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Meta builds wristband that can control devices with a flick of the wrist

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 23:06:00

Forward-looking: A new chapter in human-computer interaction is unfolding at Meta, where researchers are exploring how the muscles in our arms could soon take the place of traditional keyboards, mice, and touchscreens. At their Reality Labs division, scientists have developed an experimental wristband that reads the electrical signals produced when a person intends to move their fingers. This allows users to control digital devices using only subtle hand and wrist gestures. This technology draw

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Software engineer on the real state of AI agents (they're not there yet)

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-26 03:19:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: Amid growing hype around AI agents, one experienced engineer has brought a grounded perspective shaped by work on more than a dozen production-level systems spanning development, DevOps, and data operations. From his vantage point, the notion that 2025 will bring truly autonomous workforce-transforming agents looks increasingly unrealistic. In a recent blog post, systems engineer Utka

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Steam beta update rolls out redesigned store, makes game discovery easier

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-28 09:34:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In context: Steam is known for its periodic overhauls, which aim to enhance how users interact with its vast catalog of games. The latest update, introduced in the Steam client beta, marks another step in this ongoing process, featuring a redesigned store menu and several new features intended to improve navigation and personalization on the platform. One of the most noticeable changes is the mergi

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Fourble turns lists of MP3 files hosted anywhere into podcasts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 23:58:35

Browse by category This functionality is currently under construction, but you can now also (to some extent) browse the archives by category.

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ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 00:01:01

ZUSE IRC Terminal Client ZUSE is a sleek, minimal IRC client for your terminal. Built with Go and powered by the elegant Bubble Tea framework. Chat faster, cleaner, and without distractions right from your terminal. Installation go install github.com/babycommando/zuse@latest Build from Source Get and build: git clone https://github.com/yourusername/zuse.git cd zuse go mod tidy go build -o zuse # or zuse.exe on Windows Add the compiled file to your system PATH Usage Open a fresh terminal

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Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:46:44

Something felt off. Article continues after advertisement Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex technical paper on an unfamiliar topic, produced by well-respected researchers at the world-renowned Argonne National Laboratory. Sitting at his cluttered desk in the Environmental Defense Fund’s sixth-floor offices in Washington, D.C., overlooking the famous ba

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National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 02:31:39

Many reports by pilots and aviation professionals of observations and incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, include aviation safety factors. NARCAP documents and researches these reports and advocates for education and further research by the aviation and science community. All photographs provided by Ted Roe or NARCAP.org and are Copyrighted, all rights reserved

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's a Look Under the Hood

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 22:00:05

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

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This Dinosaur Probably Chirped Like a Bird

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-30 03:00:59

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper published last week in the journal PeerJ, an international team of researchers describes a 163-million-year-old fossil found in northeastern China’s Hebei Province. The fossil dinosaur, which they’ve dubbed Pulaosaurus qinglong, measures just 28 inches (72 centimeters) and is largely complete, givin

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16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 08:12:35

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are example

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Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Eli Dourado 2025-12-29 20:03:26

Aviation is a poster child for economic stagnation. Yes, airline travel has gotten cheaper and safer—great. But every other aspect of aviation has struggled or even regressed. As I’ve noted many times, we had supersonic travel across the Atlantic from 1976 to 2003. Today, not even the world’s richest travelers can fly that fast. Another part of aviation that has suffered over the last half-century is general aviation, particularly its low-end segment, personal aviation, in which people fly them

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Allianz Life confirms data breach impacts majority of 1.4 million customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 20:00:55

Insurance company Allianz Life has confirmed that the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was exposed in a data breach that occurred earlier this month. "On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life)," an Allianz Life spokesperson told BleepingComputer. "The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majorit

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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2025-12-25 23:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

wired.com Tik Root 2025-12-29 17:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The country watched in horror as torrential rain drenched Texas earlier this month, sweeping at least 135 people to their death. Kerr County alone lost 107, including more than two dozen children at Camp Mystic. From afar, it would be easy, even tempting, to think that floods like these could never happen to you. That the disaster is remote. It’s not. As details of the tragedy have come into focus, the lis

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The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2025-12-26 05:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 22:00:52

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much of that is frozen in the form of glaciers. That leaves just 0.3 percent of that freshwater on the surface in lakes, swamps, springs, and our main sources of drinking water, rivers and streams. Despite our planet’s famously blue appearance from space, thirsty aliens would be disappointed. Drinkable water is actually pretty scarce. As

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Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:06:06

Google in 1999: Search Engines Escape the Portal Matrix Like Morpheus in The Matrix, Google gave web users a stark choice in 1999: take the red pill and experience a new world of search quality, or choose the blue pill and stick with the bloated world of portal search. Google founders, 1999; photo by William Mercer McLeod. "Aren’t you rather late to the game?" It's January 1999 and that question was put to Google's young founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The interviewer was Karsten Lemm

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Developing our position on AI

news.ycombinator.com Nick Bergson-Shilcock 2025-12-28 12:34:26

If you’re not familiar with us, RC is a 6 or 12 week retreat for programmers, with an integrated recruiting agency. Ours is a special kind of learning environment, where programmers of all stripes grow by following their curiosity and building things that are exciting and important to them. There are no teachers or curricula. We make money by RC is a 6 or 12 week retreat for programmers, with an integrated recruiting agency. Ours is a special kind of learning environment, where programmers of al

