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Matter Is Finally Ready to Deliver the Smart Home It Promised

wired.com Paul Lamkin 2025-10-26 17:00:00

Last month's Ikea's announcement of more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices felt like a much-needed breakthrough moment for the high-profile smart home standard. If Ikea—a brand with a broad, not necessarily tech-savvy customer base—is all-in on Matter, have we finally arrived at the smart home utopia that was first promised back in late 2019? It was then, amid growing frustrations from users around smart home compatibility, that tech giants including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung form

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Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

news.ycombinator.com Paul Arnold 2025-10-27 03:17:44

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: Dataset characterization and measures of reading. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113288 If you love nothing more than devouring a page-turner in your free time, you're becoming a rare breed. Reading for pleasure among adults in the United States has fallen dramatically in the last two decades. A n

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The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 11:03:30

The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years Latest update: 2025-08-25 11:30:02 At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit installer for Windows 11 weights 687,230,424 bytes. After installation, the program includes 'AI' (of course), an auto-updater, sprinkled ads for Acrobat online services everywhere, and 2 GUIs: 'new' and 'old'. For comparison, the size of SumatraPDF-3.5.2 installer is 8,246,744 bytes. It has no 'AI', no auto-updater (though it can check

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The great medieval water myth (2013)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-10-27 21:25:47

About Me chezjim Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is "Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food'; this follows a history of French bread - "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread" - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: "They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'. CHOICE magazine named his "A History of the Food of Paris: F

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Show HN: Bicyclopedia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 16:15:26

Welcome! This is an interactive exploration of the parts of a bicycle. If you're reading this message, the images may still be loading. If you are using a screen reader or have Javascript disabled, unfortunately you won't be able to see the images or animations of the parts, but you can still read the descriptions and source code here and read more about this project here. Thank you for visiting!

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ArduinoOS (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 20:12:50

To get the uptime of the operating system use getElapsedMilliseconds or getElapsedTicks . Locks In order to keep your application thread safe you can use locks. With locks you can prevent an other thread to access a variable, function, ... in an unsafe state. Example for conflicting threads: void mainThread () { InitTask (thread2); while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread1 " ); } } void thread2 () { while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread2 " ); } } If you execute this code you will n

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I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

news.ycombinator.com Aug 2025-10-28 12:39:38

I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface You might have heard that Zig 0.15 introduces a new IO interface, with the focus for this release being the new std.Io.Reader and std.Io.Writer types. The old "interfaces" had problems. Like this performance issue that I opened. And it relied on a mix of types, which always confused me, and a lot of anytype - which is generally great, but a poor foundation to build an interface on. I've been slowly upgrading my libraries, and I ran into changes to the tl

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The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 22:30:09

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Kindle update 5.18.4.01 reintroduces Assistive Reader with synced text-to-speech. The update is currently available for 11th and 12th-gen Kindles, Kindle Colorsoft, and Kindle Scribe. Recent updates include a large font option and improved menu design. Amazon rolled out firmware version 5.18.4.0.1 for its 11th and 12th‑generation Kindle e‑readers, along with the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe, bringing a welcome boost in accessibility and a few in

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The Pixel 10 Pro has a smart home feature that might make it future-proof

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 23:00:43

TL;DR The Google Pixel 10 Pro includes a built-in Thread radio, a crucial piece of hardware for the future of the smart home. Thread is a low-power mesh network that offers a more reliable and faster connection for smart home devices compared to Wi-Fi. This inclusion future-proofs the phone, enabling it to directly control the growing number of Matter-compatible smart devices. Google’s commitment to seven years of software support for the new Pixel 10 series is bold, as the phone’s state-of-t

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 20)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 18:30:05

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Without the futex, it's futile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 09:53:42

