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The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 09:46:55

2019-12-11 SCSI command 0x0d seems to be explained now: Søren Roug has spotted SASI command 0x0d in the manual for the Xebec S1410 diskcontroller: It returns the length of burst errors corrected with ECC. That matches the CMD_CORRECTION Tollef found. Thanks everybody! 2019-12-08 About that 0x0d SCSI command... My good friend Tollef Fog Heen replied on twitter that this source file on github calls the command CMD_CORRECTION. That github repository contains a NeXT Station emulation. The

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Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 22:00:04

Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI" and who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, has a complicated relationship with the tech he pioneered at Google many years ago. He's long argued that AI poses an existential risk to humanity, and signed a letter earlier this year calling on OpenAI not to betray its non-profit roots. Even in his own personal life, it sounds like Hinton can't escape the tech. In an interview with the Financial Times, the 77-year-old revealed that his ex-

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Apple now selling certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro for nearly 20% off

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-13 09:40:00

Recently, Apple begun stocking its latest Apple Pencil Pro on its certified refurbished store – allowing customers to pick up a like-new Apple Pencil Pro for their compatible iPad model at a lower price. Apple Pencil Pro has been on the market for well over a year now. For the first time, customers can now buy an Apple certified refurbished model for $109 – nearly 20% off from its typical $129 MSRP. Apple Pencil Pro is compatible with Apple’s most recent iPad models, excluding iPad (A16). If y

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Silksong, smacking sticks and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 21:00:20

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Folks, it's here. You know it's here. So, we'll touch on it, but briefly. Some developers and publishers opted not to delay their games out of this week (others have done that to get some breathing space from you-know-what), so there are several other newcomers to highlight. Before we get there, there's a sale worth mentioning on a PC storefront that does not offer Hollow Knight: Silksong. The Epic Games Store's End of Summ

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 06:18:28

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

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 7, #1541

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 08:00:05

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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Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-13 02:00:00

It's one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there's no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that life emerged by pure chance on Earth are so slim that it's possible that our planet was instead seeded by "advanced extraterrestrials." While Imperial College London professor of systems biology Robert Endres concedes that the emergence of life still could've been the result of chemical reactions mo

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Gemini for Home isn’t enough to revive Google’s forgotten Nest speakers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 04:00:25

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google Nest speakers are neat little utility tools that let you holler at Google Assistant anywhere in the house — add something to your shopping list before it slips your mind or run the Roomba in a certain room. They’re so handy that a lot of us just grab Nest Minis by the dozen and place them across our homes so that we can call Assistant from literally anywhere. However, Google’s home efforts have been stagnant for a few years, to the point where they’ve

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Google’s plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 04:00:38

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Last week, Google dropped a bombshell: The company plans to verify the identity of all developers who distribute apps for Android, even those outside the Play Store. Starting next year, if a developer chooses not to verify their identity, Android will prevent their apps from being installed on certified devices (ie. devices with Google Mobile Services). This news sent shockwaves through the enthusiast community, with many criticizing Google for transforming An

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Get ready for Tuesday’s Apple Event with these ‘awe dropping’ bingo sheets and wallpapers

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-11-13 04:00:00

We’re just three days away from Apple’s “Awe dropping” event, where they are expected to announce the iPhone 17 lineup, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and more. For some extra fun before and during the event, check out these wallpapers and bingo sheets! As a reminder, the Apple Event keynote will stream live starting at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. You can watch on Apple’s website, YouTube, or the Apple TV app. Wallpapers First up, Basic Apple Guy has many great wallpapers available, including a lovely gr

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Baby's first type checker

news.ycombinator.com Austin Z. Henley 2025-11-09 09:41:06

Austin Z. Henley Associate Teaching Professor Carnegie Mellon University [email protected] @austinzhenley github/AZHenley Baby's first type checker 8/31/2025 Have you ever wondered how type checking works? Me too—let's make one! Python allows optional type annotations like this: def foobar(name: str | None) -> str: return "Fizz!" buzz: int = 42 A type checker goes through the code to make sure that the kinds of values you use match what your functions and variables expect. In the examp

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Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-13 06:00:25

A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds. It's also, they readily admit, horrendously inaccurate. Placed over the chest, the "smart" gizmo analyzes the rhythms of the heartbeat and blood flow that're undetectable to the human ear, while also performing a quick electrocardiogram, or ECG, which is a test that gauges your heart's electrical activity. Then, all that info is packaged and sent "securely" to the c

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I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with an unlikely soundbar rival, and it went down to the wire

zdnet.com Christian De Looper 2025-11-13 06:00:18

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you have $1,000 to spend on a soundbar, there are compelling options to choose from. Since its late 2024 release, the Sonos Arc Ultra has been at the top of the heap in this price range, but there are new competitors that give Sonos a run for its money. The Marshall Heston 120, for example, offers a unique design, cool features, and comes at the exact same price as the Sonos Arc Ultra. Also: 5 ways to instantly boost yo

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GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 08:45:08

GLM Coding Plan — designed for Claude Code users, starting at $3/month to enjoy a premium coding experience! GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air are our latest flagship models, purpose-built as foundational models for agent-oriented applications. Both leverage a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. GLM-4.5 has a total parameter count of 355B with 32B active parameters per forward pass, while GLM-4.5-Air adopts a more streamlined design with 106B total parameters and 12B active parameters. Both models sh

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Sept. 6

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 10:11:36

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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Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-13 02:10:26

If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about a terrible HR crisis unfolding on the white continent. In particular, the report found that sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking were regular facts of life for those stationed on remote research stations. The confidential survey was open to all 2,760 US Antarctic Program (USAP) employe

