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Gemini (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 16:04:53

What is Gemini? Gemini is a new way of using the Internet, separate from the World Wide Web you are familiar with. Compared to the WWW, it is intended to be: Simpler – Gemini pages aren’t programs that run in your browser like most modern websites are; they’re just text with a little formatting, so there are no surprises. Once you know how one Gemini page works, you know how they all work. Human Scale – Gemini servers and clients aren’t written by big, monopolistic software companies the way

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Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-10-01 12:42:38

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. All em-dashes are intentional and inserted by hand. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don'

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Models of European Metro Stations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:00:44

Alicante Alicante's rapid transit system is called TRAM, which is a train-tram and is operated by FGV, owned by the Valencian regional government. This system has an underground line in the city center, with three stations on it. The layout consists with one or two mezzanines on level -1 and two side or one island platforms at level -2. Luceros and Mercado stations have direct connection with the underground parking lots, which are located above the TRAM tunnel. Amsterdam Metro services in Amst

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The case against social media is stronger than you think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-01 06:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

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Visual programming is stuck on the form

news.ycombinator.com Wil Chung 2025-10-01 13:53:31

Underlying great creations that you love—be it music, art, or technology—its form (what it looks like) is driven by an underpinning internal logic (how it works). I noticed this pattern while watching a talk on cellular automaton and realized it's "form follows function" paraphrased from a slightly different angle. Inventing a form is a hard task, so you must approach it obliquely—by first illuminating the underlying function. This made me realize something crucial about visual programming: it’

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Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?

news.ycombinator.com Jerry Neumann 2025-10-01 10:01:35

Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors when revolutionary technologies enable waves of innovative, investable companies. Think of the railroad, the Bessemer process, electric power, the internal combustion engine, or the microprocessor—each of which, like a stray spark in a fireworks factory, set off decades of follow-on innovations, permeated every part of society, and catapulted a new set of inventors and investors into power, influence, and wealth. Yet some technological innovation

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Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Wimpy vs. McDonald's: The Battle of the Burgers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 20:43:46

When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of modernity, global connection, and convenience for a Britain rebuilding from the austerity of the Second World War. But it later found itself at the heart of a cultural war against these same ideals. ‘The McDonalds are coming’, declared the Reading Post in March 1983 as Wimpy’s competitor gained ground on the British high street. ‘It looks like the battle of the burgers is about to erupt.’ As the first mo

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Perceived Age (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Surya Dantuluri 2025-09-27 15:06:49

"To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday is not to feel—it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." -- Fernando Pessoa At 2:15 PM on June 5th, kids burst through school doors, sprinting towards three months of freedom. Summer felt endless back then, August an eternity away. A day at Great America stretched like a week, and road t

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Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

news.ycombinator.com Johannes Bechberger 2025-10-01 01:11:27

This is the first part of my series; the other parts are Back to the blog post: More than three years in the making, with a concerted effort starting last year, my CPU-time profiler landed in Java with OpenJDK 25. It’s an experimental new profiler/method sampler that helps you find performance issues in your code, having distinct advantages over the current sampler. This is what this week’s and next week’s blog posts are all about. This week, I will cover why we need a new profiler and what in

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AI Will Not Make You Rich

news.ycombinator.com Jerry Neumann 2025-10-01 15:01:35

Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors when revolutionary technologies enable waves of innovative, investable companies. Think of the railroad, the Bessemer process, electric power, the internal combustion engine, or the microprocessor—each of which, like a stray spark in a fireworks factory, set off decades of follow-on innovations, permeated every part of society, and catapulted a new set of inventors and investors into power, influence, and wealth. Yet some technological innovation

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An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 12:20:01

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The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-01 11:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

Topics: evidence media polarization political social

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Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 11:15:54

Spotify has never been shy about the fact that the massive amount of user data it collects is a major part of its secret sauce, from its user-specific Discover Weekly playlist to the annual event that is Spotify Wrapped. But the company, which does everything it can to lock people into long listening sessions and sells ads based on user data, would really prefer it if you didn’t bottle up that sauce and resell it for your own profit. According to a report from Ars Technica, a set of users did ju

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 14, #356

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 13:00:08

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. I lit up when I saw my favorite team's logo -- the Minnesota Vikings -- in today's Connections: Sports Edition. That helped me solve the green category. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic

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Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-01 14:33:34

In Brief With Tesla shareholders set to vote on a proposed 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk in November, board chair Robyn Denholm spoke to The New York Times to defend what would be the largest pay package in corporate history. Denholm, who was also on the special committee that put the compensation proposal together, argued that Musk needs to be motivated by extraordinary challenges tied to extraordinary compensation. At the same time, she suggested he’s less inter

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Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:30:23

Image by Getty / Futurism Devices Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun — the kind you'd use for an arts and crafts DIY project at home — to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals, to aid in the healing process. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Device, the team came up with the unusual device to skip the need for prefabricating complex bone implants. In experiments involving rabbits, the researchers created 3D-printed grafts on th

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:15:24

Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy in mere seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifespan. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But now, astronomers say they've detected a gamma ray burst that utterly defies explanation: it repeated multiple times over the course of a single day, as if the star somehow suffered back

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Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:00:06

