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Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-06 13:52:43

Experimental archaeologist Greer Jarrett of Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for the last three years. If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last three years doing just that, sailing more than 5,000 kilometers along known Viking trade r

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This archaeologist built a replica boat to sail like the Vikings

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-06 18:52:43

Experimental archaeologist Greer Jarrett of Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for the last three years. If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last three years doing just that, sailing more than 5,000 kilometers along known Viking trade r

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Hawaii Highways

news.ycombinator.com Oscar Voss 2026-04-06 14:55:58

Aloha! Click the dark green buttons on the left for lists of the Interstate, state, and some county highways on the Big Island (Hawaii island), Maui, Lanai and Molokai, Kauai, and Oahu. Go to those lists for detailed information on specific routes, including route numbers, names, termini, mileages, and sometimes historical or other information and/or links to photos and other material elsewhere on this site. Also on the left is a button for detailed guides to Oahu Freeways exits and interchange

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2026-04-04 00:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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Bitcoin briefly sinks below $99,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran trigger crypto market sell-off

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-04-07 00:59:22

Bitcoin fell to its lowest level since May over the weekend, as rising tensions in the Middle East and renewed inflation fears triggered a sharp selloff across digital assets. Bitcoin dropped below the $99,000 mark on Sunday — its lowest point in more than a month — and ether was more than 10% lower at one point, as the digital asset market became the first to react to escalating geopolitical risk. Solana , XRP , and dogecoin also posted sharp losses, dragging the entire crypto complex deep int

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CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-04-06 23:47:05

CoinMarketCap, the popular cryptocurrency price tracking site, suffered a website supply chain attack that exposed site visitors to a wallet drainer campaign to steal visitors' crypto. On Friday evening, January 20, CoinMarketCap visitors began seeing Web3 popups asking them to connect their wallets to the site. However, when visitors connected their wallets, a malicious script drained cryptocurrency from them. The company later confirmed threat actors utilized a vulnerability in the site's ho

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Upscale your images for free with Upscayl

techspot.com Unknown 2026-04-06 22:31:00

Upscayl is a powerful image upscaling tool that uses advanced AI technology to enhance your images. It allows you to enlarge images without losing quality. It's almost like magic! Upscayl uses Real-ESRGAN and Vulkan architecture to achieve this. Our backend is fully open-source under the AGPLv3 license. Do I need a GPU to use Upscayl Desktop? Yes, you need a Vulkan-compatible graphics card to use Upscayl. CPU only mode is not supported at the moment and many iGPUs are not supported. Why is t

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Early Prime Day Deal Drops LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle to a New Record Low on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-04-06 18:10:09

Harry Potter is the top LEGO theme, breaking records and enchanting individuals of all ages. The legendary Hogwarts Castle set is a perennial best-seller, flying off the shelves quicker than a snitch in flight. With an amazing 4.8 out of 5 rating based on nearly 1,600 reviews, ithis set is a favorite among collectors and builders of all ages. Even a discounted rate is something to get excited over, especially considering deep price cuts don’t usually happen on such a highly sought-after model.

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I changed 6 settings on my Samsung TV to give it a significant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-04-06 20:09:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Your car's USB port is seriously underutilized: 5 features you're not taking advantage of I've been guilty of it. And I'm okay with that because it's wide

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Final Fantasy fans, now is the time to get into Magic: The Gathering

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2026-04-06 03:00:00

The Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering set is here, and there’s never been a more perfect assemblage of Magic cards. The set features cards taken from every mainline Final Fantasy title, including the two MMOs, so there’s something for every generation of Final Fantasy lovers. And while Magic has featured other video game crossovers in the past (hello, Assassin’s Creed and Fallout!), with the way this set is constructed, from card mechanics to art, you can tell this one is a developer favorite,

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P-Hacking in Startups

news.ycombinator.com Lucas Da Costa 2026-04-03 02:56:28

Speed kills rigor. In startups, the pressure to ship fast pushes teams to report anything that looks like an improvement. That’s how p-hacking happens. This piece breaks down three common cases—and how to avoid them. Example 01: Multiple comparisons without correction Imagine you're a product manager trying to optimize your website’s dashboard. Your goal is to increase user signups. Your team designs four different layouts: A, B, C, and D. You run an A/B/n test. Users are randomly assigned to

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘ClosetLog’ helps you manage your wardrobe in a smarter way

