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Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Augie De Blieck Jr. 2025-10-06 10:52:32

That white floppy hat on top of every Smurf’s head. What is it? Where did it come from? Do Smurfs have bald spots? We’ve got a history lesson coming up here, folks. Sit back. But, first, let’s answer a side question: What’s Under a Smurf’s Hat? There’s only one true source for information on this question, and that’s Peyo’s comics. Accept no substitutes. Yes, there are probably moments in various movies and cartoons where a Smurf can been seen without their hat on. That’s not Peyo. Peyo s

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Apple Watch Series 11 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8: I've tested both, and here's the winner

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-06 15:20:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Apple unveiled its Watch Series 11 during this week's iPhone event, alongside two other smartwatch models. The Series 11 gets Sleep Scores (crowd roars), a longer battery life, and all of Apple's WatchOS 26 software, which is expected to be released to the public soon. Also: I tried the Apple Watch Series 11, Watch Ultra 3, and SE - what the keynote didn't tell you But how does it compare to its closest Android rival, t

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Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 – CPUs – By George Cozma

news.ycombinator.com George Cozma 2025-10-04 03:02:56

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Hot Chips 2025 and specifically the CPU session at Hot Chips 2025 where we had presentations from Condor Computing about their new Cuzco core, PEZY about their upcoming SC4s chip, IBM about their Power11 chip which is already shipping to customers, and Intel about their upcoming E-Core based Xeon CPU codenamed Clearwater Forest. Hope y'all enjoy! If you’d like more detailed break downs of most of the chips and the presentations, he

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A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 21:49:20

This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the presentation language because C++ does not support multiple dispatch directly, but can be used to implement it in various ways. Showing how multiple dispatch is implemented in a language th

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Where did the Smurfs get their hats

news.ycombinator.com Augie De Blieck Jr. 2025-10-06 15:52:32

That white floppy hat on top of every Smurf’s head. What is it? Where did it come from? Do Smurfs have bald spots? We’ve got a history lesson coming up here, folks. Sit back. But, first, let’s answer a side question: What’s Under a Smurf’s Hat? There’s only one true source for information on this question, and that’s Peyo’s comics. Accept no substitutes. Yes, there are probably moments in various movies and cartoons where a Smurf can been seen without their hat on. That’s not Peyo. Peyo s

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A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 02:49:20

This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the presentation language because C++ does not support multiple dispatch directly, but can be used to implement it in various ways. Showing how multiple dispatch is implemented in a language th

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Universal Executive Regrets Most Hilarious, Perfect Part of ‘Fast and Furious’ Franchise

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-06 18:00:20

Before the abysmal mess that was Fast X, the ninth Fast and Furious film, F9, did the most insane thing imaginable. After literal years and years of joking about it, F9 actually sent characters to space. It was Ludacris (literally and figuratively), it was hilarious, and it was wonderful. But now, looking back, one of Universal Studios’ most powerful executives regrets it. “I’m sorry that we sent them into space,” Donna Langley, the Chief Content Officer for NBCUniversal Studio Group, said rece

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Pop Mart Unleashes Its Blind Box ‘Chucky’ Collection Just in Time for Halloween

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-06 19:50:28

Pop Mart, purveyor of Labubu, is branching out in the world of creepy pop culture collectibles with a little help from Chucky. The blind box drop arrives September 11, timed to coincide with Halloween season and aiming to bolster the company’s roster of animation-influenced characters. At the recent San Diego Comic-Con, Pop Mart made a splash with the Monsters series Big Into Energy, Skullpanda, and Peach Riot, as well as its latest Star Wars line. During io9’s preview at SDCC, Emily Brough, Po

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Anker deals: These essentials will keep all your desk devices charged and connected

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 23:46:29

Keeping a desk organized and clean will always make you more productive and comfortable. With so many devices, peripherals, and accessories, though, things can get messy real quick. Anker is currently running some sales on accessories that will help you better organize your cables, all while keeping all your devices connected and charged. Let’s go over our two favorite bundles. Both of these offers are available directly from Anker. That said, they require a coupon code. Check each section belo

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 vs Series 11, Ultra 2 battery life: Big upgrades

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-07 02:39:01

Apple Watch Ultra 3 is the first new Ultra model to come with battery life gains, but Apple Watch Series 11 brings battery increases too. Here’s how Apple’s two new flagship Watch models compare against each other and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in battery life. Battery life comparison: Apple Watch Ultra 3, Ultra 2, Series 11 Out of all of Apple Watch Ultra’s unique strengths, battery life has long been a key differentiator. This year, Apple is increasing battery on the Ultra 3 to be longer than ever

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AirPods Pro 3 don’t include a USB-C charging cable in the box

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-07 03:04:48

At this point, it is not exactly a surprise, but it is still noteworthy: If you’re buying the new AirPods Pro 3, make sure you have a USB-C charging cable or a wireless charger handy. Here are the details. Bring your own USB-C cable or wireless charger As Apple succinctly explains on the AirPods Pro 3 tech specs page: “USB‑C Charge Cable sold separately.“ While many users have more than enough charging alternatives at home, at work, and even in their cars, some might still be caught by surpr

