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Travel Mugs, Nonstick Pans and More Items That Don't Belong in the Dishwasher

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 21:54:00

Whether you're learning the ropes of a brand-new dishwasher or you've been hands-free dishwashing for years, it's tempting to load it up and let it rip. It's summer -- you've got better things to do than babysit a sink full of dirty silverware. But before you start stacking every spatula and chef's knife onto the racks, take a beat. Your dishwasher's high heat and aggressive cycles can do more harm than good to certain kitchen tools. Warping, rusting, cracking and dulling are all fair game -- e

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Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?

news.ycombinator.com Simon Edwardsson 2025-10-08 12:35:21

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? Sort of... July 10, 2025 TL;DR Gemini 2.5 Pro is a decent object detector, matching Yolo V3 from 2018 on MS-COCO val. Multimodal Large Language Models keep getting better, but are they ready to dethrone CNNs in computer vision tasks like object detection? The allure of skipping dataset collection, annotation, and training is too enticing not to waste a few evenings testing. I decided to write a small benchmark and check Gemini 2.5 on MS-COCO, focusing on

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How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2025-10-08 19:48:09

Randomness is a source of power. From the coin toss that decides which team gets the ball to the random keys that secure online interactions, randomness lets us make choices that are fair and impossible to predict. But in many computing applications, suitable randomness can be hard to generate. So instead, programmers often rely on things called hash functions, which swirl data around and extract some small portion in a way that looks random. For decades, many computer scientists have presumed

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Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2025-10-09 10:48:09

Randomness is a source of power. From the coin toss that decides which team gets the ball to the random keys that secure online interactions, randomness lets us make choices that are fair and impossible to predict. But in many computing applications, suitable randomness can be hard to generate. So instead, programmers often rely on things called hash functions, which swirl data around and extract some small portion in a way that looks random. For decades, many computer scientists have presumed

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These are the T-Mobile plans eligible for the free DashPass perk (Updated: T-Mobile confirmation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 13:22:21

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is offering subscribers on select postpaid plans a free one-year DoorDash DashPass subscription via the T-Life app. There’s conflicting information about eligible plans between public FAQs and customer service. We’ve got a confirmation from T-Mobile about which plans are eligible for the DashPass perk. Update, July 10, 2025 (03:22 AM ET): A T-Mobile spokesperson has confirmed to us that the list of plans mentioned on the FAQ page is accurate, and

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Tesla on "Lane Assistance" Mode Gets Horrifically Impaled on Guardrail

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:37:13

While Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" features have generated more than their share of controversy, one of the company's other assisted driving modes is now in the spotlight after a nail-biting crash in California. As SFGate reports, a young Tesla driver walked away with minor injuries after his Model Y careened off the I-5 interstate and crashed directly into a guardrail in the wee hours of morning, becoming impaled all the way through. According to California Highway Pa

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Confusion reigns over T-Mobile’s free DashPass perk eligibility, here’s what we know

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 23:09:21

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is offering subscribers on select postpaid plans a free one-year DoorDash DashPass subscription via the T-Life app. There’s conflicting information about eligible plans between public FAQs and customer service. Subscribers whose plans are listed in the FAQ but don’t see the offer can contact T-Mobile for a potential bill credit. T-Mobile has rolled out an offer through the T-Life app, allowing subscribers to get a free year of DoorDash DashPass.

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This new setting in Android ensures core Google services are always up to date

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 17:31:27

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding a new dashboard to streamline updates of crucial background services on Android. It’s called “System services” and can be found on your Android device’s Privacy & Security settings. The System services dashboard lets you manage existing services or install new ones. Alongside the core Android firmware on your phone, Google adds a layer of additional services responsible for enabling various features on your device, strengthening its s

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This HP 14-Inch Chromebook Is $199, Amazon Clears Out Stock with a Flash Sale and Only 20% Left

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-10-11 20:03:31

Laptops have not been Amazon’s Prime Day priority this year, so it’s some searching to uncover a true gem. If you’re on a tight budget, Chromebooks remain your best value for quality and as it turns out, there is one model that you should not miss. The HP Chromebook 14-inch (Intel Processor N100, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB UFS) is at a record low price thanks to a flash sale with only 20% of the stock left. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good. At $199, you’re getting a massive 50% discount off the usual $

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Why it’s so hard to warn people about flash floods

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-12 15:06:46

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. By definition, flash floods are notoriously difficult to warn people about well in advance. They form rapidly, giving forecasters hours of lead time at best to figure out where they might hit with specificity. We’ve seen this with devastating effect in Texas, where flash flood

