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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory shares first images from planned decade-long survey of the sky

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-07 05:25:57

The National Science Foundation just shared the first images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a sample of the footage it'll capture as part of a planned decade-long survey that's starting later in 2025. The project, dubbed the "Legacy Survey of Time and Space" is predicted to lead to the discovery of "millions of new asteroids within the first two years" the survey is running. In just a 10 hour period, the National Science Foundation says that the Rubin Observatory "discovered 2,104 n

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Which Death Stranding 2 Edition Should You Buy?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 05:05:00

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will launch on June 26 exclusively for the PlayStation 5, but those who buy a special edition of the game will be able to access it early. The question is, with three special editions available, which version should you get? Death Stranding 2 is the sequel to legendary developer Hideo Kojima's 2019 game, and it improves on every aspect of the original, making it a game that anyone who is remotely interested in it should play. The edition you should purchase will

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Show HN: Pickaxe – a TypeScript library for building AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 07:07:51

Pickaxe: A Typescript library for building AI agents that scale Pickaxe is a simple Typescript library for building AI agents that are fault-tolerant and scalable. It handles the complexities of durable execution, queueing and scheduling, allowing you to focus on writing core business logic. It is not a framework. Everything in Pickaxe is just a function that you have written, which makes it easy to integrate with your existing codebase and business logic. You can build agents that call tools,

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Minimal Boolean Formulas

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2025-09-04 09:53:25

Minimal Boolean Formulas Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. 28. That's the minimum number of AND or OR operators you need in order to write any Boolean function of five variables. Alex Healy and I computed that in April 2010. Until then, I believe no one had ever known that little fact. This post describes how we computed it and how we almost got scooped by Knuth's Volume 4A which considers the problem for AND, OR, and XOR. A Naive Brute Force Approach Any Boolean function of two variables ca

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A Chinese firm has just launched a constantly changing set of AI benchmarks

technologyreview.com Caiwei Chen 2025-09-07 16:46:28

Development of the benchmark at HongShan began in 2022, following ChatGPT’s breakout success, as an internal tool for assessing which models are worth investing in. Since then, led by partner Gong Yuan, the team has steadily expanded the system, bringing in outside researchers and professionals to help refine it. As the project grew more sophisticated, they decided to release it to the public. Xbench approached the problem with two different systems. One is similar to traditional benchmarking:

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Good News: Two of Apple TV+’s Most Slept-On Sci-Fi Shows Have Hopeful Plans for More

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-07 17:15:27

If you’re a sci-fi fan, you really must check out Apple TV+—streaming home of so many of the best genre shows right now. Two standouts happen to have the same executive producer among their credits: David S. Goyer, who’s part of team Murderbot as well as team Foundation. Murderbot‘s first season wraps up July 11, the same day Foundation returns for its third season. Neither show has been renewed beyond that, but to hear Goyer tell it, the future is looking bright. “I don’t want to give away too

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AirTag’s newest feature is now supported by JetBlue, here’s what that means

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-07 21:50:23

AirTags have long been a go-to device for tracking luggage when traveling. But a recently added feature made that experience better than ever, and now JetBlue supports the change. JetBlue now offers process for sharing AirTag location when luggage gets lost Just before the end of last year, Apple shipped a major new feature for AirTag. iOS 18.2 introduced a capability called ‘Share Item Location.’ Essentially the new feature offers a way to temporarily share tracking information for a lost A

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Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 01:44:18

Welcome to the ROCKNIX Wiki ¶ Just Enough Linux Operating System (ROCKNIX) is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices focused on retro gaming emulation. It is developed by a small community of enthusiasts and our goal is to produce an operating system that has the features and capabilities we need and to have fun as we develop it. Integrated cross-device local and remote network play. In-game touch support on supported devices. Fine grain control for battery life or perfo

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Apple keeps pulling its own ads

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-08 01:13:28

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. Apple has taken down a new ad just one day after posting it, making it the fourth one removed in just over a year, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The nearly eight-minute-long ad, titled “The Parent Presentation,” featured comedian Martin Herlihy giving students advice on how to convince their parents to buy them a Mac. Apple posted the ad on Frid

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Scaling integrated digital health

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-09-08 05:19:03

Through a survey of 300 health care executives and a program of interviews with industry experts, startup leaders, and academic researchers, this report explores the best practices for success when implementing integrated digital solutions into health care, and how these can support decision-makers in a range of settings, including laboratories and hospitals. Key findings include: Health care is primed for digital adoption. The global pandemic underscored the benefits of value-based care a

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DJI Osmo Action 4 in 4K/120fps Costs Peanuts, Amazon Clears Stock at Record Low for Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-08 05:25:28

Amazon has already begun selling pre-Prime Day discounts, and this year’s early sale is available to all, even non-Prime members. That’s correct, you can score top-of-the-line technology for major discounts without the need for a subscription. If you’re in the market for an action cam to capture all your summer activities with pro-level quality, the DJI Osmo Action 4 is an excellent choice. Right now, the DJI Osmo Action 4 is available on Amazon for $249, down from its usual list price of $299.

