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The Obsessive Fans Playing God on 'Love Island'—and Living for the Crash Outs

wired.com Jason Parham 2026-02-26 04:00:00

Carson Campbell didn’t feel any remorse for his vote, and was even relishing in the chaos it might cause one of Love Island USA’s most contentious cast members of the season. “I love mess and I love reality TV,” the 24-year-old student and content creator says. “I love something with an end goal, when people are working toward a purpose.” As a Love Island USA superfan who live-tweets and recaps every episode on TikTok, Campbell feels personally invested in how the reality dating show unfolds. M

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Meta in talks to acquire voice cloning startup Play AI

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-26 03:38:12

In Brief Alongside bolstering its AI research talent pool, Meta seems to be keen to flesh out its consumer-facing AI features. The company is in discussions to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The tech giant aims to buy the startup’s tech and bring on board some of its staff, the report said. Play AI lets anyone clone different kinds of voices that they can use for AI-powered use cases, such as customer service, per its website. The

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The best streaming devices for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-26 05:00:38

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Most TVs on the market today are smart TVs — but there are still a few compelling reasons to get a streaming device. These sticks and set-top boxes let you access a user interface that might be easier to suss out than the built-in one on your set. In the case of older or cheaper TVs, a

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'Peak flower power era': The story of first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 18:42:22

'It was the peak of the flower power era': The story of the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970 4 days ago Share Save Myles Burke Share Save Alamy Almost 55 years ago, Michael Eavis hosted the first of his legendary music festivals. In 1970, the BBC visited his Somerset dairy farm to find out what made it unique. "I think this is the quickest way of clearing my overdraft," said Michael Eavis on 18 September 1970 when he was asked on the BBC why he had booked glam rocker Marc Bolan to per

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I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 05:31:13

This is just a personal experience, there are no absolute truths. Like in any other blog post, a lot of the things you'll read here could be just a skill issue, or legitimate issues. It's up to you to decide. We had an app that had a nice Flutter UI that called Rust binaries. The bindings were generated using flutter_rust_bridge, which is an amazing piece of software. A lot of people have built large and complex apps using this tool. It's crazy how far it can just work, just by running: flutte

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Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 03:31:56

June 26, 2025 nullprogram.com/blog/2025/06/26/ C23 has a new rule for struct, union, and enum compatibility finally appearing in compilers starting with GCC 15, released this past April, and Clang later this year. The same struct defined in different translation units (TU) has always been compatible — essential to how they work. Until this rule change, each such definition within a TU was a distinct, incompatible type. The new rule says that, ackshually, they are compatible! This unlocks some

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Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 04:01:37

sink sync any directory with 2 windows machines over your local network. no emailing yourself stuff. no cloud. no flash drives. no bs. note: this is still a veeery big wip, as there are many features that I have planned to added; you can see this on the bottom of this readme. i built this to solve a specific problem: syncing files on a locked-down school laptop where python was one of the only things i was allowed to run. features automatically finds other computers running sink on you

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Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images

news.ycombinator.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-22 05:19:47

Today, most generative image models basically fall into two main categories: diffusion models, like Stable Diffusion, or autoregressive models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o. But Apple just released two papers that show how there might be room for a third, forgotten technique: Normalizing Flows. And with a dash of Transformers on top, they might be more capable than previously thought. First things first: What are Normalizing Flows? Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a type of AI model that works by learning

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Some thoughts on my first YC Demo Day

news.ycombinator.com Bill Chambers 2026-02-26 06:19:02

This year was my first time attending YC Demo Day. It’s a fascinating event and, really a fascinating product for investors. Growing up in the bay area, I remember over a decade ago admiring people in YC. I was always impressed and it is a real privilege to be able to attend from the other side (as an investor). I went not because I am a prolific investor, I went because I thought that it would be a unique experience. The Product: Startups This seems obvious, but the startups are the produc

