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Optimizing our way through Metroid

news.ycombinator.com Will Wilson 2025-11-03 17:42:01

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

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Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:56:03

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) 1.0.1 Introduction The Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) is a modern, flexible, and scalable standard for defining and interacting with tools across a wide variety of communication protocols. UTCP 1.0.0 introduces a modular core with a plugin-based architecture, making it more extensible, testable, and easier to package. In contrast to other protocols, UTCP places a strong emphasis on: Scalability : UTCP is designed to handle a large number of tool

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Google finally lets you customize icon shapes on your Pixel’s home screen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 02:32:21

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR You can now customize icon shapes on your Pixel Launcher’s home screen. Android will give you five options. Including the default circle, there’s square, four-sided cookie, seven-sided cookie, and arch. These options are currently only available in the August 2025 Android Canary release, but we expect it won’t be long before they make their way into the QPR2 track. Hot off the heels of the Pixel 10 launch, Google unveiled a new Android Canary release.

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Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 03:34:36

typed-arrow provides a strongly typed, fully compile-time way to declare Arrow schemas in Rust. It maps Rust types directly to arrow-rs typed builders/arrays and arrow_schema::DataType — without any runtime DataType switching — enabling zero runtime cost, monomorphized column construction and ergonomic ORM-like APIs. Why compile-time Arrow? Performance: monomorphized builders/arrays with zero dynamic dispatch; avoids runtime DataType matching. matching. Safety: column types, names, and nullab

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Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 17:00:53

Rails Charts One more gem to build nice charts for your Ruby on Rails application. With it you can build various types of charts Apache eCharts library (v. 5.4.0). This gem simplifies interface and adding few helpers to start adding charts in your app with just a few lines of code. What you can build with it: In most cases with one line of code you can have a nice chart. The idea of this gem was inspired by Chartkick gem which is great and allows you to build charts very quickly. It works be

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Survey shows 98% of Android users want at least one of these big PIN upgrades

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-16 11:30:28

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Old vs new lock screen PIN entry screen UI in Android A regular lock screen PIN on your Android phone does the job most of the time, but what if you’re forced to unlock your phone when you really don’t want to? That’s where things get tricky. We recently asked you whether Android should go beyond the basics and offer something more innovative, such as a duress or decoy PIN. Plenty of you had a view about it. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority?

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These are the 9 best Google TV apps I just couldn’t live without

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:00:26

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I can think of a handful of Android apps that I couldn’t use a smartphone without because the default Android experience on every device leaves much to be desired. The same goes for Google TV devices. Yes, the interface is clean and swift, but the entertainment experience can be vastly improved by installing just a few third-party apps. Of course, this includes the streaming services you will likely use, but I want to go beyond those. These apps make my Goog

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SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 03:42:00

Annali da Samarcanda Alberto Marnetto's Notebook SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's Stunts Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive, and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island. Sorry about that. Part I This series will tell about the creation of SuperSight, a mod for Stunts intended to bring the game’s 3D engin

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Show HN: JMAP MCP – Email for your agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:39:02

JMAP MCP Server A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for interacting with JMAP (JSON Meta Application Protocol) email servers. Built with Deno and using the @htunnicliff/jmap-jam client library. Features Email Management Tools Search Emails : Search emails with text queries, sender/recipient filters, date ranges, and keywords : Search emails with text queries, sender/recipient filters, date ranges, and keywords Get Emails : Retrieve specific emails by ID with full detai

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How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-23 15:37:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underut

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Data brokers just gave us another reason to hate them

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-23 20:37:44

If you were holding a competition for the scummiest business model, then data brokers would be very high up the list. These companies make money by buying personal data from app and website owners and selling it to companies who want to spam us. A US Senator has now drawn attention to the latest sketchy practice by these companies: making it harder for us to opt out by hiding that option from search results … The dark world of data brokers Data brokers are companies that buy personal data fro

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iOS 26: Friends Can't Decide What to Eat? Here's How to Create a Poll in Messages

