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ChatGPT is testing disruptive Study Together feature

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-11 14:07:49

OpenAI's "Study together" mode has been spotted in the wild, and it could help students prepare for exams directly from ChatGPT. We don't have the details yet, but references to ChatGPT Study Mode were first spotted in May, and testers noticed it widely earlier today. The Study together mode, which doesn't work right now, might allow students to either invite their friends to study on ChatGPT or have the AI act as a companion. We just don't know how it works yet, but it could disrupt the educ

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Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 12:01:51

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 12:09:42

Comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms. Learn by doing. Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language. Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.

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I don't think AGI is right around the corner

news.ycombinator.com Dwarkesh Patel 2025-08-11 16:45:20

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” - Rudiger Dornbusch I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some guests think it’s 20 years away - others 2 years. Here’s where my thoughts stand as of June 2025. Continual learning Sometimes people say that even if all AI progress totally stopped, the systems of today would still be far more economically transformative than the internet.

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More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, get > half the votes/comments

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 06:35:04

More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, but get less than half the votes or comments. _ The idea for this article didn't exist in my brain before this morning. But there I was, scrolling the New page and even more tired of all the AI-related Show HN posts than usual. I was confident that their numbers were multiplying and wanted proof. Exactly how much more AI crap is on my lawn compared to last year? Full disclosure: I'm not a data guy. Everything below was off the top of my head. N

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This Is the Cheapest Apple Watch Ever, Amazon Is Going Completely Nuts for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-11 13:17:20

Apple has no true competition in the smartwatch world, especially if you’re an iPhone user. While there are a few different models to choose from, the most affordable entry into the Apple Watch universe is the SE version. With its already attractive price and a special Prime Day discount on Amazon, you’re looking at a deal that’s hard to beat: Right now, the Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen) GPS 40mm is available for just $169, down from its usual $249. That’s an all-time low price and it is equal to ma

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Bitcoin Bought in 2011 Suddenly Springs to Life After 13 Million Percent Increase In Value

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-11 12:30:38

Two Bitcoin wallets that remained untouched for more than a decade just sprang back to life — and whoever owns them is now filthy rich in crypto. As MarketWatch reports, each Bitcoin was worth just 78 cents back when the unknown buyer purchased 20,000 tokens in 2011 for just under $16,000. Due to the digital currency's inexorable rise over the subsequent years, the extremely patient owner of the two "Sleeping Beauty" wallets where the Bitcoin was stored now holds more than $2 billion worth — a

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Apple Didn’t Approve, but Amazon Is Clearing Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-11 16:52:07

AirPods Pro 2 are in stores just a year but already they set the benchmark by which other wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation are judged. On the subject of sound quality, nothing else comes close to holding a candle right now. Normally these earbuds cost $249, but Amazon is offering them over 30% off early Prime Day, reducing the price to as low as $169. This deal is for everyone (and not just Prime members) and it is a rarity for an Apple device. Remember, Apple never really offers

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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Eric Jang 2025-08-09 12:31:17

Generalizing to what you want may be easier than optimizing directly for what you want. We might even ask for "consciousness". This blog post outlines a key engineering principle I’ve come to believe strongly in for building general AI systems with deep learning. This principle guides my present-day research tastes and day-to-day design choices in building large-scale, general-purpose ML systems. Discoveries around Neural Scaling Laws, unsupervised pretraining on Internet-scale datasets, and o

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QSBS Limits Raised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 03:14:40

On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its own version of proposed legislation following the House’s passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1). While the House bill did not introduce any changes to Section[1] 1202 for “qualified small business stock” (QSBS), the Senate Finance proposal introduces significant expansions of the tax benefits of QSBS acquired after the date of the enactment of the final legislation. Summary of Current Law The QSBS exemption allows nonco

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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-11 09:36:54

In Brief A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.” It also says that unless they’re willing to disappear from Google searc

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Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on Mars

cnbc.com Magdalena Petrova 2025-08-11 10:00:01

Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, or MDRS, invited CNBC to shadow one of its analog crews on a recent mission. "MDRS is the best analog astronaut environment," said Urban Koi, who served as health and safety officer for Crew 315. "The terrain is extremely similar to the Mars terrain

