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CPU Utilization is Wrong (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 19:06:39

The metric we all use for CPU utilization is deeply misleading, and getting worse every year. What is CPU utilization? How busy your processors are? No, that's not what it measures. Yes, I'm talking about the "%CPU" metric used everywhere, by everyone. In every performance monitoring product. In top(1). What you may think 90% CPU utilization means: What it might really mean: Stalled means the processor was not making forward progress with instructions, and usually happens because it is waitin

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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

news.ycombinator.com Horace He In Collaboration With Others At Thinking Machines 2025-10-07 04:26:08

Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same question multiple times provides different results. This by itself is not surprising, since getting a result from a language model involves “sampling”, a process that converts the language model’s output into a probability distribution and probabilistically selects a token. What might be mor

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3 Exciting Camera Features on Apple’s New iPhone 17 Lineup

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-07 04:17:46

In the early days of the smartphone, Apple had a strong lead with the camera on the iPhone consistently besting its peers. There was a period somewhere in the middle where it lagged, but over the last several years, it has produced some of the best mobile cameras on the market, and it still delivers one of the best video capture experiences—even for aspiring filmmakers. With the new iPhone 17 range—which includes the iPhone Air—Apple has a bevy of camera upgrades that go beyond more megapixels

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-07 05:04:13

Mustafa Suleyman is not your average big tech executive. He dropped out of Oxford university as an undergrad to create the Muslim Youth Helpline, before teaming up with friends to cofound DeepMind, a company that blazed a trail in building game-playing AI systems before being acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman left Google in 2022 to commercialize large language models (LLMs) and build empathetic chatbot assistants with a startup called Inflection. He then joined Microsoft as its first CEO of

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

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Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 06:02:12

Back in August 2023, attackers tied to the Scattered Spider group didn’t exploit a zero-day vulnerability to hack Clorox. They simply called the service desk (run by Cognizant), claimed to be locked-out employees, and asked for password and MFA resets. According to court filings and reporting, the attacker repeatedly phoned Cognizant’s service desk, obtained repeated resets without meaningful verification, and used the resulting access to move quickly toward domain-admin footholds. Clorox says

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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Elon Musk Was Just Unseated as the World’s Richest Person

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-07 07:18:01

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison is having a good morning. Oracle’s stock is up more than 42% on Wednesday, thanks to an earnings call on Tuesday that left investors stunned. The company missed earnings and revenue estimates, but the forward looking guidance alone was apparently good enough to get investors to rally around it. A bulk of that reaction had to do with the revenue that AI computing demand was expected to bring to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure service. The shares skyrocketed in respo

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3 Exciting Camera Features on Apple's New iPhone 17 Lineup

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-07 09:17:46

In the early days of the smartphone, Apple had a strong lead with the camera on the iPhone consistently besting its peers. There was a period somewhere in the middle where it lagged, but over the last several years, it has produced some of the best mobile cameras on the market, and it still delivers one of the best video capture experiences—even for aspiring filmmakers. With the new iPhone 17 range—which includes the iPhone Air—Apple has a bevy of camera upgrades that go beyond more megapixels

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PlayStation launches new app for parental controls

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-07 09:43:34

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. PlayStation is launching a new PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android to help parents manage their child’s playtime on PS5 and PS4. Parents can already set parental control features directly on a console, but this app gives parents another way to set limits and keep track of what t

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The two tech brands with the most satisfied customers might surprise you

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-07 13:30:54

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung scored the top spot in TVs. HP took home the highest grade among PC vendors. Samsung also earned the top grade for vacuum cleaners. Shopping for a new electronic device or appliance can be a challenge. You not only want to pick the right product for your specific needs, but also choose one that's reliable and respected among other buyers. Before you purchase your next gadget, you may want to

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TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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Starship to Deliver 100 Tons to Orbit by 2026, Musk Claims

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-07 13:05:41

Starship finally broke a losing streak of back-to-back flops, acing its 10th suborbital flight last month. Following the rocket’s success, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is now confident that the massive vehicle will begin flying payloads to space in 2026. During an interview with the All-In Podcast, Musk explained how an upgraded version of Starship will reach orbit by next year and demonstrate full reusability of the Super Heavy booster and its upper stage. “Unless we have some very major s

