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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 02:46:46

I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple Move instruction. For this to work, everything needs to be memory mapped. The ALU, program counter, everything. Of course, this idea is nothing new and this idea is called the Transport Triggered Architecture. I decided to have a look into this, how it works and make a

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How to Watch the 77th Emmy Awards Without Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 02:00:04

The Emmy Awards are nearly here, meaning your favorite TV shows from the past year may be taking home some well-deserved wins. I guess it's time to once again start the comedy-or-drama debate about The Bear. The Emmys eligibility rules say programs must have premiered new episodes between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025. This year's top contenders feature one from Netflix (the limited series Adolescence), two from Apple TV Plus (Severance and The Studio) and HBO's The Penguin. Presenters this y

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Automate compile_flags for C/C++ projects on the Zig build system

news.ycombinator.com Simon Hartcher 2025-09-27 06:28:49

When using Zig’s build system for C/C++ projects, editors struggle to find include paths and provide proper code intelligence. compile_flagz solves this by automatically generating compile_flags.txt from your build.zig configuration. The Problem Recently I’ve been working on ROLLER, a decompilation project for the 1995 game, Fatal Racing (or Whiplash in NA). The game (known internally as Roller), is an early 3D game written in C with a bespoke engine. It also happens to be one of my favourite

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Show HN: wcwidth-o1 – Find Unicode text cell width in no time for JavaScript/TS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 04:53:43

A TypeScript/JavaScript port of Markus Kuhn’s wcwidth and wcswidth implementations, optimized to O(1). These functions are defined in IEEE Std 1003.1 (POSIX). Superior Performance ⚡️ Instant O(1) lookup time 🌏 Full Unicode 15.1 coverage Getting Started Install Wcwidth-O1 via npm: npm i wcwidth-o1 Usage JavaScript / TypeScript: import wcwidth from 'wcwidth-o1' ; const example1 = wcwidth ( 'a' ) ; // 1 const example2 = wcwidth ( '好' ) ; // 2 const example3 = wcwidth ( '😊' ) ; // 2 or i

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Cancel Culture Comes for Artists Who Posted About Charlie Kirk’s Death

wired.com Manisha Krishnan 2025-09-30 06:24:10

Almost immediately after she posted about the shooting of Charlie Kirk, author and trans woman Gretchen Felker-Martin started having second thoughts. Felker-Martin, who wrote the latest iteration of DC Comics’ Red Hood series, said “thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch” on Bluesky in response to the killing of Kirk, a right-wing influencer and Trump ally who was staunchly anti–trans rights. “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Kirk,” she added. Kirk died after being shot at a stop on his Amer

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‘Bluey’ Fans Rejoice: the Heeler Family Is Getting a Coaster in 2026

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-01 02:00:31

The first-ever Bluey coaster is coming! Unfortunately for stateside fans, it’s at CBeebies Land, all the way in the UK. While we wait for the Ludo Studio Bluey movie in 2027 and any news about more series seasons, fans can make plans to check out the world of the Heeler family in Alton Towers. The UK theme park resort features CBeebies Land, named for the channel that features family-friendly television fare such as Bluey. Previously, Disney Experiences announced that Bluey would be coming to

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The Powerbeats Pro 2 are getting heart rate monitoring updates with iOS 26

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-01 14:20:51

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You’ll now be able to monitor your heart rate in real time through the Apple Fitness app during 50 different workout types while wearing the Powerbeats Pro 2 – a feature only supported through partner apps like Nike Run Club at launch. The earbuds will also w

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These 7 smart plug hacks changed how I run my home - here's the setup

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-01 22:15:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today's smart plug -- that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voice, or a schedule. Also: Unplugging these 7 common ho

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Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 06:39:00

Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 7:03AM 4 months of work just to make a stupid pun. 1986 Macintosh Plus at home in my music studio. I own a Macintosh Plus from 1986, I found it in the mid 2000's on my college campus on a free-to-a-good-home shelf (Mad Marc's shelf in the chemistry building) in great shape and with its mouse, keyboard, and an HD-20 external hard disk drive. That silly computer has been on the journey with me ever since, leaving college with me and occupying a spot in all of my

