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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 11

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 14:09:11

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Thanks, today's Mini Crossword! You were pretty simple again, and I love that. Almost got tripped up on 5-Down, but was able to fill in the other letters and move on. Need answers? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Min

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Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

news.ycombinator.com Sam Meredith 2025-12-02 11:19:06

A firefighting helicopter flies near as a home burns from the Mountain Fire on November 6, 2024 in Camarillo, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images Top insurers fear the climate crisis could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable. Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz , one of the world's biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will n

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PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 09:49:17

One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both. But, experimentation by the PHP Foundation's dev team suggests we may be able to get 80% of the benefit for 20% of th

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Compiling a Lisp: Lambda Lifting

news.ycombinator.com Max Bernstein 2025-12-02 12:35:03

first – previous I didn’t think this day would come, but I picked up the Ghuloum tutorial (PDF) again and I got a little bit further. There’s just one caveat: I have rewritten the implementation in Python. It’s available in the same repo in compiler.py. It’s brief, coming in at a little over 300 LOC + tests (compared to the C version’s 1200 LOC + tests). I guess there’s another caveat, too, which is that the Python version has no S-expression reader. But that’s fine: consider it an exercise fo

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Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Suddenly Sold Out (Sort Of)

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-02 06:52:03

After months of being a commercial disaster, something curious is happening with the Tesla Cybertruck. For the first time since its troubled launch, Elon Musk’s futuristic pickup is showing signs of life. The wait time for the Cybertruck’s cheapest model has suddenly stretched to over a month, suggesting a spike in demand for a vehicle that, until now, almost no one seemed to want. The question is whether this is a genuine turnaround for the polarizing pickup or just a temporary sugar rush fuel

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NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 05:05:19

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support its planned international lunar research station. The United States countered in August, when acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reportedly suggested a US reactor would be operational on the Moon by 2030.

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How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-02 09:15:17

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge Dart, and my grandmother had a 1988 Honda Accord — which would eventually become my first ca

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Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-12-01 09:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. It’s wors

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R0ML's Ratio

news.ycombinator.com Glyph Lefkowitz 2025-12-01 14:21:31

My father, also known as “R0ML” once described a methodology for evaluating volume purchases that I think needs to be more popular. If you are a hardcore fan, you might know that he has already described this concept publicly in a talk at OSCON in 2005, among other places, but it has never found its way to the public Internet, so I’m giving it a home here, and in the process, appropriating some of his words. Let’s say you’re running a circus. The circus has many clowns. Ten thousand clowns, to

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The current state of LLM-driven development

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 00:17:16

I spent the past ~4 weeks trying out all the new and fancy AI tools for software development. Let’s get a few things out of the way: Learning how to use LLMs in a coding workflow is trivial. There is no learning curve. You can safely ignore them if they don’t fit your workflows at the moment. LLMs won’t magically make you deliver production-ready code If you can’t read the code and spot issues, they’re hard to use past the PoC stage They have terrible code organization skills, making them los

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3 Best Steam Mops, Tested for Months (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-01 21:32:00

This all-in-one cleaner from Tineco has lots of bells and whistles. It's easy to set up and easy to use, though I had to read the instructions a few times to make sure I understood all the different modes and options. Press the power button and it'll start up in Auto mode, which detects how dirty the floor is and automatically adjusts steam output as needed. Use Steam Mode to deep clean, and Boost mode for stubborn spots and stains. Using the companion smartphone app, which requires 2.4GHz Wi-Fi

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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-12-02 03:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

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Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 18:37:24

The Problem We recently encountered a frustrating issue with HTTP response streaming at Mintlify. Our system uses the AI SDK with the Node stream API to forward streams, and suddenly things stopped working properly. The symptoms were confusing: streaming worked perfectly with cURL and Postman, but failed completely with node-fetch and browser fetch. ‍ Initial Investigation Our first hypothesis centered around stream compatibility issues. We suspected the problem might be related to how the AI

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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 00:06:56

Installing apps on Sandstorm is as easy as installing apps on your phone. Find any app you want on the App Market and start using it with a few clicks. Every app comes with automatic updates.

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Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-02 05:00:22

The promise of quantum computers appears to be that they will upend modern computing as we know it. With exceptional computational power, they’ll be performing feats unimaginable for any classical supercomputer. The reality of quantum computers hasn’t quite lived up to its hype, however. Claims of “quantum advantage”—problems regular computers can’t solve but quantum computers can—draw criticism from both skeptics and enthusiasts in the field. Certainly, we’ve seen genuinely impressive advancem

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Here’s How to Buy the Best Used EV

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-12-02 05:00:00

Haven't you heard?! If you’re at all interested in going electric, a recipe of US tax policy changes plus recent progress in vehicle and battery tech means the perfect time to buy a used electric vehicle is, well, now. Really: A $4,000 used EV tax credit for qualified buyers expires at the end of September, which means you’ll be competing with other electric bargain hunters for the next few weeks. The question, of course, is how. Electric vehicles have some crucial differences from their gas-po

