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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 02:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-25 17:36:24

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ. By: Dan Roche A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Four thousand years ago, a woman had a very fancy artiﬁcial eye she probably wore while she was alive. It was possibly made of natural tar and animal fat or m

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Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from Anywhere

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 09:33:38

Omnara - Mission Control for Your AI Agents 🚀 Your AI workforce launchpad, in your pocket. 🚀 What is Omnara? Omnara transforms your AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and more) from silent workers into communicative teammates. Get real-time visibility into what your agents are doing, respond to their questions instantly, and guide them to success - all from your phone. ✨ Key Features Feature Description 📊 Real-Time Monitoring See every step your AI agents take as they work 💬 In

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Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

news.ycombinator.com Wilson Lin 2025-11-29 09:02:40

Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings A while back, I decided to undertake a project to challenge myself: build a web search engine from scratch. Aside from the fun deep dive opportunity, there were two motivators: Search engines seemed to be getting worse, with more SEO spam and less relevant quality content. Transformer-based text embedding models were taking off and showing amazing natural comprehension of language. A simple question I ha

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A Bunch of Incredibly Sleazy AI Apps Are Claiming to Be Jesus Christ Himself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-29 11:48:04

As ChatGPT really started to take off back in 2023, an Austin pastor made minor headlines when he used the large language model (LLM) chatbot to lead a 15-minute "shotgun sermon." The stunt was largely meant to spark a conversation about how we define "what is sacred," the pastor said at the time. Since that lesson in theological ethics, chatbots have become ubiquitous — and they no longer come with lectures. Now in 2025, LLM chatbots are being increasingly made to stand in for therapists, teac

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Salesforce’s new CoAct-1 agents don’t just point and click — they write code to accomplish tasks faster and with greater success rates

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-29 14:00:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Southern California have developed a new technique that gives computer-use agents the ability to execute code while navigating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), that is, writing scripts while also moving a cursor and/or clicking buttons on an application, combining the best of both approaches

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Google lets you pick preferred sources when you search

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 14:00:12

Google is officially rolling out Preferred Sources, which lets you curate search results. The feature allows you to pick specific or "preferred" sources, like a certain blog or news outlet, and see them more prominently when you use Google Search. Google started testing it in June and it should be available in the coming days to English language users in the US and India. Preferred Sources seems pretty simple to use. You go to Google, search for a topic and then click on the preferred sources o

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Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 14:19:35

What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how much freedom is offered to players of text adventures, this is a difficult test. It’s normal even for a skilled human player to immerse themselves in their surrounding rather than make constant progress. I wouldn’t be su

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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Ronning 2025-11-29 14:02:03

In May 2025, during the same week Neon announced their acquisition, our databases went down four times. For hours. Database spin-ups, their entire value proposition, were completely disabled. Our "serverless" databases couldn't even start. That was the final straw in our decision to migrate to PlanetScale. Who We Are and Why Databases Matter More At OpenSecret, we're building something unique: a confidential computing platform powered by AWS Nitro Enclaves. Our flagship application, Maple AI,

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Thunderbolt 4 dock for Mac with dual 4K displays and 13 ports launches under $200

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 18:25:00

Thunderbolt 5 is starting to arrive on some Macs, but most of us are still living in the Thunderbolt 4 era. For those users, Plugable is introducing a new docking station designed specifically for Macs. The TBT-UDM pairs Mac-friendly styling with pro-grade connectivity at a more competitive price than most premium Thunderbolt docks. The TBT-UDM supports dual 4K HDMI displays at 60Hz, delivers 96W host charging, and packs 13 total ports in a compact aluminum chassis that blends in with modern Ma

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The Oura Ring Gets Its First-Ever Menopause Feature and Upgraded Pregnancy Insights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 17:00:00

The Oura Ring is upgrading its existing features to better assist you if you're pregnant or perimenopausal, a new demographic for the ring. Oura is well known for its holistic sleep and wellness insights and already supports pregnant individuals, but this upgrade improves its data insights to help you look at everything from the gestational stages, trends related to temperature, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and more. Oura's traditional data markers based on readiness, sleep, rest

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Ladies, your Oura Ring’s new tools will now cover everything from bumps to hot flashes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 23:00:26

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Oura has announced two major updates related to women’s health: a redesigned Pregnancy Insights experience and the first-ever Perimenopause Check-In. Available now, Pregnancy Insights offers daily gestational age updates, trimester-specific trend views, faster symptom tracking, and tailored insights, all informed by member data. Oura’s Perimenopause Check-In launches tomorrow (August 13) and includes a Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) Survey, a provider-re

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This designer turned the new Beats Pill into a cool art piece you can’t get everywhere

