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Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 09:02:47

Trying to understand how to move objects in 3D space MOVING OBJECTS IN 3D SPACE tap/click the right side of the screen to go forward → Have you ever wondered how to move objects along a spherical helix path? Okay… probably not, right? But one morning, this question popped into my head. It stuck with me long enough that I ended up diving into a few articles about it. From there, it spiraled into lots of explorations, trying to figure out how to move objects in 3D space. From a simple circ

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ROG Xbox Ally Ships Oct. 16. Some Games Will Play Better Than Others

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 08:40:00

The slow drip of information about the long-awaited Asus ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X handheld gaming PCs is eroding my wits. For Gamescom 2025, the droplet is Oct. 16 as the official availability date, confirming the rumors. There have been leaks regarding the price, with the latest scuttlebutt placing them at $550 and $900, respectively. Asus says that info, plus preorder dates, "will follow in the coming weeks." So, more drips coming within a month, I guess. We do get news about some features, t

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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-12-20 09:29:05

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world’s most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth’s mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-20 09:15:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape the company’s hardware, features, and AI services. The long-term partnership was announced today at the Made by Google event, with Curry joining the company as a “performance advisor” for Google’s Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, leaning into his athletic experience and expertise. Part of Curry’s job will involve testing and providing feedba

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FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-20 09:00:00

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314 million in August and was co-led by Bezos Expedition, Prysm and Temasek. FieldAI’s other backers include Khosla Ventures,

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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-20 09:04:43

Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, reports Forbes. Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on

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Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-20 09:19:54

Three parents—Reni Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan Rosenthal—were worried about their children’s screen time, so they left their tech jobs to create a product that encourages children to engage with the real world while also helping them learn a new language. Their move has paid off, as the company recently raised $4.8 million in funding. The newly launched gadget is called Dex and resembles a high-tech magnifying glass with a camera lens on one side and a touchscreen on the other. When kids use the

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How Did Walmart Frozen Shrimp Become Contaminated With Radioactive Material?

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-19 21:44:05

As you've probably already heard, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall warning for bags of frozen shrimp sold under Walmart's "Great Value" brand over concerns about radioactive contamination. As the FDA explained in a statement, shipping containers and frozen shrimp parcels used by the Indonesia-based Walmart contractor BMS Foods tested positive for Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope and byproduct of nuclear fission. Though only a single shipment of the shrimp was found to cont

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This Anker 3-in-1 wireless charging station is down to a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 14:05:37

Anker makes some of our favorite charging gear, and now you can save on a bunch of wireless power accessories from the brand. Whether you're going back to school soon or want a new charging station that can power up a few devices at once, there are discounts here worth considering. One of the best is this 3-in-1 MagSafe charging station, on sale for a record low price of $63. The Qi2-certified charger wirelessly charges your compatible iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods on one compact and convenie

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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 08:15:00

=== This is a free online edition of Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades. === Coverted to webpage by Rudy Rucker, posted September 2022, and updated November 2023. === Each story is Copyright (C) 2022 to its original authors, and all rights are reserved. The book is not public domain, nor is it Creative Commons. === Printing History: Arbor House edition / December 1986. Ace edition / July 1988 === Credits Mirrorshades anthology copyright © 1986 by Bruce Sterling. “The Gernsback Continuum

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Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 10:32:12

Claude Code PM Claude Code workflow to ship faster better using spec-driven development, GitHub issues, Git worktrees, and mutiple AI agents running in parallel. Stop losing context. Stop blocking on tasks. Stop shipping bugs. This battle-tested system turns PRDs into epics, epics into GitHub issues, and issues into production code – with full traceability at every step. Table of Contents Background Every team struggles with the same problems: Context evaporates between sessions, forcing c

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Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-20 14:00:09

Jason Momoa’s next project may take him to the high seas. James Gunn teases that Peacemaker‘s return is more about the man behind the mask. Plus, get a look at what’s coming next on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Foundation, and Alien: Earth. Spoilers away! Archie Comics Jeff Sneider’s InSneider Report has word that Paramount is purportedly preparing a film adaptation of the Archie Comics universe, with Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Mister Miracle writer Tom King tapped to pen the script, a

