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Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid 2026 Review: Smooth, Efficient

wired.com John Voelcker 2025-10-06 09:00:00

The 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid gives the brand’s smallest utility vehicle what it’s long needed: better gas mileage. It’s a compact all-wheel-drive crossover hatchback that incorporates all of Subaru’s traditional off-road chops, with the added benefit of somewhat better fuel efficiency. It’s rated at 36 mpg combined versus the 29 mpg EPA combined number for the conventional Crosstrek, with either 2.0- or 2.5-liter engine. (The butch Crosstrek Wilderness trim comes in at 27 mpg combined.) Cou

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How has mathematics gotten so abstract?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 13:33:43

Today, mathematics is regarded as an abstract science. On forums such as Stack Exchange, trained mathematicians may sneer at newcomers who ask for intuitive explanations of mathematical constructs. Indeed, persistently trying to relate the foundations of math to reality has become the calling card of online cranks. I find this ironic: for millennia, mathematics was essentially a natural science. We had no philosophical explanation why 2 + 2 should be equal to 4; we just looked at what was happe

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Asus TUF Gaming T500 PC Review: Great for New PC Gamers

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-06 13:00:00

Because it’s so easy to build a gaming desktop at home, companies making prebuilt machines need to offer either a great value or something unique. That’s why the Asus TUF T500 isn't technically a desktop PC, at least in the classic sense. Instead, it leverages a smaller motherboard and laptop CPU, reducing the overall footprint but dropping the ability to upgrade or repair some of the individual parts. Most notably, the T500 is sporting a full-size desktop GPU, which is the biggest determining

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I tried the Apple Watch Ultra 3 for a week to figure out who should upgrade - here's my expert advice

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-06 22:35:32

Apple Watch Ultra 3 ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's rugged smartwatch is now available for purchase, starting at $799. The watch gets an additional six hours of battery life for a total of 42 hours of wear. Sleeping with the smartwatch is difficult. View now at Apple Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If the new Apple Watch Series 11, Apple's baseline smartwatch, is the girl next door, then Apple's Ultra 3 is the Mt. Kilimanjaro-scaling, rugged neighbor. People might be usin

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Managing Dotfiles with Make

news.ycombinator.com Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira 2025-10-03 03:15:26

Managing dotfiles with Make Make is an old tool, an assembly language of sorts for build systems. Many have tried to replace it. Many have tried to reinvent it. Most people prefer to avoid it if at all possible. So why use it to manage dotfiles of all things? There's at least one good reason to do this: make is ubiquitous. Pretty much every machine that has ever compiled software will have a copy of this thing. Using make as a dotfile management tool eliminates the need to install yet another

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Alphabet will pay $22 million to settle President Trump’s YouTube lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 01:46:11

Alphabet will pay President Donald Trump $22 million as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against the company over the suspension of various YouTube accounts following the January 6 riot at the US capital, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal . The suit includes other plaintiffs whose YouTube channels were banned that will split an additional $2.5 million in settlement payouts. Trump filed the suit in 2021, alongside lawsuits against Twitter and Facebook over simila

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Diagnosing a Linux Performance Regression

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 11:46:15

Systems Report: Diagnosing a Linux Performance Regression Automattic · January 14, 2025 From time to time, our systems engineers write up a case study detailing a notable moment on the infrastructure front lines. This month’s comes from Ale Crismani and Joshua Coughlan, systems wranglers who work on WordPress VIP. At Automattic, we use Kubernetes to orchestrate the infrastructure running WordPress VIP applications. We have firewall rules that ensure an application cannot connect to resources

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Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:42:46

loadmo.re is a mobile websites gallery showcasing the best design inspiration for unconventional web. To keep up with updates, follow us on Instagram . From its earliest days, digital design practice has been focused on creating interfaces for computers. Screen-based interactions are now mainly happening through smartphones and mobile-first experiences have become the norm. However, as digital designers, we still use computers as our main working tool and continue to browse desktop websites whe

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The New ‘Solar Opposites’ Trailer Teases a Perfectly Unhinged Final Season

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-08 05:20:53

As Solar Opposites nears its sixth and final season‘s arrival on Hulu, a new trailer is here showcasing the chaos to come—as well as, amid all the Shlorpian-based shenanigans, the ultimate fate of all the tiny humans trapped inside a wall in the alien home. While we love watching the selfish, raunchy, violent, ill-planned adventures of Korvo and company, we’re actually more interested to see how the show’s B plot, “The Wall,” finds its conclusion. We’re certain the Shlorpians will find a happy

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OpenAI is routing GPT-4o to safety models when it detects harmful activities

