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Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 23:50:41

Hi, My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable. I wanted a new personal laptop, and I was debating between a MacBook Air or going for a F

Topics: amd efficiency framework m1 process

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The Physics of Parabolic Microphones: Frequency Dependence of Gain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 09:42:10

Introduction Parabolic microphones are known for their extreme sensitivity, and the origin of their acuity isn’t difficult to guess. It is the most obvious thing about them, which can also make them a liability for field use, namely, their considerable size. Just as a large amount of weak light is captured by a telescope’s parabolic mirror and made amenable to viewing with the much smaller human eye, so too are faint sounds harvested with a reflecting dish that far exceeds the dimensions of our

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macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 08:49:36

#macOS dotfiles should not go in ~/Library/Application Support One of my pet peeves is when command-line tools look for user configuration files in ~/Library/Application Support when running on macOS. In addition to offering poor ergonomics for users, I believe this behavior is incorrect according to the documentation which is cited to justify it. Instead, command-line tools should implement the XDG Base Directory Specification and look for configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME , which defaul

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Road to Battlefield: Central Eurasia’s largest startup competition in history sends four winners to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield

techcrunch.com Cindy Zackney 2025-11-03 06:27:59

The startup ecosystem in Central Eurasia is having its moment. What started as 485 applications from across 27 countries — including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, UAE, the U.K., Ukraine, the U.S., Uzbekistan, and Vietnam — has culminated in the largest startup pitch competition in Central Eurasia’s history. The “Road to Battlefie

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Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 10:20:35

Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark's effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5. Both are graciously sharing their schematics and process on GitHub: jonny12375/rp3a0 for the Zero 2 W / RP3A0 schlae/cm5-reveng for the CM5 / RP2712 Raspberry Pi shares limited board schematics, but sometimes—especially when digging into some esoteric edge case for a carrier board, or in Jonathan's case, desoldering all t

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a16z spends $1.49M in Washington lobbying, while rivals mostly sit out

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-03 14:17:27

Andreessen Horowitz’ plan to push its agenda in Washington shows no sign of slowing down, with the firm reporting $1.49 million in federal lobbying so far this year, according to lobbying records filed with Congress. A16z is even narrowly outspending its own industry trade group, the National Venture Capital Association. The pace of lobbying appears to be accelerating from last year, according to a TechCrunch review of lobbying disclosures. A16z spent $1.8 million on lobbying in all of 2024 and

Topics: a16z defense disrupt firm lobbying

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Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 22:17:44

timep timep is an efficient and state-of-the-art trap-based time profiler for bash code. timep generates a per-command execution time profile for the bash code being profiled. As it generates this profile, timep logs command runtimes+metadata hierarchically based on both function and subshell nesting depth, mapping and recreating the complete full call-stack tree for the bash code being profiled. MAJOR UPDATE RELEASED: The new timep (currently v1.3) now includes the required loadable binary as

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Road to Battlefield: Central Eurasia’s largest startup competition in history sends four winners to TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield

techcrunch.com Cindy Zackney 2025-11-03 18:27:59

The startup ecosystem in Central Eurasia is having its moment. What started as 485 applications from across 27 countries — including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, UAE, the U.K., Ukraine, the U.S., Uzbekistan, and Vietnam — has culminated in the largest startup pitch competition in Central Eurasia’s history. The “Road to the Battle

Topics: ai battlefield competition startup techcrunch

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Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

news.ycombinator.com Casey Liss 2025-11-02 01:13:33

Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera Friday, 15 August 2025 I’ve recently become a Ubiquiti UniFi disciple, including replacing our builder-basic doorbell from 1998 with Ubituiti G4 Doorbell Pro. This has brought me into the UniFi Protect ecosystem. Protect is absolutely designed to work with UniFi cameras — as one would expect — but they do have some basic support for third-party cameras that support ONVIF. It occurred to me that I have a small collection of minicomput

Topics: app camera onvif protect unifi

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Hasbro’s Great ‘Star Wars’ SDCC Figures Are Going to Be Easier to Get—But With Some Big Caveats

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-04 04:15:30

Earlier this summer, Hasbro wowed SDCC with an exclusive Star Wars two-pack celebrating Revenge of the Sith‘s 20th anniversary. The good news is, if you just want the figures that were included of Anakin and Obi-Wan, they’re coming. The bad news is… well, you’re losing a lot in the process if you missed out on the now-sold-out set. Over the weekend at Fan Expo Canada, Hasbro confirmed that the newly updated Black Series figures of Anakin and Obi-Wan that were first released in the SDCC-exclusiv

