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Stop Shipping PNGs in Your Games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 02:37:16

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach. I’ll also share my implementation of the suggested approach, but if you’d rather do it yourself I’ll also provide you with the information you need to get started. If you’re using a game engine, it is almost certainly doing what this post suggests automatically, but it doesn’t hurt to double check! What’s wrong with PNGs? source PNGs are great f

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Is Local AI the Unexpected Fix to the Obsolescence of Robot Vacuums?

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-13 04:00:25

During a presentation at IFA 2025, Deebot parent company Ecovacs (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Ecovacs, but Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip) said repeatedly that its new X11 OmniCyclone robot vacuum‘s AI smarts are all on-device. Or the bulk of them are, anyway. I returned to the booth later and spoke with a couple of the company’s representatives to try to figure out exactly how divorced from the cloud the Deebot X11 OmniCyclone tr

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This Robot Vacuum Has 4WD and Fast Charging Like An Electric SUV. Here’s Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 23:00:00

Most robot vacuums have two wheels in the back that are directly powered, though they may still have front roller that allows them to move smoothly. This works fine for most people’s homes but if, like me, you have a lot of dramatic thresholds that measure an inch or more, you’ll find your robot cleaner getting stuck a lot. Ecovac’s new Deebot X11 Pro Omnicyclone (X11 Pro Omni), showcased at IFA 2025, is designed to tackle this problem by giving it four-wheel drive and the ability to climb thres

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Google Pixel 10 review: perfectly fine

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-10-12 18:30:00

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Asking the Pixel 10 to be more than what it is feels greedy. Google’s non-Pro Pixel is priced fairly at $799, which is significantly less than the $999 Pixel 10 Pro. It comes with some handy upgrades, like Qi2 charging with buil

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These are the 5 best budget camera phones we recommend

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 22:00:48

We can thank the Google Tensor G4 chipset for making imaging so special in this budget phone. After all, computational photography is what has made the Google Pixel phones so good in mobile photography. The good news is this processing doesn’t change much from phone to phone, as it is all software enhancements. Of course, hardware matters too. The Pixel 9a comes with a 48MP main sensor, which may seem like a downgrade from the Pixel 8a’s 64MP sensor, but photo quality is not always about megapi

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The Top New Gadgets We Saw at IFA Berlin 2025

wired.com Adrienne So 2025-10-12 17:00:00

Every September, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon Berlin for IFA, one of the largest trade tech conferences in Europe. IFA heralds the unofficial start of Techtember, when companies launch products in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. For over 100 years, companies, financiers, and journalists have crossed the Spree and eaten cold liver sausage for breakfast, just to check out the latest innovations in consumer electronics. This year, those attendees include me and Gear

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The Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2025)

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-13 00:00:00

Enter the MagSafe Accessory World I have been testing MagSafe accessories for years, and you should totally take advantage of the vast ecosystem with your new Pixel. Whether you want a magnetic wallet or phone tripod, we have plenty of WIRED-tested recommendations in our guides. Most of them should work without fail on the Pixel 10 series. Here they are: Other Cases and Accessories We Like Mous Clarity Pixelsnap Case for $70: This is my second favorite clear case after Dbrand's Ghost 2.0. The

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Galaxy S25 vs Galaxy S25 FE: 4 reasons why the cheaper one isn’t worth it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:30:10

With every passing year, the Galaxy S25 FE has been inching closer to the main high-end lineup, both in features and price. They share the same software with One UI 8, boast top-notch build quality, have great displays, top-tier IP ratings, and whatnot. But what started as a solid mid-tier phone that felt like a flagship without the flagship money is now becoming a less enticing deal. With the gap bridging, there are more reasons to spend that extra cash on the standard Galaxy S25 to get a bett

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Google Pixel 10 review: The best of Pixel without the fuss

