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Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 04:56:40

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Cong

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Opsqueue: Lightweight batch processing queue for heavy loads – now open-source

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 22:12:09

We are happy to announce the open-source release of opsqueue , our opinionated queueing system! Why would you want to use it? Lightweight: small codebase, written in Rust, minimal dependencies Optimized for batch processing: we prioritize throughput over latency Built to scale to billions of operations Built with reliable building blocks: Rust, SQLite, Object Storage (such as S3 or GCS) Operationally simple: single binary, embedded database, minimal configuration Scales horizontally: you

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Opera takes its browser beef with Microsoft to Brazil in antitrust complaint

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 08:41:06

Opera is filing an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in Brazil, alleging it creates an unfair environment for alternate browsers to compete with Edge. The Norway-based company claims Microsoft's deals to make Edge the exclusive pre-installed browser on Windows machines creates an unfair environment for alternate browsers to compete. Opera also argued that Microsoft uses design tactics and dark patterns to further discourage people from downloading and using rival products. It is asking Brazi

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Opera is filing a complaint over Microsoft’s tricks that push you to use Edge

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-21 12:08:52

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has used a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows over the years, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like popups. Now, Opera is fed up with what it calls Microsoft’s “manipulative design tactics” and is filing a competition complaint in Brazil today, alleging that Microsoft is usin

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FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-22 22:52:41

FBI Dallas has seized approximately 20 Bitcoins from a cryptocurrency address belonging to a Chaos ransomware member that is linked to cyberattacks and extortion payments from Texas companies. The crypto was seized on April 15, 2025, and was traced to an affiliate named "Hors," who is suspected of launching the attacks against the companies. "The seized funds were traced to a cryptocurrency address allegedly associated with a member of the Chaos ransomware group, known as 'Hors,' who has been

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50x rendering speed improvements in Hologram (Elixir web framework)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 10:27:54

Hologram v0.5.0 Released! Hologram 0.5.0 represents a major evolution of the framework, delivering significant new features, performance improvements, and architectural changes that provide a more robust foundation for future development. This release brings substantial performance enhancements across the entire stack - execution times have improved from milliseconds to microseconds in many core client-side operations, making Hologram fast enough to handle real-time interactions like mouse mov

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My 5 favorite Linux distros for home office desktops - and I've tried them all

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-25 17:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I've worked from home for over a decade. Without Linux as my primary operating system, I'm not sure how I would be able to do the things I do with the level of simplicity and reliability that I've achieved with the open-source OS. Linux makes a lot of things possible for me that Windows and MacOS cannot handle. Also: The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed But which distributions would I recommend for people who want an oper

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Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 22:11:31

In sledgehammer every operation is encoded as a sequence of bytes packed into an array. Every operation takes 1 byte plus whatever data is required for it. Each operation is encoded in a batch of four as a u32. Getting a number from an array buffer has a high constant cost, but getting a u32 instead of a u8 is not more expensive. Sledgehammer bindgen reads the u32 and then splits it into the 4 individual bytes. It will shuffle and pack the bytes into as few buckets as possible and try to inline

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Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 08:17:23

A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago. The outage affected civilian and military users, creating an inconvenience for many but cutting off a critical lifeline for those who rely on Starlink for military operations, health care, and other applications. Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink

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Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-08 03:45:21

A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. On Monday, the airline said that operations were coming back online. The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m. ET Monday, when the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had been lifted. But disruptions didn’t end there. A

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Async I/O on Linux in databases

news.ycombinator.com Jeremy Tregunna 2026-01-08 12:20:02

I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database. I started with the basics: A hash table in memory, a simple append-only log for persistence and durability, and the classic fsync() call after every write to the log for durability. It worked, but wasn't as fast as it could be. In Kevo, that's the approach I use, but in Klay (not public yet, but will be open sourced when ready)

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Resolve (YC W15) Is Hiring an Operations and Billing Lead for Construction VR

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 22:00:47

Location: Remote Type: Full-time About Us Resolve is an 11-person SaaS startup helping construction companies and builders review faster. Our clients include general contractors, specialty subcontractors, owner operators and engineering companies—companies that build the world around us. We’re growing fast and looking for a detail-oriented, proactive Billing and Operations Lead to take charge of key administrative processes that keep our business humming. What You’ll Do You’ll own and impro

