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The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Nicolás Hatcher 2026-03-26 11:14:20

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers Introduction In this blog post you are going to read about two things: A new flashy discovery in mathematics: aperiodic tilings of the plane with a single monotile SAT solvers. A family of not so well known algorithms in computer science Hopefully by the end of the post you will know a fair amount about the hat, the turtle and the spectres and have another powerful tool under your belt, SAT solvers. Thus, you can see this post either as an exercise in r

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Let’s Talk About the Ending of ‘The Life of Chuck’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-03-26 09:45:00

“I am large, I contain multitudes.” That quote by poet Walt Whitman looms large over The Life of Chuck, the latest Stephen King adaptation by writer-director Mike Flanagan. It fascinates the title character while he’s in school and, eventually, speaks to the film as a whole, which may leave one or two people scratching their heads at the end. So, below, we’ll talk about The Life of Chuck with full spoilers to both help put everything into context, but also marvel at how beautiful the whole film

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Even Last Prime Day Didn’t Offer the Garmin Venu 3S Smartwatch for This Low a Price

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-03-26 11:10:33

When it comes to fitness trackers, you don’t always want the largest and flashiest one you can find to go on your wrist. Sometimes, you just want something sleek and sophisticated, something that blends into your everyday life but still offers all the health and wellness tools to help you stay on track. If you’re looking for something like that, you might be interested in what Garmin has on offer, especially since one of its nicest, most attractive models is currently on sale. Right now, you ca

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Games Workshop Just Can’t Stop ‘Horus Heresy’ Scalpers

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-26 11:30:38

It’s become an unfortunate par for the course in modern collecting that if you want something, you’re no longer just racing against fellow fans who want it: you’re facing off against a bot army driven by scalpers who want to make a pretty profit on the aftermarket. From trading cards to action figures, from sneakers to event tickets, bots are everywhere… including the grim dark future of Warhammer. This week Games Workshop announced plans to launch pre-orders for a bonus “final” entry in its lo

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Amazon Offers WD_Black SSD at Its Lowest Price While Clearing Out Remaining Best-Seller Stock

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-26 11:40:37

If you’ve been building out a new gaming PC, storage capacity is going to be of high concern. It’s something most of us would be very happy of which to have no upper limit. Unfortunately, that will not ever be the case in our lifetime. Though you can boost your storage quite a bit without breaking the bank. Amazon has the WD_Black SN7100 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for up to 30% off. That brings the price down to as low as just $54. See at Amazon Breaking down the exact discounts, you’ll find the

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Best MacBook for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-26 04:03:00

The first fork in the road you'll come to when shopping for a MacBook is whether to follow the Air path or head down the Pro road. For people who are looking for an everyday home laptop or a work laptop for running basic office apps, a MacBook Air will suffice. An Air is also a better pick for students on tight budgets. For creative types who need the added processing and graphics muscle of Apple's new M4 Pro and Max chips, a MacBook Pro is worth the added cost. To help you find the right MacBoo

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Layoff Anxiety Is Real. 10 Steps to Take Now Before You Lose Your Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-26 06:30:00

With employers downsizing and slashing budgets, fear of layoffs is rapidly escalating among workers. Tharon Green/CNET Workers across all industries are bracing for a challenging economy and a brutal job market. According to a survey by Indeed, nearly half (46%) of US employees are concerned about layoffs in the next year. The Trump administration's cuts across federal agencies, health organizations and nonprofits have led to hundreds of thousands of layoffs. As employers reduce personnel and

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11 of the Best Horror Movies to Stream on Max

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-26 11:00:04

Finished season 2 of The Last of Us on Max? If you like the series' post-apocalyptic horror, you should peruse Max's scary movies next. The streaming service hosts a variety of frightening flicks, from classics like Oscar winner The Silence of the Lambs to newer chillers like the Hugh Grant horror film Heretic. The options change often, so if you aren't feeling Max's spooky selection, it's worth swinging back by later. Max starts at $10 per month or $100 per year, and you can also get the stre

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Trump Wants to Kill California’s Emissions Standards. Here’s What That Means for EVs

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2026-03-26 11:00:00

This week the White House and President Donald Trump attempted to kill, once and for all, California's plan to accelerate the sale of zero-emission cars and trucks in the state. In a ceremony in Washington, DC, on Thursday attended by trucking executives, Trump signed three resolutions passed by Congress aimed at revoking California’s nearly 60-year-old power to set its own motor vehicle emissions rules. In doing so, the federal government is taking aim at one of the most ambitious vehicle elec

