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GoPro HERO13 Black Ultra Wide Edition Drops to All-Time Low, Amazon Clears Out Its Best Action Camera

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-02-17 20:40:25

The Summer holidays will be here in no time, and whether you’ve got kids or not, now’s the time to start planning all sorts of escapades. Whether you’re going to the beach, camping, going out skating, or just about anything else, it’s important to be able to capture all of the action, no matter what that action is. While a mobile phone is a great way to do this, if you want something that’s built for it, then you’ll want to get an action camera. See at Amazon There are a few brands out there t

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Gemini now lets you schedule tasks ahead of time (Updated: Rolling out widely)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 00:22:04

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini now lets you automate routine tasks with its new scheduled actions feature. You can use it to schedule prompts to perform a task at a specific time, day, date, or after an event. The feature is available in the Gemini app for users with a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription and qualifying Google Workspace business and education plans. Update, July 1, 2025 (08:22 AM ET): Google has started rolling out Scheduled Actions for Gemini across Android, iO

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Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 06:12:10

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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Eating Dairy Before Bed Can Give You Nightmares, Study Suggests

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-18 09:00:17

Has a late-night cheese session ever seemed to send you down your own personal Nightmare on Elm Street? You’re probably not alone. Research out today has revealed a link between lactose intolerance and a higher risk of bad dreams. Scientists in Canada conducted the study by surveying college students. People who reported having regular nightmares and poorer sleep in general were also more likely to report having food allergies, including lactose intolerance, they found. The researchers speculat

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End of an Era

news.ycombinator.com Chris Crawford 2026-02-18 22:17:11

I recall saying to one of my colleagues at Atari way back in 1982 that I wanted to make a game that would be genuine art. A year later I built a game that was my first experiment in that direction: Gossip. It was a ridiculously simple game in which a player attempted to win favor in a group by calling people and telling them how much you liked or disliked some third party. The underlying concept was that “people like people who like people they like.” For some reason, many players had problems a

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Mortgage Rate Predictions: How Tariffs, War and the Fed Are Impacting Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 14:33:46

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET Mortgage market predictions have been clouded by economic uncertainty caused by the Trump administration's trade measures, deficit spending and geopolitical maneuvering. The big question hanging over the housing market is whether rates will rise due to tariff-induced inflation or fall due to a recession. Since early spring, average mortgage rates for 30-year fixed loans have been swinging betwee

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The ‘Superman’ We Need Right Now: A Report From the Set of James Gunn’s New DC Film

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-20 00:00:31

When Superman started kissing the football on a stick, it all clicked together. The day was June 24, 2024 and io9 was in Cleveland to watch the filming of James Gunn’s Superman. At the end of a giant battle over the streets of Metropolis, the Man of Steel knelt down to kiss and profess his love to an inanimate object that special effects would later transform into his dog, Krypto. That little dash of heartfelt weirdness, in the middle of a massive action scene, did a near-perfect job of showing

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Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 17:17:12

The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization

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Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 23:17:12

The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization

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Gradient Descent Visualiser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 17:10:49

👋 Hey there! Let's play with gradient descent. This mini-app acts as an interactive supplement to Teach LA's curriculum on linear regression and gradient descent. Not sure what's going on? Check out the lesson notebook and the corresponding slides.

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I tested the Garmin Vivoactive 6 and Apple Watch SE, and I still prefer Garmin as a gym mate

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-20 17:00:02

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Apple Watch SE is the blueprint for what most people expect from a smartwatch: a clean design, deep smartphone integration, and enough wellness tracking features to stay reasonably healthy. At a reduced price compared to the brand’s flagship lineup, the SE is also accessible. However, with the launch of the Vivoactive 6, Garmin seems to be stepping up to the plate with a potential competitor. After testing both watches side by side, it’s clear Garmin isn’

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LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction

news.ycombinator.com Martin Fowler 2026-02-16 23:55:14

Like most loudmouths in this field, I've been paying a lot of attention to the role that generative AI systems may play in software development. I think the appearance of LLMs will change software development to a similar degree as the change from assembler to the first high-level programming languages. The further development of languages and frameworks increased our abstraction level and productivity, but didn't have that kind of impact on the nature of programming. LLMs are making that degree

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This Prehistoric Trick Shows How Ice Age People Harvested Teeth for Jewelry

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-20 16:00:05

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such as tools, bones, and pottery. Experimental archaeologists, however, go a step further—recreating past behaviors to experience how people once lived. That’s precisely what a team of researchers recently did to investigate how Stone Age communities in northeastern Europe extracted animal teeth to produce accessories. Led by Aija Macāne, a visiting scholar in the Department

