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Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

news.ycombinator.com Josh Skinner 2025-12-29 09:43:36

Bootloader unlocking is a popular way to breathe new life into older devices, by loading unofficial software onto a device, like custom ROMs, gaining root access, custom kernels, etc. This option will be taken away from users with One UI 8. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s jump right in. Bootloader unlocking is no more with One UI 8 The OEM Unlocking toggle has been removed with the stable build of One UI 8 on the latest Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 devices, as well as the official beta builds on the

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Samsung may be killing bootloader unlocking on all phones with One UI 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 16:50:37

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung appears to be disabling bootloader unlocking in One UI 8 on more devices than before. Previously, only US models lacked the OEM Unlock toggle, but the restriction now seems to be spreading to global models as well. A contributor on XDA Developers discovered that Samsung is likely stripping out the necessary code to unlock bootloaders entirely. Samsung might be quietly locking down its phones even more tightly with the One UI 8 update. A new report

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Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

news.ycombinator.com Blender Foundation 2025-12-25 12:20:49

Hjalti playing with the sculpting mockup. Multi-touch interfaces like tablets have been common for years, but only recently thanks to increased processing power, have they started to serve as primary computing devices. To support Blender’s mission of making 3D technology accessible to everyone, it’s important to fully embrace these platforms. Some of these devices include Apple iPad, Microsoft Surface, Huawei MatePad, and the Wacom MovinkPad, among others. The idea is to bring the full power

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The video game adaptation of cult classic Toxic Crusaders cartoon finally gets a release date

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 16:30:50

The streets of Tromaville, New Jersey are calling once again as the video game adaptation of the off-the-wall cartoon series Toxic Crusaders gets a release date. Seen in an official trailer from Retroware that was shown off during San Diego Comic-Con and shared online by IGN, the Toxic Crusaders game is releasing on December 4 on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Steam. As a true callback to the quirky cartoon from the '90s, the video game is designed as a side-scrolling beat 'em up, all p

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I found cheap accessories that made my AirTags twice as useful (and secure)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-29 10:15:13

Elevation Labs accessories ZDNET's key takeaways These are tough, water- and dirt-resistant AirTag holders that will last years. They go a long way to preventing bad guys from removing your AirTags from secured items. They work on everything from suitcases, camera bags, jackets, and even your cat or dog! View now at Amazon I've mentioned more than once my undying love for Apple AirTags. These devices have made my life so much less stressful, and I have them attached to pretty much everything

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Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome

news.ycombinator.com Louise Vennells 2025-12-29 11:44:31

The blood pressure lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of Exeter conducted the study, published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, comparing responses between a group of older adults to that of younger adults. Previous research has shown that a high nitrate diet can reduce blood pressure, which can help reduce risk of heart

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We Just Saw 10 Jaw-Dropping Minutes of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-29 15:06:48

We were already on edge anticipating it: Welcome to Derry, the HBO prequel series laying the groundwork for Stephen King’s tale of a small town with a sizable demonic clown problem. But the new peek just shared in-room at San Diego Comic-Con—building off that evocative teaser from a few months back—signals it’s going to be a show that interrupts your sleep on a regular basis. We saw the opening of the very first episode. It’s 1962 in Derry, Maine—near Christmas, going by the snow and the decora

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Robots eating other robots: The benefits of machine metabolism

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 10:00:51

For decades we’ve been trying to make the robots smarter and more physically capable by mimicking biological intelligence and movement. “But in doing so, we’ve been just replicating the results of biological evolution—I say we need to replicate its methods,” argues Philippe Wyder, a developmental robotics researcher at Columbia University. Wyder led a team that demonstrated a machine with a rudimentary form of what they’re calling a metabolism. He and his colleagues built a robot that could con

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

news.ycombinator.com Paula Span 2025-12-29 05:45:07

A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Ms. Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol and blood pressure, she faced a moderate risk of a major cardiac event, like a heart attack, within the next 10 years. Doctors typically counsel such patients about the

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‘Magic: The Gathering’ Swung Into the Spider-Verse at Comic-Con

