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Is ChatGPT Plus still worth $20 when the free version offers so much - including GTP-5?

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-26 06:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When ChatGPT first launched over two years ago, the AI chatbot was met with such high demand that OpenAI introduced a premium plan called ChatGPT Plus. This plan guaranteed access to the chatbot even during blackout periods. ChatGPT Plus perks also included access to OpenAI's most advanced models, making the $20 plan almost a no-brainer for superusers. However, as OpenAI's offerings have evolved over the past couple of years, so have its plans. Also: How ChatGPT co

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South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 09:27:50

Thanks for subscribing to SatPot. Hope you all have had a great summer. I’m back on the keyboard after some travels with the family. Today, we will talk about the fascinating business history behind South Park. Also this week: Harvard’s $600m Exec Degree Status Business Was GPT-5 a flop or not? …and them wild posts (including the Slopbowl recession) Trey and Matt getting their cardboard cut-outs on in 1997 (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images) The legendary South Park guys have officially

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Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 20:03:34

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MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 05:53:38

We're all probably feeling a little anxious about AI. It's horrible for the environment, is used as an excuse to fire workers, floods the internet with misinformation and slop, entrenches government surveillance, and appears to be driving people into psychosis. And so, at a time when many college students are dropping out to join AI startups, one former MIT student says she called it quits because she's afraid of something altogether more catastrophic: that an artificial general intelligence (

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Still use AA batteries? Save now and in the future with these rechargeable batteries deal

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:03:08

As much as we wish all devices came with a rechargeable battery, that’s just not the case yet. Manufacturers insist on releasing things that use AA batteries. I am not about to keep buying disposable, so I have some rechargeable AA batteries to save me some store trips, money, and headaches. If you need to get your own, here’s a really nice deal on eight SINCEHOLY Lithium AA Rechargeable Batteries, which are currently on sale for just $14.99. Buy the SINCEHOLY Lithium AA Rechargeable Batteries 8

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Massive deal: The Edifier W820NB Plus headphones are too good for a mere $36.88

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 11:36:14

High-end headphones are exciting, but every time I get a pair, I feel like I am being robbed. I mean, some of the best headphones out there can cost $300-$500 or more. I simply don’t feel comfortable shelling out that much on a pair of cans. I am all about value per dollar, and yesterday, our sister site SoundGuys.com partnered with Edifier to offer an exclusive coupon on the Edifier W820NB Plus headphones. Get this: you can buy them for a mere $36.88, and they are actually pretty fabulous headp

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Show HN: Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 10:43:43

Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine 1. What Is a Spatial Web Browser? A Spatial Web Browser is a user agent that loads, interprets, and presents Web content (HTML, CSS, JS, WebGL/WebGPU, WebXR, media) directly inside a 3D coordinate space instead of flattening everything onto a 2D rectangular viewport. Every DOM element (text nodes, images, canvas, form controls, SVG, etc.) can be: Positioned, rotated, and scaled in world / XR reference spaces Layered with true depth ordering (n

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The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 06:18:52

They say it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery, but Michael Kuzma may have pulled it off in 9,400 hours. That's how long it took the guitarist and electrical engineer to develop his Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System. Kuzma's invention, which can be fitted to any guitar, consists of 3D-printed parts, motors, belt drives, cable drives, actuators and picks. The device can both pick and fret, and while it can't yet play Hendrix, it can do Oasis covers: While it may rankle traditional street perf

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I used to know how to write in Japanese

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 11:01:13

Marco Giancotti , August 15, 2025 Cover image: Kazuenokami Katō Kiyomasa Observing a Monkey with a Writing Brush, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi I recently came across a short essay about kanji—Japanese logographic characters—by a certain James W. Heisig. His point is that learning kanji presents two obstacles: remembering what the shapes mean and remembering how they are pronounced. And it is a bad idea, claims Heisig, to try learning both at the same time. Japanese children learn the spoken language fir

