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Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won’t destroy education

theverge.com Hank Green 2025-11-12 10:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTube channels. I’m also an author, a TikToker, and what you might call a poster — you might have seen my face on the internet over the years. You might also remember last year when I turned the tables on Nilay and interviewed him on his own show, because what better Decoder guest than Nilay Patel? That was a ton of fun, and it was so much fun that t

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EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-12 10:36:17

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the “next generation” of Starlink’s cellular satellite service, which customers

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The iPhone 17’s potential makeover might be just enough

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-11-12 15:00:00

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. There’s probably a lot of market research out there by fancy people who analyze consumer data trying to answer one question: Why do people choose an iPhone? Is it a reputation for better privacy? Long-term reliability? Targeted ad campaigns? I think it’s a lot simpler than anyone wants to acknowledge: Their previous

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SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar’s spectrum for Starlink’s direct-to-phone service

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-12 15:26:57

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar, for use in the Starlink satellite network. EchoStar will sell its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in exchange for $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion SpaceX stock. SpaceX said the deal would let it develop and deploy its “Direct to Cell” constellation, which it claims can provide broadband-speed internet access to mobile phones across the world. Of the cash, $2

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OnePlus 15’s leaked camera spec hints at higher zoom, but with a catch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-12 20:13:07

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus 15 camera leaks reveal a new focal length and aperture for the 50MP periscope telephoto lens. The new lens supposedly has a narrower f/2.8 aperture, a downgrade from the OnePlus 13’s f/2.6 aperture. Another possible leak suggests the OnePlus 15 might be cheaper due to cost-cutting measures, including a different display and the end of the Hasselblad partnership. OnePlus makes some excellent Android flagships, and the current generation OnePlus 13

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The Galaxy S26 Ultra’s 5x camera could finally get a loooooong overdue upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-12 20:44:56

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s 5x camera is tipped to have a wider aperture. This would enable brighter, cleaner shots, particularly in low-light conditions. It would also allow for 5x portrait snaps with more natural bokeh effects. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra leaks continue to stream in, and we recently saw camera specs surface online. Now, a trusted leaker has revealed even more details about the Ultra phone’s camera hardware. Don’t want to miss the

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Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 16:23:59

Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations This system automatically visualizes a story (chronological events, character and their actions and movements) and allows users to edit the story by manipulating these visual representations. For example: Hover over the timeline allows reviewing the chronology of events and visualizing the movements of the characters Connecting two characters suggests edits to the text to reflect the new interaction Moving a character sugge

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How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-11-13 05:45:00

Looking ahead, an academic at a public university in Texas, where the money granted for indirect costs funds student salaries, said he plans to hire fewer students for his own lab. “It’s very sad that I cannot promise [positions] at this point because of this,” he told us, adding that the cap could also affect the competitiveness of public universities in Texas, since schools elsewhere may fund their student researchers differently. At the same time, two people with funding through the Defense

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Why you’ll want to have two tabs open to watch the iPhone 17 event

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-13 05:51:18

There’s just one day to go until the iPhone 17 event, and the Awe Dropping announcements will of course be streaming online. You have a choice of three different ways to watch the event live, and if you’re watching from a browser, it’s worth having two different tabs open … While we’re expecting the presentations to be pre-recorded, as we’ve seen for the last few years, it is still streamed as if it were a live event. We previously outlined the three different ways to watch the livestream: A

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The tablet that successfully replaced my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy follow-up

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-13 06:00:00

TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is available for $249. This tablet can switch from full color to an E Ink-like display with the press of a button, it has 256GB of storage, and an eye-catching matte display with 120Hz refresh rate. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus can get heavy when you use it one-handed and doesn't include a case or stylus, though you can buy them separately. $249 at Walmart Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I test a lot of tablets

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RSS Beat Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 05:50:01

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and fidelity, VHS was cheaper, offered longer recordings, and, most importantly, was the more open format. Not many people talk about how or why RSS won the content syndication war because few people are aware

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Why Is Japan Still Investing in Custom Floating Point Accelerators?

news.ycombinator.com Timothy Prickett Morgan 2025-11-10 06:27:24

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed with accelerators account for half of the money spent on systems worldwide. There is no law anywhere that says that accelerator has to be a GPU, although that has been the accelerator of choice by far because GPUs are, like CPUs, general purpose processors that are explicitly designed to support vario

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How the Slavic Migration Reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

news.ycombinator.com Joscha Gretzinger Et Al. 2025-11-12 23:30:19

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early medieval communities Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege u

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Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 09:42:04

TLDR: In a real world benchmark, the default musl allocator caused a 7x slowdown compared to other allocators. I recommend all Rust projects immediately add the following lines to their application’s main.rs : // Avoid musl's default allocator due to lackluster performance // https://nickb.dev/blog/default-musl-allocator-considered-harmful-to-performance #[cfg(target_env = "musl" )] #[global_allocator] static GLOBAL : mimalloc ::MiMalloc = mimalloc::MiMalloc; And Cargo.toml [ target . 'cfg(ta

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How many dimensions is this?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:25:21

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been posting about seemingly simple mathematical problems that defy intuition, and where the answers we find on the internet turn out to be shallow or hard to parse. For a taste, you might enjoy the articles on Gödel’s beavers or on infinite decimals. Today, let’s continue by asking a simple question: how many dimensions does a line have? A trained mathematician might blurt out an answer involving vector spaces or open set coverings, but there’s no fun in that.

