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Small, fast, and colorful: The E-Ink tablet you’ve been waiting for might arrive tomorrow

Clipin TL;DR Last week, reMarkable teased “something on the move” in a short YouTube clip, with an official reveal set for September 3 at 8 AM ET. Leaked images point to a portable device dubbed the Paper Pro Move. Regulatory filings mention Wi-Fi 6, NFC, Bluetooth, and wireless power transfer. Last week, we covered reMarkable’s teaser video introducing a new device with the hint that “something is on the move.” We’ve been twiddling our styli ever since, waiting to see just how much the comp

Desert Graves (2021)

Arizona is an interesting place. Even today, there is much remote country, and as I’ve wandered through its deserts and forests (yes, we have forests!), I have been surprised by how many times I’ve come across cemeteries and graves in the most out-of-the-way and unexpected places. I did a survey of place names on Arizona’s topographical maps and found a total of 147 named cemeteries, but I also found 9 places where there was just a “grave” or “graves” shown (I know there are many more than that,

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 2 #548

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a weird one. But once I caught the theme, the words were short and easy to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini

The 28 best Labor Day deals you still can grab for $100 or less

Labor Day has finally arrived, and after a week of early discounts trickling in, the sales are now in full swing. We’ve put together an expansive guide detailing nearly 100 deals we think are worth the money — including everything from big-screen OLED TVs to back-to-school essentials like the latest MacBook Air — but we also recognize that spending a couple a hundred dollars on a new gadget isn’t always feasible in these inflationary, tariff-riddled times. Fortunately for those on a budget, the

The future of 32-bit support in the kernel

The future of 32-bit support in the kernel [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of position: 32-bit systems ar

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in September 2025

A new era of streaming selections is here. For the past several years, our monthly column, the Nerd’s Watch, has been the place to find out all the best genre titles coming to the biggest streaming services. It wasn’t a complete list. We just posted the titles we think you’d care about, but it was still long, and frankly, it was hard to pick out the best of the best. The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (September 1 on Netflix) Whether or not we’ll see Andrew Garfield as Spider-

Lessons from building an AI data analyst

AI/ML Data Analytics Malloy Malloy TL;DR Text-to-SQL is not enough. Answering real user questions requires going the extra mile like multi-step plans, external tools (coding) and external context. Answering real user questions requires going the extra mile like multi-step plans, external tools (coding) and external context. Context is the product. A semantic layer (we use Malloy ⎋) encodes business meaning and sharply reduces SQL complexity. A semantic layer (we use Malloy ⎋) encodes busines

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work isan option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to compla

Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on

Between 1921 and 1932, a strange man became a familiar face in Greenwich Village, New York City. Howard Scott lectured all who would listen on his vision for an anti-democratic state led by technicians and engineers. Businesspeople and politicians would be replaced, and a new society of abundance would be possible through science. He spread a gospel that preached “technology was the revolutionary agent of our period.” Scott believed liberal capitalism would eventually collapse and give way to a

iPhone 17 isn’t the only big Apple moment this September

September has officially arrived, and with the new month comes the end of summer and the beginning of a busy fall for Apple. In the weeks ahead, there are several key dates to anticipate for Apple fans, even beyond the major iPhone 17 event set for September 9. Tuesday, September 9: Awe Dropping event Apple’s annual fall keynote kicks off at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on Tuesday, September 9. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup, including the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, alongside Apple

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)

Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. There's a site for searching these posts at https://www.wantstobehired.com.

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

TLDR: In two years we plan to turn CocoaPods trunk to be read-only. At that point, no new versions or pods will be added to trunk. - Note, this post has been updated in May 2025. Last month I wrote about how CocoaPods is currently being maintained, I also noted that we were discussing converting the main CocoaPods spec repo "trunk" to be read-only: We are discussing that on a very long, multi-year, basis we can drastically simplify the security of CocoaPods trunk by converting the Specs Repo t

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

100 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for September

September brings with it io9’s biggest list of new books so far this year, with an emphasis on horror titles as the days grow shorter. That said, there are still plenty of sci-fi adventures and fantasy tales on the way. September 1 and 2 Kingdom of Tomorrow by Gena Showalter “A fusion of modern and fantastical worlds, where a young woman must navigate a secret society, uncover a shocking enemy… and resist an undeniable attraction.” (September 1) Bees in June by Elizabeth Bass Parman “With a

Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

Magnesium Supplements Crash Course: Benefits and Side Effects

Suddenly, everyone is obsessed with magnesium supplements. It’s the key ingredient in #sleepygirlmocktails, powders stirred into tart cherry juice and prebiotic soda, a wellness cocktail for anxious millennials. Your coworkers are popping magnesium glycinate before bed instead of melatonin, because it allegedly cures insomnia, constipation, and existential dread. Folks seem especially concerned with optimizing their poop and pillow time. In the past year, Google searches for “which magnesium is