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 00:00:03

Apple released the second public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 7, and the beta brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more features to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. It also introduced a host of new features to Messages. One of the more useful features is the ability to create a poll in the messaging app. Group chats can be chaotic, and sometimes it feels like only a few people are talking. Creating a poll in a group chat is a nice way to let everyone voice their opinion on

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Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-07 00:01:23

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. federal agencies with up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization and training through 2028, an agency overseeing government procurement announced Thursday. The agreement is expected to speed up migration to the cloud, as well as adoption of artificial intelligence tools, the General Services Adm

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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference doing so

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-07 18:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underutili

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OpenAI is removing ChatGPT conversations from Google

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:47:35

OpenAI has removed a feature that made shared ChatGPT conversations appear in search results. The "short-lived experiment" was based on the chatbot's link creation option. After complaints, OpenAI's chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said the company is working to remove the chats from search engines. The public outrage stems from a Fast Company article from earlier this week (via Ars Technica). Fast Company said it found thousands of ChatGPT conversations in Google search result

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8 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-21 00:30:00

Other Video Doorbells to Consider I've tested several other video doorbells. These are the ones that narrowly missed out on a place above. Photograph: Simon Hill Doro Hemma Doorbell for £150: A simplified smart doorbell for seniors is a solid idea, and Swedish maker Doro gets plenty right with the Hemma. It is a battery-powered doorbell that’s easy to install and use, offering a 1440 x 1440-pixel resolution with a decent frame rate (30 fps), local recording via microSD card, and a plug-in rin

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The best mobile microphones for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 04:00:38

There’s nothing more frustrating than shooting the perfect reel only to realize that the audio sounds like garbage. For budding creators, it’s a frustration; for those looking to make more professional content, it’s a dealbreaker. Fortunately, the world of mobile-specific (or phone-friendly) microphones has exploded with great options in the last few years. Whether you’ve been tasked with recording candid moments at a relative’s wedding, shooting a friend’s dance moves or are a journalist out in

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Your Pixel Watch could soon give you the same backup freedom as your Android phone (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 09:00:10

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A man pressed the digital crown of his Google Pixel Watch 3. TL;DR Google could soon let Pixel Watch users manually trigger backups. We’ve found code evidence suggesting Pixel Watches could soon get a “Backup now” button in Settings, possibly removing the current requirement of having the watch connected to a charger during the backup process. The option is similar to the Backup now setting you find on Android phones. Google seems to be working towards maki

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Elon Musk Is Getting Destroyed by Yet Another Chinese Company

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:07:21

After delivering all but the finishing blow to Elon Musk's electric vehicle empire with cutting-edge companies like BYD and Li Auto, Chinese industrialists are now setting their sights on the South African billionaire's robotics ambitions. Earlier this week, the Hangzhou-based tech company Unitree Robotics launched what Bloomberg calls one of the world's "first humanoid robots for under $6,000," the Unitree R1, at the relatively low price of just $5,900. While that's still a major chunk of chan

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Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:30:57

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars to scout for water and possible human landing sites. The concept, dubbed "Skyfall," builds on NASA's extremely successful and revolutionary Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which became the first manmade object to achieve powered flight on another planet in 2021. It flew a whopping 72 times over three years, vastly exceeding expectations. AeroV

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Tesla's Optimus Robots Have Reportedly Run Into Severe Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 05:28:05

Elon Musk's Tesla is in deep trouble. This week, the company reported a massive 16 percent decline in automotive revenues, the biggest drop in over a decade. With tax incentives and auto regulatory credits being phased out by president Donald Trump, Musk conceded that the company is facing a "few rough quarters" ahead. While Musk didn't manage to reassure investors about rescuing Tesla's car sales business — the company's shares plummeted following Wednesday's earnings call — the billionaire i

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Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-31 05:10:39

It’s been more than a year since the Ingenuity helicopter broke one of its blades, ending its experimental stint on Mars. On the heels of this wildly successful NASA mission, a defense contractor has introduced a new design concept to succeed the iconic Mars chopper—one that would release multiple vehicles to spread across the Martian landscape at the same time, like a coordinated swim team diving into the water. Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV), in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labor

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Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to build 5,000 Optimus bots this year

