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The power of two random choices

news.ycombinator.com Marc Brooker 2025-11-05 02:49:43

My name is Marc Brooker. I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in machining, welding, cooking and skiing.I'm currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where I work on databases, serverless, and serverless databases. Before that, I worked on EC2 and EBS.All opinions are my own. The power of two random choices In many large-scale web services, multiple laye

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One of China’s Largest Tech Companies Just Copied Apple’s Biggest Flop

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-09 14:30:17

Apple has had some misses in the past (looking at you, G4 Cube), but in recent times, arguably no piece of hardware has been a bigger flop than the Vision Pro. But just because sales for Apple’s $3,500 face computer have been tepid at best hasn’t stopped competitors from conjuring up their own lookalikes. That includes Samsung and its upcoming Project Moohan headset running Android XR, and now, an almost laughably close lookalike out of China from smartphone maker Vivo. If Project Moohan takes

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Finally, a Windows laptop that I wouldn't mind putting away my MacBook for

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-09 18:52:00

Asus ProArt P16 ZDNET's key takeaways Asus' ProArt P16 is on sale for $2,500 at Best Buy. This year's model keeps much of what made the previous generation so good, with key hardware improvements. It also means it has the same problems as before, such as running hot. View now at Best Buy If you're familiar with Asus' creator-focused laptops, you'll feel right at home using the 2025 ProArt P16. It is nearly identical to its predecessor in terms of design and purpose, as the laptop is meant for

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Apple Just Hiked the Price of Its Streaming Service by 30%

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-09 18:30:56

Since its launch, Apple TV+ has been the streamer that makes costly shows that don’t have a huge cultural footprint, but it was cheap enough to ignore the recurring charges. That was never going to last. Starting today, a monthly subscription to the service will cost $12.99, up 30% or $3 from the previous $9.99. The company said the price increase will go into effect in the U.S. and select international markets immediately for new subscribers. Existing customers will see the higher price 30 day

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Kanye West Said Memecoins ‘Prey On Fans.’ Then He Apparently Launched One

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-11-09 18:49:35

Kanye West, the hip-hop artist who goes by Ye, appears to have launched his own cryptocurrency, YZY, sparking a riot of trading activity. In February, West rejected the idea that he might launch a crypto coin. “I’M NOT DOING A COIN,” he wrote, in a since-deleted post on X. “COINS PREY ON THE FANS WITH HYPE.” He seems to have changed his mind. On Wednesday evening, West’s X account announced the YZY coin in two posts. “The official Yeezy token just dropped,” said West, in a strangely deadpan vi

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Boy Genius Quits SpaceX for Greener Pastures

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 22:06:11

After making waves for getting a job at SpaceX's Starlink at the precocious age of 14, Bay Area boy wonder Kairan Quazi is preparing to leave the nest, move to New York, and get a new job. Quazi, now 16, explained to Business Insider why he's leaving Starlink to work for Citadel Securities, one of the world's biggest stock trading firms that specializes in the rapid-fire algorithmic transactions of quantitative finance. "After two years at SpaceX," the precocious teen told BI, "I felt ready to

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Starlink wants billions in grants, but state governments aren’t cooperating

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:07:55

Starlink operator SpaceX isn't getting the broadband money it demanded from state governments despite the Trump administration rewriting the rules of a $42 billion grant program. Instead of directing the lion's share of money to Elon Musk's space and satellite company, early results indicate that states still plan to deploy fiber broadband networks to most of their unserved households. When the Trump administration announced its overhaul of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) pr

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Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-11-09 23:04:06

The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already committed to receive under the Biden era CHIPS Act, according to comments US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick made in an interview with CNBC. The move is part of the government’s efforts to boost US chip manufacturing. “We should get an equity stake for our money, so we’ll deliver the money which was already committed under the Biden administration,” Lutnick said. “We’ll get equity in re

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is coming to PS5 on November 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 04:26:56

We learned in July that Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl would come to PlayStation later this year. On Thursday, developer GSC Gameworld gave us a specific release date: November 20. That's exactly a year after its PC and Xbox launch. The PS5 version will support adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, gyro aiming and more. Meanwhile, PS5 Pro users will see upgraded resolution, shadows and reflections (among other enhancements). The game will be available in a $60 standard edition, an $80 deluxe one a

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These $60 headphones have the fastest pairing I've tested (and sound great)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-10 04:21:00

OneOdio Focus A6 ZDNET's key takeaways The OneOdio Focus A6 headphones are on sale at Amazon for $59. You'll get smooth sound with evenly-blended bass and just the right amount of mids. I found the highs to be somewhat lacking, but the EQ can be adjusted in the companion app. $59.99 at Amazon I remember back in the '80s and '90s, when you bought cheap headphones, they sounded like listening to music through a pair of tin cans tied with string. Not only did they sound bad, but the build qualit