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LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

news.ycombinator.com Martin Fowler 2026-02-16 05:52:05

Like most loudmouths in this field, I've been paying a lot of attention to the role that generative AI systems may play in software development. I think the appearance of LLMs will change software development to a similar degree as the change from assembler to the first high-level programming languages. The further development of languages and frameworks increased our abstraction level and productivity, but didn't have that kind of impact on the nature of programming. LLMs are making that degree

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‘The Old Guard 2’ Cast on Making a Sequel That Bleeds, Thinks, and Fights Harder

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-02-21 10:45:25

On July 2, Netflix and Skydance will finally unleash The Old Guard 2, the long-awaited sequel to the 2020 action hit starring Charlize Theron as an immortal warrior protecting humanity. Ahead of the release, io9 caught up with returning stars KiKi Layne, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Marwan Kenzari, as well as franchise newcomer Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, Snake Eyes), to talk about stepping back into the brutal, secretive world of the Image Comics universe and what it took to bring its next chapt

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Slightly better named character reference tokenization than Chrome, Safari, FF

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Liptak 2026-02-20 21:27:26

Slightly better named character reference tokenization than Chrome, Safari, and Firefox 2025-06-26 Note: I am not a 'browser engine' person, nor a 'data structures' person. I'm certain that an even better implementation than what I came up with is very possible. A while back, for no real reason, I tried writing an implementation of a data structure tailored to the specific use case of the Named character reference state of HTML tokenization (here's the link to that experiment). Recently, I to

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Coinbase is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 in June, and may have even more room to run

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-02-22 00:40:15

People watch as the logo for Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron at Times Square in New York on April 14, 2021. Coinbase is the top performer in the S&P 500 in June, boosted by positive regulatory updates, product launches and, of course, its very inclusion in the benchmark stock index at the end of May. The crypto exchange's outperformance in the S&P 500 extends back to the April 8 market low, just after President Donald Trump's

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Scattered Spider hackers shift focus to aviation, transportation firms

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-22 00:20:58

Hackers associated with "Scattered Spider" tactics have expanded their targeting to the aviation and transportation industries after previously attacking insurance and retail sectors These threat actors have employed a sector-by-sector approach, initially targeting retail companies, such as M&S and Co-op, in the United Kingdom and the United States and subsequently shifting their focus to insurance companies. While the threat actors were not officially named as responsible for insurance sector

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This Action Camera Is Practically Free Compared to GoPro for Amazon Early Prime Day, Stock Is Limited

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-02-22 15:10:50

Whether you’ve got kids, pets, or just friends who are more than a little extroverted, it can be nice to have a really solid action camera. Not every camera can handle capturing action as it happens, let alone when things go underwater or especially quickly. That’s where a good action camera really shines, but they can also be really expensive. They don’t have to be though. See at Amazon Today, you can pick up the Akaso EK7000 Action Camera for just $53. That’s 34% off the usual price of $80,

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Apple tests if AI assistants can anticipate the consequences of in-app actions

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-23 00:08:42

As AI agents come closer to taking real actions on our behalf (messaging someone, buying something, toggling account settings, etc.), a new study co-authored by Apple looks into how well do these systems really understand the consequences of their actions. Here’s what they found out. Presented recently at the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Italy, the paper From Interaction to Impact: Towards Safer AI Agents Through Understanding and Evaluating Mobile UI Operation Impacts intro

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Is Google readying a rival to iOS’ Contact Poster? (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-23 15:59:34

Apple TL;DR We’ve spotted clues that indicate Google is working on a “calling card” feature for Android. The feature may allow for full-screen images and custom fonts for incoming calls. Speculatively, it could be similar to iOS’ Contact Posters, enabling users to personalize their call display. Google and Apple frequently look at each other’s operating systems for inspiration on what next to bring to their own. We’ve seen iOS copy features like widgets, free app icon placement on the home s

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Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 20:30:56

The AI browser automation framework Magnitude uses vision AI to enable you to control your browser with natural language 🧭 Navigate - Sees and understands any interface to plan out actions - Sees and understands any interface to plan out actions 🖱️ Interact - Executes precise actions using mouse and keyboard - Executes precise actions using mouse and keyboard 🔍 Extract - Intelligently extracts useful structured data - Intelligently extracts useful structured data ✅ Verify - Built-in test ru

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Show HN: Magnitude – open-source AI browser automation framework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 08:30:56