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-31 10:14:19

In Brief Tesla is well behind the pace needed to meet its earlier stated goal of producing at least 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots this year, The Information reports. Nearly eight months into 2025, and the number of bots Tesla has produced is only in the hundreds, according to two sources. That means Tesla will either need to step it up or push back the deadline. The news comes after Tesla reported a 12% decline in overall revenue in the second quarter, due to falling EV sales, less cash from r

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Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:42:39

Releases For code examples, see EXAMPLES.md and share/doc/modernish/examples modernish – harness the shell Sick of quoting hell and split/glob pitfalls? Tired of brittle shell scripts going haywire and causing damage? Mystified by line noise commands like [ , [[ , (( ? , , ? Is scripting basic things just too hard? Ever wish that find were a built-in shell loop? were a built-in shell loop? Do you want your script to work on nearly any shell on any Unix-like OS? Modernish is a library fo

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Hackers breach Toptal GitHub account, publish malicious npm packages

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-03 10:26:04

Hackers compromised Toptal's GitHub organization account and used their access to publish ten malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (NPM) index. The packages included data-stealing code that collected GitHub authentication tokens and then wiped the victims' systems. Toptal is a freelance talent marketplace that connects companies with software developers, designers, and finance experts. The company also maintains internal developer tools and design systems, most notably Picasso, which

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This might be the only Google Chrome alternative that could rip me away from Firefox

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 00:00:43

Andy Walker / Android Authority Choosing a web browser is a deeply personal decision, as I’ve learned from reading spicy comments on various forums over the years. I’ve been loyal to Firefox for a long time, but Mozilla’s recent missteps and the browser’s growing flaws have started to bitter my experience. So, I explored the Play Store for sweeter alternatives and stumbled across a potential candidate: Banana Browser. What Chromium-based browser do you use? 60 votes I use Google Chrome. 43 % I

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What to expect from Debian/Trixie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 23:27:38

Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025. I was the driving force at several of my customers to be well prepared for the upcoming stable release (my efforts for trixie started in August 2024). On the one hand, to make sure packages we care about are available and actually make it into the release. On the other hand, to ensure there are no severe issues that make it into the release and to get proper and working upgrades. So far eve

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Optery (YC W22) Is Hiring in Engineering, Legal, Sales, Marketing (U.S., Latam)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 10:01:14

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Optimizations That Aren't

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 04:49:24

Optimizations that aren't We all like it when our code is fast. Some of us like the result, but dislike the process of optimization; others enjoy the process. However, optimization for the sake of optimization is wrong, unless you’re doing it in your pet project. Optimized code is sometimes less readable and, consequently, harder to understand and modify; because of that, optimization often introduces subtle bugs. Since optimization is not a process with only positive effects, in production it

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How to Watch Germany vs. Spain From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Semi-Final Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 15:00:33

World champions and tournament favorites Spain must overcome eight-time UEFA Women's Euro champions Germany today to claim a place in Sunday's showpiece final. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. Today's game marks the first time the Spanish have reached the semi-finals of this tournament since 1997. They struggled to get past hosts Switzerland

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Optimizing our way through Metroid

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

Google finally lets you customize icon shapes on your Pixel’s home screen

Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust

Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache

Survey shows 98% of Android users want at least one of these big PIN upgrades

These are the 9 best Google TV apps I just couldn’t live without

SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"

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How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

Data brokers just gave us another reason to hate them

iOS 26: Friends Can't Decide What to Eat? Here's How to Create a Poll in Messages

Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts

How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference doing so

OpenAI is removing ChatGPT conversations from Google

8 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free

The best mobile microphones for 2025

Your Pixel Watch could soon give you the same backup freedom as your Android phone (APK teardown)

Elon Musk Is Getting Destroyed by Yet Another Chinese Company

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

Tesla's Optimus Robots Have Reportedly Run Into Severe Trouble

Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to build 5,000 Optimus bots this year

Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities

Hackers breach Toptal GitHub account, publish malicious npm packages

This might be the only Google Chrome alternative that could rip me away from Firefox

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Optimizations That Aren't

How to Watch Germany vs. Spain From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Semi-Final Soccer

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