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ChatGPT can now browse and perform web-based tasks for you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-11 22:34:40

In a quick live stream today, OpenAI announced ChatGPT agent, which improves on its promising, but limited Operator feature announced a few months ago. Here’s how it works Operator meets Deep Research What OpenAI did was combine Operator, which already had agentic browsing capabilities, and Deep Research, which can quickly consume, understand, and infer on website content. The result is an agent that gets spun up on a virtual machine when you assign it a task, and then it just… goes. It can

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OpenAI unveils ‘ChatGPT agent’ that gives ChatGPT its own computer to autonomously use your email and web apps, download and create files for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-12 05:16:33

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 OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features. Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files for its human users using its own virtual computer. Come again? Ch

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Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-16 03:07:30

An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Eastwood" has targeted the infrastructure and members of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), responsible for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across Europe, Israel, and Ukraine. Operation Eastwood was led by Europol and Eurojust with support from 12 countries. It took place on July 15, 2025, and targeted the systems and individuals behind the group's activities. NoName057(16) is a pro-Russian hacking group tha

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Trump administration to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking operations

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-20 22:45:20

The Trump administration, through the Department of Defense, plans to spend $1 billion over the next four years on what it calls “offensive cyber operations.” The provision in Trump’s landmark One Big Beautiful Bill does not say what those “offensive cyber operations” are, nor what specific tools or software would qualify. The budget does note that the money will go towards enhancing and improving the capabilities of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, which operates in the Asia-Pacific region, incl

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China Working On Levitating Train That Could Get You From New York to Chicago in Two Hours

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-22 04:45:41

As the United States struggles to keep its major cities connected by even the most barebones rail systems, China is screaming into the future with the development of a levitating bullet train. Called "maglev," short for "magnetic levitation," the train system is designed to levitate via magnets as opposed to wheels. Maglev systems can reach higher speeds much more efficiently than their wheeled counterparts, though the infrastructure needed to run them is incredibly expensive. While there are

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Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

news.ycombinator.com Justin Dujardin 2026-01-22 03:37:48

When understood and used properly, the constraint W = tanh(Ŵ) ⊙ σ(M̂) (introduced in NALU by Trask et al. 2018 ) creates a unique parameter topology where optimal weights for discrete operations can be calculated rather than learned . During training, they're able to converge with extreme speed and reliability towards the optimal solution. Most neural networks struggle with basic arithmetic. They approximate, they fail on extrapolation, and they're inconsistent. But what if there was a way to m

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[Open Thread] Google bought Android 20 years ago, did it make it better or worse?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-24 08:31:42

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been 20 years to the day since Google made what you might consider its “best deal ever” by acquiring a small, unknown startup called Android, Inc. The founders, Andy Rubin and Chris White, had first set out to build an operating system for digital cameras, but when they failed to attract investors in 2004, they pivoted to creating a mobile operating system, and went pitching their new project looking for investor support. Google’s Larry Page saw the signs

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This Linux distro combines the best parts of Windows and MacOS - and it's gorgeous

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-25 22:17:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET There are so many Linux distributions on the market, and they range from the command line only all the way to functioning works of art. The majority of distros fall somewhere in the middle, of course, and that's perfectly fine because most users prefer a blend of aesthetics and functionality. That's why the likes of Linux Mint, ZorinOS, elementaryOS, and Ubuntu are so popular. But every once in a while, a team releases an update to its distribution that reminds you that Linux

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HMD plans to stop selling phones in the US, and you probably know why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-26 03:58:13

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR HMD Global has revealed that it is scaling back its operations in the US. The company cites the “challenging geopolitical and economic environment” as the reason for the decision. It will continue to honor warranty coverage and service for existing products. If you’re an HMD Global, the Android phone maker that licenses the Nokia brand, fan who lives in the US, we have some bad news for you. The company has decided to stop selling its phones in the US.

