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Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data 45% faster with record low loss

news.ycombinator.com Krystal Kasal 2025-10-11 06:37:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Modeling validation. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01747-5 Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer traveled—of optical fibers in a

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Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

news.ycombinator.com Ana Dodik 2025-10-10 04:09:50

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects Fig. 1. The mescher is a geometry representation that allows rendering and relighting impossible objects (left), as well as performing intrinsic geometry processing operations like heat diffusion (center) and geodesic distance queries (right). Abstract Impossible objects, geometric constructions that humans can perceive but that cannot exist in real life, have been a topic of intrigue in visual arts, perception, and graphics, yet no satisfyin

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David Howard Thornton on the Art of Being Art the Clown

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-13 12:30:09

Terrifier icon Art the Clown has made an impact as the new king of painted-face slasher villains and the character enters a new era as a feature at Halloween Horror Nights. The spooky season haunt at Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood features not only haunted houses inspired by Damien Leone’s bloody franchise but also a huge Art the Clown presence for walk-around characters. At the red carpet for Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood, Terrifier’s very own Art the Clown, Davi

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The Lore and Legend of SC’s SCinet

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-10-13 20:15:32

Every year at the high-performance computing (HPC) conference SC, a team of more than 200 dedicated volunteers from upwards of 80 organizations come together to develop SCinet, one of the world’s fastest temporary networks. As a co-sponsor of SC, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) plays a big role in SCinet, engaging members from its Technical Community on High Performance Computing (HPC) to support the annual massive-scale network development. Developed to support the network needs of SC exhibitor

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Show HN: Writing Arabic in English

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 12:04:56

My journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard A phonetic keyboard is a type of keyboard layout designed to make typing in a particular language easier by mapping characters or letters to sounds rather than their traditional positions on the keyboard. This makes it easier for beginners or casual users to engage with the language without the learning curve of mastering an entirely different keyboard layout. However there a few problems we have to overcome when creating a phonetic Arabic key

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SQL needed structure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:43:38

Published 2025-09-04 Here are two pages from the internet movie database: There are two things to note about these pages. The data on the page is presented in a hierarchichal structure. The movie page contains a director, a list of genres, a list of actors, and each actor in the list contains a list of characters they played in the movie. You can't sensibly fit all of this into a single flat structure like a relation. The order of the hierarchy isn't the same on both pages. On one page we hav

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You can now book doctors appointments through the Samsung Health app

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-14 04:17:21

Samsung Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung Health users can now book virtual doctors' visits. They can also manage Walgreens prescriptions on the app. The virtual doctors can prescribe medication and provide care. You can do more than track your sleep, steps, or cycle on Samsung's Health app. Samsung announced several health integrations to connect users with practitioners and pharmacies on Wednesday. Starting Sept. 8, Samsung Health users

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Making a font of my handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 02:06:33

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe. I’d added some bits and pieces along those lines: floating images in articles now look like they’re st

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 6, #818

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 04:00:03

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. That purple category is a weird one for sure. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 6 #552

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 04:00:04

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 tough one, because the topic is so broad. So many words could fit as answers that you really have to luck into finding some of them. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 6, #348

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 04:00:05

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition was a stumper. But if you play cards, the green group is a fun one for sure. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journali

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 04:26:03

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthr

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Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle copyright lawsuit with authors

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:28:00

Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. The settlement is the largest-ever payout for a copyright case in the United States. The AI company behind the Claude chatbot reached a settlement in the case last week, but terms of the agreement weren't disclosed at the time. Now, The New York Times reports that the 500,000 authors involved in the case will get $3,000 per work. The case has been closely watched as top

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I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-14 08:32:47

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e

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Making a Font of My Handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:06:33

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe. I’d added some bits and pieces along those lines: floating images in articles now look like they’re st

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This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 07:32:00

The Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air is currently available for $470 on Amazon, which is 22% off its regular price of $599.99. The price is likely to go back up soon, so this might be your last chance to grab this portable projector at a discount. CNET's key takeaways Anker's Nebula Mars 3 Air is a compact portable projector that costs $599 (but is currently on sale for $470 Despite its size, it delivers a bright picture and loud audio for a portable projector. It can even double as a Bluetooth speake

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

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-14 04:52:29

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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Poisoning Well

