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Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 06:00:32

Hey HN, I'm Per from Scrimba (YC S20), the code-learning platform. There's been a lot of talk lately about whether AI tools are causing skill atrophy amongst developers. We get a front-row seat to this, and we see more and more students struggle with basic concepts, and building apps on their own. This is almost always a consequence of relying too much on ChatGPT and vibe coding tools. So we built a small side project: https://devatrophy.com It's a test of your core web dev knowledge — no ha

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This 3000+ Piece LEGO Boutique Hotel Drops to a New Low, Amazon Clears Out Stock for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-16 12:10:39

LEGO sets are always very popular during major shopping periods like Prime Day and Black Friday. This year, although Star Wars and Harry Potter series are drawing a lot of attention, there are some other LEGO sets with massive discounts that shouldn’t be overlooked. One of the most popular deals is the LEGO Icons Boutique Hotel, a set with over 3,000 pieces and an impressive 4.8 out of 5 rating from hundreds of reviews. It’s one of the best-sellers in the LEGO lineup, and right now it’s availab

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

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-16 20:45:37

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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Zoom’s new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-17 04:07:07

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. Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom launched an app for the Quest in 2023, but it was only available through Meta’s Horizon Workspaces app, and users could also only host a meeting if they had a Zoom subscription. Zoom’

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The Meta Quest 3s drops to a record-low price for Prime Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-17 16:26:13

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The Meta Quest 3s virtual reality headset is on sale as part of Amazon Prime Day . The 128GB model is down to $249 , which is $50 off, and the 256GB version now costs $329 , which is a discount of $70. These are both record-low prices. It's also worth noting that the 256GB model comes

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The Meta Quest 3S is down to its lowest price ever for Prime Day

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-08-17 16:30:00

Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve already found close to 200 amazing deals. The Meta Quest 3S with 128GB of storage is one of them, thanks to a deal that knocks $50 off its usual $299 price. You can grab the latest VR headset for $249 ($50 off), its all-time low price, at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart during Prime Day. The mixed reality headset was released in January of 2025, and Verge news editor Jay Peters called it “a great first VR headset” in his review. The 256GB model that costs $32

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Meta Quest 3S Now Cheaper Than AirPods, Amazon Drops VR Headset Price to New All Time Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-18 04:15:30

In virtual reality, the Meta Quest 3S is the most affordable and immersive headset available today. Among its competitors, the original Meta Quest 3 costs nearly twice as much (and is not offering a fundamentally different experience), PlayStation VR2 requires a PS5 to use and Apple Vision Pro is twenty times more expensive. The Meta Quest 3S has been the top seller and it’s easy to see why: it’s fully wireless, fully standalone, and delivers a high-end VR experience without any extra hardware.

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Mars Needs Unions in This Far-Future (Yet Timely) Sci-Fi Short Story

gizmodo.com Lightspeed Magazine 2025-08-20 08:30:06

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Lord of Mars” by Megan McCarron. Enjoy! The Lord of Mars by Megan McCarron The grow pods clung to a red, humped ridge about a twenty-minute hike west from the habitats. Inside one of their plastic domes, a farmer named Oliver Judd nestled potato starts in the ground with nimble hands. It was tricky work in a forty-pound outside suit, but he

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Corrected UTF-8 (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 15:29:26

UTF-8 is decent and all but it contains some design errors, partly because its original designers just messed up, and partly because of ISO and Unicode Consortium internal politics. We’re probably going to be using it forever so it would be good to correct these design errors before they get any more entrenched than they already have. Corrected UTF-8 is almost the same as UTF-8. We make only three changes: overlength encodings become impossible instead of just forbidden; the C1 controls and the

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Sequel’ helps you keep track of your favorite movies and shows

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-20 15:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Sequel is an all in one app that makes it easy to keep track of all of the movies, TV shows, books, games, and more that you’d like to follow. It packs an intuitive interface and a number of delightful features to make it the ultimate media manager for your iPhone or iPad. Top features For one, Sequel

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EverQuest

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-08-21 19:10:13

This article tells part of the story of MMORPGs. It isn’t always or even usually the pioneers who reap the rewards of the trails they blaze. As often as not, some pragmatic Johnny-come-lately pops in to make off with the booty. Such was the case in the MMORPG space in the late 1990s. There Ultima Online demonstrated that there was an audience for a persistent fantasy world where people could live out alternative existences together through the magic of the Internet. Yet it was another game cal

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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

news.ycombinator.com Posted June 2025-08-21 21:32:10

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel The history of the bcachefs filesystem in the kernel has been turbulent, most recently with Linus Torvalds refusing a pull request for the 6.16-rc3 release. Torvalds has now pulled the code in question, but also said: I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window. You made it very clear that I can't even question any bug-fixes and I should just pull anything and everything. Honestly, at that point, I don't really feel comfortable being involved

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The best VR headsets for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-22 23:00:35

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Choosing the best VR headset for you is the first step into some of the most immersive gaming, entertainment and virtual work experiences available today. Whether you’re exploring new worlds, working out in virtual gyms or collaborating in 3D environments, a great headset can make all

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Zig breaking change – initial Writergate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 23:11:19

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Livestream Replay: Beginner Advice for Claude, a ChatGPT Alternative

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-08-25 04:30:00

Hello WIRED subscribers! Thank you to everyone who attended our most recent AI Unlocked livestream Q&A session, Chatbot Basics: Beginner Advice For Claude, a ChatGPT Alternative. Staff writer Reece Rogers and senior correspondent Kylie Robison provided an overview of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, one of the most-used alternatives to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and popular with AI insiders. They also answered audience questions about all kinds of topics, such as the main differences between Claude and ChatGPT

