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Miss the microSD slot on your phone? T-Mobile’s latest phone might be for you.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 18:11:10

TL;DR T-Mobile has launched the Revvl 8 smartphone, the latest model in the brand’s Revvl portfolio. The new phone stands out from the previous model thanks to an upgraded chip, improved camera hardware, and faster charging. Expect to pay $199.99 when the phone goes on sale tomorrow (August 14). T-Mobile has offered its Revvl phones for a while now, and these are decent if unspectacular budget Android phones. Now, the carrier has announced the Revvl 8. So, what does it bring to the table? Th

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LLMs aren't world models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 05:40:14

I believe that language models aren’t world models. It’s a weak claim — I’m not saying they’re useless, or that we’re done milking them. It’s also a fuzzy-sounding claim — with its trillion weights, who can prove that there’s something an LLM isn't a model of? But I hope to make my claim clear and persuasive enough with some examples. A friend who plays better chess than me — and knows more math & CS than me - said that he played some moves against a newly released LLM, and it must be at least

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Amazon's New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-28 12:38:39

In the age of the AI boom, it seems that everything's getting a makeover. The ill-defined software has totally revamped perfectly good products, from workout apps to creative programs like Adobe's Photoshop to search engines like Google — unless you're totally unplugged from the internet, the stuff is nearly unavoidable. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the brain trust behind Amazon's Alexa embraced it, too. Now 11 years old, the all-seeing living room assistant is getting a fre

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Next year’s Siri revamp sounds like it could truly be worth the wait

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-28 14:38:47

Siri is overdue for some major AI upgrades. They were originally set to arrive earlier this year, but have been pushed into 2026 instead. But according to a recent report, it sounds like they could truly be worth the wait. Siri is getting a complete overhaul in iOS 26.4, powered by LLMs If you follow AI developments very closely, you’ll know that while other tech companies are regularly shipping new advancements, Apple’s AI output has been lacking. There are plenty of solid Apple Intelligence

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'Alien: Earth' Creator Noah Hawley Wants You to Have That 'I'm Out' Feeling Each Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 18:03:13

One of the programs I have been impatiently waiting for has been Alien: Earth. It's safe to say I have been a rabid fan of the franchise (through good and bad) for most of my life. Now, after half a decade of development and production, the show is dropping today on FX and Hulu, and hits Disney Plus, internationally, on Wednesday, Aug. 13. It's about time. If you read my review of the series, you'll already know I love the show. The set design is incredible, the story takes things into exciting

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These flagship OnePlus earbuds are a great buy at full price - and now they're on sale

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-28 23:20:00

OnePlus Buds Pro 3 OnePlus/ZDNET You don't have to shell out the big bucks for studio-grade audio. Plenty of top-notch headphones and earbuds cost less than $200, such as the OnePlus Buds Pro 3. And thanks to a new Back to School promotion, this pair is currently on sale at OnePlus' official website. Also: The best music headphones of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed Right now, you can purchase a pair for $150, which is a $30 discount. This deal applies to all three color options: Midnight Op

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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 06:48:24

Once the basics were done, the real game of Tetris began: First up, just like the conferencing capabilities, we segmented the work modes into 4 distinct groups. It was clear that the space was simply not large enough to support dedicated areas, so we took the equipment and requirements list, and started playing with shelf numbers and their height and made sure that each item is in its best possible ergonomic position. The by far largest amount of devices by volume and space were the musical in

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The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-25 17:36:24

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ. By: Dan Roche A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Four thousand years ago, a woman had a very fancy artiﬁcial eye she probably wore while she was alive. It was possibly made of natural tar and animal fat or m

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Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 09:10:03

Hi HN, I’m Grace from Design Arena ( https://www.designarena.ai/ ) - we’re building a crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated visuals (websites, images, video, and more). We put AI models and builder tools in head-to-head comparisons that get voted on by real users from around the world. Think “Hot or Not” for the AI era :) (Btw, when we say real users we mean real users, so you may get a captcha on the site. Sorry, but we have to use every bot protection available! We only want human ratings,

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Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

news.ycombinator.com Wilson Lin 2025-11-29 09:02:40

Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings A while back, I decided to undertake a project to challenge myself: build a web search engine from scratch. Aside from the fun deep dive opportunity, there were two motivators: Search engines seemed to be getting worse, with more SEO spam and less relevant quality content. Transformer-based text embedding models were taking off and showing amazing natural comprehension of language. A simple question I ha

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A Bunch of Incredibly Sleazy AI Apps Are Claiming to Be Jesus Christ Himself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-29 11:48:04

As ChatGPT really started to take off back in 2023, an Austin pastor made minor headlines when he used the large language model (LLM) chatbot to lead a 15-minute "shotgun sermon." The stunt was largely meant to spark a conversation about how we define "what is sacred," the pastor said at the time. Since that lesson in theological ethics, chatbots have become ubiquitous — and they no longer come with lectures. Now in 2025, LLM chatbots are being increasingly made to stand in for therapists, teac

