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Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 14:50:41

Hi, My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable. I wanted a new personal laptop, and I was debating between a MacBook Air or going for a F

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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-11-01 18:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

news.ycombinator.com Paul Arnold 2025-11-02 10:17:44

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: Dataset characterization and measures of reading. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113288 If you love nothing more than devouring a page-turner in your free time, you're becoming a rare breed. Reading for pleasure among adults in the United States has fallen dramatically in the last two decades. A n

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Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-11-02 10:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Marty Haught 2025-11-02 14:02:51

by Marty Haught Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security operates, how we proactively handled this incident (and others), and the work our team is doing each day to keep the ecosystem safe. How We Detect Malicious Gems RubyGems.org security uses a proactive and multi-layered approach: 1. Automated detection: Every gem upload is analyzed

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Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-02 15:58:07

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case filing system first came to light in a report by Politico three weeks ago, which went on to say that the vulnerabilities exploited in the hack were known since 2020. The New York Times, citing people familiar with the intrusion, said that Rus

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Malicious Android apps with 19M installs removed from Google Play

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-03 11:37:22

Seventy-seven malicious Android apps with more than 19 million installs were delivering multiple malware families to Google Play users. This malware infiltration was discovered by Zscaler's ThreatLabs team while investigating a new infection wave with Anatsa (Tea Bot) banking trojan targeting Android devices. While most of the malicious apps (over 66%) included adware components, the most common Android malware was Joker, which researchers encountered in almost 25% of the analyzed apps. Once

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Report: RFK Jr. and Trump to Pull Covid-19 Vaccines ‘Within Months’

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-03 16:40:45

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaxxer allies are pulling for him to destroy the covid-19 shots once and for all. A purported close ally of the health secretary has claimed that Kennedy and President Donald Trump are preparing to imminently shelve the mRNA covid-19 vaccines. British cardiologist and RFK Jr. advisor Aseem Malhotra was interviewed by the Daily Beast for an article published Monday morning. In it, Malhotra states that the Trump administration will attempt to pull the mRNA-based vacci

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Yottar wants to help energy users find capacity on the electrical grid

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-03 21:27:08

From AI to EVs, the world’s demand for power is soaring, and the electrical grid is feeling the squeeze. Enter Yottar, a startup that maps electrical grid capacity to help companies figure out where they can plug in new data centers, EV charging stations, and other power-hungry equipment. “The electrification super cycle is colliding with the AI data center boom. That’s making the grid operators really struggle to deal with the backlog,” Peter Clutton-Brock, Yottar’s co-founder and CEO, told T

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25 Best Power Banks (2025), I've Tested Countless to Find Them

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-11-04 02:00:00

What Features Should I Look for in Power Banks? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron There are a few things worth thinking about when you’re shopping for a portable charger. The capacity of a power bank is measured in milliampere-hours (mAh), but this can be a little misleading because the amount of power you get out depends on the cable you use, the device you're charging, and the charging method (Qi wireless charging is less efficient). You will never get the maximum capacity. We try to p

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Pintarnya raises $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-11-04 14:00:00

Pintarnya, an Indonesian employment platform that goes beyond job matching by offering financial services along with full-time and side-gig opportunities, said it has raised a $16.7 million Series A round. The funding was led by Square Peg with participation from existing investors Vertex Venture Southeast Asia & India and East Ventures. Ghirish Pokardas, Nelly Nurmalasari, and Henry Hendrawan founded Pintarnya in 2022 to tackle two of the biggest challenges Indonesians face daily: earning eno

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Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 08:15:14

If you're trying to find out what a restaurant has to offer, you might look up its menu, or go to its Facebook page. Hell, you could call and ask. But that's all démodé. Why not query an AI chatbot, a piece of software notorious for inventing facts out of the tokenized ether of the internet, and treat its answer like the word of God? Here's why: because you'd annoy the hell out of the restaurant. Just ask the beleaguered owners of the Montana eatery Stefanina's Wentzville, who are begging thei

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Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 11:15:26

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that's rich in the mineral form of calcium carbonate, and teeming with coccolithophores, tiny marine organisms that grow reflective calcite shells out of the mineral. The patch itself, however, has been considered far too frigid to support these tiny plankton, causing a longstand

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Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

news.ycombinator.com Stefan Krempl 2025-11-04 08:06:17

After more than four years of work, the Copyright Clearing House for the Internet (Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet, CUII), established in 2021, has declared itself "successful in the fight against criminal business models on the Internet." At the same time, it is responding to one of the main points of criticism, namely that a private body imposes restrictions on websites that are sensitive in terms of fundamental rights, largely unchecked and behind closed doors. The procedure is now to

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Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-04 12:19:06

Waymo has become the first autonomous vehicle operator to secure a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of New York City, the state’s department of transportation said in announcing the news. The New York City Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo’s application, allowing the company to conduct limited testing of its autonomous vehicles within certain city zones. The permit comes after years of regulatory negotiations and signals a potential shift toward broader deployment of d

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Vibration Plates: Fitness Experts Explain the Best Way to Use This Workout Tool

