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Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 21:44:55

Consider the cul-de-sac. It leads off the main street past buildings of might-have-been to a dead-end disconnected from the beaten path. Computing history, of course, is filled with such terminal diversions, most never to be fully realized, and many for good reason. Particularly when it comes to user interfaces and how humans interact with computers, a lot of wild ideas deserved the obscure burials they got. But some deserved better. Nearly every aspiring interface designer believed the way we

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Show HN: Semlib – Semantic Data Processing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 20:45:56

Semlib Semlib is a Python library for building data processing and data analysis pipelines that leverage the power of large language models (LLMs). Semlib provides, as building blocks, familiar functional programming primitives like map , reduce , sort , and filter , but with a twist: Semlib's implementation of these operations are programmed with natural language descriptions rather than code. Under the hood, Semlib handles complexities such as prompting, parsing, concurrency control, caching,

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Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 21:05:03

One of the first things I learned while testing AI image generators is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong when you're trying to get the image you see in your head to appear on your screen. If you've ever used an AI image or video generator, you know what I mean. I've spent the past year testing and reviewing different AI image generators, and I've generated hundreds of images across services like Google's nano bananas model, Midjourney and Dall-E. But the images I created haven't

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The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-27 21:33:45

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. The US and China have reached a “framework” deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. As noted by Reuters, Bessent confirmed that “the framework is for a switch to a U.S.-controlled ownership.” He said Trump will confirm the deal with Chinese Preside

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Computer Vision and Healthcare: How Technology Provides a Glimpse Into the Future

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-28 01:00:11

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision in the healthcare industry continues to progress along a steep upward trajectory. Advanced AI technologies enable machines to interpret and analyze medical images, videos, and other data with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Computer vision combines that functionality with deep learning networks to enhance diagnostic precision, automate routine medical tasks, and support clinical decision-making. The evolving capabilities of computer v

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Snap's AR glasses are getting a better browser and support for Spotlight video

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 01:00:09

Snap is upgrading the software that powers its augmented reality glasses as it gets ready for the first non-developer version of its "Specs" next year. The latest update to Snap OS includes an improved web browser, as well as the ability to browse Spotlight videos in AR. The company has long said that one of its goals for AR glasses is to enable people to spend less time staring at their phones. Snap hasn't quite accomplished that yet, but Snap OS is starting to get more features that could hel

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I unplugged these 7 household devices and saved $200 a year in electricity

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-28 00:00:00

Adela Stefan / 500px / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Unplugging idle devices can save on power bills. TVs, consoles, coffee makers, and mini-fridges are top culprits. Small daily changes help cut energy waste and lower electricity costs. With costs climbing across the US, energy prices stand out -made worse by record-breaking summer heat and recent waves scorching multiple states. Having endured several of them this season, I'm alw

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Epic Games versus Apple Australia ruling published – Apple calls it harmful

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-28 05:42:06

We last month learned that Epic Games had won its antitrust case against Apple in Australia, with the court ruling that the iPhone maker must permit side-loading and third-party payments. The full reasoning for that decision has now been published – all 900 pages of it – and Apple has accused the judge of underestimating the privacy and security risks to users … The case hinged on the usual question: What defines the dominance of the App Store? Apple argues that it does not have a monopoly, a

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The 2025 Emmys Are Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-27 03:00:53

The biggest night in television is finally here. The 77th edition of the annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be given out on Sunday night. The best shows that came out sometime between June 2024 and May 2025 will be awarded across categories. Apple TV+ is the big winner so far when it comes to nominations. Its fan-favorite show Severance picked up a total of 27 nominations. Lead actors Adam Scott and Britt Lower, who play Mark and Helly on the show, are both nominated for best actor nominations

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7 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-10-28 05:02:00

Compare Our Picks WIRED TIRED Connected to an app? Entry size Footprint size Compatible litter Suitable cat size Special features Petkit PuraMax Pro Camera inside videos both your cat and its waste being scooped; app tracks usage and weight changes; works with both 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz Wi-Fi App got cats confused once the free Care+ subscription was over; square opening may be off-putting to some cats; camera isn’t movable Yes Approx. 8 x 10” Approx. 26 x 21 x 24" Any clumping litter with granul

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Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-10-28 05:00:00

When Mark Lee was a law student at Harvard, a trademark class exposed him to the staggering scale of counterfeiting, an illicit industry worth more than $3 trillion annually, and set him on an unexpected path to entrepreneurship. “I was always broadly interested in technology and startups, but I never really thought I’d be an entrepreneur. I assumed I was set to become a lawyer; most of my family members are lawyers, and practicing law felt like a natural path,” Lee said in an exclusive intervi

