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Tired of Those Constant Nighttime Pee Runs? Treat the Tinkles With These Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 05:00:12

Few things ruin a good night's rest like having to get out of a warm, comfortable bed to use the bathroom. That quick trip can be enough to break up iyour sleep, and once it happens, falling back asleep is not always easy. But at the same time, you don't want to stay uncomfortable while trying to drift off. So what do you do? When it happens more than once in a single night, the impact can be even worse. Interrupted sleep leaves you groggy the next morning and can make it harder to get through

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Google’s Calling Cards are rolling out now, and this is our first proper look!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:01:53

TL;DR Google has started to roll out the Calling Cards feature in the Contacts and Phone apps. This feature lets you create a stylish profile for your contacts. This differs from Apple’s Contact Posters, which only lets you create a poster for yourself. We’ve been tracking a Calling Card feature in Google’s Contacts app for weeks now. We haven’t actually seen this in action, but all signs point to Android’s take on Apple’s Contact Posters feature. Now, we’ve got our first look at this feature

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I used to know how to write in Japanese

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:01:13

Marco Giancotti , August 15, 2025 Cover image: Kazuenokami Katō Kiyomasa Observing a Monkey with a Writing Brush, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi I recently came across a short essay about kanji—Japanese logographic characters—by a certain James W. Heisig. His point is that learning kanji presents two obstacles: remembering what the shapes mean and remembering how they are pronounced. And it is a bad idea, claims Heisig, to try learning both at the same time. Japanese children learn the spoken language fir

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Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:33:58

narrator uses ai to write exactly what you want to read. currently in early access. just a fun side project :)

Topics: access ai currently early exactly

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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:54:14

Since launching Bluesky two years ago, we’ve grown tremendously. As our community has expanded, feedback on our terms of service, community guidelines, copyright, and privacy policies has surfaced opportunities to improve clarity. With more experience under our belt and an evolving regulatory landscape, we’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail. For our Community Guidelines, we’re asking for input from the community. The propose

Topics: act content dsa guidelines updated

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The Interactive Digital Transcription and Analysis Platform (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:03:39

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Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 18:31:24

I have the fortunate privilege to be part of the ISO C Standard mailing list, and recently a thread kicked off about Lambdas and what their need is in the C Community. That thread was in response to an ongoing push by Jens Gustedt’s proposal N2736, where Gustedt is building steam to put a proper function + data type into the C Standard at some point. What kicked off in that thread was a lot of talking about nested functions, blocks, statement expressions, whether we even need the ability to have

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 15, #796

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 08:24:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features another super-tricky purple group. The words in it all fit in the same category, but they're only parts of bigger words, so good luck figuring that one out. It might actually drive you nuts, and that's a clue. Read on for clues and t

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 15, #326

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 08:51:56

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition wasn't terrible, though I always find it tough these days. If you know your NFL divisions, there's a gimme category, and if you're from a certain Massachusetts city, there's another one that will be a breeze for you. Read on for hints and the answers. Conne

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The First Look at S.S. Rajamouli’s Next Film Is a Motorbiking, Spiked-Ball-Swinging Mystery

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-22 14:15:32

The mastermind behind RRR, the incredible blast of a Tollywood blockbuster that caused an international craze, S.S. Rajamouli, is making his cinematic return. And while it’s not for the long-gestating sequel talk for RRR, the filmmaker promises a new icon set to speed his way across the world in his next film, seemingly potentially called Globetrotter, starring Telugu movie star Mahesh Babu. In a clip posted to S.S. Rajamouli’s Instagram, we get a super mysterious first look at the movie, which

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Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 06:31:24

I have the fortunate privilege to be part of the ISO C Standard mailing list, and recently a thread kicked off about Lambdas and what their need is in the C Community. That thread was in response to an ongoing push by Jens Gustedt’s proposal N2736, where Gustedt is building steam to put a proper function + data type into the C Standard at some point. What kicked off in that thread was a lot of talking about nested functions, blocks, statement expressions, whether we even need the ability to have

Topics: function int nested return void

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The 10 Best Movies Peacock Has to Offer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 17:09:53

Peacock deserves its flowers. The platform may not be mentioned as much in the ongoing streaming conversation -- heavy-hitters like Netflix, Disney Plus and Prime Video seem to have things on lock in that sense. That said, the NBC Universal-owned streamer is jam-packed with must-watch movies of all types. And I think this is something more people should be talking about. Universal Pictures has a stellar reputation for releasing box office hits and Oscar-winning movies. It's been doing this for

Topics: peacock pictures rock school story

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I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:06:55

August 13, 2025・6 minute read Many software projects take a long time to compile. Sometimes that’s just due to the sheer amount of code, like in the LLVM project. But often a build is slower than it should be for dumb, fixable reasons. I’ve had the suspicion that most builds are doing dumb stuff, but I had no way to see it. So I’ve been working on a cross-platform tool to help speed up builds (you can try it, see below). It works with any build system or programming language (Not just C/C++).

Topics: build builds just like project

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The “Godfather of AI” Has a Bizarre Plan to Save Humanity From Evil AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 06:58:19

Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering mind behind AI industry-transforming neural networks, who's often referred to as a "godfather of AI," says we need to infuse AI with "maternal instincts" to save humanity from rogue AI. Though his work on neural networks helped to usher in the large language models (LLMs) that dominate Silicon Valley today, these days, Hinton is known for being somewhat of an AI alarmist: he believes that there's a significant chance that superintelligent AI will wipe out humanki

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I Made a Realtime C/C++ Build Visualizer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 12:06:55

August 13, 2025・6 minute read Many software projects take a long time to compile. Sometimes that’s just due to the sheer amount of code, like in the LLVM project. But often a build is slower than it should be for dumb, fixable reasons. I’ve had the suspicion that most builds are doing dumb stuff, but I had no way to see it. So I’ve been working on a cross-platform tool to help speed up builds (you can try it, see below). It works with any build system or programming language (Not just C/C++).

