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My A11y Journey

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-05 08:34:48

23 years ago I was in a bad place. I'd quit my first attempt at a PhD for various reasons that were, with hindsight, bad, and I was suddenly entirely aimless. I lucked into picking up a sysadmin role back at TCM where I'd spent a summer a year before, but that's not really what I wanted in my life. And then Hanna mentioned that her PhD supervisor was looking for someone familiar with Linux to work on making Dasher , one of the group's research projects, more usable on Linux. I jumped.The timing

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Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-05 06:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Review: Great Value Gaming

wired.com Brad Bourque 2026-04-05 11:03:00

It's AMD's turn. After months of $2,000+ GPUs and long discussions of DLSS, we're finally on the red team's turf. AMD's strength historically lies at the budget end of the spectrum, where the majority of gamers are playing at 1080p, and spending $1,000 or less for their entire system. Even though we really recommend splurging on a GPU, that's just not the reality for most folks. An $800 GPU needs $1,200 in other parts, and at that point most people who aren't into PC gaming will start shopping

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This Marshall Bluetooth speaker sounds better than audio systems I've tested that cost twice the price

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-04-05 16:28:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Marshall Killburn III Bluetooth speaker is available on Amazon for $379. With rich, dynamic bass and a wide soundstage, you'll enjoy music of all genres with this speaker You might run into trouble pairing the speaker with the Marshall app (as I had). $379.99 at Amazon $379.99 at B&H Photo-Video $379.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices I'm quite familiar with the Marshall brand and its lineup of audio products. I have a Marshall amp that sounds brilliant (much bett

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My A11 Journey

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-05 13:34:48

23 years ago I was in a bad place. I'd quit my first attempt at a PhD for various reasons that were, with hindsight, bad, and I was suddenly entirely aimless. I lucked into picking up a sysadmin role back at TCM where I'd spent a summer a year before, but that's not really what I wanted in my life. And then Hanna mentioned that her PhD supervisor was looking for someone familiar with Linux to work on making Dasher , one of the group's research projects, more usable on Linux. I jumped.The timing

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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-05 14:27:48

Paul was a gig worker in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Formerly a project manager in tech until several companies in a row laid him off, he started working entirely for platforms like Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. He managed to eke out a living, but the jobs posed a different problem. ‘Honestly, a lot of times, I go out and the person doesn’t even know my name, even though I introduced myself as Paul,’ he told me. ‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then

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BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-04-05 23:59:29

BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use 1 hour ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The BBC is threatening to take legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) firm whose chatbot the corporation says is reproducing BBC content "verbatim" without its permission. The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it holds, and proposes financial compens

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How a 30-year-old techno-thriller predicted our digital isolation

technologyreview.com Tom Humberstone 2026-04-05 23:00:00

How much will you trust an AI chatbot powered by Meta to be your friend? Answers to this may vary. Even if you won’t, other people are already making close connections with “AI companions” or “falling in love” with ChatGPT. The rise of “cognitive offloading”—of people asking AI to do their critical thinking for them—is already well underway, with many high school and college students admitting to a deep reliance on the technology. Beyond the obvious concern that AI “friends” are hallucinating,

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You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-04-06 00:39:15

If you’ve been experimenting with custom GPTs inside ChatGPT, here’s a welcome upgrade: OpenAI now lets users pick from all available models when building or running a custom GPT, not just GPT-4o. Here’s how it works (and what’s missing). What are custom GPTs again? If you have no idea what this is, you’re not alone. OpenAI launched custom GPTs in late 2023, but the feature hasn’t exactly taken off the way the company probably hoped. Here’s how OpenAI describes them: “…custom versions of Chat

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The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

news.ycombinator.com Gabriel Popkin 2026-04-02 09:09:17

The approach has been fruitful. In 2022, Gore and colleagues discovered that ecological communities undergo phase transitions — a core organizing principle in physics that describes, for example, water’s change from solid ice to liquid to gas. As the researchers increased either the number of species in their experimental ecosystems or the strength of the interactions between species, the ecosystems might progress through three phases. In phase one, all bacterial populations remained stable. In

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Best Internet Providers in Tampa, Florida