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You can now add AI images directly into LibreOffice documents - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-04 09:25:38

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways There's a new LibreOffice extension for AI-generated images. The extension uses AI Horde to generate images. Images are automatically placed in your document. Although I don't use AI for image generation, I know a lot of people who do. Some of those people regularly work with documents and need the ability to quickly insert AI-generated images into those documents. Last w

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The ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Success Story Could Be a Turning Point for Cinema

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-04 18:45:13

This weekend, movie history was made. For the first time ever, Netflix had the number one movie at the box office with its megahit KPop Demon Hunters. However, while every single other film distributor would’ve celebrated this fact, the streamer didn’t report the numbers. Instead, it put the version of the film in theaters immediately onto its streamer. The message was clear. This wasn’t meant to be a huge money grab or play for theatrical dominance. It was more of a thank you to the fans who st

Topics: film movie netflix release theaters

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Toxic Avenger gets grindhouse-style trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-04 18:49:49

The Toxic Avenger, a semi-reboot of the 1984 superhero splatter-fest, made the rounds of the festival circuit back in 2023. But all the violence and gore scared off most distributors, so the film—starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the title role—has been languishing in the vault for much of the last two years. Thanks to Cineverse, The Toxic Avenger is finally coming to select theaters this weekend. And thanks to the folks at Bloody Disgusting (a Cineverse subsidiary), we've got a trai

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The ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Singalong Version Starts Streaming Today

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-05 03:00:41

After a very successful weekend at the box office—delivering Netflix one of its biggest theatrical releases ever—all those KPop Demon Hunters tracks are ready to earworm their way into your head all over again with the streaming release of the special singalong version of the film. And you don’t even have to wait now that Huntr/X has sashayed their way off of the big screen: it’s streaming on Netflix right now. Netflix confirmed that the special singalong edition of the film will stream globall

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Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' Hits Disney Plus This Week. Here's When to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 04:10:52

See at Disney Plus Carries Thunderbolts Disney Plus See at Disney Plus See more details Days before the Lilo & Stitch live-action movie starts streaming on Sept. 3, Marvel's Thunderbolts will drop even sooner. The action-packed anti-hero flick premiered in theaters on May 2 and stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell and Hannah John-Kamen, among others. The movie follows castoffs who team up for a dangerous mission after navigating

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What Is the Magnetic Constant, and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-03 17:30:00

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How do physicists deal with this? We define the speed of light as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. (How do we know it’s exact? Because we define a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.) Then we measure the magnetic constant (μ 0 ) and use that value along with the speed of light to calculate the electric constant (ε 0 ). Maybe that seems like cheating, but to

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The new Fi Mini pet tracker has GPS, and it’s barely bigger than an AirTag

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-05 04:13:14

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. Fi, the pet tech company known for its smart dog collar, has launched a clip-on GPS tracker that it says is the perfect size for your feline friend or small dog. The Fi Mini weighs just 0.56 ounces (16 grams), allowing you to keep tabs on your pet with real-time

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Intel says Trump deal has risks for shareholders, international sales

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-11-05 09:52:37

Intel on Monday warned of "adverse reactions" from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking a 10% stake in the company, in a filing citing risks involved with the deal. A key concern area is international sales, with 76% of Intel's revenue in its last fiscal year coming from outside the U.S., according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company had $53.1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024, down 2% from the year prior. For Intel's inter

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This simple phone habit could be doing more harm than you realize (and the quick fix)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-05 09:21:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A friend of mine recently told me, "I always keep my phone on silent mode… which doesn't matter because I compulsively look at it every three minutes anyway." He's not the only one. From becoming a text addict to having full-blown smartphone dependency, the urge to look at and interact with our "flat things" has been deeply ingrained into our collective behavior for some time now. Also: How I'm bringing back physical m

Topics: face notification phone screen vibration

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How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

technologyreview.com Jon Keegan 2025-11-06 04:00:00

“They give us a lay of the land,” he says. “This is what a particular region has been like at this point in time. Now, if you have consecutive flights at a later time, you can do a ‘difference.’ Show me what it looked like. Show me what it looks like. Tell me what changed. Was something constructed? Something burned down? Did something fall down? Did vegetation grow?” Shortly after the fires were contained in late January 2025, ALERTCalifornia sponsored new lidar flights over the Eaton and Pali

