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Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 02:35:37

JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)[1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.[2] JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BS

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Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 02:12:26

Published on July 09, 2025 Ever wondered how cartoons create that hand-drawn “jitter” effect? I recently watched an ARTE documentary about Neapolitan pizza and was fascinated by the animated illustrations (drawn in simple shapes and plain colors) that accompanied the segment where the recipe and its ingredients were presented. The illustrations were static, but they had a subtle animation effect that made them look like they were moving slightly. See for example in this short clip, where you c

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‘Superman’ Reignites Interest in ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘Peacemaker’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-20 03:50:39

Now that Superman is out in theaters, audiences have come out of it wanting to see more of him. And what better place to get more of Supes than HBO Max? According to a recent Deadline report, viewership for Man of Steel, the 1978 Superman, and the Christopher Reeve documentary Super/Man have all received massive viewership spikes in the past week. Where Steel’s week-over-week viewership grew by 218% and Superman: The Movie by 322%, Super/Man had the biggest growth at 1,206%. All three make sens

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Former Tesla president discloses the secret to scaling a company

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-01-20 03:00:00

Few companies have grown as quickly as Tesla, especially just before and after the company launched the Model 3, its first affordable EV. “We scaled Tesla in 30 months from $2 billion in revenue to $20 billion in revenue,” Jon McNeil, the former president of Tesla who is now co-founder and CEO of DVx Ventures, told the crowd at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston. It wasn’t McNeil’s first time scaling companies, nor would it be his last. Previously, he founded six different companies, and a

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A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 21:13:15

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LLM architecture comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2026-01-19 18:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

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Ethereum Is Quietly Soaring. What Comes Next?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-20 04:42:47

Ethereum is experiencing a seismic rally. The price of Ether, the native token of the Ethereum network, surged by nearly $1,000 in a single week to hit a five-month high, climbing 25.3% to reach $3,745.72, according to data firm CoinGecko. For the first time in recent memory, there’s a palpable sense that this rally is grounded in something real and sustainable. So, what’s driving this explosive momentum? 1. Big Money Pours In Through New Ethereum ETFs Major asset managers have begun launchin

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I Tried This $40 Smartwatch: It Was Meh, but Not a Complete Waste of Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 02:00:08

I wasn't expecting much when I first strapped the WITHit Giga Smartwatch onto my wrist, and at least it delivered on that. This $40 smartwatch does the basics: shows notifications, counts your steps, tracks your heart rate (sort of) and lets you take calls from your wrist. But the execution of all these features is where it all starts to fall apart, and I found myself getting exactly what I paid for. After spending a week testing it, I came away with this: If you just want a basic smartwatch th

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Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-20 00:15:22

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published last week led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. Using sediment cores collected in

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Amazon’s Fire Tablets, Tested, So You Don’t Have To (2025)

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2026-01-20 02:00:00

The Fire HD 10 is Amazon’s best tablet. The current model dates from 2023, which means it likely will get some kind of update in 2025, but we don't expect anything more than a processor and RAM upgrade. The current Octa-core processor is plenty fast enough for everyday tasks like web browsing and watching movies, and the 3-GB of RAM helps in browsing the web with many tabs. The Fire HD 10 also has a full HD (1080p) screen, making it better for watching those Prime videos. That said, this is not

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The Ultimate Dolby Atmos Experience Might Be In Your Car

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2026-01-20 02:33:00

It’s fair to say that no five people crammed into a compact SUV have been more blissfully enthralled on a country drive than my wife’s family and I on one particular mid-summer Sunday. It wasn’t just the silky smooth performance of the Cadillac Optiq, or even its incredible 19-speaker AKG sound system, but an x-factor pushing our driving experience beyond the sum of their parts: Dolby Atmos Music. If you haven't heard it in a vehicle like this, you might think I'm joking. Everyone has probably

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Scientists Saddened as World's Largest Mars Rock Is Sold at Auction

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-20 05:00:08

A rock from Mars that traveled tens if not hundreds of millions of miles before improbably landing on our planet's surface has found its final resting place: the private collection of some secretive plutocrat, whose identity has not been revealed to us members of the nosy public. At roughly 54 pounds, NWA 16788, as it's been dubbed, is by far the largest known rock we have from the Red Planet — the runner up in the category is barely half that weight — and is one of the only 400 meteorites conf

