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Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Fike 2026-02-02 12:10:51

Ever had to make a 90-degree turn on a bridge? No? That’s the problem. In India, seven engineers just got suspended for designing exactly that. A brand-new $2.3 million bridge in Bhopal, India, is going viral—not because it solved traffic, but because it bends at nearly a 90-degree angle. Now, seven engineers have been suspended, a retired official is facing investigation, and the construction firms behind the project have been blacklisted. Videos by VICE The 648-meter Rail Over Bridge (ROB)

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More Than 2,100 NASA Staff Are Getting Gutted

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-02 22:10:14

Elon Musk might have been deposed from DOGE, but the government cuts are still coming. As reported by Politico, some 2,145 high-level NASA employees are about to be launched out of the agency as efforts to cut US government spending continues. The employees represent those with G-13, G-14, and G-15 status — typically specialized or managerial roles which start around the six-figure salary range. The workers are part of a group of nearly 2,700 civilian employees who've agreed to leave NASA volu

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I’ve Used T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet for 3 Years: Here’s What I Love and What I Hate

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-03 17:00:00

Albuquerque, New Mexico: home of green chiles, 300 days of sunshine, the International Balloon Fiesta... and achingly slow internet. Of the top 100 cities in the US, Albuquerque ranks 85th, according to data from Ookla. (Disclaimer: Ookla is owned by Ziff Davis, the same company that owns CNET.) Home internet was a two-horse race in Albuquerque for years: CenturyLink DSL and Xfinity cable. I spent decades on DSL, watching my internet speed tests march slowly up to a maximum of 20 megabits per se

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This Is DOGE 2.0

wired.com Makena Kelly 2026-02-03 17:30:00

On Monday, June 23, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young, inexperienced technologists to join Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), disappeared from the internal directory of the General Services Administration (GSA). Less than a month before, centibillionaire Elon Musk and other DOGE leaders had announced their departure from government. After months of slashing through the federal government, it seemed like the end for DOGE was in sight. But later t

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A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 21:05:46

Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a private equity group. The local community rallied around The Samuels Public Library in Front Royal, Virginia, to push back against attacks and the private equity owned Library Systems & Services withdrew their bid to run operations. But with their funding cut for the fiscal year that began this July, th

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, July 10

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-03 20:48:00

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.

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 10, #1482

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-04 06:00:05

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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Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 21:34:09

An orribol copi of FlipperZero, uit worst inglish A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE ⚠️ Important Notice: This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional and is not intended to be. Is not an alternative for professional device.

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The best fitness tracker and smartwatch Prime Day deals

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-02-05 08:30:00

Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve been particularly struck by the deep discounts on smartwatches and fitness trackers. The Apple Watch Series 10 and Amazfit Active 2 , two of the best smartwatches we’ve tested, are down to their lowest prices ever at Amazon. We don’t expect to see their prices this low until Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but here we are. These gadgets can help make the journey into becoming healthier a little easier by tracking your sleep, step count, heart rate, and

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Claude can now connect to learning apps like Canvas, Panopto and Wiley

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-05 12:00:38

At the start of April, Anthropic released Learning mode, a feature that changed how Claude would interact with users. With the tool enabled, the chatbot would attempt to guide students to a solution rather than providing them with an answer outright. The release of Learning mode and Claude for Education was the start of a major push by Anthropic to work with universities and colleges globally. Today, the company is upgrading Claude for Education with the addition of integrations to three popula

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Looking for an External Hard Drive? This Seagate 24TB Is Just $0.01/GB for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-05 12:35:25

Among the vicious competition in the market for external hard drives, four of the largest players – Seagate, WD, SanDisk, and Samsung – are in a constant fight for your attention. Seagate just came today with an incredible 24TB external hard drive on sale at a new record low price: Selling for just $259 (down from $329), Seagate’s Expansion 24TB HDD set a new record low price per gigabyte of about $0.01, which lower than all other drives (including ones with smaller capacities). See at Amazon

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Google Maps comes to Garmin watches, bringing turn-by-turn navigation to your wrist

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-05 22:33:59

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Garmin has released an official Google Maps for its smartwatches that offers turn-by-turn navigation when your smartwatch is connected to an Android phone. The app can show the next three turns and notify users of upcoming turns with a gentle vibration. The app is compatible with over 90 Garmin smartwatch models and is available for free on the Connect IQ store. Garmin users have long had to rely on third-party apps like Maps Nav to get turn-by-turn navi

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Orb Is the Internet Speed Test Your Wi-Fi Has Been Waiting For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 02:00:00

Internet speed tests aren't just for people who obsess over their internet connection. When my friends or parents are experiencing an inevitable home internet slowdown, my first recommendation is always to start with a speed test. In fact, I’ve tested and used dozens of internet speed tests -- the market is pretty saturated with them. Ideally, the best internet speed test is one that diagnoses your bandwidth blues as simply as possible -- no ads, no extra features you can’t make sense of, and no

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Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know

news.ycombinator.com Prateek Choudhary 2026-02-02 21:58:26

Ruby 3.4 Frozen String Literals: What Rails Developers Actually Need to Know Ruby 3.4 takes the first step in a multi-version transition to frozen string literals by default. Your Rails app will continue working exactly as before, but Ruby now provides opt-in warnings to help you prepare. Here’s what you need to know. The Three-Phase Transition Plan Ruby is implementing frozen string literals gradually over three releases: Ruby 3.4 (Now): Opt-in warnings when you enable deprecation warnings

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I Tried Living Without the Internet for a Day: It Made Me Want to Throw Away My Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 11:00:00

I stood on a ridge in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico, surrounded by pinyon trees and red-barked pines, listening to the trill of dark-eyed juncos jostling through the underbrush. Amid all this beauty, my phone chimed. And chimed again. And buzzed and beeped. A friend sent an Instagram link. Uber Eats offered a discount deal. Target had a coupon for cleaning products. Someone drove by my Ring doorbell camera. Our lives are so dependent on the internet, the thought of living wi

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I'm Building LLM for Satellite Data EarthGPT.app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 09:33:14

EarthGPT Work with multi-spectral satellite imagery by leveraging the power of LLMs and modern remote sensing.

