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The best laptops for college students

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-13 08:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Whether you’re working on an essay, doing research for a paper or just need some downtime streaming your favorite show — a good laptop is a sensible investment for every college student. The best laptop for college doesn’t have to push the envelope with the latest graphics card and pro

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Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 18:15:08

Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly 5 July 2025 This blog post includes my honest opinions on the CPython JIT. What I think we did well, what I think we could have done better. I’ll also do some brief qualititative analysis. I’ve been working on CPython’s JIT compiler since before the very start. I don’t know how long that is at this point … 2.5, maybe almost 3 years? Anyways, I’m primarily responsible for Python’s JIT compiler’s optimizer. Note that

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Prime Day Brings HP 2025 14″ Laptop (16GB RAM, 384GB Storage) for 82% Off, Limited Stock Only

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-08-13 08:45:42

Prime Day deals kick off in full tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait for the deals to start. All week, we’re expecting to see discounts on all sorts of tech, home goods, and more, and that means it’s a really good time to go shopping online. You need to find the right deals for you though, so in this article, we’re going to be highlighting an incredible discount on a great laptop. See at Amazon The HP 14-inch laptop is currently down from $1,340 to $360 while this deal lasts. That

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Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-13 08:00:49

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. Open clusters of stars—which consist of dozens up to a few thousand stars—are an interesting tool for astronomers to study the Universe. T

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Dell's XPS 13 still lives rent-free in my head for its sleek build (and it's $500 off)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-13 15:15:16

ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's XPS 13 Copilot+ PC is on sale now starting at $999. It remains a favorite from Dell's lineup for its sleek build, gorgeous display, and impressive battery life. The two USB-C ports are limiting, and the bold design choices aren't for everyone. View now at Best Buy Dell's XPS 13 with the Snapdragon X Elite chip is on sale at Best Buy, starting at $999 for the 16GB configuration. That's $500 off the regular price. Dell continues to round out its popular XPS line of

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Is it possible to play doom on an oscilloscope using only lissajous figures?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 13:57:25

Getting a piece of electronics to run doom (1993) is a classic project in hobby electronics, and so far people have gotten doom to run on pretty much anything, including analog oscilloscopes. However, in all cases that I have seen, the only part of the oscilloscope that is really "running" doom is the CRT display, which is hooked directly to an external computer a la 90's game consoles.Meanwhile, people also have managed to get analog oscilloscopes to display some pretty extraordinary and dynami

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As Thin as Paper, This 15″ External Monitor is Almost Free as Amazon Clears Stock

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-13 15:45:07

Prime Day is the ideal time to save on more than the biggest brands such as Apple or Samsung: It’s also an opportunity to find electronics that may not have been at the top of your wish list but have the potential to change your daily life. This year’s most anticipated deal includes the famous Arzopa portable monitor, a 15.6-inch Full HD display which is now 44% off, falling to an all-time low. This monitor usually runs $109, but with Prime Day, you can get yours for an astonishing $61. This di

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A Free Echo Spot? Amazon Is Almost There This Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-13 16:55:24

Amazon rolled out its Prime Day sales at midnight this Tuesday, and again it dropped prices on some of its best devices—like the Echo Spot and Echo Pop. If you want a smart alarm clock or a compact Alexa speaker, there has never been a better time to buy: Since these products are made by Amazon, you know that this is going to be the lowest price you’ll find throughout the entire year. Amazon’s new model, the Echo Spot, is available for as little as $44, which is half the normal price of $79: Th

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Best Prime Day Laptop Deals 2025: MacBooks, Chromebooks, and More

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-08-13 16:59:37

You’ve gotta be careful buying random laptops on Amazon. There’s a lot of junk that masquerades as good deals, especially when you get under $500. Don’t fall for it though. Below, you'll find the best Prime Day laptop deals on devices we’ve personally reviewed this year. More than ever, it’s possible to get an affordable computer you won’t instantly regret buying or a great discount on one you've had your eye on. Read our Best Prime Day Deals roundup or Prime Day Liveblog for more. WIRED Featur

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Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-08-13 14:48:19

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s latest Windows AI features arrived first on new Copilot Plus PCs last year, but they were limited to a special range of laptops. That looks set to change thanks to Intel refreshing its existing Arrow Lake desktop CPUs later this year, that might just deliver Copilot Plus PC features in desktop PC form factors for the first time. Intel’s latest Core Ultra desktop CP

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The best Prime Day laptop deals live now: MacBooks, Windows 11 machines, Chromebooks and others

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-13 18:15:35

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . So you need a new laptop — you’ve waited for the right time. Amazon Prime Day 2025, as has been in years past, offers a ton of laptop deals to consider. All kinds of devices are on sale this year, from refreshed MacBooks to high-end gaming machines to already affordable notebooks. But

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SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-13 18:00:00

Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Wary of the US government and tech companies, the European Union (EU) has seen a surge in support for open source and Linux. In the last few months, local EU governments, including Lyon, France, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, and Denmark, have begun their move to Linux and open-source software from Microsoft Windows and Office. Now, Luxembourg-based European open-source powerhouse SUSE is offering extensive support to businesses an