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-29 08:15:46

We’re on the cusp of the release of Magic: The Gathering’s next major set, Edge of Eternities, next week, but that didn’t stop Wizards of the Coast from swinging into San Diego Comic-Con to show off its next big crossover: Spider-Man. And in our first major glimpse at what to expect from the set, we got treated to a whole spider-verse of new cards—and, of course, some very nifty comic book-themed variants to get your wallet’s spidey senses tingling. It’s no surprise that transforming cards are

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What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 20:18:06

The X-Forwarded-For (XFF) HTTP header provides crucial insight into the origin of web requests. The header works as a mechanism for conveying the original source IP addresses of clients, and not just across one hop, but through chains of multiple intermediaries. This list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses is helpful to understand where requests have really come from in scenarios where they traverse several servers, proxies, or load balancers. A typical HTTP request goes on a bit of a journey, traversi

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A Creepy Corn Maze Awaits at the ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Activation

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-29 15:50:14

Clown in a Cornfield is a million-dollar title—so eerie, so evocative, and so perfectly descriptive of Eli Craig‘s horror movie, which hit theaters earlier this year. It’s headed to Shudder and AMC+ August 8, but even if you’ve been waiting to catch it on streaming, there’s much to scream about with its San Diego Comic-Con immersive experience. Why? Well, for one thing, it’s a haunted corn maze—and even though it’s indoors, it’s still dark and spooky as you’d expect. The queue drops you right i

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Blender confirms iPad Pro app with full touch and Pencil support

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-30 05:00:04

Blender, the widely used open-source 3D creation software, is getting a tablet-first redesign, starting with full support for the iPad Pro. Here’s what to expect. In a detailed post at the Blender Developer Blog, Head of Product Dalai Felinto says that while tablets have been around for a while, “only recently, thanks to increased processing power, have they started to serve as primary computing devices.” He says Blender’s tablet push will include “Android and other graphic tablets in the futu

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The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:14:51

Preamble As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks. I spent the first 25 years of my life on Windows and therefore I am biased towards Windows font rendering with ClearType. I also agree with research which suggests that this rendering approach makes reading easier on the eyes. There are also some facts you can’t argue with, such as non-linear rendering without anti-ali

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Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data

news.ycombinator.com Price Per Token 2025-12-30 08:39:41

All pricing information comes from official provider sources: Disclaimer: Providers don't all count tokens in the same way, but generally a token is equivalent to 3-4 characters. Please refer to each provider's documentation for their specific tokenization methods.

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-30 15:00:23

Modern humanity’s most famous cousins, the Neanderthals, may have had a clever, if unappealing, dietary trick for survival: maggots. Research out today posits these creepy crawly fly larvae provided Neanderthals an ample source of essential nitrogen and fat. Scientists at Purdue University, the University of Michigan, and others conducted the study, published Friday in Science Advances. Using both experimental and historical data, they showed that maggot-infused meat is rich in fat and nitrogen

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The sad state of font rendering on Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 20:14:51

Preamble As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks. I spent the first 25 years of my life on Windows and therefore I am biased towards Windows font rendering with ClearType. I also agree with research which suggests that this rendering approach makes reading easier on the eyes. There are also some facts you can’t argue with, such as non-linear rendering without anti-ali

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Elon Musk Swipes Back at Trump After Apparent Peace Offering

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-30 20:20:05

Yesterday, President Trump seemed to offer an olive branch to his former “first buddy,” Elon Musk, amidst their ongoing spat. In a post made to Truth Social, Trump claimed that he didn’t wish any harm on Elon or his businesses. “Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large-scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before!”

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Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place

news.ycombinator.com Price Per Token 2025-12-31 14:39:41

All pricing information comes from official provider sources: Disclaimer: Providers don't all count tokens in the same way, but generally a token is equivalent to 3-4 characters. Please refer to each provider's documentation for their specific tokenization methods.

