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A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2025-07-23 01:02:37

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million tonnes of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times as fast as e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue i

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Brain Scans Reveal Why Waking Up Is Sometimes Such a Difficult Experience

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-07-26 19:00:12

Want to wake up feeling great? The secret might not be so simple as a multi-step nighttime routine, early bedtime, or a no-device rule. A new study suggests that how we fall asleep and how we wake up the next day may not be so similar as we once thought. Neuroscientists tracked 20 people’s brain activity as they woke up from sleep—sometimes naturally, sometimes by setting off an alarm—recording more than 1,000 awakenings in total. They found a pattern of neural activity signaled waking, but tha

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The Switch 2’s Pro Controller Beats the Competition, for All the Wrong Reasons

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-07-26 20:00:59

With Donkey Kong Bananza now making its case as the real launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2, I needed a controller that could keep up with Kong’s crashing fists. When it came to a game that epitomized joy and catharsis in equal measure, Nintendo’s own Pro device proved a leading contender as best all-around, but not for the reasons you may think. I spent my own money on an $85 Switch 2 Pro controller. Accounting for tax, it was closer to $95, which is nearly one-fifth of the total price I p

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Best Internet Providers in Charleston, South Carolina

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 15:27:00

What is the best internet provider in Charleston? CNET's top choice for internet providers in Charleston is AT&T Fiber. With plans starting at $55 a month and fast speeds, reliable service, it's a no brainer. But even if AT&T Fiber isn’t in your neighborhood, you’ve still got great alternatives. This includes Home Telecom and options from Xfinity and Spectrum. Prefer wireless? T-Mobile and Verizon both offer dependable 5G home internet across the city. Charleston stands out for its broadband a

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Sales Tax Holidays: 17 States Are Holding Tax-Free Back-to-School Shopping Events This Summer. Here's When

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 17:00:00

State sales tax holidays usually run for one weekend, though some states offer longer exemptions. Tharon Green/CNET If you haven't already started buying back-to-school essentials, shopping during a sales tax holiday can offer some extra savings. These tax-free shopping events typically center on back-to-school items, offering discounts on clothing, school supplies, laptops and athletic gear. This year, 17 states are participating in a tax-free event, with one starting this weekend, and two m

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Electric Cooler vs. Ice Cooler: I Camped With Anker's Solix EverFrost 2 and an RTIC Ice Box to See Which Is Better

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 20:00:00

Keeping drinks and food cold while camping can be a challenge, especially in the summer. Though a portable power station hooked up to a minifridge can help, it's not the most power-efficient option compared with either an electric cooler or a traditional icebox. I set out to test a "regular" icebox-style cooler -- specifically, RTIC's icebox -- against Anker's new Solix EverFrost 2 to see how it would fare in real-world use against the best coolers on the market. To begin testing, I picked up tw

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You Shouldn't Be Using Q-Tips in Your Ears. Here's How to Clean Your Ears the Right Way

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 21:00:04

Earwax is just a fact of life. We need it to protect the inner ear and lubricate the ear canal, though honestly, excess earwax can be annoying. Not only can it make it difficult to hear what's going on around you, but no one wants to find earwax on their earbuds. Cleaning your ears regularly is a part of personal hygiene, and how you do it can have a big impact on how clean your ears are. And you definitely don't want to get it wrong if you value your hearing. Many health care professionals adv

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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

wired.com Umair Irfan 2025-07-26 18:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that by waiving permitting regulations and reviews under the California Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality A

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How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts: Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, and More

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-07-26 18:30:00

Here’s an evergreen take: There has never been a better time to get off social media. Social services have evolved even further into becoming sticky traps for doomscrolling and AI-generated slop, and are hitherto unprecedented frontiers for rage bait. Bummed out about all the misinformation and being part of a profit machine that funds one increasingly unhinged billionaire or another? Well, there’s a way out. Unfortunately, social media companies don’t always make it very easy to rescind their

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How to Buy an Electric Bike (2025): Classes, Range, Repairs

wired.com Stephanie Pearson 2025-07-26 20:00:00

Love them or hate them, electric bikes are here to stay. Between 2019 and 2023, electric bikes represented 63 percent of the growth in dollar sales of all bicycles. Translated to actual numbers, the US ebike market was valued at $1.98 billion in 2022. It’s expected to grow by 15.6 percent from 2023 to 2030. Some electric bike customers haven’t been on two wheels since they rode a Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat; others are lifelong cyclists who want a little extra oomph to flatten the hills