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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 11:20:37

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years The Nearest Stars Number of stars within 12.5 light years = 33 About the Map This map shows all the star systems that lie within 12.5 light years of our Sun. Most of the stars are red dwarfs - stars with a tenth of the Sun's mass and less than one hundredth the luminosity. Roughly eighty percent of all the stars in the universe are red dwarfs, and the nearest star - Proxima - is a typical example. Information on the Nearest Stars Sun - Type= G2 , Magnitu

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

news.ycombinator.com Cade Metz 2025-11-13 08:52:45

In 2024, three book authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, sued Anthropic, accusing the start-up of illegally using their work to train its A.I. models. The suit is among the four dozen cases that copyright holders have brought against A.I. companies. Some have been dismissed by the courts. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft need enormous amounts of digital data, some of which is copyrighted, to build its A.I. models. The companies have long claimed t

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Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-11-13 12:05:54

Eddy Cue deserves a raise. As the executive overseeing Apple’s services division, he’s highly incentivized to protect the tens of billions of dollars a year that Google pays to be the default search engine in Safari. “I’ve lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” he said from the witness stand during Google’s antitrust trial earlier this year. Luckily for Cue, his court testimony appears to have had a significant impact on Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled this week that Google’s default payments to

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OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-13 12:19:12

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers — would be joining the Post Training team, a larger research group responsible for improving the company’s AI models after their initial pre-training. As part o

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The Biden-Era Plan to Pay Travelers for Airline-Caused Delays Is Dead

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 16:39:00

For a brief moment, it looked like US travelers might finally get automatic cash when an airline's own problems wrecked their plans. The Department of Transportation, under former President Joe Biden, drafted a rule requiring carriers to pay passengers at least $200 and up to $775 for the longest holdups. The compensation would cover meals, hotels, ground transport and rebooking when disruptions were within the airline's control. But no longer. On Sept. 5, the Trump administration's DOT offici

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Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-13 17:20:39

As fall approaches and COVID cases tick up, you might be thinking about getting this season's COVID-19 vaccine. The annually updated shots have previously been easily accessible to anyone over 6 months of age. Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that's what most people did. However, the situation is much different this year with an ardent anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the country's top health official. Since taking the

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SQL needed structure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 04:43:38

Published 2025-09-04 Here are two pages from the internet movie database: There are two things to note about these pages. The data on the page is presented in a hierarchichal structure. The movie page contains a director, a list of genres, a list of actors, and each actor in the list contains a list of characters they played in the movie. You can't sensibly fit all of this into a single flat structure like a relation. The order of the hierarchy isn't the same on both pages. On one page we hav

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iOS 26 adds (and removes) CarPlay wallpaper options

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-14 03:35:00

Apple has changed up the wallpaper collection on CarPlay in iOS 26 Several new options have been added. The update also removes many of the existing wallpaper options that were still hanging around from older iOS versions. CarPlay in iOS 26 includes nine wallpaper choices. Each wallpaper changes its appearance for light and dark mode, creating 18 possible options. CarPlay previously featured a variety of wallpaper styles, including versions based on iPhone default wallpapers from over the year

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Making a font of my handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 00:06:33

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe. I’d added some bits and pieces along those lines: floating images in articles now look like they’re st

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OpenAI Spends $10 Billion to Get Into the Chip Business

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-14 03:40:31

OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and ru

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Making a Font of My Handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:06:33

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe. I’d added some bits and pieces along those lines: floating images in articles now look like they’re st

Topics: calligraphr font letters like open

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Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-14 08:27:47

Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly known for his scientific expertise, but Rogan’s recent claim that the Earth is cooling—ignoring decades of empirical evidence for global warming—is so egregious that climate experts are straight up roasting him for it. In several recent episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has used a temperature graph in a Washington Post article in order to claim that global temperatures are actually plummeting. The graph in question comes fro

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OpenAI Wants You to Get a Certificate in ChatGPT and Find Your Next Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 05:52:46

It's not quite getting a college degree in ChatGPT, but it's close. OpenAI said this week it is launching an AI-powered jobs platform and a new certification program offered through its OpenAI Academy. The OpenAI Jobs Platform, expected to launch in 2026, will use AI to connect candidates with employers. The company says the system is designed to better align worker skills with business needs, potentially putting it in direct competition with Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. Alongside the hiring plat

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EU Fines Google $3.45B for Giving Its Ad Tech Preferential Treatment

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 05:53:00

Google faces a $3.45 billion fine from the European Union for engaging in anticompetitive advertising technology practices, the European Commission said Friday. The fine stems from a complaint by the European Publishers Council alleging Google gave preference to its own online ad display services, hurting competitors and online publishers. The European Commission wants Google to stop these self-preferential practices and to cease its conflicts of interest. The Commission says it'll give Google,

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Latest Tech News

The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)

Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT

Apple now selling certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro for nearly 20% off

Silksong, smacking sticks and other new indie games worth checking out

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

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 7, #1541

Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

Gemini for Home isn’t enough to revive Google’s forgotten Nest speakers

Google’s plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

Get ready for Tuesday’s Apple Event with these ‘awe dropping’ bingo sheets and wallpapers

Baby's first type checker

Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with an unlikely soundbar rival, and it went down to the wire

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Sept. 6

Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality

The Biden-Era Plan to Pay Travelers for Airline-Caused Delays Is Dead

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

SQL needed structure

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Making a font of my handwriting

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Making a Font of My Handwriting

Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

OpenAI Wants You to Get a Certificate in ChatGPT and Find Your Next Job

EU Fines Google $3.45B for Giving Its Ad Tech Preferential Treatment

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