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On latency, measurement, and optimization in algorithmic trading systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 04:10:59

"The speed of light sucks." - John Carmack ‍ Software engineers within the world of low-latency automated trading (colloquially known as "high-frequency trading" or HFT) obsess over speed. From purchasing private bandwidth between microwave towers to analyzing x86 instructions from different compiler versions, those with experience in this industry have seen colossal time and expense committed to the problem of optimizing code and network paths for minimal execution times. But how does one

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Move Over Messi: China’s New Robot Soccer League Is Wild!

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-10 18:33:56

China has officially launched its first humanoid robot football league. And while the players may not breathe, they’re already learning to dribble, shoot, fall, and get back up. The RoBoLeague, which began on June 28, 2025 in Beijing, pits AI-controlled humanoid robots against each other in fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer matches. The first match featured robot teams developed by Tsinghua University and China Agricultural University. Tsinghua’s squad won the game with a final score of 5-3. The

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Garmin Fenix 7X Pro Solar Is 40% Off, Amazon’s Giving Up Its Entire Margin for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-10 23:27:57

Garmin is the gold standard for smartwatches for athletes and the fēnix series is firmly at the top of their line. If you don’t have to spend over $1,000 on the latest version, the Garmin fēnix 7X Pro Sapphire Solar is an amazing second choice and it’s a team favorite in our editorial staff’s athlete corps. For Prime Day early, Amazon is losing all its margin and pricing this watch at 40% off, and brings the cost down to a mere $599 from its usual $999. This is the all-time low for this model,

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Watch TikTok Sensations Savannah Bananas Free on Your Roku Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-10 16:00:05

There's a chance your TikTok feed has slipped in a few clips of the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team whose antics and gameplay style may remind you of the Harlem Globetrotters. In a league of their own, -- they play Banana Ball and no longer belong to other leagues -- the team can be seen dancing, singing and throwing curveballs on social media and your TV screen. This weekend, you can stream a game for free on the Roku Channel. If coordinated choreography for songs like the Cupid

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Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 review: the new king of Chromebooks

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2026-02-10 18:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. The world of Chromebooks has its MacBook Air. Lenovo’s latest Chromebook Plus 14 is an Arm-based thin-and-light with good specs, excellent battery life, a great keyboard, all-around solid build, and a fantastic OLED screen. But the best part is that its bright and punchy 14-inch panel comes standard on the base $649 configuration or as

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The Verge’s summer ‘in’ and ‘out’ list

theverge.com Mia Sato 2026-02-10 20:00:00

Here at this website, my colleagues and I follow our beats closely, from wearable tech and laptops to influencer culture and federal policy. Last year, I asked a bunch of staff at The Verge to pretend to be trend forecasters for a lighthearted collection of what’s hot and what’s not. Some of the predictions really held up: many would say the US Supreme Court continues to be out, congestion pricing in New York is decidedly in despite attempts to kill it, and cats are, as ever, a bit of both.

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New study offers clues about what makes someone cool

news.ycombinator.com Christina Caron 2026-02-10 20:59:49

Is there a secret sauce that helps explain why people as different as David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson and Charli XCX all seem so self-assured and, well, cool? A new study suggests that there are six specific traits that these people tend to have in common: Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous. The study, which was published on Monday in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, surveyed nearly 6,000 participants from

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Development of a transputer ISA board

news.ycombinator.com Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez 2026-02-07 18:43:59

Development of a transputer ISA board I developed software for transputers in the years 1993-1996. A few months ago, I wrote some articles about my experiences, and most recently I developed a transputer emulator in Javascript After my transputer emulator in Javascript was working, I got curious about running my software on a PC computer. I have several PC motherboards with ISA connectors, and I decided to build a card compatible with the Inmos B004 (a single board to test transputer processor

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How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 20:03:15

Recently, I met someone who is fluent in Chinese through Skewer Coaching. We talked about apps that are frequently used in China, and I told them about the ones I have used. Even those who don’t know much about China have probably heard of WeChat. There is even a joke that you can’t do almost anything in China without WeChat. Ordering food, calling a taxi, shopping, making payments, and even using government services can all be done within WeChat. Compared to KakaoTalk or Naver, which are common

