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I replaced my Windows PC with Lenovo's SteamOS handheld - and didn't regret it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-15 15:52:00

Lenovo Legion Go S (SteamOS) ZDNET's key takeaways The Legion Go S running SteamOS is on sale for $600. This version trims the fat and delivers a streamlined gaming experience via a vibrant 8-inch screen. The simpler OS means less features than the Windows model. View now at Best Buy Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. No, you're not seeing double. This is the second review I've done for Lenovo's Legion Go S. However, th

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I’d pay for a decoy PIN and profile on my Android phone, and I’m not alone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-16 11:00:20

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A few days ago, my colleague Calvin shared an interesting fact about GrapheneOS: The custom ROM allows him to set a duress PIN that completely erases the phone when he enters it, including encryption keys and the eSIM partition. It’s a very drastic privacy measure that lets anyone protect their data if they’re being forced to hand over or unlock their phone when they don’t want to do it. I love that the feature exists for those who think they might need it, e

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I swapped my PC for Lenovo's SteamOS handheld - and don't miss Windows at all

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-16 12:30:18

Lenovo Legion Go S (SteamOS) ZDNET's key takeaways The Legion Go S running SteamOS is on sale for $600. This version trims the fat and delivers a streamlined gaming experience via a vibrant 8-inch screen. The simpler OS means less features than the Windows model. View now at Best Buy Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. No, you're not seeing double. This is the second review I've done for Lenovo's Legion Go S. However, th

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Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-11-25 23:11:55

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

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Sequoia's Moritz backs Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after Trump's 'artless bullying'

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-26 20:18:39

Renowned venture capitalist Mike Moritz called on Intel to stand by CEO Lip-Bu Tan after President Donald Trump demanded his resignation last week. "Trump's assault has no modern precedent," Moritz wrote, calling the attack a "vindictive political sideshow." Moritz, who spent decades at Sequoia Capital and has known Tan for nearly four decades, highlighted the CEO's previous turnaround of Cadence Design Systems . Moritz said there is "no one better equipped to transform Intel's fortunes." "No

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Dear String-to-Integer Parsers

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Muller 2025-11-23 02:44:32

These are very useful functions that any language with distinct string and integer types will include in their standard library. Pass in a string with decimal digits and it’ll return the equivalent in the binary integer form that you can do mathematics with. I’d like to make a modest proposal that I’d find very useful, and maybe you, dear reader, would too. “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate. He made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.” Who me? Specifically, I’m

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Millau Viaduct

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 20:23:12

Bridges are often considered to belong to the realm of the engineer rather than that of the architect. But the architecture of infrastructure has a powerful impact on the environment and the Millau Viaduct, designed in close collaboration with structural engineers, illustrates how the architect can play an integral role in the design of bridges. It follows the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames in expressing a fascination with the relationship between function, technology and aesthetics in

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Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-11-27 17:11:55

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI’s next chapter

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-02 00:00:00

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. It’s AI coding week at Decoder. You just heard Casey Newton’s interview with the CEO behind Cursor, Michael Truell. Now, I have a conversation with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the current AI coding boom. But since Thomas

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The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals

news.ycombinator.com Junzi Sun 2025-12-01 10:54:34

In the last twenty years, aircraft surveillance has moved from controller-based interrogation to automatic broadcast. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is one of the most common methods for aircraft to report their state information like identity, position, and speed. Like other Mode S communications, ADS-B makes use of the 1090 megahertz transponder to transmit data. The protocol for ADS-B is open, and low-cost receivers can easily be used to intercept its signals. Many rec

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Software Rot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 17:35:19

Software rot is generally thought of as degradation of software due to a changing environment. For example, a program written a decade ago may no longer work with new versions of the libraries it depends on because some of them have changed without retaining backwards compatibility. This kind of thinking encourages a culture where software becomes obsolete unless it is constantly maintained. A better approach might be to talk about the reliability of the environment the software depends on. Wou

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Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 00:18:37

One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/lz4/lz4 Zstandard is used by the new Khronos KTX2 GPU texture format specification. I propose that it be added as an option to a future version of .PNG. The possible speedups are quite significant, and for users that read and write a lot of .PNG's as part of th