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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 22:53:47

As a bit of background, one of my hobbies is helping people recover data from old tape cartridges, such as QIC-80 tapes, which were a rather popular backup medium in the 1990s among individuals, small businesses, BBS operators, and the like. I have a soft spot for tape media; there’s something about the tactile sensation of holding these tapes in my hands that makes the whole process very joyful, even though QIC tapes are notorious for their many design flaws. With some careful inspection and re

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Sept. 8

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 05:35:16

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 8, #350

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 06:04:17

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 20:09:54

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to. Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how

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Best of IFA 2025 Awards: Android Authority’s top picks from the show

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-12 21:43:47

IFA 2025 has brought no shortage of exciting announcements, from bold new smartphones to super-bright projectors, smarter appliances, and even drones that rethink what’s possible. As always, we’ve combed through the show floor in Berlin to find the standouts that truly impressed us. From Lenovo’s OLED gaming handheld to TCL’s eye-friendly phone, Samsung’s latest Fan Edition, and some surprising innovations in audio, charging, and the smart home, here are our picks for the very Best of IFA 2025.

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Apple Reminders on macOS Tahoe includes this interesting piece of vintage UI design

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-13 03:45:16

Despite macOS going through a couple major redesigns over the past couple years with Big Sur in 2020 and now Tahoe in 2025, there’s still one app that includes a very old looking interface that predates these redesigns: Apple Reminders. If you open up Apple Reminders on the latest version of macOS, whether that be Tahoe beta or the stable version of Sequoia – you’ll find a little bit of a UI surprise when you open up the Photos picker to attach a photo to a reminder: What makes this interestin

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This pettable Poké Ball is a Tamagotchi-style toy with over 150 Pokémon inside and I need it now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-13 02:50:47

Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy is releasing a Poké Ball virtual pet toy so you can fulfill your dreams of carrying your favorite Pokémon around with you everywhere. I don't know how this one slid under my radar when it was announced at the end of August (perhaps because all my attention has been on Tamagotchi Paradise ) but now that I've seen it, I must have it. While it appears to be a Japan-only release, the product page shows it will have an English language option in the menu. Pre-orders are

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Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:16:10

18 min read Each time a user visits your web page, they are initiating a race to receive content as quickly as possible. Performance is a critical factor that influences how visitors interact with your site. Some might think that moving content across the globe introduces significant latency, but for a while, network transmission speeds have approached their theoretical limits . To put this into perspective, data on Cloudflare can traverse the 11,000 kilometer round trip between New York and Lo

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Hyundai’s eVTOL startup Supernal pauses work following CEO and CTO departures

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-12 23:19:08

Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal has paused work on its aircraft program after a rocky few months that saw staff cuts and the departure of its CEO and CTO, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The shakeup comes at a time when Supernal has barely gotten off the ground — literally. The first test flight of its technology demonstrator happened earlier this year. And though Supernal has performed subsequent tests, the company was still working toward its first untethered

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To Help Workers Losing Their Jobs to AI, OpenAI Is Launching a Jobs Platform Run By AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 22:00:21

First it peddled the poison, and now it's selling the cure. OpenAI announced that it's launching a new AI-powered jobs platform next year that will use AI to match employers with potential candidates. Called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, the initiative will put it in direct competition with job juggernauts like LinkedIn, which has also been experimenting with integrating the tech. It marks a new direction for the company, perhaps as it tries to maintain some semblance of its altruistic image. As i

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Way to Address Product Design Failure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 15:59:15

We live in an age of shitty product design and no customer support. Stuff breaks because it's poorly made, and then you have no recourse but to throw it into the trash, because it's unrepairable. If you try to get someone on the line, it's endless sub-menus before you finally get a live person overseas, who struggles with the language and has not been empowered by their bosses to actually solve your problem. Here, however, we have a product design failure that was handled masterfully. I think

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The Expression Problem and its solutions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 14:28:04

The craft of programming is almost universally concerned with different types of data and operations/algorithms that act on this data . Therefore, it's hardly surprising that designing abstractions for data types and operations has been on the mind of software engineers and programming-language designers since... forever. Yet I've only recently encountered a name for a software design problem which I ran into multiple times in my career. It's a problem so fundamental that I was quite surprised

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The Expression Problem and its solution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 23:43:55

The craft of programming is almost universally concerned with different types of data and operations/algorithms that act on this data . Therefore, it's hardly surprising that designing abstractions for data types and operations has been on the mind of software engineers and programming-language designers since... forever. Yet I've only recently encountered a name for a software design problem which I ran into multiple times in my career. It's a problem so fundamental that I was quite surprised

Topics: expression new problem type types

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Sept. 7

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 09:31:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

Topics: 1989 author cooper gael journalist

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Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 18:00:00

For households in rural areas or regions where traditional ISPs still fall short, Starlink has become a lifeline for fast, reliable internet. The satellite service has opened up access in places that once had few options, and now it's rolling out one of its most affordable offers yet for new customers. Right now, the Starlink standard kit is marked down to $175, which is a 50% cut from its usual $349 price. Unlike past promotions that were limited to certain areas, this discount is available na

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Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won’t destroy education

EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

The iPhone 17’s potential makeover might be just enough

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OnePlus 15’s leaked camera spec hints at higher zoom, but with a catch

The Galaxy S26 Ultra’s 5x camera could finally get a loooooong overdue upgrade

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The tablet that successfully replaced my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy follow-up

RSS Beat Microsoft

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How the Slavic Migration Reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

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The Expression Problem and its solution

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