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cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 10:01:00

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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These Are the Biggest Mistakes Home Cooks Make, According to Professional Chefs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 20:03:11

Cooking can be intimidating. The process of shopping, prepping, cooking and, ultimately, tasting the fruits of your labor taps into a side of the brain that not many people can or want to explore. But not even the pros get it right all the time, as the kitchen provides a safe space to experiment, fail and -- best of all -- learn so that desired outcomes can be improved upon and new recipes can be added to the ever-growing arsenal. That said, it certainly helps to identify some of the most comm

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The End of Handwriting

wired.com Angela Watercutter 2025-12-24 18:00:00

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

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What Do Kids Actually Think About AI?

wired.com Charley Locke 2025-12-24 18:00:00

Ask an adult what they think about kids and AI, and expect to hear a strong opinion. Parents, politicians, experts—everyone has a take on whether young people should use AI, how to moderate their exposure, and how it’s changing the ways they think and communicate. Many of these opinions revolve around education. Adults fret that kids will turn ChatGPT into a research bot, paper writer, or math problem solver. Teachers, specifically, struggle to know how to deal with policing student use, and ho

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Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them

wired.com Sofia Barnett 2025-12-24 18:00:00

One day last spring, in a high school classroom in Texas, students were arguing about who to kill off first. It was a thought experiment with a sci-fi premise: A global zombie outbreak has decimated major cities. One hundred frozen embryos meant to reboot humanity are safe in a bomb shelter, but the intended adult caretakers never made it. Instead, 12 random civilians stumbled in. There’s only enough food and oxygen for seven. The students had to decide who would die and who would live to raise

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How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession

wired.com Julia Black 2025-12-24 18:00:00

Elon Musk had a question: “Does anybody have any experience with first principles analysis?” He was speaking to a room full of kids, many of whom knew Musk as the CEO of companies that made rockets and cool-looking cars—and as the founder of Ad Astra, the microschool they attended in his Bel Air mansion, per a video posted by the YouTube channel Newsthink. To five of them, he was simply “Dad.” Generation iPad Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the

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WIRED Tests Dozens of Air Purifiers a Year. Here’s What We Look For (2025)

wired.com Lisa Wood Shapiro 2025-12-24 20:04:00

If I put a box on its side and cannot grasp the product to lift it from its box, then that’s the first strike. WIRED considers accessibility, and this means handles and wheels on heavier air purifiers. When I review a unit, I think about those with less upper body strength moving the appliances, and whether they'd be able to maneuver it around their home. I move air purifiers all around my apartment; I shouldn’t have to bend at the knees to adjust a purifier's location. Photograph: Lisa Wood Sh

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Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-24 17:31:02

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft first introduced a dark mode option in Windows 10 in 2016, but there were still plenty of areas of the operating system that looked like a mish-mash of light and dark modes. Nearly a decade later, the latest preview build of Windows 11 now includes even more darkened UI elements.

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Samsung phones could finally offer a vivid photo profile, but there’s bad news

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 21:15:25

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker claims Samsung could offer a ‘vivid’ photo style in ‘the next version’ of One UI 8. This would allow you to take photos with more saturated colors compared to the default profile. Unfortunately, this vivid style seems to be tied to Samsung’s new photo watermarks. Samsung offers some of the best camera phones around, and these devices recently gained a custom filter option so you can personalize your image output. However, Galaxy phones still lac

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Don’t count out an M4-powered Apple Vision Pro just yet

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-24 14:05:33

Earlier this week, it was reported that the next-gen Apple Vision Pro will come with the upcoming M5 chip and not the current M4. Not so fast, however, says the source of the M4-powered Apple Vision Pro. Mark Gurman responded to the apparent code leak that referenced a variety of unannounced Apple hardware, including the next Apple Vision Pro. It was Ming-Chi Kuo who claimed Apple Vision Pro 2 would be powered by the M5 chip and support Apple Intelligence. That was September 2024. Apple added

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Here are three unusual Apple product announcements to look forward to this fall

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-24 14:38:53

Every fall, almost like clockwork – Apple runs through its course of annual product refreshes. New iPhones, new Apple Watches, new iPads, and new Macs are almost a guarantee over the course of September and October. This year, though – there are a few uncommon product refreshes that we should be seeing over the next couple of months, for products that often go years without an update. Apple TV 4K Apple last updated the Apple TV in late 2022 – with an A15 chip, a smaller design, and a new USB-

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Ultrahuman brings advanced cycle and ovulation tracking to its smart ring

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-24 15:10:18

ZDNET's key takeaways Ultrahuman Ring Air users can get paid-for cycle tracking features. Cycle and Ovulation Pro launched on Friday. The tool enables people with irregular menstrual cycles to track their periods accurately. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Ultrahuman Ring Air users are getting new, advanced ways to track their menstrual cycle, as the smart ring and wearable health brand launched Cycle and Ovulation

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I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 06:51:39

