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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

news.ycombinator.com Patrick George 2025-10-13 13:20:06

Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package. Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn’t so bor

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Amazon Music’s new AI feature generates personalized playlists every Monday

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-13 13:00:00

Ever since Spotify launched an AI DJ, Amazon Music has been developing its own AI-powered features, including AI-generated playlists and AI-assisted search, to compete more effectively with the music giant. Now, Amazon Music is launching a new feature called “Weekly Vibe,” designed to further personalize the listening experience. The feature is rolling out today to U.S. customers across all subscription tiers within the app on both iOS and Android. Recognizing a common challenge faced by avid

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SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar’s spectrum for Starlink’s direct-to-phone service

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-13 13:26:57

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar, for use in the Starlink satellite network. EchoStar will sell its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in exchange for $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion SpaceX stock. SpaceX said the deal would let it develop and deploy its “Direct to Cell” constellation, which it claims can provide broadband-speed internet access to mobile phones across the world. Of the cash, $2

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Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:23:59

Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations This system automatically visualizes a story (chronological events, character and their actions and movements) and allows users to edit the story by manipulating these visual representations. For example: Hover over the timeline allows reviewing the chronology of events and visualizing the movements of the characters Connecting two characters suggests edits to the text to reflect the new interaction Moving a character sugge

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How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-10-14 01:45:00

Looking ahead, an academic at a public university in Texas, where the money granted for indirect costs funds student salaries, said he plans to hire fewer students for his own lab. “It’s very sad that I cannot promise [positions] at this point because of this,” he told us, adding that the cap could also affect the competitiveness of public universities in Texas, since schools elsewhere may fund their student researchers differently. At the same time, two people with funding through the Defense

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Google hasn’t even announced these new Nest devices, but they’re already on store shelves

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:21:10

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s upcoming Nest Cam and Doorbell are already appearing in retail stores. A user spotted them at Home Depot along with their prices. Google is expected to showcase new smart home devices on October 1 alongside Gemini for Google Home. Google is set to officially showcase advancements in Gemini for smart speakers and display on October 1. In addition to the new smart speaker that Google teased at the Pixel 10 launch event, we also expected to see n

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E Ink posters might just save my poor, bare walls from crippling indecision

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 02:40:25

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority There’s nothing on my walls. As a renter, part of that is practical, as anything I put up there is likely to leave its indelible mark despite my best efforts to the contrary — and ding my security deposit accordingly — but a hugely contributing factor is also my indecision. If I’m not absolutely in love with what I’m hanging up, why expose myself to that headache? But I’m also not a monster who actually wants to live in a featureless void, and do look to sma

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Your Android phone just got a major Bluetooth upgrade for free - how it works

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-14 01:00:17

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Auracast support rolls out to more smartphones and headphones. You can share your phone's audio with one or many friends. Your phone and headphones must support Auracast to access the feature. If you've been waiting for technology to evolve so you can easily share audio from one device to two headphones with fewer device ecosystem barriers, the day has come. Google's new update to Android expand

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How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan 'Thejpster' Pallant 2025-10-11 09:19:54

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs? Posted on 2025-08-20 Contents Background I was browsing /r/vintagecomputing, as you do, and I came across this post: Hi all. Back in the day I was a developer working exclusively on Solaris. About 25 years ago, for one reason and another I came into possession of about 30 assorted SPARC based workstations and a few other bits and bobs, network/SCSI cards, keyboards, mice, etc. I think there's also one UltraSPARC in there too. This stuff was well past its

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Look Out for Bugs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 05:59:45

Look Out For Bugs One of my biggest mid-career shifts in how I write code was internalizing the idea from this post: Don’t Write Bugs Historically, I approached coding with an iteration-focused mindset — you write a draft version of a program, you set up some kind of a test to verify that it does what you want it to do, and then you just quickly iterate on your draft until the result passes all the checks. This was a great approach when I was only learning to code, as it allowed me to iterate

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Ford introduces F-150 Lightning STX to replace XLT trim

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-14 01:00:00

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. It hasn’t been the greatest year for the Ford F-150 Lightning, with sales so far this year down nearly 10 percent as compared to last year. In the hopes of boosting interest in the battery-powered truck, Ford today announced a new appea

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Watch ZDNET's preview of the Apple Event - and the rest of Techtember

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-14 00:02:00

Watch ZDNET's preview of the Apple Event - and the rest of Techtember Get the inside scoop from ZDNET editors as we run through our expectations for the Apple Event and the rest of what promises to be a very eventful Techtember.

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AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

news.ycombinator.com Torsten Sløk 2025-10-14 01:56:48

The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in w

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Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company

news.ycombinator.com Scott Handsaker 2025-10-13 18:03:13

👋 Welcome to Valley of Doubt, a free weekly newsletter that goes deep into founder stories from the early days of startups. 🚀 Keith Pitt is the co-founder and former CEO of Buildkite, a devtools company that started in Melbourne and grew to have some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as clients. In this interview we dig into: Starting Buildkite as a side project Running out of money and having to go back to investors The challenges of growing into a venture capital valuation Finding yo

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How the Slavic Migration Reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

news.ycombinator.com Joscha Gretzinger Et Al. 2025-10-13 20:30:19

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early medieval communities Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege u

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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-10-13 17:50:30