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The Phantom of the Opera Has a Lot of Demands for His Immersive Masquerade

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-31 03:45:37

The mystery of Masquerade, The Phantom of the Opera immersive Broadway experience, begins to unfold as tickets for the initial run announcement have sold out. Don’t worry, Andrew Lloyd Webber “phans,” on July 9 there will be a new drop of tickets for an extension going into October of this year. Perfect for spooky season monster haunt lovers, dare we say? Hey, dark musical fans and immersive haunt goers have a very real overlap! With the release of the Opera Ghost’s first batch of show dates, t

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Apple COO Jeff Williams stepping down later this month

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-01-31 08:34:25

Apple has announced that Jeff Williams is stepping down as chief operating officer later this month. Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, will assume the COO role as part of what Apple describes as a “long-planned succession.” Williams joined Apple in 1998 as the company’s head of Worldwide Procurement. Prior to joining Apple, he worked at IBM for thirteen years across multiple operations and engineering roles. In his current role at Apple, he oversees the company’s entire w

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First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

news.ycombinator.com Guyren Howe 2026-02-11 20:48:11

TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems. The Current State: Well-Designed Systems, Constrained Users Imagine you’re building an accounting system from scratch. You’d design it properly: a normalized database schema, algebraically defined operations for debits and credits, account reconciliation, and comparison functions. You’d implement data-only, in

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7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-16 00:00:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux. Back then, I didn't have anyone there to tell me what to expect. It would have been nice to get even a bit of advice from someone with Linux experience in the know to say, "Hey, you'll want to know about this before you start down that path." It would have made things easier. Instead, I took just dove right in, hoping I could figure it all out as I went. The good news: Linux today is n

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New to Linux? Seven things every beginner should know

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-17 03:16:09

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux. Back then, I didn't have anyone there to tell me what to expect. It would have been nice to get even a bit of advice from someone with Linux experience in the know to say, "Hey, you'll want to know about this before you start down that path." It would have made things easier. Instead, I took just dove right in, hoping I could figure it all out as I went. The good news: Linux today is n

Topics: app distributions linux operating windows

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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

wired.com Victoria Turk 2026-02-18 12:00:00

The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations—the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, w

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The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

news.ycombinator.com .Wp_Post_Author_Widget .Wp-Post-Author-Meta .Awpa-Display-Name 2026-02-18 06:54:05

A nostalgic dive into the Hacker News thread that in 2015 reminded us how beautiful we were when we dreamed in multithreading Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away called “the ’90s,” we still believed that the future of computing would be decided based on pure technical merit. What naivety! It was an era when an operating system could make you fall in love at first boot, when opening four videos simultaneously without hiccups seemed more magical than pulling a rabbit from a hat. BeOS wa

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A Wild New Take on ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Is Coming, and No One Has Any Idea What It Is

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-21 08:30:56

For the past few months, Phans (The Phantom of the Opera fans) have been following mysterious messages and clue drops around New York City for something called Masquerade. Talk online abounded about the roses left in Times Square or the red envelope letters signed by “the Opera Ghost” for the faithful, as a viral campaign teased that something was coming in the realm of immersive theater. As a big Phan and immersive theater nerd, I’ve waited from the far wings on the West Coast with major FOMO f

Topics: immersive masks masquerade opera phantom

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Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar

news.ycombinator.com Steve Dignam 2026-03-02 20:09:21

I’ve been working on Squawk for a while, it’s a linter for PostgreSQL, and it now uses a handmade parser. So let’s explore some interesting bits from the Postgres grammar. Custom Operators Very few operators are defined in the grammar itself and lots of Postgres features rely on custom operators. For example, Postgres uses <-> for comparing geometric types, along with a whole host of others: ## , @-@ , # , @> , <@> , &< , &> , |>> , |<< , <^ , >^ , ?- , ?| , ?|| , ~= . Note: custom operator

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

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FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation

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Resolve (YC W15) Is Hiring an Operations and Billing Lead for Construction VR

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OpenAI unveils ‘ChatGPT agent’ that gives ChatGPT its own computer to autonomously use your email and web apps, download and create files for you

Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group

Trump administration to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking operations

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This Linux distro combines the best parts of Windows and MacOS - and it's gorgeous

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The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

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