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Using information theory to solve Mastermind

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 21:54:11

How you've just played optimal Mastermind Mastermind is a game all about information. The Code Master selects one of $ 6^4 = 1\,296 $ secret codes. Each incorrect guess gives us information by eliminating some of these; the more codes that are ruled out, the more information that guess has provided. Let's quantify this insight! Suppose a guess gets some response that reduces the number of possible keys from some number $n$ to a smaller $n'<n$. The convention in information theory, a branc

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Apple Music radio stations are now available outside of Apple Music for the first time

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-31 13:15:05

In what appears to be a marketing effort for its subscription service, Apple has partnered with TuneIn to offer the free Apple Music radio stations outside of the Apple Music app for the first time. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, starting today, all six of the Apple live music radio stations will be made available to listen to on TuneIn. TuneIn reports more than 75 million monthly active users, spanning a variety of platforms and devices. Live radio has been a key element of Apple Mus

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Slowing down programs is surprisingly useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 11:38:35

Most research on programming language performance asks a variation of a single question: how can we make some specific program faster? Sometimes we may even investigate how we can use less memory. This means a lot of research focuses solely on reducing the amount of resources needed to achieve some computational goal. So, why on earth might we be interested in slowing down programs then? Slowing Down Programs is Surprisingly Useful! Making programs slower can be useful to find race conditions

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Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-31 13:10:00

Confession time: My household owns two cars, one with leather and one with “leather.” The former feels amazing, the latter … well, let’s just say it’s not fooling anyone. Based on the samples currently sitting on my desk, leather alternatives don’t have to feel so artificial or be so harsh on the environment. Most fake leathers are made using plastics derived from fossil fuels. The samples from Uncaged Innovations, though, are made mostly using grains including wheat, soy, and corn. The result

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How to Slow Down a Program? and Why It Can Be Useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 16:38:35

Most research on programming language performance asks a variation of a single question: how can we make some specific program faster? Sometimes we may even investigate how we can use less memory. This means a lot of research focuses solely on reducing the amount of resources needed to achieve some computational goal. So, why on earth might we be interested in slowing down programs then? Slowing Down Programs is Surprisingly Useful! Making programs slower can be useful to find race conditions

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5 upgrades I want to see in the next Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses coming Sep 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-11-01 01:59:43

Jason Hiner/ZDNET The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Some have even started calling these the next version of the current Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. However, both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Boswor

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Taylor Swift Is Engaged. Her Post Smashed an Instagram Record

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 20:26:00

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts, even though, to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August. Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in just the first hour. By Tuesday evening, it had topped 21.2 million likes. "Your E

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 27, #1530

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 20:45:00

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. Today's Wordle puzzle was a bit of a relief after a few days of solidly tough ones, I thought. It's not a "gimme," but it's certainly guessable. 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 answe

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 27, #808

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 20:51:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a mix. I saw the yellow category right away, and was so proud of myself, but the others weren't as simple. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 27 #542

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 21:00:00

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 isn't too tough, though there are a whopping seven answers to find in the grid. They're all pretty simple words to unscramble though, and the theme is an easy one. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 27, #338

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 21:12:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features a lot of names, and I tend to do terribly on those puzzles. I do even worse when the puzzle editors change a letter in a bunch of names, as they did today. So I did terribly. But you can still solve the puzzle! Read on for hints and the answers. Co

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Das Problem mit German Strings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 21:59:35

German strings are everywhere I look. The impression I’ve gotten from working in the Rust Arrow/Datafusion ecosystem and related file formats for the last couple of months is that StringViews (the implementation of German strings in Arrow) are becoming, if they have not already, the canonical form of representing string columns at execution time. This is generally a good idea. German strings are a fantastic innovation rooted in simplicity that greatly improves most string processing use-cases i

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Eyecam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:12:31

