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How Scientific Empires End

news.ycombinator.com Ross Andersen 2025-12-30 06:47:15

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, he studied the thermonuclear reactions that occur inside of stars. A few lab tables away, Andrei Sakharov was developing the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet space program would soon astonish the world by lofting the first satellite, and then the first human being, into orbit. Sagdeev can still rememb

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Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

news.ycombinator.com Alex Henthorn-Iwane 2025-12-30 06:45:07

Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks. For public-sector organizations, critical infrastructure, and privacy-conscious enterprises in the EU, the questio

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Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 17:58:12

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work can be frustrating enough — you know you’ll have to address all those issues at some point. But it’s even worse when you experience an issue and don’t have the option to solve it. A recent example of this for me was playing the game

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GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:22:22

GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database A lightweight, decentralized graph database designed for modern web applications, offering real-time peer-to-peer synchronization, WebAuthn-based authentication, role-based access control (RBAC), and efficient local storage utilizing OPFS. Main Features ✅ GenosDB Core Efficient storage in OPFS. Real-time synchronization between tabs and devices. CRUD operations for nodes and relationships. Efficient serialization using MessagePack and compr

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Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 05:54:22

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Introduction to Computer Music

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 05:37:22

About This Textbook The Introduction to Computer Music was initially designed as an online text for first-year study of computer music. This e-book aspires to present information in sufficient depth to be useful to composers, beginning audio engineers and other musicians, professional or otherwise, interested in making music with technology. The first edition of this text was begun in 2004 with an Indiana University Instructional Development Grant and has served our electronic studio resources

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Spotify's lax privacy means anyone can see the Vice President's song choices

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 12:30:15

A new cybersecurity "breach" has revealed the personal information of various celebrities, and while it won't let you steal their identities, it will allow you to... judge them. The "Panama Playlists" details the Spotify song choices of notable people ranging from Vice President JD Vance to talk show host Seth Meyers to tech bros like Palmer Luckey. And technically, it wasn't a breach at all, but a possible lack of understanding around Spotify's privacy settings. Spotify has always allowed user

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PSA: Many countries that said NO to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:54:22

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 11:00:06

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

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Should You Put Down the Iced Coffee During a Heat Advisory? This Is What Dietitians Say

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 11:41:04

With heat advisories popping up all across the US, the Las Vegas National Weather Service recently advised residents in parts of California, Nevada and Arizona to stop drinking caffeine when the heat is extreme. This is to prevent dehydration, which can lead to heat stroke. However, curious if we should all be putting our iced coffees down this summer, I reached out to three dietitians for the tea on caffeine, dehydration and heat safety. Does coffee cause dehydration? "Caffeine, the main acti

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St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 17:47:37

Hacking attacks—many using ransomware—now hit US cities every few days. They are expensive to mitigate and extremely disruptive. Abilene, Texas, for instance, had 477 GB of data stolen this spring. The city refused to pay the requested ransom and instead decided to replace every server, desktop, laptop, desk telephone, and storage device. This has required a "temporary return to pen-and-paper systems" while the entire city network is rebuilt, but at least Abilene was insured against such an atta

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The Best Cheap Headphones We’ve Tried

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-12-30 12:00:00

The Best headphones under $100 are harder to find than you might think. Here at WIRED, it's part of our job to listen to music all day, often on exceedingly fancy and bonkers-expensive models. We have playlists for testing bass, for assessing detail, for dance parties—we get way into it. But believe it or not, we like testing the cheap stuff just as much. It's like a treasure hunt to find the best cheap headphones. And they're getting better every year. That doesn't mean our work is done; retai

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8 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-30 12:30:00

Other Video Doorbells to Consider I've tested several other video doorbells. These are the ones that narrowly missed out on a place above. Photograph: Simon Hill Doro Hemma Doorbell for £150: A simplified smart doorbell for seniors is a solid idea, and Swedish maker Doro gets plenty right with the Hemma. It is a battery-powered doorbell that’s easy to install and use, offering a 1440 x 1440-pixel resolution with a decent frame rate (30 fps), local recording via microSD card, and a plug-in rin

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How one single image may have convinced me to buy the Google Pixel 10

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 22:30:13

Google Pixel 10 leaks have been nonstop over the last few weeks. From device renders and specs to Tensor G5 details, little has been left to the imagination. What we’ve seen so far has painted a promising, if not overly exciting, picture for Google’s next phones. The Tensor G5 should be the highlight, thanks to its new 3nm design and Google’s switch from Samsung Foundry to TSMC. The base Pixel 10 getting a telephoto camera is exciting, too. While the leaks have been fine, I haven’t seen anythi

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Everyone hates the new Google Photos editing interface

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:00:34

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority Change isn’t always easy, and while sometimes we resist it for as long as we can, dealing with it is more often than not an inevitability. Though our attitudes may sometimes gravitate more towards acceptance than full-on embracing that change, swallowing that pill can be a lot easier if we feel reassured that we’re moving in a positive direction — that we’re at least going to get some benefit from the change. Right now, Google Photos is going through some gr

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Apple security bounties pay up to $2M, but it only paid $1k for a critical bug

