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Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 16:33:57

pattrns pattrns is an experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine. It allows you to programmatically create music sequences either in plain Rust as library (static, compiled) or in Lua as a scripting engine (dynamic, interpreted). So it's also suitable for live coding music. In addition to its imperative event generator approach, it also supports the creation of musical events using tidalcycle's mini-notation. This crate only deals with the generation of raw musical events.

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Let Me Pay for Firefox

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 15:38:52

Hi Mozilla community, I’m a long time Mozilla supporter, I’ve published free (as in freedom) and open-source software, and I desperately want Mozilla to charge for Firefox. If that sounds like a contradiction, please keep reading. I first became involved with the Mozilla community around 2006. I was active in the Spread Firefox project, where I ran a contest that encouraged others to promote Firefox in the most creative ways they could imagine. In hindsight, I guess it could have been called a

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Should Student Loans Borrowers in SAVE Switch to Another Repayment Plan? It's Complicated

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-04 11:37:10

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on August 1. Viva Tung / CNET Starting Aug. 1, borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan will start accruing interest charges on their loan balances. The trouble is, their payments remain on hold in a general forbearance. Now they're being encouraged to choose a new payment plan or face interest charges. The Department of Education "urges all borrowers in the SAVE plan to quickly transition

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McDonald's Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-04 11:15:16

As large language models (LLMs) become ever more integrated into the platforms that define daily life, major flaws in the software's security capabilities are starting to show. McDonald's is among the growing list of companies that have quickly shoehorned LLM chatbots into their hiring systems, consequences be damned. Its Paradox.ai-built chatbot, which McDonald's calls a "virtual recruiting assistant," goes by the name Olivia. Olivia is more than happy to help applicants find jobs near them t

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'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 12:22:40

“Vital onboarding strategy for the emerging social media systems” “Our findings go beyond Bluesky: they point to a new framework for launching successful social platforms,” said Dr Onur Ascigil, Lecturer in Computer Science at Lancaster University and Principal Investigator of the study. “Starter packs are becoming a vital onboarding strategy for the emerging social media systems that are seeking to attract users from dominant platforms.” The researchers believe their findings could help platfo

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Dépanneurs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 17:22:17

Walk Montreal is a joint effort between C & D. And we have both walked many a streets on the island of Montreal, discovering awesome neighbourhoods, beautiful buildings and friendly people. But, it seems that whatever neighbourhood we are in, we always ask each other a similar question; “Is there a dep around here?”….What is a dep you may ask….well, a dep is slang for Dépanneur. And a Dépanneur is a corner convenience store that sells milk, bread, cold drinks, beer, wine, lotto tickets, cigarett

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The best Prime Day Apple deals on iPads, AirPods, MacBooks and more still available today

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-04 10:58:41

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Even though Prime Day is over, Amazon still has solid deals on Apple gear right now. There’s a reason Apple gear is so in demand. After reviewing nearly every major device out there, our current favorite laptop, smartwatch, tablet and smartphone are all made by Apple. The only problem

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YouTube’s Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-04 10:00:46

Remember “Baby Shark Dance?” How about “Gangnam Style?” Those videos were among the most inescapable offerings of the YouTube canon, pumped into our lives by the last vestige of the internet monoculture: the Trending page. Now, a full decade since it was first introduced, YouTube announced it is ending its effort to inject top videos into everyone’s feeds, opting instead to highlight popular content in specific niches. In a blog post, the company admits that the internet ecosystem has changed c

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This compact laptop dock streamlined my workspace - and it's buy one get one

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-04 12:00:19

ZDNET's key takeaways The Baseus Nomos NU1 Air Spacemate is on sale for $79. It's a compact docking station that's ideal for both Windows or macOS users on the go. Unlike its predecessor, however, it only supports two monitors at 4K resolution instead of three. View now at Baseus View now at Amazon more buying choices Sometimes the best updates are incremental, and not a complete top-to-bottom overhaul. That's how I feel about the Baseus Nomos NU1 Air Spacemate 12-in-1 Docking Station. It's a

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Repasting a MacBook

news.ycombinator.com Christian Selig 2025-08-03 15:53:27

You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up the new M4 goodness, this dang thing still seems to just shrug at basically anything I throw at it. Video editing, code compiling, CAD models, the works. (My desire to updat

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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 11:45:15

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today I really enjoyed browsing the BMUG's CD-ROM and discovering earliy 80s art made in MacPaint, so I browsed all 18,000+ MacPaint images on Discmaster to see what gems I can unearth. Here is some what I found - I've got so many more cool icons/smaller drawings kept aside for the next time I'm bored and feel like making a blog post. Would be cool to try track down some of these artists and see what they're up to these days. If they could do thi

