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The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code

news.ycombinator.com Nicolas Carlo 2025-10-08 22:00:23

Struggling with Legacy Code and not enough time to clean it up? can help you rescue any codebase quickly and safely ! “Legacy Code is code without tests” If you’ve come across that definition, it’s from Michael Feathers’ book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code. While I have a slightly extended definition, this is a very valid and useful one! Feathers’ book is from 2004. Yet, its content doesn’t get outdated. There is a reason for that and this CommitStrip puts it best: This book is a re

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Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona brand in 2026

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-12 18:47:18

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng speaks to reporters at the electric carmaker's stand at the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 2025. Xpeng plans to launch its mass-market Mona brand in overseas markets next year in a move that will boost competition with its Chinese rivals and established automakers in the electric vehicle arena. In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng said the company's international expansion is moving faster than he expected and signaled,

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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

news.ycombinator.com Patrick George 2025-10-12 22:20:06

Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package. Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn’t so bor

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The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:18:47

For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over networks, and idling accelerators. Before jumping straight into the latest distributed computing effort underway at NVIDIA and AMD, let’s quickly level set on what distributed computing is, how it works, a

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Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

news.ycombinator.com Kalinin 2025-10-10 03:06:14

Experimental set-up The key components of our experimental set-up are shown in Fig. 1a and Extended Data Fig. 1. Optical subsystem The optical subsystem performs matrix–vector multiplication. The basic components are the optical sources (input vector), a system of fan-out optics to project the light onto the modulator matrix and a system of fan-in optics to project the light onto a photodetector array (output vector). The corresponding schematic is shown in Extended Data Fig. 2. The incohere

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Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo S

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:00:58

Today, Porsche debuted a new 911 variant at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany. It's the most powerful 911 to date, excluding some limited-run models, and may well be the quickest to 60 mph from a standing start, dispatching that dash in just 2.4 seconds. And it's all thanks to one of the most interesting hybrid powertrains on sale today. Rather than just bolting an electric motor to an existing 911, Porsche designed an entirely new 3.6 L flat-six engine, taking the opportunity to ditch t

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A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

news.ycombinator.com Kendler 2025-10-12 23:21:55

We first turn to Adolf Meyer, the most influential psychiatrist in the US over the first 3rd of the 20th century [27]. It should be recalled that until World War II, American psychiatry was a rather small profession, largely composed of superintendents of mental hospitals who largely had a biologically orientation to their work. In 1907, while the director of the New York Psychiatric Institute, Meyer wrote about his concerns of the narrow views that US physicians would typically take in their ap

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Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:18:28

Help grow the community! Know a useful command or recipe that's missing? Help other developers by contributing.

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Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:59:39

Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! Like almost all human endeavors, open-source software development involves a range of power dynamics. Companies, d

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The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 15:10:47

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs Actually coming up with ideas like GPT-based LLMs and doing serious AI research requires serious maths. But the good news is that if you just want to understand how they work, while it does require some maths, if you studied it at high-school at any time since the 1960s, you did all of the groundwork then: vectors, matrices, and so on. One thing to note -- what I'm covering here is what you need to know to understand inference -- that is, using an

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Should a Plug-In Hybrid Be Your Next Car? Here's How to Decide

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 02:00:04

"A plug-in hybrid is the gateway drug for EVs," says Amelia Dalgaard, an automotive expert known online as the Motorhead Mama. That's because plug-in hybrids address the range anxiety that stops some car buyers from going full-EV at first. Despite the growing popularity of traditional electric vehicles, not everyone is ready for a fully-electric car. And luckily, there's another option that's a good first step for many drivers: plug-in hybrids. Plug-in hybrids let you drive on battery power f

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Tesla Proposes a Trillion-Dollar Bet That It's More Than Just Cars

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-13 10:26:44

For a while now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has seemed awfully distracted. His past few years in non-Tesla activities include: buying and renaming Twitter; going all in on President Donald Trump’s election campaign and then an obscure Wisconsin Supreme Court race; a lot of babymaking, plus attendant drama; and months spent standing up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Meanwhile, Tesla sales have slid as the electric-car maker faces fierce competition from Chinese manufacturers and rej

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Apple is making the movies Hollywood won’t, and it’s paying off big