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How to design an actually good flash flood alert system

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-07-26 19:00:00

Flash floods have wrought more havoc in the US this week, from the Northeast to the Midwest, just weeks after swollen rivers took more than 130 lives across central Texas earlier this month. Frustrations have grown in the aftermath of that catastrophe over why more wasn’t done to warn people in advance. Local officials face mounting questions over whether they sent too many or sent too few mobile phone alerts to people. Some Texans have accused the state of sending out too many alerts for injur

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For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-07-26 19:00:13

AI is being forced on us in pretty much every facet of life, from phones and apps to search engines and even drive-throughs, for some reason. The fact that we’re now getting web browsers with baked-in AI assistants and chatbots shows that the way some people are using the internet to seek out and consume information today is very different from even a few years ago. But AI tools are more and more asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing it to work. This

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I ditched Google Calendar for paper, and it gave me the mental clarity I needed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-26 21:00:44

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I started using a paper calendar as sort of a joke. It was part of my experiment to live as if I were back in 1993. I ditched all modern tech and bought a weekly planner from the dollar store. My busy adult life still needed some kind of planning system. I didn’t expect to stick with it after my experiment was up, but you know what? I did. The experiment ended but the paper calendar stuck around. It found a home on my desk, where I’ve been using it every day

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google may disrupt education market with new AI tools

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-26 18:30:27

AI companies could soon disrupt the education market with their new AI-based learning tools for students. BleepingComputer recently reported that OpenAI is working on a Study Together feature for ChatGPT. This would allow ChatGPT to teach students a wide range of topics and then offer quizzes. The idea is to create an engaging and interactive "study together" experience where students ask questions and ChatGPT puts in effort to teach them. But it turns out that OpenAI isn't the only AI compa

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I ditched my Bluetooth speakers for this slick turntable - and it's more practical than I thought

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-07-26 19:00:20

ZDNET's key takeaways The Victrola Harmony turntable system is available for $299 in the colors Natural, Walnut, and Black. This system includes a full-size turntable, two bookshelf speakers, and an A-T ATN3600L cartridge, all great components for beginners. At its $300 price point ($100 up from its debut in Jan.), people willing to spend this kind of money may be ready for a more advanced system. View now at Victrola If you've ever considered "getting into audio," prepare to spend a couple h

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This $269 Chromebook couldn't be more portable - here's why it's my pick for students

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-07-26 19:45:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 is available now for $399. It's a versatile and highly-portable device that's as useful at home as in the office. Some of the most buzzworthy features are tied to subscriptions, and the keyboard and trackpad are very small. $399 at Best Buy $379 at Lenovo $325 at Amazon more buying choices The ninth-generation Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an 11-inch 2-in-1 laptop/tablet that combines a nice display, a versatile form factor, and accessible ha

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Zig's New Writer

news.ycombinator.com Jul 2025-07-25 03:01:03

Zig's new Writer As you might have heard, Zig's Io namespace is being reworked. Eventually, this will mean the re-introduction of async. As a first step though, the Writer and Reader interfaces and some of the related code have been revamped. This post is written based on a mid-July 2025 development release of Zig. It doesn't apply to Zig 0.14.x (or any previous version) and is likely to be outdated as more of the Io namespace is reworked. Not long ago, I wrote a blog post which tried to expl

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Pimping My Casio: Part Deux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 19:58:26

It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down t...

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My Self-Hosting Setup

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 14:56:02

My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup “The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner, now I am the master (of this setup anyway)." I’ve spent a few years trying different approaches for self-hosting, such as using multiple Docker compose files or Ansible. I’ve done some neat things (such as setting up Pi-Hole with Docker and Traefik), but I never really committed to any approach. I wanted to find something that was “perfect” and that meant I spent a lot of time tinkering and rece

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‘Ice Cubes in a Volcano’: Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Clouds in Center of the Milky Way

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-26 21:00:03

In the center of our galaxy, gigantic, balloon-like structures of high-energy radiation extend thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way’s plane. Known as the Fermi bubbles, the massive lobes may have been the result of a violent outburst in our galaxy’s recent past. A new discovery of cold hydrogen clouds embedded inside the bubbles adds another level of mystery to the objects, suggesting they’re only a few million years old—practically brand-new, by cosmic standards. Using the Na

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Best iPhone in 2025: Here's Which Apple Phone You Should Buy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 22:30:00