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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

news.ycombinator.com Brad W. Setser 2025-12-26 11:08:42

Sometimes a news story makes your case for you. That happened this past week, when the Wall Street Journal published a remarkable story on surging U.S. imports of peptides and protein-based hormones from Ireland. Chelsey Dulaney and Jared Hopkins wrote: “Planes have been jetting from Ireland to the U.S. this year carrying something more valuable than gold: $36 billion worth of hormones for popular obesity and diabetes drugs … The peptide- and protein-based hormones feed into a category of drug

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It's Peak Time to Spot Bright Fireballs During the Dazzling Perseids Meteor Shower

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 09:58:00

Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn't finished with delivering dazzling meteor showers. The last week of July saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year is hitting its peak now. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you're far enough away from light pollution to see it. Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug. 23. The reason

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I'm Eyeing These 7 iPhone 17 Pro Max Rumors to Decide Whether to Upgrade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 09:58:00

Every time new iPhone models roll around, I ask myself two questions: Should I upgrade this year? And, should this be the year I finally make the jump to the larger iPhone Pro Max? Some years it's a more difficult choice, such as when the iPhone 15 Pro Max was the only model with a 5x telephoto camera. But as we get closer to the iPhone 17 announcements, I just might make the leap. Here's a rundown of some of the features rumored for the iPhone 17 Pro Max that I'm most curious about. Don't mis

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I Discovered the Mystery Flavor of McDonald's New Pink and Blue Shake...

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 10:17:00

I tried the McDonaldland Meal at my local McD's on Tuesday, the day it came out. And I don't want to say that I've been thinking about the mystery flavor of its pink-and-blue Mt. McDonaldland shake ever since, because that would make me sound truly bizarre, but...I have pondered it. When I tasted the shake, I guessed it was maybe blue raspberry, maybe cotton candy, maybe mixed berry. It's sweet but not sickeningly so, though I'd never order it again. (I'm a chocolate fan.) But I kind of wanted

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Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Vocalize the “Inner Voices” of People Who Can’t Speak

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 14:00:38

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do so easier than ever before. In a new, groundbreaking study published in the journal Cell, researchers from Stanford University claimed that they have found a way to decode the "inner speech" of those who can no longer vocalize, making it far less difficult to talk with friends and family than previous BCIs that required them to e

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The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 15:14:05

The Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on one of the many state-level age-verification laws currently being reviewed across the country. Today, the top court chose not to intervene on legislation from Mississippi about checking the ages of social media users, denying an application to vacate stay from NetChoice. The Mississippi law requires all users to verify their ages in order to use social media sites. It also places responsibility on the social networks to prevent children from acce

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-25 09:22:04

OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. In a support document, OpenAI confirmed it has restored the older models for paid customers, so you can now use GPT4o, GPT o3, and more. You just need to use the model selector and choose one of the models under legacy models. In addition, GPT-5 automatically switches between Fast and Thinking, and you can also choose additional GPT-5 opti

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Managing time shiftable devices (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 16:28:15

Managing time shiftable devices Published on August 12, 2024 30 minute read Back to homepage Heat pumps, induction cooking, electric vehicles (EVs) - our energy consumption is rapidly becoming more and more electric. And with good reason: electrification (switching to devices that use electrical energy) is an effective way of reducing carbon emissions when the used energy is produced in a renewable way, so it is one of many ways by which we can try to limit global warming and climate change. Th

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 15 #530

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 14:37:00

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is going to make you work for it. And that's a hint to the theme. Some of the words are pretty long and might take some unscrambling, but you've got this. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this s

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Trump Rips Up Environmental Rules Protecting Wildlife From Destructive Rocket Launches

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 15:48:14

Their friendship may be over, but president Donald Trump just handed Elon Musk and his company SpaceX a major boon by brushing aside major environmental regulations. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order to accelerate space launches by effectively deregulating the industry. As part of this push, the Federal Aviation Administration is directed to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews — an obstacle that has been a persistent thorn in Musk's side. Covering all its bases, the order