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-04-06 17:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. ClosetLog provides you with all of the information you need to know about your wardrobe, and helps you make better decisions on what you should wear. It’s a useful little tool, and helps you balance what you’re wearing on a day-to-day basis. Top features ClosetLog is built with the intention of providi

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Xbox's VR headset with Meta could be released sooner than we thought

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-06 17:05:12

Xbox has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a chunky console. It's recently taken on the form of an Asus gaming handheld, and it might even be packaged as a VR headset soon. According to an image leaked on X and Game Sandwich, Xbox is reportedly teaming up with Meta to release an Xbox-branded Quest 3S headset in the coming days. The rumored specs show a very similar build to the base model Quest 3S with 128GB of storage, but will reportedly be bundled with an Xbox wireless controller

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‘Magic: The Gathering’ Unveils Its First ‘Avatar: Last Airbender’ Card

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-04-06 17:50:49

Magic: The Gathering has been doing crossover packs with various IP, and later this year, Avatar: The Last Airbender is joining those ranks. During this weekend’s MagicCon, Wizards of the Coast showed off its first card from the set dropping in late November. Naturally, that card is a Legendary featuring Aang manipulating water, fire, earth, and air while in the Avatar State. On the flip side is him looking up at his Avatar Spirit, with artwork for both sides drawn by Airbender co-creator Bryan

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Cloudflare CEO warns AI crawlers and summaries are eroding the internet's business model

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-04-06 19:15:00

In context: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently reiterated his warning that generative AI crawlers and summaries threaten the foundations of the internet's business model. To protect publishers from a flood of artificial AI traffic that offers virtually no authentic site visits in return, the company is devising methods to combat AI scrapers. Speaking at an Axios event in Cannes last week, Prince explained that search engines and chatbots using generative AI to summarize web content have sig

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Android Auto inches closer to the light with new theme options (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-06 17:00:12

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Android Auto’s light theme could be coming soon, with new theming options added in the latest beta version. Users will soon be able to choose between Automatic, Light, and Dark themes for Android Auto. The new options will replace the current settings that only allow users to toggle the Google Maps theme between dark and light modes within Android Auto. Android Auto is getting closer to introducing a system-wide light theme — a feature users have been

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14 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I've Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2026-04-06 18:39:00

Replace Your Casters The wheels on the bottom of your chair are among the easiest parts to replace. If your current casters don't roll smoothly or are too loud, it might be worth replacing them instead of buying a whole new chair. I like these from Stealtho, a Ukrainian company. They'll work with nearly every office chair, though the company notes they don't work with Ikea chairs. The soft polyurethane material means these won't scratch or chip hardwood floors, as some plastic casters do, plus

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Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-04-07 06:46:32

As Apple scrambles to play catch-up in the generative AI race, a new report says the company has considered making its biggest acquisition ever. According to Bloomberg, Apple executives have held internal discussions about a potential bid for Perplexity AI, the fast-growing AI startup known for its conversational web search platform. This would mark Apple’s biggest acquisition ever As reported by Mark Gurman, the talks are still at an early stage and may not result in an actual offer, but the

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Telegram CEO Says He’ll Leave His Fortune to His 106+ Children

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-04-07 04:55:17

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is so obsessed with his own jizz that he’s spent years sending it to random women so they can inseminate themselves with it. As a result, the billionaire is said to have as many as 106 biological children. Now, Durov has promised that—in the event of his death—he will bequeath his massive fortune (reputed to be some $17 billion) to all of his wayward spawn. Durov’s supposed plan was revealed during a recent interview with Le Point, a French news site. He revealed to the

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Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-04-07 18:04:31

Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Saturn will continue to operate as a standalone app. The news was first reported by Engadget. Snap says almost the entire Saturn team is joining Snap as part of the acquisition, with just under 30 full-time employees coming on board. Although Snap didn’t share much about its pla

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Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-08 02:00:46

Snap has acquired Saturn , a calendar app for high school and college students. The company didn't disclose the terms of the deal but said that close to 30 of Saturn's full-time employees will be joining Snap as part of the acquisition. It's not clear what exactly Snap has planned for Saturn, but the company confirmed to Engadget that the calendar app will continue to operate as a standalone service. It also suggested that the acquisition could help Snap bring calendar-focused features into Sna

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This 6-in-1 Anker Desktop Charger Costs About as Much as Going Out for Lunch

