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Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 20:01:24

Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le

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US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:20:27

US to review all 55 million visas to check if holders broke rules US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced several measures this year to curb immigration President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of his second administration, from mass deportations and full-on travel bans on countries to revoking 6,000 student visas. Visas will be revoked if there are indications of "overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activit

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New iPhones and iPads in Russia must ship with state-backed messaging app preinstalled

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-31 08:51:33

Earlier today, the Russian government announced a new rule requiring all phones and tablets to ship with MAX, its state-backed messenger app, preinstalled. Here are the details. As reported by Reuters, starting September 1, “gadget” makers will have to include MAX among the apps that must come preinstalled. That includes phones and tablets. RuStore, the country’s domestic application store, which up to now came preinstalled on Android devices, will also have to come preinstalled on all “gadget

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Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 16:07:51

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Thursday that it is reviewing more than 55 million people who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation, marking a growing crackdown on foreigners who are even permitted to be in the United States. In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said all U.S. visa holders, which can include tourists from many countries, are subject to “continuous vetting,” with an eye toward any indic

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Google Wallet adds support for another official state ID, bringing the total to 8

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-04 04:18:29

Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Montana residents can now add their state ID to Google Wallet. This addition brings the feature to a total of eight states. Digital IDs are a companion to your physical ID, not a replacement. Get more ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source. One more state has joined the list that officially lets you use Google Wallet as your ID. Montana residents can now add their official state driver's license or

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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-11-04 09:29:05

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world’s most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth’s mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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Wyoming Launches the First State-Issued Stablecoin

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-06 09:10:04

Wyoming just became the first U.S. state to launch its own stablecoin, promising lower fees and instant transactions. The Wyoming Stable Token Commission, created in 2023, announced on Tuesday the launch of the mainnet blockchain network for its new Frontier Stable Token (FRNT). The commission says FRNT will make digital payments faster and more secure for individuals, businesses, and institutions around the world. How that’s different from any other stablecoin’s promises is anyone’s guess. “F

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An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 00:00:58

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world's most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth's mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

news.ycombinator.com Emily Boragine 2025-11-04 00:39:24

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A small portion of the study area, zoomed in to show detail: (A) aerial imagery from NAIP RGB (red–green–blue; naked eye view); (B) visual of values in most important NAIP input for model training; (C) visual of values in most important NEON input for model training; (D–F) visuals of RF-classified models for all thre

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An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 08:45:12

As the sun continues the tumultuous peak of its 11-year cycle, more instances of aurora borealis have been expected. The most recent instance was earlier in August when auroras lit up the skies in 18 states. It seems the Earth is in for another battering of solar material as another aurora has been forecast for Monday night, and it should be a pretty decent one for states in the northern US. According to NOAA, the Earth will experience a geomagnetic storm with a Kp 5 rating. For the uninitiated

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Clojure Async Flow Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:52:03

Flow Guide Getting started The flow library enables a strict separation application logic from the deployment concerns of topology, execution, communication, lifecycle, monitoring and error handling. Step fns and process launchers You provide logic to flow in the form of step-fns, which are wrapped into running processes, executing in a loop. Flow manages the life cycle of the process and handles incoming and outgoing messages by putting or taking them on channels. Step-fns do not access cha

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 23:09:34

What is Raft? Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems. We hope Raft will make consensus available to a wider audience, and that this wider audience will be able to develop a variety of higher quality consensus-based systems than are available today. Hol

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Louisiana Attorney General has filed a "Child Protection" lawsuit against Roblox

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:23:55

The state of Louisiana is suing online gaming platform Roblox, alleging that it fails to adequately protect its majority underage user base from online predators. In the state’s lawsuit , they allege that Roblox is failing to "implement basic safety controls" such as biometric age verification upon account creation or checking that parental consent has been given to open an account. In an article announcing the lawsuit, the state says that 56 percent of Roblox players are 16 years of age or you

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The Future of EV Charging Can Be Found at Your Local Gas Station

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-11-15 17:30:00

New federal guidance controlling $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle fast chargers in the US could direct more money towards gas station and truck stop operators. The result? The future of “topping up” your car might look a lot like the present. This week, the US Department of Transportation released new interim guidance for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. These rules advise states on how to spend $5 billion in funding for new electric-vehicle fast chargers,

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Trump administration stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-22 11:12:08

The Trump administration has finally issued new guidance that states can use to dole out $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, after spending months withholding the money. A coalition of states sued over the funding freeze in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which was one of the administration’s many attempts to stop funding appropriated by Congress at the start of Donald Trump’s second term. A judge ruled in June that those states were

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Trump admin stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-22 17:12:08

The Trump administration has finally issued new guidance that states can use to dole out $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, after spending months withholding the money. A coalition of states sued over the funding freeze in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which was one of the administration’s many attempts to stop funding appropriated by Congress at the start of Donald Trump’s second term. A judge ruled in June that those states were

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Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:15:54

As if suspiciously AI-generated descriptions of real estate listings weren't enough, agents are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties. The Register spotted a dubious listing of a fully renovated 3-bedroom in the UK with a photo — which has since been deleted, but can still be viewed in an archived version — that shows the tell-tale signs of generative AI, including awnings that don't line up, hedges that inexplicably turn into walls, and a f