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DINOv3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:02:46

🆕 [2025-08-14] 🔥 DINOv3 backbones are now available in Hugging Face Hub and supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library DINOv3 🦖🦖🦖 Meta AI Research, FAIR Oriane Siméoni, Huy V. Vo, Maximilian Seitzer, Federico Baldassarre, Maxime Oquab, Cijo Jose, Vasil Khalidov, Marc Szafraniec, Seungeun Yi, Michaël Ramamonjisoa, Francisco Massa, Daniel Haziza, Luca Wehrstedt, Jianyuan Wang, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni, Leonel Sentana, Claire Roberts, Andrea Vedaldi, Jamie Tolan, John Brandt,

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We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 18:19:00

August 14, 2025 We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. There are multiple interesting, technical topics from this process, but I want to focus in on two (1) interfacing with the GObject type system from Zig and (2) verifying a GTK application with Valgrind and reflecting on the memory issu

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Need Wordle Hints? Here's the Answer and Help for Aug. 14, #1517

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 17:43:00

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Yesterday's Wordle puzzle was a real stumper, and today's isn't much better. It's a pretty tough one. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before w

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Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 20:18:06

Quick—what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages, while the US is second with 327 and Japan is third with 324. Other common words make their appearance as one looks down the list. "Dog" (275 languages) tops "cat" (273). Jesus (274) beats "Adolf Hitler" (242). And all of them beat "sex" (122), which is also bested by "fever," "Chiang Kai

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Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-12-27 00:35:28

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, when envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars like Porsche, BMW, Jaguars, Ferrari and others had been around for decades. You could say AI is at that same pivot point: While models are becoming increasingly more capab

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Trump's administration may look to buy a stake in Intel

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 00:32:34

Intel has had some recent struggles in delivering results for its shareholders, but the company could soon be answering to an additional boss. The current administration is reportedly in talks to have the US government acquire a stake in the chipmaker. No specifics about the size or value of the potential share in the company have been disclosed, but the focus appears to be on increasing Intel's manufacturing footprint in the US. Bloomberg first reported the news, but at least one source caution

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Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:23:45

Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at a casual glance. BleepingComputer has further come across an Intuit phishing campaign using a lookalike domain using the letter L instead of 'i' in Intuit. Booking.com phishi

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ESR issues recall for power bank due to fire risk - here's what you need to know and do ASAP

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-27 00:41:20

Anna Efetova/Moment via Getty ZDNET's key takeaways ESR is recalling the HaloLock power bank over fire concerns. Affected power banks were sold on Amazon and other retailers. You can email ESR a photo of your device for a refund. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. If you have an ESR HaloLock wireless power bank, you should stop using it immediately and contact the company for a refund. In a post Thursday, the United

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OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 00:01:04

We value workplace flexibility At OneSignal, we understand that flexibility is key when it comes to having productive and happy teammates. We know that different roles/teams/people have different needs – some benefit more from being fully remote while others benefit more from having a hybrid setup where they have in office collaboration days 2-3 days a week. So we support both! Our headquarters are based in San Mateo, CA and we also offer shared workspace options for our teams to work together

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We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 00:19:00

August 14, 2025 We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. There are multiple interesting, technical topics from this process, but I want to focus in on two (1) interfacing with the GObject type system from Zig and (2) verifying a GTK application with Valgrind and reflecting on the memory issu

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‘Star Trek’ Is Born on ‘Strange New Worlds’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-27 00:15:05

A few weeks ago in Strange New Worlds‘ up-and-down third season, “A Space Adventure Hour” delivered a deeply unsubtle paean to the creation of Star Trek. This week, Strange New Worlds does much the same: but this time the birth of Star Trek is within the text itself, making for a much more interesting lens on the birth of an icon. From the moment that it opens, it becomes clear that “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” (named for a Vulcan idiom that Spock uses later on) is not going to be a typical ep

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South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause

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