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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 22:46:26

Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own”. I agree entirely with this point, but within the context of this discussion it’s moot. “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own” When Google restricts y

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Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-06 08:56:52

A homicide investigation has rocked the final days of Burning Man after a man was found dead “lying in a pool of blood” Saturday night at the Nevada desert festival, according to the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. According to the New York Times, the grim discovery occurred around 9:14 p.m. just as the festival’s iconic wooden “Man” effigy began its traditional burn. The victim, described as a white adult male whose identity remains unknown, was found by a festival participant who flagged do

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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-05 23:58:59

After implementing an AI chatbot in the Apple Support app to help customers a few weeks ago, the company is taking their AI chatbot push a step further. With Asa, Apple retail employees will now be able to ask questions and learn more about Apple products to improve their sales abilities. This feature will soon be widely available in Apple’s internal ‘SEED’ app, which retail employees use to learn more about Apple and its products. It generally serves as a training tool. According to the scree

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CarPlay Ultra could soon land on an affordable EV after luxury car debut

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-06 02:40:32

CarPlay Ultra arrived this year after taking a bit longer than expected to materialize. The only catch is that next-generation CarPlay is only offered in cars that start around $200,000. That appears to be changing soon with an affordable EV option coming soon. Apple CarPlay is super popular in cars these days, and CarPlay Ultra goes further than ever by taking over almost all of the carmaker’s user interface. CarPlay Ultra appears both on the infotainment center displays and the screens behind

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Replacing a cache service with a database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 20:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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Growing Up on Alcatraz

news.ycombinator.com Richard Faulk 2025-12-03 22:10:27

On a gray May morning — that’s to say a typical San Francisco May morning — in 2014, my mother, my wife, and I convened at Pier 33 to ride to Alcatraz, along with a literal boatload of tourists. But we were on a secret mission. Hours earlier, before leaving the Peninsula, I had opened the box containing my father’s ashes and portioned out perhaps a pint of the coarse, bone-white powder. I’m afraid we hadn’t planned with an eye for ceremony. There were no satin or fine linen sachets; just Ziplo

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Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

news.ycombinator.com George Dillard 2025-12-05 22:03:30

Most American students learn in high school about the 1856 “caning” of Senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks. Teachers love the incident because it serves as a tidy encapsulation of so many themes from that period of American history. The attack stemmed, like so many problems in the 1850s, from the dispute over slavery. Sumner was a fierce abolitionist who had recently given an aggressive speech opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. In that speech, he attacked Senator Andrew Butle

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New Ruby Curl bindings with Fiber native support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 02:29:23

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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

news.ycombinator.com John Fraraccio 2025-12-05 23:15:19

Click to enlarge A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory. The most important territories in maintaining this late-empire sunlight are the Pitcairn Islands, in the Pacific, and the British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Indian Ocean. To illustrate th

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People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-05 23:13:03

U.S. consumers continued to open their wallets in July, a new study from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed on Friday, underscoring the resilience of household demand even as inflation held above the Federal Reserve’s target. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t wince while doing it. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal-consumption expenditures price index, rose 0.2% on the month and 2.6% from a year earlier. The core measure, which strips out food and energy, advan

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Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Scarlet’ Gets Bumped to 2026 in North America

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-06 03:15:46

Mortal Kombat II isn’t the only movie leaving 2025. Scarlet, the next film from Studio Chizu and anime director Mamoru Hosoda, is now arriving in early 2026 for North American audiences. Sony’s opted to push the film out of its initial December 12 slot. It’s still expected to release on November 21 in Japan and screen at film festivals in Venice, Toronto, and New York through their respective film festivals in early September and early October. The press release calls these festival screenings

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Why Is Tech Worried When Stocks Like Chevron Drop On Global Oil Worries?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-06 04:13:42

Chevron’s stock declined sharply this week before paring back losses, as mounting concerns about volatility in the global oil markets spooked traders. Another group of worried market watchers? Tech companies, big and small. Casual observers sometimes wonder why technology stocks—often seen as disconnected from the oil industry—sometimes react sharply to oil price movements and related news. But the two sectors are much more connected than you might realize. That link largely stems from the br

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 1, #1535

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 03:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle isn't that tough. I like the ones with common letters, especially vowels. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show

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Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-12-06 04:06:24

Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania deployed tactics described by psychology professor Robert Cialdini in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion to convince OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini to complete requests it would normally refuse. Th

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Director Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-06 02:18:49

In Brief Veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch premiered his new movie “Father Mother Sister Brother” today at the Venice Film Festival, where journalists asked him about Mubi, the streaming platform that co-produced the film — specifically, about Mubi’s recent $100 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. “I was disappointed and disconcerted by this relationship,” Jarmusch said, while noting that his own “relationship with Mubi started much before that, and they were fantastic to work wit

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I want to ditch my Kindle, but one feature keeps stopping me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 22:00:22

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I love my Kindle, but it isn’t always within arm’s reach. Like a lot of readers, I don’t just use one device; I use whichever one fits my context. I often read on an eReader, but via the Kindle app, I’m also highly likely to finish a chapter on my phone in the grocery store or listen to an epilogue in the car. That’s where Whispersync comes in. Whispersync is the secret sauce that makes Amazon’s Kindle ecosystem work so well together. And no matter how badly

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iPhone just became a wireless dual-camera rig for pro video production

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-05 23:44:50

RODE is rolling out a major firmware update for the RODECaster Video this week that turns the iPhone into a powerful wireless camera source. The update adds NDI support and is available now at no additional cost. NDI (Network Device Interface) is an industry standard for high-quality, low-latency video over IP. With the new update, the RODECaster Video can receive up to four NDI inputs and output one stream over Ethernet, making it easy to connect cameras and devices across the same network w

