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Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:06:05

I don’t think we have any actually good programming languages, and I don’t think I’m alone in believing this. Programming is hard, and language design is harder. We’re still learning. But I think they’re all failing us in a shockingly fundamental way. The root of the trouble is a distinction I’d like to draw between data and objects. Let me know if you think there are better terms to use. Programming languages give us tools to represent things. Sometimes these things are values: the integer 1.

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A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-11-10 15:10:07

Intro: Why Is Everything "Certified Fresh"? I stayed in a hotel recently, which means I watched cable television, which means I consumed commercials that I could not skip—and some of these commercials advertised upcoming movie releases. Promo after promo, I noticed an unmistakable pattern: every film was "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, with this seal of approval serving as the ad's climactic selling point. After five days of "Certified Fresh" movie propaganda, I began to grow suspicious.

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Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 08:16:00

Does what's said between you and your AI chat stay between you and your AI chat? Nope. According to a report by Forbes, Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok published more than 370,000 chats on the Grok website. Those URLs, which were not necessarily intended for public consumption by users, were then indexed by search engines and entered the public sphere. It wasn't just chats. Forbes reported that uploaded documents, such as photos, spreadsheets and other documents, were also published. Representa

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Oracle will reportedly power a giant data center with gas generators

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 05:16:59

Bloomberg has published a deep dive into operations at Oracle, chronicling the software giant's rise in cloud computing and current push into powering artificial intelligence projects. The publication reported that Oracle has promised to develop tens of billions of dollars in data centers, which have become a hot business. Notably, Oracle landed a deal to back operations at OpenAI, in a partnership that will give the AI company 4.5 gigawatts of computing power . According to Bloomberg, that's en

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Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 05:00:14

AI Engineer Location: SF Bay Area ( 4+ days in office ) Experience Level: 3–5+ years Stack: Python, PyTorch, ML, LLMs, Django Type: Full-time 🧠 About Coris Coris is building the AI-first trust layer for global commerce. We partner with leading platforms, marketplaces, payment providers, and banks to transform how small business onboarding, monitoring, and lifecycle decisions are made - using AI on the ground to drive faster, smarter actions with less friction. One of our customers describ

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Sketch update brings Liquid Glass effects, macOS 26 and iOS 26 libraries, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-11 15:53:48

Sketch is out with a new update today featuring support for Liquid Glass-like effects, complete with blur, distortion, depth, and chromatic aberration controls. Here’s what it looks like. New glass effects feature a full set of custom controls Although Sketch is still working on its macOS Tahoe 26 redesign, the company is releasing Barcelona, its second 2025 update. Alongside styling, libraries and components, and performance improvements, Sketch Barcelona (2025.2.1) brings a new glass effect

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Apple just dropped a security update for all its platforms

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 15:45:28

With iOS 26 coming within the next month or so, Apple doesn't have many reasons left to update iOS 18. But this is one of them. The company pushed a security update for its platforms on Wednesday. iOS 18.6.2 patches a vulnerability related to image processing. Apple's security notes say the update plugs a hole related to Image I/O. (That's a development framework for reading and writing image data.) "Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption," the company wrote. Apple sa

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Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 09:35:18

Learning About GPUs Through Measuring Memory Bandwidth At Traverse Research, we need to have a deep understanding of GPU performance to develop our benchmark, Evolve. Additionally, we sometimes do projects for very specific hardware where we need to know all the ins and outs of this hardware. One way we do this is by using microbenchmarks to measure specific parts of the GPU to get new insights. In this article, we will share what we learned from measuring the memory bandwidth of various GPUs.