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CBP's Predator Drone Flights Over LA Are a Dangerous Escalation

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2026-03-26 11:48:50

On Wednesday, United States Customs and Border Protection confirmed to 404 Media that it has been flying Predator drones over Los Angeles amid the LA protests. The military drones, a CBP statement said, “are supporting our federal law enforcement partners in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with aerial support of their operations.” State-level law enforcement agencies across the US use various types of drones and other vehicles, like helicopters, to c

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Dbrand’s Killswitch is the best all-around Switch 2 case

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2026-03-26 11:24:47

is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. I’ve been checking out a lot of new Switch 2 accessories recently, almost all of which were produced before the companies that made them ever touched a real Switch 2. Even a millimeter’s difference in dimensions could completely throw off a design, and some products I’ve tried lack a perfect fit. For example, Genki’s Attack Vector has problems, which the company is now reworking

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Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-03-26 11:34:03

In Brief Nvidia doesn’t think the U.S. will backpedal its chip export restrictions to China anytime soon. The chipmaker is so convinced of that fact that it’s not going to include the Chinese market in its revenue and profit forecasts, CEO Jensen Huang told CNN on Thursday. Huang said he’s not counting on the Trump administration reversing its chip export controls and that it would be a nice “bonus” if they did. The Trump administration introduced licensing requirements for Nvidia’s H20 chip

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Scale AI plans to promote strategy chief Droege to CEO as founder Wang heads for Meta

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-03-25 22:11:07

Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its new CEO, with founder Alexandr Wang heading to Meta as part of a multibillion-dollar deal with the company, CNBC has confirmed. Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment into artificial intelligence startup Scale AI, CNBC reported earlier this week. Wang will help lead a new AI research lab at Meta and will be joined by some of his colleagues. The New York Times was first to report about the new AI lab. Bloomberg f

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Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children's Game

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-26 13:23:31

Earlier this week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper, criticizing the AI industry for vastly overstating the ability of its top AI models to reason or "think." The team found that the models including OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Google's Gemini were stumped by even the simplest of puzzles. For instance, the "large reasoning models," or LRMs, consistently failed at Tower of Hanoi, a children's puzzle game that involves three pegs and a number of differently-sized disks t

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Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-03-26 14:09:40

For many, the “last mile” of the end-to-end customer journey can present a challenge. Services at this stage often involve much more complex interactions than the usual app or self-service portal can handle. This could be dealing with a challenging health diagnosis, addressing late mortgage payments, applying for government benefits, or understanding the lifestyle you can afford in retirement. “When we get into these more complex service needs, there’s a real bias toward human interaction,” says

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tvOS 26 hints at a big hardware change for the new Apple TV 4K

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-26 14:13:12

There’s a brand new Apple TV 4K coming later this year, and as sometimes happens, Apple’s just-announced software update for the platform—tvOS 26—seems to hint at a new hardware feature that’s on the way. New Apple TV 4K hardware expected this fall The last time a new Apple TV 4K released was 2022, so it’s very much time for an update—and a new model is indeed coming. Apple will reportedly launch a new Apple TV 4K this fall. Rumored features include: more powerful A18 or A17 Pro chip Apple

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Check your Anker power banks - 1 million were just recalled due to fire risk

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-03-26 13:51:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a new recall for the Anker PowerCore 10000 power bank, model number A1263. According to the report, the lithium-ion battery inside can overheat, causing the device to become a fire and burn hazard to consumers. "Anker has received 19 reports of fires and explosions" caused by its faulty power bank. Among those incidents, there have been "two reports of minor burn injuries" (thankfully not requiring medical a

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Why I'm leaving Firefox for good - here's the browser I'm using now instead

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-26 14:05:00

ZDNET I've been using Firefox, on and off, for a very long time. After all, it's been the default web browser for Linux for as long as I can remember. But I'm finally moving on from Firefox and all of its clones. Also: Love Arc browser? You can get early access to its new AI-powered replacement This time it feels permanent. Every other time I migrated away from Firefox (or a Firefox fork), it felt temporary, like I'd soon return, after using whatever browser I adopted, because Firefox was alw

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6 new ways ChatGPT Projects supercharges your AI chats - how to try it