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority For the past decade, Google has consistently published an Android Security Bulletin every month, even if the company wasn’t ready to roll out a security update to its own Pixel devices. These bulletins detail the vulnerabilities that have been fixed in that month’s security release, with issues ranging from low to critical in severity. Given how large and complex the Android operating system and its underlying components are, it’s not unusual to see a dozen or

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Cozy detectives, urban disc golf and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:00:29

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. This week, the revived Acclaim held a very fun showcase (and we'll get to some of the games from that). But on Friday, Nintendo soaked up all the attention with an hour-long Direct. Sure, it included some first-party games, such as Mario Tennis Fever, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and a Donkey Kong Bananza expansion. But Nintendo highlighted several indie games in the newsy showcase, too. Hades 2 is arguably the highest-profile n

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Tether Taps Trump’s Former Crypto Advisor to Lead US Operations

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 09:00:34

In an effort to solidify itself as the go-to company in the cryptocurrency space for stablecoins, Tether is tapping Bo Hines, the former Executive Director of Donald Trump’s White House Crypto Council to lead its operations in the United States, including efforts to launch a new stablecoin called USAT that will comply with new, Trump-backed regulations, according to CNBC. Tether is best known for its USDT stablecoin, which is pegged to the US Dollar and has become the most commonly used token f

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Hong Kong Disneyland Teases Avengers and Pixar Attractions

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-01 14:25:34

Disneyland Hong Kong first opened 20 years ago, and to celebrate, the company showed off concept for what’s coming in the future. Concept art below shows teases for attractions based on Marvel and Pixar. For the superheroes, one art features the Avengers headquarters, while another shows Spider-Man with Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and Thor in Asgard around a pod of parkgoers dropping through the Bifrost Bridge. This concept art—and a previously released art of Spidey holding a pod while figh

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How a 2020 Rolex Collection Changed the Face of Watch Design

wired.com Chris Hall 2025-10-01 14:27:39

As the company that either invented or popularized the dive watch, the GMT watch, the first water-resistant watch, the first automatic watches, and much more besides, you could hardly downplay Rolex’s influence on watchmaking history. But while its iconic sports watches, like the Submariner, Daytona and GMT-Master are endlessly imitated, Rolex is not seen as a trendsetter, preferring to ignore passing horological fashions. It does its own thing, iterating carefully and minimally on its age-old t

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Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-01 13:00:00

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at your desk, or have a quality speaker from the likes of Bose that supports Spotify Connect, there actually is something to be gained here. Comparing Spotify’s no

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I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

news.ycombinator.com Kim 2025-10-01 10:02:27

The operational primitives of deep learning, primarily matrix multiplication and convolution, exist as a fragmented landscape of highly specialized tools. This paper introduces the Generalized Windowed Operation (GWO), a theoretical framework that unifies these operations by decomposing them into three orthogonal components: Path, defining operational locality; Shape, defining geometric structure and underlying symmetry assumptions; and Weight, defining feature importance. We elevate this f

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Close the loop: analytics that teach your chatbot to fix itself

news.ycombinator.com Hoverbot Team 2025-09-28 06:37:01

Many chatbots stall for the same reason. Unanswered questions build up and nothing changes. Teams ship a release and move on. Users try again and give up. The way out is simple. Treat every miss as a signal. Capture it in a standard way. Decide whether it was noise or a real gap. Turn real gaps into small updates in guardrails or knowledge. Run that loop every week. Measure how fast it moves. Results improve without bigger models. Start with lean instrumentation Analytics only works if the tra

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Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1)

news.ycombinator.com Johannes Bechberger 2025-10-01 11:11:27

More than three years in the making, with a concerted effort starting last year, my CPU-time profiler landed in Java with OpenJDK 25. It’s an experimental new profiler/method sampler that helps you find performance issues in your code, having distinct advantages over the current sampler. This is what this week’s and next week’s blog posts are all about. This week, I will cover why we need a new profiler and what information it provides; next week, I’ll cover the technical internals that go beyon

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Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:31:22

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges. One common mistake is forgetting to handle the EXIF orientation, which can make resized images look very different from the original. Last year I wrote a create_thumbnail tool to resize images, and today I released a small update. Now it’s aware of EXIF orientation, and it no longer mangles these images. This is possible thanks to a new ver

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Apple's High Blood Pressure Alerts: When and Where They'll Be Available

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 11:10:03

At its big iPhone event on Tuesday, Apple announced that it will soon launch hypertension notifications, joining similar alerts like those for sleep apnea, heart health and noise. However, these notifications for high blood pressure won't just be available on the new Apple Watch Series 11 or Ultra 3. Read on to find out if and when your Apple Watch will receive hypertension notifications. We also discuss how the feature works and what it means. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and l

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Latest Tech News

Gemini (2023)

Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000

Models of European Metro Stations

The case against social media is stronger than you think

Visual programming is stuck on the form

Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

Wimpy vs. McDonald's: The Battle of the Burgers

Perceived Age (2024)

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

AI Will Not Make You Rich

An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”

The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 14, #356

Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’

Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

Cozy detectives, urban disc golf and other new indie games worth checking out

Tether Taps Trump’s Former Crypto Advisor to Lead US Operations

Hong Kong Disneyland Teases Avengers and Pixar Attractions

How a 2020 Rolex Collection Changed the Face of Watch Design

Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

Close the loop: analytics that teach your chatbot to fix itself

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1)

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

Apple's High Blood Pressure Alerts: When and Where They'll Be Available

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