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-13 18:32:41

’Think different’ was an iconic Apple ad campaign, and it might just be the best way to summarize the company’s new Apple TV+ strategy for movies. Here’s why recent debuts like Highest 2 Lowest and F1 reflect a growing trend of Apple making movies that Hollywood won’t. Apple has found success with big-budget, original films in an industry of sequels and remakes Just one short year ago, Apple’s movie strategy was in disarray. Following a string of box office disappointments, the company abrupt

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Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-13 22:56:20

In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on its forehead, fused to the cave wall. Since then, researchers have been trying to date the strange specimen and understand how it got there, but these efforts so far have yielded only a frustratingly broad age range of between around 170,000 and 700,000 years. The skull’s ambiguous stratigraphic position is also less than helpful. So a team of researchers took a slightly di

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Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 09:40:07

Tesla's board has proposed an unprecedented pay package for its CEO Elon Musk: around $1 trillion worth of shares, Bloomberg reports. It's a major escalation in the firm's increasingly desperate attempts to encourage its highly divisive leader to stick around and stay attentive. That's despite Tesla's core business imploding over the past year, largely the result of Musk's alienating behavior and surging international competition. "Simply put, retaining and incentivizing Elon is fundamental to

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The New ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Finally Has a Release Date

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-14 22:00:45

James Gunn provides an update on Man of Tomorrow, Fall literally flips on its side for Fall 2, and Bigfoot ruins a dating contest. It’s morning spoilers! The Earthling Deadline reports Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein are attached to direct The Earthling, an adaptation of Jonathan Marty’s unpublished short story at Columbia Pictures. The plot is firmly under wraps, but the “survival sci-fi story” is said to contain “shades of The Martian and Edge of Tomorrow.” Patri

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Tesla Offers ONE TRILLION DOLLAR Pay Package to Elon Musk (If He Can Stay Focused)

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-14 22:45:40

Tesla’s board is asking shareholders to sign off on a massive, unprecedented pay package that could turn its CEO, Elon Musk, who is already the world’s richest man, into the first trillionaire. If the plan is approved, Musk would need to reach several performance benchmarks over the next 10 years to get the full payout. The board said in a securities filing on Friday that the pay package’s primary goal is to retain “Mr. Musk to lead Tesla through its next phase of transformational growth.” In

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Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-15 11:11:09

Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker’s car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI. The company has tied the compensation to a number of benchmarks, one of which involves increasing Tesla’s overall valuation from around $1 trillion to more than $8 trillion. The plan would grant Musk more than 423 million additional shares in the company, boosting his level of control to a

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Huawei Releases Its Second Trifold Phone Weeks Ahead of Samsung's Expected Launch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 21:48:00

Huawei's second-generation trifold phone, the Mate XTs, is now available, just shy of a year after the company's first trifold phone was released in September 2024. The trifold phone isn't much different from the Mate XT, but two big upgrades take the spotlight. The Mate XTs let you use a stylus on the phone's folding screen and comes in purple, red, black or white. It runs on HarmonyOS 5.1, which Huawei calls a "PC-level" experience, and has a new M-Pen 3 stylus. "In the free multiwindow mode

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Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-15 22:07:34

In Brief Stripe is funding a new blockchain company called Tempo, co-founder CEO Patrick Collison announced on Thursday. Tempo is aimed at high-volume processing of stablecoins — coins that help reduce crypto’s notorious volatility because they are pegged to a stable asset like the U.S. dollar. That’s not surprising given that Stripe acquired stablecoin company Bridge. What is surprising is the eye-popping list of companies Stripe has already enlisted: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDa

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This Electric Shaver Is Made From Aircraft-Grade Aluminium, Because Why Not?

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-16 05:04:35

Nothing says “premium” like aerospace-grade aluminum alloy, am I right? I guess. I don’t know, it sounds fancy and it looks fancy, too, which makes Laifen’s new electric shaver, the T1 Pro, the swankiest electric shaver I’ve seen all day. The T1 Pro, which was announced at IFA 2025, is apparently crafted with “a single block of aerospace-grade aluminum alloy,” which makes this over-engineered shaver both light and very durable, according to Laifen. Powering this thing is what Laifen describes a

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Honda teases its first full-size e-motorcycle with fast charging

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 10:51:17

Honda is preparing to announce its first electric motorcycle with fast charging, based on a new teaser video the company shared on Instagram. The video shows off the new e-motorcycle on test rides in Europe and teases the date, September 16, when Honda will presumably introduce it. Plans to expand Honda's lineup of electric motorcycles have been in the works since at least 2022, when the company announced it would release "10 or more" e-motorcycles by 2025. The new motorcycle is under a wrap of