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-03-26 14:13:22

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET One cool ChatGPT feature you might not know about is Projects. With ChatGPT Projects, you can organize all the chats, files, and other content for a specific topic into a project folder. The goal is to bring order to your chats so you can more easily find and work with particular ones. And now, OpenAI has added six cool new updates to Projects that collectively make it even more useful. Announced by OpenAI both on its website and through a post on X

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I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-26 14:22:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET There are so many Linux distributions on the market, and they range from the command line only all the way to functioning works of art. The majority of distros fall somewhere in the middle, of course, and that's perfectly fine because most users prefer a blend of aesthetics and functionality. That's why the likes of Linux Mint, ZorinOS, elementaryOS, and Ubuntu are so popular. But every once in a while, a team releases an update to its distribution that reminds you that Linux

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I replaced my ThinkPad with a Lenovo Legion laptop for work, and didn't regret it

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-03-26 14:47:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Lenovo's Legion Pro 7i is a top-tier gaming laptop, on sale now for $3,099. It effortlessly runs the latest gaming titles, exudes premium power, and features a 16-inch OLED display that demands your attention. Besides the high starting price, all that hardware runs hot, it's extremely power-hungry, and it has a big, bulky power supply. $3,099 at B&H Photo-Video The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is the latest gaming laptop in the Legion series, sticking to an accessible 16-inch si

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Your Android phone just got a major feature upgrade for free - including these Pixel models

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-03-26 14:55:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Android 16 is officially here, and Google has some big upgrades on the way. Instead of releasing a new OS and a new phone lineup at the same time, Google is making the same move it did with Android 15 and giving both software and hardware their time to shine. Also: Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux This is the earliest Google has launched a major Android release in a while (for comparison, Android 15 was released on Oct

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Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-03-26 12:41:20

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Anker has issued a recall for its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to a “potential issue with the lithium-ion battery” that could pose a fire safety risk. The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions that have caused minor burn injuries and resulted in property damage totaling over $60,700, according to the US Consumer

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Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-26 13:42:45

Throughout my career, I've received incredible kindness and inspiration from experienced people - professors, and strangers who invested time in me when I feel like I had little to offer in return. While I always express gratitude and try to pay it forward, I often feel there's still an imbalance. I feel like I owe something more direct to the specific people who shaped my life. How do you meaningfully give back to people who helped you early on (when you literally have nothing...haha)? What fo

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Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2026-03-26 13:27:46

Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections This new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM security. In this work, we describe a number of design patterns for LLM agents that significantly mitigate the risk of prompt injections. These design patterns constrain the actions of agents to explicitly prevent them from solving arbitrary tasks.

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Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-26 13:51:22

QRKey qrkey is a command-line tool for generating and recovering QR codes from files for offline private key backup. It allows you to convert files into QR codes that can be printed or stored, and later recovered from those QR codes. It supports large files by splitting them into multiple QR codes, and includes metadata for easy recovery and validation. Convert a file into a PDF with QR codes Recover from a PDF with QR codes with a barcode scanner Recover from a PDF with QR codes from a file

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Geometry from Quantum Temporal Correlations

news.ycombinator.com Fullwood 2026-03-26 13:21:47

arXiv Is Hiring a DevOps Engineer Work on one of the world's most important websites and make an impact on open science.

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Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-26 14:04:35

About Tattoy can generally be thought of as a framework for adding eye-candy to your terminal. It is purely text-based so works in any terminal emulator that supports true colour. "Graphics" is rendered with UTF8 half-blocks (▀,▄). Whilst most of its effects are for getting you street credibility it also has more powerful features based around its awareness of terminal contents. For example it can detect and auto adjust text contrast whilst remaining faithful to the terminal's palette. Tattoy

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100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)

news.ycombinator.com Per Martin-Löf 2026-03-26 14:46:15

100 years of Zermelo’s axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? Per Martin-Löf 2006 WORK IN PROGRESS Cantor conceived set theory in a sequence of six papers published in the Mathematische Annalen during the five year period 1879–1884. In the fifth of these papers, published in 1883, he stated as a law of thought (Denkgesetz) that every set can be well-ordered or, more precisely, that it is always possible to bring any well-defined set into the form of a well-ordered set. Now to call it

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OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-26 14:20:38

Let’s talk about what this means! OxCaml’s extensions are meant to make OCaml a great language for performance engineering. Performance engineering requires control, and we want that control to be: Safe. Safety is a critical feature for making programmers more productive, and for shipping correct code. Languages that are pervasively unsafe are too hard to use correctly. Convenient. We want to provide control without bewildering programmers, or drowning them in endless annotations. To achieve

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