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ChatGPT Glossary: 55 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 11:00:10

AI is changing the world around us. It's eliminating jobs and flooding the internet with slop. Thanks to the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking to someone who has a doctoral degree in everything. But that aspect of AI chatbots is only one part of the AI landscape. Sure, having ChatGPT help do your homew

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Android may soon get its own version of Apple’s Hot Corners on Macs

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:00:01

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR Google is developing a new ‘Action Corners’ feature for Android, which could be similar to ‘Hot Corners’ on macOS. This feature may allow users to trigger actions, like launching Recent apps or opening notifications, by moving the cursor to one of the four corners of the screen. The feature is not yet live but may be part of a broader push to make Android a more capable operating system for PCs. Shortcuts are crucial for saving time on any device, but

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See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August

wired.com Gretchen Rundorff 2025-12-13 17:14:56

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—can be seen with the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune will be visible through a very strong pair of skywatching binoculars or a backyard telescope. While August 10 marks the beginning of this planetary parade, these six planets will be visible until the final days of August, when Mercury sinks lower on the horizon an

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The history behind the QR code

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HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 12:29:49

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency. “We reviewed the science, listened to the

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A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

news.ycombinator.com Andrea Lampros 2025-12-14 21:38:25

For Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: [email protected] A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies — will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University and pub

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iPhone 17 event scheduled for September 9, according to carrier documents

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-15 11:31:59

We’ve previously suggested Tuesday, September 9 as the most likely date for the iPhone 17 event, and a new report says that internal documents held by carriers confirms this. That would mean pre-orders on September 12, shipping on September 19 … Sep 9 had always looked likely Back in July, we looked at what history could tell us about the iPhone 17 release date. Based on the patterns seen between 2021 and 2024, we narrowed it down to the week commencing September 8. We noted that Tuesday was

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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 21:47:35

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) released its Report of Investigation (ROI) Tuesday on the loss of the Titan submersible, which imploded during a June 2023 dive to the Titanic, killing five people. The more than 300-page ROI outlines key findings and contributing factors in the casualty and includes 17 safety recommendations aimed at strengthening oversight of submersible operations, improving coordination among federal agencies and closing gaps in internati

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Why I recommend this $2,000 mirrorless camera to both beginners and professionals

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-12-16 03:20:00

Sigma BF ZDNET's key takeaways Sigma's BF is a $2,200, 35mm full-frame, mirrorless digital camera that radically changes the mode of operation by replacing the gaggle of buttons with an elegant click-wheel. It's a great first camera but also has tons of pro features A future upgrade to a higher-resolution 60-megapixel sensor would be a welcome enhancement. View now at Adorama View now at B&H more buying choices Taking pictures with a digital camera hasn't changed much in thirty years. The ele

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Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

news.ycombinator.com John Paul Wohlscheid 2025-12-12 15:53:46

from the October 1981 issue of Your Computer magazine Chris Curry's Cambridge company, Acorn, is beginning to emerge as one of the strongest personal computer firms in Britain. Its main product, the Acorn Atom, has proved both popular and reliable. The company won the coveted contract to design and build the computer to be marketed by the BBC and accompany the BBC's planned computer literacy series. Chris Curry talks to Duncan Scot. -------- The ATOM computer is one of the few approved by the

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Build Your Own Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 11:55:20

Build Your Own Lisp Learn C and build your own programming language in 1000 lines of code! If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you. In just a few lines of code, I'll teach you how to use C, and together, we'll start building your very own language. Along the way we'll learn about the weird and wonderful nature of Lisps, how to develop a real-world project, concisely solve problems, and write beautiful code! T

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Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying lightweight, secure applications

news.ycombinator.com Om Prakash Yadav 2025-12-12 14:22:45

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have everything in the world just for yourself — where every resource and every service is just for you? Imagine you have rented a private villa on a small, quiet island. Everything in the villa — the rooms, the pool, and the beach — is just for you. No other guests can use anything there, and the staff are there just for you. Isn’t that exciting? I’m sure it is! This concept also applies to applications, which are given their own space to work in

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Aug. 5

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 18:54:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Apple TV+ continues its push into original podcasting with ‘Unicorn Girl’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-17 03:38:07

Apple is expanding its growing lineup of original podcasts with Unicorn Girl, a new nine-part investigative series debuting this month. Here are the details. Unicorn Girl debuts August 18 For a few years now, Apple has been producing companion podcasts to many of its hit series, such as For All Mankind, and Foundation, as well as original podcasts, like Big Time, and My Divo. Today, the company announced Unicorn Girl, a podcast that follows influencer and businesswoman Candace Rivera, who bui