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Larry Ellison usurps Elon Musk as the world’s richest person

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-07 13:29:12

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Elon Musk can no longer claim the title of the world’s richest man — at least for the time being. The net worth of Oracle CTO and co-founder, Larry Ellison, ballooned by $101 billion on Wednesday morning, bringing his total fortune to $393 billion, according to

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Replit hits $3B valuation on $150 million annualized revenue

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-07 13:54:48

Replit has raised a $250 million round, valuing the company at $3 billion. Unlike other fast-growing vibe coders, Replit has not been running to VCs every few months, though we’ll see if that changes. Its last raise was in 2023 when it raised about $100 million that valued the company at $1.16 billion post-money. Replit has now raised a total of about $478 million, PitchBook estimates. The company, founded in 2016 by programmers Amjad Masad (pictured), Faris Masad, and designer Haya Odeh, says

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Larry Ellison is $110 billion richer after blowout Oracle earnings report

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-07 17:53:20

Oracle co-founder, CTO and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison (C), U.S. President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), share a laugh as Ellison uses a stool to stand on as he speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendant

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Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:16:30

Run every GUI app in the terminal! Even over ssh! Behold as I play a video game in a font in a web browser in a terminal transmitted over ssh (with one hand tied behind my back)! Read about how it works! Check out HowIDidIt.md More Examples The quality of the window is limited to the number of rows and columns in your terminal. If you increase the resolution (ctrl - in alacritty, check your terminal) the quality will go up, (but performance may go down). Here I open up the Wing It! movie,

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‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Promises New Songs Will Hit All the Right Notes

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-07 17:43:19

As anticipation builds for Wicked: For Good, the second act to 2024’s Oscar-winning Wicked, director Jon M. Chu has revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that the upcoming film will feature not one, but two new bespoke songs—that’s one tune for each witch. While Chu didn’t announce the songs’ titles, the outlet teased that the new tracks by composer Stephen Schwartz are no “mere bids for a Best Original Song nomination.” In fact, Chu says the new songs are deeply needed addition

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5 business leaders on how to balance innovation with risk - and turn your ideas into action

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-07 21:29:00

Richard Drury/DigitalVision/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Bridging the gap between aspiration and achievement isn't easy. Smart business leaders focus on projects that deliver top-line growth. They support staff, work with peers, and encourage experimentation. For business leaders who want to embrace technological innovation, there are many potential risks, from wasting money on failed projects to falling behind faster-moving rival

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Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 21:33:57

Features Installation To use Ark in a Go project, run: go get github.com/mlange-42/ark Usage Below is the classical Position/Velocity example that every ECS shows in the docs. See the User Guide, API docs and examples for details. package main import ( "math/rand/v2" "github.com/mlange-42/ark/ecs" ) // Position component type Position struct { X float64 Y float64 } // Velocity component type Velocity struct { X float64 Y float64 } func main () { // Create a new World world := ecs . NewWor

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LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-07 22:00:00

LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time from powerful cosmic events—hit astrophysics more like a tidal wave than a ripple. At the dawn of its tenth anniversary, the multinational collaboration has set another scientific milestone, this time solving not one but two mysteries in black hole physics. A paper published today in Physical Review Letters describes how the LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration captured the sharpest-ever gravitational wave signal from a black hole me

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Apple's New Hypertension Notifications: Everything to Know About the High Blood Pressure Alerts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 20:32:10

After years of waiting, Apple announced at its "awe dropping" event that the Watch Series 11 will have Hypertension Notifications. This joins similar, alert-based Apple Watch health features including notifications for noise, sleep apnea and heart health. The groundbreaking new Hypertension Notifications feature is designed to alert users if signs of hypertension (or chronic high blood pressure) are detected. But how exactly does the feature work, and when will it be available? This is everythi

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Oracle stock booms 40%, on pace for best day since 1992

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-10-08 01:50:24

Oracle stock roared 40% higher Wednesday, after reporting gobsmacking cloud demand numbers, setting the company on track for a historic gain. The cloud giant is on pace for its best day since 1992, and is now quickly approaching the $1 trillion market cap benchmark. Oracle is now at $950 billion. The company said it has $455 billion in remaining performance obligations, up 359% from a year earlier. "This is a very historic kind of print right here from Oracle with this backlog," Ben Reitzes,