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Got AI skills? You can earn 43% more in your next job - and not just for tech work

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-16 10:37:55

Andrii Zastrozhnov/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Demand for AI skills is on the rise across industries. A single AI skill makes a huge difference in listed salaries. Different industries are looking for different AI skills. As businesses race to adopt AI, they're placing a higher premium on job candidates who know their way around the technology. A recent study from labor market research firm Lightca

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GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies to pair up on hybrid-electric power

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-16 13:51:00

GE Aerospace is taking a sizable stake in electric aviation company Beta Technologies, with the pair teaming up to build a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for next-gen aircraft. GE will also invest $300 million, pending regulatory approval, under a strategic deal announced Thursday. The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on. Aircraft ma

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Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 17:52:43

All Batches All Countries Want your own map? Get a white-label version for your accelerator, university, or VC firm.

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GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies, pair up on hybrid-electric power

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-16 18:51:00

GE Aerospace is taking a sizable stake in electric aviation company Beta Technologies, with the pair teaming up to build a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for next-gen aircraft. GE will also invest $300 million, pending regulatory approval, under a strategic deal announced Thursday. The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on. Aircraft ma

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Should the Company Trucks Go Electric? Depends on When You Charge

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-16 22:30:00

Should the company switch its trucks, cars, and vans to electric? It’s a question that plenty of businesses operating fleets of vehicles—in industries like delivery, health care, cable companies, and utilities—are thinking through. Eighty-seven percent of fleet operators polled by Cox Automotive last year said they were expecting to bring aboard some battery-powered vehicles in the next five years. Their top concerns weren’t that different from everyday drivers’: Businesses aren’t sure how to k

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Pixel phones could soon let you set up unique vibrations for each contact (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 02:53:10

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR We spotted Google Contacts code that hints at contact-specific vibration patterns for Pixel phones. Apple and Samsung already allow you to assign specific haptics to your contacts. If it rolls out, the feature would tell you who’s calling even when your Pixel is in silent mode. Pixel phones already let you set custom ringtones for individual contacts, but Google could be preparing to take things further. Code hidden in the latest version of the Google

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Porsche's New Cayenne Will Charge Itself Like No Other EV

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 23:02:00

Table of Contents Porsche's New Cayenne Will Charge Itself Like No Other EV Those who closely follow electric cars will have heard whispers of wireless charging for a while now. And if you're not an EV aficionado, you've probably wondered why it hasn't happened. Well, that's all about to change. Porsche announced on Thursday that it's rolling out wireless charging on the upcoming all-electric Cayenne later this year. The goal is to put an end to wrangling thick and bulky charging cables. Inste

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Govee’s trippy new light strip puts three lights in every bulb

theverge.com Jacob Kastrenakes 2025-10-17 02:00:00

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Govee has some colorful new ideas for how a light strip can decorate your home. Its latest, the Permanent Outdoor Lights Prism, puts three lights in every bulb along the strip, with a prism lens above them that’s designed to create three distinct or blended beams of light. The strip supports full color, and

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Latest Tech News

The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona brand in 2026

Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo S

A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

Should a Plug-In Hybrid Be Your Next Car? Here's How to Decide

Tesla Proposes a Trillion-Dollar Bet That It's More Than Just Cars

Apple is making the movies Hollywood won’t, and it’s paying off big

Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid

Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

The New ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Finally Has a Release Date

Tesla Offers ONE TRILLION DOLLAR Pay Package to Elon Musk (If He Can Stay Focused)

Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T

Huawei Releases Its Second Trifold Phone Weeks Ahead of Samsung's Expected Launch

Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain

This Electric Shaver Is Made From Aircraft-Grade Aluminium, Because Why Not?

Honda teases its first full-size e-motorcycle with fast charging

Got AI skills? You can earn 43% more in your next job - and not just for tech work

GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies to pair up on hybrid-electric power

Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies, pair up on hybrid-electric power

Should the Company Trucks Go Electric? Depends on When You Charge

Pixel phones could soon let you set up unique vibrations for each contact (APK teardown)

Porsche's New Cayenne Will Charge Itself Like No Other EV

Govee’s trippy new light strip puts three lights in every bulb

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