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Nothing's untestable

news.ycombinator.com Vidhi Katkoria 2026-02-07 00:04:49

Vidhi Katkoria Technical Writer Nothing's untestable As the co-founder of HashiCorp, Mitchell has been instrumental in the development of tools that many of us use daily, like Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and more. He also helped shape the initial testing strategies for them, gaining hard-won insights into testing complex software along the way. At BugBash, where everyone is a testing nerd (or at least wants to be), most of us have come across that one piece of code that cannot be tested. What d

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Chasing Hobbies over Achievement Boosts Happiness (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Neuroscience News 2026-02-10 20:47:02

Summary: Individuals emphasizing freedom and hobbies experienced a boost in well-being, whereas those prioritizing achievement felt less happy. The research showed that valuing ‘hedonism’ and ‘self-direction’ led to increased happiness across India, Turkey, and the UK. In contrast, ‘achievement’ and ‘conformity’ values showed no direct happiness benefits. The findings spotlight the importance of balancing life pursuits for mental health. Key Facts: Prioritizing freedom led to a 13% increase

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Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

news.ycombinator.com Associated Press 2026-02-10 18:11:48

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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As a Wear OS fan, I’m embarrassed to admit how excited I am for this watchOS 26 feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-10 06:00:34

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I rely on lists to keep my life running: grocery lists, packing lists, home improvement checklists, birthday gift ideas for my 19 nieces and nephews, and ongoing logs of thank-you notes for gifts for my own kid. My note-keeping apps aren’t just productivity tools; they’re the backbone of my sanity. So, when Apple announced that the Notes app is coming to Apple smartwatches via watchOS 26, my ears perked up. Do you use note-taking apps on your smartwatch? 171

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Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper MacBook, but will it matter?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-02-10 12:21:00

This week, we heard some news from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo about Apple entering a new segment of the laptop market. The company is reportedly working on a new MacBook at a lower starting price point than the MacBook Air, and it’ll apparently pack the A18 Pro chip found in iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. While a cheaper MacBook is certainly a welcome add, the question truly stands: will Apple do it properly, or will it serve as another decoy model? Rumor refresh To quickly recap, the cheaper

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Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 03:43:41

2019-09-10 MPG Sources on GitHub The sources for Modeling and Programming with Gecode are now available on GitHub. 2019-04-12 Gecode 6.2.0 Gecode 6.2.0 has been released on April 12th, 2019 (Changelog). 2019-02-14 Gecode 6.1.1 Gecode 6.1.1 has been released on February 14th, 2019 (Changelog). 2018-10-19 Gecode 6.1.0 Gecode 6.1.0 has been released on October 19th, 2018 (Changelog).

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WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 18:13:55

Major update to custom chipset emulation. Internally almost everything in main chipset emulation has been rewritten. Fastest possible/JIT mode chipset timing/sync had major changes which can cause side-effects. Bugs are very possible, especially in very rarely used features. Custom chipset rewrite Custom chipset emulation (Agnus/Alice and Denise/Lisa) almost completely rewritten. Almost every part of chipset emulation is now internally cycle accurate. Custom chipset Denise/Lisa emulation is

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The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 12:38:41

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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Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 12:42:19

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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Love Is in the Air in The New ‘Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc’ Trailer

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-10 17:15:50

If you’ve been hankering for some Chainsaw Man in anime form, MAPPA is taking the shonen anime to theaters with the upcoming Reze Arc movie. During this weekend’s festivities at Anime Expo, the studio unleashed a new trailer show how much love, death, and caranage await Denji and the gang in September. Set after the anime’s first season, things kick off with Denji’s boss Makima finally agreeing to go on a date with him. Just as he’s reeling from getting to achieve another facet of normal life,

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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-10 14:36:54

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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Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on Mars

cnbc.com Magdalena Petrova 2026-02-10 15:00:01

Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, or MDRS, invited CNBC to shadow one of its analog crews on a recent mission. "MDRS is the best analog astronaut environment," said Urban Koi, who served as health and safety officer for Crew 315. "The terrain is extremely similar to the Mars terrain

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Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper MacBook, but will it stick the landing?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-02-10 18:21:00

This week, we heard some news from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo about Apple entering a new segment of the laptop market. The company is reportedly working on a new MacBook at a lower starting price point than the MacBook Air, and it’ll apparently pack the A18 Pro chip found in iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. While a cheaper MacBook is certainly a welcome add, the question truly stands: will Apple do it properly, or will it serve as another decoy model? Rumor refresh To quickly recap, the cheaper

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Amazon's Echo Spot drops to only $45 for Prime Day