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Bandwidth vs. Latency: We Chatted With an Internet Connectivity Expert to Understand the Difference

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 08:45:00

Having fast, reliable home internet is essential these days for work, school, streaming and browsing. But understanding how much speed you need, or even what "internet speed" even means, can be a daunting task. Bandwidth and latency are two key factors that affect how we perceive the speed of our internet connection. But while you may hear them used together quite often, these two terms have distinct meanings. Understanding what they are and the difference between them can help you troubleshoot

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Hawaii Highways

news.ycombinator.com Oscar Voss 2025-09-08 05:55:58

Aloha! Click the dark green buttons on the left for lists of the Interstate, state, and some county highways on the Big Island (Hawaii island), Maui, Lanai and Molokai, Kauai, and Oahu. Go to those lists for detailed information on specific routes, including route numbers, names, termini, mileages, and sometimes historical or other information and/or links to photos and other material elsewhere on this site. Also on the left is a button for detailed guides to Oahu Freeways exits and interchange

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Verlet Integration and Cloth Physics Simulation (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 06:39:26

Physics simulation in games (or simply game physics) is a vast topic, and in this post we'll cover only a tiny part of it; yet certainly an interesting one! Let's understand what Verlet integration is by implementing a simple 2D cloth simulation with C++. Physics in games is always fun, isn't it? Have you ever ditched the main quest of a level just to blow something up? I know I have. But even more fun than watching objects bounce around the screen is to understand how we can use simple concep

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2025-09-05 15:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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2025 Alonzo Church Award: Paul Blain Levy for Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 19:51:19

The 2025 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is presented to Paul Blain Levy for his fundamental study of effectful λ-calculi through the Call-by-Push-Value calculus. The awardee book and paper are: Paul Blain Levy. Call-By-Push-Value: A Functional/Imperative Synthesis. Semantics Structures in Computation 2, Springer 2004, ISBN 1-4020-1730-8 Paul Blain Levy. Call-by-Push-Value: Decomposing call-by-value and call-by-name. High.-Order Symb. Comput. 19(4): 3

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Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 12:42:34

🎮Game 🧩Puzzle 🤖Algorithm 🎲PCG 💻Game Dev Background Logic Islands, released by sublevelgames on June 20, 2025, is a game where players place islands and walls according to predefined rule sets. The game features 6 different rule sets, and WFC was used to create stages for 3 of these rules. Today, I’d like to share the story behind this implementation. WFC WFC (Wave Function Collapse) is a type of PCG (Procedural Contents Generation) algorithm that analyzes the connectivity patterns of source

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigation Boosts GPU Compute Performance 20%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 19:01:20

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance.I haven't looked at the Intel graphics security mitigation cost

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From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

venturebeat.com Rukmini Reddy 2025-09-08 13:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While many organizations are eager to explore how AI can transform their business, its success will hinge not on tools, but on how well people embrace them. This shift requires a different kind of leadership rooted in empathy, curiosity and intentionality. Technology leaders must guide their organizations with clarity and care. People use

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How to negotiate your salary package

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-09-04 15:16:53

The complete guide to salary negotiation for engineers and other professionals who think negotiating is morally questionable. Until I ran VaccinateCA my single most important career contribution might have been writing about salary negotiation. That essay has been read by millions of people. Of those people, a relatively small percentage send me email to tell me that the advice has worked for them. I previously kept a spreadsheet of the impact they shared with me, and it ticked over into eight

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The cultural decline of literary fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2025-09-08 09:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 13:26:08

Beating Brainrot by Button The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate with friends, family, loved ones, associates, acquaintances, people from my sports club, superpositions of all previous groups and enemies alike. And I think my com

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 23, #743

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 13:00:03

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 has some entertaining categories, including two from the world of books. 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 play to receive a numeric score and

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 23, #273

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 13:00:06

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 might be tough. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports jo

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Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-08 13:58:02

Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin, a decade after CEO Elon Musk began making — and breaking — myriad promises about his company’s ability to launch such a service. The rollout will become the first big test of Musk’s belief that it’s possible to safely deploy fully autonomous vehicles using just cameras and end-to-end AI – an approach that differs from other players in the space like Waymo. On Sunday, numerous videos shared on social media as well as sources i

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The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2025-09-08 14:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-08 13:30:23

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority As an avid traveler, Google Maps Timeline has long been one of my favorite hidden features. I’m used to opening it on slow Sunday afternoons and wandering through my own travel history. It showed alleyways I had forgotten, long layovers that blurred together while stepping out for a quick brunch across a new city, and impulsive last-minute rail journeys across Eastern Europe that never made it into photos. It’s always felt like a private travel diary logging ev

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16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-08 11:30:01

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 10:17:51

WHAT This program is called: "A tool for exploring sound as pure form." or "sound as pure form" or "sapf" It is an interpreter for a language for creating and transforming sound. The language is mostly functional, stack based and uses postfix notation similar to FORTH. It represents audio and control events using lazy, possibly infinite sequences. It intends to do for lazy sequences what APL does for arrays: provide very high level functions with pervasive automatic mapping, scanning, and reduct

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 22, #272

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 10:36:56

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. I about fell over when I saw today's Connections: Sports Edition. The clues are all just letters and a few numbers, not full words. And they're all basketball-related categories, marking Game 7 of the NBA playoffs. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta

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Verlet Integration and Cloth Physics Simulation (2022)

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Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale

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