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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 08:02:21

Some American politicians - particularly the Trump administration, its allies and officials - have pushed back against what they regard as overreach in the regulation of US tech firms by the UK and EU. A perceived impact of the Online Safety Act on free speech has been a particular concern, but other laws have also been the source of disagreement. On 19 August, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the UK had withdrawn its controversial demand for a "backdoor" in an Apple dat

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Meta's AI Push Leads to $10 Billion Google Cloud Deal, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 14:20:20

Eager to establish dominance in artificial intelligence, Meta has signed up to use cloud-computing services from Google Cloud in a deal worth at least $10 billion over six years, according to a report from Bloomberg. The deal would expand Meta's capabilities as it continues to push into AI tools and services across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. AI requires an enormous amount of computing resources, which requires more data center bandwidth. In turn, those data cente

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Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

news.ycombinator.com Tanmai Gopal 2025-11-02 16:14:35

The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task - "Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner", Dwarkesh Patel In this post, based on our recent experiences selling 7-figure AI deals to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley tech cos alike, I'll discuss how "confident inaccuracy" seems to be at the heart of this problem. Being C

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Being confidently wrong is holding AI back

news.ycombinator.com Tanmai Gopal 2025-11-03 04:14:35

The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task - "Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner", Dwarkesh Patel In this post, based on our recent experiences selling 7-figure AI deals to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley tech cos alike, I'll discuss how "confident inaccuracy" seems to be at the heart of this problem. Being C

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DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-03 12:38:14

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 billion in 2024 and of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2025. In April, the healthcare provider revealed in a filing with the U

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5 ways Mercedes F1 harnesses data and the latest tech to perfect race day performance

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-11-03 14:00:00

NurPhoto/Contributor/NurPhoto via Getty Images Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management at Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team, gave ZDNET a tour of his racing team's state-of-the-art technology campus in Brackley, UK, and reflected on the impact digital and data have on the sport. "Technology is more crucial in Formula One than ever," he said. "Any sort of manufacturing fu

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The attr() function in CSS now supports types

news.ycombinator.com Amit Merchant 2025-10-30 21:54:29

The attr() function in CSS is a powerful function that allows you to use the value of an attribute of an HTML element as the value of a CSS property. This function is commonly used with the content property in pseudo-elements to display the value of an attribute on the page. The attr() function has been around for a while and is widely used in CSS. However, it was limited to only accepting a single argument: the name of the attribute whose value you wanted to use. On top of that, the value ret

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Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 23:13:39

Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers Note This work is sponsored by Monibot - Website, Server and Application Monitoring. Try out Monibot for free at https://monibot.io. For benchmarks I used the following libraries: bvinc, github.com/bvinc/go-sqlite-lite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql driver. craw, github.com/crawshaw/sqlite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql driver. eaton, github.com/eatonphil/gosqlite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql dri

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Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

news.ycombinator.com Anant Bhasin 2025-10-31 11:43:31

QR codes are everywhere. They’re incredibly functional, connecting our physical and digital worlds with a simple scan. But let's be honest: most of them are an eyesore. The standard black-and-white pixelated square often feels like a necessary evil that disrupts an otherwise beautiful design. The common solution has been to leverage the QR code's built-in error correction to place a logo in the center. While functional, it’s still an overlay—a sticker on top of the data. We thought, what if the

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Gas power plants approved for Meta’s $10B data center, and not everyone is happy

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-04 14:52:20

When Meta selected a site in Louisiana for its largest data center to date, it signed a deal with Entergy to power the site with three massive natural gas power plants. Yesterday evening, a state regulator approved Entergy’s plans. The power plants are expected to come online in 2028 and 2029, and at full strength, they’ll generate 2.25 gigawatts of electricity. Ultimately, the AI data center could draw 5 gigawatts of power as its expanded. The power plant project has been controversial among

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Why is D3 so Verbose?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 15:12:35