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Here’s everything Apple discontinued after the ‘Awe Dropping’ event

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-07 03:36:07

As it usually does, Apple discontinued a few products to make room for everything it announced during Tuesday’s event. Here’s the full list of products that Apple dropped, following the ‘Awe Dropping’ presentation. The vintage clock is now ticking for these products Every time Apple announces new products, it immediately stops selling some of its previous versions, although they remain available from third-party retailers, usually at pretty attractive discounts. Yesterday was no different. Fo

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Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem

news.ycombinator.com Chris Houser 2025-10-04 01:31:50

At times, to evolve your product, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The article provides the story behind the rewrite of InfluxDB from scratch using a different programming language - Rust - and stack - Apache Flight, Data Fusion, Apache Arrow and Parquet (FDAP). It emphasises the benefits, as well as the mechanics behind its operation and the different versions of the product.

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Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-07 03:30:11

There’s been great interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding and the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Murati’s research lab gave the world its first look into one of its projects: creating AI models with reproducible responses. The research blog post, titled “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference,” tries to unpack the root cause of what introduces randomness i

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Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-07 06:17:29

In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the "open web is already in rapid decline" — despite being adamant for months that the "web is thriving." As first spotted by The Verge, the tech giant attempted to dissuade regulators from breaking up its advertising tech business, arguing that doing so would harm publishers who rely on advertising revenue. Google argued that splitting up its ad business would "only accelerate" the open web's disintegration ahead of an antitrust trial in a D

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Scientists Stunned as Tiny Algae Keep Moving Inside Arctic Ice

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-07 07:05:30

Scientists know that microbial life can survive under some extreme conditions—including, hopefully, harsh Martian weather. But new research suggests that one particular microbe, an algal species found in Arctic ice, isn’t as immobile as it was previously believed. They’re surprisingly active, gliding across—and even within—their frigid stomping grounds. In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published September 9, researchers explained that ice diatoms—single-celled algae wi

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A 36-Year-Old Woman Developed an Insatiable Craving for Bleach. Scientists Now Know Why

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-07 07:25:42

We all have our unusual food preferences, but it’s unlikely any are quite as weird as the craving experienced by a 36-year-old woman featured in a recent case report. Her doctors described how the woman developed a sudden hunger for bleach—a craving likely triggered by an autoimmune disorder. Doctors in Michigan detailed the strange tale in a paper published last month in the journal Case Reports in Psychiatry. The woman had developed a severe bout of anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency, no

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What Time Is the Next Nintendo Direct? How to Watch September's Nintendo Direct

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 06:19:00

Another Nintendo Direct is just around the corner. The gaming giant is heading into the holiday season with the recently released Switch 2, and it will likely show off some of the big games coming out for the console. That could start its celebration of its most iconic mascot. Nintendo says its next Nintendo Direct will take place on Friday, Sept. 12, according to a post on X on Wednesday from the company's account. As is typically the case with these teasers, Nintendo didn't reveal many detail

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Surprise! High Blood Pressure Alerts Are Coming to Your Existing Apple Watch Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 07:06:00

Turns out the biggest new Apple Watch health features don't require new hardware. One of the standout moments at Apple's September iPhone event was the announcement of two new health features on the Apple Watch: hypertension notifications and a new sleep score. Hypertension notifications will alert Apple Watch owners of potential signs of high blood pressure, a condition that goes undiagnosed in millions of people. Sleep Score, meanwhile, grades the quality of your rest on a 0–100 scale. Becaus

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Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Commanders vs. Packers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 07:15:25

When to watch the Washington Commanders and Green Bay Packers? Thursday, Sept. 11, at 8:15 p.m. ET (5:15 p.m. PT). Where to watch The Commanders and Packers game will stream live on Prime Video and for free on Twitch. Fans in the home markets of each team can also watch on a local channel. Playoff teams from a year ago, the Commanders and Packers get Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season started tomorrow night at Lambeau Field. If you're looking for this game on your TV, you'll need to close out of

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Everything Announced at Apple Event 2025: iPhone Air, iPhone 17, AirPods Pro 3 and New Apple Watches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 11:03:21

Each September, Apple's product release playbook dials up the unveiling of the company's newest line of iPhones, along with a variety of complementary gadgets. On Tuesday, the company took the wraps off the iPhone 17 in all its variations, most notably the new skinny iPhone Air, along with new Apple Watches -- Series 11 and Ultra 3 -- and an upgrade to its 2-year-old AirPods Pro 2 earbuds. Along with the hardware, Apple is rolling out the new versions of the devices' respective operating system

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What Time Is the Next Nintendo Direct?: How to Watch September's Nintendo Direct

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 11:19:00

Another Nintendo Direct is just around the corner. The gaming giant is heading into the holiday season with the recently released Switch 2, and it will likely show off some of the big games coming out for the console. That could start its celebration of its most iconic mascot. Nintendo says its next Nintendo Direct will take place on Friday, Sept. 12, according to a post on X on Wednesday from the company's account. As is typically the case with these teasers, Nintendo didn't reveal many detail

