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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 10:56:44

Historical form of German handwriting, used 1915–1970s Sütterlinschrift (German pronunciation: [ˈzʏtɐliːnˌʃʁɪft], "Sütterlin script") is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Culture (Preußisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung) to create a modern handwriting

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Google Gemini Is Finally Conquering Nest Devices -- Will It Fix Voice Assistant Woes?

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

After months of teasers and brief betas, Google has made it official: Gemini AI is replacing Google Assistant on all Nest and Google Home-related devices this year, officially called Gemini for Home. This version of Gemini starts rolling out in October with the same familiar "Hey Google" phrase but a whole new approach to voice commands. It's not only the death knell for Google Assistant in basically everything (I'm going to have to delete Assistant from the rest of my guides), but also a chanc

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UK faces legal challenge over attempt to force through data center development

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-12-19 09:55:49

The U.K. government is facing a legal challenge from campaigners over its decision to override a local authority and wave through development of a new "hyperscale" data center. Last year, the local authority of Buckinghamshire, England, denied planning permission for proposals to build a new 90-megawatt data center on green belt land. The green belt is a term in British town planning that refers to an area of open land on which building is restricted. Data centers, large facilities that house

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Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:21:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is getting a swiping mechanism to keep or delete photos, and we got it working. With this, you will be able to weed out unwanted photos by swiping left on them. It currently lets you keep or delete images and videos from daily or monthly clusters in the Google Photos app. Among the many reasons to use Google Photos is the ease of backing up valuable memories to Drive and accessing them across multiple devices. But enabling automatic upl

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7 clever ways to automate your home with smart plugs

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-19 08:13:44

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today's smart plug -- that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voi

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Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 23:17:01

In his article Why I chose OCaml as my primary language, my friend Xavier Van de Woestyne presents, in the section Dependency injection and inversion, two approaches to implementing dependency injection: one using user-defined effects and one using modules as first-class values. Even though I’m quite convinced that both approaches are legit, I find them sometimes a bit overkill and showing fairly obvious pitfalls when applied to real software. The goal of this article is therefore to briefly hig

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AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

news.ycombinator.com Vp Of Product 2025-12-19 10:03:37

AI is making Google Search radically more helpful, so you can ask any question on your mind and get things done. Starting today, we’re bringing more advanced agentic and personalized capabilities to AI Mode so you can make progress on your tasks and get more tailored information based on your interests. We’re also bringing AI Mode to even more people around the world. Read on for more. Get things done with agentic capabilities in AI Mode New agentic capabilities in AI Mode can help you get thi

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

news.ycombinator.com James Titcomb 2025-12-19 10:04:08

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

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Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-19 09:00:34

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, accompanied by its Moon, as a mere speck engulfed by the dark void of space. NASA’s Psyche mission launched on October 13, 2023, and is assigned to explore a distant target in the main asteroid belt that’s believed to be the exposed core of a protoplanet. Before it reaches its destination, the imaging te

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I Don't Care What Steph Curry Says, Google's AI Doesn't Know Ball

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 14:55:00

Google announced a multiyear deal with NBA star Steph Curry on Wednesday at its Made by Google event. As part of the deal, Curry will use AI from Google's Cloud to get better at the game he's played for years. And while I respect Curry landing this gig, no one can convince me that AI knows ball. Let's start with the idea that 11-time All-Star, 4-time NBA Champ and 2-time Scoring Champ (to name a few of his accolades) Stephen Curry knows less about basketball than Google's AI. That's absurd. Did

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Eye Exams: Tests Performed, Machines Used and What to Expect

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 06:29:02

Whether you deal with conditions like dry, itchy eyes, blurred vision or cataracts -- or enjoy perfect 20/20 vision -- regular eye exams are essential for protecting your sight and maintaining eye health. This is especially the case nowadays, when screen time and other lifestyle factors can significantly impact your eyes. To help you better understand exactly what happens during an eye exam, we contacted an optometrist to discuss the different tests and machines used and what an eye doctor eval

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I Tested MSI's $999 Gaming Laptop and Liked Its 1080p Performance but Little Else

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 09:00:06

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.2 / 10 SCORE MSI Katana 15 HX B14W $999 at Walmart Pros Strong performance for the price Roomy keyboard with four-zone RGB lighting Cons Dim display Thick and heavy chassis 512GB SSD fills up fast Grainy 720p webcam No biometrics or Thunderbolt 4 If you're bound and determined to spend less than $1,000 on a gaming laptop, and you want one with a GP

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A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 10:15:00

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is searching for ways to diversify its economy, much like other energy communities across the Mountain West. For decades, a coal-fired power plant, now scheduled to shut down in the coming years, served as a reliable source of tax revenue, jobs, and e

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7 Best Shower Water Filters (2025), WIRED Tested and Approved

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-12-19 10:30:00

Compare Our Top 6 Shower Chlorine Filters Grinder Filter media WIRED testing results Certifications/independent lab data reviewed by WIRED Filter replacement cost Type Other features Canopy Filtered Showerhead KDF-55, calcium sulfite, activated carbon Reduced total chlorine to undetectable levels in a chloramine-treated system No $27-$37, every 3 months Fixture Adjustable spray Weddel Duo Activated carbon, plus “proprietary medium” Removed most but not all total chlorine in a chloramine-treated

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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-12-19 10:33:10

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk. Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-sour

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This new Pixel 10 feature will make it a little easier to sleep next to your phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:36:13

TL;DR Google is introducing a new screen saver trick on the Pixel 10. When you’re charging, you can have the clock switch to low light when the room gets dark. There’s also an option to let the display turn off completely during this time. After months of waiting, Google has officially launched the Pixel 10 series. Along with the launch, the company gave its latest flagship various new features like Voice Translate, Auto Best Take, and more. One new feature that shouldn’t be overlooked is a n