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Man gets over 4 years in prison for selling unreleased movies

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 11:36:22

A Tennessee court has sentenced a Memphis man who worked for a DVD and Blu-ray manufacturing and distribution company to 57 months in prison for stealing and selling digital copies of unreleased movies. 37-year-old Steven R. Hale was charged in March with selling ripped DVD and Blu-ray discs of movies before their release. Prosecutors stated at the time that Hale had stolen numerous discs of movies that were being prepared for commercial distribution in the United States between February 2021 a

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Float Exposed

news.ycombinator.com Bartosz Ciechanowski 2025-10-02 05:11:15

half bfloat float double Value Position within Significand–Exponent Range Evaluation in Base-2 (−1 2 ) 2 × 10 2 ( 2 − 2 ) × . 2 Evaluation in Base-10 × 2 × . Exact Base-10 Value Delta to Next/Previous Representable Value Delta to Next Representable Value

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Mark Hamill Is Embracing His Villain Era

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-02 22:15:55

In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill unpacked his recent resurgence in popularity, stating, “I certainly didn’t expect to have this sudden burst of life so late in the game. I should be spending time wandering the beaches with a metal detector. I can’t explain why, all of a sudden, I have five features this year.” As the actor notes, “There was a point about five years ago where I thought that it’s not easy getting older, and it’s even harder when you’re doing

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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-03 05:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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Conway's Game of Life, but musical

news.ycombinator.com Hudson Griffith 2025-10-03 06:05:31

A Digital Darwin Adventure with Mating Melodies Hudson Griffith • September 11, 2025 Introduction Music is profoundly human. It runs deep in our lives and shows up in our everyday rituals. And somehow, those rituals often end with us leaving AirPods in the back seat of an Uber. But beneath the everyday habits lies a much older connection. Neuroscience research shows our brains respond to music in fundamental ways that precede language development 1. And what fascinates me is how naturally music

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Conway's Game of Life, but Musical

news.ycombinator.com Hudson Griffith 2025-10-04 02:05:31

A Digital Darwin Adventure with Mating Melodies Hudson Griffith • September 11, 2025 Introduction Music is profoundly human. It runs deep in our lives and shows up in our everyday rituals. And somehow, those rituals often end with us leaving AirPods in the back seat of an Uber. But beneath the everyday habits lies a much older connection. Neuroscience research shows our brains respond to music in fundamental ways that precede language development 1. And what fascinates me is how naturally music

Topics: 01 evolution music musical patterns

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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-04 06:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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This pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader comes with a stupid amount of storage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 08:30:38

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi’s Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2 lands September 22 in China, priced at ¥1,399. The pocket-sized e-reader runs Android 14, with a Rockchip RK3566, 6GB RAM, and up to 512GB storage. No international release is planned yet, but the device echoes a welcome trend toward smaller, more powerful e-readers. Xiaomi has announced the imminent arrival of a new e-reader, the Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2. Unfortunately for global fans, the tiny powerhouse is only slate

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

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-04 10:35:43

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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Xiaomi launches a pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader with a stupid amount of storage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 18:30:38

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi’s Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2 lands September 22 in China, priced at ¥1,399. The pocket-sized e-reader runs Android 14, with a Rockchip RK3566, 6GB RAM, and up to 512GB storage. No international release is planned yet, but the device echoes a welcome trend toward smaller, more powerful e-readers. Xiaomi has announced the imminent arrival of a new e-reader, the Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2. Unfortunately for global fans, the tiny powerhouse is only slate

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The best streaming deals: Get half off one year of Paramount+, plus save on Apple Music, Disney+ and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 20:01:26

If you’ve been shocked by how much you spend on streaming services lately, you’re not alone. Companies like Netflix, Disney, Max and others have been consistently raising prices to the point where you may question if streaming is even worth it anymore. We at Engadget still think it is, but we also think you should be smart with your money — and that’s where streaming deals come in. Yes, it is possible to get discounts on services like Peacock and Paramount+, even if those deals aren’t as common

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Formally verifying a floating-point division routine with Gappa – part 1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 10:35:41