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, June 27

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 05:13:40

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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‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration

wired.com Makena Kelly 2026-02-26 00:05:02

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young technologists brought on to Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has returned to government shortly after resigning. “Edward Coristine joined the Social Security Administration this week as a special government employee,” Stephen McGraw, an SSA spokesperson, tells WIRED. “His work will be focused on improving the functionality of the Social Security website and advancing our mission of delivering more efficient se

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Should we be letting flies eat our food waste?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-26 08:10:12

Should we be letting flies eat our food waste? 51 minutes ago Share Save MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Reporting from Vilnius, Lithuania Share Save Energesman Fly larvae are excellent at converting food waste into protein Most people are inclined to shoo flies away from food, and the thought of maggots in your bins is enough to make anyone's stomach turn. But a handful of city councils have embraced maggots - more formally known as fly larvae - and their taste for rotting food. In Vilnius

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Fault Tolerant Llama training – PyTorch blog

news.ycombinator.com Tristan Rice 2026-02-22 00:30:02

Collaborators: Less Wright, Howard Huang, Chien-Chin Huang, Crusoe: Martin Cala, Ethan Petersen tl;dr: we used torchft and torchtitan to train a model in a real-world environment with extreme synthetic failure rates to prove reliability and correctness of fault tolerant training Training loss across 1200 failures with no checkpoints. NOTE: Each small spike is a non-participating worker recovering which affects the metrics but not the model Introduction We want to demonstrate torchft in wo

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Best Gaming TV for 2025: Get the Lowest Input Lag and Highest Picture Quality

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 03:30:00

Who is it best for: While this year's G5 is the ultimate gaming TV, not everyone wants or needs to pay over $3,000 to play their favorite games. The 2024 C4 offers 100% of the gaming features and about 80% of the picture quality at half the price -- that's what we call mathematics! If you're looking for a TV that's fun to game on and looks just as good with movies, then the C4 is a great buy. Performance: The C4, like the C3 before it, is an excellent gaming TV, and LG hasn't done much to chang

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How to Watch Red Bull Salzburg vs. Real Madrid Anywhere Free: Stream FIFA Club World Cup Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 06:00:03

Five-time FIFA Club World Cup winners Real Madrid face Austria's Red Bull Salzburg on Thursday with both teams needing a win to make certain of their place in the tournament's last 16. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch every match of the tournament as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Real Madrid top the group on goal difference ahead of their opponents today. Xabi Alonso's

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Tim Sweeney slams Apple’s ‘unlawful’ EU App Store changes

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-26 12:15:35

Apple today published another round of App Store changes for developers operating in the European Union, this time focused on how apps can communicate and promote alternative payment options under the Digital Markets Act. But from the looks of it, the new rules didn’t impress Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Sweeney says new terms are ‘blatantly unlawful’ and ‘a mockery of fair competition’ In a post on X, Sweeney said Apple’s latest DMA update is “blatantly unlawful in both Europe and the United S

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 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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Multiple Studies Now Suggest That AI Will Make Us Morons

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-26 10:45:53

For the second time in two weeks, a study has been published that suggests that people who use AI may display less cognitive ability than those who don’t rely on it. The studies have bolstered critics’ accusations that AI makes you stupid. The most recent study was conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and looked at a sample size of over 4,500 participants. The study, which looked at the cognitive differences between people who used LLMs like ChatGPT to do research and th

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NASA tested a new SLS booster that may never fly, and the end of it blew off

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-26 12:36:12

NASA's Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through Congress would extend it to five flights. But chances are low the Space Launch System will making it to nine flights, and if it does, it's questionable if it would reach that point before 2040. The SLS rocket is a core piece of NASA's plan to return US astronauts to the Moon under the Artemis program, b

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At TechCrunch All Stage, Jahanvi Sardana shares how top startups reshape markets

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-02-26 12:44:56

TechCrunch All Stage — the ultimate founder summit — is shaping up to be a powerhouse event where 1,200 founders and VCs across all stages will come together to forge meaningful connections and gain practical insights they can immediately apply to scale their startups. Join us on July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston and be part of the conversation with scaling experts. And now is the best time to register to attend. For a limited time, we’re bringing Investor Passes to just $250 and Founder