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Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 11:07:11

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July have stolen the data of approximately 850,000 customers. Orange Belgium provides fixed and mobile connectivity services to over 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg, employs 1,500 staff, and claims to operate the largest 4G/5G network in the country. Last year, the company reported total service revenues of €1.34 billion. When BleepingComputer r

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Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

news.ycombinator.com Pesala Bandara 2025-12-18 16:23:19

A customer has sued Home Depot, claiming the retail giant has been secretly using facial recognition technology on customers with cameras placed at self-checkout kiosks. Earlier this month, Benjamin Jankowski, a frequent Home Depot shopper, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company. He claims the retailer’s self-checkout kiosks use facial recognition technology that scans and collects people’s facial details without their permission. In the lawsuit, Jankowski says cameras at th

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The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-12-19 06:53:47

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums. By: Samuel Jay Keyser A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Made at the high point of Kline, de Kooning, and Pollock, Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” was a poke in the eye of abstract expressionism. Not only was it blatantly mimetic, but it was being blatantl

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Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:56:03

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) 1.0.1 Introduction The Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) is a modern, flexible, and scalable standard for defining and interacting with tools across a wide variety of communication protocols. UTCP 1.0.0 introduces a modular core with a plugin-based architecture, making it more extensible, testable, and easier to package. In contrast to other protocols, UTCP places a strong emphasis on: Scalability : UTCP is designed to handle a large number of tool

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Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:06:05

I don’t think we have any actually good programming languages, and I don’t think I’m alone in believing this. Programming is hard, and language design is harder. We’re still learning. But I think they’re all failing us in a shockingly fundamental way. The root of the trouble is a distinction I’d like to draw between data and objects. Let me know if you think there are better terms to use. Programming languages give us tools to represent things. Sometimes these things are values: the integer 1.

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Tony Gilroy Is Very Sad at How Relevant ‘Andor’ Has Become

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-19 03:30:11

When Tony Gilroy began his Andor journey, his original pitch was deemed “pretty mad and undoable” by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the showrunner revealed how that initial take would later get revisited after Lucasfilm gave it some thought. “They came back to me and said, ‘We looked at this memo from a year and a half ago, and it makes a lot more sense to us now,'” he recalled. That, of course, led to a series expanding on the very foundation t

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 08:43:37

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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Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-19 10:18:04

Microsoft said last week that it plans to stop providing discounts on enterprise purchases of its Microsoft 365 productivity software subscriptions and other cloud applications. Since the announcement, analysts have published estimates on how much more customers will end up paying. But for investors trying to figure out what it all means to Microsoft's financials, analysts at UBS said the change is already factored into guidance. "In our view, it is safe to assume that the impact of the pricin

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Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-19 11:00:20

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways If you need to up your Linux skills, play a game. There are several games, each focusing on a different skill. These games are free to play as often as you need. Get more ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source. For many, the idea of learning Linux is a task best left to the geeks. The good news is that desktop Linux has become so easy to use that you don't have to worry about the challenges that may have kept you from div

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Advice for Tech Non-Profits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:30:45

August 20, 2025 My family and I regularly contribute to various philanthropic causes. In the range of contributions we make, I've noticed that technical non-profits are far and away the worst at attracting eager donors like myself when compared to other causes. In this blog post, I'll share what I've learned from my own activity with other causes as well as what I've learned from spending more time with donors in general. This blog post will be biased towards larger donations, but I think many

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Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Roche 2025-12-19 10:14:49

Last year I created a demo showing how CSS 3D transforms could be used to create 3D environments. The demo was a technical showcase of what could be achieved with CSS at the time but I wanted to see how far I could push things, so over the past few months I’ve been working on a new version with more complex models, realistic lighting, shadows and collision detection. This post documents how I did it and the techniques I used. View the demo Creating 3D objects The geometry of a 3D object is st

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Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 02:27:25

Fermat’s Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. It is funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstand

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A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-12-19 09:10:07

Intro: Why Is Everything "Certified Fresh"? I stayed in a hotel recently, which means I watched cable television, which means I consumed commercials that I could not skip—and some of these commercials advertised upcoming movie releases. Promo after promo, I noticed an unmistakable pattern: every film was "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, with this seal of approval serving as the ad's climactic selling point. After five days of "Certified Fresh" movie propaganda, I began to grow suspicious.

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SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 10:31:33

For the first time in more than three decades, Samsung Electronics has been unseated as the world’s top DRAM maker, with SK hynix seizing the crown on the strength of booming demand for AI memory chips and an exclusive supply deal with Nvidia.Samsung Electronics’ global DRAM market share fell by 8.8 percentage points over the past six months — its sharpest decline since the company began disclosing the figure in 1999.According to its semiannual report released on Thursday, Samsung’s DRAM market

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Google Gemini Is Finally Conquering Nest Devices -- Will It Fix Voice Assistant Woes?

UK faces legal challenge over attempt to force through data center development

Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

7 clever ways to automate your home with smart plugs

Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away

I Don't Care What Steph Curry Says, Google's AI Doesn't Know Ball

Eye Exams: Tests Performed, Machines Used and What to Expect

I Tested MSI's $999 Gaming Laptop and Liked Its 1080p Performance but Little Else

A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

7 Best Shower Water Filters (2025), WIRED Tested and Approved

Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

This new Pixel 10 feature will make it a little easier to sleep next to your phone

Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

Tony Gilroy Is Very Sad at How Relevant ‘Andor’ Has Become

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 21

Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

Advice for Tech Non-Profits

Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

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