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Readers still love this legendary Files by Google alternative, but why?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 12:00:21

Andy Walker / Android Authority In a recent article I wrote about alternatives to Files by Google, several users mentioned a name I hadn’t heard in ages: Total Commander. Launched back in 2012, the app still has a strong following on Android, even though I remember it best as my preferred Windows file manager back in the day. You all intrigued me, so I installed it on my main phone and started using it as my primary file manager. But is it any good compared to the many alternatives available? I

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The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-28 14:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 19:25:11

Zstandard's long range mode works wonders for genome sequences without newlines September 12, 2025 First released with Zstandard 1.3.2 in 2017, the --long range match finder increases the compressor’s search window to at least 128MiB, improving deduplication inside large files. This optional feature had substantial performance overheads at launch, but various optimisations have since brought its performance within shooting distance of Zstandard’s fast defaults. As a fan of Zstandard’s speed an

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How CNET Editors Save Money With Cheap Smart Gadgets in Their Own Homes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 14:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you're shopping for an energy-saving gadget such as a smart plug or want the added capabilities of a smart display, you probably want to snag one while still saving money. Paying hundreds for a single home device is a lot to ask. The good news? Smart tech like this can still be very cheap. That’s why my fellow CNET editors an

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OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-28 13:00:00

OpenAI appears to be ramping up its efforts in robotics, hiring researchers who work on humanoid systems as it explores new ways to advance artificial intelligence. The company has recently recruited a number of researchers with expertise in developing AI algorithms for controlling humanoid and other types of robots. Job listings show that the company is putting together a team capable of creating systems that can be trained through teleoperation and simulation. Sources with knowledge of the c

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Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-28 14:27:41

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5,” a confusingly named successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. While the processor itself will be unveiled during the Snapdragon Summit on September 23rd-25th, Qualcomm has already published an explanation for the branding update. “It might look like we skipped generations, but the truth is simpler— and more powerf

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It’s official: The ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’ will power the next wave of Android flagships

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 11:41:03

Qualcomm TL;DR Qualcomm has announced that its new flagship processor will be called “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.” Xiaomi has confirmed that its next flagship phone lineup, the Xiaomi 17 series, will be powered by the new chipset. The processor will also power the Galaxy S26 series, with a possible “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy” branding. Qualcomm has officially announced its next flagship mobile chipset, the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.” Ahead of the 2025 Snapdragon Summit, where the chi

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This Android brand is skipping an entire generation to rival the iPhone 17

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 12:15:33

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi is skipping the 16 series and jumping straight to the 17 series flagships. The company says it has decided to take the generational leap to better compete with the iPhone 17 series. The Xiaomi 17 series will consist of three new flagships launching later this month. Xiaomi’s next flagship smartphone series will launch this month, but there’s one thing you won’t see — the Xiaomi 16 series. Xiaomi president Lu Weibing announced on Weibo that the

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Apple TV+ ‘The Studio’ wins best comedy at Emmy awards, but HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ beats ‘Severance’ in drama

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-28 15:08:33

Apple TV+ set a new personal record for wins at the 2025 Emmy Awards, taking home 25 total trophies across its series. This was led by recognition for The Studio in the comedy categories, which won 13 awards including the top honors Best Comedy Series. However, Apple was less successful on the drama side. Despite coming in to the night with a record-setting 27 nominations for Severance, HBO’s The Pitt ultimately clinched the Best Drama Series Emmy. Severance did win two Emmys last night, for a

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For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 10:02:39

Committing to a better future Lend your skills to an open source project focused on the Digital Public Goods (DPGs). From fighting climate change, to solving world hunger, your efforts will contribute to creating a better future for everyone. Together, we can drive positive and lasting contributions to the world, one commit at a time. Explore a DPG repo below to get started.

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The Stop Killing Games movement is nearing an official meeting with EU lawmakers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 08:15:35

The Stop Killing Games campaign is continuing to gain momentum after hitting more than a million signatures in July. After a July 31st deadline, the movement secured around 1.45 million signatures, which the organizers are currently in the process of verifying. The initiative aims to enact legislation that preserves access to video games, even when developers decide to end support, as seen with Ubisoft when it delisted The Crew and revoked access to players who already purchased the game. There

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My thoughts on renting versus buying

news.ycombinator.com Miles Barr 2025-10-28 09:36:14

I’ve read numerous articles about renting versus buying and most dive into financial projections while completely missing the bigger picture. In my view, behavioral and emotional factors have a far larger impact on the financial outcomes of renting versus buying than the math. The math can always be made to “work” if you’re willing to adjust what or where you rent or buy. But the real differences aren’t captured in spreadsheets. They come from how people actually make decisions, and how those d