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Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 20:56:36

Clear Reset View Reload Data Points: 0 Zoom: 1.0x

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Oracle Will Reportedly Spend $1 Billion a Year on a Gas-Powered Data Center

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-11 15:45:36

Oracle is going all-in on its AI-focused cloud business, pouring billions into building massive new data centers. One site under construction in West Texas will reportedly cost the company around $1 billion just to keep the lights on. Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans, that Oracle intends to spend more than $1 billion a year to run a new West Texas megasite on gas generators rather than wait for a utility hookup. It can take years to get approval and infrastruc

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Having recovery and/or SSD problems after recent Windows updates? You’re not alone.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:45:37

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you're inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect lesser-used features or obscure edge cases, but every once in a while you run into something bigger and more disruptive. August's updates have introduced a couple of more noticeable problems. The first was caused by update KB5063875, a relatively minor security update for older versions of Windows 10

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Apple releases iOS 18.6.2 for iPhone, here’s what’s new

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-12 00:21:14

iPhone users have a new software update to install: iOS 18.6.2 is now available. Here’s what to expect from the latest release. Apple has just released new software for iPhone users, available from Settings ⇾ General ⇾ Software Update. The previous update, iOS 18.6.1, brought Blood Oxygen support back to compatible Apple Watch models. iOS 18.6.2, however, isn’t expected to include any new features for users. Rather, this update focuses on “important security fixes.” Here are Apple’s release

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The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-11-08 17:29:54

Intro: The Ballad of Crazy Frog Sometimes, human creativity gives us The Godfather, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, and The Wire—and sometimes that same ingenuity gives us Crazy Frog. When it comes to Crazy Frog, people generally fall into three camps: Those who vividly remember this meme-turned-ringtone-turned-song and would like to forget. Those who've forgotten whether Crazy Frog is the name of a song or artist or noise, subsequently stream this track, remember it, and are regretful. Those born

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Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 22:23:01

Find out where you would end up if you kept going straight Historical map data from André Ourednik's Historical Basemaps project App Privacy The developer, Ben Gross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy. Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-12 05:42:56

Fitbit’s smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there’s another big one coming in October, timed to the launch of the newly announced Pixel Watch 4. Launching as an opt-in review (an open beta), the design centers on Google’s AI-powered Personal Health Coach, built with Gemini. The entire app has been rebuilt from the ground up with the new AI coaching feature. Andy Abramson, director of product management at Google, says the redesign also offers easier

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Fitbit’s AI health coach is the first I might actually be interested in

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-12 05:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. I’m not a fan of AI health and fitness features. Not only do they regurgitate Captain Obvious-level summaries of what you just did, but the “insights” are so generalized that a Google search is often more helpful. So it was with great skepticism that I walked into a demo to learn about Fitbit’s forthcoming AI-powered personal health c

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Meta to add 100 MW of solar power from U.S. gear

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-12 10:56:53

Meta signed a deal yesterday with solar developer Silicon Range to develop a $100 million, 100-megawatt solar farm in South Carolina. The new renewable installation will power Meta’s planned AI data center in the state which is expected to cost $800 million. Both the data center and the solar plant are expected to begin operations in 2027. Most of the equipment for the solar farm will be made in the U.S., according to the companies. The new deal is the eighteenth such agreement signed between

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Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-12 20:50:15

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Using functions in Excel can sometimes be challenging, especially if you're trying to devise complex formulas to work with your data. Now Mic

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Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-12 20:00:09

Jason Momoa’s next project may take him to the high seas. James Gunn teases that Peacemaker‘s return is more about the man behind the mask. Plus, get a look at what’s coming next on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Foundation, and Alien: Earth. Spoilers away! Archie Comics Jeff Sneider’s InSneider Report has word that Paramount is purportedly preparing a film adaptation of the Archie Comics universe, with Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Mister Miracle writer Tom King tapped to pen the script, a

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GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 00:00:09

Position Closed Sorry, this position is no longer accepting candidates.

