krafton

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-03 08:34:12

The drama surrounding the significantly delayed release of Subnautica 2 continues with Charlie Cleveland, co-founder and former director of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, announcing via a post on X that he and unnamed others have filed a lawsuit against Krafton , the studio's parent company since 2021. Cleveland, along with Ted Gill and Max McGuire, were relieved of their leadership roles at Unknown Worlds last week by Krafton. Bloomberg reported that they had been effectively "pushed out." This

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Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal

news.ycombinator.com Dutch Data Protection Authority 2025-08-03 13:38:46

2005–2019 false allegations of fraud The typical red-and-white envelopes used by the Benefits agency, previously part of the Belastingdienst The Dutch childcare benefits scandal (Dutch: kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire or toeslagenaffaire, lit. '[childcare] benefits affair') is a political scandal in the Netherlands involving false allegations of welfare fraud by the Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) against thousands of families claiming childcare benefits.[1][2] Between 2005 and 20

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