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From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2025-08-08 10:34:42

What if a real-time automated decision-making process needs a computer vision system to produce photorealistic visuals in a mere fraction of a second? In many cases, this requires too much computational power — if it’s even possible at all. When computer vision uses 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), it provides a photorealistic image, but the process takes far too long. For more on this topic, see our article on computer vision for disaster responses. This article discusses a new approach, Progress

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Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-08-08 23:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to younger riders with the launch of teen accounts in Phoenix. Teenagers aged 14–17 can now sign up for an account on Waymo One, the company’s ridehail service. The account will be linked to their parent or guardian, but approved teens will be allowed to ride independently without an

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Teenagers can now hail a Waymo robotaxi in Phoenix

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-08 23:00:00

Waymo has started offering teen accounts for families in Phoenix as it works to expand its user base and entrench young riders in the autonomous life. Waymo’s teen accounts will be similar to those offered by Uber, which also allows parents to make teen accounts in Phoenix and other cities across the country. Parents in Metro Phoenix can link a profile to their Waymo One accounts for teenagers aged 14 to 17. The teens will then be able to order their own rides and share trip status with parents

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The most immersive gaming speaker system I've ever tested is $230 off for Prime Day

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-08-09 03:34:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The SteelSeries Arena 9 features a full-fledged 5.1 surround sound system, including subwoofers for added bass. It allows you to connect three devices simultaneously via Bluetooth, USB, and optical cable. While it offers robust EQ customization via the OLED dial and Sonar desktop app, the OLED dial doesn't give you as much control as the Sonar app for non-PC devices. $548.99 at Amazon $679.99 at Lenovo $609.99 at Best Buy more buying choices The SteelSeries Arena 9 syste

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On The Meaning of Ritual

news.ycombinator.com Alice Maz 2025-08-05 22:40:43

The Book of Rites, also known as the Classic of Ritual. The Way of the former kings consists in exalting ren. One must cleave to what is central in carrying it out. What do I mean by "what is central"? I say: it is ritual and yi (8.99). The Confucian moral order is grounded in ren (仁), yi (義), and ritual (禮, li). Ren is humaneness, empathy, and magnanimous compassion. Yi is righteousness, firmness of will, and principles-based justice. Ren is the duty to care and provide for those in your ch

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Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-09 19:00:49

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. Open clusters of stars—which consist of dozens up to a few thousand stars—are an interesting tool for astronomers to study the Universe. T

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Tech Now

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-09 01:00:30

Ione Wells explores the search for Chile's stolen children, decades after they were taken during the country's military dictatorship, and asks if tech can help families find answers. More

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Elon Musk Calls the U.S. Dollar ‘Hopeless,’ Says His America Party Will Embrace Bitcoin

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-11 23:58:25

As details about his new political venture begin to emerge, Elon Musk has confirmed that the “America Party” will embrace Bitcoin, a move that solidifies the party’s anti-establishment and tech-centric identity. The world’s richest man made the revelation on his social media platform, X, signaling a potential new frontier for cryptocurrency in American politics. The exchange unfolded after Musk positioned his new party as a home for centrists and voters disillusioned with the traditional two-pa

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Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 11:44:04

My washing machine broke down. I need a replacement. I must avoid getting a "smart" one though. Are there any lists of products that arent "smart" so I can know which models are viable options to buy? Or other resources? I'm based in Ireland.

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Why English doesn't use accents

news.ycombinator.com Colin Gorrie 2025-08-12 08:18:26

Portrait of Jean Miélot (after 1456), Jean le Tavernier Canterbury, AD 1105 The cold of the stone floor in the scriptorium creeps up through Godwin’s boots. He pays it no mind. Before him lies a copy of the Chronicle, just arrived from the old capital of Winchester. In it is written the history of the English people. His people. Today, his job is to make another copy. No difficult task for Godwin, or any monk. But Abbot Robert will want to inspect the work before vespers. Abbot Robert. A No

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I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 06:50:02

Decrypted Generative Model safety files for Apple Intelligence containing filters Structure decrypted_overrides/ : Contains decrypted overrides for various models. com.apple.*/ : Directory named using the Asset Specifier assosciated with the safety info Info.plist : Contains metadata for the override AssetData/ : Contains the decrypted JSON files : Contains decrypted overrides for various models. get_key_lldb.py : Script to get the encryption key (see usage info below) : Script to get the en