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T-Mobile is giving away DashPass subscriptions starting today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:27:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile subscribers can now claim a free year of DoorDash DashPass (usually $120) through the T-Life app as part of a limited-time offer. DashPass gives you free or discounted delivery fees, extra promos, and Lyft perks, but this free promo doesn’t include the Max streaming benefit. Most T-Mobile users are eligible, and you have until August 4 to redeem; current DashPass subscribers will get a refund for unused time. In mid-June, T-Mobile celebrated

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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-18 15:42:39

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company's home state of Washington. Nearly a dozen game design workers in the state were part of the layoffs, along with three audio designers, two mechanical engineers, one optical engineer and one lab technician, according to a documen

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The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 10:34:05

For the past few years, the AI industry has operated under its own version of Moore's Law: an unwavering belief that the cost of intelligence would perpetually decrease by orders of magnitude each year. Like clockwork, each new model generation promised to be not only more capable but also cheaper to run. Last week, Google quietly broke that trend. In a move that at first went unnoticed, Google significantly increased the price of its popular Gemini 2.5 Flash model. The input token price double

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Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:25:30

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article where I developed a hash calculator on an FPGA. Specifically, I implemented an SHA-256 calculator. This module computes the hash of a string (up to 25 bytes) in 68 clock cycles. The design leverages the parallelism of FPGAs to compute the W matrix and the recursive rounds concurrently. However, it produces only one hash every 68 clock cycles, leaving most of the FPGA underutilized during that time. In this article we are going to elevate the performance of t

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Greenworks Electric Pressure Washer Combo Kit for 55% Off Is Listed in Best Buy’s Top Deals for 4th of July

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-10-19 23:10:09

If you’re tired of scrubbing your patio furniture by hand, using half a bottle of detergent just to clean your car, or watching mildew slowly take over your driveway, it might be time to bring in some backup. Pressure washers are one of those things that, when you first use one, you see exactly why they’re so useful. But unfortunately, they can also be quite expensive. That’s why if you plan on getting one, you should make sure you can save some significant money. You can get the Greenworks Ele

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Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-20 07:47:00

Flashes this year launched an Instagram alternative built on top of the Bluesky social network. Now available on the App Store, the app offers a different way to browse the visual posts on Bluesky. Instead of viewing them in a timeline-like feed, similar to X, the app draws inspiration from photo-based social networks, like Instagram. What you can post The app, built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, runs on the same underlying protocol that powers Bluesky, the AT Protocol (or atp

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11 Things I'll Never Put in the Dishwasher Again (and Neither Should You)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 07:04:00

Whether you're breaking in a brand-new dishwasher or you've been riding the sudsy automation wave for years, the temptation is real: Just toss it all in and let the machine handle the mess. After all, it's summer -- you've got better things to do than stand over the sink scrubbing spoons. But before you go loading up the racks with wild abandon, it's worth hitting pause. Not everything is built to survive your dishwasher's steamy rinse cycle or turbo-charged dry. In fact, plenty of common kitch

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A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She’s Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo Machine

wired.com Varsha Bansal 2025-10-22 02:00:00

On January 29, a Blackhawk helicopter crashed into a commercial airliner in the skies over Washington, DC. The collision killed all 67 people on board both aircraft, including the pilots. But online, a different pilot—one that wasn’t even present—was being blamed for the tragedy. Within two days, the rumor spread like wildfire. The morning of January 31, Jo Ellis, a part-time pilot with the Virginia Army National Guard, woke up to messages from a friend warning that she was being named online a

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Bloom Filters by Example

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 11:56:09

Bloom Filters by Example A Bloom filter is a data structure designed to tell you, rapidly and memory-efficiently, whether an element is present in a set. The price paid for this efficiency is that a Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure: it tells us that the element either definitely is not in the set or may be in the set. The base data structure of a Bloom filter is a Bit Vector. Here's a small one we'll use to demonstrate: Each empty cell in that table represents a bit, and the nu

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10 Best Dash Kitchen Appliances (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-10-27 13:04:00

Dash is the mini-me of the kitchen world, best known for its impossibly low-cost Mini Waffle Maker ($13) and wee egg cookers. The best Dash kitchen appliances are ingenious about packing surprising functionality into a tiny package—saving both counter space and cash in your bank account. This has, of course, made Dash a viral fixture on TikTok, with scads of recipes for mini-waffles and keto-friendly chaffles. Former WIRED reviewer Brenda Stolyar found Dash to be a godsend for tiny New York apa