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I Tried MyFitnessPal's New Meal Planner Feature and Was Pleasantly Surprised by the Healthy Recipes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-04 11:39:03

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Anna Gragert/CNET You're likely familiar with MyFitnessPal as an app that tracks your food intake, allowing you to log calories, weight, exercise, sleep and more. But the app's new features make it clear that it really does seem to want to be the type of fitness pal who's there for you during every step of your quest for healthy food, from planning to groc

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Gear News of the Week: Samsung’s Trifold Promise, Ikea’s Sonos Split, and Hugging Face’s New Robot

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-08-04 13:30:00

Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in Brooklyn earlier this week debuted seven new devices, from the Galaxy Z Fold7 to the Galaxy Watch8 series. But there weren't any surprises at the end, despite rumors that Samsung would unveil a trifold phone. Sensing disappointment, the company later confirmed that the phone is expected to land in 2025. “I expect we will be able to launch the trifold phone within this year,” TM Roh, head of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times. The trifold phone, ru

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How passkeys work: Going passwordless with public key cryptography

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-08-04 15:00:00

Vitalii Gulenok/Getty Images For the last five years, the FIDO Alliance -- led by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (with other companies in tow) -- has been blazing a trail toward a future where passwords are no longer necessary in order to login to our favorite websites and apps. This so-called passwordless future is based on a new form of login credential known as the passkey, which itself is largely based on another technology -- public key cryptography -- that's been around for decades. Why t

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OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-04 14:38:05

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model, which was already pushed back a month earlier in this summer. OpenAI had planned to release the model next week, however Altman said the company is pushing it back indefinitely for further safety testing. “We need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us,” said Altman in a post on X. “While we trust the community will build great things wit

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Dict Unpacking in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 10:05:03

mom can we have dict unpacking in python? we have dict-unpacking-at-home please don't use this no seriously. I do not need another joke package of mine to be deemed "critical" to pypi 1 ok how do I use it pip install dict-unpacking-at-home add # -*- coding: dict-unpacking-at-home -*- to the top of your file (second line if you have a shebang) enjoy! # -*- coding: dict-unpacking-at-home -*- dct = { 'greeting' : 'hello' , 'thing' : 'world' } { greeting , thing } = dct print ( greeting , gree

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Rocket maker Firefly Aerospace files to go public under ticker FLY

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-04 21:57:39

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, on July 9, 2025. Rocket maker Firefly Aerospace filed for an initial public offering on Friday, with plans to trade under the ticker symbol "FLY" on the Nasdaq. Firefly's planned offering comes during a resurgence period for IPOs after the market collapsed in 2022 as rising interest rates and skyrocketing inflation deterred investors from betting on riskier assets. Some

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Trendy New Startup Makes You Pay to Tour Apartments When You're Looking for Housing

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-04 20:17:58

Back in the stone age, landlords would have to go through the ridiculous process of meeting prospective tenants, showing them their potential homes, and sharing information on the rental. No longer. Thanks to a property tech company with the amazingly mawkish name Rently, landlords can now kick their feet up and relax — even more than they used to, that is. Rently's big idea? What it calls "self-guided touring," a system where would-be renters receive a one-time door code to tour apartments on

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The best Plex alternative in 2025 is Jellyfin, and you really should try it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-04 04:40:39

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Self-hosting is an increasingly popular alternative for those looking to escape the convoluted (and expensive) content-streaming landscape and return to a more traditional personal ownership approach to their media collection. Once you’ve bought your fancy new Network Attached Storage (NAS) and filled it with your favorite movies, the next step is to figure out what software to run on it. There are at least two solid options for serving up your media collectio

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If you’re quick, the 13-inch 2025 iPad Air is at its lowest price ever

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-04 21:30:22

Ryan Haines / Android Authority A great deal on a premium tablet is hard to pass up, and the latest Apple iPad Air is now available at a compelling price point. If you’ve had your eye on this device, now might be the time to make your move, because the deal will almost certainly end in a matter of hours. Apple 13-inch iPad Air for $679 (13% off) For this Prime Day, the Apple iPad Air is available at $679, down from its regular price of $799. That’s a 15% discount and the lowest price this tabl

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Firefly Aerospace files for an IPO

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-04 20:57:15

Firefly Aerospace is taking its orbital ambitions to the public markets. The company, which notched a string of successes this year, including a historic commercial moon landing, submitted its formal declaration to regulators Friday detailing its plans to IPO sometime this year. The S-1 document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides a wide-ranging look into the company’s finances and governance plans, though the number of shares to be offered and their price range ha

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Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-05 00:18:56

Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a seriously weird trick. In a new investigation, reporters from Japan's Nikkei Asia found more than a dozen academic papers that contained invisible prompts meant to trick AI review tools into giving them glowing write-ups. Examining the academic database arXiv, where researchers publish studies awaiting peer review, Nikkei found 17 English-language papers from 14 separate institutio

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Firefly Space files for an IPO

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-05 01:57:15

Firefly Space is taking its orbital ambitions to the public markets. The company, which notched a string of successes this year, including a historic commercial Moon landing, submitted its formal declaration to regulators Friday detailing its plans to IPO sometime this year. The S-1 document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange provides a wide-ranging look into the company’s finances and governance plans, though the number of shares to be offered and their price range has not been disc

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Download the stock Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Z Fold 7 wallpapers here

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-04 19:28:40

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Z Fold 7 are finally here, and although you’ll have to wait until the end of the month to get your hands on one. If you want to get in on the action early, you can now download Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Galaxy Z Fold 7 wallpapers to add them to your existing device, thanks to X user Raven. This year’s stock wallpapers feature a distinct Z design in four different colors. As always, there are matching wallpapers for the interior and exterior screens of both device, so y

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Deal alert: We’ve never seen the Kindle Paperwhite this cheap!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-05 05:30:13

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Attention, bookworms! There’s a last chance to grab the Kindle Paperwhite at a fantastic discount this Amazon Prime Day. Usually priced at $159.99, it’s now available for just $124.99, a significant 22% markdown from retail and the lowest price we’ve ever tracked on the device. Kindle Paperwhite for $124.99 (22% off) This is the newest model of the Kindle Paperwhite, which scored a perfect 10 in our review. It offers a clear 7-inch E Ink display with improved

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Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal

news.ycombinator.com Dutch Data Protection Authority 2025-08-05 05:38:46

2005–2019 false allegations of fraud The typical red-and-white envelopes used by the Benefits agency, previously part of the Belastingdienst The Dutch childcare benefits scandal (Dutch: kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire or toeslagenaffaire, lit. '[childcare] benefits affair') is a political scandal in the Netherlands involving false allegations of welfare fraud by the Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) against thousands of families claiming childcare benefits.[1][2] Between 2005 and 20

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I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hall 2025-08-05 04:55:39

No FOUT About It There were some hard choices to make immediately. The first thing we discarded was webfonts, as these were bytes we simply didn’t have to spend. font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", "Roboto", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; Discarding webfonts and instead using the system font on the device had three benefits for us. First, it meant we didn’t have to worry about a flash-of-unstyled-text (FOUT). This happens when the browser renders the

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Tesla reportedly close to starting sales in India

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-05 05:20:18

In Brief Tesla is nearly ready to start selling its electric vehicles in India, according to Bloomberg News, after years of flirting with the idea. The company is about to open its first showroom in Mumbai and could start deliveries as early as August, according to the report. A few hours after Bloomberg published its report, Tesla created an account specifically for its Indian operation on CEO Elon Musk’s social media platform X. The account has one post so far: an illustration of the Mumbai

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We Just Got a Major Clue About Why Twitter's CEO Suddenly Left This Week

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-05 07:16:33

We still don't know why Linda Yaccarino stepped down as CEO of X on Tuesday. Her sudden abdication came off the back of a legendarily horrific freakout by the AI Grok, which saw the chatbot make a series of egregiously racist statements, claiming to be "MechaHitler" and praising Nazis over the course of a chaotic day. But if Yaccarino was fed up with what was going on at the company, she didn't show it. Her announcement was cheery, and her boss Elon Musk gave a curt thanks for her two years of

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dbrand finally has a fix for its Switch 2 Killswitch Joy-Con detachment problem

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-05 09:38:59

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR dbrand has found a solution for the Joy-Con detachment issue affecting its Switch 2 Killswitch case. Next week, the company plans to share a production schedule that outlines when you can claim your free replacement. The company also plans to send out silicone friction pads, which should make it easier to remove the console from the Dock Adapter with one hand. Earlier this year, reports began popping up about an issue with dbrand’s Killswitch case for t

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Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

Let Me Pay for Firefox

Should Student Loans Borrowers in SAVE Switch to Another Repayment Plan? It's Complicated

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Dépanneurs

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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

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OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again

Dict Unpacking in Python

Rocket maker Firefly Aerospace files to go public under ticker FLY

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The best Plex alternative in 2025 is Jellyfin, and you really should try it

If you’re quick, the 13-inch 2025 iPad Air is at its lowest price ever

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Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

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I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since

Tesla reportedly close to starting sales in India

We Just Got a Major Clue About Why Twitter's CEO Suddenly Left This Week

dbrand finally has a fix for its Switch 2 Killswitch Joy-Con detachment problem

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