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Home Office Setup Guide (2025): Webcams, Desks, Chairs, and More

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2026-02-23 12:03:00

No matter if you're working from home full-time or just a few days a week, it's important to carve out a home office setup that separates your work and personal lives. It's equally vital that your workstation is kitted out with the right gear and accessories to make the day more bearable and comfortable. Since 2020, we've been testing standing desks, office chairs, monitors, USB hubs, keyboards, and tons of other work-from-home gear in our own lives. These are our favorites. Updated June 2025:

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Google rolls out Veo 3 video generator, try it for free using credits

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-23 04:38:30

Google is rolling out Veo 3 to everyone using Vertex AI, which is an ML-testing platform provided by Google Cloud. Unlike Sora and other generative video AI models, Veo 3 is a state-of-the-art video generator trained on millions of YouTube videos, and it can generate realistic videos, but great quality comes at a high cost. Veo 3 isn't free, but since it's part of Google Cloud, you can use it for free by subscribing to the $300 trial offered by Google. To get started, you can sign up for a Go

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My AC system isn't blowing cold air - 5 easy and quick fixes that experts recommend

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-23 14:45:13

fhm/Getty Images It always happens during a heatwave. That moment of sinking dread when your AC unit kicks on, but instead of a refreshing blast of arctic air, you're met with a weak, lukewarm breeze. Then panic sets in. Is the AC dead? Is this going to cost a fortune? How will I get to sleep tonight in this stifling heat and humidity? While a truly broken AC unit can indeed be a headache and an expense, the good news is that it's not always a catastrophic failure. The reason your system isn't

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Ultrasound toothbrush promises painless checks for hidden gum problems

news.ycombinator.com American Chemical Society 2026-02-19 09:20:52

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The toothbrush-shaped ultrasound transducer (left image) features a small head size (right image), allowing easy access to premolars and molars in the back of the mouth. Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5c00521 When visiting the dentist, you might remember being poked and prodded by a t

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The Book of Shaders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 06:48:03

The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. Contents About the Authors Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York based artist and developer. He explores interstitial spaces between organic and synthetic, analog and digital, individual and collective. In his work he uses code as an expressive language with the intention of developing a better together.

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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 10:49:39

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our subscribers have been able to put reliable automation into place for certificate renewal. Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses c

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Show HN: Sharpe Ratio Calculation Tool

news.ycombinator.com Fundratios Team 2026-02-23 03:38:31

The Sharpe ratio uses the risk-free rate as the baseline return. Typically, this is the yield on government treasury bills or bonds (like 3-month or 10-year Treasury rates). Our tool automatically uses the up to date Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR).

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Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Ian Chant 2026-02-23 08:48:12

How do you see ships without a pricey radar system? The question has troubled seaports around the world as they work to improve security. Without radar installations, it can be hard for port employees to detect small ships like those employed by pirates or by the terrorists who attacked the USS Cole in 2000. A team of researchers in Germany can now offer security teams a new option, though: putting existing cellular towers to work as quick and dirty radar systems. Developed at the Fraunhofer In

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Error handling in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Felix Knorr 2026-02-23 06:28:25

On Error Handling in Rust The current standard for error handling, when writing a crate, is to define one error enum per module, or one for the whole crate that covers all error cases that the module or crate can possibly produce, and each public function that returns a Result will use said error enum. This means, that a function will return an error enum, containing error variants that the function cannot even produce. If you match on this error enum, you will have to manually distinguish whi

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 30, #484

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 06:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Gardeners -- today's NYT Strands puzzle is for you. I'm not one, and some of the answers were tough to find and even tougher to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordl

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The unbearable obviousness of AI fitness summaries

theverge.com Victoria Song 2026-02-22 23:00:00

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. After nearly a decade of wearables testing, I’ve amassed a truly terrifying amount of health and fitness data. And while I enjoy poring over my daily data, there’s one part I’ve come to loathe: AI summaries. Over the last two years, a deluge of AI-generated summaries has been sprinkled into every fitness, wellness, and wearable app.

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-23 04:00:19

Image by Getty / Futurim Developments Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses luminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the brain metabolizes energy, it releases super-faint traces of visible light. Called ultra-weak photon emissions (UPEs), the flashes of light are emitted when electrons break

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Cloudflare open-sources Orange Meets with End-to-End encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-23 05:11:21

Cloudflare has implemented end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its video calling app Orange Meets and open-sourced the solution for transparency. The application has been available since last year when the internet giant launched it as a demo for Cloudflare Calls (now Realtime). With the introduction of E2EE and the resolution of various trust and verification issues, users interested in strong cryptographic assurances can explore Orange Meets as a foundation for secure video calling in research o

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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-23 02:00:58

Stephen Hawking, a British physicist and arguably the most famous man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicated with the world using a sensor installed in his glasses. That sensor used tiny movements of a single muscle in his cheek to select characters on a screen. Once he typed a full sentence at a rate of roughly one word per minute, the text was synthesized into speech by a DECtalk TC01 synthesizer, which gave him his iconic, robotic voice. But a lot has changed since

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Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-02-23 06:00:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. It has become almost impossible to browse the internet without having an AI-generated video thrust upon you. Open basically any social media platform, and it won’t be long until an uncanny-looking clip of a fake natural disaster or animals doing impossible things slides across your screen. Most of the videos look absolutely terrible.

