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Tesla proposes giving Elon Musk $29 billion so he stays CEO

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-16 02:59:50

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Tesla approved a restricted stock award of 96 million shares, worth about $29 billion, to “incentivize” the controversial billionaire to remain at the head of the company during a protracted legal battle over his original pay package. Last year, a Delaware court voided Musk’s pay package, valued at more than $50 billion, a

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These are my 5 favorite e-book reader apps, but one leaps out from the page

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:00:47

Andy Walker / Android Authority I rarely take just one book along when I travel. If there’s a paperback I’m particularly interested in, I’ll find space in my bag. But usually, my Android tablet, loaded with a mix of classics, cookbooks, and non-fiction, usually serves as my e-reader. While Android tablets (or even Android smartphones) aren’t created as dedicated e-readers, it’s now easier than ever to enjoy a book on your device. There are many excellent e-book reader apps available. What is

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Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 05:28:25

Web Compatibility Overview JSAR provides comprehensive support for modern Web standards. For a complete browser compatibility report, please visit our Browser Compatibility Data. Scripting & Modules [Completed] JavaScript - Full ES2023 support - Full ES2023 support [Completed] TypeScript - Native TypeScript compilation - Native TypeScript compilation [Completed] ECMAScript Module - Modern module system - Modern module system [Completed] WebAssembly - High-performance WASM support - Hi

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Writing a good design document

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 06:21:54

How to write a good design document This essay is a version of the response I gave to my friend Vik's call for suggestions: had a lot of people ask how they can learn to write design docs, and i didn’t have a good answer besides “work at a place with writing culture and smart senior engineers”. anyone have more useful advice? https://t.co/7F9BV31shv — vik (@vikhyatk) August 31, 2024 Definition A design document is a technical report that outlines the implementation strategy of a system in th

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Modern Node.js Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 05:16:18

Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience. The changes aren’t just cosmetic; they represent a fundamental shift in how we approach server-side JavaScript development. Modern Node.js embraces web standards, reduces external dependencies, and provides a more in

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‘Starfinder: Afterlight’ Brings Paizo’s TTRPG to Video Games

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-16 04:50:31

Tabletop RPG developer Paizo is taking is first steps into video games through its sci-fi title, Starfinder. Developer Epictellers Entertainment is adapting the Pathfinder offshoot for mouse and keyboard with the single-player RPG Afterlight. In it, players will assemble of crew with their own personal stories and baggage for you to help deal with while embarking on a quest to save the galaxy. Like the recently announced RPG for The Expanse, players can play as different classes and make choice

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Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 14:47:12

Sumerian myth The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian myth that narrates the descent of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian) into the Underworld to overthrow its ruler, her sister Ereshkigal, the "Queen of the Dead." But following the removal of her adornments, she perishes and her corpse is suspended on a nail. The god Enki intervenes indirectly, restoring Inanna to life. H

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These Expert-Approved Feeder Hacks Turned My Yard Into a Bird Hotel

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 04:00:00

You don't need to hike into the wilderness to feel closer to nature. Sometimes, all it takes is a simple bird feeder and putting it in the right spot. Whether you're living in the suburbs or just got access to a backyard after years in the city, attracting feathered friends can bring surprising benefits for your mental health. Studies show that spending time around birds and hearing birdsong can lower stress, ease anxiety and even help with depression symptoms. But if your feeder isn't seeing m

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Darksiders 4 was not on my 2025 bingo card

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:46:11

Darksiders 4 is officially coming. During the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase on Friday, we got a glimpse at the next game in the hack and slash action-adventure franchise, alongside trailers for roughly a dozen other games that are in the works, including Reanimal and The Eternal Life of Goldman . It's been a while since we've seen a new mainline Darksiders title from developer Gunfire Games, and while the fourth entry follows 2019's prequel, Darksiders Genesis, the announcement says it will "conti

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The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:49:35

The Big Oops in Type Systems: This Problem Extends to FP as Well Building on Casey Muratori's critique (youtube) of "compile time hierarchies that match the domain model," this problem extends beyond OOP to encompass a broader pattern in static type systems, particularly functional programming approaches that attempt to "make illegal states unrepresentable." Type systems are often ranked in a "correctness hierarchy", with Idris/Haskell at the top, Java/C# in the middle, Python/JavaScript at th

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Tom Holland Just Gave Us a Proper Look at the ‘Brand New Day’ Spider Suit

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-15 23:35:12

Friday was Spider-Man Day (maybe), and to mark the occasion, Sony teased the hero’s new suit for his next movie, Brand New Day. Now, Tom Holland’s gone and shown the full thing. Most of it, at least. On his Instagram, the actor released a video this morning of him walking into a room, stepping into the light to display the new costume in its full glory as a new version of Michael Giacchinno’s Spider-Man theme plays. “We ready?” he asks to someone offscreen, before going off to shoot the movie.