Phil Eaton’s book club is starting The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition , which is a very well regarded textbook, and pretty recently updated (2021). I’ve even heard of a couple of authors. I’ve done a lot of concurrent programming, and have always felt like I’ve still got plenty to learn, so I was excited for the topic. So far, what I’ve learned is that I would never recommend this book, despite any merits. Academia certainly struggles to find the right balance between teaching

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Without the Futex, It's Futile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 09:53:42

Phil Eaton’s book club is starting The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition , which is a very well regarded textbook, and pretty recently updated (2021). I’ve even heard of a couple of authors. I’ve done a lot of concurrent programming, and have always felt like I’ve still got plenty to learn, so I was excited for the topic. So far, what I’ve learned is that I would never recommend this book, despite any merits. Academia certainly struggles to find the right balance between teaching

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The Download: clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-07 14:10:00

—Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at Tulane University. The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared. Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Meanwhile, his EPA administrator has moved to revoke the endangerment finding, t

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Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 12:34:37

A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), reinvented from Google's TPU V2 and V1. tinytpu.mp4 Table of Contents Architecture Processing Element (PE) Function : Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle : Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle Data Flow : Incoming data is multiplied by a stored weight and added to an incoming partial sum to produce an output sum Incoming data also passes through to the next element for propagation across the array : Syst

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A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 18:34:37

A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), reinvented from Google's TPU V2 and V1. tinytpu.mp4 Table of Contents Architecture Processing Element (PE) Function : Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle : Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle Data Flow : Incoming data is multiplied by a stored weight and added to an incoming partial sum to produce an output sum Incoming data also passes through to the next element for propagation across the array : Syst

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Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:17:20

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to read sizes. The index is already fairly large, but can sometimes feel smaller than it is, and paradoxically, query performance is a big part of why. If each query has a budget of 100-25

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Kindle might have another competitor headed to shelves

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:30:29

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Bookshop.org, an online bookstore, was launched in January 2020 to help independent bookstores survive Amazon. Now the company may be introducing its first physical e-reader, presenting a direct competitor to the Amazon Kindle. There is currently a blank landing page for an e-reader visible on the Bookshop.org site. In a compelling new development for e-book readers, Bookshop.org, known for championing independent bookstores, might soon bring a fresh

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OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 02:25:02

Here’s a little benchmark complements of Jann Horn. It’s unexpectedly slow on Linux. OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself, as the time utility is missing sufficient precision to even record nonzero. All it does is create one extra thread, then both existing threads create 256 sockets. What’s so hard about that? #include <pthread.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <err.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/socket.h> static void open_socket

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In-depth analysis on Valorant's Guarded Regions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 23:00:46

This post is not meant to be an attack towards Riot Games’ Vanguard or Microsoft’s Windows, they have done an excellent job with their products and will continue to do so for the coming years, the content of this post is gathered solely by me, and I am not tied to any game hack publisher or entities. I have no intention of harming any company’s product, and everything here is constructed for educational purposes. In the cutthroat world of online gaming, there is no greater threat to the sanctit

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The 15 Best Genre Movies of Summer 2025 (and Where to Watch Them)

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-14 03:15:18

A few short weeks remain in the 2025 summer movie season, and we have to say, it’s been a pretty great one. Lots of the big blockbusters really delivered. Lots of smaller films came out of nowhere to surprise us. And even a few streaming titles made their mark. Below, we’ve got our choices for the 15 best genre movies released during the summer of 2025, from the first weekend in May through the end of August. 15. Thunderbolts Spoiler: this is the only Marvel movie on this list. Not that we dis

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The Download: affordable EV trucks, and Russia’s latest internet block

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-15 08:10:00

On Monday, Ford announced plans for an affordable electric truck with a 2027 delivery date and an expected price tag of about $30,000, thanks in part to a new manufacturing process that it says will help cut costs. This could be the shot in the arm that the slowing US EV market needs. If anything can get Americans excited, it’s a truck, especially an affordable one. However, there are some significant hurdles in the way. EV sales are slowing, and Ford in particular has struggled recently. Th