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-30 23:06:31

Apple encourages security researchers to seek out and report vulnerabilities in its devices and apps, in return for which it pays bug bounties of up to $2M. However, one security researcher who reported a Safari vulnerability Apple graded as Critical, and gave a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, says they were paid only $1,000 … Apple upgraded its security bounty program back in 2022, and stated then that its average payout was $40,000 and that it had on twenty occasions paid a six-figure sum f

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GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

news.ycombinator.com Alan 2025-12-30 22:07:19

Washington — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks. In an 8-7 vote, Hawley and Senate Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted the legislation out of committee, with all other Republicans on the committee voting against it. It's not yet clear if the legislation, which Hawley introduced, will receive a floor vote

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Introduction to Computer Music an Electronic Textbook

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:37:22

About This Textbook The Introduction to Computer Music was initially designed as an online text for first-year study of computer music. This e-book aspires to present information in sufficient depth to be useful to composers, beginning audio engineers and other musicians, professional or otherwise, interested in making music with technology. The first edition of this text was begun in 2004 with an Indiana University Instructional Development Grant and has served our electronic studio resources

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Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Pradeep Gowda 2025-12-28 17:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-12-30 22:58:24

The spread of measles is showing no signs of slowing down in Mexico. Between July 21 and 25, the country’s number of confirmed infections in 2025 rose from 3,553 to 3,730, an increase of 197 in only four days, according to the Ministry of Health. Experts and health officials in Mexico have warned that the virus’s speed of transmission appears to be increasing. So far, the outbreak has claimed the lives of 12 people: 11 in the state of Chihuahua—which borders Texas to the north, the epicenter of

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How Apple’s New Spotlight Compares to Raycast

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-12-30 23:00:00

There are all kinds of actions included out of the box. You can add calendar appointments and reminders and set timers. You can send text messages or start FaceTime calls. You can even set dedicated keyboard shortcuts for any of these actions. It's also the exact kind of thing that, until now, Raycast did that Spotlight could not. The difference is one of implementation. Apple's approach currently only works with Mac applications that implement the Spotlight feature. Right now, it’s basically l

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Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-30 22:00:00

Privacy-focused productivity tool company Proton released a new authenticator app today, allowing users to log in to services using dynamically generated two-factor authentication codes. The free app is available on all platforms starting today, including iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. The app allows users to sync codes and accounts across devices. The company said that just like its other products, Proton Authenticator is open source and uses end-to-end encryption to protect user dat

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Friction and Not Being Touched

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box 2025-12-30 20:18:31

The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as solution in itself: There is nothing “AI” cannot do, if it fails we just failed it by not prompting it right or not building large enough data centers or not waiting for anot

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Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 22:54:04

🛡️ AgentGuard 🚨 The Problem Your AI agent has a bug. It makes 1000 API calls in a loop. Your $2000 credit card gets charged. This happens to developers every week: Infinite loops in AI workflows Testing with production API keys Agents that don't know when to stop One typo = hundreds of dollars gone Existing tools only tell you after the damage is done. 💡 The Solution AgentGuard automatically kills your process before it burns through your budget. // Add 2 lines to any AI project: cons

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Figma will IPO on July 31

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:24:58

Figma is a design and product development platform—where teams come together to turn ideas into the world’s best digital products and experiences. Today, we’re announcing the pricing of Figma’s initial public offering of 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at a public offering price of $33.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025 under the ticker symbol "FIG." The offering is expected to close on August 1, 2025, subject to the

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Attention is your scarcest resource

news.ycombinator.com Thanks 2025-12-28 23:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-30 21:44:30

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems 4 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC The other day, while I was doing some household chores, I handed my youngest child his dad's iPad to keep him entertained. But after a while I suddenly felt uneasy: I wasn't keeping a close eye on how long he had spent using it or what he was looking at. So I told him it was time to stop. A full-blown tantrum erupted. He kicked, he yelled, he

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LangChain’s Align Evals closes the evaluator trust gap with prompt-level calibration

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-30 21:28:09

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 As enterprises increasingly turn to AI models to ensure their applications function well and are reliable, the gaps between model-led evaluations and human evaluations have only become clearer. To combat this, LangChain added Align Evals to LangSmith, a way to bridge the gap between large language model-based evaluators and human preferenc

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Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 12:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits

news.ycombinator.com Katherine Bourzac 2025-12-27 23:02:49

Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a physical limit that typically enforces trade-offs between how well a transistor performs in the “on” state versus how well it does in the “off” state. The researchers behind the project say this shows that n

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Latest Tech News

How Scientific Empires End

Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

Introduction to Computer Music

Spotify's lax privacy means anyone can see the Vice President's song choices

PSA: Many countries that said NO to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

Should You Put Down the Iced Coffee During a Heat Advisory? This Is What Dietitians Say

St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

The Best Cheap Headphones We’ve Tried

8 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free

How one single image may have convinced me to buy the Google Pixel 10

Everyone hates the new Google Photos editing interface

Apple security bounties pay up to $2M, but it only paid $1k for a critical bug

GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

Introduction to Computer Music an Electronic Textbook

Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

How Apple’s New Spotlight Compares to Raycast

Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

Friction and Not Being Touched

Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget

Figma will IPO on July 31

Attention is your scarcest resource

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

LangChain’s Align Evals closes the evaluator trust gap with prompt-level calibration

Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits

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