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Blumhouse Thinks It May Have Overestimated M3GAN’s Versatility

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-25 20:15:16

After the smash success of 2022’s M3GAN, it was easy to assume the inevitable sequel would do the same. But M3GAN 2.0 has yet to catch on like its predecessor, so far yielding disappointing box-office returns and putting talk of a trilogy, not to mention a M3GAN cinematic universe beyond next year’s sexbot spin-off, SOULM8TE, in doubt. In a new interview, Blumhouse boss Jason Blum shared his thoughts on the disappointing situation. On The Town podcast (via the Wrap), Blum ticked off the reasons

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‘The Old Guard 2’ Is a Tender Sophomore Stretched Thin by Sequel Syndrome

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-08-27 18:01:42

After years of production delays, Netflix and Skydance are finally poised to release The Old Guard 2, the Charlize Theron-led sequel to the 2020 adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’s Image Comics series. Directed by Victoria Mahoney, the sequel reunites its immortal mercenary found family for another globe-trotting mission. Unfortunately, this time around, their greatest threat isn’t its new immortal big bad and its long-awaited grudge match. It’s the sequel’s narrative inertia that’s

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Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 09:12:10

Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries The N+1 query problem occurs when your application code sends one SQL query per element in a collection. The N queries are redundant; since all of the data is in the database already, a single query should be enough. This problem is usually caused by a leaky abstraction; the ORM, or whatever database abstraction you are using, can’t anticipate that it would need to send N queries, so it can’t automatically optimize this down to a single query.

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Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 02:59:12

EXAMPLE Sequence reads 1 3 7 12 18 26 35 45..., differences are 2 4 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 ... and the point is that every number not in the sequence itself appears among the differences. This property (together with the fact that both the sequence and the sequence of first differences are increasing) defines the sequence!

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Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems

news.ycombinator.com Eugene Yan 2025-08-28 09:47:27

While evaluating Q&A systems is straightforward with short paragraphs, complexity increases as documents grow larger. For example, technical documentation, novels and movies, as well as multi-document scenarios. Although some of these evaluation challenges also appear in shorter contexts, long-context evaluation amplifies issues such as: Information overload: Irrelevant details in large documents obscure relevant facts, making it harder for retrievers and models to locate the right evidence for

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Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 22:42:05

Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale Junhao Li Senior Software Engineer Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. We offer managed cloud services that build on top of PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, vLLM, and others.‍ ‍vLLM is an open-source inference engine that serves large language models. We deploy multiple vLLM instances across GPUs and load open weight models like Llama 4 into them. We then load balance traffic across vLLM instances, run health

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AlphaGenome: AI for Better Understanding the Genome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 04:14:49

Science AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome Share Copy link × Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API. The genome is our cellular instruction manual. It’s the complete set of DNA which guides nearly every part of a living organism, from appearance and function to growth and reproduction. Small variations in a genome’s DNA sequence can alter a

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Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Junior Solutions Engineer in Denver

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 04:00:16

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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 04:02:17

There are secret messages flying all around you all the time, being transmitted via, most of the time, electromagnetic waves going from antenna to antenna. ELOs “Secret Messages” is a song about posting conspiracy theories via WiFi. But what if you need to get a few bytes from device A to device B (one of the hard problems in computer science!) and you don’t feel like making sure they’re both connected to the same network? Well, fortunately, another channel is available to us - sound, or for a

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Meta Quest 3 VR and Batman Bundle at This Price? Don’t Wait for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-02 07:42:27

The Meta Quest 3 is the most feature-rich affordable VR headset available currently, and it’s an easy top choice among users and critics alike. While the new 3S model is cheaper at $299, it simply doesn’t offer the same level of performance and features as the standard Meta Quest 3. With a perfect 5 out of 5-star rating from over 2,000 Amazon reviews, this headset is our pick for best immersive gaming and mixed reality. What’s great is that the Meta Quest 3 doesn’t require a console at all, so y

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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 2025-09-03 12:30:56

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

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AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 13:16:00

Science AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome Share Copy link × Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API. The genome is our cellular instruction manual. It’s the complete set of DNA which guides nearly every part of a living organism, from appearance and function to growth and reproduction. Small variations in a genome’s DNA sequence can alter a

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Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 14:16:00

Science AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome Share Copy link × Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API. The genome is our cellular instruction manual. It’s the complete set of DNA which guides nearly every part of a living organism, from appearance and function to growth and reproduction. Small variations in a genome’s DNA sequence can alter a

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Show HN: I Built AskMedically – Get Research-Backed Answers to Medical Queries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:43:57

Hi HN, I’ve built AskMedically – an AI-powered assistant that answers health and medical questions using real research papers from trusted medical sources like PubMed, Cochrane, etc. Whether you’re a healthcare enthusiast, patient, student, or professional – AskMedically helps you explore trusted medical knowledge without needing a medical degree or slogging through dozens of PDFs. Examples: • “Does intermittent fasting improve insulin sensitivity?” • “What are the benefits of creatine for

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Cancer-targeting nanoparticles are moving closer to human trials

technologyreview.com Anne Trafton 2025-09-08 12:00:00

In the original production technique, layers with different properties can be laid down by alternately exposing a particle to positively and negatively charged polymers, with extensive purification to remove excess polymer after each application. Each layer can carry therapeutics as well as molecules that help the particles find and enter cancer cells. But the process is time-consuming and would be difficult to scale up. In the new work, the researchers used a microfluidic mixing device that al

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Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI?

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