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Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking

news.ycombinator.com Mass General Brigham 2025-11-24 06:22:56

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham examined the effects of policies banning flavored e-cigarettes on adults and young people. Investigators found that e-cigarette use significantly declined among young adults and adults in states that had enacted flavor bans rel

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Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 17:09:02

Poltergeist The ghost that keeps your builds fresh 👻 A universal file watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system Poltergeist is an AI-friendly universal file-watcher that auto-detects any project and rebuilds them as soon as a file has been changed. Think npm run dev for native apps, with automatic configuration, notifications and a smart build queue. It stands on the shoulders of giants and fills the glue layer that's been missing. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Availabl

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The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 11:30:00

August has started heavy for skygazers. We are days away from August's sturgeon full moon and the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. Before those celestial events get underway, however, it seems that another sighting of the aurora borealis may be visible in up to 18 US states on Friday night. Those states can be broken up into three categories. The first are states that will almost certainly see an aurora -- if conditions allow -- and include Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Da

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ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-25 03:10:28

How many U.S. states include the letter “R” in their name? You may not know the answer off the top of your head, but any literate adult could figure it out with a list of the states and minimal effort. Unfortunately, OpenAI’s ChatGPT doesn’t know the answer, even its new GPT-5 model. Because generative AI is still a deeply flawed tool, despite being sold by its creators as a god-like entity that can answer literally anything. I was inspired to ask the question after seeing a Bluesky post on Thu

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The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Over 2 Nights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 21:12:00

August has started heavy for skygazers. We are days away from August's sturgeon full moon and the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. Before those celestial events get underway, however, it seems that another sighting of the aurora borealis is going to sneak in Thursday and Friday and may be visible in up to 18 US states. Those states can be broken up into three categories. The first are states that will almost certainly see an aurora -- if conditions allow -- and include Alaska, Washington, Mo

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Apple’s new $100B US commitment got it a 100% chip tariff exemption

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-29 08:07:46

During today’s Oval Office press conference, President Donald Trump announced that Apple will be exempt from an upcoming “very large tariff on chips and semiconductors”. Here are the details. Today, Apple announced the American Manufacturing Program (AMP), adding $100 billion to its previously pledged $500 billion investment aimed at expanding domestic facilities and creating jobs. During the press briefing in which, among other things, Apple CEO Tim Cook gifted President Trump a piece of US-m

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Trump vows 100% tariff on chips, unless companies are building in the U.S.

cnbc.com Kevin Breuninger 2025-11-29 17:36:29

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will impose a 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, but not for companies that are "building in the United States." The announcement of new sector-specific tariffs shows Trump ratcheting up his efforts to pressure businesses to manufacture their products in the U.S. But specifics about the p

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Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on computer chips with a gigantic loophole

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-29 17:25:28

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In the very first week of his presidency, Donald Trump vowed to force silicon manufacturing back to the United States by making processors more expensive, a threat he’s repeated since. Is he finally going through with that plan? Trump just announced he’

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States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-01 12:34:52

US state legislatures are where the action is for placing guardrails around artificial intelligence technologies, given the lack of meaningful federal regulation. The resounding defeat in Congress of a proposed moratorium on state-level AI regulation means states are free to continue filling the gap. Several states have already enacted legislation around the use of AI. All 50 states have introduced various AI-related legislation in 2025. Four aspects of AI in particular stand out from a regula

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Trump tells states they'll lose out on broadband fund if they try to dictate rates

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 17:30:20

States will lose out on their share of a $42 billion broadband fund if they attempt to dictate rates that internet services providers (ISPs) charge low-income customers, according to a new FAQ from the Trump administration seen by Ars Technica. That means ISPs — which are subsidized by the government in order to provide low-cost plans — will be able to set such rates under the BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment) program. The new language appeared in a BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice

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Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 17:43:45

The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving subsidies are allowed to charge people with low incomes. The latest version of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) FAQ on the grant program, released today, is a challenge to states considering laws that would force Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people who meet income eligibility

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Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 03:57:56

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. The law highlights that only licensed professionals are allowed to offer counseling services in the state and forbids AI chatbots or tools from acting as a stand-alone therapist. HB 1806, titled the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act, also specifies that licensed therapists cannot use AI to make “th

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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 22:36:58

It's been just a year since we wrote about how we implemented deterministic simulation testing (DST) of our Go database (FrostDB). Since then, we have been hard at work writing our new database backed by object storage in Rust (read more here about why). In this blog post, I want to lay out the approach we took to build our new Rust database with DST principles front-and-center and how it compares to the approach we took with FrostDB. As a quick recap, DST tests are randomized full system integ

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Latest Tech News

Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with LLMs

US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules

New iPhones and iPads in Russia must ship with state-backed messaging app preinstalled

Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations

Google Wallet adds support for another official state ID, bringing the total to 8

Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

Wyoming Launches the First State-Issued Stablecoin

An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

Clojure Async Flow Guide

The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

Louisiana Attorney General has filed a "Child Protection" lawsuit against Roblox

The Future of EV Charging Can Be Found at Your Local Gas Station

Trump administration stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

Trump admin stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking

Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Tonight

ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Over 2 Nights

Apple’s new $100B US commitment got it a 100% chip tariff exemption

Trump vows 100% tariff on chips, unless companies are building in the U.S.

Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on computer chips with a gigantic loophole

States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear

Trump tells states they'll lose out on broadband fund if they try to dictate rates

Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

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