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news.ycombinator.com Jan 2025-12-27 03:07:28

Viral Language Helena Aeberli looks for rizz in Adam Aleksic’s “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.” By Helena Aeberli July 20, 2025 Cultural Studies Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic . Knopf , 2025. 256 pages. LANGUAGE IS A MEANS of communication and a container of meaning. It enables us to come together to share intentions and coordinate actions, to form relationships and communities, to distinguish between in-g

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A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 00:38:12

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program's eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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Seriously, Why Do Some AI Chatbot Subscriptions Cost More Than $200?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-30 20:30:00

Why does OpenAI’s monthly subscription for ChatGPT Pro cost $200? Because CEO Sam Altman said so. “I personally chose the price and thought we would make some money,” Altman wrote on X. Launched late last year, the plan designed for power users includes almost unlimited access to ChatGPT as well as first dibs on feature launches, like OpenAI’s new agent. The plan attracted, well, power users. A month after its initial release, Altman claimed OpenAI was still losing money on the all-you-can-eat

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This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-12-30 20:48:16

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there are now five confirmed planets in this solar system’s “temperate” or “habitable” zone, the region in a solar system where liquid water could exist on planets’ surfaces. The newly discovered planet, called “L 98-59 f,” managed to evade previous observations because it doesn’t pass between Earth and it

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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

wired.com Samuel Arbesman 2025-12-30 21:00:00

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive amounts of text—mechanisms for doing this powerfully and easily were part of the language—and it was even used in bioinformatics, munging and churning through genetic data. Based on one list, the companies that used Perl ranged widely: Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Deutsche Bank, Akamai, Citibank, Comcast, M

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Constrained languages are easier to optimize

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:21:13

jyn, what the fuck are you talking about a recurring problem in modern “low-level” languages is that they are hard to optimize. they do not reflect the hardware, they require doing complex alias analysis, and they constantly allocate and deallocate memory. they looked at the structure/expressiveness tradeoff and consistently chose expressiveness. what does a faster language look like consider this paper on stream fusion in Haskell. this takes a series of nested loops, each of which logically

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 05:24:51

Why is everyone in such a rush? The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take. Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours could mean: Teach

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

news.ycombinator.com Paula Span 2025-12-30 05:45:07

A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Ms. Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol and blood pressure, she faced a moderate risk of a major cardiac event, like a heart attack, within the next 10 years. Doctors typically counsel such patients about the

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The ‘Predator’ Dropped In San Diego For a Surprise ‘Badlands’ Experience

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-30 11:00:38

Usually, activations at San Diego Comic-Con are announced at least a few weeks in advance. That gives fans an opportunity to prioritize their favorites, map them out, and then hit the ground running. This year though, one major experience seemed to join the party late. That’s Predator Badlands, which took over a huge section attached to the Hard Rock Hotel across from the convention center. Outside, security answered the questions of passersby about when the experience would open. And inside, th

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New ‘Project Hail Mary’ Footage, and Ryan Gosling, Wowed Comic-Con

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-30 12:45:35

A few short weeks ago, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller graced us with an extended first look at their upcoming sci-fi adaptation, Project Hail Mary. The three-minute trailer for a movie not coming out for nine months displayed supreme confidence in the project, and after watching it, you could see why. So to then bring the film to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, along with its iconic star Ryan Gosling, felt almost like too much. We already have this glorious trailer. What more could we see?