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California’s High-Speed Rail Fiasco Keeps Getting Worse

gizmodo.com Benton Graham 2025-10-08 01:35:07

Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion bond issue to build a high-speed rail line that would zip between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. This technological marvel would slash emissions, revitalize the state’s Central Valley, and, with some financial help from the feds and private sector, provide the fast, efficient, and convenient travel Asia and Europe have long enjoyed. State officials promised to deliver

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Rendezvous Robotics exits stealth with $3M to build reconfigurable space infrastructure

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-08 01:00:00

For decades, engineers designing space structures have been constrained by the rocket fairing: only hardware that can be folded up to fit inside can go to orbit. This makes in-space assembly time intensive and expensive. The International Space Station, the largest single object humanity has built in space, was assembled over dozens of launches and cost over $100 billion. And, of course, there is no way to modify or alter the structure once it has been assembled. Rendezvous Robotics wants to c

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Oracle soars 30% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-08 05:31:27

Oracle shares spiked 30 % Wednesday after the database software maker indicated hefty growth prospects due to new cloud contracts, even as earnings and revenue missed estimates. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.47 adjusted vs. $1.48 expected $1.47 adjusted vs. $1.48 expected Revenue: $14.93 billion vs. $15.04 billion expected Revenue increased 12% from $13.3 billion a year earlier during the quarter, which ended on Aug. 31, according to a s

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Apple’s new Crossbody Strap makes more sense than we might think

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-08 05:10:57

I’ll freely admit to being one of the many people who viewed Apple’s new crossbody strap with some bemusement. Internet comments on it mostly use terms like “bizarre” or worse. But a new piece today suggests that many of us are misunderstanding Apple’s latest iPhone accessory, and that it does in fact have a valuable role … I once saw a meme which said that women want only two things in life: equality, and pockets. It’s the lack of the latter in women’s fashion which creates demand for this ty

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Microsoft fixes app install issues caused by August Windows updates

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 05:02:35

Microsoft has fixed a known issue caused by the August 2025 security updates, which triggers unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation problems for non-admin users on all Windows versions. This issue is caused by a security patch that mitigates a Windows Installer privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-50173), which can enable authenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. To address the CVE-2025-50173 security flaw, Microsoft has implemented new User Account

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Need Linux help? My favorite forums, groups, and mailing lists when I need support

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-08 11:00:19

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you need help with Linux, try these outlets. You might not get an answer immediately, but one will come. These are all free to join and enjoy (just watch out for trolls). Linux is about community, and it has been for a very long time. Without community, I'm not sure if Linux would be where it is today. When I first started using Linux in the late 90s, I turned to old-school solution

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Older Apple Watches are getting a major health-tracking feature thought to be exclusive to the Series 11

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-10-08 13:53:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Watch 11 spotlighted hypertension notifications at launch. The fine print shows Series 9 and Ultra 2 owners also benefit. Older Apple Watch models make upgrading less urgent for health monitoring. Apple product launches are among the most anticipated, intensely hyped tech events of the year, especially the September iPhone extravaganza. The entire tech industry pauses when Apple does its thi

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CPU Utilization is Wrong (2017)

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3 Exciting Camera Features on Apple’s New iPhone 17 Lineup

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

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Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

Elon Musk Was Just Unseated as the World’s Richest Person

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The two tech brands with the most satisfied customers might surprise you

TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

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Larry Ellison usurps Elon Musk as the world’s richest person

Replit hits $3B valuation on $150 million annualized revenue

Larry Ellison is $110 billion richer after blowout Oracle earnings report

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Promises New Songs Will Hit All the Right Notes

5 business leaders on how to balance innovation with risk - and turn your ideas into action

Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go

LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory

Apple's New Hypertension Notifications: Everything to Know About the High Blood Pressure Alerts

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Rendezvous Robotics exits stealth with $3M to build reconfigurable space infrastructure

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Apple’s new Crossbody Strap makes more sense than we might think

Microsoft fixes app install issues caused by August Windows updates

Need Linux help? My favorite forums, groups, and mailing lists when I need support

Older Apple Watches are getting a major health-tracking feature thought to be exclusive to the Series 11

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