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Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-13 11:11:39

Two of Verizon’s mobile plans are getting some upgrades at no additional cost. The improvements are being made to the Simple Mobile and Total Wireless plans. All five of the Simple Mobile tiers are being upgraded, while the same is true of the top two Total Wireless levels … All of the upgrades relate to international calling and data usage whilst travelling abroad. CNET has the details. Simple Mobile The $25 Unlimited plan includes 15GB of high-speed data (up from 3GB) and unlimited calling

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Microsoft releases emergency updates to fix Windows recovery

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-13 11:46:37

Microsoft has released emergency Windows out-of-band updates to resolve a known issue breaking reset and recovery operations after installing the August 2025 Windows security updates. As the company confirmed when it acknowledged the bug on Monday, these problems impact systems running both Windows 10 and older versions of Windows 11. The list of buggy updates causing these recovery problems includes KB5063875 (Windows 11 23H2 and Windows 11 22H2), KB5063709 (Windows 10 22H2, Windows 10 Enterp

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Type-machine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 09:59:27

Using Template Haskell to derive the structure of records and simulate structural subtyping Type-machine Code available on GitHub, package available on Hackage. Introduction In Haskell, we usually model data using algebraic data types, like this: 1 data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a Here we defined a Maybe type, which has two constructors, Nothing and Just . The Just constructor has one argument, while Nothing as none. It is common to consider these constructors’ arguments as fields, which c

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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 11:06:15

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion. The company expects to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new database offering Lakebase, and fueling global growth. At the June Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced a new produ

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Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 10:00:03

Travel patterns are changing, with more people in the US venturing outside the country and needing to stay connected. To accommodate this surge, Verizon is boosting the international options in its prepaid Simple Mobile and Total Wireless phone brands starting Aug. 28. Most phone plans include options to call and text people in Canada and Mexico, along with some roaming options for US travelers. Depending on the plan, those options are extended to many other countries around the globe. But you

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CarPlay just arrived as a free OTA update for one of the fastest-growing EVs

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-13 15:56:56

CarPlay has just expanded to one of the fastest-growing EVs on the market, arriving this week through a free over-the-air update. Geely may not be a household name in the United States, but it’s a major global player with ownership ties to Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Smart. The company’s latest electric SUV, sold in China as the Galaxy E5 and internationally as the EX5, has surged in sales and ranks high among the most popular EVs. The EX5 launched in mid-2024 and reached its 100,000th unit i

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LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-13 20:12:37

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

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Plex urges users to update Media Server after fixing a ‘potential security issue’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-13 20:16:03

Plex, the popular app for organizing and streaming personal media collections, is warning users running certain Plex Media Server versions to update immediately due to a “potential security issue” that was recently patched. Here are the details. Urgent fix, no details As reported by BleepingComputer (via Tecnoblog), Plex is reaching out to users running server versions 1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x, and urging them to update to Plex Media Server 1.42.1.10060 as soon as possible. The company’s e-m

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Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-11-13 23:43:19

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The enterprise data catalog market has undergone dramatic shifts in the modern gen AI era. Traditional data catalogs served as static repositories where users searched for datasets and documentation. The market expanded to include data governance capabilities with many vendors branding the technology as data intelligence platforms. Early

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Databricks says it's valued at over $100 billion in latest funding round

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-14 10:18:28

Databricks has just entered an exclusive club. The data analytics software vendor said Tuesday that it's raising a funding round that values the company at over $100 billion. That would make Databricks just the fourth private company to eclipse the $100 billion mark, following SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI, according to data from CB Insights. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told CNBC's Brian Sullivan that the total round will exceed $1 billion. The company was last valued by private investors at $62

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Latest Tech News

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

Oracle will reportedly power a giant data center with gas generators

Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring

Sketch update brings Liquid Glass effects, macOS 26 and iOS 26 libraries, more

Apple just dropped a security update for all its platforms

Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth

Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings

Oracle Will Reportedly Spend $1 Billion a Year on a Gas-Powered Data Center

Having recovery and/or SSD problems after recent Windows updates? You’re not alone.

Apple releases iOS 18.6.2 for iPhone, here’s what’s new

The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

Fitbit’s AI health coach is the first I might actually be interested in

Meta to add 100 MW of solar power from U.S. gear

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

Microsoft releases emergency updates to fix Windows recovery

Type-machine

Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

CarPlay just arrived as a free OTA update for one of the fastest-growing EVs

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

Plex urges users to update Media Server after fixing a ‘potential security issue’

Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

Databricks says it's valued at over $100 billion in latest funding round

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