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At the frontier between two lives–the evolutionary origins of pregnancy

news.ycombinator.com University Of Vienna 2026-02-03 17:17:47

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: Single-cell transcriptomic atlases of six mammalian species spanning the diversification of viviparity. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02748-x An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, July 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 15:09:00

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.

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Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 16:37:21

Xenharmlib 0.3.0 has just been released. Find out what’s new Welcome to xenharmlib’s documentation!¶ Xenharmonic (adj.): Pertaining to music which sounds unlike that composed in the familiar 12 tone equal-tempered scale. —Ivor Darreg Xenharmlib is a generalized music theory library that supports traditional Western and non-western harmonic systems, unconventional microtonal and macrotonal tunings, diatonic and posttonal set theory and non-standard notations. It is easy to use, extendable, an

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Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE

news.ycombinator.com David Leadbeater 2026-02-06 10:48:29

tl;dr: On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop). If you've ever used an old mechanical typewriter, you know that when you get to the end of the line there's a physical action to to get back to the start of the line. Sometimes this was done through an actual lever on the typewriter, later models had a button. Because this act

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 9, #1481

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 20:00:06

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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Watch Robert Downey Jr. Geek Out About ‘Ironheart’ for 14 Minutes

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-07 03:00:08

It’s still unclear what impact, if any, the events of Ironheart will have on the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but at least one person in it has already felt the effects. That would be Robert Downey Jr., the former Tony Stark, current Victor Von Doom and basically the Godfather of the MCU. Downey is a busy man, but he still found time to sit down with Ironheart star Dominique Thorne to geek out about the show for 14 minutes, and it’s just a delight. In what’s apparently just part one

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The tech behind Rivian’s 2026 Quad Motor truck and SUV — and that kick turn

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-02-07 02:19:46

As Rivian starts accepting orders for its 2026 Quad Motor pickup truck and SUV, customers may initially be enticed by the power and tricks the four motors in these rebooted EVs can unleash. After all, four motors delivering a combined 1,025 horsepower and 1,198 pound-feet of torque — and the ability to accelerate from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in less than 2.5 seconds — is hard to ignore. But they should also pay attention to the software. “The Quad is really the pinnacle of everythin

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Brainwash '72 [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-07 11:34:08

Probably the strangest thing I've found on a video tape. A quit-smoking "brainwashing" tape, my favourite bit is the whole long shot of a mysterious stranger walking through the desert only to reveal A •SPOILERS•. Content warning: there's some footage of someone getting operated on. It makes me feel all squooshy so I'm warning you. This came to me on a Umatic tape with a McDonalds label on it, perhaps a franchisee somewhere was trying to stop his staff smoking. Anyway, enjoy. --

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TSA Will Reportedly Let You Keep Your Shoes on at Security Checks

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-07 12:10:40

In an age of seemingly endless bad news, there appears to be one positive development to report: you won’t have to take your shoes off at airports anymore. The New York Times reports that the Transportation Security Administration has nixed the rule that requires passengers to remove their shoes while heading through security. The development was first announced by Gate Access, a newsletter that is written by a former TSA officer. The Times says a “source familiar with the matter who spoke on c

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Elon Musk's X says Indian government ordered more than 2,000 accounts blocked, including Reuters

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-02-07 17:18:24

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the White House to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Elon Musk's X said Tuesday that the Indian government ordered the company to block 2,355 accounts, including Reuters, in the country. "The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology demanded immediate action- within one hour- without providing justification, and required the accounts to remain blocked until further notice," X's global government af

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Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 18:08:36

Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition. Lenia is a family of cellular automata that produces lifelike behaviors and patterns, first described in the seminal paper by Bert Wang-Chak Chan. This project is heavily inspired by the original Particle Lenia research by Alexander Mordvintsev et al., which implemented a particle-based version of Lenia in Python and JAX. Recognizing the importance of scale (number of particles) for simulation dynamics and iteration times for rapid pattern exploration, I ported th

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CVE-2025-48384: Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE

news.ycombinator.com David Leadbeater 2026-02-07 22:48:29

tl;dr: On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop). If you've ever used an old mechanical typewriter, you know that when you get to the end of the line there's a physical action to to get back to the start of the line. Sometimes this was done through an actual lever on the typewriter, later models had a button. Because this act

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‘Edge of Eternities’ Will Take ‘Magic: The Gathering’ to the Stars

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-07 22:30:10

A certain Star franchise may have boldly declared space the final frontier, but for Magic: The Gathering, it’s only the beginning. After the huge risk (and ultimate success) of its Final Fantasy set last month, the venerable card game is leaping into another big risk, although this time devoid of any flashy crossover: its next set, Edge of Eternities, will mark Magic‘s first proper foray into full-on science fiction. The series has flirted with sci-fi concepts across its fantastical settings fo

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Elon Musk's X says Indian government ordered over 2,000 accounts blocked, including Reuters

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-02-08 03:06:02

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the White House to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Elon Musk's X said Tuesday that the Indian government ordered the company to block 2,355 accounts, including Reuters, in the country. "The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology demanded immediate action- within one hour- without providing justification, and required the accounts to remain blocked until further notice," X's global government af

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Elon Musk's X says Indian government ordered over 2,000 accounts blocked, including Reuters

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