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Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 15:28:33

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie August 2, 2025 Displaying personal names in Icelandic user interfaces is surprisingly hard. This is because of declension — a language feature where the forms of nouns change to communicate a syntactic function. In Icelandic, personal names have four forms, one for each of the grammatical cases of Icelandic nouns. Take the name “Guðmundur”: Grammatical case Form Nominative Guðmundur Accusative Guðmund Dative Guðmundi Genitive

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Google lost its antitrust case with Epic again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 03:06:33

Google's attempt to appeal the decision in Epic v. Google has failed. In a newly released opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to uphold the original Epic v. Google lawsuit that found that Google's Play Store and payment systems are monopolies. The decision means that Google will have to abide by the remedies of the original lawsuit, which limits the company's ability to pay phone makers to preinstall the Play Store, prevents it from requiring developers to use its payment sy

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This Week’s ‘Strange New Worlds’ Is a Little Too Cute for Its Own Good

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-14 20:48:25

Strange New Worlds loves being Star Trek. That’s different from, say, Lower Decks, a series that loved being about Star Trek and the metatextual acknowledgement of that to the nerdiest of degrees. Strange New Worlds knows that it is Star Trek and enjoys that: its connection to the original, the warts-and-all embrace of episodic storytelling, its desire to poke and prod at itself endlessly, and its willingness to vacillate its tone from high drama to high camp on a dime. Sometimes, that can make

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Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-15 15:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like they’re NBA superstars. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the AI industry this past month, you’ve likely seen stories about the hiring frenzy that’s been happening at Big Tech, research labs, and AI startups. Le

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CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring first Marketing Person

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 20:34:28

Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. In this role, you’ll own end-to-end marketing at CodeCrafters. CodeCrafters (YC S22) makes programming challenges for experienced software engineers. Besides YC, we're backed by the founders of Instagram and Dropbox. Our customers are experienced engineers at companies like Google, GitHub, Stripe, etc.

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I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 14:01:26

Streaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days. These use cases demand very, very low latency. Every millisecond counts here. We need to: Send controller input from machine A to B over network B renders a frame on the GPU B encodes the frame into a bitstream B sends the result over a network to A A decodes the bitstream A displays image on screen Dopamine is released in target brain Every step in this chain adds latency and we wa

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I designed my own fast game streaming video codec

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 20:01:26

Streaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days. These use cases demand very, very low latency. Every millisecond counts here. We need to: Send controller input from machine A to B over network B renders a frame on the GPU B encodes the frame into a bitstream B sends the result over a network to A A decodes the bitstream A displays image on screen Dopamine is released in target brain Every step in this chain adds latency and we wa

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Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-27 05:30:01

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. A US district court judge has withdrawn his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers noted that his opinion referenced fake quotes and other erroneous case information — mistakes mirroring errors in other legal cases that have been attributed to artificial intelligence tools. In a letter sent to New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier N

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San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Spotlight: The Biggest Drops So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 04:44:00

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 kicked off Thursday and we've already gotten sneak peeks at Lego and Hot Wheels releases plus there's big news happening for TV shows, movies and games. We're excited to hear about Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tron: Ares, Gen V and Welcome to Derry, so we're riding along with fans as announcements and trailer drops come out. We'll be posting highlights here from the four-day affair to help you keep up with the hottest, weirdest and most interesting stuff that hits. Stay

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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT Agent is now rolling out for $20 Plus users

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-28 00:59:14

ChatGPT Agent is now rolling out to users with $20 Plus subscription, but OpenAI warns that it will take a few days for the rollout to finish. ChatGPT Agent is already available for those with $200 Pro subscription, but what exactly is the 'Agent' mode? With Agent, ChatGPT can now do work for you using its own computer. This includes handling complex tasks from start to finish. As OpenAI noted in a press release, Agent mode allows GPT to handle requests like “look at my calendar and brief me

