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Build Your Own Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 17:55:20

Build Your Own Lisp Learn C and build your own programming language in 1000 lines of code! If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you. In just a few lines of code, I'll teach you how to use C, and together, we'll start building your very own language. Along the way we'll learn about the weird and wonderful nature of Lisps, how to develop a real-world project, concisely solve problems, and write beautiful code! T

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The Future Beyond Meta Quest and Vision Pro Is Coming in Glasses Form. What Will VR Look Like Then?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 18:00:00

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently declared that the gadget of the future is AI-infused glasses. Zuckerberg and Meta have been interested in these types of peripherals for years, but the focus has clearly been shifting lately from VR on our faces to glasses on our faces. Meta's not alone here. Apple sees a future in AR. Google does too. So does Samsung. The list of players goes on and on. As VR has shifted to mixed reality, and smart glasses promise augmented reality features to come, and AI evo

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This Galaxy Z Fold 7 model offers a much longer warranty

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 05:43:47

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has launched the Galaxy Z Fold 7 Enterprise Edition in Europe. The phone comes with a three-year manufacturer’s warranty instead of the standard two-year warranty. The device is otherwise identical to the standard Galaxy Z Fold 7. Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 7 last month, and it offers a more durable folding screen than previous models. What if you want peace of mind regarding any issues, though? Well, the company offers Samsung Care Plus,

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Uzbekistan’s first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-14 06:00:00

At a time when the world feels increasingly divided between East and West, Uzbekistan has emerged as a rare middle ground, as the Central Asian nation’s homegrown unicorn, Uzum, has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China’s Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital. The all-equity round brings the Tashkent-headquartered startup’s post-money valuation to approximately $1.5 billion — a nearly 30% jump from the $1

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David Pogue announces ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ book, available for pre-order now

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-14 09:10:24

David Pogue’s been covering technology (and Apple) for longer than many 9to5Mac readers have been alive. And to celebrate Apple’s upcoming 50th anniversary next April, the “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent is releasing a book where he promises stories, photos, and “fresh interviews” that will help tell the story of how 1976 Apple became today’s Apple. Out March 17, 2026 Announced this weekend by the journalist himself, “Apple: The First 50 Years” promises to offer new insight into the story m

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IGN hit by layoffs as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-14 14:32:41

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ziff Davis-owned IGN Entertainment has laid off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. Those cuts represent 12 percent of the bargaining unit. The layoffs are the latest shift in the turbulent gaming media landscape. Earlier this year, Verge parent company Vox Media sold

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Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 17:24:00

The Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speed ups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also haven't gone unnoticed by science. Aug. 5 is the next date when the Earth's rotation is expected to speed up, shortening the day by between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds. According to TimeandDate, the current prediction is set by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and t

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Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-14 23:30:54

Palantir topped Wall Street's estimates Monday, surpassing $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and hiking its full-year guidance. Shares rallied more than 5%. Here's how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 16 cents adj. vs. 14 cents expected 16 cents adj. vs. 14 cents expected Revenue: $1.00 billion vs. $940 million expected The artificial intelligence software provider's revenues grew 48% during the period. Analysts hadn't expected the $1 billion reve

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Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-14 23:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple sought to enter the AI space after a somewhat late entry. However, several delays of its most sought-after feature, including Siri 2.0, have made it difficult to keep up with more established competitors. A new report d

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Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable

news.ycombinator.com Simar Bajaj 2025-12-14 23:23:20

When James Hicks, 75, was diagnosed with heart failure, it felt like the beginning of the end. Mr. Hicks, a former railroad worker from Rogers, Ark., had quietly dealt with various health problems, from carpal tunnel syndrome in both arms to dual knee replacements. But now his heart was giving out, and the doctors chalked it up to the wear and tear of old age. “There’s just not exactly a surgery to fix this,” he said. Soon enough, Mr. Hicks couldn’t walk from his grandson’s high school basketb

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The Best Open Earbuds You Can Buy Aren’t Actually Earbuds at All

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-14 23:02:00

Back in my day, the name of the game when it came to wireless audio was noise cancellation. That’s to say, how much noise can your wireless earbuds possibly block? And sure, active noise-cancellation (ANC) wireless earbuds are probably never going to fall out of vogue entirely, but in recent years, audio companies have recognized that it is, in fact, nice to sometimes be aware of your surroundings. Thus, a market for open earbuds was created. If you’re not familiar with “open earbuds,” as they’

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Apple Reportedly Working on a ChatGPT-Like Search Experience

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 22:03:00

Apple is internally working on a "ChatGPT-like search experience" to instantly generate answers for users, according to a report from Bloomberg on Sunday. The Answers, Knowledge and Information team, or AKI, is a team within Apple looking to make internal AI products for its devices. The company is reportedly building an "answer engine" -- an AI-powered service that pulls from information online to answer general queries. It's also possible that a separate app might be developed. This AI search

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Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 02:39:59

Every week for the last 3 months I’ve learned a new trick when it comes to getting whatever LLM I’m using at the time to produce better output. That’s my trade, but lots of HNers have more interesting trades than that. In my case, only recently I learned the value of getting an LLM to write and refine a plan.md architecture doc first, and for it to break that doc down into testable phases, and then to implement phase by phase. Seems obvious in hindsight. But it took too long to learn that that

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 04:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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Samsung’s next budget earbuds might beat the Pro model in one key area