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We Now Know Everything About the First Xbox Handheld (Except the Most Important Thing)

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-20 14:40:03

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is a mouthful of a name for a device, and yet I can’t stop saying the name—like I’m casting a spell—as we slide further toward the end of the year. At Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Microsoft and Asus are giving players a chance to wrap their mitts around the strange Xbox controller-like grips of the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. While the companies will tell you when you’ll eventually be able to pick one off a store shelf, they’re not quite ready to tell you how much it’ll co

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Apple Is Making All Four iPhone 17 Models in India in a 'Watershed' Pivot From China, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 12:25:00

Apple is manufacturing all four of its iPhone 17 models in India ahead of next month's launch, according to Bloomberg. That marks a first for the company, as it tries to mitigate the effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs on products produced in China. The production is taking place at five Indian factories. Tata Group is managing half of the manufacturing in new plants in the southern state Tamil Nadu and Taiwan's Foxconn will be manufacturing iPhones near the Bangalore airport. Apple di

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YC-backed Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-20 14:00:00

A firefighter since age 15, Martin Hunt, now 26, knew firsthand the pain of small communities with tight budgets buying fire equipment. One day in 2023, he found himself chatting with one of his firefighter friends who’d asked if Hunt knew of a better way. “When I couldn’t find anything, it became clear that there was a need for a streamlined, nationwide marketplace for expensive, hard-to-move equipment like firetrucks,” Hunt told TechCrunch. “A few months later, I left my job with no product

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Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-20 18:06:58

Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras The UK's equality regulator has criticised the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT), saying the way it is being deployed is breaching human rights law. The tech works by scanning the faces of people recorded on CCTV and then comparing them against a watchlist of people who the police are seeking. The Met says it has made more than 1,000 arrests since January 2024 using LFRT and is confi

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 20)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:30:05

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Apple's MacBook Air M4 is cheaper than ever right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:11:27

Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the biggest discount. The 16GB RAM/256GB SSD laptop is down to $799 from $999, which is the lowest price we've seen. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM a

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Google can read your Docs to you now

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-20 18:41:03

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways You can listen to your Google Docs documents read aloud. Control the playback and let other people listen to the document. Feature is available to Workspace, AI Pro, and AI Ultra users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Listening to your own documents is a helpful way to catch typos and other mistakes, and learn how your writing actually sounds. Now,

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Show HN: I've made an easy to extend and flexible JavaScript logger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 15:20:37

Halua Package that takes control of logging, metrics and other stuff. Supports Text, JSON, Console handlers as output. Custom handlers can be easily created and used. documentation There is a short doc Tour of Halua - it describes basic concepts installation

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Show HN: Claude Code workflow: PRDs → GitHub Issues → parallel execution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 16:32:12

Claude Code PM Claude Code workflow to ship faster better using spec-driven development, GitHub issues, Git worktrees, and mutiple AI agents running in parallel. Stop losing context. Stop blocking on tasks. Stop shipping bugs. This battle-tested system turns PRDs into epics, epics into GitHub issues, and issues into production code – with full traceability at every step. Table of Contents Background Every team struggles with the same problems: Context evaporates between sessions, forcing c

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Could These Be the iPhone 17's New Colors We've Been Waiting For?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 02:01:00

The rumored iPhone 17 could be announced in less than a month. There are plenty of rumors flying around about what we can expect from Apple's upcoming smartphone, like a redesigned camera and a bigger battery. But if you're all about Apple's aesthetics, design and sleekness, you're probably eyeing what colors the iPhone 17 could come in. The iPhone 16 came in a few color waves, including the traditional black and white we've seen for years. But we also saw pink, teal and ultramarine for base m

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Amazon now sells used Hertz rental cars

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-20 18:19:05

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. Hertz has announced that it will start selling used cars from its rental business on Amazon Autos. The company’s pre-owned vehicles are now available in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle, according to a new page on Hertz’s website, with “more loc

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Epic touts new AI tools for patients and doctors at company's annual meeting

