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Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

news.ycombinator.com Associated Press 2026-02-12 00:11:48

By MICHAEL CASEY GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition. A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) document was a handwritten declaration titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,” signed by 116 New England ministers in Boston and adopted March 2, 1847. Until its discovery in May at the archives in Gr

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Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi with little fanfare

news.ycombinator.com Jo Borrás 2026-02-12 00:29:04

With the Tesla Semi making headlines consistently since its first public appearance waaay back back in 2017, you might think they were some kind of market leaders. Meanwhile, Volvo Trucks has quietly delivered its 5,000th electric semi truck … and they’re just getting started. Volvo delivered its first all electric semi truck 2019. Since then, Volvo customers in more than 50 countries around the world have logged more than 100 million miles (170 million km – and almost half of that in the last

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Elon Musk Forms a New Political Party to Challenge Trump and the Republicans

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-11 17:19:07

As he had previously vowed, Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially announced the formation of a new, third political party on Saturday, July 5, 2025. This dramatic move comes just hours after President Donald Trump signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law, a sweeping budget measure that implements massive spending cuts and eliminates nearly all federal climate and clean energy programs, legislation Musk staunchly opposed. The announcement was definitive. “Today, the America Party is formed to give

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Apple’s F1 movie expected to hit $300M at the box office this weekend

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-11 22:04:56

Less than two weeks after its release, Apple’s F1 The Movie is about to cross the $300 million mark at the global box office. That puts it more than halfway to topping the combined worldwide grosses of all its previous theatrical runs, and validates its ambitions for big screen releases. On track for a record run During its opening weekend, F1 The Movie is estimated to have taken in about $145 million, which put it on par with the $176 million opening weekend total box office of Killers of the

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A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-11 20:10:04

One of Tesla's fully autonomous robotaxis grazed a parked car after completing a ride recently in Austin, Texas. In a video recorded by YouTuber DirtyTesla, a self-driving Model Y is seen turning and accelerating into a Toyota, making light contact with its tire. As seen in the video, the Model Y already dropped off its passenger, but had trouble navigating out of the dark alleyway afterwards. Tesla's robotaxi service launched in Austin just two weeks ago with a small fleet. According to DirtyT

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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Eric Jang 2026-02-09 14:31:17

Generalizing to what you want may be easier than optimizing directly for what you want. We might even ask for "consciousness". This blog post outlines a key engineering principle I’ve come to believe strongly in for building general AI systems with deep learning. This principle guides my present-day research tastes and day-to-day design choices in building large-scale, general-purpose ML systems. Discoveries around Neural Scaling Laws, unsupervised pretraining on Internet-scale datasets, and o

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The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 18:38:41

Calculator Articles The Arrival of the "Calculator-on-a-Chip" During the late 1960s and early 1970s a major aim of the calculator electronics companies was to integrate all of the functionality of a calculator into one integrated circuit, so producing a "Calculator-on-a Chip". © 2015 Nigel Tout This is a new article which was not originally in "The International Calculator Collector". Introduction As told in the section "The Story of the Race to Develop the Pocket Electronic Calculator", fro

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macOS Icon History

news.ycombinator.com Https 2026-02-11 17:25:41

With macOS 26, Apple has announced a dramatically new look to their UI: Liquid Glass. Solid material icon elements give way to softer, shinier, glassier icons. The rounded rectangle became slightly more rounded, and Apple eliminated the ability for icon elements to extend beyond the icon rectangle (as seen in the current icons for GarageBand, Photo Booth, Dictionary, etc.). With this release being one of the most dramatic visual overhauls of macOS's design, I wanted to begin a collection chroni

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Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 08:24:18

Release date: 1947 | Where to purchase: eBay 1947 | “It’s a seething scientific sensation!” In 1947, General Mills’ KiX cereal brand offered the Atomic “Bomb” Ring as a premium in exchange for 15 cents plus a cereal box top. Also known as the Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring, it was a reflection of the public’s preoccupation with the power and potential of atomic energy at the time. The ring had an adjustable gold-coloured band with lightning-blast explosions on its sides. An aluminum warhead was

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Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 18:42:19