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Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:23:08

Artificial general intelligence, the prospect of a synthetic entity meeting or exceeding the cognitive power of a human, is a polarizing topic. For some, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, it's a mission statement — the lodestar guiding the company's $300 billion operations. For others, like activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, it's an existential threat to be resisted at any cost. Reichstader is now on day nine of a grueling anti-AGI hunger strike in front of the San Francisco headquarters of

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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

news.ycombinator.com Horace He In Collaboration With Others At Thinking Machines 2025-10-07 14:26:08

Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same question multiple times provides different results. This by itself is not surprising, since getting a result from a language model involves “sampling”, a process that converts the language model’s output into a probability distribution and probabilistically selects a token. What might be mor

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Apple isn’t packing a charging cable in with the AirPods Pro 3

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-07 15:17:55

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The AirPods Pro 3 seem like a solid upgrade, but they have one significant drawback: Apple isn’t including a charging cable in the box, MacRumors reports. Apple spells it out right on the AirPods Pro 3 tech specs page, saying in the “In the Box” section that “USB‑C Charge Cable sold separately.” That means that if you want to charge the case for the AirPods Pro 3, you’ll n

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Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC, other AI names rally on Oracle's massive growth projections

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-07 19:30:51

Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison during a launch event at the company's headquarters in Redwood Shores, California June 10, 2014. Oracle 's massive growth trajectory for cloud infrastructure is lifting all boats. The cloud giant forecasted skyrocketing sales to $114 billion in the company's fiscal 2029, signalling demand for artificial intelligence processing will remain high over the next few years, and will require Oracle to build out new data centers. "The guide for a 14x of Oracl

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Nomad's latest Apple Watch band is bright enough to stop traffic - and it's my new favorite

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-10-07 19:55:00

Nomad Tempo Apple Watch Band ZDNET's key takeaways The $49 Nomad Tempo watch band fits nearly every Apple Watch It comes in four colors and is breathable and flexible for active lifestyles It lacks a truly neutral color option, and some may not want an FKM band. View now at Nomad Goods Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Nomad just launched a new Apple Watch band that's eerily similar to the former Sport Slim band, and its colors are so bright that they may just stop traffi

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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 19:01:06

Puneet and I (Roop) founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient to build more houses, hospitals, and schools. Featured on Business Insider . Bild AI is an early-stage startup with a ton of really difficult technical challenges to solve. We're building blueprint understanding with a model-garden

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The Apple Watch Ultra 3 Delivers on a Long-Awaited Upgrade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 18:30:00

If you're more comfortable hiking mountain trails or gliding under water, or you just prefer a chunky smartwatch with days of battery life, your patience over the last couple of years has paid off. At Tuesday's big fall event, Apple officially announced the Apple Watch Ultra 3, the next generation of Apple's high-performance smartwatch. The Ultra 3 adds a brighter, larger display, 5G cellular communication, satellite connectivity, a battery life increase of up to 42 hours and the ability to det

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Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Plus is here: Fast charging without the heat

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 23:00:27

Supplied by Qualcomm TL;DR Qualcomm has announced Quick Charge 5 Plus. This fast charging solution offers cooler temperatures and more efficient power delivery by using lower voltage. The first devices with Quick Charge 5 Plus support will be launched later this month. Qualcomm has offered its Quick Charge fast-charging solution for over a decade now, but we haven’t seen a new iteration since 2020’s Quick Charge 5. Fortunately, we can now say hello to Quick Charge 5 Plus. Quick Charge 5 Plu

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Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

Apple Watch Series 11 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8: I've tested both, and here's the winner

Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 – CPUs – By George Cozma

A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

Where did the Smurfs get their hats

A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch

Universal Executive Regrets Most Hilarious, Perfect Part of ‘Fast and Furious’ Franchise

Pop Mart Unleashes Its Blind Box ‘Chucky’ Collection Just in Time for Halloween

Anker deals: These essentials will keep all your desk devices charged and connected

Apple Watch Ultra 3 vs Series 11, Ultra 2 battery life: Big upgrades

AirPods Pro 3 don’t include a USB-C charging cable in the box

Here’s everything Apple discontinued after the ‘Awe Dropping’ event

Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem

Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent

Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"

Scientists Stunned as Tiny Algae Keep Moving Inside Arctic Ice

A 36-Year-Old Woman Developed an Insatiable Craving for Bleach. Scientists Now Know Why

What Time Is the Next Nintendo Direct? How to Watch September's Nintendo Direct

Surprise! High Blood Pressure Alerts Are Coming to Your Existing Apple Watch Soon

Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Commanders vs. Packers

Everything Announced at Apple Event 2025: iPhone Air, iPhone 17, AirPods Pro 3 and New Apple Watches

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Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC, other AI names rally on Oracle's massive growth projections

Nomad's latest Apple Watch band is bright enough to stop traffic - and it's my new favorite

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 Delivers on a Long-Awaited Upgrade

Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Plus is here: Fast charging without the heat

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