More info about the project, or request for more media? Contact me at [email protected] . You can download the HD pictures ( mirror ) and the HD video (without captions: link ). Interested in building one ? Eyecam is Open-Source ! What is Eyecam? Eye contact. Human eyes are crucial for communication. Through the look, we can perceive happiness, anger, boredom or fatigue. The eyes move around when someone is curious and took straight to maintain focus. We are familiar with these interact

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SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:07:38

spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. spaCy comes with pretrained pipelines and currently supports tokenization and training for 70+ languages. It features state-of-the-art speed and neural network models for tagging, parsing, named entity recognition, text classification and more, multi-task learning with pretrained trans

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20 Kitchen Tools and Gadgets Chefs Swear You'll Regret Buying

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 07:30:00

Walk through any home store or scroll a kitchen gadget section online and it's easy to feel tempted. You might see a spiralizer that promises to replace pasta, a countertop machine that claims to chop, dice and sauté, or a ton of other "miracle" products. These might sound like they'll make cooking easier. The reality is that many of them are used once or twice before being shoved to the back of a cabinet. A handful of dependable tools will carry you much farther than a drawer full of gimmicks

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Enterprise leaders say recipe for AI agents is matching them to existing processes — not the other way around

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-11-01 12:46:19

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 There’s no question that AI agents — those that can work autonomously and asynchronously behind the scenes in enterprise workflows — are the topic du jour in enterprise right now. But there’s increasing concern that it’s all just that — talk, mostly hype, without much substance behind it. Gartner, for one, observes that enterprises are at

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Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-11-01 00:15:49

rv , a new kind of Ruby management tool For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from source every time. And more than all of that, it makes it completely trivial to run any script or tool written in ruby, even if that script or

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Marshall's first party speaker unsurprisingly looks like a guitar amp

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 16:15:09

Marshall just introduced its very first party speaker, the Bromley 750. It looks a whole lot like a guitar amp, which makes sense given the company's pedigree. Also, instrument amps are basically just big speakers anyways. This Bluetooth speaker includes a replaceable battery that allows for more than 40 hours of use before requiring a charge. It produces 360-degree stereophonic sound that Marshall says will "find its way through any crowd." It also features a "sound character knob" that change

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Taylor Swift Is Engaged, and Her Instagram Post Could Smash Records

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 15:43:58

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," Swift and Kelce wrote on an Instagram post showing multiple photos of the proposal. In the first photo, Kelce is kneeling in front of Swift in a breathtaking floral garden. The second photo shows them both standing and holding

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The winners and losers of Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-11-01 16:04:14

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. The world’s most famous celebrity couple got engaged, and the first place the news broke was on Instagram. By now, it’s not much of a surprise that pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelce opted to announce their engagement on the platform on Tuesday — if it’s good enough for Beyoncé, it’s good enough for anyone. Swift and Kelce are, for the most part,

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Designing better products with AI and sustainability

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-11-01 20:13:28

On a mission to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing components, Siemens turned its attention to the design of a robot gripper. Making up just 2% of the robot, the impact of this hand-like device may seem inconsequential. But, reducing its weight by 90% and the number of constituent parts by 84% can save up to 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per robot per year. Consider the impact of equivalent savings across every gripper on the more than 4 million industrial robots worldwide—tha

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Show HN: SecretMemoryLocker – File Encryption Without Static Passwords

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 18:39:42

💾 SecretMemoryLocker (SecretML v2.23) Your personal digital vault – protected by your memories. 💡 Upcoming Feature: SecretML-Seed (SML-Seed) — your personal recovery key, coming soon and fully functional! 🚀 What's New in v2.23 — MirageLoop (SML-ML) Secret Memory Locker v2.23 introduces the unique MirageLoop (SML-ML) feature. This is not just an update — it’s a new reality of protection. 🔐 How it works When a wrong answer to a security question is entered — MirageLoop activates. to a sec

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Google Translate is ready to replace Duolingo in your life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-01 23:00:25