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 02:41:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's Mini Crossword is the longest of the week, and it was a bit tough, too. Lots of long answers, so it took me over two minutes to solve it. Need the answers? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

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My DIY modular charging station

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 12:47:26

The cables crept into our lives gradually. First, we had a USB charger in our bedroom to charge my wife’s iPad or my Kindle. Then we added another near our dining table, pulling up a chair to use as a base when charging the kids’ iPad. Add in frequent visits by family and most of our available outlets have a charger coming out of it in one form or another. Aside from the fact that we now had cables all over the house, there was the annoyance of walking around the house to find a charger, only t

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Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 09:35:00

Crocs are an infamously ugly shoe style that was once named to Time's list of the 50 worst inventions. Clippy is an annoying animated paperclip from Microsoft that once made that same list. So maybe it's fate that the two much-mocked products are teaming up for a pair of limited-edition Crocs the wearer can deck out with a smiling Clippy accessory. According to The Verge, the Crocs are part of Microsoft's celebration of its 50th anniversary, and are right now only available for preorder by Micr

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Intel CEO responds to Trump resignation call with letter to employees

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-02 20:21:59

Yesterday, President Donald Trump publicly called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation, over accusations of “deeply conflicted” ties to China. Now, he is speaking out and making it clear he has no plans to step aside. A quick recap Before joining Intel, Tan worked as CEO for Cadence Design Systems, a firm that just pleaded guilty to an investigation by the Justice Department over charges of “selling its chip-design products to a Chinese military university,” per the Wall Street Journal’s des

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Best Chemical Drain Cleaners of 2025: We Tested 8 to Find the Most Effective Against Your Toughest Clogs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 23:00:00

I leaned on my background as a chemical engineer to offer insights on the effectiveness of these controversial chemicals. In my experiment, I tested eight of the most commonly available chemical drain cleaners: six alkaline and two acidic. I performed dissolution tests to evaluate how well each of them could dissolve drain blockages. I had one goal: to determine which products, if any, would work effectively against the most common clogging materials. 200 ml of Drano Max Gel Gianmarco Chumbe/CN

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Apple pushes back on Fintiv’s latest litigious attempt to profit off Apple Pay

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-03 05:05:52

Fintiv, a firm you’ve probably only heard of in the context of patent litigation, is once again suing Apple over Apple Pay. Apple’s secure mobile payment solution launched over a decade ago in 2014. Fintiv has been unsuccessfully suing Apple over Apple Pay since 2018. Apple is not hiding its frustration. In a statement to 9to5Mac, the company accused the Texas-based firm of trying to “distract from their failed patent case” with a new set of allegations. “The court has repeatedly rejected Fint

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Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:27:28

Sam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users. Meanwhile, I can't even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds. Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc. What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low? Curious to hear insights from people who've built large-scale ML systems.

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

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

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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Need to Recycle an Old Laptop or Printer? Here's Where to Take It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 04:00:07

If you've got an old laptop or printer gathering dust in a closet, you're not alone. A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of US adults are still hanging onto outdated electronics because they don't know what to do with them. And while tossing tech in the trash might seem like the easiest option, it's illegal in many states and could land you a fine. The good news? Recycling your old devices is easier than ever. Major retailers like Best Buy, Staples and Office Depot accept laptops, de

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 09:58:30

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William

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The War for the Web Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-03 10:54:30

A high-stakes war has just broken out over the future of the internet. In one corner is Cloudflare, a giant of web infrastructure that acts as a gatekeeper for a huge portion of online traffic. In the other is Perplexity, a darling of the AI world, a search engine threatening to upend Google’s dominance. The accusation is explosive: Cloudflare claims Perplexity is a bad actor, a rogue bot that ignores the internet’s oldest rules to secretly scrape data from websites that have explicitly told it

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-03 09:44:05

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William

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

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 15:00:23

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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I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 15:20:39

Framework casually mentioned they were testing a mini-rack AI cluster in their Framework Desktop presentation back in March. Imagine my surprise when Nirav Patel, Framework's founder and CEO, was at Open Sauce a couple weeks ago, and wanted to talk! He said they had seen my Project Mini Rack posts earlier this year and thought it was the perfect application to try out their new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-powered Mainboard, as it's mini ITX dimensions fit inside a 10" rack. Framework sent over four

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Latest Tech News

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 11

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

Compiling a Lisp: Lambda Lifting

Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Suddenly Sold Out (Sort Of)

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why

How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry

Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time

R0ML's Ratio

The current state of LLM-driven development

3 Best Steam Mops, Tested for Months (2025)

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

Here’s How to Buy the Best Used EV

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 9

My DIY modular charging station

Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

Intel CEO responds to Trump resignation call with letter to employees

Best Chemical Drain Cleaners of 2025: We Tested 8 to Find the Most Effective Against Your Toughest Clogs

Apple pushes back on Fintiv’s latest litigious attempt to profit off Apple Pay

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

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

Need to Recycle an Old Laptop or Printer? Here's Where to Take It

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

The War for the Web Has Begun

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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

I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs

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