July 31, 2024 Why I prefer rST to markdown I will never stop dying on this hill I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here. This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured Text (rST), which has a steeper learning curve than markdown. I only switched to it after writing a couple of books in markdown and decid

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BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-12-23 23:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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Fun with Finite State Transducers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 14:30:12

ENOSUCHBLOG Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Aug 14, 2025 Tags: devblog, programming, rust, zizmor I recently solved an interesting problem inside zizmor with a type of state machine/automaton I hadn’t used before: a finite state transducer (FST). This is just a quick write-up of the problem and how I solved it. It doesn’t go particularly deep into the data structures themselves. For more information on FSTs themselves, I strongly recommend burntsushi’s article on transducers (which is wha

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Modifying other people's software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 21:32:18

Every once in a while, we all feel the need to modify something that someone else built. Sometimes those patches make sense to upstream, but not always. Sometimes they need a bit more time to bake, before they're ready to share with the world. Sometimes they're too specific to your environment. Sometimes it's just some personal preference, that the upstream wouldn't want to force upon everyone. And sometimes, just sometimes, you just want to run it yourself now, before it has had the time t

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Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:54:55

The ACCC has today commenced Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific over anti-competitive understandings that Google admits it reached in the past with Telstra and Optus regarding the pre-installation of Google Search on Android mobile phones. Google has co-operated with the ACCC, admitted liability and agreed to jointly submit to the Court that Google should pay a total penalty of $55 million. It is a matter for the Court to determine whether the penalty and other orders are app

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The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

news.ycombinator.com Louis Menand 2025-12-24 10:53:21

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. People write because they have something to say. Baldwin had something to say, and he spent his life saying it. But many who thought they got his message didn’t get it at all. Baldwin was high-strung and emotionally labile. He wasn’t exactly charismatic—there was a strangeness about him which he did nothing

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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 11:29:55

‍ “Men would rather pop Viagra forever than let a leech near their body,” Dr. Andrei Dokukin says with only a hint of hyperbole. From his Long Beach, California, clinic, Dokukin is one of the only medical doctors in America practicing leech therapy (also known as hirudotherapy) for internal medicine and non-surgical conditions. While his clients are treated for chronic pain, arthritis, and circulatory issues, rather than erectile dysfunction, Dokukin notes that ED could, in fact, be successfull

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Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:38:11

Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file Build web apps like you're sculpting clay, not managing infrastructure. Modern web development forces you through layers of abstraction: config files, build steps, magic frameworks, deployment pipelines. Hyperclay returns to a simpler model: your app is a single HTML file you (and your clients) manipulate directly. Edit the file through its visual UI and it persists its own

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Best Teeth Whitening Kits You Should Check Out In 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 03:09:00

Teeth whitening kits aren't exactly what most people would call riveting. I must say I was blown away by the entire Smile Brilliant process and package. I wasn't aware you could get custom-fitted whitening trays anywhere other than a dentist's office, but you can with Smile Brilliant. Wearing these whitening trays is just like wearing a retainer. They fit perfectly to your teeth because they're designed using putty impressions you make of your teeth. The process works like this: You order a kit

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Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 14:14:27

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

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China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 16:14:50

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to a close with some new world records, but don't expect them to beat humans in a 100-meter dash any time soon. The three-day robotics event in Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete in everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to the World Humanoid Robot Games, more than 280 teams from 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil and the host country, entered their robots into the event. A majority of th

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Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 06:24:30

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

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ClickHouse matches PG for single-row UPDATEs and 4000 x faster for bulk UPDATEs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 10:52:43

TL;DR · On identical hardware and data, ClickHouse matches PostgreSQL for single-row UPDATEs and is up to 4,000× faster in our tests for bulk UPDATEs. · Why it matters: Bulk updates are common in OLTP workloads, and ClickHouse’s columnar design + parallelism make them far faster. · Caveat: PostgreSQL is fully transactional by default; ClickHouse isn’t. Results compare each engine’s native execution model, not identical transaction guarantees. PostgreSQL is the most popular open-source

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Why Nim?

news.ycombinator.com Basil Ajith 2025-12-24 05:28:29

You might have heard of the line, "one ring to rule them all" from the book the Lord of the Rings. Though, this ring is an evil object created by the evil Sauron, the idea of just one thing existing to manage or control a lot of things at the same time, is something we all long for. We all need that one app which can manage all our tasks. We need that one card that can hold or manage all our credit and debit card information. How we long for a single language for the whole world (by the way thi

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MS-DOS development resources

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 09:10:37

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BBC Micro, the ancestor to ARM

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-12-24 05:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 10:46:04

Run an ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer. The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do! The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space. The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar pr

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Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:40:47

To see all available qualifiers, see our documentation . Saved searches Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. Dismiss alert

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 18

These Are the Biggest Mistakes Home Cooks Make, According to Professional Chefs

The End of Handwriting

What Do Kids Actually Think About AI?

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BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

Fun with Finite State Transducers

Modifying other people's software

Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

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