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Titania Programming Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:29:49

Titania Programming Language Based on the Oberon-07 programming language designed by the late Niklaus Wirth. This is designed to be a language to teach compiler development with. Meaning behind the name: Titania is the wife of Oberon (Fairy King) in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania_(A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream) This is just a codename, and probably not final for this teaching language Grammar module = "module" ident ";" [import_list] decl_sequ

Topics: end expr ident qual_ident stmt_sequence

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The case against social media is stronger than you think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-01 06:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

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Leaked Video Shows US Military Shooting UFO With Hellfire Missile

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 06:45:26

Someone has leaked a video of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) — the military's preferred term for unidentified flying objects, better known as UFOs — to Congress. As USA Today reports, this never-before-seen video was provided anonymously to Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican and member of the House of Representative's UAP Caucus, and shows a bizarre encounter that occurred last October off the coast of Yemen. In the video, an Air Force MQ-9 "Reaper" drone tracks the object that B

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The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-01 11:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

Topics: evidence media polarization political social

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Pixel phones might soon stream emergencies in real-time just like iPhones (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 20:59:46

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new feature that will allow you to share live video with emergency services. It appears the feature will work similarly to the Emergency SOS Live Video feature Apple introduced to iOS 18 last year. It’s unclear if this feature will be exclusive to Pixels or available for all Android devices. Pixel phones offer a range of features that can prove helpful in the case of an emergency. For example, there’s Car Crash Detection, Safety Che

Topics: emergency feature live string video

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DOJ Sues Uber Over Allegations of Refusing Service to Disabled Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 20:47:00

Uber is being sued for the second time in four years by the Department of Justice over complaints about its ridesharing service's treatment of customers with disabilities. According to the suit, a copy of which was posted online by the website TechCrunch, the company is alleged to "routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with service animals or who use stowable wheelchairs." The lawsuit also accuses Uber of imposing cleaning surcharges related

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Pixel phones might soon stream emergencies in real-time, just like iPhones (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 01:59:46

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new feature that will allow you to share live video with emergency services. It appears the feature will work similarly to the Emergency SOS Live Video feature Apple introduced to iOS 18 last year. It’s unclear if this feature will be exclusive to Pixels or available for all Android devices. Pixel phones offer a range of features that can prove helpful in the case of an emergency. For example, there’s Car Crash Detection, Safety Che

Topics: emergency feature live string video

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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 01:09:00

Lots of people are excited about the idea of using plants to help us draw down some of the excess carbon dioxide we've been pumping into the atmosphere. It would be nice to think that we could reforest our way out of the mess we're creating, but recent studies have indicated there's simply not enough productive land for this to work out. One alternative might be to get plants to take up carbon dioxide more efficiently. Unfortunately, the enzyme that incorporates carbon dioxide into photosynthes

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The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-03 13:10:00

This week, the Trump administration released a strategy for improving the health and well-being of American children. The report was titled—you guessed it—Make Our Children Healthy Again. It suggests American children should be eating more healthily. And they should be getting more exercise. But there’s a glaring omission. The leading cause of death for American children and teenagers isn’t ultraprocessed food or exposure to some chemical. It’s gun violence. This week’s news of yet more high-p

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How do AI models generate videos?

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2025-10-03 21:01:44

Sure, the clips you see in demo reels are cherry-picked to showcase a company’s models at the top of their game. But with the technology in the hands of more users than ever before—Sora and Veo 3 are available in the ChatGPT and Gemini apps for paying subscribers—even the most casual filmmaker can now knock out something remarkable. The downside is that creators are competing with AI slop, and social media feeds are filling up with faked news footage. Video generation also uses up a huge amount

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Becoming the person who does the thing

news.ycombinator.com Fred Rivett 2025-10-03 21:24:36

It can be disorienting when our beliefs shift. The world we helped create no longer exists, and our role in it transforms too. It can be unsettling, naturally. But that's kind of the point. Looking back at times when I held certain beliefs—about how the world works, and what my role in this story is—it can feel less like a mod was installed and more like an entirely new operating system was swapped in. Up until my late twenties, I could count the number of times I had been to the gym on one h

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Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-10-04 01:15:07