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:42:17

We’ve already seen what the Galaxy Buds 3 FE could look like , and now we have a good idea of how long they might last. A new certification listing has revealed battery specs for both the earbuds and their case, and they’re surprisingly generous for a Fan Edition model. According to the listing on the SGS Fimko certification platform spotted by SammyGuru , the total battery capacity for the earbuds is listed at 200mAh — equating to 100mAh per bud — while the charging case is rated at 900mAh. Th

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Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:01:33

Benefits include a 10-percent wage increase over two years and the elimination of crunch time. Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft . This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the company voted to unionize . Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-per

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Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-12-15 18:11:36

If you own Microsoft stock, you’ve got to be happy. Microsoft’s latest financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 were robust: Revenue reached $76.4 billion (up 18% year-over-year), with net income at $27.2 billion (up 24%). The primary driver was robust growth in Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses. Azure’s revenue, which has finally been separated out in the financial reporting, now stands at $75 billion in annual revenue, representing a 34% surge for the year. Put it all togethe

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Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-12-15 23:43:29

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber. For centuries, the potato has been instrumental in feeding the world’s growing population. According to one study, the introduction of the potato from the Americas accounted for about a quarter of the population growth in the Old World between 1700 and 1900. Now, science reveals the vegetable’s surprising origins: It emerged 9 million years ago as a result

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 03:45:58

Vaccination rates among the country's kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in the 2023–2024 school year to 92.5 percent in 2024–2025. The percentage changes are small across the board, but they represent thousands of children and an ongoing downward trend that makes the country more vulnerable to outbreaks. In the latest school year, an estimated 286,000 young children were not fully protected agains

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Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-16 14:20:48

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed plans for paid subreddits earlier this year but now says that the initiative has been de–prioritized. However, he says that the company still believes in the opportunity, suggesting that a Reddit paywall of some kind will be introduced at some stage … Paid subreddits plan Huffman first hinted at the plan last year, but didn’t go into any details. We will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive con

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Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-16 14:30:59

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Spotify is increasing prices in several regions outside of the US, just days after posting disappointing earnings. Spotify announced on Monday that Premium subscribers across Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific wi

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How to make almost anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 08:28:29

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

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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

news.ycombinator.com Bret Devereaux 2025-12-14 22:39:42

This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at death, examining the brutal mortality regime of pre-modern societies, typified by extremely high (c. 50%) infant and child mortality, very high maternal mortality and often high male military mortality, which kept life ex

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‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Star Lucy Finally Comes to ‘Guilty Gear Strive’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-16 18:45:21

Fans of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime have been looking forward to seeing Lucy cut it up in Guilty Gear Strive as a DLC character for a while now. During this weekend’s EVO tournament, Arc System Works finally pulled back the curtain on how everyone’s favorite living Edgerunner fits into its fighting game. Lucy’s appearance here looks to be justified through her mind being hacked and transferred to the Guilty Gear universe. Still dealing with the events of Edgerunners that left her old crew

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Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-16 20:49:00

In Brief Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information — is working to build an “answer engine” that can respond to questions using information from across the web. This could be a standalone app or provide search capabilities in Siri, Safari, and other Apple products. Gurman also notes that Apple is advertising for jobs with this team, specifically looking for appli

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Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 12:45:30

Once upon a time, in their startling report titled "Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains," ACLU analysts Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown "surveillance society," where advanced technology and crumbling regulation come together to create the kind of world that was previously the domain of dystopian science fiction. "The fact is, there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell," they wrote. That was in

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Apple now looking to rival ChatGPT with a new in-house ‘Answers’ team: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-16 15:20:06

According to the latest edition of Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, Apple has a new plan up its sleeve to rival the competition in the AI search space. This is a major pivot from Apple’s previous stance, where the company said it didn’t want to develop a chatbot. Apple Intelligence has been off to a rocky start, to say the least. The abilities that have shipped, such as Genmoji and Notification Summaries, haven’t exactly been stellar. Apple has still failed to ship its all-new Siri, and has s

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How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 14:28:29

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

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Impossibly Intricate Tattoos Found on 2,000-Year-Old ‘Ice Mummy’

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-16 15:00:35

For the first time, archeologists have gotten a detailed look at the intricate tattoos on a 2,000-year-old ice mummy, found buried deep within the permafrost-covered mountains of Siberia. These tattoos would be challenging to produce even today, the researchers say, suggesting that ancient tattoo artists possessed a considerable degree of skill. With help from modern tattoo artists, an international team of researchers examined the mummy’s tattoos in unprecedented detail and identified the too

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Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-16 18:00:27

Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon all reported quarterly earnings this week, and there was a common thread tying them together: a boom in AI spending and plans to increase it even more, beyond analyst expectations. Although capital expenditures above expectations often don’t tend to make investors particularly happy, it had pretty much the opposite effect this week, especially for Meta and Microsoft, both of which saw a pop in their stock following the releases. And for Microsoft, which poste

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Build Your Own Lisp

The Future Beyond Meta Quest and Vision Pro Is Coming in Glasses Form. What Will VR Look Like Then?

This Galaxy Z Fold 7 model offers a much longer warranty

Uzbekistan’s first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation

David Pogue announces ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ book, available for pre-order now

IGN hit by layoffs as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance

Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable

The Best Open Earbuds You Can Buy Aren’t Actually Earbuds at All

Apple Reportedly Working on a ChatGPT-Like Search Experience

Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

Samsung’s next budget earbuds might beat the Pro model in one key area

Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers

Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato

Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US

How to make almost anything (2019)

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Star Lucy Finally Comes to ‘Guilty Gear Strive’

Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

Apple now looking to rival ChatGPT with a new in-house ‘Answers’ team: report

How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

Impossibly Intricate Tattoos Found on 2,000-Year-Old ‘Ice Mummy’

Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

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