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-05 21:52:00

What is the best internet provider in Tampa, Florida? Frontier Fiber is CNET's top pick for the best internet provider in Tampa. We recommend it for most households in the area because it offers solid speeds at reasonable prices and has high customer satisfaction scores. If you're outside the coverage area of Frontier Fiber or need alternatives, you can consider wireless internet from Verizon 5G Home Internet or T-Mobile Home Internet. The two wireless providers have solid offerings and bundlin

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Best Internet Providers in Colorado Springs, Colorado

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-05 23:32:00

What is the best internet provider in Colorado Springs? Xfinity is the best internet service provider in Colorado Springs, thanks to its broad coverage throughout the area, high download speeds and low prices. If Xfinity isn't available at your address, Quantum Fiber, T-Mobile and Rise Broadband are all worth considering. Plus, Xfinity offers a decent variety of plans that range from $55 to $85 a month. If you're after speed, Xfinity's Gigabit Extra plan is one of the fastest -- and widely ava

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The Best Teeth Whitening Strips in 2025. Plus, Dentist Tips for Long-Lasting Results

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-05 23:53:00

Those with sensitive teeth should look out for products without hydrogen peroxide. Make sure the white strips fit snug on your teeth and don't touch the gums. CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Professional teeth whitening can cost anywhere from $300 to $1,000. It’s no surprise many people turn to over-the-counter strips, kits and toothpaste to brighten their sm

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This Retro Gaming Keyboard Hits All the Right Nostalgia Vibes and It's a Great Keyboard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-06 00:00:06

As a child of the '90s few things get my nerd brain tingling like good ol' Super Mario. Even hearing my best friend's Mario-themed phone notifications take me back to a simpler time. So it's no surprise that I completely nerded out when I saw 8BitDo's Retro Mechanical Keyboard decked out in Mario colors. A solid mechanical keyboard with a heavy dose of nostalgia? Count me in. If the Mario theme isn't up your alley, the Retro is available in a few different versions, each pulling something from

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Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-06 00:00:14

In recent years, numerous plaintiffs—including publishers of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs—have sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content. For example, in its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times Company produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times sto

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How to Convert an Analog Bike to an Electric Bike (2025)

wired.com Michael Venutolo-Mantovani 2026-04-05 22:20:00

Say you want to get a bicycle up and down hills with a minimal amount of pedal power. What do you do? The first option is simple: buy an electric bike. However, ebikes aren’t cheap. These days, the least expensive but still reliable ebike you can buy is Aventon Soltera 2.5, which costs around $1,200. You can rent an ebike, or find a city bike program that uses them, or, if you're really lucky, find an ebike in a lending library. Or you can just make your regular bike into an electric bike. That

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Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-04-05 23:00:00

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from understanding the tactics of the Tesla Takedown movement to knowing how to out-troll a troll. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share with friends and family. The zine, which you can download below, condenses crucial advice from multiple articles in a single sheet of printer paper. The adapted articles include tips from WIRED

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The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV

wired.com Jorge Garay 2026-04-06 00:30:00

The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV prevention that is almost 100 percent effective and requires only two doses per year. Science magazine described the medicine the most important scientific advance of 2024. In clinical trials, lenacapavir proved to be 99.9 percent effective in preventing HIV infection through sexual transmission in people weighing more than 35 kilograms. The drug, an antiretroviral, works not by stimulating an immune re

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Cannabis scientists are trying to find a predictable, reliable product (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Gary Greenberg 2026-04-05 23:06:57

As more of the compounds in cannabis are isolated, a few companies are looking at ways to eliminate one stubborn source of variability: the plants themselves. Ebbu’s intellectual property includes a patent for using an inkjet printer to spit out cannabinoids and terpenes in precisely measured ratios determined by the user. Brought in from the black-market wilderness by deep-pocketed, consumer-savvy companies, cannabis may become just another designer drug. At INSA, the Jack Herer vape oil may b

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Qfex (YC X25) – Founding Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-06 02:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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Best Internet Providers in Orlando, Florida

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-06 02:11:00

What is the best internet provider in Orlando? Orlando may be home to the most magical place on Earth and a new Epic Universe of attractions, but for those of us who call it home, internet options can be a bit less cheery. CNET recommends Spectrum for being the best internet in Orlando. More so for areas without fiber access, due to the cable giant's broad coverage and relatively affordable internet. Plans in certain parts of Orlando start as low as $25 per month, and Spectrum brings the option