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-10 17:46:25

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 . It's still a couple of days until Prime Day 2025 officially kicks off, but the sales are already here. There's deals on some of our favorite products, like the TP-Link Deco AXE5400 WI-Fi mesh router system and the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max. Now, another Amazon device is on sale: the

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Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 09:43:41

2019-09-10 MPG Sources on GitHub The sources for Modeling and Programming with Gecode are now available on GitHub. 2019-04-12 Gecode 6.2.0 Gecode 6.2.0 has been released on April 12th, 2019 (Changelog). 2019-02-14 Gecode 6.1.1 Gecode 6.1.1 has been released on February 14th, 2019 (Changelog). 2018-10-19 Gecode 6.1.0 Gecode 6.1.0 has been released on October 19th, 2018 (Changelog).

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X-Clacks-Overhead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 17:14:19

About the Signal X-Clacks-Overhead is a non-standardised HTTP header based upon the fictional work of the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett. In Terry Pratchett's science-fantasy Discworld series, "The Clacks" is a network infrastructure of Semaphore Towers, that operate in a similar fashion to telegraph - named "Clacks" because of the clicking sound the system makes as signals send. In Sir Terry's novel "Going Postal", the story explains that the inventor of the Clacks - a man named Robert Dea

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Robinhood Wants to Redo Wall Street on the Blockchain

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-10 18:27:24

Robinhood, the company behind one of the most popular trading apps for everyday investors, just revealed a sweeping new vision for the future of finance. And its bold plan seems to leave traditional Wall Street institutions behind. The company announced a daring set of new products this week from Cannes, France. These offerings are designed to move traditional financial assets, like company stocks, investment funds (ETFs), and even complex trading tools called derivatives, entirely onto the blo

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How to Share Games on Nintendo Switch 2 (Spoiler: It's Easier Than You Think)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-10 14:00:04

If your household has more than one Nintendo Switch 2, you don't have to purchase the same game again and again for every console. Instead, Nintendo offers two ways to share a single copy of a game you've purchased between multiple Switch 2s, using a new feature called Virtual Game Cards. I'll walk you through both. Before we get started however, you may have heard of a feature called GameShare, which is also found on the bottom row of the home screen. I'm not talking about GameShare here. Con

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The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-10 12:00:23

Over the past few years, LG has set off a strange tech trend that’s been rolling onto devices sold across Amazon and other online electronics retailers. In 2022, the company launched the StanbyME, which is essentially a $1,000 27-inch tablet running LG's smart TV operating system (OS), webOS, but lacking a tuner. LG's press release announcing the device described it as a “wireless private TV screen with a built-in battery” that is easily portable and ideal for watching shows and movies, in addi

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Mercedes-Benz electric G-Wagen review: king of the off-road

theverge.com Peter Nelson 2026-02-10 14:00:00

As exciting as it is to see how electric technology redefines automotive transportation, it’s just as exciting to see how it alters what we already have. In the aftermarket, EV-converted restomods are quickly becoming big business. But direct from manufacturers, there’s great potential in electrifying legacy badges by seamlessly blending old design with new technology. Case in point is the 2025 Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ Technology, better known as the EV Geländewagen (which is German for all-t

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Deltarune is halfway done, but it feels like a full game

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-10 15:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. It’s been an agonizing wait for more Deltarune. The first chapter of the episodic, parallel story to Toby Fox’s acclaimed RPG Undertale came out nearly seven years ago. But the newly released third and fourth chapters are so good that I highly recommend playing everything that’s available right now — even if there are still three more episodes to go. In Deltarune, you play as

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On latency, measurement, and optimization in algorithmic trading systems

Move Over Messi: China’s New Robot Soccer League Is Wild!

Garmin Fenix 7X Pro Solar Is 40% Off, Amazon’s Giving Up Its Entire Margin for Prime Day

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Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 review: the new king of Chromebooks

The Verge’s summer ‘in’ and ‘out’ list

New study offers clues about what makes someone cool

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Chasing Hobbies over Achievement Boosts Happiness (2023)

Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

As a Wear OS fan, I’m embarrassed to admit how excited I am for this watchOS 26 feature

Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper MacBook, but will it matter?

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

Love Is in the Air in The New ‘Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc’ Trailer

Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on Mars

Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper MacBook, but will it stick the landing?

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Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems

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The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

Mercedes-Benz electric G-Wagen review: king of the off-road

Deltarune is halfway done, but it feels like a full game

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