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Why There Aren’t Many Ports of Games on Switch 2… Yet

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-29 14:22:40

Nintendo wants all the games coming to its Switch 2 to emphasize the features that make it distinct from the original Switch. After all, why else would consumers drop $450 on a new handheld when many are still holding onto their 8-year-old device? If you were twiddling your thumbs waiting for developers to port your favorite games to the Switch 2, know that they may be coming, but only after developers can show they’ll emphasize the new system’s best—or at least distinctive—qualities. Over the

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Cassette’s new app turns your videos into retro, VHS-like home movies

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-29 14:26:54

Longing for the nostalgia of watching home movies, like in the VHS days, but stuck with all your personal videos saved on an iPhone? Sure, you can AirPlay them to the TV, but the experience is not the same. This struggle inspired developer Devin Davies to create Cassette, a new iOS app that plays back videos in a format similar to VHS, making your iPhone videos feel more like old home recordings. To use the app, you virtually “load” one of the tapes laid out across the screen by selecting the y

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Thunderbolt 4 dock for Mac with dual 4K displays and 13 ports launches under $200

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 18:25:00

Thunderbolt 5 is starting to arrive on some Macs, but most of us are still living in the Thunderbolt 4 era. For those users, Plugable is introducing a new docking station designed specifically for Macs. The TBT-UDM pairs Mac-friendly styling with pro-grade connectivity at a more competitive price than most premium Thunderbolt docks. The TBT-UDM supports dual 4K HDMI displays at 60Hz, delivers 96W host charging, and packs 13 total ports in a compact aluminum chassis that blends in with modern Ma

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Alan Tudyk Wasn’t Part of ‘I, Robot’ Publicity for a Very Surprising Reason

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-29 18:00:00

Alan Tudyk has made a fine career of playing otherworldly roles. Sometimes he’s a robot, like in Rogue One or Superman. Other times he’s an alien, like on Resident Alien, or he lends his voice to all manner of weird, wacky creatures from Moana and Encanto to Big Hero 6 and Wreck-It Ralph. Long before any of that, though, Tudyk played Sonny, the lead robot in the 2004 Will Smith hit I, Robot—but there’s a good chance you didn’t know that. That’s because it wasn’t well publicized. Speaking on the

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Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-29 23:16:07

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. While the monsters in each of the nine Alien movies have been a little bit different, the nefarious corporate forces have remained the same. Ridley Scott’s original Alien didn’t need to mention Weyland-Yutani by name for it to be clear that a singular mega-company had cornered the market on space exploration. But subsequent Alien film

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The new Preview app has a fun interactive Liquid Glass easter egg

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-30 15:09:20

As part of the overall redesign, Liquid Glass has been implemented throughout iOS 26, changing how app icons, toolbars, tab bars and system controls look and behave. But Apple is also open to just having a bit of a fun with the new material, like the completely-over-the-top refraction effect when you pull down the Lock Screen. With beta 6, Apple hid another fun Liquid Glass easter egg inside the Preview app on iPad. See the video after the break … Preview is a new app available on iPadOS 26 th

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Weathering Software Winter (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 05:05:22

weathering software winter This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk by Devine on November 26th 2022. Watch the video version on (YouTube). The slideshow presentation was made using Adelie. Thank you to Matt Mascarenhas for providing us with an auto-transcript, it would have taken us ages to put this text together without it. While we are grateful to have had the opportunity to give this presentation, an event in 2025 has resulted in us distancing ourselves from the conference respo

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Weathering Software Winter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 11:05:22

weathering software winter This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk by Devine on November 26th 2022. Watch the video version on (YouTube). The slideshow presentation was made using Adelie. Thank you to Matt Mascarenhas for providing us with an auto-transcript, it would have taken us ages to put this text together without it. While we are grateful to have had the opportunity to give this presentation, an event in 2025 has resulted in us distancing ourselves from the conference respo

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This iPad-MacBook Air mod is either cursed or genius, depending on who you ask

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-01 09:07:45

Back in 2018, Apple said it had no plans to merge iPadOS and macOS. So far, it’s kept that promise. Still, some Mac users keep wishing for a touchscreen MacBook, while some iPad fans want a more Mac-like experience. One YouTuber decided to build both, sort of. Building the iPadBook In his latest video, 舒灿 ShuCanTech shows off what he calls the world’s first iPadBook: an M4 iPad Pro docked onto the base of a headless M1 MacBook Air. The two connect through a 3D-printed magnetic dock (which he c

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Why I recommend this $200 Android phone with a paper-like display over competing models

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-01 14:35:00

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G ZDNET's key takeaways TCL's 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G is on sale on Amazon for $222. It has a unique display, and a feature set that promotes minimalism and digital well-being. I just wish the camera system and general performance were better. $249.99 at Amazon Being glued to your smartphone's screen all day can do a number on your eyes, and I definitely can feel it. TCL's Nxtpaper technology offers a paper-like screen that's made for tired eyes like mine. The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper

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A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 00:26:47