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La-Proteina

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 02:43:58

La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching Abstract. Recently, many generative models for de novo protein structure design have emerged. Yet, only few tackle the difficult task of directly generating fully atomistic structures jointly with the underlying amino acid sequence. This is challenging, for instance, because the model must reason over side chains that change in length during generation. We introduce La-Proteina for atomistic protein design based on a n

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Implementing namespaces and coding standards in WordPress plugin development

news.ycombinator.com Troy Chaplin 2025-10-25 19:56:32

As WordPress projects grow in complexity, organizing your codebase becomes essential. Whether you’re building a plugin, theme, or block library, a clean and scalable architecture makes development faster, onboarding easier, and long-term maintenance far less painful. In Refactoring the Multi-Block Plugin: Build Smarter, Register Cleaner, Scale Easier, I walked through setting up a flexible structure for managing multiple static, dynamic, and interactive blocks within a single plugin. That setup

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Everyone Thinks Elon Musk is Going to Build a SpaceX Mobile Network

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-28 06:50:18

SpaceX’s has been partnering with mobile carriers like T-Mobile to offer its satellite internet service Starlink to extend the reach of cell networks. But, according to a report from the Washington Post, the company has ambitions to be more than just a partner. Following a major purchase of wireless spectrum earlier this week, it appears everyone is expecting Elon Musk’s company to get into the wireless network business for itself. On Monday, it was reported that SpaceX was finalizing a deal wi

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The Latest ‘Demon Slayer’ Movie is Another Record-Breaking Hit

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-28 09:15:52

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle came to the United States this weekend, and it’s doing numbers well ahead of projections. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the film—the first of a trilogy meant to bring the shonen fantasy series to a close—made an estimated $70 million domestic, double the $35-40 million predicted by analysts. But Sony’s been aggressive with marketing it, not to mention the anime itself is pretty popular on its own. It’s the biggest opening ever for an anime film in North America, the

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Apple still has 10 more product launches in the pipeline, here’s what’s coming

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-28 06:40:59

Apple just wrapped up its iPhone 17 launch event last week. While that was a jam-packed (and incredibly fast-paced) keynote, the company still has another 10 product launches in the short term, with half of them launching by the end of the year. Remaining 2025 launches There were a number of product launches anticipated at this year’s September keynote that didn’t quite come to fruition. Those products should still launch by the end of the year though, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – wi

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Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 07:22:25

I’ve seen a couple of examples recently of how super simple “bots” are replacing bits of user interface. I feel like this is a trend connected with the return of VR. I am in love with the virtual events platform Skittish which is a 3D cartoon world (where everyone is a low-poly animal) for running multiplayer online parties, conferences, workshops etc. RECOMMENDATION: Hit the “Try it now” button in the top right of their homepage and run around the sandbox. Talk to the other animals! Go into t

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Colman Domingo Used Jerry Springer to Build His ‘Running Man’ Villain

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-28 10:25:58

The upcoming Running Man remake is set in a United States where people watch contestants try to survive being hunted. Watch any game show (or reality TV in general), and the host is as important as the players themselves, and that’s where Colman Domingo comes in. He plays Bobby Thompson in the film, who hosts the titular blood sport that’s the talk of the country. We got a little bit of the character in the trailer, and according to Domingo, playing a guy like that is like “[being] in a whole d

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Latest Tech News

Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

Show HN: Semlib – Semantic Data Processing

Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal

Computer Vision and Healthcare: How Technology Provides a Glimpse Into the Future

Snap's AR glasses are getting a better browser and support for Spotlight video

I unplugged these 7 household devices and saved $200 a year in electricity

Epic Games versus Apple Australia ruling published – Apple calls it harmful

The 2025 Emmys Are Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know

7 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse

Readers still love this legendary Files by Google alternative, but why?

The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

How CNET Editors Save Money With Cheap Smart Gadgets in Their Own Homes

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’

It’s official: The ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’ will power the next wave of Android flagships

This Android brand is skipping an entire generation to rival the iPhone 17

Apple TV+ ‘The Studio’ wins best comedy at Emmy awards, but HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ beats ‘Severance’ in drama

For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

The Stop Killing Games movement is nearing an official meeting with EU lawmakers

My thoughts on renting versus buying

La-Proteina

Implementing namespaces and coding standards in WordPress plugin development

Everyone Thinks Elon Musk is Going to Build a SpaceX Mobile Network

The Latest ‘Demon Slayer’ Movie is Another Record-Breaking Hit

Apple still has 10 more product launches in the pipeline, here’s what’s coming

Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons

Colman Domingo Used Jerry Springer to Build His ‘Running Man’ Villain

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