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Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-11-01 21:31:14

We’ve been doing some cleaning and purging here at Chez Lefebvre and stumbled across a relic. While cleaning, my wife was going through a box of what she thought contained old folders and notebooks, but hidden inside an old Franklin Covey Planner (also a relic and popular in the 90s) was my original Palm IIIx! This particular planner actually had a slot inside to contain the Palm itself, which is why it got lost for so long! As I recall, I bought this Palm IIIx in September 1999 and I feel like

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Why was Apache Kafka created?

news.ycombinator.com Stanislav Kozlovski 2025-11-04 06:31:41

Reading Time: 13 minutes Intro - the Integration Problem We talk all the time about what Kafka is, but not so much about why it is the way it is. What better way than to dive into the original motivation for creating Kafka? Circa 2012, LinkedIn’s original intention with Kafka was to solve a data integration problem. LinkedIn used site activity data (e.g. someone liked this, someone posted this) for many things - tracking fraud/abuse, matching jobs to users, training ML models, basic feature

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 03:00:05

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Grano’ scans barcodes to help you understand what’s in your food

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-05 17:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Most people want to eat healthier, but knowing where to start can always be a challenge. Grano aims to bridge that gap, by allowing you to easily scan barcodes of foods you’re buying, and creating a unique scoring system based on your dietary goals – allowing you to find the foods you need, before you ev

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Line scan camera image processing for train photography

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Lawrence Lu 2025-11-05 14:09:21

I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff. But there’s a lot that goes into properly processing the images. FIGURE 2 A cool train, the Renfe AVE Class 102, nicknamed Pato because of its duck bill-like appearance. FIGURE 4 Nice CRH6A intercity electric multiple unit. 1 Principle of operation The way it works is that the camera has a single column of pixels (or in this case, two columns), that scans at a super high speed. The camaera is stationary, but as a tra

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 12:00:19

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. The result of these efforts so far has left a lot to be desired. We've come across countless examples of publications inadvertently publishing garbled AI slop, infuriating readers and journalists alike. AI's persistent hallucinations are already infecting large swathes of our online lives, from Google's hilarious

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Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 18:15:27

There's no need to fear, for emergency drone swarms are here. To combat school shootings, three districts in Florida are set to trial a drone response system that's designed to subdue an assailant and buy time before law enforcement can arrive at the scene, Newsweek reports. It sounds like something you'd see in a satirical ad in a "Robocop" movie, but no — it's real. The drones can spring into operation within five seconds of a silent alarm being activated, and confront the shooter within fif

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MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 20:45:37

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 04:39:15

Topics: #development Client-side rendering has become the dominant paradigm for building web apps. But frameworks like React can lead to major JavaScript execution bottlenecks during page load. For many web developers there’s a clear solution for this: Ship less JavaScript to the browser. Whether websites have to work without any JavaScript at all is a question almost as old as the web itself. By now, the answer is clear: No, they don’t. It’s firmly established that websites should be more tha

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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 14:00:57

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient has to physically attempt to speak to make these implants work, which is tiresome for severely paralyzed people. To go around it, researchers at the Stanford University built a BCI that could decode inner speech—the kind we engage in silent reading and use for al

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Have You Ever Seen a Black Moon? Neither Have We, but One Is Coming This Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 10:27:00

Late last year, we were treated to four consecutive supermoons, where the moon is the biggest and brightest that it can possibly be in the night sky. Have you ever wondered what it's called when the opposite happens? There is a name for it, and it's happening this weekend -- the emergence of the black moon. The term black moon isn't an official term, but rather a nickname for when a new moon fulfills certain conditions. Typically, each season has three new moons just like it has three full moon

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Axbylute will actually sell Intel and Tencent’s gigantic glasses-free 3D handheld

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-06 23:24:20

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In January, one of the wildest Intel prototypes I witnessed at CES was a giant handheld gaming PC with an 11-inch autostereoscopic (read: glasses-free) 3D screen, detachable controllers, an Intel Lunar Lake chip, and a dedicated toggle to switch between

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Sonos headphones and speakers are up to 25 percent off for the back-to-school season

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:00:36

No matter how old you get, the back-to-school season will always bring a desire to shop. So, sales at this time of year are always more than welcome — especially when they're on some of our favorite devices. Such is the case with the 10 percent discount currently available on the Sonos Era 100. Our choice for midrange smart speaker is down to $179 from $199 as part of a larger sale on the Sonos website. The same price is available on Amazon, as are some more deals on Sonos products. Sonos debu

