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Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 08:47:12

Sumerian myth The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian myth that narrates the descent of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian) into the Underworld to overthrow its ruler, her sister Ereshkigal, the "Queen of the Dead." But following the removal of her adornments, she perishes and her corpse is suspended on a nail. The god Enki intervenes indirectly, restoring Inanna to life. H

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CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:00:22

Pink Slip Pride Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling; instead, CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in AI. As the Wall Street Journal reports, CEOs are now bragging about shrinking their companies' staff, highlighting a cooling job market and an unwavering commitment to automation at all costs. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told investors last week that the telecom had been "very, very good" on headcount, meaning that "it's going down all t

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-15 18:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-15 21:49:02

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup The inclusion of chess in this year's schedule was somewhat controversial, but the tournament's organisers argued it counted as an esport as it is played by millions of people of all ages. The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports Worl

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The best reason to skip iPhone 17 is coming next year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-16 15:28:47

Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup is coming very soon with compelling new features, but the best reason to skip this year’s flagships is a brand new model debuting next year: the iPhone Fold. iPhone 17 will have plenty to offer, but Apple has something special coming next year Every year, Apple rolls out new iPhones. Features like cameras, displays, and battery often get better. Design elements may change. Each new launch can prompt the question: is now the right time to upgrade? This year, Apple has

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Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 05:01:08

Software Engineer Engineering • Full Time Want to make it so that millions of Americans get better financial outcomes, the insurance industry is more price transparent and policies are easy to understand? Join Coverage Cat, where we’ve built the AI-native insurance broker of the future, combining data, matchmaking, and recommendations into a single-service website that solves non-commercial insurance needs. We look for senior engineers that want to own and build products end to end, gather th

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Familiar specs, new name: Intel's Core 5 120 processors enter the market

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-17 14:53:00

What just happened? Intel has quietly introduced the Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F processors, modest additions to its budget desktop lineup at a time when industry focus is shifting toward next-gen architectures. The low-key launch was first spotted by hardware leaker @momomo_us, suggesting Intel is still actively refreshing its product stack – even as it looks to phase out older silicon. The Core 5 120 doesn't break new ground but instead traces its lineage directly to Intel's older Alder Lake a

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

wired.com David Cox 2025-12-18 00:19:14

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in 7 weeks but still can't keep up with demand

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 05:00:11

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 . Nintendo has already sold 5.82 million Switch 2s since the console went on sale on June 6th and still expects to sell 15 million units by the end of its fiscal year in March 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily outsell the or

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Can your PC run Battlefield 6? Full system requirements and multiplayer details revealed

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-18 15:16:00

What just happened? Most big PC releases these days come with the anxiety of whether your PC will be able to play them well – or at all. Thankfully, Battlefield 6's just-revealed PC requirements are pretty forgiving. DICE and EA have also unveiled a slew of extra information about the FPS, including more on its multiplayer element and next month's Open Betas. Battlefield 6's minimum system requirements ask for at least an RTX 2060, RX 5600 XT 6GB, or Intel Arc A380 paired with an Intel Core i5-

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Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 18:58:36

Image by Annie Ruygt This is a post about building up your own Static Site Generator from scratch. If you want to deploy your Phoenix LiveView app right now, then check out how to get started. You could be up and running in minutes. The year is 2023, you have many options for building a Static Website. From the OG Jekyll to literally hundreds of JavaScript based options to people suggesting you should just craft HTML by hand. All of these solutions are correct and good, and you know what? You

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-18 17:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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How to Join the Battlefield 6 Open Beta: Early Access Sign Up and Weekend Dates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 22:49:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and players will soon get to join the fray themselves. A Battlefield 6 public beta is coming on two consecutive weekends starting Aug. 9 -- and if you're lucky enough to get in Early Access, to play starting Aug. 7 -- and here's how to join. The Battlefield 6 open betas will be the first chances for players to get to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release Oct. 10. The first

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The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-19 05:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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Battlefield 6 gets an October 10 release date

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 10:01:50

Fall is often first-person shooter season, and looks like this year's release calendar will include the next entry in the Battlefield series. Battlefield 6 is launching on October 10, and will be available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC via Steam, Epic Games and the EA Play app. The previous trailer for the first-person shooter only showed content from the game's single-player campaign. While there have been some solid stories in the Battlefield franchise, the main draw for ma

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Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-19 20:10:52

Figma 's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO. The big opening pop is the latest indication that the tech IPO market has reopened following a multi-year lull that began in early 2022, when inflation was soaring and interest rates were on the rise. So far this year, online bank Chime , stablecoin issuer Circle and artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave have hit the market

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Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 00:21:07

LWN wrote an article which opens with the assertion "Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September". This is, depending on interpretation, either misleading or just plain wrong, but also there's not a good source of truth here, so.First, how does secure boot signing work? Every system that supports UEFI secure boot ships with a set of trusted certificates in a database called "db". Any binary sig

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Viral Video of Robot Arms Folding Laundry Confirmed to Be CGI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:15:15

Nothing captures the public imagination quite like an outrageous contraption that promises to do your most annoying chores for you. Case in point, this week, a video of a laundry-folding robot called "Lume" went viral on X. It's not a humanoid machine, but a pair of robotic arms that double as two bedside floor lamps — "the first robot designed to blend into your home," a caption reads. In the video, a woman dumps a bunch of blankets onto her bed, before the light fixture automaton unsheathe th

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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 03:55:16

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on

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Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 15:15:36