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Programming vehicles in games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 16:41:03

wassimulator; I make stuff Programming Vehicles in Games The fundamental principles needed to get a functional vehicle in your game. From my talk at the Better Software Conference on July the 13th, 2025. est. reading time: 45 minutes Watch the video of the talk here: Table of Contents Cars are everywhere in games. They're a staple element of many genres, even in games that aren't strictly about cars. If a game world involves any sort of traversal, chances are there's a vehicle in it (unless y

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Internet Archive is now a federal depository library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 18:56:04

While documents stored on microfiche or microfilm are easy to copy, they aren’t easy to access. The GPO has been moving toward digital preservation since 2016 and runs an online database of government records, and in recent years, it has ramped up efforts to digitize the Federal Depository Library Program. Participating libraries have largely pivoted to the GPO’s digital approach, but digitizing countless physical documents is a massive undertaking — one that the Internet Archive has experience

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Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 06:56:04

While documents stored on microfiche or microfilm are easy to copy, they aren’t easy to access. The GPO has been moving toward digital preservation since 2016 and runs an online database of government records, and in recent years, it has ramped up efforts to digitize the Federal Depository Library Program. Participating libraries have largely pivoted to the GPO’s digital approach, but digitizing countless physical documents is a massive undertaking — one that the Internet Archive has experience

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Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

news.ycombinator.com Udesky 2025-12-28 18:16:26

Credit: Getty Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature, according to a survey. The findings suggest that there is a need for increased awareness of how and why to share such data, as well as for changes in how research productivity is assessed. The survey drew responses from 11,069 researchers in 166 countries and all major scientific disciplines. It found that 98% recognize the value of null results, which the su

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Can Vibration Plates Help You Lose Weight? We Asked Experts to Find Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 10:49:26

If you have any type of social media, you've likely seen someone trying to sell you a vibration plate claiming that they've lost weight by just standing on a small platform that vibrates. Similar to the mid-20th-century vibrating belt machines, vibration plates have been said to provide the body with various benefits and can even be a tool for weight loss. But is the hype backed by science and expert opinions, or is it all social media hearsay? To find out if you should add a vibration plate to

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The electric Stark Varg EX is brutally fast but a little too unrefined

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 12:00:05

Stark Future provided flights from Albany, New York, to Barcelona, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could ride the Varg EX. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The sport of off-roading suffers from a fundamental discordance: The desire to get out into nature and the irreparable harm inherent in the process of off-roading. That harm comes not only from damage to the land itself, but from an environment polluted with both fumes and noise. Off-roading in an EV isn't exactly a panacea, but

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Google's new Search mode puts classic results back on top - how to access it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-31 17:16:21

Google Google's new AI-powered feature aims to help organize your search results. Web Guide organizes links into helpful categories that break down a complex topic, the company said in a blog post, Thursday. It's intended for both open-ended searches like "how to solo travel in Japan" or detailed queries in multiple sentences like, "My family is spread across multiple time zones. What are the best tools for staying connected and maintaining close relationships despite the distance?" How Web G

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Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-31 22:49:42

traffic_analyzer / Getty Images As expected, President Donald Trump's administration recently unveiled Winning the Race: AI Action Plan went all in on liberating AI companies to do what they want to make sure "that the United States and its allies win the [AI] race." Also: Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways What about safety and responsibility? Not so much. The contradiction... The AI Action Plan states it is "a national security i

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Programming Vehicles in Games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 22:41:03

wassimulator; I make stuff Programming Vehicles in Games The fundamental principles needed to get a functional vehicle in your game. From my talk at the Better Software Conference on July the 13th, 2025. est. reading time: 45 minutes Watch the video of the talk here: Table of Contents Cars are everywhere in games. They're a staple element of many genres, even in games that aren't strictly about cars. If a game world involves any sort of traversal, chances are there's a vehicle in it (unless y

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The next version of RCS messaging is going to be less of a pain

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 08:00:14

RCS has been around for over a decade, but the messaging standard gained a major boost when Apple adopted it in 2023. The GSMA has brought several features and improvements to RCS in recent years, and it’s just announced another upgrade. The GSMA just announced the release of RCS Universal Profile 3.1, which brings better audio messaging capabilities. This RCS release specifically supports the xHE-AAC audio codec, enabling higher-quality voice notes and other audio clips. It’s worth noting tha

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Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 08:30:36

The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. "The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications a

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Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 08:41:43

Welcome to Edition 8.04 of the Rocket Report! The Pentagon's Golden Dome missile defense shield will be a lot of things. Along with new sensors, command and control systems, and satellites, Golden Dome will require a lot of rockets. The pieces of the Golden Dome architecture operating in orbit will ride to space on commercial launch vehicles. And Golden Dome's space-based interceptors will essentially be designed as flying fuel tanks with rocket engines. This shouldn't be overlooked, and that's

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Meta builds wristband that can control devices with a flick of the wrist

Software engineer on the real state of AI agents (they're not there yet)

Steam beta update rolls out redesigned store, makes game discovery easier

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Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's a Look Under the Hood

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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix

Developing our position on AI

Programming vehicles in games

Internet Archive is now a federal depository library

Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

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The electric Stark Varg EX is brutally fast but a little too unrefined

Google's new Search mode puts classic results back on top - how to access it

Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

Programming Vehicles in Games

The next version of RCS messaging is going to be less of a pain

Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

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