Topics: build builds just like project

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Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 17:55:34

The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company "gave up" on the "aspirations" of its since-departed founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas. It's a striking move for

Topics: ai character company safety wired

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I brought Samsung's new rugged tablet on a mountain lake trek - here's how it fared

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-23 23:09:00

Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro is available starting at $659 for the 128GB version, with 5G models starting at $769. It's an exceptionally rugged tablet with removable dual batteries and software updates for eight years. RAM is a bit limited at 6GB, and the included S Pen doesn't support wireless Bluetooth functions. View now at Samsung Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium bro

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New Brain Interface Interprets Inner Monologues With Startling Accuracy

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-23 23:00:43

Scientists can now decipher brain activity related to the silent inner monologue in people’s heads with up to 74% accuracy, according to a new study. In new research published today in Cell, scientists from Stanford University decoded imagined words from four participants with severe paralysis due to ALS or brainstem stroke. Aside from being absolutely wild, the findings could help people who are unable to speak communicate more easily using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), the researchers say

Topics: activity brain inner people speech

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Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:44:44

Scientists have figured out how to make frozen discs of ice self-propel across a patterned metal surface, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. It's the latest breakthrough to come out of the Virginia Tech lab of mechanical engineer Jonathan Boreyko. A few years ago, Boreyko's lab experimentally demonstrated a three-phase Leidenfrost effect in water vapor, liquid water, and ice. The Leidenfrost effect is what happens when you dash a few drops of

Topics: effect ice meltwater surface water

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Gemini’s getting a nice usability upgrade for its text responses (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 04:42:44

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on an easier process for sharing text responses from Gemini. The new workflow can be initiated by double tapping or dragging to select specific text, and users can bypass the “Select text” option. However, this new method won’t work on text in a list, only the text before or after it. Update, August 14, 2025 (10:42 AM ET): After first identifying Google’s work towards bringing Gemini a greatly improved interface for text sharing a fe

Topics: authority gemini select sharing text

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Great Myths #16: The Conflict Thesis

news.ycombinator.com Tim O'Neill 2025-11-20 20:21:29

The “Conflict Thesis” forms a kind of underlying historial metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial amount of historical assumptions by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervasive

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How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-24 09:37:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underut

Topics: acr option select settings tv

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Can I Drink Electrolyte Water Every Day? Experts Weigh In (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-24 14:32:00

Wellness marketing is a little out of control, and electrolytes are as buzzy as it gets. Touted by influencers and podcasters as a miracle supplement that helps your body perform at its peak, electrolyte beverages are as numerous as they are readily available. But the dietitians and nutritionists I spoke with are less willing to embrace these beverages as a cure-all for what ails you. I say as much in our guide to electrolyte powders: Whether or not you need to drink electrolyte water, and how

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The Future of EV Charging Can Be Found at Your Local Gas Station

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-11-24 23:30:00

New federal guidance controlling $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle fast chargers in the US could direct more money towards gas station and truck stop operators. The result? The future of “topping up” your car might look a lot like the present. This week, the US Department of Transportation released new interim guidance for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. These rules advise states on how to spend $5 billion in funding for new electric-vehicle fast chargers,

Topics: electric like new states vehicle

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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Dries Buytaert 2025-11-24 21:24:17

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. Fifteen years ago, I laid out a theory about the future of Open Source. In The Commercialization of a Volunteer-Driven Open Source Project, I argued that if Open Source was going to thrive, people had to get paid to work on it. At the time, the idea was controversial. Many feared money would corrupt the spirit of volunt

Topics: governments infrastructure open public source

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Why top and free in containers don't show the correct container memory (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Ciro S. Costa 2025-11-22 14:42:04

Hey, Something that is very common to get wrong when starting with Linux containers is to think that free and other tools like top should report the memory limits. Here you’ll not only go through why that happens and how to get it right, but also take a look at where is the Kernel looking for information when you ask it for memory statistics. Also, if you’re curious about how the code for keeping track of per-cgroup page counter looks, stick to the end! This is the third article in a series

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How well do coding agents use your library?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 05:23:56

How StackBench Works StackBench simulates how coding agents actually use your library documentation. We extract real use cases, then test if agents can implement them successfully.

Topics: actually agents documentation stackbench use

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Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

news.ycombinator.com Voyage Ai 2025-11-23 15:12:32

TL;DR – We are excited to introduce the rerank-2.5 series, which significantly improves upon rerank-2 ’s performance while also introducing instruction-following capabilities for the first time. On our standard suite of 93 retrieval datasets spanning multiple domains, rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite improve retrieval accuracy by 7.94% and 7.16% over Cohere Rerank v3.5. Furthermore, the new instruction-following feature allows users to steer the model’s output relevance scores using natural langua

Topics: following instruction lite rerank retrieval

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14, #795

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 12:00:09

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has some fun categories. Been to any weddings this summer? If so, you might ace the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to recei

Topics: answers connections group today words

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 14:58:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition has four logos in it, but never fear, the Times wouldn't make it so easy that they are all in the same category. One trick I'm passing along: Memorize some of the unusual team names in the various sports leagues, like Dream or Storm or Wild. Those words show

Topics: connections edition group sports today

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Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

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