TL;DR Google Translate is getting a new mode to help teach you a new language. The beta initially supports teaching Spanish to English speakers, and English to speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Translate is also getting some upgrades to its live translation mode, all thanks to AI. For all the controversy surrounding AI when it comes to things like content generation, or hallucinating wildly incorrect facts when attempting to answer questions, most of us would agree that it works qu

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Gartner says add AI agents ASAP - or else. Oh, and they're also overhyped

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-02 00:31:37

Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gartner predicts 40% of apps will add AI agents by 2026. Business leaders face hype-driven pressure to act within months. AI value is real, but rushing adoption is dangerous. Pssst. Hey. You. Yeah, I'm talking to you. Are you a CEO, board member, senior VP, or other top-level corporate leader? You want to know a secret? You've got three to six months to AI agent-up your company, or

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Anonymous structavaganza in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 02:35:35

Mon Aug 25 2025 When statements disappear, what remains of good semantics? Let’s see what side effects have been introduced! To start, observe this truly primordial ‘C code; struct A {}; struct B {}; void example ( struct A e ); int main (){ example (( struct B){}); } clang output: error: passing 'struct B' to parameter of incompatible type 'struct A' example((struct B ){}); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ THE TYPES ARE UNIQUE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES! THE ARE NOMINALLY DIFFERENT. And such it is for all

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You’re Getting More New ‘Chainsaw Man’ Before the Movie

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-02 00:45:17

As fans eagerly await the theatrical arrival of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, Crunchyroll is dropping a couple of treats to help recap the anime’s blockbuster first season. It’s a helpful strategy to lure Chainsaw Man newcomers—or readers of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s wildly popular source-material manga—who want to get a feel for the MAPPA-produced anime ahead of its big-screen moment. But the recap films also contain a bonus for existing viewers: the compilation films will include some brand ne

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Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-02 04:00:35

Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received much attention lately. However, that just changed with a big update. The latest app introduces AI-powered live translation along with new language learning tools that might give Duolingo a run for it's money. Google said it heard from users that the toughest skill to master was conversation — ie, learning to listen and speak with confidence. To that end, it's piloting a new language practice feature (on iOS or Android) targeted t

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Google can translate your voice in real time now - try it free

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-02 04:00:21

Getty Images/NurPhoto/Contributor Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google Translate now has a real-time translation feature. The app also offers a Duolingo-like language learning experience. Users in select countries can access both features for free in the Google Translate app. Google Translate has been a go-to source for people's translating needs for nearly two decades. While AI has been powering the tool since its inception, generative AI's ad

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The one-click Linux app I use for instant online anonymity

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-02 04:03:34

Macrovector/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Using the Tor network couldn't be easier. The free Carburetor app is a one-click affair. You'll enjoy anonymity and encryption without the fuss. The Tor network is one of the safest, most reliable ways of adding a strong layer of privacy and protection for your Linux desktop, and everyone should consider using it. Not only does Tor give you anonymity, but it also pro

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Google is building a Duolingo rival into the Translate app

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-02 04:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is putting AI-powered language learning tools into its Translate app. The new feature, rolling out now in beta, can create customized language lessons based on your skill level and your purpose for picking up a new language, such as vacationing in another

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Using information theory to solve Mastermind

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Slowing down programs is surprisingly useful

Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

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Taylor Swift Is Engaged. Her Post Smashed an Instagram Record

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Das Problem mit German Strings

Eyecam

SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

20 Kitchen Tools and Gadgets Chefs Swear You'll Regret Buying

Enterprise leaders say recipe for AI agents is matching them to existing processes — not the other way around

Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

Marshall's first party speaker unsurprisingly looks like a guitar amp

Taylor Swift Is Engaged, and Her Instagram Post Could Smash Records

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Designing better products with AI and sustainability

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Google Translate is ready to replace Duolingo in your life

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The one-click Linux app I use for instant online anonymity

Google is building a Duolingo rival into the Translate app

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