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 21:04:25

Over the weekend, some people noticed that GPT-4o is routing requests to an unknown model out of nowhere. Turns out it's a "safety" feature. ChatGPT routes some conversations to different models than what is expected. This can happen when you're using GPT-5 in auto mode, and you ask AI to think harder. It'll route your requests to GPT-5-thinking. While that's good, what has upset users is an attempt to route GPT-4o conversations to different models, likely a variant of GPT-5. This can happen

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I teamed up two AI tools to solve a major bug - but they couldn't do it without me

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-10-09 06:04:00

monsitj/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Codex struggles with big-picture debugging in complex codebases. Deep Research excels at diagnosis when code context is large. Human testing and oversight still remain critical with AI coding. "Huh?!?" Sometimes, when I'm coding and something doesn't behave quite right, and I'm not entirely sure what's up, my brain fires off an internal "Huh?!?" I think it's my way of recognizing "t

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Your iPhone's Maps App Is Tracking You in iOS 26. Here's How to Stop It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 05:00:04

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and the update brought Liquid Glass, call and text screening, and more hidden features to your iPhone. It also gave your Maps app a new feature called Visited Places that can track where you go, but you can turn the feature off in Settings. The feature was on by default after I updated my device to iOS 26, and it was detecting and logging places I visit, like restaurants, shops and parks. It could be useful if you want to remember a restaurant you went to a fe

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OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-09 05:00:00

Starting today, OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT safety tools intended for parents to use with their teenagers. This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide. These changes arrive as OpenAI is being sued by parents who allege ChatGPT played a role in the death of their child. The chatbot allegedly encouraged the suic

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Not a fan of Windows 11? Here's how I made my system look more like Linux or MacOS

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-09 00:00:30

Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Seelen UI is a desktop environment for Windows. With this app, you can achieve a Linux or MacOS look. Seelen UI is free to use and install on Windows 10/11. As a longtime Linux user, my opinion of the Windows UI has never really wavered: I think it's pretty dismal. Given that Linux has a cornucopia of desktop environments from which to choose, it makes perfect sense that someone wh

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Meta has introduced revised guardrails for its AI chatbots to prevent inappropriate conversations with children

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 01:04:44

Business Insider has obtained the guidelines that Meta contractors are reportedly now using to train its AI chatbots, showing how it's attempting to more effectively address potential child sexual exploitation and prevent kids from engaging in age-inappropriate conversations. The company said in August that it was updating the guardrails for its AIs after Reuters reported that its policies allowed the chatbots to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual," which Meta said at

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5 takeaways from CNBC’s investigation into 'nudify' apps and sites

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-08 23:16:23

Jessica Guistolise, Megan Hurley and Molly Kelley talk with CNBC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 11, 2025, about fake pornographic images and videos depicting their faces made by their mutual friend Ben using AI site DeepSwap. Jordan Wyatt | CNBC In the summer of 2024, a group of women in the Minneapolis area learned that a male friend used their Facebook photos mixed with artificial intelligence to create sexualized images and videos. Using an AI site called DeepSwap, the man secretly creat

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Show HN: Curated gamedev specific search engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:36:23

GameDev Torch is a small gamedev specific search engine. Search gamedev related articles, game engines, frameworks, blog posts and more from a manually curated set of websites. Use it to complement your general purpose search engines to easily find niche resources. What can I do? Looking for inspiration? Learn more about "dialogue tree" Something's missing? Suggest a new resource to index Want to know more? Learn how to query effectively Or browse the list of all indexed websites Who made

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Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 19:44:49

MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ is Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the Council on Foreign Relations and Richard Perry Professor and Director of the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. LAUREN A. KAHN is Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

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Reinventing SETI: Why Our Alien-Hunting Playbook Needs an Upgrade

gizmodo.com John Gertz 2025-10-08 18:00:35

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, published by Oxford University Press in August 2025. John Gertz is the president and CEO of Zorro Productions, Inc., and a former chairman of the board of the SETI Institute. In his book, Gertz argues that humanity should rethink the search for intelligent life by rejecting outdated paradigms like the Drake Equation, the Fermi Paradox, and the idea of actively broadca

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Can't upgrade to Windows 11? These are my 4 most powerful troubleshooting secrets

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-08 20:00:39

SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When Windows decides that it isn't interested in completing an upgrade, it can be maddeningly unhelpful, spitting out error codes and cryptic messages that can leave even experts scratching their heads. Also: How to upgrade your 'incompatible' Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 - for free That can happen with a routine Windows 11 feature update, but it's especially frustrating when you're trying to install Window