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 22:48:24

Poisoning Well 31st March 2025 One of the many pressing issues with Large Language Models (LLMs) is they are trained on content that isn’t theirs to consume. Since most of what they consume is on the open web, it’s difficult for authors to withhold consent without also depriving legitimate agents (AKA humans or “meat bags”) of information. Some well-meaning but naive developers have implored authors to instate robots.txt rules, intended to block LLM-associated crawlers. User-agent: GPTBot D

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Morse Code Translator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 09:23:29

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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13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream This Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 11:19:09

Peacock costs more after a summer price hike but the streamer's reliably entertaining lineup of NBC and Bravo favorites could mean you're keeping it around. If you aren't dropping it, the platform's original series are also worth checking out. Peacock has highly rated options such as the 2024 Eddie Redmayne assassin series, The Day of the Jackal, and the new The Office spinoff, The Paper. If you're poking around for something to watch, you can't go wrong with these 13 standout shows. Peacock no

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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-14 16:39:23

Roblox on Friday announced new short-video and AI features that come amid increasing lawmaker scrutiny into how the company protects children on its platform. With Roblox Moments, users 13 and older will be able to create and share video clips of their gameplay with others on a feed within the platform. The artificial intelligence additions, meanwhile, will allow users to generate advanced 3D objects for the games they create on the platform. Tune in at 4:15 p.m. ET: Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki j

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Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 14:25:10

I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has. If these problems of protobuffers remained quarantined in serialization abstractions, my complaints would end there. But unfortunately, the bad design of protobuffers is so persuasive that these problems manage to leak their way into your code as well. Ad-Hoc and Bu

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Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-14 16:30:00

Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference. The company also announced increased earnings for creators, new AI tools to boost creation, and other advancements in performance. The new short-form video experience, called “Roblox Moments,” is launching in beta for users 13 and older. It allows users to capture clips of their gameplay, then edit and share those clips

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Your electronics could be costing you, even while off. Here's one way to check

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-14 20:12:00

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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Does anyone still use Morse code?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 19:23:29

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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New Study Upends Origin Theory of Mysterious Interstellar Object

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-14 20:45:48

Ever since interstellar object 3I/ATLAS streaked into our solar system, astronomers have been scrambling to understand how this likely comet got here—and more importantly, perhaps, where it came from. As only the third interstellar object ever discovered, 3I/ATLAS offers a rare chance to study remnants of solar systems beyond our own, briefly bringing the distant galaxy within reach. But before we get into the new study, imagine the Milky Way as a kind of celestial sandwich: Inside is a thin d

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ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 20:06:55

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren't people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The company released the feature for all logged-in web users following years of user requests for the capability. The feature works by letting users hover over any message in a ChatGPT conversation, click "More actions," and select "Branch in new chat

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Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-15 00:36:48

Wealthsimple, a leading Canadian online investment management service, has disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal data of an undisclosed number of customers in a recent incident. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, the financial services firm holds over CAD$84.5 billion in assets (approximately $61 billion). It offers a wide range of financial products targeting investments, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending, and savings to over 3 million Canadians. We

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The first Snapdragon 8 Elite handheld has an unbelievably low price, but only if you act fast

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 02:13:39

AYN TL;DR The AYN Odin 3 will start at $299 for the first 48 hours of the Indiegogo campaign. Retail pricing starts at $349, with the 24+1TB version maxing out at $549. The campaign launches on September 7 at 9:30 AM CST. Right in time for the weekend, AYN has finally announced pricing on its upcoming Odin 3 handheld. A clear upgrade over the Odin 2, it’s the first handheld to officially feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite, and it’s significantly cheaper than expected. Pricing for the Odin 3 start

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Tamagotchi Paradise trades stressful virtual pet parenting for nature and tranquility

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 04:00:49

On a random Saturday in August, I became the omnipotent caretaker of a newly formed planet, one born, according to the lore, from humankind's collective love of Tamagotchis past and present. An egg hatched and a planet sprang forth. Then another egg hatched down on the surface of that planet and a critter sprang forth. In the few weeks since, I've raised half a dozen more creatures across three different virtual habitats, slowly but surely turning my planet into a bustling hub of adorable alien

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Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data 45% faster with record low loss

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

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I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

Making a Font of My Handwriting

This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

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

Poisoning Well

Morse Code Translator

13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream This Weekend

Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

Your electronics could be costing you, even while off. Here's one way to check

Does anyone still use Morse code?

New Study Upends Origin Theory of Mysterious Interstellar Object

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Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

The first Snapdragon 8 Elite handheld has an unbelievably low price, but only if you act fast

Tamagotchi Paradise trades stressful virtual pet parenting for nature and tranquility

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