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 02:00:22

Google Pixel 10 Google has struck a great balance between its baseline and Pro-tier flagships with the Pixel 10. While it doesn't have absolutely everything found in its bigger siblings, the more flexible camera package, new AI tools, great design, and faster processor make for a compact flagship phone with few compromises. Best of all, it still costs the same as last year. The Pixel 10 really is one of the best phones Google has ever made. For my daily driver, I typically pick a hulking great

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 17:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 15:10:47

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs Actually coming up with ideas like GPT-based LLMs and doing serious AI research requires serious maths. But the good news is that if you just want to understand how they work, while it does require some maths, if you studied it at high-school at any time since the 1960s, you did all of the groundwork then: vectors, matrices, and so on. One thing to note -- what I'm covering here is what you need to know to understand inference -- that is, using an

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Gear News of the Week: Veo 3 Comes to Google Photos, and Garmin Adds Satellite Comms to a Watch

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-13 02:00:00

Google via Julian Chokkattu A few months ago, Google debuted a feature in Google Photos that lets you convert your existing photos into short videos using generative AI. These videos introduce slight synthetic movements to your stills, so a person may appear to slightly shift around in the frame, or a picture of your sleeping pup could gain a leg twitch. This week, the company upgraded this feature with its Veo 3 video generation model, which boosts the quality of the results. To play around w

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

news.ycombinator.com Wladislav Artsimovich 2025-10-10 13:27:56

Blurs are the basic building block for many video game post-processing effects and essential for sleek and modern GUIs. Video game Depth of Field and Bloom or frosted panels in modern user interfaces - used subtly or obviously - they’re everywhere. Even your browser can do it, just tap this sentence! Effect of "Bloom", one of many use-cases for blur algorithms Conceptually, “Make thing go blurry” is easy, boiling down to some form of “average colors in radius”. Doing so in realtime however, to

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Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:10:26

If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about a terrible HR crisis unfolding on the white continent. In particular, the report found that sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking were regular facts of life for those stationed on remote research stations. The confidential survey was open to all 2,760 US Antarctic Program (USAP) employe

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Reolink’s New Floodlight Camera Uses Sensors and AI to Detect Where It Can’t See

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-13 06:30:02

Reolink rolled out a new smart home security camera at IFA 2025 that the company says can see beyond its dual camera lenses. It’s called the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi, and it looks kind of like the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi, a camera I recently reviewed, but with a ball-shaped camera housing that rotates to see things that three sensors above them have detected. This sensor-based approach gives the camera a 270-degree detection range at any given time, according to a press release that Reol

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Pixel 10 vs. Pixel 10 Pro vs. Pixel 10 Pro XL: How Google's Latest Phones Compare

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 06:12:36

Google's new Pixel 10 phones are here, and they boast a handful of spec upgrades over their predecessors, as well as more AI features. The three models look very similar to last year's Pixel 9 phones. There's a standard Pixel 10, a higher-spec Pixel 10 Pro and a large Pixel 10 Pro XL. There are still some differentiators between the baseline and Pro models, but that lead is shrinking with more top-level features trickling down. All in all, they're powerful handsets that rank among the year's b

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Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:38:50

The pace of software output has never been faster. AI tooling and decades of platform innovation have dramatically lowered the barrier to code creation. With just a few prompts or API calls, it is now possible to generate entire products, features, infrastructure, and functionality in hours rather than weeks. And yet, despite all this acceleration, delivery outcomes remain stubbornly poor. Too many initiatives underdeliver, budgets continue to overrun, and users are left underserved. If cheaper

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AppLovin and Robinhood added to S&P 500

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-13 14:57:30

Shares of advertising technology company AppLovin and stock trading app Robinhood Markets each jumped about 7% in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index. The changes will go into effect before the beginning of trading on Sept. 22, S&P Global announced in a statement. AppLovin will replace MarketAxess Holdings , while Robinhood will take the place of Caesars Entertainment . In March, short-seller Fuzzy Panda Research advised the committee for the la

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Galaxy S26 Edge renders show the iPhone 17-like design, corroborate Qi2 magnets [Gallery]

