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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Velasco 2025-11-13 20:41:57

During the two-year research for our book LOOK INSIDE we discovered many amazing illustrations and artists that, for one reason or another, did not make it into the final version of the book. It would be a pity to leave these forgotten on a drawer, so during the next few weeks we will present here some of these masters of the cutaway. A while ago we wrote here about Frank Soltesz, an American illustrator active from the 30’s to the 60’s, and author of a marvelous series of architectural cutaw

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Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-17 16:21:21

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Two years ago we learned, thanks to the FTC, that Microsoft was working on a separate “dedicated” version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft Gaming CFO Tim Stuart then hinted, a few months later, that there could be a free version Xbox Cloud Gaming in exchange for ads. Now, Microsoft is hintin

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Velasco 2025-11-15 02:41:57

During the two-year research for our book LOOK INSIDE we discovered many amazing illustrations and artists that, for one reason or another, did not make it into the final version of the book. It would be a pity to leave these forgotten on a drawer, so during the next few weeks we will present here some of these masters of the cutaway. A while ago we wrote here about Frank Soltesz, an American illustrator active from the 30’s to the 60’s, and author of a marvelous series of architectural cutaw

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WIRED Takes You Back to School

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-11-19 06:00:00

Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the generations before them.

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Do Vibration Plates Actually Help You Lose Weight, Build Muscle and Get Stronger?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 04:30:04

When you're trying to lose weight or build muscle, figuring out what actually works can be frustrating. There are plenty of options, from lifting weights to cardio classes, and now vibration plates are part of the conversation. But does standing on a shaking platform really help you get stronger or shed pounds, or is it just another short-lived trend? To find out, we talked to personal trainers and other fitness experts. They explained how vibration plates are supposed to work, the benefits you

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Trump admin ranks companies on loyalty while handing out favors to Big Tech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 00:12:24

The Trump administration has ended potential enforcement actions against dozens of tech firms and 165 corporations overall, delivering on promises to end the alleged "weaponization" of the federal government, a report by nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said. "In six months, the Trump administration has already withdrawn or halted enforcement actions against 165 corporations of all types—and one in four of the corporations benefiting from halted or dropped enforcement is from th

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Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 08:04:21

Compilers aren't supposed to crash — especially not when compiling perfectly valid code like this: // SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED pragma solidity ^0.8.25; contract A { function a () public pure returns ( uint256 ) { return 1 ** 2 ; } } Yet running Solidity's compiler (solc) on this file on a standard Ubuntu 22.04 system (G++ 11.4, Boost 1.74) causes an immediate segmentation fault. At first, this seemed absurd. The code just returns 1 to the power of 2 — no memory tricks, unsafe casti

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Trump's administration may look to buy a stake in Intel

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:32:34

Intel has had some recent struggles in delivering results for its shareholders, but the company could soon be answering to an additional boss. The current administration is reportedly in talks to have the US government acquire a stake in the chipmaker. No specifics about the size or value of the potential share in the company have been disclosed, but the focus appears to be on increasing Intel's manufacturing footprint in the US. Bloomberg first reported the news, but at least one source caution

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OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:01:04

We value workplace flexibility At OneSignal, we understand that flexibility is key when it comes to having productive and happy teammates. We know that different roles/teams/people have different needs – some benefit more from being fully remote while others benefit more from having a hybrid setup where they have in office collaboration days 2-3 days a week. So we support both! Our headquarters are based in San Mateo, CA and we also offer shared workspace options for our teams to work together

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US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-21 23:38:20

In Brief The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump di

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Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:32:02

Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million. Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should priori

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U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-22 05:38:20

In Brief The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump

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Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future

wired.com Graham Webster 2025-11-22 10:13:18

Alan Estevez was sitting at his dining room table wearing a t-shirt when Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called on Zoom to ask if he wanted to be the Biden administration’s top export control official. “You’re going to have to sell me on this,” Estevez recalls telling her. It was 2021, and the outspoken New Jersey native thought he had finally left public service behind. After more than three decades at the Pentagon, he had left and taken a job in consulting. He wasn’t sure if he was ready

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-22 15:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Prendergast 2025-11-24 02:19:37

Why we're open sourcing our payments platform Since Februray, Teddy and I have worked tirelessly on Zenobia Pay. Our mission: build an alternative to high-fee card networks (Visa, Mastercard) using bank transfers as payments. We were super excited by FedNow, the Federal Reserve's instant transfer rail, which inspired us to quit our jobs and do this full time. We thought, let's build QR code payments, like Pix or UPI or AliPay, but for the US. And we did! We built an instant clearing, mobile fir

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ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 04:19:13

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications. Federation means that these websites can interact, allowing the humans using them to interact too, despite being registered on different websites. Fo

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PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

news.ycombinator.com Cliff Robinson 2025-11-20 08:41:36

The PCI-SIG announced this week that it is not going to stop. Targeting a 2028 release, the PCIe 8.0 specification will double the throughput over PCIe 7.0. With the release, the PCI-SIG also shared two neat charts. PCIe Gen8 Announced by the PCI-SIG Will Double Throughput Again The PCI-SIG has this graphic to show what is happening to I/O bandwidth. It says that the I/O bandwidth is doubling every three years. Something to also keep in mind is that this is very device and interface centric.