A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. Republican Senator Mike Crapo (it's pronounced Cray-poe), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the SSA's commissioner, Frank Bisignano, giving him just two weeks to provide answers to concerns raised last month by now-form

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NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 09:21:03

NASA's interim administrator Sean Duffy was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on Mars. "This is exciting news," said Duffy about an arrow-shaped rock on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover. The rock contained chemical signatures and structures that could have been formed by ancient microbial life. The findings were intriguing, but not conclusive. Further study of the rocks in

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Google Maps isn't loading in some regions due to an apparent outage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:51:23

Google Maps appears to be going through an outage. At least in some regions, the mobile version of Google Maps is unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports have been filed for the service on Downdetector, and as of 2:12PM ET, Google's Status Dashboard noted that the company was investigating an issue with the Maps SDK for Android and iOS, along with the Navigation SDK. On both the Android and iOS versions of Google Maps, the service was unable to fully load its map,

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Turn Your iPhone 17 Into a Pro Cinema Rig With Blackmagic's New ProDock

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 06:13:00

The iPhone 17 Pro has already excited me with its upgraded telephoto zoom and the new addition of ProRes raw video recording. It could be a superb tool for capturing stunning video, and Blackmagic's new ProDock could make it useful on professional cinema productions. Costing $295 (£225) from the Apple store, the dock connects to the iPhone 17 Pro over USB C, but features a variety of inputs to expand the phone further for pro video use. There are two USB ports for recording footage directly to

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Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

news.ycombinator.com Tom Phillips 2025-10-04 17:28:44

A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the t

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Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcasts add more AI to the NFL

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-04 17:49:56

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s Prime Video is bringing more AI to the football field with new features designed to give viewers more insight into Thursday Night Football games, as highlighted earlier by Deadline. One feature, called Pocket Health, uses AI to analyze “tens of thousand

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New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-04 21:21:14

The period after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain has long been known as the “Dark Ages” for a reason. Scholars believed that after the Romans left, local industries collapsed and effectively all progress ceased for centuries. Britain, they theorized, was plunged into a cultural and economic abyss with their departure. But for some time, a growing body of evidence has challenged this narrative. And in a new study published today in the journal Antiquity, researchers investigate the assumption

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This American Influencer Traveled to Australia to Film Himself Tackling Crocodiles. Australians Aren’t Happy

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-05 09:01:43

Welcome to another episode of Americans being badly behaved in Australia (anyone remember the wombat grabber?). In this edition, Australian officials, wildlife experts, and others are criticizing U.S.-based influencer Mike Holston, aka “therealtarzann” on social media, after he posted two videos of himself down under and tackling crocodiles, shirtless. Queensland officials have confirmed that they are “actively investigating two videos circulating on social media,” The Guardian reporteed. Meanw

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Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Commanders vs. Packers Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 07:46:14

When to watch the Washington Commanders and Green Bay Packers? Thursday, Sept. 11, at 8:15 p.m. ET (5:15 p.m. PT). Where to watch The Commanders and Packers game will stream live on Prime Video and for free on Twitch. Fans in the home markets of each team can also watch on a local channel. Playoff teams from a year ago, the Commanders and Packers get Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season started tonight at Lambeau Field. If you're looking for this game on your TV, you'll need to close out of your us

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Newly Released Video Shows U.S. Reaper Drone Shooting at ‘UFO’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-05 21:35:43

A recent Congressional hearing revealed video of a Hellfire missile fired by a Reaper drone “bouncing off” an unidentified flying object, which has onlookers—Congress included—scratching their heads. The hearing took place in a House Oversight subcommittee meeting on UFO transparency that was partially hosted by MAGA congresswoman and state-sanctioned UFO investigator Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. The video sure is, uh, something. As Fox News melodramatically puts it: A House hearing on unidentified

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Minerals represent potential biosignatures in the search for life on Mars

news.ycombinator.com Hurowitz 2025-10-06 15:42:27

Chemical and sedimentological data indicate that reduced iron and sulfur were generated, mobilized and precipitated following the deposition of fine-grained oxidized iron- and phosphorous-bearing sediment. Except when found in authigenic nodules and reaction front rims, phosphate is not associated with a mineral phase (for example, there is no indication that apatite or merrillite are present; Fig. 4c). Accordingly, we suggest that during deposition, phosphate was adsorbed on Fe3+-, Al- and Si-r