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Switch emulator Sudachi is no more, and it’s (mostly) not because of Nintendo

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:35:01

Curtis Joe / Android Authority TL;DR Popular Switch emulator Sudachi is no longer under active development. Developer Jarrod Norwell has moved on to Folium, an iOS emulation app. The final version will remain available, but the dev recommends switching to Eden. Nintendo Switch emulation seems to have recovered from last year’s major blows in the wake of Yuzu’s untimely demise, but one emulator from that era remained under active development, at least until now. Sudachi is a Yuzu fork with a

Topics: development final norwell sudachi yuzu

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Apple’s F1 movie tops $600m at worldwide box office, surpassing all expectations

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-06 04:34:57

Apple’s big box office bet continues to break records for the company, with F1: The Movie now breaking another milestone this weekend, topping $600 million at the worldwide box office. This figure beats even the most optimistic expectations ahead of release, which cost Apple about $250 million to make. The film hit buy or rent video on demand on Friday, but a streaming date on Apple TV+ has not yet been announced. In the film, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) comes out of retirement to help mentor an u

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The best air purifier for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 03:01:28

The air in our homes can be five times more polluted than outdoor air. Energy-efficient homes are designed to be tightly sealed, too, so they trap more pollutants inside. Cooking emissions, cleaning chemicals and fragrances all contribute to less-than-healthy air. Pets, smoke and off-gassing furniture do their part as well. If the air quality outside is good, the best thing to do is open up your windows for at least 15 minutes a day. But if wildfires, car pollution, or high pollen counts prevent

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A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 16:23:19

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In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-11-05 00:33:35

In-memory Filesystems in Rust I’ve been working on a CLI tool recently, and one of the things it does is manage files on disk. I have written a lot of file management tests for Bundler, and the two biggest reasons that the Bundler test suite is slow are exec and fstat . Knowing that, I thought I would try to get out ahead of the slow file stat problem by using an in-memory filesystem for testing. A collaborator mentioned being happy with the Go package named Afero for this purpose, and so I se

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Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 05:28:18

Existing TLS/SSL certificates will remain valid and functional until they expire or are revoked. Revocation services, certificate status services (CRL and OCSP), and other necessary support functions will operate as normal for all certificates within their validity period. Notification of the expiry date for existing certificates will be sent as per the standard procedure. More details on how the discontinuation affects certificates ordered in Buypass ID Manager, as well as the discontinuation

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Git-Annex

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 03:18:56

use case: The Archivist Bob has many drives to archive his data, most of them kept offline, in a safe place. With git-annex, Bob has a single directory tree that includes all his files, even if their content is being stored offline. He can reorganize his files using that tree, committing new versions to git, without worry about accidentally deleting anything. When Bob needs access to some files, git-annex can tell him which drive(s) they're on, and easily make them available. Indeed, every drive

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The first premium handheld from Ayaneo's budget brand arrives in September

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 21:35:33

Known for its premium handhelds that often go for more than $1,000, Ayaneo announced a higher-end version of the first handheld to release under its more affordable sub-brand called KONKR. Ayaneo revealed the new Android gaming handheld, called the Pocket Fit Elite, in a YouTube video that detailed most of its specs. The Pocket Fit Elite will be built with a six-inch 1080p display that has a 144Hz refresh rate, an 8,000 mAh battery, and Hall effect joysticks and triggers. However, Ayaneo didn't

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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 18:14:10

6 min read On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) us-east-1 facility caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and AWS us-east-1. This impacted many users who were connecting to or receiving connections from Cloudflare via servers in AWS us-east-1 in the form of high latency, packet loss, and failures to origins. Customers with origins in AWS us-east-1 began experiencing impact at 16:27 UTC. The impact was substantial

Topics: aws cloudflare congestion network traffic

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My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

news.ycombinator.com Yufan You 2025-11-01 20:58:44

ZIP is one of the most popular archive formats. It is used not only as archive files, but also as the container for other file formats, including office documents, Android applications, Java archives, and many more. Despite its ubiquity, the ZIP file format specification is imprecisely specified, posing the risk of semantic gaps between implementations that can be exploited by attackers. While prior research has reported individual such vulnerabilities, there is a lack of systematic studies for

Topics: ambiguities files including parsing zip

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Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

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You can now add AI images directly into LibreOffice documents - here's how

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Toxic Avenger gets grindhouse-style trailer

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Intel says Trump deal has risks for shareholders, international sales

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Git-Annex

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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

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