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This Town Started Charging for Trash by the Bag. Here’s What Happened

gizmodo.com Tik Root 2025-10-27 10:00:40

Until a few years ago, the town of Plympton, Massachusetts, was quite literally throwing away money. People were producing so much trash that it was threatening to put the municipal transfer station out of business. Under the town’s system, residents would buy a $240 sticker for their cars that allowed them yearlong access to the dump, where they could dispose of as much garbage as they wished. But the sheer volume, combined with climbing landfill fees, meant that this service was costing the l

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As Tesla Crumbles, Elon Musk Just Fired One of His Top Supporters at the Company

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-28 06:12:30

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired the automaker's vice president of manufacturing and operations Omead Fashar, Forbes reports, amid plummeting sales and public backlash against the company. Fashar was one of Musk's closest confidants and a powerful executive at the company, according to Bloomberg, which reported that Fashar had departed but didn't say that Musk was behind the personnel change. The exact reason for his departure isn't clear, although one can make an educated guess based on the broad

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It's Tempting, But Please Don't Put These 11 Things in Your Dishwasher

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 22:35:00

Whether you're the proud new owner of your first dishwasher or something of an automated cleaning aficionado, it's tempting to toss everything in there. With the summer months now here, you've more fun things to do than handwash things, right? But it's important to take a moment and consider whether the dishwasher's fierce cycles and scalding hot water are suited to all of your cookware, glassware and utensils. Putting the wrong items into even the best dishwasher can cause havoc, often wrecking

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The Xbox 360 dashboard just got updated… to advertise newer Xboxes

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-30 19:40:34

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Earlier this week some devoted Xbox 360 users booted up their aging consoles to find that Microsoft had updated the home screen to finally resolve an issue with box art. But in addition to that fix, several users on Reddit, as well as Kotaku, have confirmed the update also adds some sizable ads for the Xbox Series X / S consoles to the 360’s dash

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Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 23:20:11

The notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is finally heading to a junkyard upstate. This error message has been a key part of the Windows experience for almost 40 years. Microsoft has been teasing this change for years , but now we know the crash screen will be removed in an update to Windows 11 that's coming later this summer . Windows computers are still going to crash , so there needs to be some sort of error screen. Microsoft is transitioning to a Black Screen of Death instead. This new cra

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Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 09:43:59

Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise This blog post recounts a recent debugging session that uncovered a surprising set of issues involving Bash, getcwd() , and OverlayFS. What began as a simple customer bug report evolved into a deep dive worth sharing. Initial Bug Report A customer reported that OpenSSH scp failed after switching to OverlayFS. We found the following error in the logs: shell-init: error retrieving current directory: \ getcwd: cannot access

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The probability of a hash collision (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 04:34:16

The probability of a hash collision Tags: probability A hash function takes arbitrarily complex input - a word, a website, an image, a human being - and maps it to a single number. This is useful for various computer science stuffs, such as data storage and cryptography. For example, let's say you want to store a book in one of N N N boxes. If you put the book in a random box, it's quite likely that you'll forget which box you picked, especially as N N N gets bigger. What you can do instead i

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The Probability of a Hash Collision

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 09:34:16

The probability of a hash collision Tags: probability A hash function takes arbitrarily complex input - a word, a website, an image, a human being - and maps it to a single number. This is useful for various computer science stuffs, such as data storage and cryptography. For example, let's say you want to store a book in one of N N N boxes. If you put the book in a random box, it's quite likely that you'll forget which box you picked, especially as N N N gets bigger. What you can do instead i

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Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-05 08:32:37

The top federal vehicle safety regulator has sent Ford an exhaustive list of questions about its hands-free driver-assistance system known as BlueCruise. It’s the latest development in an investigation that started more than one year ago following two fatal crashes involving the software. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) sent a letter to Ford on June 18 that contains 25 questions. Many of them are basic, such as asking Ford for a

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T-Mobile named best network in the US, celebrates with new perk

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 08:18:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is now rated the best network in the US, and in order to celebrate, it is offering a free year of DoorDash DashPass to customers starting July 8 via the T-Life app, saving you $120. The offer is available to most T-Mobile plans, including Experience, Go5G, Magenta, and T-Mobile One. You have until August 4 to redeem the offer, though T-Mobile says the perk will be offered again next year as well. Today, T-Mobile hosted a major live stream event t

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Travel Mugs, Nonstick Pans and More Items That Don't Belong in the Dishwasher

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?

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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

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The probability of a hash collision (2022)

The Probability of a Hash Collision

Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation

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