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New benchmarks show SteamOS outperforming Windows 11 on Lenovo's handheld PC

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2026-02-26 17:03:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust That's called progress: SteamOS started life as a lightweight Linux-based system built for Valve's Steam Machines that never really picked up steam (pun intended). Now, it powers the Steam Deck and various other handhelds. New benchmarks show that the gaming OS outperforms Windows 11 on similar hardware. A recent Ars Technica report tested five demanding PC games on Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld, r

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Lessons learned from agentic AI leaders reveal critical deployment strategies for enterprises

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2026-02-26 16:07:32

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Companies are rushing AI agents into production — and many of them will fail. But the reason has nothing to do with their AI models. On day two of VB Transform 2025, industry leaders shared hard-won lessons from deploying AI agents at scale. A panel moderated by Joanne Chen, general partner at Foundation Capital, included Shawn Malhotra,

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Google’s new and improved Ask Photos is back on track — and rolling out now!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-26 17:17:12

Google I/O TL;DR Ask Photos is a Google Photos feature designed to answer questions about the contents of your photo library. While announced at Google I/O 2024, access over the past year has been extremely limited. Earlier this month we heard the rollout was paused while Google worked to address a few issues, but today it’s back on track. Over the past couple years, AI has been changing the way we do lots of things, and while there is absolutely no shortage of controversial uses of the tech

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Memory safety is table stakes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 15:36:11

The past few years has seen a massive success story for systems programming. Entire categories of bugs that used to plague systems programmers—like use-after-free, data races, and segmentation faults—have begun to completely disappear. The secret to this new reality is a set of systems programming languages chief among them Rust—whose powerful type systems are able to constructively eliminate these kind of bugs; if it compiles, then it’s correct … or at least, will not contain use-after-free or

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 27, #1469

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 16:00:03

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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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 27, #481

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 16:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. The theme name threw me off, and I was looking for words like "muddy," but it went another way entirely. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today

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GOP Student Loan Overhaul: Here's Who Will See Lower Monthly Payments and Who Will Pay More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 16:01:00

Republican lawmakers have proposed major changes to student loans, which would affect current and future borrowers. Liudmila Chernetska/Getty Images/CNET Republicans in Congress are moving closer to overhauling the federal student loan system with budget legislation that, following US President Donald Trump's lead, they call "One Big Beautiful Bill." House Republicans passed their version of the bill in May, and the GOP-majority Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions releas

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TechCrunch All Stage: Learn how AI can supercharge your MVPs with Chris Gardner

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-02-26 17:00:56

TechCrunch All Stage, our big event for founders of startups at all stages of funding (see what we did there?), is coming up July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. And it’s our pleasure to announce that Underscore VC’s investing partner Chris Gardner will join a loaded lineup of speakers by leading a breakout session titled “MVP in the Age of AI: When to Bot and When to Not.” Spoiler: Expect to learn a lot about using AI for minimum viable products. And for for a very limited time, we’re launc

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Why a16z VC believes that Cluely, the ‘cheat on everything’ startup, is the new blueprint for AI startups

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-02-26 17:06:44

When Cluely, a startup claiming to be building a product that helps people “cheat” on everything, announced that it raised a $15 million Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz, some people on X criticized the VC firm for backing the controversial company. After all, Cluely isn’t just offering a product that may have questionable uses, but the startup has become famous for using what many people call rage-bait marketing. But Cluely’s ability to grab attention is precisely what attracted a1

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What's driving Wall Street stablecoin interest? Trillions up for grabs in the future and banks getting ready for it

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Jordan Smith Talia Kaplan 2026-02-26 22:43:33

After a brief pullback this week, shares of stablecoin issuer and recent IPO darling Circle were in rally mode again, soaring double-digits on a percentage basis during trading on Thursday and ending the day up close to 8%, after having moved up by more than 600% percent since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month. Bitcoin and ether have led a recent crypto rise, as digital assets joined the resumption of the risk-on rally, with additional factors such as the potential for

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The Obsessive Fans Playing God on 'Love Island'—and Living for the Crash Outs

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