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Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

news.ycombinator.com Viksit Gaur 2025-08-12 03:52:46

Modern agentic architectures rely heavily on chaining LLM calls. A typical pattern looks like: Use an LLM to decide which tool to invoke Call the tool (e.g. search, calculator, API) Use another LLM call to interpret the result and generate a final response This structure is easy to reason about, simple to prototype, and generalizes well. But it scales poorly. Each LLM call incurs latency, cost, and token overhead. More subtly, it compounds context: every step includes not only the original q

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N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 23:07:34

Playing the N-Back test is straightforward but requires focused attention. Watch the 3x3 grid as blue squares appear in different positions. Your task is to remember the sequence and identify when the current position matches the one from N steps ago. For a 2-Back test (the standard version), you need to determine if the current square's position matches the position from 2 steps earlier. Click 'Match' or press the spacebar when you detect a match, or click 'No Match' or press 'N' when there's

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A rare look inside the durability lab where Apple tortures its products

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-12 00:00:00

Apple puts its products through a lot of tests during the development process, intended to ensure they have a long and reliable life even in challenging conditions. The company tests at least 10,000 iPhones prior to launch in an attempt to cover all the bases. It’s not often the iPhone maker lets outsiders into its labs, but Apple invited some of those attending WWDC 2025 to visit one to see for themselves the conditions it expects its gadgets to survive … To be clear, it’s not the first time

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I want to leave tech: what do I do?

news.ycombinator.com Conjure Utopia 2025-08-13 18:58:49

Let’s say you’re working in tech and you have a technical role: you’re a programmer, a graphic or UI/UX designer, a sysadmin, maybe even a product manager. Let’s say you want to leave, change career, and do something more meaningful with your skills. Your motivations may vary: you feel the tech industry produces nothing of value, or maybe you have the legitimate suspicion that what you build helps bomb innocent people somewhere. You might want to leave because of the individualistic culture tha

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Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 06:28:34

Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past. Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

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Leaks hint at Operator-like tool in ChatGPT ahead of GPT-5 launch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-14 15:22:31

A few new code references in the ChatGPT web app and Android point to an Operator-like tool in GPT's chain of thoughts. As spotted by Tibor on X, the Android beta has strings like “click,” “drag,” “type,” and even “terminal feed,” which seem to suggest that ChatGPT could soon call a remote browser or sandboxed environment (Operator?). For those unaware, OpenAI already has Operator, which uses an AI agent to navigate a remote browser session and execute tasks for you. These references suggest

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The Stars of ‘Superman’ Claim to Have No Knowledge of Their DC Futures

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-15 06:00:22

We don’t know much about the future of James Gunn’s DC Universe, but one thing seems all but certain: Superman will be back. He’s the universe’s most powerful metahuman, after all, and one of the most famous, popular characters on the DC roster. Clearly, he’s going to have a role to play in whatever is coming next. And, along with Superman, come a few of his friends and foes. People like Lois Lane and Lex Luthor. So it kind of goes without saying that David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nich

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Pinwheel introduces a smartwatch for kids that includes an AI chatbot

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-08-15 23:27:20

As a parent, it can be daunting to hand over a smart device to their tween when a myriad of online dangers exist. Pinwheel, a kid-friendly tech company, is introducing a new solution for parents who want to stay connected with their children without giving them a phone. The Pinwheel Watch is a recently launched smartwatch designed specifically for kids aged 7 to 14, offering a child-safe alternative that prevents access to social media and the internet. It features parental management tools, GP

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Tools: Code Is All You Need

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 09:51:18

Tools: Code Is All You Need If you've been following me on Twitter, you know I'm not a big fan of MCP right now. It's not that I dislike the idea; I just haven't found it to work as advertised. In my view, MCP suffers from two major flaws: It isn’t truly composable. Most composition happens through inference. It demands too much context. You must supply significant upfront input, and every tool invocation consumes even more context than simply writing and running code. A quick experiment make

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What James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Tells Us About the Future of the DC Universe

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-17 00:00:43

It’s been years since James Gunn and Peter Safran first announced their plans for the future of the DC Universe. In that time, plans have changed slightly, and work is ongoing, but, with one exception, we have yet to see exactly how things are going to play out. That changes July 11 with the release of Superman. Not only is the film our first introduction to this brand-new, reimagined version of Superman, it’s our first look at what Gunn and Safran’s DC Universe looks like on the big screen. Sp

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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-17 15:28:27

AT&T is rolling out a protection that prevents unauthorized changes to mobile accounts as the carrier attempts to fight a costly form of account hijacking that occurs when a scammer swaps out the SIM card belonging to the account holder. The technique, known as SIM swapping or port-out fraud, has been a scourge that has vexed wireless carriers and their millions of subscribers for years. An indictment filed last year by federal prosecutors alleged that a single SIM swap scheme netted $400 milli