If you’re a developer rocking an Apple Silicon Mac and writing in Zig, congratulations - you’ve chosen the scenic route through the desert of profiling tools. It’s just you, your code, and a tumbleweed named Apple Instruments. But don’t worry - we’ll try to find some oases. Okay, it’s not that bad, but we’re far away from the rich ecosystem of profiling tools available on Linux. Note: I have limited experience using low-level languages, so this article doesn’t provide a deep dive into profili

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Pixel 10 Pro Fold Price Leak Reveals the Brutal Truth of Book-Style Foldable Phones

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-12-20 15:15:10

When Google announces its new family of Pixel 10 phones next month on August 20, there will likely be one bit of news that will surprise—or perhaps not surprise—everyone. And that’s the fact that its third-gen book-style foldable, currently dubbed the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, will almost certainly still start at a whopping $1,800. Android Headlines is exclusively reporting that the Pixel 10 Pro Fold will come in three storage capacities, including a new 1TB version. A 256GB model will reportedly cost

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Galaxy Z Fold 7 Breaks Record for Highest Number of Fold Preorders

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 23:00:08

Samsung's latest foldables are already making quite a statement, beyond their bold new designs -- or maybe because of them. The phone-maker said in a newsroom post Thursday that the Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is its thinnest foldable yet, racked up more preorders "than any previous Z Fold device in US history." It added that both the Z Fold 7 and the Z Flip 7 saw a more than 25% hike in total preorders compared with last year's handsets. Carriers also saw an uptick in sales. Samsung says there was

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Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 08:50:28

TL;DR Google is bringing several new features to the Android Photo Picker tool. These features include the ability to change the photo grid view size, as well as a new way to choose multiple photos. These additions seem to be rolling out via the latest Android Canary release. Google introduced the Photo Picker tool in Android 13, allowing you to choose which photos an app can access. Now, this tool has received a few more quality-of-life additions. Authority Insights story on Android Authori

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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 just made pre-order history in the US

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:00:17

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has shared US pre-order numbers for the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. According to the company, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 has become the most pre-ordered Galaxy Fold in US history. Together, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 have recorded more than a 25% increase in US pre-orders Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 has become the most pre-ordered Galaxy Fold in US history. The milestone comes as no surprise, considering the fold

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Everyone hates the new Google Photos editing interface

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:00:34

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority Change isn’t always easy, and while sometimes we resist it for as long as we can, dealing with it is more often than not an inevitability. Though our attitudes may sometimes gravitate more towards acceptance than full-on embracing that change, swallowing that pill can be a lot easier if we feel reassured that we’re moving in a positive direction — that we’re at least going to get some benefit from the change. Right now, Google Photos is going through some gr

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review: Quantum leap

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:00:42

The first foldable phones hit the market six years ago, and they were rife with compromises and shortcomings. Many of those problems have persisted, but little by little, foldables have gotten better. With the release of the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Samsung has made the biggest leap yet. This device solves some of the most glaring problems with Samsung's foldables, featuring a new, slimmer design and a big camera upgrade. Samsung's seventh-generation foldable has finally crossed that hazy boundary betw

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TikTok removes video by Huda Beauty boss over anti-Israel conspiracy theories

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-20 18:16:28

TikTok removes video by Huda Beauty boss over anti-Israel conspiracy theories 16 hours ago Share Save Ian Youngs & Annabel Rackham Culture reporter Share Save Getty Images Huda Kattan's Huda Beauty brand is stocked in a number of major UK chains TikTok has removed a video by businesswoman and beauty influencer Huda Kattan in which she promoted conspiracy theories about Israel. The Iraqi-American entrepreneur, who is founder and CEO of the popular Huda Beauty brand, said in a video posted on S

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Worried about the Galaxy Z Flip 7’s screen durability? Here’s what Samsung says.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:30:16

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Display has confirmed that the Galaxy Z Flip 7’s folding screen durability is on par with that of the Galaxy Z Fold 7. This comes after the company revealed that the Z Fold 7’s screen can better withstand extreme temperatures. That means the folding screen on both phones is significantly more durable than their predecessors. Samsung Display recently announced that the Galaxy Z Fold 7’s folding screen is rated for an impressive 500,000 folds. T

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I spent a week in New York City with the Samsung Z Fold 7 - and it spoiled me the entire time

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-21 12:30:14

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 ZDNET's key takeaways The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an excellent upgrade over its predecessor, thanks to its slim and light design, a strong hinge and a wider coverscreen. It's very expensive at $2,000 for the starting configuration. But you'll dig the improved hardware, especially if you're familiar with foldable phones from the global market. $2,000 at Samsung $2,000 at Amazon more buying choices For a limited time, you can buy the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and receive a free $200 gi

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Latest Tech News

Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

The best reason to skip iPhone 17 is coming next year

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer

Familiar specs, new name: Intel's Core 5 120 processors enter the market

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in 7 weeks but still can't keep up with demand

Can your PC run Battlefield 6? Full system requirements and multiplayer details revealed

Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023)

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

How to Join the Battlefield 6 Open Beta: Early Access Sign Up and Weekend Dates

The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

Battlefield 6 gets an October 10 release date

Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

Viral Video of Robot Arms Folding Laundry Confirmed to Be CGI

U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon

Pixel 10 Pro Fold Price Leak Reveals the Brutal Truth of Book-Style Foldable Phones

Galaxy Z Fold 7 Breaks Record for Highest Number of Fold Preorders

Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 just made pre-order history in the US

Everyone hates the new Google Photos editing interface

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review: Quantum leap

TikTok removes video by Huda Beauty boss over anti-Israel conspiracy theories

Worried about the Galaxy Z Flip 7’s screen durability? Here’s what Samsung says.

I spent a week in New York City with the Samsung Z Fold 7 - and it spoiled me the entire time

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