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Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 05:28:25

Web Compatibility Overview JSAR provides comprehensive support for modern Web standards. For a complete browser compatibility report, please visit our Browser Compatibility Data. Scripting & Modules [Completed] JavaScript - Full ES2023 support - Full ES2023 support [Completed] TypeScript - Native TypeScript compilation - Native TypeScript compilation [Completed] ECMAScript Module - Modern module system - Modern module system [Completed] WebAssembly - High-performance WASM support - Hi

Topics: complete completed implementation rendering support

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How to make almost anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 20:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

Topics: fabrication interested learning machine working

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Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-16 03:12:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! A new twist on package-related scams is drawing concern from federal authorities, as the FBI warns Americans to be vigilant when receiving unexpected parcels containing QR codes. According to a recent alert, criminals have begun exploiting the ubiquity of QR codes as a tool for financial fraud and identity theft. The scheme unfolds when an individual receives a package that's addressed to the

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How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

Topics: fabrication interested learning machine working

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Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 02:00:10

Looking for a smarter way to beat the summer heat without blasting your air conditioner all day? You might want to take a closer look at the houseplants sitting quietly on your windowsill. According to experts, certain indoor plants don't just brighten up a room, they can literally lower the temperature in your home. And yes, science backs it up. Thanks to a natural process called transpiration, some houseplants release moisture into the air, creating a cooling effect that can help your space f

Topics: air houseplants plant plants transpiration

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These Are the Photoshop AI Tools Worth Using: How I Use AI to Edit My Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 03:00:14

You don't need to be a Photoshop expert to give its new generative AI a test drive. Adobe has added a number of AI features to its premiere photo editor over the past few years, and if you use Photoshop regularly, you've probably seen these pop up on your task bars. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, so I had to put the original photo editor's AI to the test. AI might not be right for every project, especially for professional creators who regula

Topics: ai generative image photoshop tools

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Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

wired.com Leila Sloman 2025-12-16 02:00:00

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time. “It’s a beautiful work,” said Gregory Falkovich, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “A tour de force.” Under the Mesoscope Consider a gas whose particles are very spread out. There are many ways a physicist might model it. At a microscopic level, the gas is composed of individual

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Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 02:59:41

Fermat's Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. Until September 2029 it is being funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the EPSRC. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstandard research. General

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I'm Rethinking Amusement Park Rides for Good After Watching Netflix's 'Critical' Docuseries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 21:00:08

Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 21, the new original docuseries Critical: Between Life and Death made a big impression on viewers, ranking No. 7 in the platform's most-watched shows. While medical shows -- including series like The Pitt, Pulse and ER -- have always been popular, Critical is an unscripted documentary that depicts real-life emergencies as they're happening. What makes it so captivating is the int

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Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-16 02:24:00

What just happened? Numerous organizations have repeatedly warned ChatGPT users over the years never to share personal information with OpenAI's chatbot. A recent incident involving a now-removed feature reveals that potentially thousands of people disclosed deeply intimate information with ChatGPT and also inadvertently made it discoverable through Google search. OpenAI recently confirmed that it has deactivated an opt-in feature that shared chat histories on the open web. Although the functio

Topics: chatgpt company information openai users

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A US-Only TikTok? What We Know So Far About the Potential Replacement App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 23:17:04

A new version of the TikTok mobile app for people in the US is reportedly being developed by the vertical video social media network's owner ByteDance. It will replace the current version of TikTok being used in the US ahead of a September deadline for the Chinese company to divest ownership, according to a report last month by The Information. The new app, codenamed "M2," could launch on Sept. 5. If you're in the US, you would then be required to switch from the existing app to the new one, th

Topics: app migration new tiktok version

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Ferroelectric Helps Break Transistor Limits

news.ycombinator.com Katherine Bourzac 2025-12-11 09:39:50

Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a physical limit that typically enforces trade-offs between how well a transistor performs in the “on” state versus how well it does in the “off” state. The researchers behind the project say this shows that n

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11 Best Coolers WIRED Tested for Every Budget, Any Situation (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-16 02:04:00

The first thing to consider when buying a cooler is how you're going to use it. If you aren't heading out for days at a time, you probably don't need an expensive high-end cooler. All the coolers we've recommend above are capable of holding things at a safe temperature for a day, provided you keep them in the shade. Similarly, if you're navigating rugged terrain, you might want beefy wheels—and if you're just going to the beach, you might not need them. Hard-sided coolers: These range from the

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The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:59:57

“Any comparison of the Soviet and U.S. Navy must be viewed from the context that we are a maritime power dependent upon being able to maintain sea lanes of communication necessary to conduct military operations overseas and to support our allies. The mission of our navy is a far more difficult one than that of the Soviets of denying us free use of the seas. We have given up any chance of matching the Soviet Navy in number of ships. Therefore the quality of our ships must be superior. It is axiom