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 09:00:00

When you're trying to lose weight or build muscle, figuring out what actually works can be frustrating. There are plenty of options, from lifting weights to cardio classes, and now vibration plates are part of the conversation. But does standing on a shaking platform really help you get stronger or shed pounds, or is it just another short-lived trend? To find out, we talked to personal trainers and other fitness experts. They explained how vibration plates are supposed to work, the benefits you

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The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 12:54:11

Image by Immanuel Giel, via Wikimedia Commons It’s an old TV and movie trope: the man of wealth and taste, often but not always a supervillain, offers his distinguished guest a bottle of wine, his finest, an ancient vintage from one of the most venerable vineyards. We might follow the motif back at least to Edgar Allan Poe, whose “Cask of Amontillado” puts an especially devious spin on the treasured bottle’s sinister connotations. If our suave and possibly deadly ho

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What if every city had a London Overground?

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Furseth 2025-11-01 07:11:37

An underground train network is the pinnacle of public transport—right now, in New York and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city. In London, which has the oldest rapid transit system in the world, the Tube isn’t just public transportation—it’s famous as the beating heart of the city, assisting up to five million passenger journeys a day. Formally known as the London Underground, the Tube’s logo is soon r

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 15:00:05

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 00:00:19

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. The result of these efforts so far has left a lot to be desired. We've come across countless examples of publications inadvertently publishing garbled AI slop, infuriating readers and journalists alike. AI's persistent hallucinations are already infecting large swathes of our online lives, from Google's hilarious

Topics: ai journalists research scientific tools

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:00:15

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

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Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

news.ycombinator.com Marco Mascorro 2025-11-04 08:03:13

In the era of foundation models, multimodal AI, LLMs, and ever-larger datasets, access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks for researchers, founders, developers, and engineers. While the cloud offers scalability, building a personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally. This post covers our version of a four-GPU workstation powered by the new NVIDIA

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Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

wired.com Dylan Scott 2025-11-04 02:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread. One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using t

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The ROI of Exercise

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 02:19:15

The ROI of exercise 22 Aug, 2025 I workout 4 days a week and I love it. It's the foundation of my morning routine, following spending 45 minutes drinking coffee on the couch and watching the sun come up with Emma. I've been doing this for a few years now and while I struggled (as everyone does) in the beginning, I can't imagine not exercising in the morning now. On the rare occasion that I do skip a workout, I feel it missing throughout the day as a lack of vitality and less mental clarity.

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Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 09:20:09

NAGOYA - A central Japan city said Thursday it will seek to pass an ordinance recommending all residents limit smartphone use to two hours a day outside of work and school amid concerns over the impact of excessive technology exposure, though there will be no penalties proposed. The ordinance drafted by the city of Toyoake in Aichi Prefecture is likely to be the first such municipal regulation in Japan that targets a limit on the use of smartphones and other electronic devices, according to the

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Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-05 16:02:48

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing up to eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires t

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Autonomous Vehicles to Hit the Streets of NYC for the First Time

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-05 16:50:20

As if New York’s taxi drivers didn’t get squeezed enough by the Ubers and Lyfts of the world, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that the New York Department of Transportation has granted Google’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Waymo, a permit to test its self-driving cars in the city. It’ll be the first fully self-driving car to operate within the city. Waymo will roll out eight vehicles in New York City starting in September, and they will operate in Manhattan and Downtown Bro

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For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 16:44:44

“I was talking with my colleagues at a conference 10 years ago and I just casually said that everyone loves music,” recalls Josep Marco Pallarés, a neuroscientist at the University of Barcelona. But it was a statement he started to question almost immediately, given there were clinical cases in psychiatry where patients reported deriving absolutely no pleasure from listening to any kind of tunes. So, Pallarés and his team spent the past 10 years researching the neural mechanisms behind a condit

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AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 23:25:00

You don't have to be chronically online to know that generative AI has infiltrated nearly every part of our online lives. Social media is no exception: Meta's AI chatbot pushes its way into search on Instagram and Facebook, and Grok offers chat and content creation on X. AI video generation features have emerged on Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok. Beyond its reach to users, artificial intelligence is increasingly significant behind the scenes as a professional tool for social media brands and crea

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Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-06 06:19:05

Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the first such approval granted by the city. The company told TechCrunch it plans to start testing “immediately.” The company is allowed to deploy up to eight of its Jaguar I-Pace SUVs in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September. Waymo’s vehicles must have a trained safety operator in the driver’s seat, with at least one hand on the wheel at all times. The company cannot pick up passengers (since it

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Latest Tech News

Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

Malicious Android apps with 19M installs removed from Google Play

Report: RFK Jr. and Trump to Pull Covid-19 Vaccines ‘Within Months’

Yottar wants to help energy users find capacity on the electrical grid

25 Best Power Banks (2025), I've Tested Countless to Find Them

Pintarnya raises $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

Vibration Plates: Fitness Experts Explain the Best Way to Use This Workout Tool

The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world

What if every city had a London Overground?

AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

The ROI of Exercise

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Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

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For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits

AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City

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