Whatever the cause of cognitive overload, a personal intelligence can help In my grad-school dorm there were four blind students, and they all coped in different ways. Most impressive was Jeff, whose wealthy family was able to provide him with key support technology, notably a talking computer (a bigger deal back then) and a guide dog (still a big deal today). Augmented with such technology, he did pretty well, and in some ways better than the rest of us—a golden labrador is a great tool for ma

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Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

news.ycombinator.com Matt Wiese 2025-12-01 04:32:31

For the past 4 weeks I have been managing my sleep schedule around maximizing the usage of my Claude Pro subscription. Every five hours your Claude session usage is reset. When I first began using Claude Code daily, this limit would often come at inconvenient times. I would be in flow, vibing with Claude on my B2B SaaS side project. Unfortunately, just as I was stepping into Claude's mind like I'm Raz, the dreaded usage warning would appear. Your limit will reset at 7am. But I was just getting t

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Files by Google will finally be able to natively display text files (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 04:20:00

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s file manager for Android is working on integrating a viewer for text files. Evidence first appeared in Files by Google version 1.8436.793259964.0-release but the tool is not yet active. When available, it should let you view text files and copy data out, but won’t support editing. Android, as a platform, was never designed to be one-size-fits-all, and that’s a huge part of its appeal. Some users will go their whole lives never thinking twice

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Apple Is Betting Everything on a Voice-Controlled AI Siri

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-12-02 14:38:44

Liquid Glass is a detour. This fall, consumer attention will be fixated on the digital viscous and reflective properties of the new, well, liquid and glass-like design language that Apple introduced at WWDC for its software platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, etc. But behind the scenes, Apple is racing forward on what could actually move the needle for the tech giant’s future. Writing for his weekly Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Apple scoop machine, Mark Gurman, says Apple is working o

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Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-02 14:40:37

We need an affordable MacBook, now more than ever. It’s time to face the fact that today’s headlining laptop chips are overkill for what most folk need a computer for. If the majority of internet users are browsing the internet on phones that cost $200 or $400 less than the cheapest MacBook Air, it only makes sense to put a mobile chip into a laptop shell and call it a day. New rumors suggest that Apple could do just that, and we could see this cheapo Mac before the end of the year. Apple suppl

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Notion CEO Ivan Zhao wants you to demand better from your tools

theverge.com Casey Newton 2025-12-02 14:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder series that I’m doing while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao. I’ve followed Notion for quite some time now — I’m a big fan, and a major part of my workflow for Platformer is actually built on top of Notion’s database feature. So I was very excited to get I

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Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 08:26:30

“Raised by Wolves” is the type of sci-fi project that deserves some respect for its ambition alone—whatever you feel from it, you have to admire its full commitment to its Biblical proportions, and the way that it uses its androids and killers to tell a story about faith and parenting. Ridley Scott directed the first two episodes of the series, and using his name as part of the marketing is a fair move (even if it was created by Aaron Guzikowski, who wrote “Prisoners.”) This space oddity is very

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AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-12-03 04:35:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Cognitive migration is underway. The station is crowded. Some have boarded while others hesitate, unsure whether the destination justifies the departure. Future of work expert and Harvard University Professor Christopher Stanton commented recently that the uptake of AI has been tremendous and observed that it is an “extraordinarily fast-di

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In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-03 00:15:42

There's no denying that modern, app-filtered dating can be a nightmare. Apps like Tinder and Hinge are cynically monetized, poorly moderated, and run by shady algorithms. A lot of profiles are fake, conversations don't progress past terrible pick-up lines, and half the people are on there just to kill time. Worst of all, it replaces organic, in-person interactions with mindless swiping and an objectifying outlook, like flipping through a catalog and circling stuff that might look interesting, e

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Latest Tech News

Miss the microSD slot on your phone? T-Mobile’s latest phone might be for you.

LLMs aren't world models

Amazon's New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare

Next year’s Siri revamp sounds like it could truly be worth the wait

'Alien: Earth' Creator Noah Hawley Wants You to Have That 'I'm Out' Feeling Each Week

These flagship OnePlus earbuds are a great buy at full price - and now they're on sale

Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

A Bunch of Incredibly Sleazy AI Apps Are Claiming to Be Jesus Christ Himself

Why There Aren’t Many Ports of Games on Switch 2… Yet

Cassette’s new app turns your videos into retro, VHS-like home movies

Thunderbolt 4 dock for Mac with dual 4K displays and 13 ports launches under $200

Alan Tudyk Wasn’t Part of ‘I, Robot’ Publicity for a Very Surprising Reason

Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise

The new Preview app has a fun interactive Liquid Glass easter egg

Weathering Software Winter (2022)

Weathering Software Winter

This iPad-MacBook Air mod is either cursed or genius, depending on who you ask

Why I recommend this $200 Android phone with a paper-like display over competing models

A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind

Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

Files by Google will finally be able to natively display text files (APK teardown)

Apple Is Betting Everything on a Voice-Controlled AI Siri

Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

Notion CEO Ivan Zhao wants you to demand better from your tools

Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)

AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

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