We have recently released a set of optimized assembly-language routines for basic floating-point arithmetic, in Arm Optimized Routines, under an open-source license. These functions perform the same operations as hardware floating point instructions, for example addition, multiplication, and division. However, they are implemented using only integer 32-bit Arm instructions, for Arm CPUs without hardware floating point. Existing open-source libraries such as libgcc and compiler-rt offer similar

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Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light

news.ycombinator.com American Chemical Society 2025-10-01 13:01:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Exposing a sweat-like stain on cotton (left image) to a blue LED light for 10 minutes significantly removed the yellow color (right image). Credit: Tomohiro Sugahara Sweat and food stains can ruin your favorite clothes. But bleaching agents such as hydrogen peroxide or dry-cleaning solvents that remove stains aren't

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WWE 2K25 Jumps From the Top Rope Onto PlayStation Plus in September

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 01:23:24

"The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes, son of one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is the current undisputed WWE champion. And PlayStation Plus subscribers can bring Rhodes down a peg or help establish a new wrestling dynasty with the champion beginning on Sept. 16 in WWE 2K25. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Ess

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OnePlus 15 leak teases what colors to expect, including that ‘SuperBlack’ option

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 10:11:02

Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority TL;DR A leak may have revealed the official color names for the OnePlus 15. It’s said that there are three colors: Original Sand Dune, Absolute Black, and Mist Purple. The Absolute Black and Mist Purple SKUs will reportedly weigh 215g, while the Dune color is a little lighter at 211g. Back in June, a leak claimed that the next flagship from OnePlus would have a “SuperBlack” colorway. This black color reportedly has a very high light absorption rate, high enou

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20 of the Best Apple TV Plus Shows You're Probably Not Watching

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 10:00:07

Now that the Apple event is over, you're probably itching to keep the "awe dropping" fun going. Well, if you're looking for some new shows to watch, may I suggest Apple TV Plus? I'm going to, so buckle up. I'm sure you've heard of the streamer and are familiar with a handful of Apple's original shows, such as Severance and Ted Lasso. But there's so much more in regards to solid programming that can be found here. For instance, did you know Apple TV Plus released a limited series inspired by th

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Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-05 16:12:14

After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach to comply with laws in South Dakota and Wyoming. Instead of requiring Bluesky to restrict access to all unverified users, users in South Dakota and Wyoming can verify their ages through the Kids Web Services’ (KWS) solution. The service allows users to choose from multiple methods to verify their ages, which may include payment cards, an identity document, an an

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 21:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 22:01:06

Puneet and I (Roop) founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient to build more houses, hospitals, and schools. Featured on Business Insider . Bild AI is an early-stage startup with a ton of really difficult technical challenges to solve. We're building blueprint understanding with a model-garden

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Bluesky brings age verification to South Dakota and Wyoming

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-05 22:40:36

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. Bluesky will now check the ages of users located in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with local online safety laws. The platform announced on Wednesday that users in both states will be able to prove their age using an ID, payment card, face scan, or other met

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Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Plus is here: Fast charging without the heat

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:00:27

Supplied by Qualcomm TL;DR Qualcomm has announced Quick Charge 5 Plus. This fast charging solution offers cooler temperatures and more efficient power delivery by using lower voltage. The first devices with Quick Charge 5 Plus support will be launched later this month. Qualcomm has offered its Quick Charge fast-charging solution for over a decade now, but we haven’t seen a new iteration since 2020’s Quick Charge 5. Fortunately, we can now say hello to Quick Charge 5 Plus. Quick Charge 5 Plu

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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

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Automate compile_flags for C/C++ projects on the Zig build system

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The Powerbeats Pro 2 are getting heart rate monitoring updates with iOS 26

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Man gets over 4 years in prison for selling unreleased movies

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Conway's Game of Life, but musical

Conway's Game of Life, but Musical

An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

This pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader comes with a stupid amount of storage

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Xiaomi launches a pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader with a stupid amount of storage

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Formally verifying a floating-point division routine with Gappa – part 1

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Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring

Bluesky brings age verification to South Dakota and Wyoming

Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Plus is here: Fast charging without the heat

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