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Knowledge and Memory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 13:15:59

September 6, 2025 The other day, I asked Claude how to do something using a particular Ruby library, and it hallucinated three nonexistent methods in a row. We can ask “why do language models do this?” but/and we can also ask, “why doesn’t Robin do this?” I think it’s because I don’t only know things: I remember learning them. My knowledge is sedimentary, and I can “feel” the position and solidity of different facts and ideas in that mass. I can feel, too, the airy disconnect of

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I spent the weekend playing Silksong on my phone — Here’s how

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 15:00:39

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority When the first ASUS ROG Ally dropped back in 2023, Hollow Knight was the very first game I played on it. I know, the game had been out for more than five years at that point, but it was my reintroduction to handheld gaming after nearly a decade of nothing but online live service games. And I was hooked. Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong is out, I wanted to continue the trend of playing on a handheld rather than my gaming PC. But the landscape has changed since

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Josh Gad Confirms ‘Spaceballs 2’ About to Start Filming: ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Actually Happening’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-13 03:17:27

Orlando Bloom may-or-may-not return as Legolas in The Hunt for Gollum, Macon Blair may-or-may-not direct a sequel to The Toxic Avenger starring Melanie Lynskey, and the stars of KPOP Demon Hunters may-or-may-not return for a sequel. Mondays, right? Morning Spoilers, ahoy! The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Orlando Blood told the Today Show that he’d “hate to see anyone else play Legolas,” but hasn’t “heard a peep” if the character will appear in The Hunt for Gollum. I have not heard a

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Look Out for Bugs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 19:59:45

Look Out For Bugs One of my biggest mid-career shifts in how I write code was internalizing the idea from this post: Don’t Write Bugs Historically, I approached coding with an iteration-focused mindset — you write a draft version of a program, you set up some kind of a test to verify that it does what you want it to do, and then you just quickly iterate on your draft until the result passes all the checks. This was a great approach when I was only learning to code, as it allowed me to iterate

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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-10-14 19:08:21

The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world will take the necessary measures to stop AI from eliminating all non-super humans. The book is beyond dark, reading like notes scrawled in a dimly lit prison cell the night before a dawn execution. When I meet these

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Putin says organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite.

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-10-15 14:00:00

First, back to Putin’s proposal: the idea of continually replacing aged organs to stay young. It’s a simplistic way to think about aging. After all, aging is so complicated that researchers can’t agree on what causes it, why it occurs, or even how to define it, let alone “treat” it. Having said that, there may be some merit to the idea of repairing worn-out body parts with biological or synthetic replacements. Replacement therapies—including bioengineered organs—are being developed by multiple

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Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-19 03:30:00

Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch. “Through talking to them, I realized even the largest farms in the nation basically have no idea what is actually growing out in their fields.” He dropped out of Cornell, became a Thiel fellow, a

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Channing Tatum Says His Gambit Will ‘Keep the Drama’ in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-19 19:00:09

Colin Farrell “doesn’t see” returning to the Penguin’s “trough,” Doug Liman is “excited” to take Tom Cruise to outer space, and Clayface gets smushed. Until the USA network agrees to green light Night Spoilers, we are here with another Morning Spoilers! Avengers: Doomsday During a recent interview with Variety, Channing Tatum promised his portrayal of Gambit in Avengers: Doomsday will be more “serious” than last seen in Deadpool and Wolverine. I’m not gonna go full Cajun. [Directors Anthony a

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Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-19 23:34:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

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MrBeast’s Wackiest Challenge Yet: Launching a Phone Company

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-19 23:20:29

Globally popular social media star MrBeast (real name Jimmy Donaldson) is already estimated to be a billionaire, but he doesn’t seem to be satisfied with having made an obscene amount of money from YouTube videos. A new report claims that Beast plans to follow in the footsteps of Ryan Reynolds and get into the telecom business. Business Insider writes that Donaldson has been mulling launching his own phone company. Citing a leaked investor deck, the outlet reports that the company would be a “M

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Take something you don’t like and try to like it

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:56:37

Here’s one possible hobby: Take something you don’t like. Try to like it. It could be food or music or people or just the general situation you’re in. I recommend this hobby, partly because it’s nice to enjoy things, but mostly as an instrument for probing human nature. 1. I was in Paris once. By coincidence, I wandered past a bunch of places that were playing Michael Jackson. I thought to myself, “Huh. The French sure do like Michael Jackson.” Gradually I decided, “You know what? They’re ri

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You can try to like stuff

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 02:56:37

Here’s one possible hobby: Take something you don’t like. Try to like it. It could be food or music or people or just the general situation you’re in. I recommend this hobby, partly because it’s nice to enjoy things, but mostly as an instrument for probing human nature. 1. I was in Paris once. By coincidence, I wandered past a bunch of places that were playing Michael Jackson. I thought to myself, “Huh. The French sure do love Michael Jackson.” Gradually I decided, “You know what? They’re ri

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How do I get into the game industry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 21:23:22

Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how they do it. So here's a blog that I can paste a link to. I don't know I've got to say first of all that I don't know if I ever got into the game industry. It's my main job but I don't know how a real game studio works. I've never worked in a proper game studio. So if you want to work on FIFA or GTA, I have no idea how you get there, sorry. But if you just want

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How do I get into the Game Industry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 12:23:22

Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how they do it. So here's a blog that I can paste a link to. I don't know I've got to say first of all that I don't know if I ever got into the game industry. It's my main job but I don't know how a real game studio works. I've never worked in a proper game studio. So if you want to work on FIFA or GTA, I have no idea how you get there, sorry. But if you just want

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AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-25 15:09:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