The last few pgstream releases have focused on optimizing snapshot performance, specifically for PostgreSQL targets. In this blog post, we’ll walk through the key improvements we made, share the lessons we learnt, and explain how they led to significant performance gains. But first, some context! What is pgstream? pgstream is an open source CDC(Change Data Capture) tool and library that offers Postgres replication support with DDL changes. Some of its key features include: Replication of DDL

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Elon Musk’s New Political Party Sparks MAGA Backlash Online

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-12 00:23:16

The suspense is finally over. Elon Musk, the visionary behind Tesla and SpaceX, officially declared the formation of a new political party on Saturday, July 5, 2025. His stated aim: to challenge the long-standing dominance of both the Republican and Democratic parties. “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” the controversial tech entrepreneur announced on X (formerly Twitter) at 3:46 PM ET. By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it

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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-11 20:36:54

In Brief A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.” It also says that unless they’re willing to disappear from Google searc

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Ingram Micro outage caused by SafePay ransomware attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-11 23:58:49

An ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a SafePay ransomware attack that led to the shutdown of internal systems, BleepingComputer has learned. Ingram Micro is one of the world's largest business-to-business technology distributors and service providers, offering a range of solutions including hardware, software, cloud services, logistics, and training to resellers and managed service providers worldwide. Since Thursday, Ingram Micro's website and online ordering systems have b

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Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI

news.ycombinator.com Michael Feinberg 2026-02-12 00:08:29

On May 31 of this year, in a series of phone calls beginning at nine in the morning and ending that afternoon, the newly installed Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Norfolk Field Office, Dominique Evans, made clear to me that, at the direction of Dan Bongino, my career with the organization had—for all intents and purposes—come to an end. It would be an understatement to say that I had not expected this. In fact, I was in the midst of preparing for a potential mov

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Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-12 00:11:05

Update, July 3, 2025 (11:45 AM ET): The crew behind GrapheneOS is understandably none too pleased about their good name being dragged through the mud, and members are speaking out about these reports from Spain. Over on X, the official GrapheneOS account posts: European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they’re something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose o

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Latest Sales Data Reveal Clear Winners And Losers in a Messy EV Market

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-11 22:49:22

The second quarter of 2025 painted a chaotic picture of the electric vehicle market in the United States. While General Motors enjoyed a breakout quarter, most other automakers, especially Tesla and Ford, stumbled hard. EV sales are now a mix of breakthroughs and breakdowns. And all of this is happening under a White House that has turned decisively against green subsidies. GM Breaks Away From the Pack Despite a political environment hostile to clean energy, GM managed to deliver a stunning 1

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French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com A Nerd With A Passion For Open Source Software 2026-02-11 20:35:53

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services. Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure. Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without consent. This g

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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 23:28:02

Photo of Karlheinz Stockhausen by Kathinka Pasveer via Wikimedia Commons You may hear the phrase “electronic music” and think of superstar dubstep DJs in funny helmets at beachside celebrity parties. Alternatively, you may think of the mercurial compositions of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the musique concrete of Pierre Henry, or the otherworldly experimentalism of François Bayle. If you’re in that latter camp of music nerd, then this post may bring you very glad

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N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 09:07:34

Playing the N-Back test is straightforward but requires focused attention. Watch the 3x3 grid as blue squares appear in different positions. Your task is to remember the sequence and identify when the current position matches the one from N steps ago. For a 2-Back test (the standard version), you need to determine if the current square's position matches the position from 2 steps earlier. Click 'Match' or press the spacebar when you detect a match, or click 'No Match' or press 'N' when there's

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The only time HN is this interested in Bitcoin is when there's a bubble (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 21:54:40

The only time Hacker News is this interested in Bitcoin is when there's a bubble forming Sun 30 July 2017 You might have got the impression that there are a lot of Bitcoin-related posts on Hacker News lately. With SegWit set to activate in the next few weeks, and Bitcoin Cash likely to fork off on the 1st of August, I took a look at Hacker News' relationship with Bitcoin over the past years. In this post I'm going to argue, based on historical trends of Bitcoin-related posts on Hacker News, t

