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The King's Quarry: How Louis XVI Went from Hunter to Hunted

news.ycombinator.com George Dillard 2025-10-26 06:52:47

Marie Antoinette on the hunt ( Public domain ) One of the most famous diary entries of all time consists of a single word: rien, which is French for “nothing.” It’s what King Louis XVI recorded on July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed. This entry (or lack thereof) is often cited as evidence of the king’s disinterest in the brewing revolution. The standard narrative about Louis is that he was simply not up to the task of dealing with the forces that threatened his throne. As a second

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Ask HN: What to Learn for Math for Modeling?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 02:57:01

parametric cubic curve boundary representation blending function spline b-spline cubic bezier curve de casteljau algorithm I have been diving into these topics since few days and I have not understood anything. I tried peter shirley's textbook on Computer Graphics. Foley et al, Hearn baker etc... It is clear to me that I lack the mathematics preriquisites for understanding this. Thus, I am deeply asking for resources that I can do to brush up. Me being a computer engineering graduate I h

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RSS is awesome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 18:04:01

☀️ RSS is Awesome NetNewsWire is my latest most-used iPhone app. It is a simple, free RSS reader. RSS is an old technology that it seems most people have forgotten about. Here's how it works: you enter a link to an RSS "feed", and your app pulls data from this feed every few minutes or so. When there is a new post from your feed, that post is pulled directly to your app. RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS fee

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RSS Is Awesome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 23:04:01

☀️ RSS is Awesome NetNewsWire is my latest most-used iPhone app. It is a simple, free RSS reader. RSS is an old technology that it seems most people have forgotten about. Here's how it works: you enter a link to an RSS "feed", and your app pulls data from this feed every few minutes or so. When there is a new post from your feed, that post is pulled directly to your app. RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS fee

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Google's New Pixel Studio Is Weirdly Obsessed With the iPhone

cnet.com Andrew Lanxon 2025-10-28 02:41:00

Pixel Studio launched on the Pixel 9 series last year, but the Pixel 10 Pro allowed me to spend time testing Pixel Studio using a more advanced generative AI model. The result is better quality images, a much deeper understanding of keywords and a wider range of image styles that can be created. But its quality goes deeper, being now able to generate actual text instead of strings of nonsense as well as creating pictures of people -- including photorealistic depictions of known faces like Taylo

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Forget data labeling: Tencent’s R-Zero shows how LLMs can train themselves

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-28 07:07:08

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 A new training framework developed by researchers at Tencent AI Lab and Washington University in St. Louis enables large language models (LLMs) to improve themselves without requiring any human-labeled data. The technique, called R-Zero, uses reinforcement learning to generate its own training data from scratch, addressing one of the main b

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Anthropic Wants to Use Your Chats With Claude for AI Training: Here's How to Opt Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 06:51:00

Anthropic will soon begin using your chat transcripts to train its popular chatbot, Claude. The announcement came on Thursday as an update to the company's Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy. New users will see an option to "Help improve Claude" that can be toggled on or off as part of the sign-up flow, where existing users will begin to see a notification explaining the change. Users have until Sep 28 to opt out of the new change, as it will be enabled by default. You can still turn the option

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-28 07:28:46

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our recent back-to-school digital edition, which was the topic of our subscriber-only livestream on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Hosted by WIRED's features director, Reyhan

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10 Creepy-Cool Items You Can Buy From Guillermo del Toro’s Collection

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-28 11:00:59

Guillermo del Toro isn’t just an Oscar-winning filmmaker—he’s a diehard fan of all things horror, especially monsters. He famously has an entire dwelling, dubbed Bleak House, to contain his wonderfully grim collection of art, artifacts, props, and other covetable items, but even someone with del Toro’s generous resources understands the importance of downsizing from time to time. An upcoming auction will serve to give some of his treasures new homes. In a Heritage Auctions press release (with a

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US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-28 15:09:54

More clean tech manufacturing investments were canceled in the U.S. in the second quarter than were announced, according to a new study from the Rhodium Group and MIT. Companies canceled $5 billion worth of projects, while only $4 billion in new investments was announced. Actual clean tech manufacturing investments, not just announcements, declined by 15%, as well. The pullback comes in the wake of the GOP’s reconciliation bill, which erased key portions of the Inflation Reduction Act, a piece

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These 3 tablet charging habits are slowly killing your device - here's what to do instead

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-28 19:13:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Unplug at 100%, keep battery between 20% and 80%. Avoid draining to 0%; store unused tablets at 50%. Use certified chargers to prevent stress and overheating. As someone who uses a tablet daily, I'm constantly looking for ways to make its battery last longer. However, some habits you don't think twice about could actually be hurting your battery over time. There are ways to extend your tablet's ba

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The Genetic Trick That Helped Humans Ride Horses

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-28 19:00:55

Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a bond that would shape the history of our species. The domestication of horses led to significant advancements in transportation, hunting, and warfare, literally carrying human society into the modern era. Despite how influential horses have been for humans, scientists still have many fundamental questions about their domestication. New research published Thursday, August 28, in the journal Science, offers new insight into the genetic shifts that helped t

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Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:38:07

Check your grammar and refine your writing with local AI. ✦ AI-Powered Corrections Grammit's AI is great at correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. But it also catches other errors. Did you accidentally write "The theory of evolution was developed by Charles Dickens"? No worries, Grammit will correct that to "Charles Darwin". ✦ AI Rephrasing and Drafting You can ask Grammit to help you with your writing tasks. Just ask it to rephrase your writing to make it more professional and it will do th