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-04-08 02:10:07

Tell me if this is you. You’ve got all your fancy gadgets, but only one measly outlet available. Deciding whether to juice up your phone or your laptop first—what a conundrum. Sure, you could plug one in and then trudge over to the next outlet across the room for the other, but that’s just sheer madness. Who’s got time for that nonsense? Save yourself the hassle and get a proper desktop that can handle all your devices at once. The Anker USB-C charging station is your knight in shining armor, bo

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Amazon Offers This i7-Powered Mini PC for Less Than Its Black Friday Price to Clear Out Stock

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-04-08 02:40:46

Sometimes hunting for a great deal on a desktop PC requires beating the weeds a little bit and looking past the giant names that dominate the top of the big-box ads. There’s nothing wrong with sticking to Dell, HP, and Lenovo, but often the real deals are happening outside those brands. Take GMKtec, for instance — the name might not ring a bell, but they’re one of the world’s top mini PC brands, and they’re known for offering incredible deals. See at Amazon Here’s one of the better ones, which

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Can users reset their own passwords without sacrificing security?

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-04-08 10:01:11

Like it or not, passwords aren’t going away anytime soon. While many organizations are exploring passwordless authentication, passwords still serve as the main line of defense for most public-facing online services. That said, they come with a heavy management burden. Gartner estimates that 40% of all service desk calls are tied to password issues like expirations, changes, and resets. Some of these issues (like forgotten passwords, routine expirations, or security-driven updates) are unavoidab

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Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-08 09:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-08 19:00:16

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has revealed to Axios that search traffic referrals keep plummeting. Publishers are facing an existential threat, he said, because people aren't clicking through those chatbot links and are relying more and more on AI summaries without digging deeper. Prince told Axios that 10 years ago, Google sent a publ

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I changed 12 settings on my Android phone to significantly improve the battery life

zdnet.com Max Buondonno 2026-04-08 19:32:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartphones to their absolute limit. I don't want to hoard this knowledge to myself, so I've decided to share it wit

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and what your TV stops tracking when you do)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-04-08 19:40:00

Kerry Wan/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: 184 million passwords for Google, Microsof

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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-08 17:27:48

Paul was a gig worker in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Formerly a project manager in tech until several companies in a row laid him off, he started working entirely for platforms like Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. He managed to eke out a living, but the jobs posed a different problem. ‘Honestly, a lot of times, I go out and the person doesn’t even know my name, even though I introduced myself as Paul,’ he told me. ‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then

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LEGO Joins Early Prime Day With Star Wars Millennium Falcon at a New Record-Low Price

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-04-08 19:40:07

Star Wars fans are, historically, pretty committed to what they love. It makes them incredibly easy to buy presents for, because basically anything that’s related to Star Wars is a good shout, and it’s going to be really well received too. It can be hard to find a quality gift though, whether you’re looking for yourself or someone else. These days, one of the best gifts you can give any of them, outside of a trip to Disney World, is a good Lego set. See at Amazon Lego sets hold their value wel

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Latest Tech News

Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

This archaeologist built a replica boat to sail like the Vikings

Hawaii Highways

Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

Bitcoin briefly sinks below $99,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran trigger crypto market sell-off

CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup

Upscale your images for free with Upscayl

Early Prime Day Deal Drops LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle to a New Record Low on Amazon

I changed 6 settings on my Samsung TV to give it a significant performance boost

Final Fantasy fans, now is the time to get into Magic: The Gathering

P-Hacking in Startups

Indie App Spotlight: ‘ClosetLog’ helps you manage your wardrobe in a smarter way

Xbox's VR headset with Meta could be released sooner than we thought

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Unveils Its First ‘Avatar: Last Airbender’ Card

Cloudflare CEO warns AI crawlers and summaries are eroding the internet's business model

Android Auto inches closer to the light with new theme options (APK teardown)

14 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I've Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them

Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

Telegram CEO Says He’ll Leave His Fortune to His 106+ Children

Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students

Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools

This 6-in-1 Anker Desktop Charger Costs About as Much as Going Out for Lunch

Amazon Offers This i7-Powered Mini PC for Less Than Its Black Friday Price to Clear Out Stock

Can users reset their own passwords without sacrificing security?

Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

I changed 12 settings on my Android phone to significantly improve the battery life

How to turn off ACR on your TV (and what your TV stops tracking when you do)

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

LEGO Joins Early Prime Day With Star Wars Millennium Falcon at a New Record-Low Price

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