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in Bukit Panjang, and his father, Sim Chye Thiam, was a factory worker while his mother, Tan Siok Kee, raised chickens, ducks, pigs, and rabbits, and grew fruits and herbs. The young Sim had chores aroun

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Show HN: C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 02:04:51

MacBook Lid Angle Sensor C++ Library A C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data, based on reverse engineering of HID device specifications. Features 🔍 Direct access to MacBook's built-in lid angle sensor 📏 Real-time precise angle measurements (0-360 degree range) ⚡ High-performance C++ implementation with modern C++14 standard support 🛡️ Comprehensive exception handling mechanism 🔧 Clean and easy-to-use API interface 📦 CMake build system support Device Compatibility Suppor

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Show HN: Veena Chromatic Tuner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 02:38:34

Veena Chromatic Tuner lets you to tune in Equal Temperament/Just Intonation with oscilloscope-like stable waveform display. This powerful, versatile tuning application is designed for musicians who need precise control over their instrument tuning across multiple musical traditions (Equal Temperament, Just Intonation). It displays the pitch (frequency) and deviation in cents via a needle interface. A unique visual feature is its linear and circular waveform display of input audio: the waveform a

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Turkey vs. Spain: Livestream World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 11:45:05

European champions Spain face a tough match in Turkey on Sunday as they look to make it back-to-back wins in World Cup qualifying Group E. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. The Spaniards kicked off their campaign with a comfortable 3-0 dispatch of Bulgaria in Sofia on Thursday, thanks to first-half goals from Mikel Oyarzabal, Marc Cucure

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Sept. 8

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 01:35:16

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 8, #350

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 02:04:17

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:15:33

Months after debuting Cluely, the "undetectable AI that thinks for you," 21-year-old tech entrepreneur Chungin "Roy" Lee is decrying the dismal state of education due to AI. Indeed, there's little doubt that AI has completely flipped education on its head. The availability of large language models (LLMs) at the press of a finger is all but obliterating the minds of an entire generation of students, making literacy a thing of the past as big tech money floods into schools and teachers unions. I

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Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:09:19

The Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) is instructing critical infrastructure organizations in the country to avoid using Chinese technology or transferring user data to servers located in China. The agency warned that these actions constitute a significant cybersecurity threat and should be entirely avoided unless there's a reasonable justification for continuing the practice. The NUKIB states that it has re-evaluated its risk estimate of significant disru

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Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use

news.ycombinator.com Ari Peskoe 2025-10-13 19:50:03

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, large technology companies such as Google and Meta are trying to secure massive amounts of electricity to power new data centers. Electric utilities see the prospect of earning large profits by providing electricity to these power-hungry facilities and are competing for their business by offering discounts not available to average consumers. In our paper Extracting Profits from the Public, we explain how utilities are forcing regular ratepayers to

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Requiem for an Exit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:08:20

Between 1994 and 2004, Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam created a series of robotic installations exploring the intersections between technology, ideology, and collective memory. These robots evoked the aesthetics of political mass movements, echoing the fractured language of 20th-century totalitarianisms and its countercultures. Two decades later, the artists revisit these themes in Requiem for an Exit. At the center of the installation stands a towering robotic figure, four meters tall—a skelet

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The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 21:18:47

For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over networks, and idling accelerators. Before jumping straight into the latest distributed computing effort underway at NVIDIA and AMD, let’s quickly level set on what distributed computing is, how it works, a

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Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

news.ycombinator.com Kalinin 2025-10-10 18:06:14

Experimental set-up The key components of our experimental set-up are shown in Fig. 1a and Extended Data Fig. 1. Optical subsystem The optical subsystem performs matrix–vector multiplication. The basic components are the optical sources (input vector), a system of fan-out optics to project the light onto the modulator matrix and a system of fan-in optics to project the light onto a photodetector array (output vector). The corresponding schematic is shown in Extended Data Fig. 2. The incohere

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 8 #554

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 21:00:02

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I thought today's NYT Strands puzzle was going to be a breeze -- I enjoy Star Trek and that was right in the theme. But I found it to be kind of a tough one. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking

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Hyundai’s eVTOL startup Supernal pauses work following CEO and CTO departures

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-13 20:19:08

Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal has paused work on its aircraft program after a rocky few months that saw staff cuts and the departure of its CEO and CTO, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The shakeup comes at a time when Supernal has barely gotten off the ground — literally. The first test flight of its technology demonstrator happened earlier this year. And though Supernal has performed subsequent tests, the company was still working toward its first untethered

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The Pixel 10 Pro’s free AI Pro plan is a trap, don’t get fooled

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:30:24

Joe Maring / Android Authority The Pixel 10-series is Google’s most aggressive bet on AI yet. Year on year, the company keeps tacking on more AI-first features. From the camera to the notes app and elsewhere, the pitch is clear. This isn’t just another smartphone. Instead, it’s a showcase for how Google’s AI strategy ties directly to its hardware. But while the on-device LLM can do a lot, when it comes to heavy lifting, Google wants you to pop over into the Gemini app. More specifically, Gemini

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Google hasn’t even announced these new Nest devices, but they’re already on store shelves

E Ink posters might just save my poor, bare walls from crippling indecision

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Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company

How the Slavic Migration Reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

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Turkey vs. Spain: Livestream World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer From Anywhere

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Hyundai’s eVTOL startup Supernal pauses work following CEO and CTO departures

The Pixel 10 Pro’s free AI Pro plan is a trap, don’t get fooled

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