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Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack doesn’t just stick to iPhones now

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-06 00:29:43

We all miss Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack and want to see it return. In the meantime, the old magnetic battery accessory has resurfaced in an unlikely place. Apple introduced MagSafe as part of the iPhone 12 lineup, mainstreaming magnetically attached accessories and vastly improving wireless charging performance with precision alignment. MagSafe Battery Pack was easily the best demonstration of both advancements in one product. But when Apple moved the iPhone from its Lightning connector to s

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MasterClass Labor Day sale: Get 50 percent off subscriptions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 02:00:35

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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OpenAI is testing "Thinking effort" for ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-05 22:26:42

OpenAI is working on a new feature called the Thinking effort picker for ChatGPT. With the Thinking effort picker, you can choose how hard ChatGPT can think. When a model thinks harder, it doesn't necessarily mean a great response. You might not want the model to think harder when you're not sure what to do tomorrow. However, you may want the model to think harder when you're working on a complex topic, such as econometrics, bond valuation, healthcare and so on. As spotted on X, OpenAI is te

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No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 03:37:24

AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them. In a recent article, The Economist didn’t mince words: “AI is killing the web.” Published last month, the piece raises urgent questions about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet as we know it: ChatGPT, Google, and its competitors are rapidly diverting traffic from publishers. Publishers are fighting to survive through lawsuits, partnerships, paywalls, and micropayments. It’s pretty bleak, but unfortun

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Replacing a Cache Service with a Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 02:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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F-Droid site certificate expired

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 23:16:00

To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information

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Notes on Managing ADHD

news.ycombinator.com Fernando Borretti 2025-12-06 00:49:01

The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements (really it should be called “stratagems”, since most are essentially about tricking yourself). Contents Strategies High-level advice, control systems. Chemistry First ADHD has a biological cause and drugs are the first-l

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"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated" Why?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 23:39:47

It appears that it was US military communications doctrine to not send the exact same message twice using different encryption ("none" counting as one type of encryption), and the term of art for changing a message to avoid that was indeed "paraphrase". I managed to dig up a US Army document on Cryptology from roughly that era that appears to discuss paraphrasing. The document in question is Department of the Army Technical Manual TM 32-220(pdf), dated 1950, titled "BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHY". It appa

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Jujutsu for Everyone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 03:31:04

This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system. At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu. If you are already experienced with Git, I recommend Steve Klabnik's tutorial instead of this one. This tutoria

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Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Review: A Top-Tier Light and Security Camera

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-12-05 22:00:33

2025 Smart home cameras are just better when they’re wired. Yes, it’s a pain in the ass to install them, but if you can manage it, you’ll never have to change a battery or climb a ladder to get a camera down and charge it, or wait very long for its video feed to load in an app. If they’ve got a wired internet connection, all the better, but as Wi-Fi cameras with wired power go, the $220 Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi camera is one of the best. The Elite Floodlight WiFi reminds me a lot of Googl

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‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Finally Returns With a Fight-Fueled Season 3

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-06 04:25:26

The second season of Jujutsu Kaisen wrapped at the tail end of 2023, and MAPPA been quite silent on season three. With other projects fully wrapped or close to coming out, the studio’s ready to go back to Yuji Itadori and crew, and they’ll be back for more supernatural action in January 2026 on Crunchyroll. In case you’ve forgotten, last season ended with Sukuna taking over Yuji’s body to kill a lot of people in Shibuya. If that weren’t bad enough, several Jujutsu sorcerers were killed or badly

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I Love How Streamlined the Excellent Pixel 9 Pro Is, and It’s $99 Off for Labor Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 17:13:00

Labor Day deal: The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently down to $900 at Best Buy, which is a $99 savings. While it's not the lowest price we've seen, it's still a decent discount thanks to Labor Day sales. Plus, Best Buy has a trade-in program that could save you hundreds more. We don't know how long this offer will last so if you've been wanting this phone, it may well be worth picking one up this weekend. CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $99 off After months

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Nottingham Forest vs. West Ham Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 21:00:08

Nottingham Forest will look to heap more pressure on West Ham boss Graham Potter as his struggling team heads to the east Midlands off the back of successive heavy defeats. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Hammers have conceded 11 games across their last three games, including five at home in a disastrous derby clash at t

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Latest Tech News

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene

Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

CarPlay Ultra could soon land on an affordable EV after luxury car debut

Replacing a cache service with a database

Growing Up on Alcatraz

Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

New Ruby Curl bindings with Fiber native support

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Scarlet’ Gets Bumped to 2026 in North America

Why Is Tech Worried When Stocks Like Chevron Drop On Global Oil Worries?

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 1, #1535

Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

Director Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia

I want to ditch my Kindle, but one feature keeps stopping me

iPhone just became a wireless dual-camera rig for pro video production

Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack doesn’t just stick to iPhones now

MasterClass Labor Day sale: Get 50 percent off subscriptions

OpenAI is testing "Thinking effort" for ChatGPT

No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search

Replacing a Cache Service with a Database

F-Droid site certificate expired

Notes on Managing ADHD

"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated" Why?

Jujutsu for Everyone

Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Review: A Top-Tier Light and Security Camera

‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Finally Returns With a Fight-Fueled Season 3

I Love How Streamlined the Excellent Pixel 9 Pro Is, and It’s $99 Off for Labor Day

Premier League Soccer: Stream Nottingham Forest vs. West Ham Live From Anywhere

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