The AI browser automation framework Magnitude uses vision AI to enable you to control your browser with natural language 🧭 Navigate - Sees and understands any interface to plan out actions - Sees and understands any interface to plan out actions 🖱️ Interact - Executes precise actions using mouse and keyboard - Executes precise actions using mouse and keyboard 🔍 Extract - Intelligently extracts useful structured data - Intelligently extracts useful structured data ✅ Verify - Built-in test ru

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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-24 10:33:20

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced a new feature that expands its Artifacts document management system into the basis of a personal AI app gallery resembling something from the Flash game era of the early 2000s—though these apps run on modern web code rather than Adobe's defunct plugin. Using plain English dialogue, users can build and share interactive applications directly within Claude's chatbot interface using a new API capability that lets artifacts interact with Claude itself. Claude is an

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US Senators introduce bipartisan bill to enable third-party app stores on iPhones

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2026-02-24 20:31:00

In a nutshell: Five US senators have reintroduced a bipartisan bill to curb Apple's and Google's dominance in mobile app distribution. According to the lawmakers, the legislation will outlaw restrictive trade practices that allow the two tech giants control the global app economy. The "Open App Markets Act," introduced by Senators Marsha Blackburn, Richard Blumenthal, Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, and Dick Durbin, aims to promote competition and strengthen consumer protections in the evolving mobile

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"Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking": Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-24 18:26:32

The love's gone bad between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose lucrative partnership ushered in our age of AI hype. OpenAI is trying to convert into a for-profit company, but it's so far failed to secure its benefactor's approval and negotiate a new contract. The frustration is running so high that the ChatGPT maker is reportedly considering bring an antitrust suit against Microsoft if it doesn't get its way. As the Wall Street Journal reports, one thing driving a wedge between them is the industry's

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Relooted Is a Heist Game About Returning African Artifacts to Their Home Countries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-25 00:00:05

One of last year's biggest games, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, revived a hero from a bygone era -- known for retrieving precious artifacts and delivering them to Western museums. At Summer Game Fest, I got to try a game that flips this script. Relooted is all about a team of African specialists liberating artifacts from museums to bring them back to their home countries. Relooted is a 2D puzzle-platformer which tasks players to pull off increasingly complex heists. There's a basic loop o

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Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-25 00:45:07

Android users will soon be able to let Gemini control device features and apps with fewer privacy concerns. In an email seen by Android Police, Google recently notified Gemini users that it will start rolling out an update on July 7th that allows the AI bot to “use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Disabling the Gemini Apps Activity setting stops conversations with the chatbot from being used to “provide, improve, develop, a

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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-02-26 00:10:00

When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of molecular processes, such as whether a gene’s activity will go up or down. It’s just the sort of ques

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Google clears the air about that Gemini email, says ‘this update is good for users’

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-26 03:25:08

Google has clarified what Gemini’s upcoming July 7 update for Android devices really means and how it’ll affect Android users. The company responded to an email query from Android Authority, confirming that Gemini will soon be able to help with everyday tasks like sending messages, making phone calls, and setting timers, even if Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. This initially sparked confusion after Google sent out a vague email to users, stating that Gemini would soon be able to “help you u

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Latest Tech News

GoPro HERO13 Black Ultra Wide Edition Drops to All-Time Low, Amazon Clears Out Its Best Action Camera

Gemini now lets you schedule tasks ahead of time (Updated: Rolling out widely)

Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries

Eating Dairy Before Bed Can Give You Nightmares, Study Suggests

End of an Era

Mortgage Rate Predictions: How Tariffs, War and the Fed Are Impacting Rates

The ‘Superman’ We Need Right Now: A Report From the Set of James Gunn’s New DC Film

Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper

Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

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I tested the Garmin Vivoactive 6 and Apple Watch SE, and I still prefer Garmin as a gym mate

LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction

This Prehistoric Trick Shows How Ice Age People Harvested Teeth for Jewelry

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

‘The Old Guard 2’ Cast on Making a Sequel That Bleeds, Thinks, and Fights Harder

Slightly better named character reference tokenization than Chrome, Safari, FF

Coinbase is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 in June, and may have even more room to run

Scattered Spider hackers shift focus to aviation, transportation firms

This Action Camera Is Practically Free Compared to GoPro for Amazon Early Prime Day, Stock Is Limited

Apple tests if AI assistants can anticipate the consequences of in-app actions

Is Google readying a rival to iOS’ Contact Poster? (APK teardown)

Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

Show HN: Magnitude – open-source AI browser automation framework

Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

US Senators introduce bipartisan bill to enable third-party app stores on iPhones

"Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking": Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

Relooted Is a Heist Game About Returning African Artifacts to Their Home Countries

Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android

The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

Google clears the air about that Gemini email, says ‘this update is good for users’

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