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This Is How You Log Off

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-10-28 23:47:30

Lauren Goode: I'm so glad we brought you on today. No, I'm genuinely glad, though. Here's my thing, is that I think we've become beta testers. There's this promise right now from the purveyors of technology that agentic AI is going to start doing some of these tasks for us. I won't spend an hour shopping because I'm going to put in a prompt what I need, and then it's going to order it for me. In the meantime, that requires so much babysitting and so much hand holding and so much authentication a

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Star Wars: Starfighter is going to be star-studded

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-28 23:04:05

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Production on Star Wars: Starfighter officially began today, and Lucasfilm has finally confirmed the other actors who will be bringing the film to life alongside Ryan Gosling. Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Starfighters has added Flynn

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GM’s new adapters reflect the increasingly confused reality of EV charging

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-28 23:25:33

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Look, I sympathize. When General Motors said it would adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its electric vehicles back in 2023, we knew this meant adapters. But we never could have imagined how many adapters we would

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Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-28 23:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

news.ycombinator.com Simon Späti 2025-10-29 01:40:58

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think. Similar to what DHH said: It’s also more fun to be competent in something than constantly waiting for an AI to complete. The probability that AI will make us unhappy is very high IMO. Use it, yes, but not for every task. For discovering, creating a historical overview, or creating di

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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 02:14:03

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

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The 48 Best Deals From REI’s 2025 Labor Day Sale

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-29 02:40:23

Isn't it amazing how fast summer goes by? The kids are back in school, and it's time for the annual REI Labor Day Sale. This year’s event kicks off today, August 22, and ends on Labor Day, September 2. Many items are up to 30 percent off, and REI Co-op members save 20 percent on any REI Outlet item. To get the member discount, add the promo code LABORDAY2025 at checkout. We've rounded up the best deals on all our favorite tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, pads, cookware, outdoor apparel, and mor

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Google Maps will finally ask how you want Motion Photos handled (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 07:59:34

TL;DR Motion Photos combine a still picture with a short video clip. Currently when uploading a Motion Photo to Google Maps, it only works as a still pic. The app appears to be working on support for letting users choose to upload Motion Photos as videos. Motion Photos may be one of the coolest camera options available to us that we just don’t pay nearly enough attention to, able to fuse short video clips with our still photos in order to better preserve the whole vibe of a moment. They’re gr

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-29 07:36:00

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a habit of collaborating with Emma Stone specifically on dark comedy dramas with light sci-fi themes, such as 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness. And the trailer for their latest team-up, Bugonia, contains much of the same eclecticism, setting up a paranoia thriller that’s equal parts about environmentalism and extraterrestrials. Bugonia, inspired by Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi film, Save The Green Planet!, follows high-powered CE

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Best Smartwatch for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 02:00:00

Smartwatches have become the de-facto way to measure activity from your wrist and can encourage you to get moving. It's increasingly common for them to offer health features like a blood oxygen sensor. Some may even have an ECG (also known as an electrocardiogram) which can check for signs of a heart condition called atrial fibrillation. Smartwatches reflect your personal style and come in a variety of finishes, from aluminum to titanium, with a seemingly endless variety of watch bands to choos

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As GM prepares to switch its EVs to NACS, it has some new adapters

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 05:10:27

In mid-2023, just as it seemed like the North American auto industry had settled on CCS1 as the default fast-charging plug, everything upended as Ford, then General Motors, then everyone else announced they were adopting the North American Charging Standard. Originally developed by Tesla, NACS has a different plug but uses the same electronic communication protocols as CCS, and adoption of NACS thus makes all those non-Tesla electric vehicles compatible with the extensive Tesla Supercharger net

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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-29 07:00:00

There’s never been a shortage of hot takes about what really makes the United States and China so different: Capitalism versus socialism; democracy as opposed to authoritarianism; Christianity or Confucianism; equity versus efficiency. In his highly anticipated new book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Hoover Institution fellow Dan Wang proposes a fresh lens for looking at the world’s two largest superpowers: the US is a “lawyerly society,” he argues, while China is an “engineer

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MSI’s Katana gaming laptop is $400 off and includes Battlefield 6

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-10-29 07:00:28

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. If you’re considering a gaming laptop, but you understandably don’t want to spend anywhere near $2,000, MSI’s Katana gaming laptop with the midrange RTX 5070 GPU is $1,099 (was $1,499.99) at Walmart. This machine has a lot to offer aside from a solid graphics chip for gaming. It includes a 15.6-inch QHD screen with a 165Hz refresh rate,

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My favorite bone conduction headphones just got 3 major upgrades - and they've spoiled me

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-29 11:43:00

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

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My Apple Watch still beats Oura Ring - except for one killer feature I wish Apple would steal

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-29 11:52:00

Apple Watch Ultra and Oura Ring Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've been wearing an Apple Watch every day for the past decade and I've been using it to track my sleep every night since 2019. Over the past few years, I've known more and more friends, family, and colleagues opting for smart rings instead of smart watches to track their health. I've also personally tested the Oura Ring, the Samsung Galaxy Ring, and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. But eventually,

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Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-29 15:00:24

Among AI’s great promises in relation to medicine is its potential to use existing patient data—including MRIs—to identify and diagnose potential problems. Doing so has many potential benefits, including lower costs and fewer invasive patient procedures. Among the researchers making good on this promising AI potential is Mohamed Shehata. Shehata is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville. He’s won numerous awards for his work using machine lear

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Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-29 14:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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