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Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

news.ycombinator.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-17 00:44:49

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 20:39:59

Every week for the last 3 months I’ve learned a new trick when it comes to getting whatever LLM I’m using at the time to produce better output. That’s my trade, but lots of HNers have more interesting trades than that. In my case, only recently I learned the value of getting an LLM to write and refine a plan.md architecture doc first, and for it to break that doc down into testable phases, and then to implement phase by phase. Seems obvious in hindsight. But it took too long to learn that that

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DrawAFish.com Postmortem

news.ycombinator.com Alden Hallak 2025-12-17 14:10:22

DrawAFish.com TL;DR: Incident Duration: ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) Impact: Username vandalism (slurs) Offensive fish approved / safe fish removed Root Causes: Legacy 6-digit admin password exposed in past data breach Username update API lacked authentication JWT not tied to specific user Mitigation: Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Takeaway: hwoopsy dais

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Drawafish.com Postmortem: Whoops

news.ycombinator.com Alden Hallak 2025-12-18 08:10:22

DrawAFish.com TL;DR: Incident Duration: ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) Impact: Username vandalism (slurs) Offensive fish approved / safe fish removed Root Causes: Legacy 6-digit admin password exposed in past data breach Username update API lacked authentication JWT not tied to specific user Mitigation: Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Takeaway: hwoopsy dais

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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government

news.ycombinator.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-19 06:44:49

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-19 08:30:59

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Spotify is increasing prices in several regions outside of the US, just days after posting disappointing earnings. Spotify announced on Monday that Premium subscribers across Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific wi

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Show HN: Gmap: Explore Git Repos Visually from the CLI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:58:40

gmap A fast command-line tool to explore Git activity — heatmaps, churn, authorship, and more. gmap helps you understand your Git repository at a glance — not just what changed, but when, how much, and by whom. Visualize commit activity over time, spot churn-heavy files, explore contributor dynamics, and more — all from your terminal. Built for developers who live in the CLI and want quick, powerful insights. Features Heatmap View : Weekly commit activity with line additions, deletions, and

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 09:11:57

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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How to make almost anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 02:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

news.ycombinator.com Bret Devereaux 2025-12-17 16:39:42

This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at death, examining the brutal mortality regime of pre-modern societies, typified by extremely high (c. 50%) infant and child mortality, very high maternal mortality and often high male military mortality, which kept life ex

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Modern Node.js Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 11:16:18

Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience. The changes aren’t just cosmetic; they represent a fundamental shift in how we approach server-side JavaScript development. Modern Node.js embraces web standards, reduces external dependencies, and provides a more in

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Premier League Summer Series: Stream Bournemouth vs. West Ham From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 08:43:43

Bournemouth and West Ham play their third and final fixture of the Premier League Summer Series on Sunday as the preseason tournament moves to Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Andoni Iraola's Cherries had a bright start to their US tour with a comfortable 3-0 win over Everton, but the team's preseason optimism was put in

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 4, #1507

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 12:00:05

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 08:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

Topics: fabrication interested learning machine working

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 22:29:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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19 Best Barefoot Shoes for Running or Walking (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-12-19 09:00:00

FAQs How do you define a barefoot shoe? Readers often ask why we don't include Altra or other zero-drop shoes. The answer has to do with how thick the sole is. Our definition of a barefoot shoe is that it should have a thin sole, or stack height as this is sometimes called. I put the cutoff at 10 mm or less (ideally less) to allow for good ground feel and toe splay, and to give you the kinds of feedback your foot needs to maintain natural movement. That said, there are some categories where t

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Latest Tech News

ChatGPT Glossary: 55 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

Android may soon get its own version of Apple’s Hot Corners on Macs

See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August

The history behind the QR code

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

iPhone 17 event scheduled for September 9, according to carrier documents

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

Why I recommend this $2,000 mirrorless camera to both beginners and professionals

Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Aug. 5

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Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

DrawAFish.com Postmortem

Drawafish.com Postmortem: Whoops

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government

Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US

Show HN: Gmap: Explore Git Repos Visually from the CLI

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How to make almost anything (2019)

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

Modern Node.js Patterns

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 4, #1507

How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 3

19 Best Barefoot Shoes for Running or Walking (2025), Tested and Reviewed

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