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This is my brain on leeches

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 11:06:09

I just want to bring you along for a reprise of the journey of how I read ’s , because man was it fun for my brain Dokukin tried hirudotherapy at the behest of his mother back in Russia, where it remains common practice why? According to Despite the ‘Yuck Factor,’ Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine (NYTimes) - often the venom, a natural anticoagulant, is used “as a low-cost substitute for blood thinners like warfarin… Left to pay out of pocket at clinics or commercial drugstores, patients

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How do I get into the Game Industry – by Garry's Mod creator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 18:23:22

Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how they do it. So here's a blog that I can paste a link to. I don't know I've got to say first of all that I don't know if I ever got into the game industry. It's my main job but I don't know how a real game studio works. I've never worked in a proper game studio. So if you want to work on FIFA or GTA, I have no idea how you get there, sorry. But if you just want

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Host an event beyond the main event: Apply to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-26 03:00:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where over 10,000 founders, VCs, and tech innovators collide on October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. But the conversations don’t end when the venue doors close. They spill across San Francisco — throughout the week — into the rooms, rooftops, and lounges where the real connections happen. That’s where Side Events come in Host your own gathering during Disrupt Week, October 25-31. From a salon-style dinner, to a hands-on workshop, to a pitch-off in a packed

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Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-26 03:50:11

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so. The social non-profit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says. The statement follows a lively back-and-forth convers

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Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-27 19:14:21

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms. The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi rather than comply with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that, as a small team, it lacked the resources to implement the substanti

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PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 07:05:13

To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

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7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-29 05:00:24

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a subscriber to the Nextdoor app, you've seen plenty of footage of prowling ne'er-do-wells caught in the eye of a video doorbell or home security camera. Hopefully, you don't have your own first-hand experience with suspicious characters milling around your front porch, or far worse. Also: Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills For good reason, security cameras continue to

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What we find in the sewers

news.ycombinator.com Calum Drysdale 2025-10-29 01:50:59

This article concludes Issue 07. See you next month for the launch of Issue 08! The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables In his book What is Life? Schrödinger called humans “entropy machines.” Extracting order from our environment to compensate for our disorder, he said, is what defines us as living beings. The same claim could be made of defecation. We strip the world of the nutrients and substrates we nee

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What We Find in the Sewers

news.ycombinator.com Calum Drysdale 2025-10-30 22:50:59

This article concludes Issue 07. See you next month for the launch of Issue 08! The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables In his book What is Life? Schrödinger called humans “entropy machines.” Extracting order from our environment to compensate for our disorder, he said, is what defines us as living beings. The same claim could be made of defecation. We strip the world of the nutrients and substrates we nee

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Londoners told to wear headphones on public transit

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-31 07:05:47

You would think certain things would be blindingly obvious, among them “if you are listening to music or a video on your phone on public transit, wear headphones.” But anyone who regularly uses transit services can tell you that this is definitely not the case. London has now decided to take executive action with a PR campaign … I’m not sure exactly what caused it, but at some point a number of years ago, people seemed to switch from holding phones to their ear to make calls, to holding them f

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

wired.com Jess Thomson 2025-10-31 16:00:00

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all that’s left of them are bones. It sounds like a scene out of a horror film, but these places are real. They’re called taphonomic research facilities, or sometimes “body farms”—sites where forensic scientists study how the human body decomposes. (Don’t worry,

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London targets noisy commuters with headphone campaign

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-31 14:26:17

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After bringing 4G and 5G connectivity to the Underground, London’s public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones. A new poster campaign launched by Transport for London (TfL) this week encourages customers to wear headphones when watching or listening to content on their devices to reduce disruption for other commuters.

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Stop What You’re Doing and Check if Your Ding Dong Is Moldy

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-01 10:15:41

The maker of Ding Dongs, which owns Hostess Brands, has issued a withdrawal notice in the U.S. over concerns the product could be contaminated by mold. “Our root cause investigation confirmed a mechanical issue with a piece of equipment created conditions that could support the development of mold in the product prior to the expiration date,” J. M. Smucker said in an announcement sent to retailers that was also posted online. “This mechanical issue was present for a limited period and resolved

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Poll: Do you like the new Google dialer?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 06:50:13

Joe Maring / Android Authority Google has been rolling out a major visual and functional refresh to its Phone app, and people aren’t shy about sharing how they feel. Between the Material 3 Expressive makeover and the flashy new Calling Cards feature, the humble Google dialer has suddenly become one of the most talked-about Google apps of the year. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to support us and make sure you never miss our lat

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Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-03 21:00:00

Bounce, a new technology that adds a critical component to the open social web, launches to the public on Monday. The cross-protocol migration tool offers a service that allows users of open social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon to move their follow graphs between their accounts, even though the networks rely on different underlying protocols. Today, Mastodon users unhappy with the service can opt to move their account to a different Mastodon server, while Bluesky is developing technology t

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Latest Tech News

Knowledge and Memory

I spent the weekend playing Silksong on my phone — Here’s how

Josh Gad Confirms ‘Spaceballs 2’ About to Start Filming: ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Actually Happening’

Look Out for Bugs

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

Putin says organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite.

Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI

Channing Tatum Says His Gambit Will ‘Keep the Drama’ in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

MrBeast’s Wackiest Challenge Yet: Launching a Phone Company

Take something you don’t like and try to like it

You can try to like stuff

How do I get into the game industry

How do I get into the Game Industry

AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

This is my brain on leeches

How do I get into the Game Industry – by Garry's Mod creator

Host an event beyond the main event: Apply to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws

Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

What we find in the sewers

What We Find in the Sewers

Londoners told to wear headphones on public transit

What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

London targets noisy commuters with headphone campaign

Stop What You’re Doing and Check if Your Ding Dong Is Moldy

Poll: Do you like the new Google dialer?

Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

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