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Get That Stinky Compost Off Your Counter. Here's Where Food Scraps Should Really Go

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 12:30:02

Composting benefits the environment and your garden, but the odor is something to contend with. Fortunately, unpleasant smells aren't inevitable. Modern countertop composters and food scrap processors dry and grind waste within hours to maintain a fresh-smelling kitchen. We tested both the Lomi composter and Mill kitchen bin -- each performed admirably, though both require an investment of several hundred dollars. You don't need expensive gadgets to keep food scraps out of the landfill (and out

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Everything is correlated (2014–23)

news.ycombinator.com Hodges 2025-11-07 04:05:53

“Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable”, Meehl (also discussed in Cohen’s paper “The Earth is Round (p < 0.05)”): Problem 6. Crud factor: In the social sciences and arguably in the biological sciences, “everything correlates to some extent with everything else.” This truism, which I have found no competent psychologist disputes given 5 minutes reflection, does not apply to pure experimental studies in which attributes that the subjects bring with them are

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This Secret iPhone Feature Lets You Create Your Own Custom Controls

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 03:00:02

Apple released iOS 18 in 2024, and the update brought a lot of features to your iPhone, like the ability to lock and hide certain apps on your device and more ways to customize your lock screen and Control Center. One feature the update brought to your device is called Open App, and it lets you create custom controls to open any app from those screens. This feature can be used on either your lock screen or Control Center to open games, social media apps and more. There are a lot of new controls

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Google’s AI-stuffed Pixel 10 event

theverge.com Jacob Kastrenakes 2025-11-08 04:45:00

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Pixel line has often been on the cutting edge of mobile photography. This year, that means baking AI straight into the camera app and making us grapple with all of the very messy things that means. I’ve been scouring the internet for sample images of the Pixel 10 Pro’s AI-enhanced 100x zoom feature — Pro

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Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-11-08 15:00:00

That idea is not without its detractors. Among other issues, many feel AI is not capable of the creative thought needed in research, makes too many mistakes and hallucinations, and may limit opportunities for young researchers. Nevertheless, a number of scientists and policymakers are very keen on the promise of AI scientists. The US government’s AI Action Plan describes the need to “invest in automated cloud-enabled labs for a range of scientific fields.” Some researchers think AI scientists c

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Google is supercharging screenshot editing on your Pixel with Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:30:17

The feature was first spotted by Telegram user Omar Tosca, who also shared a demo video of how it works with us (see above). Once you capture a screenshot, tapping the edit button launches Pixel Studio instead of the usual editor. From there, you can crop the image, highlight specific areas, or even select a portion of the screenshot for AI-assisted edits. Once an area in the screenshot is selected, you can simply describe the change you want, and the AI applies it. In Tosca’s video, for example

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Some Pixel owners are getting a more powerful At A Glance widget

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 15:37:26

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Some Pixel phone owners are seeing sports and finance cards in their At A Glance widget. The sports card shows soccer scores, but our previous leak also revealed support for cricket scores. The finance card seems to show stock information. Google’s At A Glance widget is a useful feature on Pixel phones. It displays the weather, calendar events, boarding passes, and more directly on your home screen. Now, it looks like the widget is picking up a couple of

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Here’s what to expect from One UI 8 on Samsung’s tri-fold device

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 16:38:19

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s triple-screen or tri-fold device will apparently gain at least two capabilities to take advantage of the large screen. The device could let you run three apps side-by-side on the folding screen, with suggestions of an app trio feature. The Samsung tri-fold could also gain the Z Fold line’s cover screen mirroring features. Samsung is hard at work on its multi-fold device (or tri-fold), and the company previously confirmed a launch before the e

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24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville

news.ycombinator.com Andrew P. Collins 2025-11-04 06:40:35

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. A British outfit called Bo makes a sleek little electric scooter called the Model-M. The best variant claims a 22 mph top speed and a 40-mile range for $2,500. Sounds pricey but practical. The prototype Turbo model is another story—it’s gunning for triple-digit speeds at the Bonneville salt flats next month. Bo has been around since 2022, but seems to