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Don’t pay full price for the XM6! The Sony WH-1000XM5 are $126 off!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:11:41

The Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones may be super hot and newer, but the Sony WH-1000XM5 don’t fall far behind. It also helps that the previous-generation cans are on sale right now, saving you $126. That brings the cost down to just $273.99. Buy the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for just $273.99 ($126 off) This offer is available from Amazon. Keep in mind that maximum savings only apply to the Black model. All other color versions go for $328. Sony WH-1000XM5 Sony WH-1000XM5 The king of the ANC pack e

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Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones are 32 percent off ahead of Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:34:47

Sony's WH-1000XM5 once topped our lists of best noise-canceling headphones and best wireless headphones , and were only usurped by the follow-up XM6 . This line of headphones is consistently impressive and the WH-1000XM is truly in a league of its own . So we get excited when one of the all-around best headphones out there goes on an aggressive sale. You can pick up a pair of XM5s right now for just $274, which is 32 percent off its normal retail price of $400. In our review of the XM5 we award

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The Best Gaming Headsets for Xbox, PS5, and PC (2025)

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-10 18:03:00

Microphones are common on most headphones and earbuds, but on gaming-specific headsets you're more likely to find boom mics sticking out from one of the ears. These tend to provide better audio quality, as well as a few other features you may want to consider when buying a new headset. The first is a visual indicator for whether your mic is muted. I know that sounds a little funny, but it serves a dual purpose of letting you know that you're being heard when you're talking, and also ensuring yo

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Apple Watch helps user discover brain tumor after unusual heart rate alerts

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-10 23:58:46

The Apple Watch’s health features have once again played a part in flagging a potential health problem. A 57-year-old woman from Brighton, East Sussex says her Apple Watch alerted her to an issue that ultimately led doctors to uncover a brain tumor. Sam Adams told The Sun that her Apple Watch repeatedly flagged an unusually low heart rate after she returned from a trip to Costa Rica. At the time, she was recovering from personal losses including losing a parent, a pet, and her marriage. Adams b

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Pixel 10 vs Pixel 8: Here’s why I’m not upgrading

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:30:13

The Pixel 10 series, save for the base model, is largely an incremental upgrade, with Google draping the familiar design in new colors. If you are coming from a Pixel 9 series, there’s little conviction to upgrade to the newer models, unless you absolutely cannot live without the new Pixelsnap accessories or the slightly improved Tensor G5. But what if you have an older Pixel 8 series phone? Then, the Pixel 10’s newer design can be alluring, while the new telephoto on the vanilla Pixel 10 could

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The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

wired.com Richard Warnica 2025-11-11 09:30:00

Not long before he decided to leave NASA, Steve Rader, an engineer who spent 36 years at the Johnson Space Center, held a retreat for leaders in his department at his home in downtown Houston. It had been a trying few months for Rader and his team. “I will say, I don't cry a lot,” he tells me in a recent phone call. That changed after Trump took office. “You can ask my wife, from the first few months I cried.” After decades working on projects like the Space Shuttle and International Space Stat

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The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-11 06:53:47

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums. By: Samuel Jay Keyser A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Made at the high point of Kline, de Kooning, and Pollock, Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” was a poke in the eye of abstract expressionism. Not only was it blatantly mimetic, but it was being blatantl

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Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:00:34

Advanced driver assistance systems—also known as ADAS—come in a few variations. Blind spot monitoring, collision warnings, and emergency braking act like a second pair of eyes and ears, monitoring the car's environment to warn the driver, or possibly intervene, if a crash looks imminent. Other systems are better thought of as convenience features—things like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping, which relieve some of the burden of driving. Among the newer of these is the traffic jam assist.

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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 10:38:04

Monday, August 18, 2025 There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They're not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly chaotic but things are more or less spread out over the whole piece in a regular way. If you take a slice you'll get more of less the same amount of pepperoni as any other slice. And every bite

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Apple iPhone 17 launch date is rumored for September: Everything to know about the newest lineup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:13:06

With August already two-thirds out the door, it means we're getting closer to the Apple iPhone event, which typically takes place in September. During that event, we'll finally get to put our eyes on the iPhone 17 lineup. The latest iOS 26 features will come preinstalled on the new models, as well as any additional features Apple reveals at the launch event. But since we still have to wait a few weeks (presumably) until the iPhone event, we can at least speculate what the new phones will look li

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Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:16:35