Phone makers promise varying lengths of long-term software and security support, ranging from just one year to as many as seven. These updates not only ensure you get many of the latest features, but also keep your phone secure. Phone cameras have gotten better over the past five years. But don’t be fooled by how many cameras a phone has. More is not necessarily better. Phones are big in general, with the smallest ones having a 6.1-inch screen and larger models topping out at 6.8 inches. That

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Gear News of the Week: Chrome OS Will Merge With Android and Sony Surprises With a New Camera

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-07-26 22:00:00

It's been speculated on. It's been rumored. It's been hoped for. And according to an interview with TechRadar, it's happening. Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat says Google plans to combine Chrome OS and Android “into a single platform.” Google has kept its phone and tablet operating systems distinct from its laptop platform. There has been plenty of crossover over the years—the biggest being the introduction of Android apps to Chromebooks back in 2016—but they have always coexisted. Wit

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Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. Here’s a List of What’s Been Killed So Far

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-07-26 22:30:00

The year 2025 is only half over. But for some of global automakers’ most ambitious electric vehicle projects, the In Memoriam segment is already shaping up to be a sad one. Major manufacturers including Honda, Stellantis, and Nissan publicly backed off plans to build and sell battery-electric vehicles, joining others who have made similar admissions in the past two years. Vehicle program cancellations aren’t the sign of a thriving industry. Traditional automakers work on five- to seven-year pro

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Cats as Horror Movie Villains

news.ycombinator.com Archer 2025-07-23 03:19:38

Do people like watching cats because of neoteny? I doubt it, because adult cats don’t look at all like babies. But then why do we have this odd fascination with every ordinary action of a cat and treating them as instances of a Platonic Cat? I speculate that there may be an evolutionary psychology reason: cats in Africa prey on primates to a degree I suspect few people appreciate, and this seems to have been true for millions of years, making them our apex predator. So perhaps we are still sligh

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Apple One just keeps getting better, here’s what’s coming next

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-26 16:54:09

If you’re at all interested in Apple’s services, Apple One has long been a great option for bundling them together and saving a little money. And over time, new features have continually been added to Apple’s various services. Here are the most recent ways Apple One has gotten better, and a preview of what’s coming next in iOS 26. So far this year, Apple One has benefited most from upgrades to Apple News+. While News+ seemed to struggle in its early days, Apple has steadily expanded it from a

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Could OpenAI's rumored browser be a Chrome-killer? Here's what I'm expecting

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-07-26 23:00:17

Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images Sometime soon, perhaps as early as next week, OpenAI will follow up on its release of ChatGPT agent with its AI-enabled web browser. Officially, neither OpenAI nor its usually chatty CEO, Sam Altman, has anything to say about this browser. Unofficially, it's an open secret that the company is working on one to compete not just with the already shipping AI-enabled web browsers, Perplexity Comet, and Dia, but with the 800-pound gorilla of web browsers, Go

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Show HN: OrioleDB Beta12 Features and Benchmarks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 10:22:33

Since our last public update, OrioleDB has continued to evolve with a series of new releases. These updates refine the core engine, extend functionality, and improve performance across a range of workloads. Together, they move us closer to a beta release and lay the groundwork for broader adoption. OrioleDB is a PostgreSQL storage extension that implements a custom Table Access Method as a drop‑in replacement for the default Heap storage engine. It is designed to address scalability bottlenecks

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The Halo Effect

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 14:57:06

Notes on the recent trend of “Hire and License Out” deals in AI Halos are made when souls leave their companies and ascend to the Clouds Over the last year, a new breed of deal structure has emerged in AI: an alternative to acquisitions and hiring that shares traits of both yet isn’t quite either. Companies like Inflection, Character AI, Adept, Covariant and most recently Windsurf have used this new structure in a common pattern. A core team from the startup–usually including the founders and

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My Ultimate Self-Hosting Setup

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 00:56:02

My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup “The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner, now I am the master (of this setup anyway)." I’ve spent a few years trying different approaches for self-hosting, such as using multiple Docker compose files or Ansible. I’ve done some neat things (such as setting up Pi-Hole with Docker and Traefik), but I never really committed to any approach. I wanted to find something that was “perfect” and that meant I spent a lot of time tinkering and rece

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Apple Sues the YouTuber Who Leaked iOS 26

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-07-26 19:58:05

Leaks are a constant part of big product news cycles, particularly for companies like Apple. Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next. They have been correct often enough to become a real pain for the Cupertino company. Now, Apple has seized upon an opportunity to fight back against leaks. In a complaint filed Thursday in US fe

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