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You can claim up to $7,500 from AT&T's $177M data breach payouts - how to qualify

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-08 21:00:32

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AT&T's $177 million settlement is for data breaches in 2019 and 2024. Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), or both. File claim by Nov. 18, 2025, either online or by mail. If you're a current or former AT&T customer, you can now file a claim to be part of a $177 million class-action settlement over two major data breaches. But the deadline to file is

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Bell Labs Scientists Accidentally Proved the Big Bang Theory

news.ycombinator.com Julianne Pepitone 2025-10-09 05:17:18

“How did we get here?” That existential question about the universe has captivated humankind for centuries. Many scientists have attempted to answer it, including the Rev. Georges Lemaître, a Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest. In 1927 he theorized that the universe was created from a single particle he called the “primeval atom.” That atom later disintegrated in an explosion, LeMaître figured, creating space, time, and an ever-expanding universe, according to the American Museum of Natur

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‘Magic: The Gathering’ Is Boldly Going to ‘Star Trek’ Next Year

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-09 07:40:16

At MagicCon Atlanta today, Wizards of the Coast lifted the lid on its plans for the next year of Magic: The Gathering, and after the whirlwind success of Final Fantasy earlier this year, the Universes Beyond sets are not going away any time soon: if anything, they’re going further and further beyond, where no one has gone before. Well, except Edge of Eternities, which definitely felt like Wizards of the Coast setting itself up for one sci-fi crossover in particular that is now officially confir

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DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 22:26:44

Home Generate High-Quality Synthetic Datasets at Scale DeepFabric transforms the process of creating synthetic datasets for language model training, evaluation, and research. Built around the concept of topic-driven data generation, it provides both hierarchical topic trees and experimental graph-based topic modeling to create diverse, contextually rich training examples. The library serves researchers, engineers, and practitioners who need high-quality synthetic data for model distillation

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Amazon Will Cough Up $2.5 Billion for 'Tricking' People Into Amazon Prime Subscriptions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 01:38:03

On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Amazon for misleading customers who signed up for Amazon Prime began what was expected to be a lengthy trial. By Thursday, that trial was over as Amazon agreed to a whopping $2.5 billion settlement. The FTC said $1.5 billion will go into a fund to repay eligible subscribers, with the remaining $1 billion collected as a civil penalty. The settlement requires Amazon to add a "clear and conspicuous" option to decline Prime during checkout a

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Google is fixing a big readability complaint with this new Android setting

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:32:00

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding a new “reduce blur effects” toggle to address readability issues caused by its new Material 3 Expressive design. This new accessibility setting, available in the 2509 Android Canary build, disables background blur system-wide to improve text visibility. It replaces a developer option, making it much easier for regular users to find and enable the feature once it rolls out. The team at Android Authority is a big fan of Android’s new Materi

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Public transport navigation in Google Maps just got a much-needed overhaul

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:37:26

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps has updated its public transit navigation to allow full map access during trips. Users can now search, browse, and reroute without cancelling or restarting their current journey. Plus, new walking directions feature includes pedestrian incident reporting like crashes or slowdowns. Google Maps walking and transit guidance has been pretty abysmal for years now. People like me, who don’t own a car and rely on their feet and public transport,

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DeepFabric – Generate High-Quality Synthetic Datasets at Scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:26:44

Home Generate High-Quality Synthetic Datasets at Scale DeepFabric transforms the process of creating synthetic datasets for language model training, evaluation, and research. Built around the concept of topic-driven data generation, it provides both hierarchical topic trees and experimental graph-based topic modeling to create diverse, contextually rich training examples. The library serves researchers, engineers, and practitioners who need high-quality synthetic data for model distillation

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A OnePlus 15 review is out even before the phone officially launches

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:32:11

TL;DR A YouTuber has reviewed the OnePlus 15’s gaming performance ahead of its official launch. The OnePlus 15 is confirmed to arrive with a 165Hz display and the recently unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The reviewer confirms that the increase to 165Hz refresh rate aids in gameplay, especially for FPS games. Qualcomm’s latest flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, is less than a week old. And in the mere span of two days, we’ve already seen the first set of phones, under the Xiaom

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No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:47:40

Created by the author using GIMP and freely available images. Ever since Nenad Petrović, grandmaster of chess composition, published his 218 move composition in 1964, people have tried to come up with a better one. Last month, I joined the hunt and, being a computer scientist, I decided to settle this question once and for all, using computers. You can give it a try yourself. Try to find a position with more moves than the one below. Spoiler: You won't. Reachable chess position with 218 mov

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