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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Here are all the Android phones that support Qi2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 22:40:07

The Qi2 wireless charging spec was originally announced back in early 2023. However, Android phone makers haven’t exactly been rushing to add Qi2 support to their latest devices since then. That’s made finding a compatible handset rather difficult, which is a bummer for anyone who has seen the wealth of accessories and power banks that iPhone owners have had access to for several generations. On top of faster charging speeds (up to 25 watts or higher in later revisions), Qi2 dictates the inclus

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Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 22:53:43

Analogue's 4K take on the Nintendo 64 is… still not quite here. The company announced its third delay to the Analogue 3D on Wednesday, pushing the retro system back to Q4 2025. However, it said that's an intentionally conservative estimate, so this probably isn't a huge concern. The postponement follows previous ones in March and July. (The last time was due to tariffs.) Analogue acknowledged the frustration pre-order customers must be feeling. "We know this sucks," the Pocket maker wrote. "Ano

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They Might Be Making the Perfect ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Game

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-12 04:45:19

For as long as Star Trek: Voyager has been around, there has been much debate about if Captain Janeway made the right decisions navigating her crew’s journey home across years of travel from an unexplored corner of the galaxy with little to no support from Starfleet. Should she have killed Tuvix to save the lives of two crewmembers? Should she have been hyperevolved into an amphibian and had sex with one of her senior, also-currently-a-hyperevolved-amphibian officers? Should she have deleted tha

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Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:56:36

Clear Reset View Reload Data Points: 0 Zoom: 1.0x

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Nothing’s retro-looking Headphone 1 are already $30 off

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-11-12 09:26:21

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nothing’s Headphone 1 hit the scene back in July, and they’re already being discounted. Right now, you can pick up the brand’s first pair of over-the-ear headphones for an all-time low price of $269 ($30 off) at Amazon and Nothing’s online storefront. What makes the Headphone 1 unique is their retro-transparent design that Nothing introduced with the Phone 1. Similar to other high-end headphones, they suppo

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Analogue 3D gets yet another delay to later in 2025

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-11-12 09:59:26

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Things just keep going wrong for Analogue’s take on the Nintendo 64. The company announced today that the shipping date for its next console, the Analogue 3D, has been delayed until sometime in Q4 of this year. The announcement comes a little over a

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Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-12 14:44:31

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack." Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats. An out-of-bounds write occurs when attackers successfully exploit such vulnerabilities by supplying input to a program, causing it t

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These iPadOS 26 features make me want the M5 iPad Pro

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-12 16:49:55

Apple is launching a brand new M5 iPad Pro this fall, alongside its biggest iPad software release ever in iPadOS 26. Here are the iPadOS 26 features that have me excited to get a new iPad. New iPad Pro hardware will offer the best iPadOS 26 experience For years, iPad users have been asking for software that truly takes advantage of the increasingly powerful iPad hardware. iPadOS 26 is Apple’s long-awaited answer. I’ve been using an iPad since the first model launched in 2010, and the iPad Pr

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Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

news.ycombinator.com Jake Poznanski 2025-11-12 17:53:35

Sergei is a veteran of the early days of the computing industry as it was developing in the Soviet Union. I had the pleasure of working and learning from him over the past year, and in that time I picked up more important lessons about both life and embedded programming than any amount of school could ever teach. The most striking lesson is the story of how and why, in late summer of 1986, Sergei decided to move his family out of the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, my mentor Sergei was writing soft

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The power of two random choices

One of China’s Largest Tech Companies Just Copied Apple’s Biggest Flop

Finally, a Windows laptop that I wouldn't mind putting away my MacBook for

Apple Just Hiked the Price of Its Streaming Service by 30%

Kanye West Said Memecoins ‘Prey On Fans.’ Then He Apparently Launched One

Boy Genius Quits SpaceX for Greener Pastures

Starlink wants billions in grants, but state governments aren’t cooperating

Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?

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These $60 headphones have the fastest pairing I've tested (and sound great)

Don’t pay full price for the XM6! The Sony WH-1000XM5 are $126 off!

Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones are 32 percent off ahead of Labor Day

The Best Gaming Headsets for Xbox, PS5, and PC (2025)

Apple Watch helps user discover brain tumor after unusual heart rate alerts

Pixel 10 vs Pixel 8: Here’s why I’m not upgrading

The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript

Apple iPhone 17 launch date is rumored for September: Everything to know about the newest lineup

Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

Here are all the Android phones that support Qi2

Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again

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Nothing’s retro-looking Headphone 1 are already $30 off

Analogue 3D gets yet another delay to later in 2025

Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

These iPadOS 26 features make me want the M5 iPad Pro

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

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