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Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:53:13

COFFEEMATIC PC A coffee maker computer by Doug MacDowell artist Sometime during winter 2024, I found myself at a thrift store. I was staring at rows of appliances, wrapped in plastic and clinging to life, trying to answer one question: which of these is the right chassis for a retro gaming computer? Driving home, I took corners carefully, checking that the General Electric (GE) drip coffee maker I’d chosen was safe in the backseat. The coffee maker's given name was Coffeematic. Circa 1980,

Topics: coffee coffeematic computer maker pc

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‘Foundation’ Just Dropped a Huge, Terrifying Twist

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-16 16:45:41

Foundation is currently rolling out a third season stuffed full of dramatic resonance. We’ve always been fans of Demerzel, the ancient android played by the excellent Laura Birn, but season three has really elevated the character—even beyond that big season-two reveal that she’s been moving the chess pieces on behalf of the galaxy-ruling Empire for generations. That was a monumental bit of information. But this week’s episode, “The Stress of Her Regard,” dropped a bombshell that’s even more sta

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Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 00:38:38

The recent rise in unemployment is steeper in occupations where remote work is more widespread. A continued rise could shift bargaining power towards employers who want workers to return to the office. Last week Amazon announced that its workers would need to work in person five days a week starting in January. Since tech has been the sector most open to remote work, and Amazon is such a dominant tech company, Amazon’s announcement prompts the question: could remote work, after jumping during t

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 22:56:40

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Cong

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Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 04:58:51

TraceRoot is an open-source debugging platform that helps engineers fix production issues 10x faster by combining structured traces, logs, and source code context with AI-powered analysis. Contributing | TraceRoot.AI | Community | SDK | Documentation Join us (Discord) in pushing the boundaries of debugging with AI agents. Please 🌟 Star TraceRoot on GitHub and be instantly notified of new releases. TraceRoot Framework Design Principles 🤖 Intelligence The framework enables multi-agent systems

Topics: ai applications framework github traceroot

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Spotify update now lets you turn off the ‘Create’ button – here’s how

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-12-17 21:35:16

Spotify recently introduced a “Create” button along its bottom navigation bar, but it’s really not that helpful. Thankfully, Spotify has fixed this in a new update that lets you turn the “Create” button off. It’s been months since Spotify first rolled out its new “Create” button on the navigation bar, with the button moving from its previous location on the Library tab down to this dedicated position. Tapping the button reveals options to make a new playlist, collaborative playlist, “Blend,” A

Topics: button create device navigation spotify

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Hyrum's Law

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 20:58:06

Hyrum's Law Put succinctly, the observation is this: With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. Over the past couple years of doing low-level infrastructure migrations in one of the most complex software systems on the planet, I’ve made some observations about the differences between an interface and its implementations. We typically think of the interface as an a

Topics: consumers implementation implicit interface law

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 05:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 06:37:44

The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind. Natural gas was next, and there was zero new coal or nuclear, according to the Energy Information Administration. Through 2030, the US energy landscape looks a lot like these last six months in terms of the mix of new power plants, with solar and batteries leading the way, according to the EIA’s list of planned power

Topics: administration energy new power trump

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Joby, L3Harris partner on hybrid defense craft that can be piloted or autonomous

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-18 11:58:37

An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation sits at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City, Nov. 12, 2023. Joby Aviation and defense manufacturing giant L3Harris announced a partnership Friday to develop a next-generation military craft that can be piloted or fly autonomously. The partnership brings together Joby's hybrid vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft and L3's expertise in military systems and certification. The companies expect to begin testing this fall, followed by o

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Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 10:39:09

JavaScript Required This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com.

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Yet, U.S. Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-18 10:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

Topics: ai generative like productivity technology

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How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Hart 2025-12-15 12:01:17

To @AndrewHartAR: “Our app is shit and we know it’s shit”. My life changed forever when a senior exec from one of the world’s largest retailers messaged me on Twitter. This was back in 2017. My outdoor AR navigation demos had just gone viral, and my new open-source project for Apple had elevated me to be the top trending iOS developer on GitHub. Every developer meet-up I went to, everyone now seemed to know who I was. I was on top of the world. I agreed to meet the exec for coffee in London, a

Topics: indoor location navigation user wifi

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Just Yet, a New Paper From the Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-18 22:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

Topics: ai generative like productivity technology

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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-18 21:49:25

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 OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media criticism and represents a striking example of how quickly privacy concerns can derail even well-inten

Topics: ai companies conversations privacy users

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Age Verification Doesn't Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

news.ycombinator.com View Archive 2025-12-18 18:19:54

“Won’t someone think of the poor children?” they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. If you’re totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of “verifying you’re an adult” before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a reasonable thing to do. But it’s a patently stupid idea at every level. Age Verification Makes Th

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