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A real fixed-point decimal crate in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-03 06:50:00

Primitive fixed-point decimal types. Rust built-in f32 and f64 types have two drawbacks: can not represent decimal numbers in base 10 accurately, because they are in base 2; can not guarantee the fraction precision, because they are floating-point. This crate provides fixed-point decimal types to address the issues by using integer types to represent numbers with a scaling factor (also called as "scale") in base 10 to achieve the accuracy. This is a common idea. Many other decimal crates do

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FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-06 00:07:43

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN AND Agreement No. NTIS-1832. Renewed and Amended April 28, 2009. Each month NTIS will select between ten and twenty non-copyrighted videotapes from available stock in its collection and ship them to PRO at its own expense. Immediately upon receipt, PRO will, at its own expense, digitize the videotape and return the videotape and a copy in digital video disk (DVD) format to NTIS. The videotape and the DVD copy are both considered to be property of the United States Gove

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Infinite Mac OS X

news.ycombinator.com Posted 2026-04-05 23:16:57

tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie software from that era. Porting PearPC I’ve been tracking DingusPPC progress since my initial port and making the occasional contribution myself, with the hope of using it to run Mac OS X in Infinite

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, June 20

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-06 02:11:28

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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In praise of “normal” engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-06 07:36:41

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the teams content and published a different, shorter piece on March 13th. This is my personal edit. It is not exactly identical to either of the versions that have been publicly released to date. It contains a lot of the so

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Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-04 06:20:59

© 2025 Marcelo Mendez RM2000 Tape Recorder works completely offline, stores all of your samples with longetivity in mind, and features a beautiful user interface. There are still many features yet to come out - stay tuned! I made this website myself with Astro. I hope you like it! Source RM2000 Tape Recorder is licensed under the Commons Clause + MIT. Source Privacy Policy Need direct support? Want to file a bug report? Please contact me: [email protected] Follow me on Ma

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Curved-Crease Sculpture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-06 04:13:15

Curved-Crease Sculpture When folded along curved creases, paper shapes itself into a natural equilibrium form. These equilibria are poorly understood, especially for curved creases. We are exploring what shapes are possible in this genre of self-folding origami, with applications to deployable structures, manufacturing, and self-assembly. This transformation of flat paper into swirling surfaces creates sculpture that feels alive. History of Curved Origami Sculpture There is a surprisingly old

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DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses, even drugs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-03 04:38:00

Dublin is known as a city where you can enjoy a few pints of Guiness, get a warm welcome from the locals and hear lively traditional music drifting out of pubs and into the city air. But it's not just music floating on the breeze. The air of Dublin also contains cannabis, poppy, even magic mushrooms -- at least their DNA. That's according to a new study that reveals the power of DNA, vacuumed up from the air, which can track everything from elusive bobcats to illicit drugs. "The level of info

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Estrogen: A Trip Report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-06 15:15:15

The following blog post discusses my personal experience of the phenomenology of feminising hormone therapy. It will also touch upon my own experience of gender dysphoria. I wish to be clear that I do not believe that someone should have to demonstrate that they experience gender dysphoria – however one might even define that – as a prerequisite for taking hormones. At smoothbrains.net, we hold as self-evident the right to put whatever one likes inside one’s body; and this of course includes hor

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My A11y Journey

Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Review: Great Value Gaming

This Marshall Bluetooth speaker sounds better than audio systems I've tested that cost twice the price

My A11 Journey

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use

How a 30-year-old techno-thriller predicted our digital isolation

You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

Best Internet Providers in Tampa, Florida

Best Internet Providers in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Best Teeth Whitening Strips in 2025. Plus, Dentist Tips for Long-Lasting Results

This Retro Gaming Keyboard Hits All the Right Nostalgia Vibes and It's a Great Keyboard

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

How to Convert an Analog Bike to an Electric Bike (2025)

Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV

Cannabis scientists are trying to find a predictable, reliable product (2020)

Qfex (YC X25) – Founding Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

Best Internet Providers in Orlando, Florida

A real fixed-point decimal crate in Rust

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In praise of “normal” engineers

Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS

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DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses, even drugs

Estrogen: A Trip Report

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