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Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian health care system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-18 02:22:44

Medical organizations are blasting the Senate's budget bill in the wake of its narrow passage Tuesday, warning of the dystopian health care system that will arise from the $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs if it is passed into law. The bill has moved back to the House for a vote on the Senate's changes. Over the weekend, an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 11.8 million people would lose their health insurance over the next decade due

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Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian healthcare system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-18 07:22:44

Medical organizations are blasting the Senate's budget bill in the wake of its narrow passage Tuesday, warning of the dystopian healthcare system that will arise from the $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs if it is passed into law. The bill has moved back to the House for a vote on the Senate's changes. Over the weekend, an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 11.8 million people would lose their health insurance over the next decade due

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James Gunn Reveals the Surprising Jor-El Casting for ‘Superman’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-18 15:00:50

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey gets its first poster. Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton are set up for a new sea monster drama at Netflix. Plus, filming has wrapped on the final season of The Boys. Spoilers now! Street Fighter Deadline reports David Dastmalchian has been cast as M. Bison in Legendary’s live-action Street Fighter movie. The Odyssey A new poster has been released for Chris Nolan’s Greek epic. A film by Christopher Nolan. Shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. In theaters 7 17 26

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How generative AI could help make construction sites safer

technologyreview.com Andrew Rosenblum 2025-08-19 02:00:00

To combat the shortcuts and risk-taking, Lorenzo is working on a tool for the San Francisco–based company DroneDeploy, which sells software that creates daily digital models of work progress from videos and images, known in the trade as “reality capture.” The tool, called Safety AI, analyzes each day’s reality capture imagery and flags conditions that violate Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules, with what he claims is 95% accuracy. That means that for any safety risk the

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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 03:03:38

Presented during the UN’s 4th International Conference on Financing for Development – taking place this week in Sevilla, Spain – the proposal highlights a growing problem: the richest individuals often contribute less to public finances than ordinary taxpayers, thanks to lower effective tax rates and legal loopholes. “Our countries need more and more public revenues to meet their needs. Inequality is a problem everywhere and the richest pay less than the middle class – even less than lower-inco

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Best Internet Providers in Reno, Nevada

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 00:06:00

What is the best internet provider in Reno? CNET recommends AT&T as the best internet provider for most Reno households thanks to its strong combination of solid speeds, affordable pricing and connectivity options, including Internet Air, Fiber and 5G. While AT&T may not be available everywhere in Reno, other options like Spectrum and local provider Net NV offer solid alternatives, depending on your address. For those prioritizing budget over speed, Spectrum delivers the cheapest plan in Reno

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Aesop in Words of One Syllable

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 23:41:15

In the 19th Century, British and American children’s literature evolved from puritanical moral and religious instruction to delightfully imaginative tales meant to awaken a sense of wonder. But morality and imagination could certainly thrive together. Æsop’s Fables in Words of One Syllable is an excellent example of this. The ancient Greek storyteller Aesop may or may not have existed, and he may or may not have written the hundreds of morality tales attributed to him. Yet his stories have been

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GOP budget bill poised to crush renewable energy in the US

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-20 23:34:15

Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come. In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a group of Republican senators over the weekend added provisions to the U.S. federal budget bill that, as currently written, would end clean energy tax credits at th

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Latest Tech News

From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

Teenagers can now hail a Waymo robotaxi in Phoenix

The most immersive gaming speaker system I've ever tested is $230 off for Prime Day

On The Meaning of Ritual

Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

Tech Now

Elon Musk Calls the U.S. Dollar ‘Hopeless,’ Says His America Party Will Embrace Bitcoin

Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?

Why English doesn't use accents

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training

A rare look inside the durability lab where Apple tortures its products

I want to leave tech: what do I do?

Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

Leaks hint at Operator-like tool in ChatGPT ahead of GPT-5 launch

The Stars of ‘Superman’ Claim to Have No Knowledge of Their DC Futures

Pinwheel introduces a smartwatch for kids that includes an AI chatbot

Tools: Code Is All You Need

What James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Tells Us About the Future of the DC Universe

AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian health care system

Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian healthcare system

James Gunn Reveals the Surprising Jor-El Casting for ‘Superman’

How generative AI could help make construction sites safer

Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality

Best Internet Providers in Reno, Nevada

Aesop in Words of One Syllable

GOP budget bill poised to crush renewable energy in the US

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