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Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring Engineering ICs and Managers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 17:01:01

Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better. We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, believe in our values (from Be Human to Turn

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'Clearest sign' yet of ancient life on Mars

news.ycombinator.com Hurowitz 2025-10-06 20:42:27

Chemical and sedimentological data indicate that reduced iron and sulfur were generated, mobilized and precipitated following the deposition of fine-grained oxidized iron- and phosphorous-bearing sediment. Except when found in authigenic nodules and reaction front rims, phosphate is not associated with a mineral phase (for example, there is no indication that apatite or merrillite are present; Fig. 4c). Accordingly, we suggest that during deposition, phosphate was adsorbed on Fe3+-, Al- and Si-r

Topics: angel bright fe formation sulfide

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Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Commanders vs. Packers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 21:15:25

When to watch the Washington Commanders and Green Bay Packers? Thursday, Sept. 11, at 8:15 p.m. ET (5:15 p.m. PT). Where to watch The Commanders and Packers game will stream live on Prime Video and for free on Twitch. Fans in the home markets of each team can also watch on a local channel. Playoff teams from a year ago, the Commanders and Packers get Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season started tomorrow night at Lambeau Field. If you're looking for this game on your TV, you'll need to close out of

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‘Here We Go!’: Trump Weighs in After Russian Drones Shot Down Over Poland

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-07 05:40:24

NATO fighter jets shot down at least three Russian drones in Polish airspace overnight after more than a dozen entered its eastern border, according to several reports. It was a historic action, the first time that NATO forces have shot down a Russian aircraft in a NATO country. But President Donald Trump didn’t offer much clarity about what the U.S. plans to do about it, writing a confusing Truth Social post on Wednesday that could be read several different ways. “What’s with Russia violating

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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Evernote and WeTransfer owner Bending Spoons is set to buy Vimeo for $1.38 billion

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 17:56:02

Vimeo is set to get a new owner. Bending Spoons — the parent of Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup and fellow video streaming platform Brightcove — plans to take the company into private ownership in an all-cash, $1.38 billion deal. Stockholders will receive $7.85 per share, quite a bit more than the $4.82 Vimeo closed at on Tuesday (the price jumped significantly after the announcement, of course). Vimeo's directors unanimously approved the takeover. The acquisition is expected to close by the end o

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Eufy’s video doorbell smart lock combo is back to its all-time low price

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-10-07 17:00:00

A smart lock and video doorbell are great tools for beefing up your home’s security system, and Eufy’s FamiLock S3 Max combines the functionality of both into one device. It’s currently $339.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, The Home Depot, and from Eufy, which matches its all-time low price. Verge senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy recently tested the FamiLock S3 Max, and found a lot to like. She was especially impressed with its built-in 4-inch video screen, which displays a live video feed of what

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Latest Tech News

Titania Programming Language

The case against social media is stronger than you think

Leaked Video Shows US Military Shooting UFO With Hellfire Missile

The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

Pixel phones might soon stream emergencies in real-time just like iPhones (APK teardown)

DOJ Sues Uber Over Allegations of Refusing Service to Disabled Customers

Pixel phones might soon stream emergencies in real-time, just like iPhones (APK teardown)

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

How do AI models generate videos?

Becoming the person who does the thing

Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

Google Maps isn't loading in some regions due to an apparent outage

Turn Your iPhone 17 Into a Pro Cinema Rig With Blackmagic's New ProDock

Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcasts add more AI to the NFL

New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

This American Influencer Traveled to Australia to Film Himself Tackling Crocodiles. Australians Aren’t Happy

Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Commanders vs. Packers Tonight

Newly Released Video Shows U.S. Reaper Drone Shooting at ‘UFO’

Minerals represent potential biosignatures in the search for life on Mars

Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring Engineering ICs and Managers

'Clearest sign' yet of ancient life on Mars

Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Commanders vs. Packers

‘Here We Go!’: Trump Weighs in After Russian Drones Shot Down Over Poland

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

Evernote and WeTransfer owner Bending Spoons is set to buy Vimeo for $1.38 billion

Eufy’s video doorbell smart lock combo is back to its all-time low price

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