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Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:37:40

by Barbara Blum If you have ever traveled overseas, then returned to the U.S., you likely filled out a “customs declaration” form on the airplane: “Are you bringing with you: plants, food, animals, soil, disease agents, cell cultures or snails? Declare all articles that you have acquired and are bringing into the United States.” Who would have guessed the regulations would have been enforced so rigorously in 1969 when three men returned to the U.S. from a rather long business trip – to

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Trip to moon required Apollo 11 crew to sign US Customs declaration to enter US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 20:37:40

by Barbara Blum If you have ever traveled overseas, then returned to the U.S., you likely filled out a “customs declaration” form on the airplane: “Are you bringing with you: plants, food, animals, soil, disease agents, cell cultures or snails? Declare all articles that you have acquired and are bringing into the United States.” Who would have guessed the regulations would have been enforced so rigorously in 1969 when three men returned to the U.S. from a rather long business trip – to

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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

news.ycombinator.com Asher Falcon 2026-01-02 18:41:04

hiding messages in playing cards I was recently thinking about the huge number of ways you can shuffle a deck of 52 cards and wondered if it would be possible to store arbitrary data, which I explore in this blog post. This blog post will go into the detail of how I found a way to store text inside the order of a deck of cards. If you want to play around with the tool, go here. How many different ways can we shuffle a deck of 52 cards? We can think of it like picking one card from 52, then one

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New Phobos ransomware decryptor lets victims recover files for free

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-08 20:56:13

The Japanese police have released a Phobos and 8-Base ransomware decryptor that lets victims recover their files for free, with BleepingComputer confirming that it successfully decrypts files. Phobos is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that launched in December 2018, enabling other threat actors to join as affiliates and utilize their encryption tool in attacks. In exchange, any ransom payments were split between the affiliate and the operators. While the ransomware operation did not receiv

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This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time

wired.com Will Knight 2026-01-10 20:49:12

Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He feeds the words into an artificial intelligence model developed by his startup, Decart, which manipulates live video in real time. “I have no idea what’s going to happen," Leitersdorf says with a laugh, shortly before transforming into a bizarre, gold-tinged, subaquatic version of Julius Caesar in a poncho. L

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Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-01-11 15:05:45

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Elgato has released four new color options for its Stream Deck and other streaming accessories as part of a new Dreamscape collection designed to better match the aesthetic of a studio or gaming room. The devices and accessories have previously typically only been available in white or black, but are now available in forest green, pink petal, wil

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HBO confirms The Last of Us season 3 will arrive in 2027

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-14 05:11:50

If you’re all caught up on The Last of Us (the TV version that is) then you’ll know that season two made clear that when the show returns it will focus a lot more on Kaitlyn’s Dever’s Abby. But it sounds like we’re going to have to wait a while to see that side of the story unfold. Speaking to Variety off the back of The Last of Us netting HBO 16 Emmy nominations this week, the company’s CEO, Casey Bloys, said season three is "definitely planned for 2027." Bloys didn’t offer any more specific i

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Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries

news.ycombinator.com Kristina Killgrove 2026-01-12 09:00:08

A dodecahedron was discovered in Lincoln in the U.K. in the summer of 2023. QUICK FACTS Name: Roman dodecahedron What it is: A 12-sided bronze object Where it is from: Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire When it was made: Second to fourth centuries A.D. Roman dodecahedrons have baffled archaeologists since 1739, when the first example of the 12-sided bronze object was discovered in the English Midlands. For nearly three centuries, experts and hobbyists have put forth dozens of theories

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I replaced my Windows PC with Lenovo's SteamOS handheld - and didn't regret it

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I swapped my PC for Lenovo's SteamOS handheld - and don't miss Windows at all

Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Sequoia's Moritz backs Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after Trump's 'artless bullying'

Dear String-to-Integer Parsers

Millau Viaduct

Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI’s next chapter

The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals

Software Rot

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Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

Google lost its antitrust case with Epic again

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Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars

CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring first Marketing Person

I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

I designed my own fast game streaming video codec

Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Spotlight: The Biggest Drops So Far

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Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)

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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

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This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time

Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors

HBO confirms The Last of Us season 3 will arrive in 2027

Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries

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