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These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch OLED screen to work with - and they're priced well

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2026-02-23 03:30:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3S is available for $269 These XR glasses provide advanced micro-OLED screens, dual speaker chamber design, and a 201-inch screen visual experience There are no light-blocking shades or electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows support. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Just about every person to whom I demonstrate XR glasses ends up buying a pair for airline travel, commuti

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The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

news.ycombinator.com Celine Nguyen 2026-02-20 06:27:11

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that design can change the world?” Several hands shot up, including mine. After a few seconds of silence, he advanced to the next slide of his presentation: a poster by the designer Frank Chimero that read, Design won’t save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck. My professor was

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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

news.ycombinator.com Charles Rosenbauer 2026-02-23 03:07:03

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. This is Moore’s Law. Roughly every five years, the cost to build a factory for making such chips doubles, and the number of companies that can do it halves. 25 years ago, there were about 40 such companies and the cost to build a fab was about $2-4 billion. Today, there are either two or three such companies left (depending on your optimism toward Intel) and the cost to build a fab is in excess of $1

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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

wired.com Victoria Turk 2026-02-23 06:00:00

The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations—the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, w

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Gradient Descent Visualiser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 23:10:49

👋 Hey there! Let's play with gradient descent. This mini-app acts as an interactive supplement to Teach LA's curriculum on linear regression and gradient descent. Not sure what's going on? Check out the lesson notebook and the corresponding slides.

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The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

news.ycombinator.com .Wp_Post_Author_Widget .Wp-Post-Author-Meta .Awpa-Display-Name 2026-02-23 00:54:05

A nostalgic dive into the Hacker News thread that in 2015 reminded us how beautiful we were when we dreamed in multithreading Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away called “the ’90s,” we still believed that the future of computing would be decided based on pure technical merit. What naivety! It was an era when an operating system could make you fall in love at first boot, when opening four videos simultaneously without hiccups seemed more magical than pulling a rabbit from a hat. BeOS wa

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NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 23:01:43

Privacy and security NovaCustom respects your privacy and focuses on security. We are switching to Dasharo coreboot firmware for our laptops, which is open-source and security-focused. You can find the Dasharo coreboot models here. We do not use Google Analytics. We use Signal and you can reach us via Protonmail. You can buy your laptop with Linux preinstalled. We setup your operating system with the most privacy-friendly settings. Even if we install Windows! Customisation We build your laptop

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2025 ARRL Field Day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 00:04:04

ARRL Field Day is a radio communications event that brings together amateur radio operators (also called “hams”) within your community. The theme for 2025 Field Day is “Radio Connects” – highlighting the many ways that wireless technology connects people across distances near and far. The event is part picnic, campout, practice for emergencies, informal contest, and most of all, fun! ARRL Field Day is the most popular ham radio activity held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend i

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BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 21:53:56

For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular science writing. Every so often, though, something breaks through that wakes my inner child, reminds me of why I fell in love with research thirty years ago, and helps me forget about the triumphantly strutting factions working to destroy everything I value. Back in 2022, I reported an exciting advance in BusyBeaverolo

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JavaScript Trademark Update

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 23:52:00

On June 18, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision. That claim alleged Oracle knowingly misled the USPTO in its 2019 renewal by submitting a screenshot of the Node.js website to show use of the “JavaScript” trademark. As the creator of Node.js, I find that especially offensive. Node.js was never an Oracle product or brand. Oracle didn’t create it, didn’t run it, and wasn’t authorized to use it to prop up its trademark

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Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 21:00:04

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Recession headlines come and go in today's news cycle, which is filled with trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict. No one wants to pin their hopes on a major economic setback. But since recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates, many of my clients want to know: Will buying a home become more affordable in a recession? Since the beg

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I Used AI to Track My Blood Sugar With My Oura Ring. These 3 Takeaways Surprised Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 00:00:05

I've used my Oura Ring the past few years to track my sleep, recovery and stress. But recently, Oura unlocked a new insight I didn't know I needed: blood sugar levels. I'm constantly experimenting with the latest health tech, so I was naturally intrigued when I learned that Oura Ring partnered with Dexcom's Stelo, a continuous glucose monitor designed for people without diabetes. The goal of this collaboration is to help everyday people like me understand how food and general eating habits impac

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #483

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 02:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I love today's NYT Strands puzzle! It's maybe a bit easier than usual once you understand the theme, but then it gets, well, really colorful. And the spangram even makes a themed shape! If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in th

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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-02-22 14:30:00

Before Duolingo wiped its videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May, social media engagement was one of the language-learning app’s most recognizable qualities. Its green owl mascot had gone viral multiple times and was well known to younger users—a success story other marketers envied. But, when news got out that Duolingo was making the switch to become an “AI-first” company, planning to replace contractors who work on tasks generative AI could automate, public perception of the brand soured

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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-21 18:31:38

Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet. The feature is being suggested to Facebook users when they’re creating a new Story on the social networking app. Here, a screen pops up and asks if the user will opt into “cloud processing” to allow creative suggestions. As the pop-up message explains, by clicking “Allow,” you’ll let Facebook generate new ideas

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Latest Tech News

Home Office Setup Guide (2025): Webcams, Desks, Chairs, and More

Google rolls out Veo 3 video generator, try it for free using credits

My AC system isn't blowing cold air - 5 easy and quick fixes that experts recommend

Ultrasound toothbrush promises painless checks for hidden gum problems

The Book of Shaders

LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

Show HN: Sharpe Ratio Calculation Tool

Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 30, #484

The unbearable obviousness of AI fitness summaries

Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

Cloudflare open-sources Orange Meets with End-to-End encryption

A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem

These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch OLED screen to work with - and they're priced well

The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

Gradient Descent Visualiser

The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

2025 ARRL Field Day

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

JavaScript Trademark Update

Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

I Used AI to Track My Blood Sugar With My Oura Ring. These 3 Takeaways Surprised Me

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #483

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

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