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Wildly Beautiful and Rare "Red Sprite" Flare Seen on Earth From Orbit

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-11 08:30:00

Red Sprite NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, currently stationed on board the International Space Station, shared an incredible image of a sprite — a rare weather phenomenon that's triggered high above the clouds by "intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below." The image shows the rare electrical discharge in the shape of a starkly red, upended umbrella, hovering high over a brewing storm, like some sort of occult tower from "Lord of the Rings." "Just. Wow," Ayers tweeted. "As we went

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Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?

wired.com Christine Peterson 2025-08-11 08:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the early 1900s, long before smartphones and selfie sticks, tourists flocked to Yellowstone National Park—not for the geysers or scenery, but for a grotesque show: a nightly spectacle of grizzly bears raiding cafeteria scraps from open-pit landfills like desperate, starving pirates. The bears were in dangerous proximity to humans: Hungry bears tore at open car windows. Tourists posed a little too close with

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Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action

news.ycombinator.com University Of Texas At Austin 2025-08-07 21:00:17

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: Tectonic setting around Japan. Centroid Moment Tensor solution shows the mechanism of the 2024 Hyuga-nada earthquake (b) Pre-seismic SSE (contour interval: 5 cm) 10 July, 2023–6 August, 2024. Pre-slip with Mw6.0 was detected in the down dip extension of the 2024 Hyuga-nada earthquake, Japan, from late 2023. (c) Cumul

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ChatGPT Deep Research tests new connectors for more context

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-11 15:20:14

ChatGPT Deep Research, which is an AI research tool to automate research, is getting support for new connectors (integrations), including Slack. Deep Research is an AI agent that automates research for you. You just need to give it a brief prompt with all the necessary details, and it will crawl the internet to write a research paper. As spotted by Tibor on X, ChatGPT has references to a new connector called 'Slack.' Once integrated, ChatGPT can crawl your Slack messages and use them in the c

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Chasing Lost Languages

news.ycombinator.com Laura Spinney 2025-08-08 05:03:17

If humans have been talking for 200,000 years—for most of our species’ existence, that is—then an estimated half a million languages might have been spoken in all. To put that number in perspective, around 7,000 languages are spoken today. And because writing was only invented about 5,000 years ago, the vast majority of those half a million languages are lost to us, having been spoken in a preliterate world and died before they could be recorded. That’s half a million distinct systems of knowled

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Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 15:20:48

My company is increasingly pushing prompt engineering as the single way we "should" be coding. The CEO & CTO are both obsessed with it and promote things like "delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new one" rather than manually address test failures. I'm a 'senior engineer' with ~5 years of industry experience and am considering moving on from this company because I don't want 1. Be pushed into a workflow that will cause my technical growth to stall or degrade 2. Be overseeing

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The 46 Best Deals From REI’s July 4 Outdoor Gear Sale (2025)

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-08-10 03:16:14

The REI 4th of July sale is a great time to get a deal on hiking, camping, and backpacking essentials. This year, there are also great competing July Fourth sales on top brands at Backcountry and Public Lands. We test camping and hiking gear all year round here at WIRED, and these REI deals are on gear we've tested and approved. There’s something here for nearly all our favorite summer activities—tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and plenty of outdoor apparel. If you're not sure what you need, be

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Supergiant’s latest Hades II patch is likely its last before launch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-12 08:00:05

Despite it having upward of 61,000 reviews on Steam, Hades II isn’t actually out yet. The sequel to Supergiant Games’ hugely successful roguelite dungeon crawler has been in early access on PC for over a year, and even the early builds were extremely polished and content-rich for what is still a work-in-progress game. But we (and Switch owners) have been waiting patiently for that 1.0 release date, and it looks like it might be just around the corner, with Supergiant confirming that the latest U

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What the Hell Just Happened to Spider-Gwen?