Why is D3 Code So Long and Complicated (or Why is it So Verbose)? D3 is a b***h of a language at first glance. It’s long. It’s complicated and verbose. You have to enter what feels like an obscene amount of key strokes to draw one line. I’m currently about one-third of the way through my journey of learning D3.js, having finished Interactive Visualisation for the Web by Scott Murray, and now picking my way through D3.js in Action by Elijah Meeks and Anne-Marie Dufour. (And just for kicks, I’m

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A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification

news.ycombinator.com Jack Vanlightly 2025-11-05 18:18:12

Factor 2: Weighing the pros and cons If we want to provide the data in lakehouse format so Spark jobs can slice and dice the data, then either shared tiering or materialization is an option. Shared tiering might be preferable if reducing storage cost (by avoiding data duplication) is the primary concern. However, other factors are also at play, as explained earlier in 1. The challenges of shared tiering. Materialization might be preferable if: The primary and secondary systems have completel

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Google reveals how much energy a Gemini query uses - in industry first

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-11-05 23:00:00

Getty Images/Eoneren ZDNET's key takeaways Google released energy and water consumption estimates for its Gemini AI apps. It is the first major tech company to publish this information. Estimates are lower than public calculations, but industry-wide usage is still unclear. AI demand is rapidly accelerating, which means the infrastructure that makes it possible -- data centers and the power plants that supply them -- is expanding, too. The lack of concrete data around exactly how much energy

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The Jobs AI Is Replacing the Fastest

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-05 23:37:41

The jobs most likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence all have one thing in common, a new study has found. The World Economic Forum studied business sectors globally and found that industries with loads of high-quality data could have AI adoption rates around 60-70%, but those with less or fragmented data thus far have seen less than 25% of their jobs taken over by AI. That means jobs with clear-cut data like finance, customer support, healthcare, interpreters, historians and writers

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Why Ancestry Is the Best DNA Test Kit in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 17:40:00

When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial struggles. As a result, we removed it from this comparison and now outline why AncestryDNA is the best at-home DNA kit for learning more about your heritage, ancestry and even your medical predispositions. If you've used 23andMe, here is how you can delete your account and data. You can also read mor

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UK faces legal challenge over attempt to force through data center development

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-06 09:55:49

The U.K. government is facing a legal challenge from campaigners over its decision to override a local authority and wave through development of a new "hyperscale" data center. Last year, the local authority of Buckinghamshire, England, denied planning permission for proposals to build a new 90-megawatt data center on green belt land. The green belt is a term in British town planning that refers to an area of open land on which building is restricted. Data centers, large facilities that house

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Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-06 11:07:11

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July have stolen the data of approximately 850,000 customers. Orange Belgium provides fixed and mobile connectivity services to over 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg, employs 1,500 staff, and claims to operate the largest 4G/5G network in the country. Last year, the company reported total service revenues of €1.34 billion. When BleepingComputer r

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Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 09:06:05

I don’t think we have any actually good programming languages, and I don’t think I’m alone in believing this. Programming is hard, and language design is harder. We’re still learning. But I think they’re all failing us in a shockingly fundamental way. The root of the trouble is a distinction I’d like to draw between data and objects. Let me know if you think there are better terms to use. Programming languages give us tools to represent things. Sometimes these things are values: the integer 1.

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A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-11-06 09:10:07

Intro: Why Is Everything "Certified Fresh"? I stayed in a hotel recently, which means I watched cable television, which means I consumed commercials that I could not skip—and some of these commercials advertised upcoming movie releases. Promo after promo, I noticed an unmistakable pattern: every film was "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, with this seal of approval serving as the ad's climactic selling point. After five days of "Certified Fresh" movie propaganda, I began to grow suspicious.