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This portable workstation keeps me productive on the go - and it's half off

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-13 18:10:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The CaseUp Combo includes ProtoArc's wireless keyboard, mouse, and laptop stand for $50 on ProtoArc's site. The ease of use and transport make this a solid option for improving your hybrid and remote work setup. However, the mouse, while comfortable, might be too small for some people. View now at ProtoArc There is no shortage of wireless keyboards, portable monitors, and laptop mounts on the market. Remote work demands new use cases from tech to get our work done, and l

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Looking for an affordable laptop with an OLED? Here's one I recommend for $534

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-13 18:55:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Vivobook S 15, Asus' first Copilot+ PC, is currently on sale at Walmart for $534. It's sleek and lightweight with a gorgeous 120Hz OLED display, great battery life, and snappy performance. Users might run into the usual compatibility issues seen on Arm-compatible devices. View now at Walmart At Walmart, Asus' Vivobook S 15 is currently marked down to $534, which is $265 off. The configuration on sale features a 3K OLED 120Hz display with an Intel Core Ultra 7 process

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OpenAI tightens the screws on security to keep away prying eyes

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-08-13 16:44:33

In Brief OpenAI has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. According to the Financial Times, the company accelerated an existing security clampdown after Chinese startup DeepSeek released a competing model in January, with OpenAI alleging that DeepSeek improperly copied its models using “distillation” techniques. The beefed-up security includes “information tenting” policies that limit staff access to sensitive algorithms and new products. For exa

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Following hiccup, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 3 is now available for Apple Silicon Macs

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-13 19:34:53

Earlier today, Apple released its new set of developer betas, but a distribution issue affected the Apple Silicon version of macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 3. Now, the issue seems to have been resolved, and the update is now available for all compatible Macs. What happened? Users on X claimed that the hiccup involved Rosetta 26 beta 3, a required component for running Intel apps on Apple Silicon. Apple didn’t confirm the issue, but whatever the problem might have been, it seems to have been sol

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Epanet-JS

news.ycombinator.com Tom Macwright 2025-08-10 05:57:19

epanet-js is a new web application that combines modern web maps with the industry-standard EPANET hydraulic simulation algorithm. It’s for people planning and updating water utility systems: connecting pipes and pressures and figuring out what will happen. It’s a problem area that I’m totally fascinated by and know very little about. It’s made by the folks from Iterating - Luke Butler and Sam Payá, who are experts in the field. If you’ve been following along with my blog and projects, you migh

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Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

news.ycombinator.com Álvarez 2025-08-10 17:56:17

The spatial arrangement of the main stops considered by the previous authors, reveals a significantly different distribution of sites in the territory. In our analysis, we have omitted some points that were considered very close to others, such as the case of Puente de Meyjaboy with Marzán or Iría Flavia with Padrón (Fig. 2). Fig. 2 Positions for each of the mansions in the Antonine Itinerary according to the various published studies. The position of each of the mansions can be found in differ

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 8, #1480

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-14 03:00:03

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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Ted Cruz Denies Flash Flooding in Texas Was Caused by Weather Manipulation

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-14 08:10:08

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, participated in a press conference Monday with local officials to discuss the severe flooding that’s killed at least 90 people in the state, including children at an all-girls summer camp, with dozens of people still missing. It’s a horrible tragedy but people online are suggesting without evidence that the floods are actually part of some nefarious and deliberate conspiracy to kill people. Cruz was asked by a reporter Monday about conspiracy theories tha

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The Opening of ‘Final Fantasy IX’ Is a Love Letter to Fantasy Itself

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-14 08:15:34

Final Fantasy games are known for their big, bombastic openings. Final Fantasy VII‘s legendary bombing mission, the brainwashed Terra being sent through the snowy paths into Narshe in Final Fantasy VI, the destruction of Zanarkand in Final Fantasy X—these are grand set pieces with high stakes, introducing threats and conflicts central to their epic narratives. They are big and loud, meant to immediately hook you into a journey that will last dozens upon dozens (upon dozens) of hours. They’re al

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ASUS 14″ Laptop (8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) Nearly 50% Off for Best Buy’s Black Friday in July, Prime Day Isn’t Alone

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-14 08:50:37

The smartphone spent the last decade and a half slowly taking over the world to the point now where it is now the primary way most folks “go online,” whether that’s checking their email, staying up to date with their friends through social media, or accessing the internet for all sorts of various needs. I even know some folks who opt to not own a computer at all because they can get it all done with their phone. Though, there are still some tasks that are just way less of a hassle when using a l

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ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called ‘study together’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-08-14 12:53:30

In Brief Some ChatGPT subscribers are reporting a new feature appearing in their drop-down list of available tools called “Study Together.” The mode is apparently the chatbot’s way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer, like OpenAI’s answer to Google’s LearnLM. Some also wonder whether it will have a mode where more than one human can join the chat in a study group mode. OpenAI did not r

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This Lenovo laptop has a photo-sharing superpower - and it's $300 off

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-14 16:15:24

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is available now for $1,099 for the 32GB of RAM configuration. It pairs a myriad of customizable features with a nice display, surprisingly beefy speakers, and a marathon battery. A few physical design choices might be of concern for some, and I wish it had an OLED. $1,299 at Walmart $1,429.99 at Lenovo $1,299.99 at Best Buy more buying choices At Best Buy, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is on sale for $1,099, a $300 discount.