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1Password subscriptions are on sale for 50 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 06:00:35

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 . That brings the price of the Individual plan down to $18 for a year. A password manager is a crucial tool for anyone, really, but especially students going back to school in the fall. If you're one of them, you probably have more logins to remember now than ever before. 1Password is h

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Camera Champs Galaxy S25 Ultra and iPhone 16 Pro: Is It Even a Toss-Up Between the Two?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 05:00:13

Yes, you can justify getting a top-end phone for its camera quality alone, but which one is best? Until we see what the iPhone 17 Pro photo system might bring (I have some suggestions), I pitted the iPhone 16 Pro against the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which are both capable of capturing stunning photos. How do these mobile titans compare? To find out, I shot hundreds of photos using both phones in a variety of conditions to see which takes the best images. What's "best" often comes down to perso

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers, You Have Only a Few Days Left Before Interest Restarts. Should You Move to IBR?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 06:30:03

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, you have about a week left to switch repayment plans before interest will begin accruing on your loans. But although interest payments will kick in, the change doesn't mean you have to switch repayment plans yet. Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that on Aug. 1 interest would resume for the nearly 8 million bo

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Cricket Wireless Debuts Prepaid Plans Starting at $35

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 23:20:00

Cricket Wireless has revamped its prepaid plans to trim prices and offer more perks, including hotspot data and bundled extras like streaming services. Cricket, owned by AT&T, competes with prepaid providers from other carriers like Verizon's Visible, T-Mobile's Mint Mobile and Dish's Boost Mobile. Cricket has trimmed its offerings down to four plans (from five) and dropped prices on all of them. Cricket's cheapest plan, called Sensible 10GB, is still $30 per month if set up with autopay (or $

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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 09:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-31 15:31:45

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Palantir has hit another major milestone in its meteoric stock rise. It's now one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies. The provider of software and data analytics technology to defense agencies saw its stock rise about 3% on Friday to another record, lifting the company's market cap to $375 billio

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 15:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-31 15:10:14

For two straight weeks, Finland has been roasting under record-high temperatures. The country is facing its most intense and persistent heatwave in its recorded history, which has brought beach weather to towns above the Arctic Circle. Friday marked the 14th consecutive day that at least one part of Finland reached a temperature above 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Local weather stations across the country have also reported record

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I've Had It with Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Paris Marx 2025-12-31 22:41:07

Screenshot by the author. Photo: Microsoft . Generative AI is nothing but a con dressed up in big promises that become harder to believe with every passing month. After narrativizing chatbots and image generators into the next big thing, to such an extent that credulous governments now believe access to the technology is key to their geopolitical position in the world, tech companies can’t allow the bubble to burst. But keeping the bubble inflated costs hundreds of billions of dollars, and tha

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Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-01 05:10:39

It’s been more than a year since the Ingenuity helicopter broke one of its blades, ending its experimental stint on Mars. On the heels of this wildly successful NASA mission, a defense contractor has introduced a new design concept to succeed the iconic Mars chopper—one that would release multiple vehicles to spread across the Martian landscape at the same time, like a coordinated swim team diving into the water. Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV), in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labor

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Computing’s Top 30: Subodha Charles

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-01 09:00:49

When launching a company, the decision about whether to go it alone or court investors is pivotal; Subodha Charles has done both and learned the many lessons that each path offers. Going it alone, for example, “teaches discipline like nothing else,” he says, and also underscores the importance of every hire, every decision, every dollar spent. This path’s pay-offs include bolstering creativity, a scrappy mindset, and a “laser focus” on identifying and solving real problems. In partnering with

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Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-01 10:49:42

traffic_analyzer / Getty Images As expected, President Donald Trump's administration recently unveiled Winning the Race: AI Action Plan went all in on liberating AI companies to do what they want to make sure "that the United States and its allies win the [AI] race." Also: Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways What about safety and responsibility? Not so much. The contradiction... The AI Action Plan states it is "a national security i

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Dwl: Dwm for Wayland

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 09:40:19

dwl - dwm for Wayland Join us on our IRC channel: #dwl on Libera Chat Or on the community-maintained Discord server. dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is: Easy to understand, hack on, and extend with patches One C source file (or a very small number) configurable via config.h Tied to as

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Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-01-01 10:35:40

