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An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 01:56:40

UNIT: Dedmen, Programmer, Programming TO: Arma 3 Users OPSUM: An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game experience SITREP Welcome to this technical deep dive into Arma 3's performance optimizations in update 2.20. Before handing you over to this blog's actual author, I wanted to share a few words on the state of Live Ops. Yes, REPception is now a thing. Some 12 years since its initial release, we still find ourselves releasing free platform updates to the game. T

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How Android earthquake alerts work (and how to enable them)

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-05 04:44:00

bymuratdeniz/Getty Images The next time you get an alert on your Android phone, it might just be life-saving information. Google expanded its earthquake alert system last fall; this week, Samsung introduced its own version that might be even better. Here's how these critical alerts work and how you can turn them on. Android earthquake alerts are available in all 50 US states and six US territories, including American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, an

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Startups Weekly: Fast and furious

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-09-05 04:30:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Some startups accrued value at lightning speed this week, and we got confirmation that defense tech is red hot. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Kelly Sullivan / Getty Images Many startup stories this week occurred in Y Combinator’s orbit in some way. Also, Israel once again lived up to its “Start-Up Nation” repu

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The Linkind EP6 Smart Hexagon Panels turn boring walls into amazing light shows

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-05 08:30:05

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Have you ever seen those cool hexagon lights that YouTubers love to adorn their walls with? They look fantastic, and I always wanted some, but they can get a bit pricey. Thanks to the folks at Linkind, I finally got to test some, and the best part is that its EP6 Smart Hexagon Panels won’t break the bank. Let’s dive right in. Setting things up Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority First things first, you have to get these lights installed. Let me start by wa

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-02 14:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 15:09:58

A newly-developed dating app matches potential lovers based on their entire internet browsing histories — and we're not quite sure how we feel about it. As Wired reports, the new service is straightforwardly-named "Browser Dating," and is the brainchild of Belgian artiste provocateur Dries Depoorter. After years creating one-off projects like "Shirt," a top that increases one euro each time it's purchased, Depoorter took a different route with his new app that invites lonely users to upload th

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How to buy the Nintendo Switch 2: Latest stock updates at Best Buy, Walmart, Target and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 16:22:15

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 . Here are your best options for finding the Switch 2 -- and why you should skip Amazon for now. The Nintendo Switch 2 has been available in the US for more than two weeks — but good luck finding one. The $450 console officially went up for sale on June 5, and several retailers have off

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I turned my Apple Watch into a dumbphone with this quick fix

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-05 16:04:02

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET It is a universal truth that we are spending far too much time on our phones. Dumbphones are becoming the solution du jour to the nationwide screen addiction issue. Search interest in the device -- whose primary capability is calling and texting (and not much else) -- has skyrocketed in the past year, according to data from Google Trends. Clearly, there's a heightened interest among tech enthusiasts and haters alike in an alternative to the endless pings, distractions, and

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3 more days to fuel your next big move — and save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-05 16:00:00

The countdown is on — you have just 3 days left to save on your pass to TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station. After Sunday, June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT, prices go up, and this opportunity to lock in savings disappears. If you’re a founder looking to scale, a VC hunting for breakout talent, or an operator ready to level up, this one-day founder summit is built to move you forward — with tactical insights, candid conversations, and high-impact networking from start

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Meta, EssilorLuxottica unveil Oakley smart glasses

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-09-05 20:16:35

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR Glasses as he makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta and EssilorLuxottica on Friday unveiled a new line of Oakley smart glasses that include the social media company's artificial intelligence assistant. The Oakley Meta HSTN, as the glasses are known, is the latest product borne from a multiyear partnership between the two companies. The HSTN smart gl

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One of the best RPGs of all time is coming to Android on August 5

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-05 20:12:12

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Disco Elysium will launch on Android on August 5. It will feature full voice acting and revamped, mobile-first gameplay. The first two chapters are free, with the full game costing $9.99. Disco Elysium is one of the most celebrated titles of the past decade, with numerous awards and accolades under its belt. A mobile port was announced earlier this year, and now it finally has an official release date. The stylish 2019 RPG will launch on August 5, and

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Forget Ray-Bans: The $399 Meta Oakley smart glasses are better in almost every way

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-05 20:25:00

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here. On Friday, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' capabilities, such as filming, l

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NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 20:21:31

The solar wind flows around Earth's magnetic field. A new NASA study suggests that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and strength of the magnetic field have been correlated for more than half a billion years. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Laboratory For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The research suggests tha

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A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-03 10:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-03 20:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-09-06 08:00:00

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from understanding the tactics of the Tesla Takedown movement to knowing how to out-troll a troll. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share with friends and family. The zine, which you can download below, condenses crucial advice from multiple articles in a single sheet of printer paper. The adapted articles include tips from WIRED

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MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-06 08:20:00

Why it matters: As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common in education, law, politics, media, and other fields, many worry that reliance on the technology may reduce cognitive independence. A recent study from MIT strongly supports this concern, indicating that the use of digital tools significantly alters brain activity. The newly published paper explains that as participants in an experiment wrote a series of essays, electronic brain monitoring revealed substantially weaker conn

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Samsung’s upcoming earthquake warning system goes beyond what Google offers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-06 08:06:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is preparing a new earthquake warning system that’s more refined than Google’s broader system for Android. The feature will allow Galaxy users to set a custom magnitude threshold for alerts. Users can also preview earthquake warnings and set different thresholds for day and night. Samsung is upgrading earthquake alerts on Galaxy phones with more features than what Google’s built-in Android system currently offers. Google’s version is a straightfor

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Here’s My Experience With 5 Cheap Gadgets I Bought From AliExpress