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Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 20:30:36

The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. "The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications a

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Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:42:39

Releases For code examples, see EXAMPLES.md and share/doc/modernish/examples modernish – harness the shell Sick of quoting hell and split/glob pitfalls? Tired of brittle shell scripts going haywire and causing damage? Mystified by line noise commands like [ , [[ , (( ? , , ? Is scripting basic things just too hard? Ever wish that find were a built-in shell loop? were a built-in shell loop? Do you want your script to work on nearly any shell on any Unix-like OS? Modernish is a library fo

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Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-01 08:30:16

Douglas Rissing/Getty The Trump administration published its AI Action Plan, a 28-page document outlining proposed policies for everything from data center construction to how government agencies will use AI, Wednesday. As expected, the plan emphasizes deregulation, speed, and global dominance while largely avoiding many of the conflicts plaguing the AI space, including debates over copyright, environmental protections, and safety testing requirements. Also: How the Trump administration change

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Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 22:21:52

The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump's anti-woke AI order. Trump's executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract with the federal government to jump through two hoops to win funding. First, they must prove their AI systems are "truth-seeking"—with outputs based on "historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity" or else acknowledge when facts are uncertain. Second, they must train AI models to

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Check out the Pixel Watch 4 in its new Moonstone, Indigo, and Lemoncello colors

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-02 15:35:29

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Renders showing off the Pixel Watch 4’s colorways have surfaced. It’s said that the case colors will be Black, Silver, Gold, and Moonstone. The Active band will reportedly use a new material to make it more comfortable. The Pixel Watch 4 will be among the new products that will appear at the Made by Google event next month. Earlier today, we were treated to renders of the upcoming smartwatch and its new charging dock. If that wasn’t enough, more rende

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My cat Norbert gives this automatic wet food feeder two paws up, and it's on sale

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2026-01-02 20:35:00

Allison Murray/ZDNET The Petlibro Polar Wet Food Automatic Feeder is $13 off when you buy it at Amazon. ZDNET's key takeaways The Petlibro Polar Wet Food Automatic Feeder normally retails for $130 and is available in black and white. The Polar feeder can keep wet food fresh for up to three days and connects to an app to customize feeding schedules. It is a relatively large device and needs power and Wi-Fi to function. After getting our orange tabby cat, Norbert, in 2018, my husband and I q

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White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-03 05:37:05

On Wednesday, the White House released "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan," a 25-page document that outlines the Trump administration's strategy to "maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance" in AI through deregulation, infrastructure investment, and international partnerships. But critics are already taking aim at the plan, saying it's doing Big Tech a big favor. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Michael J. Kratsios and Special Advisor f

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Humans Counted 8,600 Earthquakes in Yellowstone. AI Says We’re Not Even Close

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-03 10:25:37

Before the advent of artificial intelligence, experts often detected earthquakes by analyzing seismic data by hand. Unsurprisingly, this approach takes a long time, is cost-intensive, and usually identifies fewer earthquakes. Machine learning has now changed virtually everything. Using artificial intelligence, researchers have retroactively identified and assigned magnitudes to ten times as many seismic events in historical earthquake data from the Yellowstone caldera from 2008 to 2022 as had b

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Trump's AI Action Plan Is Here: 5 Key Takeaways

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 12:00:09

The Trump administration on Wednesday laid out the steps it plans to take to ensure "global AI dominance" for the US, with an AI Action Plan that calls for cutting regulations to speed up the development of artificial intelligence tools and the infrastructure to power them. Critics said the plan is a handout to tech and fossil fuel companies, slashing rules that could protect consumers, prevent pollution and fight climate change. Though the plan itself isn't binding (it includes dozens of poli

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No ‘woke AI’ in Washington, Trump says as he launches American AI action plan

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-04 03:28:22

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order related to AI after signing it during the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to keep "woke AI" models out of Washington and to turn the country into an "AI export powerhouse" through the signing of three artificial intelligence-focused executive orders on Wednesday. The phasing out of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — an umbrella term encompassing vari

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Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-01-04 04:11:07

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models. “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it— because it's not doable.” The president al

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