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Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

news.ycombinator.com Frances Willick Is A Journalist With Cbc Nova Scotia. Please Contact Her With Feedback 2025-11-28 15:53:44

A Nova Scotia man is the proud owner of a 1985 Toyota Tercel. Despite being 40 years old, the car is in mint condition. But there is one thing wrong with it: the odometer doesn't go up high enough. The CBC's Frances Willick explains. If you were to spot Andy Campbell's ride on the road, you might not think too much about it. Maybe you'd think it's a bit dated — a throwback to an earlier time when cassette tapes were all the rage and backup cameras were just a glimmer in a car designer's eye.

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Android 16’s support for external keyboards blew my mind

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 23:00:15

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been years since I last tried to pair a Bluetooth or USB keyboard with my Android phone. After being a physical QWERTY proponent for years and hating on touchscreen typing, I wholly but slowly embraced pecking on a glass surface. There were a few times I wished I had a keyboard for my Android tablets, but it wasn’t frequent enough to make me pay for one. That changed a few weeks ago when I started testing the Clicks Keyboard with my Pixel 9 Pro, which is

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Our European search index goes live

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 08:12:47

We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to Ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair internet we believe in. Last year we launched European Search Perspective (EUSP) , a joint venture with Qwant. The launch marked a big step forward in our journey towards tech independence and digital sovereignty for Europe. Now, we’ve taken the next step: our users in France are receiving a portion of their search results directly from EUSP’s o

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A SPARC makes a little fire

news.ycombinator.com Leaded Solder 2025-11-28 11:11:52

Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we’d have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did. A few weekends later, I decided to go

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Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 18:46:14

>_ Tribblix is an open source operating system created by Peter Tribble. Based on illumos, it blends a retro style with modern components. NEWS: July 13th 2025: Milestone 37 available. (updates). Vanilla Tribblix and LX (aka "omnitribblix") variants for x86 are now available. (download - X86 Release Notes.) NEWS: July 29th 2025. SPARC upgrades from m32 to m33 now available, for now fresh installs should use the m32 ISO and run an upgrade. (SPARC Release Notes.) NEWS: May 15th 2025. CDROM siz

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The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

news.ycombinator.com Alex Kesin 2025-11-28 17:36:07

In 2002, Mark Fishman walked into a glass building in Cambridge with an unusual assignment: to turn the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, into the world’s greatest therapeutics research firm. More unusually still, Fishman was — at least on paper — precisely the wrong man for the job. The Harvard cardiologist had spent his career studying zebrafish hearts and teaching medical students. He had no pharmaceutical experience and no business training. And yet, Daniel Vasella — the physician-tur

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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-12-03 03:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-12-03 09:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-03 18:11:56

Companies are monitoring whether employees adhere to corporate return-to-office (RTO) policies and are enforcing the requirements more than they have in the past five years, according to a report that commercial real estate firm CBRE will release next week and that Ars Technica reviewed. CBRE surveyed 184 companies for its report. Among companies surveyed, 69 percent are monitoring whether employees come into the office as frequently as policy mandates. That’s an increase from 45 percent last y

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How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 15:57:50

At Radar, performance is a feature. Our platform processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. We provide geolocation infrastructure and solutions, including APIs for: Geocoding : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. Search : Address autocomplete, address validation, and places search APIs. Address autocomplete, address v

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The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Military Target Practice

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 21:56:00

Table of Contents The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Military Target Practice The Tesla Cybertruck inspires strong opinions. People either love or hate the shiny, sharp-angled trucks, many of which have been vandalized and even shot with paintball guns as a reaction against Tesla CEO and former Trump administration staffer Elon Musk. So this one's for you, Cybertruck haters: The Air Force recently had 33 vehicles, including two Cybertrucks, delivered to the White Sands Missi

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Visible is finally rolling out a family plan feature, well sort of

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 09:00:23

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Visible is rolling out a new “Inner Circle” feature that links multiple accounts for easier payment and management. The feature is in Early Access and requires at least two accounts to join. You’ll also have to sign a special form and wait for approval. While major discounts aren’t included with these group plans, members can get $5 off Visible Plus or Plus Pro if not on another promo. For years, Visible has been one of my top recommendations for mobile s

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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 17:57:06

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? But ChatGPT got the correct answer in a few seconds. Flag of Dominica features the Sisserou parrot, which is only found in Dominica. Great Britain established a small colony on the island in 1805.