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Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 00:03:33

by David Beer Could there be anything more insulting for a writer than someone assuming that their writing is an output of generative artificial intelligence? The mere possibility of being confused for a neural network is enough to make any creative shudder. When it happens, and it will happen, it will inevitably sting. By implication, being mistaken for AI is to be told that your writing is so basic, so predictable, so formulaic, so replicable, so obvious, so neat, so staid, so emotionless, s

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Roman Roads Research Association (UK)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 00:42:58

We continue Margary’s work by researching Roman roads using modern technology such as LiDAR, which uses lasers fired from an aircraft to create an incredibly accurate model of the earth’s surface beneath any vegetation, revealing surviving archaeology otherwise not visible. The example below is a Roman road in Lincolnshire, just east of Grantham, where until recently it was assumed that the A52 followed the course of a Roman road, which it almost certainly doesn’t. Instead, a different road lead

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The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2026-01-20 00:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

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Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-20 05:00:55

Since entering Jupiter’s orbit in 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been hard at work unveiling the many mysteries of our solar system’s largest planet. And its latest discovery may be one of the most intriguing yet: an entirely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter’s poles. In a paper published Wednesday in Physical Review Letters, astronomers describe an unusual pattern of plasma waves in Jupiter’s magnetosphere—a magnetic “bubble” shielding the planet from external radiation. Jupiter’s excepti

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Best Portable Projector for Movies and Gaming Anywhere in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 21:00:00

How portable do you really need? Pretty much every projector is "portable" to some degree. Many of the projectors on the best projector list, for example, are small enough to fit in a backpack. They might fill that backpack, but that's their size. If you just want something for the occasional movie night, one of those would be significantly brighter and create a better image. Generally speaking, the smaller the projector, the dimmer it is. How much battery do you need? Most portable projectors

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Anker Nebula X1 review: a terrific home theater that goes anywhere

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2026-01-20 00:19:35

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. I seldom sleep in the same place for more than a couple of weeks at a time, so I’m a big fan of portable all-in-one projectors. They’re small and set up quickly, making them ideal for vanlife, gaming parties, outdoor movie nights, or an evening in on the couch — but they usually sacrifice quality for convenience. Anker’s new Nebula X1 p

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Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit

news.ycombinator.com Dallin Grimm 2026-01-19 23:25:47

Intel will not be entertaining any projects that do not promise to double its money going forward. Michelle Johnston Holthaus, CEO of Intel Products, announced at Bank of America's global technology conference that Intel is no longer approving new projects that cannot be proven to earn at least 50% gross margin "based on a set of industry expectations." Holthaus explained Intel's new risk-averse policy as "something that we probably should have had before, but we have it now so that product doe

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OpenAI's experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 22:27:19

It's a major milestone for AI models, but this level of reasoning won't be available to the public anytime soon. OpenAI has achieved "gold medal-level performance" at the International Math Olympiad, notching another important milestone for AI's fast-paced growth. Alexander Wei, a research scientist at OpenAI working on LLMs and reasoning, posted on X that an experimental research model delivered on this "longstanding grand challenge in AI." According to Wei, an unreleased model from OpenAI wa

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What to read this weekend: When the world spins out of control

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-20 02:14:22

I'm still chipping away at my summer reading backlog over here, and this week finally made it to Alex Foster's Circular Motion, which came out in May. And, wow, I wasn't quite ready for the emotional journey this one took me on. It's set in a near future — people ride OneWheels and going viral on social media is still a thing some strive for — where the megacompany CWC has created an extreme form of high-speed travel that allows people to zip across the world in no time flat. But, it soon become

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The tech that the US Post Office gave us

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2026-01-19 23:32:58

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. When you crack open your mailbox, it’s almost as if your letters just appear. Long before the days of speedy, overnight mail deliveries, postal service workers meticulously sorted through letters by hand and transported mail on horseback. For more than 250 years, the US Postal Service has worked behind the scenes to build a faster delivery network,

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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 20:58:42