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New Study Shows Smartwatch Stress Sensors Have No Idea What They're Doing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 16:53:28

You might want to think twice before you put a lot of stock in the latest stress charts from your fitness wearable. A recent study from the Netherlands' Leiden University, published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, has found that when smartwatches and similar devices record readings on stress, fatigue or sleep, they're frequently getting it wrong. Researchers studied 800 young adults using the same Garmin Vivosmart 4 smartwatch model. They compared the data the smartwatch

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ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a Developer Experience PM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 03:00:37

Be part of building something people love. You want to do work that matters. On a product people care about. Preferably with friends. At ReadMe, you’ll have the autonomy to own your work, the flexibility to be your most effective, and the freedom to learn from mistakes. We’re a startup. There's a lot to be done. But if you want to work with meaning and balance, you’ll love it here. Kirby Carpenito Codenames fiend Ladies of ReadMe Circa Feb. 2020 (There are more of us now!) Gregory Koberger K

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Threads crosses 400M monthly active users as it gains on X

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-18 12:11:12

Following a recent series of welcome updates as Threads turned two, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his X competitor crossed 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), a 50 million boost since April. Zuckerberg’s announcement today was short, but significant: The last time Meta detailed its monthly active user number was on April 30, during its Q1 2025 earnings call, up from 320 million in Q4 2024 in late January. If it keeps it stride, this means Meta could see north of 100M MAUs

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Threads is up to 400 million monthly active users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:02:04

Meta's X competitor, Threads, is continuing to add users at a brisk clip, with the social network now surpassing 400 million monthly active users. The news, reported by Fast Company , follows Threads reaching the 300 million mark in December 2024 and the 200 million mark in August 2024. FC also cited data from Similarweb that showed mobile performance for Threads drawing closer to the figures from X. In June, Threads posted 115.1 million daily active users on mobile and X had 132 million. Those

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Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-20 03:44:07

Just two years since its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads has topped 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “As of a few weeks ago we there are more than 400 million people active on Threads every month,” Mosseri wrote in a Threads post. “It’s been quite the ride over the last two years. This started as a zany idea to compete with Twitter, and has evolved into a meaningful platform that fosters the open exchange of per

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FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:51:02

Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs Contact: OlivierCertner Motivation For the amd64 architecture, Intel started shipping hybrid CPUs with the rather confidential Lakefield and then more massively with Alder Lake (Gen12). Apart from some models of Alder Lake, it is now impossible to buy an Intel chip that does not have at least P (Performance) and E (Efficiency) cores. ARM first released incarnations of its big.LITTLE arrangement as soon as 2011. DynamIQ is an evolution where big and LITTLE CPUs can b

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The Download: a quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-23 17:10:00

Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of atoms in a glass cell to detect reflected radio waves. The radar is a type of quantum sensor, an emerging technology that uses the quantum-mechanical properties of objects as measurement devices. It’s still a prototype, but its intended use is to image buried objects in situations such as constructing underground utilities, drilling wells for natural gas, and excavating archaeological sit

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Inside OS/2 (1987)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 20:15:33

by Vaughn Vernon from the December 1987 issue of Computer Language OS/2, Microsoft’s latest addition to its operating system line, could well become the operating system of the next decade for Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers. Its multitasking capabilities, full-featured application programming interface (API), and extendability to future hardware almost guarantee its success. Microsoft sees microcomputing as a platform for office automation hardware and software: The office of the future (re

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I can never go back to a phone without this display feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 15:00:56

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority I have never been the kind to rise and shine. For the 31 years of my existence — or, at least, for the major chunk I remember vividly, waking up early in the morning has been a woeful exercise for me, unless, of course, it is for traveling or hosting people I love. Instead, I can feel the neurons in my brain firing up better in the dead of the night, and so, I have made the effort to ensure the tech in my life is best suited to make better use of those hours. T

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