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-10-13 06:14:40

Following an early leak yesterday, a new set of renders has essentially confirmed that the Galaxy S26 Edge will look a lot like Apple’s next iPhone, while apparently also adding Qi2 magnets. Images created by @OnLeaks for Android Headlines show what the Galaxy S26 Edge will look like, based on CAD files used for making accessories for the device. The renders show a device with a drastically different design that includes a full-width camera module, but only two cameras mounted on the far left s

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API Blueprint

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:43:21

API Blueprint. A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs. Tutorial Tools section # GET /message + Response 200 (text/plain) Hello World! Focused on Collaboration API Blueprint is built to encourage dialogue and collabora

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Rearchitecting GitHub Pages (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Hailey Somerville 2025-10-10 12:21:12

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions. Every 30 minutes, a cron job would run generating an nginx map file mapping hostnames to on-disk paths. There were a few problems with this approach: new Pages sites did not appear until the map was regenerated (p

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Top Spec Razer Blade Laptops Are Average 14 Percent Off Right Now

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-13 15:52:29

If you're in the market for a new gaming laptop, Razer is running a variety of discounts on both the Razer Blade 16 and 18—the one to buy depends on the size of your budget and your desk. The price reduction varies but is right around 14 percent off for most models, with some versions excluded from the sale. Our reviewer Luke Larsen gave high marks to the 2025 revamp of the Razer Blade 16 (8/10, WIRED Recommends), largely thanks to its extremely thin footprint and excellent keyboard. Razer does

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Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 22:35:35

Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K Games soon confirmed it. "We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," a spokesperson wrote to multiple news outlets. The company did no

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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge might look like an iPhone 17 Pro

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-13 18:52:29

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The rumor mill just churned up a purported render of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge, and it only adds to speculation that the super-slim phone will look like the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro. The renders, shared with Android Headlines by reliable leaker OnLeaks, show a dev

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The Galaxy S25 FE is here, but I’d rather get the Pixel 9a

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 17:34:38

The Galaxy S25 FE has arrived, and there’s a lot to like about it. You get a powerful chipset, premium features like an IP rating and wireless charging, a promised seven years of software support, and a lot more for a starting price of $650. It’s a phone I’ll often recommend over the next 12 months because the FE series strikes an excellent balance between performance and price. However, it faces stiff competition from the Pixel 9a, Google’s mid-range phone, which — at least for me — is a better

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Galaxy S26 series rumor may have just revealed almost everything about the cameras

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:35:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A leak may have revealed most of the camera specs for the Galaxy S26 series. The Galaxy S26 Ultra may feature 200MP main, 12MP telephoto with 3x zoom, 50MP telephoto with 5x zoom, and 50MP ultrawide cameras. The Galaxy S26 Edge may have 200MP main and 50MP ultrawide cameras, while the S26 Pro is said to have a 50MP ultrawide. It’s been an active day for Samsung Galaxy S26 leaks. Not only did CAD renders of the Galaxy S26 Edge show up, but also dummy units

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion over adtech antitrust violations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 02:37:01

The European Commission has announced that it will fine Google €2.95 billion, or around $3.5 billion, for violating European Union antitrust laws and "distorting competition in the advertising technology industry." The decision follows a similar ruling from earlier in 2025, where a US federal judge concluded that Google maintains a monopoly in online advertising technology. Google displays ads in search results, but it also has a dominant position as a software provider for online advertisers a

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Morse Code Translator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:23:29

Translate Morse to English & English to Morse code Instantly Perfect for amateur radio and emergency communications Practice with repeat mode for skill development Toggle slash separators for different formatting styles Use the copy button for quick text sharing Morse Code Creator: use the green morse code generator button to create random phrases Access advanced audio settings to customize frequency (200-1000 Hz), playback speed, and WPM for professional training standards. Download your

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Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:09:35

CADAM A Text to CAD Web Application What it does: Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension tweaking Separate agents for conversation and code generation; simple parameter tweaks bypass AI entirely using deterministic regex-based updates Exports as .STL or .SCAD Runs fully in-browser by comp

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