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-06 07:49:00

If you're shopping online, you may have noticed products from Temu and AliExpress often come up in your shopping search. These items are so cheap that you may wonder if it's really a steal or if you should stay away. I was in that boat as well. And I love a good YouTube video where the host tests cheap tech from low-cost retailers. So, curious as I am, I decided to try my hand at testing cheap home products from the popular discount marketplace, AliExpress. Now, when shopping for a new piece of

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Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 11:22:59

Git Smart Squash Use AI to transform your messy commit history into clean, logical commits that reviewers will love Why Use Git Smart Squash? Ever spent 30 minutes reorganizing commits before a PR? We've all been there. Git Smart Squash uses AI to automatically organize your changes into logical, well-structured commits in seconds. What It Does Before (your typical feature branch): * 7f8d9e0 fix tests * 6c5b4a3 typo * 5a4b3c2 more auth changes * 4d3c2b1 WIP: working on auth * 3c2b1a0 updat

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FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 09:07:43

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN AND Agreement No. NTIS-1832. Renewed and Amended April 28, 2009. Each month NTIS will select between ten and twenty non-copyrighted videotapes from available stock in its collection and ship them to PRO at its own expense. Immediately upon receipt, PRO will, at its own expense, digitize the videotape and return the videotape and a copy in digital video disk (DVD) format to NTIS. The videotape and the DVD copy are both considered to be property of the United States Gove

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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

cnbc.com Kate Rooney 2025-09-06 12:55:12

At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses. When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment in the artificial intelligence startup, he was apparently just getting started. Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever's star

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4 days left: Lock in your TechCrunch All Stage pass — or miss $210 in savings

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-08 00:00:00

If you’re serious about traction, scale, and funding, you have 4 days left to secure your pass to TechCrunch All Stage — and save up to $210 while you’re at it. Prices rise after June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. This is not just another startup event. It’s your tactical launchpad and the fuel to scale to the next level. On July 15 in Boston, join 1,000 founders and investors at all stages for one day packed with real scaling strategies, live investor feedback, and conversations that move the needle.

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: The Builders Stage agenda is now live and taking shape

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-08 00:45:00

Startups don’t build themselves. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, is where investors, operators, and founders come to talk tactics — the nitty-gritty of getting something off the ground and making it work. This year, we’re bringing some of the sharpest minds in the game to the stage, including legendary investor Elad Gil, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and Flexport founder Ryan Petersen. If you’re looking for real-world

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If You Own a Samsung Galaxy Phone, the SmartTag 2 (Much Like the AirTag) Is Nearly Free

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-08 04:25:39

Apple is widely recognized for its AirTag but Samsung has stepped up with a worthy alternative: the SmartTag2. This tiny Bluetooth tracker is now available at a remarkable price on Amazon – just 18 dollars, down from its original listing of 30 dollars, which makes a 38 percent discount. See at Amazon Tiny Bluetooth Tracker Samsung has refined its design from the previous version to make it easier to attach to keys, wallets, luggage, or even your pet’s collar. Its compact size means it won’t a

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AI residencies are trying to change the conversation around artificial art

theverge.com Deena Mousa 2025-09-08 04:00:00

At a recent exhibition in Copenhagen, visitors stepped into a dark room and were met by an unusual host: a jaguar that watched the crowd, selected individuals, and began to share stories about her daughter, her rainforest, and the fires that once threatened her home — the Bolivian Amazon. The live interaction with Huk, an AI-driven creature, is tailored to each visitor based on visual cues. Bolivian Australian artist Violeta Ayala created the piece during an arts residency at Mila, one of the wo

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Video Games Weekly: Mario Kart World is the opposite of punishing

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-08 17:00:39

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Thursday?), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. I’ve bee

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Hot Octopuss Pulse Duo Review: Not for Penetration

wired.com Amanda Chatel 2025-09-08 14:00:00

I've heard a decent amount about sex toy brand Hot Octopuss from my male friends, but it wasn’t until the Pulse Duo arrived on my doorstep that I had my first experience with its products. I was excited to give it a try because I love penis toys that both partners can enjoy. The Pulse Duo isn’t a cock ring—at least not in the traditional sense—it does help produce longer and stronger erections. More of a sleeve than a ring, the person with the penis wears the Pulse Duo while dry humping or gyra

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Elliptic Curves as Art

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 15:02:27

Elliptic Curves as Art Welcome to the website for our project visualizing elliptic curves. Be patient with us, this page is under construction! - Nadir Hajouji and Steve Trettel Papers Some Beautiful Illustrations

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Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-09-08 18:30:00

When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project, and eventually found a startup. That startup, Borderless, is now helping Africans in the diaspora collectively invest in startups and real estate back home. Since lau

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An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game

How Android earthquake alerts work (and how to enable them)

Startups Weekly: Fast and furious

The Linkind EP6 Smart Hexagon Panels turn boring walls into amazing light shows

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

How to buy the Nintendo Switch 2: Latest stock updates at Best Buy, Walmart, Target and more

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Meta, EssilorLuxottica unveil Oakley smart glasses

One of the best RPGs of all time is coming to Android on August 5

Forget Ray-Bans: The $399 Meta Oakley smart glasses are better in almost every way

NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

Samsung’s upcoming earthquake warning system goes beyond what Google offers

Here’s My Experience With 5 Cheap Gadgets I Bought From AliExpress

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

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If You Own a Samsung Galaxy Phone, the SmartTag 2 (Much Like the AirTag) Is Nearly Free

AI residencies are trying to change the conversation around artificial art

Video Games Weekly: Mario Kart World is the opposite of punishing

Hot Octopuss Pulse Duo Review: Not for Penetration

Elliptic Curves as Art

Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate

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