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My first verified imperative program

news.ycombinator.com Markus Himmel 2025-08-14 15:58:04

One of the many exciting new features in the upcoming Lean 4.22 release is a preview of the new verification infrastructure for proving properties of imperative programs. In this post, I’ll take a first look at this feature, show a simple example of what it can do, and compare it to similar tools. Guiding example We will use the following simple programming task as an example throughout the post: given a list of integers, determine if there are two integers at distinct positions in the list th

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GoPro HERO13 Black Ultra Wide Edition Has Never Been This Cheap Before, Amazon Prime Day Exclusive Deal

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-08-14 16:25:21

If your summer plans include some epic adventuring — skydiving, maybe? Scuba diving? Mountain biking? No matter which extreme activities you have lined up, you’re going to have the same small problem: Nobody’s going to believe you without some proof. The best way to get that proof in the form of incredible, vivid, pro-quality videos is with the GoPro HERO13 Black Ultra Wide Edition, which has never been more affordable than it is right now at just $350 at Amazon. The GoPro HERO13 Black Ultra Wi

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Three Times Cheaper Than a Mac Mini, This 512GB Mini PC Is Almost Free for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-14 16:55:46

Every year, Prime Day is the perfect opportunity for everyday users to score premium electronics at record low prices. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to upgrade your desktop computer, now is the time to act: Amazon features some of the year’s best bargains and it is especially the case with mini PCs that compete with Apple’s top-of-the-line products such as the Mac Mini. The GMKtec mini PC (512GB storage, 12GB DDR5 RAM, Intel N150 chip), now available for as low as $158, down from

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Nintendo wants to keep ‘traditional approach’ to development as costs skyrocket

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-08-14 14:56:19

A bigger, more powerful Switch means bigger, more intensive games that take more time and money to make. But as development costs skyrocket across the industry, Nintendo seems to have a plan to keep things in control as it transitions into the Switch 2 era. In response to a question during a recent shareholders meeting about the increased costs of making games for its new console, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa admitted that “recent game software development has become larger in scale and

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Apple releases developer beta 3 for visionOS 26

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-14 20:10:25

Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 3, Apple has also pushed out the third developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems. The build number for today’s visionOS 26 beta 3 release is 23M5290f. If you want to enroll in the developer beta program for Apple Vision Pro, here’s what you’ve got to do: Open the Settings app Choose “General” Choose “Software Update” Select “Beta Updates” Select “visionOS Developer Beta” What’s new? As announced on WWDC25, visionOS 26 brin

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This mid-range Acer laptop is my go-to for work travel, and it's on sale

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-14 20:11:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) is on sale now at Amazon for $791. It's a lightweight, responsive laptop with a touchscreen, and a slick media playback menu. However, for a laptop so optimized for media, its speakers aren't the best. $799.99 at Amazon The 14-inch Acer Swift Go was among the first round of laptops to come loaded with Intel's Meteor Lake AI processors last year, and it does so for a sale price of $791, a mid-range price point right in the sweet spot for many c

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The best laptops for college students

Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly

Prime Day Brings HP 2025 14″ Laptop (16GB RAM, 384GB Storage) for 82% Off, Limited Stock Only

Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

Dell's XPS 13 still lives rent-free in my head for its sleek build (and it's $500 off)

Is it possible to play doom on an oscilloscope using only lissajous figures?

As Thin as Paper, This 15″ External Monitor is Almost Free as Amazon Clears Stock

A Free Echo Spot? Amazon Is Almost There This Prime Day

Best Prime Day Laptop Deals 2025: MacBooks, Chromebooks, and More

Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year

The best Prime Day laptop deals live now: MacBooks, Windows 11 machines, Chromebooks and others

SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand

This portable workstation keeps me productive on the go - and it's half off

Looking for an affordable laptop with an OLED? Here's one I recommend for $534

OpenAI tightens the screws on security to keep away prying eyes

Following hiccup, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 3 is now available for Apple Silicon Macs

Epanet-JS

Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 8, #1480

Ted Cruz Denies Flash Flooding in Texas Was Caused by Weather Manipulation

The Opening of ‘Final Fantasy IX’ Is a Love Letter to Fantasy Itself

ASUS 14″ Laptop (8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) Nearly 50% Off for Best Buy’s Black Friday in July, Prime Day Isn’t Alone

ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called ‘study together’

This Lenovo laptop has a photo-sharing superpower - and it's $300 off

My first verified imperative program

GoPro HERO13 Black Ultra Wide Edition Has Never Been This Cheap Before, Amazon Prime Day Exclusive Deal

Three Times Cheaper Than a Mac Mini, This 512GB Mini PC Is Almost Free for Prime Day

Nintendo wants to keep ‘traditional approach’ to development as costs skyrocket

Apple releases developer beta 3 for visionOS 26

This mid-range Acer laptop is my go-to for work travel, and it's on sale

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