Bidirectional Signals from the Emitter's Perspective in PHP

A New Observer Pattern: Bidirectional Signals from the Emitter’s Perspective in PHP Morteza 5 min read · Aug 23, 2025 -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size php-repos’s observer pattern Introduction: Shifting the Observer Perspective In software, the traditional observer pattern is often designed with the observer in mind: an event happens, like a user logging in, and a handler — say, a logger — reacts by recording it. This perspective assumes the observer (the handle

CocoaPods Is Deprecated

TLDR: In two years we plan to turn CocoaPods trunk to be read-only. At that point, no new versions or pods will be added to trunk. - Note, this post has been updated in May 2025. Last month I wrote about how CocoaPods is currently being maintained, I also noted that we were discussing converting the main CocoaPods spec repo "trunk" to be read-only: We are discussing that on a very long, multi-year, basis we can drastically simplify the security of CocoaPods trunk by converting the Specs Repo t

China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

China is preparing for one of the most anticipated and politically charged military events in recent years. On September 3, in Tiananmen Square, China will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II with a spectacular military parade that is not only a ritual of historical remembrance but also a message to the entire world to be prepared for the war of the future. President Xi Jinping and several foreign leaders and officials, including Vladimir Putin, will attend

Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities

Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities 5 hours ago Share Save Isaac Ashe BBC News, Derby Share Save BBC Passengers in the East Midlands will be the first to test the ticketing technology Ticketless train travel that works by tracking passengers' locations is being trialled in the East Midlands. The location-based technology will be tested by East Midlands Railway (EMR) from Monday, by up to 1,000 people travelling through Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and the stations in between.

The best Labor Day sales for 2025: Get up to $500 off gear from Apple, Dyson, Shark, Sony and others

Labor Day is here, marking the unofficial end to summer as the weather starts to get crisper and students head back to school for the new semester. It also marks a good time to check out the tech deals available across the web. While seasonal holidays like Memorial Day and Labor Day are not the boon for tech sales that shopping events like Amazon Prime Day are, they can present good opportunities to save on things like laptops, tablets, smart home gear and more. Here, we've curated the best L

Ford and the Birth of the Model T

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Origins of Efficiency, out September 23rd. Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the capabilities of the Model N could cost so little. In 1906, the year the Model N was introduced, Ford sold 8,500 of them, making the

The Qweremin

The Qweremin I invented a new instrument: The Qweremin is a qwerty theremin. Background In the summer of 2022 I built a C64-based theremin, described and explained here. The theremin, of course, is one of the oldest electronic instruments. Its main drawback—and strength—is that it's incredibly hard to master. The performer has ultimate control over volume and pitch, but it takes months of practice before you can play even a simple scale. Meanwhile, I've also developed a line of instruments f

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

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

How is Ultrassembler so fast?

How is Ultrassembler so fast? Ultrassembler is a superfast and complete RISC-V assembler library that I'm writing as a component of the bigger Chata signal processing project. Assemblers take in a platform-dependent assembly language and output that platform's native machine code which runs directly on the processor. "Why would you want to do this?" you might ask. First, existing RISC-V assemblers that conform the the entirety of the specification, as and llvm-mc , ship as binaries that you r

Premier League Soccer: Stream Brighton vs. Man City Live From Anywhere

Having suffered an early setback last weekend, Manchester City will look to get back to winning ways on Sunday as it travels to the south coast to play a Brighton team looking for their first English Premier League victory of the campaign. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching 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. After taking plaudits for their impressive opening day 4-0 dem

A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

Suppose we ask an LLM: “Can you tell me about Java?” What “Java” is the model thinking about? The programming language or the Indonesian island? To answer this question, we can try to understand what is going on inside the model. Specifically, we want to represent the model’s internal states in a human-interpretable way by finding the concepts that the model is thinking about. One approach to this problem is to phrase it as a dictionary learning problem, in which we try to decompose complex emb

Scammers Will Try to Trick You Into Filling Out Google Forms. Don’t Fall for It

One of the lesser-known apps in the Google Drive online suite is Google Forms. It's an easy, intuitive way to create a web form for other people to enter information into. You can use it for employee surveys, for organizing social gatherings, for giving people a way to contact you, and much more. But Google Forms can also be used for malicious purposes. These forms can be created in minutes, with clean and clear formatting, official-looking images and video, and—most importantly of all—a genuin

Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

Optical technology is well established for long-haul communications, but the distances it serves are shrinking — especially in the data center. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) already drive short fiber links. But efforts are underway to further scale them down to provide more connections through waveguides than fiber can provide. “We have seen the transition from long haul to metro-to-local area networks and then into the data center,” said Suresh Jayaraman, senior director fo

Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

You’ve seen them before. McDonald’s brings back the McRib. Disney rolls out a limited time only specialty menu. Starbucks uses social media codes to “unlock” new drinks and combinations. And of course, there was Burger King’s Whopperito. Now, Taco Bell is once again getting back into the game, saying Friday that it will bring back a special “Y2K” menu with nostalgia-based items from the ’60s to the ’90s. That includes the Cool Ranch Doritos locos tacos, the 7-layer burrito, tostada, meximelt, a