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OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

news.ycombinator.com Aileen Mendez 2026-02-11 17:24:00

Breaking News – July 3, 2025 Today, the House passed the Senate’s version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), marking a significant overhaul to federal tax policy. The signing reflects a major pivot in legislative priorities toward domestic production and pro-business tax policy. The new law restores 100% bonus depreciation, reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D, terminates dozens of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean energy programs, and permanently extends individual ta

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Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 17:40:02

As a standard MIDI controller, AirBending works seamlessly with any digital audio workstation (DAW) including Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase, and more. Connect to external hardware synthesizers, software instruments, and effects processors. No special drivers or plugins required—just standard MIDI communication that every music production setup understands. Advanced Preset Manager AirBending offers a sophisticated preset system that allows you to customize every aspect of your gest

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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

news.ycombinator.com Nelson Elhage 2026-02-11 22:57:21

While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a “conventional” bytecode interpreter loop. In steady-state, assuming the bytecode itself is reasonable stable, modern CPUs achieve very high accuracy predicting the dispatch, even for “vanilla” while / switch -style inte

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Elon Musk Teases ‘Fireworks’ as Trump Signs His ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-11 23:15:19

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent the Fourth of July doing what he does best: stirring speculation, igniting controversy, and hinting at big political moves. All from behind a keyboard. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO kicked off America’s Independence Day with a patriotic post on his platform X (formerly Twitter): “🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸” 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2025 But it was his follow-up that really set off alarms: “Great day for som

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Prompting LLMs is not engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-12 14:38:04

Prompting LLMs is not engineering published in: With the proliferation of AI models and tools, there's a new industry-wide fascination with snake oil remedies called "prompt engineering". As of July 2025 the term is now "context engineering" or "context prompting" or "context manipulation". To put it succinctly, prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown: training set weights constraints o

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The Kindle Scribe just hit an all-time-low price ahead of Prime Day - here's why I recommend it

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-12 18:03:07

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, the lowest price we've seen yet. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon is currently offering the 16GB Kindle Scribe at 35% off, a $140 discount that bri

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Show HN: AirBending – hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-12 17:40:02

As a standard MIDI controller, AirBending works seamlessly with any digital audio workstation (DAW) including Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase, and more. Connect to external hardware synthesizers, software instruments, and effects processors. No special drivers or plugins required—just standard MIDI communication that every music production setup understands. Advanced Preset Manager AirBending offers a sophisticated preset system that allows you to customize every aspect of your gest

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The story behind Caesar salad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-12 17:45:08

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Crisp, fresh and satisfying, Caesar salad is a dish that’s conquered dining outlets the world over, from your neighbourhood bistro and Pret A Manger to Michelin-starred marvels like Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles. While mayonnaise-heavy iterations haunt room-service menus in hotels far and wide, Caesar salad purists live and breathe its original recipe: whole romaine lettuce leaves, crunchy garlic croutons tossed in a tangy, raw-egg

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The Great American EV Fire Sale Is About to Begin

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-12 12:37:39

If you are thinking about buying an electric vehicle, the clock is now ticking. President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” has officially passed Congress, and with it, a countdown that will kill the popular $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric vehicles. You now have less than three months to act. The tax credit officially expires on September 30, 2025. Initially, there were rumors the EV credits would last 180 days from when the bill was signed, a six-month grace period. This law

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Sam Altman Feels ‘Politically Homeless’ As Frenemy Musk Proposes Third Party

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-12 18:14:08

Sam Altman is grappling with his political alignment. The 40-year-old CEO of OpenAI, like many of his fellow tech executives in recent years, has expressed that he does not feel at home in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. In an extended post on X, Altman lamented the fact that he’s now “politically homeless” and yearns for a technocratic utopia—something his once friend and current rival Elon Musk has also been calling for with his push to form a third party. Hmm…interesting timing,

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Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

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The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

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Latest Sales Data Reveal Clear Winners And Losers in a Messy EV Market

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training

The only time HN is this interested in Bitcoin is when there's a bubble (2017)

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Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

Elon Musk Teases ‘Fireworks’ as Trump Signs His ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

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The story behind Caesar salad

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Sam Altman Feels ‘Politically Homeless’ As Frenemy Musk Proposes Third Party

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