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-21 04:00:01

Space travelers, robots and, of course, artificial intelligence. They were all on display on Tuesday at Epic Systems' annual Users Group Meeting, held at the health software giant's 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin. Judy Faulkner, Epic's 82-year-old CEO, dressed for the occasion in a purple wig with neon green shoes and an iridescent vest, reminiscent of the fictional character Buzz Lightyear from the "Toy Story" franchise. At the science fiction-themed event, Faulkner told the crowd th

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Material Cultures looks to the past to build the future

technologyreview.com Patrick Sisson 2025-12-21 04:00:00

Gormley has been finding a “way around it” by systematically exploring how tradition can be harnessed in new ways to repair what she has dubbed the “oil vernacular”—the contemporary building system shaped not by local, natural materials but by global commodities and plastic products made largely from fossil fuels. Though she grew up in a household rich in art and design—she’s the daughter of the famed British sculptor Antony Gormley—she’s quick to say she’s far from a brilliant maker and more o

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Worried about the Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark controversy? Here’s why you shouldn’t be

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:00:25

Well, friends, the day has finally come: Google Pixel day. Today is the day that Google will officially reveal the Pixel 10 series after months of leaks, and it’s a day we should all be excited about. Instead, a lot of Pixel fans are upset and complaining. Those complaints stem from a last-minute Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark leak, supposedly showing just how fast Google’s new Tensor G5 chip is. Assuming the benchmarks are legit, the good news is that the Tensor G5 is faster than the Tensor G4. How

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Miss your 3DS XL? You need to see this dual-screened Android handheld (Update: Full specs)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:35:52

Update, August 20, 2025 (7:35 AM ET): Just a few hours after this was first published, AYN released more specs for the upcoming Thor handheld. It will indeed be very similar in size to the New Nintendo 3DS XL, measuring 150 x 94 x 25.6mm (vs 160 x 93.5 x 21.5mm for the 3DS XL). It will weigh slightly more, coming in at 380g vs 330g. Interestingly, there are two options for the processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 or Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The former is the same as the Retroid Pocket Flip 2 and Pocke

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What iPad mini and iPadOS 26 can teach us about the future of iOS

9to5mac.com Fernando Silva 2025-12-20 03:00:00

The moment Apple announced iPadOS 26 at WWDC, I rushed to install the developer beta on my M4 iPad Pro. And for the first time in years, it felt like Apple was finally putting iPad users first. We got features we’ve been asking for since iPadOS split from iOS: a fresh new look, Mac-like windowing, a smarter Files app, and more. But what surprised me wasn’t the iPad Pro experience. It was just how many iPads supported all of these features, including the iPad mini. After installing iPadOS 26 on

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Former Gears of War and Diablo head Rod Fergusson is now in charge of BioShock

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 09:56:30

Rod Fergusson, the head of the Diablo franchise for the last five years, is joining 2K Games to lead up the BioShock franchise. This is happening just a couple of weeks after Fergusson announced he was leaving Blizzard. He was also the studio head at Coalition once upon a time, where he oversaw the Gears of War franchise. Fergusson wrote on X that he will be "overseeing development of the next BioShock game" and will even have a say in that upcoming film adaptation for Netflix. The franchise is

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword might be a more forgiving kind of samurai epic

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:00:20

Capcom’s Onimusha series has been on a long hiatus. Combining Resident Evil-style rendered backgrounds with more agile characters, adding in demons, magic and a feudal Japan setting, the series span multiple sequels — and consoles — til the fourth entry in 2006. Roughly two decades (and console eras) later, Capcom has returned to the series, even getting the definitive samurai actor, Tom Cruise Mifune Toshiro, to play the hero, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. At Gamescom, the company

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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

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We Now Know Everything About the First Xbox Handheld (Except the Most Important Thing)

Apple Is Making All Four iPhone 17 Models in India in a 'Watershed' Pivot From China, Report Says

YC-backed Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 20)

Apple's MacBook Air M4 is cheaper than ever right now

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Epic touts new AI tools for patients and doctors at company's annual meeting

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What iPad mini and iPadOS 26 can teach us about the future of iOS

Former Gears of War and Diablo head Rod Fergusson is now in charge of BioShock

Onimusha: Way of the Sword might be a more forgiving kind of samurai epic

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