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-12 16:00:19

Marvel Comics is no stranger to a bit of brand synergy and consolidation. The more characters break out into the mainstream beyond the readership of comics, the more their comics counterparts are sanded down and chopped and changed to eventually better accommodate the potential for audiences who are aware of them through adaptation to go to the comics and find familiar fare. This has been especially true as the shadow of the MCU grew ever larger, reshaping characters and realigning destinies the

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The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025

theverge.com Chris Welch 2025-08-12 20:00:00

is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, and more. Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day kicks off on July 8th; however, if you want to get a head start on your online shopping, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime Day deals you can already get. It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you l

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I put my AirPods Max away within hours of testing these headphones

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-08-13 20:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Nothing Headphone 1 are available for preorder now at $299. These over-ear headphones feature a 40mm dynamic driver made in partnership with KEF, Spatial Audio playback, ANC, and more. You'll have to really admire the design and customizability of the headphones to make the most of them. View now at Nothing Nothing's first over-ear headphones are as ambitious, polarizing, and divisive of a product as you'd expect from the brand. The writing was always on the wall --

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This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-08-13 21:18:31

Whether due to consumer backlash or an aging EV lineup, or both, Tesla sales have again seen a global plunge, this time 13 percent last quarter compared to the previous year—proof that the electric automaker hasn’t yet turned around a dismal year that saw public opinion of controversial CEO Elon Musk plummet. It could mean Tesla faces a second straight year of falling sales. And yet: Tesla is still the world’s most valuable automaker by market capitalization, worth some $990 billion. At least s

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The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-08-13 21:47:04

The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history and may not be done falling yet. The greenback is down more than 7% this year and Morgan Stanley predicts it could fall another 10%. A weaker dollar could make US exports more competitive, boosting Trump’s plan to rebalance US trade, but makes imports more expensive, adding to the sting of tariffs. The question ahead is whether the dollar doesn’t just lose its value, but its role at the center of the global financial system. So far,

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Yurei – Open source social media researcher powered by Exa AI API and YouTube v3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 02:40:25

yurei app still in progress, not live on https://yurei.app/ yet, but you can clone it and try it out a simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v3. built with vercel's ai sdk. what it does: searches youtube for videos searches reddit for posts searches linkedin (kinda fucked rn, working on it) using grok-21212 as the llm how to install clone this repo npm install or yarn make a .env.local with: NEXT_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000 # For development NE

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Apple to release Q3 2025 earnings results on Thursday, July 31

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-14 06:56:39

Today, Apple announced that it will report its quarterly results for April, May, and June on July 31st. Here’s what to expect. Last year, Apple reported $85.8 billion in revenue, which was a record for a fiscal Q3, and a 4.8% increase year over year. Product-wise, iPad revenue grew 24% thanks to the release of the M4 iPad Pro and the M2 iPad Air, Mac revenue grew 2%, iPhone revenue dropped 1%, while Wearable, Home, and Accessories dropped 2%. Services saw its usual double-digit grown, maintai

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A simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 12:40:25

yurei app still in progress, not live on https://yurei.app/ yet, but you can clone it and try it out a simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v3. built with vercel's ai sdk. what it does: searches youtube for videos searches reddit for posts searches linkedin (kinda fucked rn, working on it) using grok-21212 as the llm how to install clone this repo npm install or yarn make a .env.local with: NEXT_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000 # For development NE

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The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-14 12:50:33

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned. Rick Muller’s pending departure from IARPA comes amid broader efforts to downsize the United States intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees IARPA. A person familiar with Muller’s plans confirmed to WIRED his departure from IARPA. Born during

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Leaked renders offer an early look at Samsung’s official Galaxy Z Flip 7 cases

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-15 04:23:22

Evan Blass TL;DR Samsung may offer four official cases and a screen protector for the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7. The clamshell foldable could get a basic clear case with a grip, a clear magnet case, a silicone case in four colorways, and a Kindsuit case in three finishes. Unlike the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the cheaper foldable may not get an official carbon fiber case. Hot on the heels of a leak revealing Samsung’s official Galaxy Z Fold 7 cases, a new report has unveiled the full lineup of accessor

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ChatGPT is testing disruptive Study Together feature

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