President Donald Trump’s plan to promote America’s AI dominance involves discouraging “woke AI,” slashing state and federal regulations, and laying the groundwork to rapidly expand AI development and adoption. Trump’s proposal, released on July 23rd, is a sweeping endorsement of the technology, full of guidance that ranges from specific executive actions to directions for future research. Some of the new plan’s provisions (like promoting open-source AI) have garnered praise from organizations t

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Cricket revamps its lineup and unlike some competitors, its an improvement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 15:30:42

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cricket Wireless has refreshed its plan lineup with four new options starting at $30 a month, featuring lower pricing and a few other tweaks. Taxes and fees remain included in Cricket’s advertised prices, unlike some competitors. Overall, these plans appear to be an improvement, assuming network priority and other factors remain the same. This has been a big year for prepaid shakeups, with several brands refreshing their lineups, including Metro by T

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T-Mobile is crushing AT&T and Verizon, and these plans are the secret sauce

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-02 09:45:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile added 830,000 new postpaid subscribers in the second quarter of this year. The company’s consumer group president has revealed that over 60% of the new additions opt for two of its newest plans. In comparison, AT&T added 401,000 postpaid subscribers while Verizon lost 51,000 postpaid subscribers. T-Mobile added more postpaid subscribers than any other carrier in the last quarter, and according to the company, two specific plans are driving a

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Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-02 08:30:16

Douglas Rissing/Getty The Trump administration published its AI Action Plan, a 28-page document outlining proposed policies for everything from data center construction to how government agencies will use AI, Wednesday. As expected, the plan emphasizes deregulation, speed, and global dominance while largely avoiding many of the conflicts plaguing the AI space, including debates over copyright, environmental protections, and safety testing requirements. Also: How the Trump administration change

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Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:12:30

I’ve been working on Rye since 2018. It’s a project of joy — but also because I believe there is a potential to create something of value to others, eventually. Even people living under a rock know we’ve entered the age of LLMs. I don’t jump to ships too soon, but eventually, even I had to admit: code can get generated from prompts. And in many situations — with a smart prompter — the results are quite OK. Even if you disagree, genie can’t be put back in the bottle. Technical progress generall

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Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-03 10:01:49

Most people, after suffering consequences for a bad decision, will alter their future behavior to avoid a similar negative outcome. That's just common sense. But many social circles have that one friend who never seems to learn from those consequences, repeatedly self-sabotaging themselves with the same bad decisions. When it comes to especially destructive behaviors, like addictions, the consequences can be severe or downright tragic. Why do they do this? Researchers at the University of New S

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How to Succeed as a Freelancer and Turn a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 12:43:55

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Jamie Brindle has been freelancing for 16 years and is on a mission to "demystify" the freelance world. In 2020, amid a shaky job market and widespread rejection of corporate hustle culture, he started helping beginner freelancers become their own bosses. The expansion of remote work, advances in AI and the growth of influencer platforms have all led to a kind of self-employment boom. As Gen Zers and millennials find new ways to upgrade their skills in a flexible work se

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Viral Language

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

Seriously, Why Do Some AI Chatbot Subscriptions Cost More Than $200?

This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets

Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

Constrained languages are easier to optimize

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

The ‘Predator’ Dropped In San Diego For a Surprise ‘Badlands’ Experience

New ‘Project Hail Mary’ Footage, and Ryan Gosling, Wowed Comic-Con

1Password subscriptions are on sale for 50 percent off right now

Camera Champs Galaxy S25 Ultra and iPhone 16 Pro: Is It Even a Toss-Up Between the Two?

SAVE Student Loan Borrowers, You Have Only a Few Days Left Before Interest Restarts. Should You Move to IBR?

Cricket Wireless Debuts Prepaid Plans Starting at $35

The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025

Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

I've Had It with Microsoft

Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

Computing’s Top 30: Subodha Charles

Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

Dwl: Dwm for Wayland

Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

Cricket revamps its lineup and unlike some competitors, its an improvement

T-Mobile is crushing AT&T and Verizon, and these plans are the secret sauce

Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways

Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs

Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

How to Succeed as a Freelancer and Turn a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career

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