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Android 16’s support for external keyboards blew my mind

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-01 17:00:15

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been years since I last tried to pair a Bluetooth or USB keyboard with my Android phone. After being a physical QWERTY proponent for years and hating on touchscreen typing, I wholly but slowly embraced pecking on a glass surface. There were a few times I wished I had a keyboard for my Android tablets, but it wasn’t frequent enough to make me pay for one. That changed a few weeks ago when I started testing the Clicks Keyboard with my Pixel 9 Pro, which is

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Our European search index goes live

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 02:12:47

We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to Ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair internet we believe in. Last year we launched European Search Perspective (EUSP) , a joint venture with Qwant. The launch marked a big step forward in our journey towards tech independence and digital sovereignty for Europe. Now, we’ve taken the next step: our users in France are receiving a portion of their search results directly from EUSP’s o

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A SPARC makes a little fire

news.ycombinator.com Leaded Solder 2025-11-27 05:11:52

Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we’d have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did. A few weekends later, I decided to go

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Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 12:46:14

>_ Tribblix is an open source operating system created by Peter Tribble. Based on illumos, it blends a retro style with modern components. NEWS: July 13th 2025: Milestone 37 available. (updates). Vanilla Tribblix and LX (aka "omnitribblix") variants for x86 are now available. (download - X86 Release Notes.) NEWS: July 29th 2025. SPARC upgrades from m32 to m33 now available, for now fresh installs should use the m32 ISO and run an upgrade. (SPARC Release Notes.) NEWS: May 15th 2025. CDROM siz

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The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

news.ycombinator.com Alex Kesin 2025-11-27 11:36:07

In 2002, Mark Fishman walked into a glass building in Cambridge with an unusual assignment: to turn the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, into the world’s greatest therapeutics research firm. More unusually still, Fishman was — at least on paper — precisely the wrong man for the job. The Harvard cardiologist had spent his career studying zebrafish hearts and teaching medical students. He had no pharmaceutical experience and no business training. And yet, Daniel Vasella — the physician-tur

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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-12-01 21:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-12-02 03:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 09:57:50

At Radar, performance is a feature. Our platform processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. We provide geolocation infrastructure and solutions, including APIs for: Geocoding : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. Search : Address autocomplete, address validation, and places search APIs. Address autocomplete, address v

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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 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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HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:57:50

At Radar, performance is a feature. Our platform processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. We provide geolocation infrastructure and solutions, including APIs for: Geocoding : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. Search : Address autocomplete, address validation, and places search APIs. Address autocomplete, address v

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-12-03 22:00:00

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.” After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices he’d found in his scho

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After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-04 12:56:11

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in what would become one of humanity’s most infamous ancient tragedies. Tens of centuries later, archaeologists eagerly dug through the ash and pumice to rediscover the buried Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in all their preserved glory. In their eagerness, however, they may have missed an important layer of history. While working in the Insula meridionalis—the southern quarter of Pompeii’s ancient urban center—archaeologists uncovered evidence confirmin

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Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-05 03:46:02

As promised last month, Apple today released four new titles to Apple Arcade, adding to the catalog of over 200 ad-free games available to subscribers. Here’s what’s new. Play-Doh World Play-Doh brings its magic to the digital space with Play-Doh World, allowing players to craft their own characters and watch them spring to life. From inventing wild zoo animals to styling outrageous salon hairdos, every corner of this colorful universe responds to the player’s creative whim. With dozens of int

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Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-05 08:11:24

In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various mishaps like car crashes, carbon monoxide poisoning, and lightning strikes, occur—or because a giant asteroid destroys the Earth. The probability of a planet-annihilating asteroid crashing into Earth is low, but it’s not zero. In fact, Earth had a recent close call when a newly discovered asteroid was cal

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iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-05 17:12:43

Apple Maps has some compelling new features in iOS 26, but it seems there’s even more coming, as the beta now supports a powerful new feature that Apple never announced: natural language search with Apple Intelligence. Apple Maps gains AI-powered natural language search in iOS 26 Early last month, iOS 26 beta code revealed that Apple was working on adding natural language search to Maps. However, code leaks regularly expose features in development that may not ever ship. In this case though,

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Computing’s Top 30: Guowen Xu

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-06 05:00:58

Guowen Xu’s passion for cryptography was seeded in various courses throughout his undergraduate mathematics education. It was his experience as a doctoral student, however, that was truly transformative in terms of his learning how to navigate cryptographic security’s complexities and begin shaping his research directions and career. Today, Xu is a full professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu. Xu’s wor

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-06 12:18:23

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially incre

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I Hate Worms, but I'll Still Play This Game on Apple Arcade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 16:00:10

Worms are everywhere. I know and accept this, but I hate those little critters and they freak me out. Their wriggly bodies make my skin crawl, and I actively avoid them at all costs. But Apple Arcade added Worms Across Worlds, the next installment in the award-winning Worms series, and I'll play it because the game's cartoony style make these worms palatable for me. Apple Arcade is filled with familiar and classic games, alongside exclusive titles, that you can play for $7 a month (£7, AU$10).

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Debounce

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 06:04:13

Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation. Debouncing is very similar to throttling. The key difference is that throttling enforces limits on continuous operations, while debouncing waits for invocations to stop for a specific time to consolidate many noisy invocations into one single invocation. A typical use case of debouncing is when responding to user input.

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AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-12-06 23:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

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Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 08:35:09

President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is beta-testing a new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform. The Florida-based company announced the news on Wednesday in a press release. Trump Media and Technology Group is perhaps best known for its social-media program Truth Social. The company is separate from the New York-based Trump Organization. "We're proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Tru

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Google: Actually, AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 03:49:46

Last month, a Pew Research Center report shed light on Google's AI Overviews' effect on web publishing. In short, the analysis painted an abysmal outlook for anyone relying on web traffic. But on Wednesday, Google Search head Liz Reid penned a blog post that puts quite a different spin on things. The Google VP claims traffic from search to websites is "relatively stable" and that click quality has increased. Reid's framing boils down to everything is peachy, and AI is making things better — eve

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Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-08 00:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-08 06:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 08:36:42

Google has often bristled at the implication that its obsession with AI search is harming web traffic, and now search head Liz Reid has penned a blog post on the topic. According to Reid, clicks aren't declining, AI is driving more searches, and everything is fine on the Internet. But despite the optimistic tone, the post stops short of providing any actual data to back up those claims. This statement feels like a direct response to a recent Pew Research Center analysis that showed searches wit

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Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-08 08:45:29

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been “relatively stable” year-over-year and that average click quality has slightly increased. “This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in agg

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Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-08 11:33:55

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 Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

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Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-12-08 11:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

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Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-08 17:31:47

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google says its AI search features aren’t tanking website traffic despite recent reports suggesting otherwise. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Google Search head Liz Reid says click volume from the search engine has remained “relatively stable” when compa

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New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-08 22:05:46

The mysterious Shroud of Turin, which is believed by many Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body after his crucifixion, may be even stranger than we previously thought. In a new study published in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes lends credence to the theory that the shroud was a work of art rather than a genuine death shroud — and per the new paper, it may not have laid atop a human at all. Using three types of 3D modeling tools — MakeHuman, Blender, and

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Latest Tech News

Android 16’s support for external keyboards blew my mind

Our European search index goes live

A SPARC makes a little fire

Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

Computing’s Top 30: Guowen Xu

Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

I Hate Worms, but I'll Still Play This Game on Apple Arcade

Debounce

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

Google: Actually, AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

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