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Everything Is Correlated

news.ycombinator.com Hodges 2025-11-08 10:05:53

“Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable”, Meehl (also discussed in Cohen’s paper “The Earth is Round (p < 0.05)”): Problem 6. Crud factor: In the social sciences and arguably in the biological sciences, “everything correlates to some extent with everything else.” This truism, which I have found no competent psychologist disputes given 5 minutes reflection, does not apply to pure experimental studies in which attributes that the subjects bring with them are

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Philosophical Thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Ziming Liu 2025-11-04 09:03:12

Recently, collaborators and I proposed a new type of neural networks called the Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), which are somewhat similar to but mostly different from Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). The technical differences between MLPs and KANs can be found in our paper and many discussions over the internet. This blogpost does not delve into technicalities, but want to lay out quick philosophical thoughts, open to discussion. I will attempt to answer the follwoing questions: Q1: Are KAN

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Apple TV+ subscription price increasing to $12.99 per month from today

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-08 08:00:00

Apple today announced that the monthly price of Apple TV+ is rising in the United States and some international markets. From today, the monthly subscription will cost $12.99, up from $9.99. Existing subscribers will see the price change 30 days after the next renewal date. The pricing for yearly TV+ subscriptions and the Apple One services bundle remains unchanged. In a statement, Apple said that Apple TV+ has expanded its deep library of originals since launch, and that Apple One is the “the

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Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 16:25:25

💡 This prompt will be used to initialize the game world. Be descriptive about the desired scene or environment.

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Best early Labor Day laptop deals 2025: Sales on Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and more

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-09 14:58:02

How did we choose these deals? I found over 30 deals in my initial research, and wanted to include them, but decided to keep things short. While considering the products on this list, I took into account the device's popularity, quality, and discount amount. From there, I whittled things down to the 18 entries you see above. Should I buy a MacBook, Windows laptop, or Chromebook? It ultimatley depends on what you want as a user and what you're looking for. There isn't a hardset answer to this

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Severance stars face off in delightful trivia game show, watch here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-09 18:42:11

If the wait for Severance season 3 is wearing on you, Apple just released the perfect way to ease your pain. A new video episode of the Severance podcast is available now, featuring the cast competing against each other in a trivia game show “Tournament of Fripperies.” Severance trivia show features series cast and creators The official Severance podcast has historically been an audio-focused show. Hosted by Ben Stiller and star Adam Scott, the podcast started as a way of recapping Severance

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The contrarian physics podcast subculture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 17:13:56

This is the story of how a circle of popular science communicators, who built their brands on championing free inquiry, worked to suppress scientific critique. Of how Eric Weinstein, the man who condemns the scientific community for suppressing his and his family’s work, nearly succeeded in cancelling me through intimidation and false threats. And of how Sabine Hossenfelder spins the truth for the sake of audience capture and podcast hosts Brian Keating and Curt Jaimungal prioritize tribe loyalt

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After successes like Severance and The Studio, Apple TV+ gets a price hike

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 18:46:28

Apple has announced another price increase for its Apple TV+ video-streaming service. Starting today, a new monthly subscription will cost $12.99; it was previously $9.99. Existing subscribers will see the new price take effect during their next billing cycle. Annual plans and Apple TV+'s inclusion in Apple One at current pricing will remain unchanged. The price of Apple TV+ has practically doubled since its launch a few years ago. There are many reasons for this. When a streaming service fir

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Latest Tech News

Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

Why was Apache Kafka created?

AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Grano’ scans barcodes to help you understand what’s in your food

Line scan camera image processing for train photography

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Have You Ever Seen a Black Moon? Neither Have We, but One Is Coming This Weekend

Axbylute will actually sell Intel and Tencent’s gigantic glasses-free 3D handheld

Sonos headphones and speakers are up to 25 percent off for the back-to-school season

Get That Stinky Compost Off Your Counter. Here's Where Food Scraps Should Really Go

Everything is correlated (2014–23)

This Secret iPhone Feature Lets You Create Your Own Custom Controls

Google’s AI-stuffed Pixel 10 event

Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

Google is supercharging screenshot editing on your Pixel with Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1

Some Pixel owners are getting a more powerful At A Glance widget

Here’s what to expect from One UI 8 on Samsung’s tri-fold device

24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville

Everything Is Correlated

Philosophical Thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (2024)

Apple TV+ subscription price increasing to $12.99 per month from today

Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

Best early Labor Day laptop deals 2025: Sales on Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and more

Severance stars face off in delightful trivia game show, watch here

The contrarian physics podcast subculture

After successes like Severance and The Studio, Apple TV+ gets a price hike

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