We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models. Agent APIs Like many developers, I’ve been dipping my toes into LLM agents. I’ve done my fair share of vibe coding, but also I’ve been playing around with using LLMs to automate reverse engineering tasks mostly using mrexodia’s IDA Pro MCP , including ex

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Marvel’s Ultimate Universe Is Approaching Its Endgame

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-19 22:50:17

Since its launch at the top of 2024, Ultimate Marvel has been working toward a finish line that’s soon approaching. Days ago, Marvel teased the alt-universe’s first proper event, Ultimate Endgame kicking off in December. In the comics, the Maker—the evil version of Reed Richards from the original Ultimate Marvel books—made this new universe with the specific intent of leaving it without any heroes to stop his oppressive regime. Since his imprisonment, various heroes have emerged and have been e

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Isn’t Done With the Gorn Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-20 00:15:17

The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally started this week, and its opener, “Hegemony, Part II,” picked up right where the last season left off. But along the way, it surprisingly ended up taking the Gorn—a Trek mainstay and the show’s longest-running threat—off the board. In the episode itself, the Enterprise crew stop Captain Batel from Gorn infection, prevent their invasion of the Federation, and rescue their crew members captured by the Gorn at the end of last season. You’d

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Is the iPhone 17 Pro Going to Be Big and Orange? We Rounded Up the Rumors

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 23:27:00

Key takeaways: The rumored iPhone 17 Pro is expected to be released in early September. The Pro is rumored to be getting a scratch-resistant antireflective display. Colors could include black, silver, dark blue and orange. The new iPhone is likely just a couple of months away from release, and rumors about an iPhone 17 Pro have been ramping up. Although whispers about an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air have hogged a lot of the attention, the Pro models tend to include more upgraded features. In addi

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Bizarre "Infinity Galaxy" Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-19 18:45:01

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two galaxies, it could harbor the secrets to how the heaviest black holes in the universe, the supermassive black holes found at the hearts of galaxies, are born and reach their unbelievable masses — masses extreme enough to organize trillions of stars around them. "Everything is unusual about this ga

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Angry Callers Accusing Real Customer Support Staff of Being AI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-19 21:15:38

A penny for the thoughts of our thankless call center workers. Long have they had to endure indignant customers fuming at them for problems beyond their control. And now they must suffer accusations that call their very humanity in question, Bloomberg reports, as the proliferation of AI tech has many callers suspecting that the human they're speaking to is actually a chatbot. If these customer support personnel weren't treated like robots before, in other words, they are now — in a distressing

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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-20 02:30:23

Corning, the US-based glass manufacturer behind Gorilla Glass, has vowed to end its exclusive deals and other practices that the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive in order to avoid getting fined. If you'll recall, the commission announced that it was investigating Corning last year, accusing it of squashing competition with its exclusive supply agreements, thereby driving up prices and stifling innovation. Now, the commission has accepted the commitments Corning offered and made

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Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-19 21:51:22

Popular JavaScript libraries were hijacked this week and turned into malware droppers, in a supply chain attack achieved via targeted phishing and credential theft. The npm package eslint-config-prettier, downloaded over 30 million times weekly, was compromised after its maintainer fell victim to a phishing attack. Other packages, namely eslint-plugin-prettier, synckit, @pkgr/core, and napi-postinstall from the same maintainer, were also targeted. The attacker(s) used stolen credentials to pub

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Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)

Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters

‘Superman’ Reignites Interest in ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘Peacemaker’

Former Tesla president discloses the secret to scaling a company

A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

LLM architecture comparison

Ethereum Is Quietly Soaring. What Comes Next?

I Tried This $40 Smartwatch: It Was Meh, but Not a Complete Waste of Time

Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

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The Ultimate Dolby Atmos Experience Might Be In Your Car

Scientists Saddened as World's Largest Mars Rock Is Sold at Auction

Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently?

Roman Roads Research Association (UK)

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole

Best Portable Projector for Movies and Gaming Anywhere in 2025

Anker Nebula X1 review: a terrific home theater that goes anywhere

Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit

OpenAI's experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad

What to read this weekend: When the world spins out of control

The tech that the US Post Office gave us

Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

Marvel’s Ultimate Universe Is Approaching Its Endgame

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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware

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