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PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput Again – ServeTheHome

news.ycombinator.com Cliff Robinson 2025-11-20 20:41:36

The PCI-SIG announced this week that it is not going to stop. Targeting a 2028 release, the PCIe 8.0 specification will double the throughput over PCIe 7.0. With the release, the PCI-SIG also shared two neat charts. PCIe Gen8 Announced by the PCI-SIG Will Double Throughput Again The PCI-SIG has this graphic to show what is happening to I/O bandwidth. It says that the I/O bandwidth is doubling every three years. Something to also keep in mind is that this is very device and interface centric.

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Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-28 20:42:17

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic to a list of approved AI vendors for the federal government. Similar to the OpenAI deal, Anthropic will offer access to its commercial-tier service Claude for Enterprise for a period of one year at a cost of just $1. The offer will

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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

wired.com Seth Harp 2025-11-29 21:00:00

The 2020s are shaping up to be one of the most violent decades in modern history, with American-sponsored proxy conflicts and shadow wars smoldering all over the world, from Ukraine to Yemen to Gaza. The United States enables and prolongs these wars not by sending troops to fight in them, but by trafficking arms to the belligerents, providing intelligence to its favored proxies, and using covert operations, especially assassinations, to shape geopolitical conditions. At the forefront of these cl

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Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-30 15:11:53

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. As first spotted by Live Science, the ambitious vision recently won the team the top prize at the Project Hyperion Design Competition, which was launched last year by an international consortium of scientists, engineers, and urban planners. Unsurprisingly, Chrysalis sounds like it was yanked straight out of a sci

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Trump Demands a Cut for Nvidia and AMD’s Access to China

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-30 12:55:28

Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government a 15% cut of their revenue from their specialized chip sales in China, in a deal so unconventional the business world is still reeling. The arrangement, effectively a new kind of “export tax,” is an unprecedented move that ends a months-long blockade and reopens one of the world’s largest markets for America’s two most valuable chipmakers. The news, first reported by the Financial Times, reveals the original and transactional tac

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Trump administration stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-30 23:12:08

The Trump administration has finally issued new guidance that states can use to dole out $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, after spending months withholding the money. A coalition of states sued over the funding freeze in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which was one of the administration’s many attempts to stop funding appropriated by Congress at the start of Donald Trump’s second term. A judge ruled in June that those states were

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Trump admin stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-01 05:12:08

The Trump administration has finally issued new guidance that states can use to dole out $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, after spending months withholding the money. A coalition of states sued over the funding freeze in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which was one of the administration’s many attempts to stop funding appropriated by Congress at the start of Donald Trump’s second term. A judge ruled in June that those states were

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Pay-to-Play? Trump Slaps 15% “Export Tax” on Big Tech’s China AI Chips

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-02 00:55:28

Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government a 15% cut of their revenue from their specialized chip sales in China, in a deal so unconventional the business world is still reeling. The arrangement, effectively a new kind of “export tax,” is an unprecedented move that ends a months-long blockade and reopens one of the world’s largest markets for America’s two most valuable chipmakers. The news, first reported by the Financial Times, reveals the original and transactional tac

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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

news.ycombinator.com Eric Shobe 2025-11-29 08:14:33

Fourteen years ago, Dropbox took its first steps toward building its own hardware infrastructure—and as our product and user base has grown, so has our infrastructure. What started with just a handful of servers has evolved into one of the largest custom-built storage systems in the world. We've scaled from a few dozen machines to tens of thousands of servers with millions of drives. That evolution didn’t happen by accident. It took years of iteration, close collaboration with suppliers, and a p

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 08:14:38

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-02 06:00:00

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been targeted by a prolific scamming operation. The scam isn’t particularly complex, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages that look like genuine notifications for popular services, from postal deliveries to local government programs, unsuspecting victims click a link that loads a

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I've tested every iPad sold by Apple right now - here's the model I recommend most

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-02 10:30:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The 11th-generation iPad 11th Generation normally retails for $349. The upgraded iPad has double the base storage as the previous generation, more RAM, and an upgraded processor in the A16 Bionic chip. However, it still isn't compatible with Apple Intelligence and doesn't support the Apple Pencil Pro. $299 at Amazon $349 at Apple $299 at Best Buy more buying choices It's not every day that a tech giant offers a new, improved product for an equal or lesser price than its

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R0ML's Ratio

news.ycombinator.com Glyph Lefkowitz 2025-12-01 14:21:31

My father, also known as “R0ML” once described a methodology for evaluating volume purchases that I think needs to be more popular. If you are a hardcore fan, you might know that he has already described this concept publicly in a talk at OSCON in 2005, among other places, but it has never found its way to the public Internet, so I’m giving it a home here, and in the process, appropriating some of his words. Let’s say you’re running a circus. The circus has many clowns. Ten thousand clowns, to

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman

WIRED Takes You Back to School

Do Vibration Plates Actually Help You Lose Weight, Build Muscle and Get Stronger?

Trump admin ranks companies on loyalty while handing out favors to Big Tech

Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity

Trump's administration may look to buy a stake in Intel

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Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput Again – ServeTheHome

Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1

The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

Trump Demands a Cut for Nvidia and AMD’s Access to China

Trump administration stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

Trump admin stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

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