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Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 02:16:00

Does what's said between you and your AI chat stay between you and your AI chat? Nope. According to a report by Forbes, Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok published more than 370,000 chats on the Grok website. Those URLs, which were not necessarily intended for public consumption by users, were then indexed by search engines and entered the public sphere. It wasn't just chats. Forbes reported that uploaded documents, such as photos, spreadsheets and other documents, were also published. Representa

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Oracle will reportedly power a giant data center with gas generators

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:16:59

Bloomberg has published a deep dive into operations at Oracle, chronicling the software giant's rise in cloud computing and current push into powering artificial intelligence projects. The publication reported that Oracle has promised to develop tens of billions of dollars in data centers, which have become a hot business. Notably, Oracle landed a deal to back operations at OpenAI, in a partnership that will give the AI company 4.5 gigawatts of computing power . According to Bloomberg, that's en

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Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:00:14

AI Engineer Location: SF Bay Area ( 4+ days in office ) Experience Level: 3–5+ years Stack: Python, PyTorch, ML, LLMs, Django Type: Full-time 🧠 About Coris Coris is building the AI-first trust layer for global commerce. We partner with leading platforms, marketplaces, payment providers, and banks to transform how small business onboarding, monitoring, and lifecycle decisions are made - using AI on the ground to drive faster, smarter actions with less friction. One of our customers describ

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Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 03:35:18

Learning About GPUs Through Measuring Memory Bandwidth At Traverse Research, we need to have a deep understanding of GPU performance to develop our benchmark, Evolve. Additionally, we sometimes do projects for very specific hardware where we need to know all the ins and outs of this hardware. One way we do this is by using microbenchmarks to measure specific parts of the GPU to get new insights. In this article, we will share what we learned from measuring the memory bandwidth of various GPUs.

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Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 14:56:36

Clear Reset View Reload Data Points: 0 Zoom: 1.0x

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Oracle Will Reportedly Spend $1 Billion a Year on a Gas-Powered Data Center

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-07 09:45:36

Oracle is going all-in on its AI-focused cloud business, pouring billions into building massive new data centers. One site under construction in West Texas will reportedly cost the company around $1 billion just to keep the lights on. Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans, that Oracle intends to spend more than $1 billion a year to run a new West Texas megasite on gas generators rather than wait for a utility hookup. It can take years to get approval and infrastruc

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The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-11-04 11:29:54

Intro: The Ballad of Crazy Frog Sometimes, human creativity gives us The Godfather, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, and The Wire—and sometimes that same ingenuity gives us Crazy Frog. When it comes to Crazy Frog, people generally fall into three camps: Those who vividly remember this meme-turned-ringtone-turned-song and would like to forget. Those who've forgotten whether Crazy Frog is the name of a song or artist or noise, subsequently stream this track, remember it, and are regretful. Those born

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Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 16:23:01

Find out where you would end up if you kept going straight Historical map data from André Ourednik's Historical Basemaps project App Privacy The developer, Ben Gross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy. Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-07 23:42:56

Fitbit’s smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there’s another big one coming in October, timed to the launch of the newly announced Pixel Watch 4. Launching as an opt-in review (an open beta), the design centers on Google’s AI-powered Personal Health Coach, built with Gemini. The entire app has been rebuilt from the ground up with the new AI coaching feature. Andy Abramson, director of product management at Google, says the redesign also offers easier

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Fitbit’s AI health coach is the first I might actually be interested in

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-07 23:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. I’m not a fan of AI health and fitness features. Not only do they regurgitate Captain Obvious-level summaries of what you just did, but the “insights” are so generalized that a Google search is often more helpful. So it was with great skepticism that I walked into a demo to learn about Fitbit’s forthcoming AI-powered personal health c

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Meta to add 100 MW of solar power from U.S. gear

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-08 04:56:53

Meta signed a deal yesterday with solar developer Silicon Range to develop a $100 million, 100-megawatt solar farm in South Carolina. The new renewable installation will power Meta’s planned AI data center in the state which is expected to cost $800 million. Both the data center and the solar plant are expected to begin operations in 2027. Most of the equipment for the solar farm will be made in the U.S., according to the companies. The new deal is the eighteenth such agreement signed between

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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

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