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 23:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-16 00:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Is Shutting Down

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-16 10:15:13

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will start winding down operations, purging most of its staff by Sept. 30, according to a press release, after nearly 60 years in operation delivering public media in the United States. The news comes after Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, stripped the non-profit company of its funding over claims of bias against conservatives. CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison says that a small transition team will be in place through Jan. 2026 to make s

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Bringing Back Hulk and Scorpion

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-16 16:09:29

Spider-Man: Brand New Day isn’t an Avengers movie, but it’s starting to look like one. We know Tom Holland is returning as the titulal webslinger and that Jon Bernthal is reprising his role as the Punisher. But now, it seems that Mark Ruffalo is also returning as Bruce Banner/the Hulk, and even Michael Mando, who played one of the villains in Holland’s first Spidey film, Spider-Man: Homecoming, will return as Scorpion. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the new cast additions. And, since

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The new face of defense tech — Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries — takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-17 02:00:00

Autonomous weapons, decentralized strategy, and startup speed — this isn’t the future of defense, it’s the now. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to talk about how next-gen defense is being built from the ground up with AI at its core. Inside the AI arms race — and the founder aiming to rewrite it Ethan Thornton isn’t your typical defense industry leader. As the CEO and founder of Mach Industries, he launched the company out

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Lego’s Newest Collectible Minifigures Swing Into the Spider-Verse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-17 11:05:25

Lego’s Collectible Minifigure series has crossed with a bunch of licenses at this point, from Dungeons & Dragons to The Muppets and many more—including both Marvel Comics and the MCU. But we’ve never had an entire wave dedicated to Spider-Man before, and Lego is entering the Spider-Verse in style. Revealed today as part of the Spider-Man Day celebrations, Lego confirmed that its next wave of blind-boxed collectible minifigures will draw on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to give fans 12 dif

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Familiar specs, new name: Intel's Core 5 120 processors enter the market

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-17 20:53:00

What just happened? Intel has quietly introduced the Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F processors, modest additions to its budget desktop lineup at a time when industry focus is shifting toward next-gen architectures. The low-key launch was first spotted by hardware leaker @momomo_us, suggesting Intel is still actively refreshing its product stack – even as it looks to phase out older silicon. The Core 5 120 doesn't break new ground but instead traces its lineage directly to Intel's older Alder Lake a

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The new face of defense tech — Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries — takes the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-18 02:00:00

Autonomous weapons, decentralized strategy, and startup speed — this isn’t the future of defense, it’s the now. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to talk about how next-gen defense is being built from the ground up with AI at its core. Inside the AI arms race — and the founder aiming to rewrite it Ethan Thornton isn’t your typical defense industry leader. As the CEO and founder of Mach Industries, he launched the company out

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Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 04:41:05

The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

wired.com David Cox 2025-12-18 06:19:14

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Site Blocking Order

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 10:41:05

The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-18 23:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

Topics: antitrust homebuilders homebuilding housing market

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The New Spider-Man Animated Series Comic Will Keep MJ’s Return Under Wraps (for Now)

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-19 06:41:01

In June, Spider-Man fans learned that one of the character’s most enduring cliffhangers was finally going to get resolved. But if you’ve been wondering since 1998 how Peter Parker managed to reunite with MJ, whose whereabouts were unknown when Spider-Man: The Animated Series concluded, it seems the new comic Spider-Man ’94 isn’t going to get into the gritty details just yet. How’s that again? Well, the Marvel Comics press release announcing the comic teased, “After searching to the ends of the

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The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-19 11:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

Topics: antitrust homebuilders homebuilding housing market

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Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-19 16:24:40

Yoel Roth, previously the head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety, now at Match, is sharing his concerns about the future of the open social web and its ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content, like child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a recent interview, Roth worried about the lack of moderation tools available to the fediverse — the open social web that includes apps like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, and others, as well as other open platforms like Bluesky. He also remi

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It’s Been 25 Years Since Tobey Maguire Was Cast in ‘Spider-Man’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-19 21:30:24

The Sam Raimi Spider-Man films serve as the blueprint for many superhero movies that have sprung from comic book pages and onto the big screen in the last quarter-century. The spectacle, action, and hero’s journey of one Peter Parker captivated audiences, thanks in part to the stellar casting of Tobey Maguire as the Marvel icon. It’s hard to believe that Maguire’s turn as Peter Parker was announced 25 years ago this week. The life-changing role propelled the actor into the hearts and minds of k

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Just Passed a Major ‘Man of Steel’ Milestone

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-20 06:00:54

Superman vs. Man of Steel. It’s the greatest Superman vs. Superman showdown since 1983’s Superman III. In that film, Superman had to fight himself. In 2025, that battle is between James Gunn’s new film and records set by Zack Snyder’s 2013 film. Snyder’s Man of Steel grossed about $291 million at the domestic box office, but as of earlier this week, Gunn’s Superman soared by it, now sitting at almost $297 million domestic as of Wednesday, July 30. That makes the new film the highest-grossing dom

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Advanced Rust macros with derive-deftly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 00:21:34

derive-deftly is a Rust package that you can use to define your own derive macros without having to write low-level procedural macros. The syntax is easy to learn, but powerful enough to implement macros of significant complexity. Just below is a simple example, to help you get a feel for the system. There is also comprehensive and rigorous reference material: Suppose you want to add accessor functions for the fields in your struct . You could do it by hand, like this: #![allow(unused)] fn

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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 09:55:16

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on

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