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Why I no longer travel without this portable battery - and it's not made by Anker or Ugreen

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-05 04:54:00

Voltme Hypercore 10K power bank ZDNET's key takeaways Voltme's Hypercore 10K power bank is available on Amazon for $23. It's very compact and easy to carry, with both USB-C and USB-A ports to charge two devices simultaneously. Its small but chunky, as some might prefer a flatter charger. $22.99 at Amazon Power banks are a tradeoff: too big and they're heavy and awkward to carry, too small and they're pretty useless because there's not enough charge power. I've found that the 10,000mAh mark is

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HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 03:57:50

At Radar, performance is a feature. Our platform processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. We provide geolocation infrastructure and solutions, including APIs for: Geocoding : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. Search : Address autocomplete, address validation, and places search APIs. Address autocomplete, address v

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-12-05 04:00:00

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.” After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices he’d found in his scho

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OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-05 09:40:47

When venture capitalist Keith Rabois got into e-commerce, he couldn't stop buying brands. Now, everything must go. OpenStore, co-founded by Rabois in 2021, is shutting down nearly all of the 40-plus Shopify stores it acquired, and it's in the process of liquidating any remaining inventory by offering steep discounts to move merchandise. Earlier this week, the company announced it plans to focus solely on growing Jack Archer, the menswear brand it bought for $837,000 in 2022. The website addres

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The best streaming deals: Save on YouTube TV, HBO Max, Disney+ and others

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:01:26

If you’ve been shocked by how much you spend on streaming services lately, you’re not alone. Companies like Netflix, Disney, Max and others have been consistently raising prices to the point where you may question if streaming is even worth it anymore. We at Engadget still think it is, but we also think you should be smart with your money — and that’s where streaming deals come in. Yes, it is possible to get discounts on services like Peacock and Paramount+, even if those deals aren’t as common

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After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-05 18:56:11

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in what would become one of humanity’s most infamous ancient tragedies. Tens of centuries later, archaeologists eagerly dug through the ash and pumice to rediscover the buried Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in all their preserved glory. In their eagerness, however, they may have missed an important layer of history. While working in the Insula meridionalis—the southern quarter of Pompeii’s ancient urban center—archaeologists uncovered evidence confirmin

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The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Target Practice

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 21:51:00

Table of Contents The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Target Practice Few vehicles inspire stronger opinions than the Tesla Cybertruck. Drivers and passersby either love or hate the shiny, sharp-angled trucks, many of which have been vandalized and even shot with paintball guns as a reaction against Tesla CEO and former Trump administration staffer Elon Musk. So this one's for you, Cybertruck haters: The Air Force recently had 33 vehicles, including two Cybertrucks, delivered

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Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-06 09:46:02

As promised last month, Apple today released four new titles to Apple Arcade, adding to the catalog of over 200 ad-free games available to subscribers. Here’s what’s new. Play-Doh World Play-Doh brings its magic to the digital space with Play-Doh World, allowing players to craft their own characters and watch them spring to life. From inventing wild zoo animals to styling outrageous salon hairdos, every corner of this colorful universe responds to the player’s creative whim. With dozens of int

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The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-06 11:40:56

The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles Understandable. The US Air Force wants to buy two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can blow them up with missiles. As our sister site The War Zone reports, the military is trying to get a better sense of what to do in case an adversary driving a Cybertruck were to ever pose a threat. The publication dug up contracting documents indicating the Air Force Test Center is looking to deliver 33 vehicles, including the t

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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 11:59:46

OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for. They’re great at some benchmarks, of course (OpenAI would never have released them otherwise) but weirdly bad at others, like SimpleQA. Some people really like them. Others on Twitter really don’t. From what I can tell, they’re technically competent but lack a lot of out-of-domain knowledge: fo

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Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-06 14:11:24

In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various mishaps like car crashes, carbon monoxide poisoning, and lightning strikes, occur—or because a giant asteroid destroys the Earth. The probability of a planet-annihilating asteroid crashing into Earth is low, but it’s not zero. In fact, Earth had a recent close call when a newly discovered asteroid was cal

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Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 14:05:34

In June, Google said it unearthed a campaign that was mass-compromising accounts belonging to customers of Salesforce. The means: an attacker pretending to be someone in the customer's IT department feigning some sort of problem that required immediate access to the account. Two months later, Google has disclosed that it, too, was a victim. The series of hacks are being carried out by financially motivated threat actors out to steal data in hopes of selling it back to the targets at sky-high pr

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iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-06 23:12:43

Apple Maps has some compelling new features in iOS 26, but it seems there’s even more coming, as the beta now supports a powerful new feature that Apple never announced: natural language search with Apple Intelligence. Apple Maps gains AI-powered natural language search in iOS 26 Early last month, iOS 26 beta code revealed that Apple was working on adding natural language search to Maps. However, code leaks regularly expose features in development that may not ever ship. In this case though,

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Did a rival tribe kill and eat their neighbors 5,700 years ago?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 23:15:08

Credit: IPHES-CERCA/Luis Quevedo/Madrid Scientific Films. Human remains from 11 individuals recovered from El Mirador Cave in Spain showed evidence of cannibalism, archaeologists have concluded. According to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the cannibalism was likely the result of a violent episode between competing Late Neolithic herding communities about 5,700 years ago. “Cannibalism is one of the most complex behaviors to interpret, due to the inherent difficulty of

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The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-07 04:20:23

Image by Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty / Futurism Developments While its customer are shedding pounds, Novo Nordisk, creator of the mega-hit drug Ozempic, is shedding loads of market value amid collapsing sales. One year ago, the Danish pharmaceutical giant's market cap exceeded the size of its entire home country's economy. But this week, it's continued its steady but drastic decline — which saw its CEO get the axe — by losing nearly $100 billion in value after slashin

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The Air Force Wants to Use Cybertrucks for Target Practice

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-07 04:50:06

The U.S. Air Force seems to have finally found a good use for Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertrucks: blowing them up with missiles. The War Zone was first to spot that America’s aerial defense wing plans to purchase two of Tesla’s rolling heaps of metal for “use as targets for precision munitions during testing and training.” Associated contracting documents seem to imply that America’s “enemies” may soon be using Cybertrucks and that, as a result, the Air Force needs to practice shooting at them. The

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US military finds a good use for Tesla Cybertruck: missile target practice

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-07 04:17:49

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Elon Musk has long bragged that the Tesla Cybertruck is a uniquely impervious vehicle thanks to its stainless steel body and “bulletproof” windows, calling it “an armored personnel carrier from the future.” Now that claim will be put to the test by none other than the US Air Force, which aims to use the Cybertruck for some

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Latest Tech News

Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

Android 16’s support for external keyboards blew my mind

Our European search index goes live

A SPARC makes a little fire

Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Military Target Practice

Visible is finally rolling out a family plan feature, well sort of

AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

Why I no longer travel without this portable battery - and it's not made by Anker or Ugreen

HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market

The best streaming deals: Save on YouTube TV, HBO Max, Disney+ and others

After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Target Practice

Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles

OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

Did a rival tribe kill and eat their neighbors 5,700 years ago?

The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble

The Air Force Wants to Use Cybertrucks for Target Practice

US military finds a good use for Tesla Cybertruck: missile target practice

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