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 23:56:41

Beats is rolling out a fresh limited-edition version of its recently relaunched Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker, teaming up with Bulgarian-born fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov. Known for blending modern form with historical references, Kostadinov brings his signature aesthetic to the portable speaker’s design. The Kiko Kostadinov Beats Pill features a custom grille inspired by intricate geometric patterns found in ancient Thracian art, a nod to Kostadinov’s heritage. The speaker’s body is finish

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Women's health tracking features take center stage with this Oura update

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-29 23:00:17

Nina Raemont/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Oura launched features for pregnant and perimenopausal users on Tuesday. The science-backed features provide further context during periods of drastic biological change. The features are personalized, and the brand stressed data protection and privacy. Pregnant and perimenopausal women are getting more ways to track and understand their health, thanks to several new features Oura announced on Tuesday. The smart ring brand launched a redesigned Pregn

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New data shows AI agents invading the workplace, with mixed results

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-29 23:00:21

imaginima ZDNET's key takeaways: Employee trust in AI agents is growing, but only for some tasks. Research found that trust increases the more people use agents. The rapid embrace of agents is rewriting some workplace norms. AI agents are becoming a common fixture in the workplace as businesses look to automate a variety of routine, time-consuming tasks. A growing body of research, however, is revealing the boundaries of the degree of control that employees are willing to hand over to these

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OURA Ring Introduces Its First-Ever Menopause Feature Plus Upgraded Pregnancy Insights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 23:00:00

The Oura Ring is upgrading its existing features to better assist you if you're pregnant or perimenopausal, a new demographic for the ring. Oura is well known for its holistic sleep and wellness insights and already supports pregnant individuals, but this upgrade improves its data insights to help you look at everything from the gestational stages, trends related to temperature, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and more. Oura's traditional data markers based on readiness, sleep, rest

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How to save a smart home company

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-11-29 23:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The smart home can be scary. It seems like every other month, we hear about another smart home company going out of business, leaving you scrambling for a new way to turn on your lights. Why is it so hard for smart home manufacturers

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Community and Events Manager (Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 04:00:48

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space. We’re looking for a Community & Events Manager to own our real-world developer presence from small scrappy meetups to major trade shows. This isn’t a polished field marketing role. You’re not coordinating keynote stages or passing off ideas to an agency. You’re the one planning developer happy hours, running trade show booths end-to-end, and figuring out how to create moments that developers actually care about. You’ll own our

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83% of US Adults Still Choose Laptops for Work and School Over Sleek Smartphones and Tablets, CNET Survey Finds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 04:00:00

Upgrading to a new laptop can feel like a never-ending rabbit hole. Even when you know what you need, choosing the best features, specs and design within your budget can be a bit overwhelming, to say the least. Between back-to-school season and the holidays fast approaching, now's the time to shop around for a deal on a new laptop. But what are US adults looking for when upgrading their laptops, anyway? CNET's new laptop survey found that nearly half of US adults are upgrading for better speed

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A promising Sega Saturn emulator brings major improvements in a beefy update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 12:25:35

TL;DR The Ymir emulator for PCs has received a major update that improves performance and compatibility. The Sega Saturn emulator also now offers screenshot functionality and support for two notable Saturn controllers. The Sega Saturn is one of the more complicated retro video game consoles to emulate, but we’ve seen several solid emulators over the years. Most recently, a developer released the nifty Ymir emulator for computers, and it’s just received a major update. Ymir is a Sega Saturn em

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Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified

news.ycombinator.com Tomer Yanay 2025-11-30 15:05:59

We’re excited to announce that Qodo Command, our CLI agent, achieved a scored of 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified (submission pending review), the leading benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world software engineering tasks. This achievement is a strong signal that Qodo’s agents are built for the realities of production development. For use cases like reviewing code, writing tests, fixing bugs, and generating features, our CLI agent goes beyond autocomplete to deliver thoughtful, context-awar

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 12, #323

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 22:37:01

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. The NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a tough one today. But look for first names, and try and think of a last name they have in common, and you should be able to get the blue group easily enough. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, F

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Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 23:02:15

Boar's Head plans to reopen the Jarratt, Virginia, facility at the center of a deadly Listeria outbreak last year despite federal inspections continuing to find sanitation violations at three of the food company's other facilities, according to federal records obtained by the Associated Press. The AP obtained 35 pages of inspection reports via a Freedom of Information Act Request. Those reports cover inspections between January 1 and July 23 at three other Boar's Head facilities: Forrest City,

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Claude can now reference past chats, if you want it to

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 04:18:06

Claude is getting a better, if selective, memory. Rather than acting as perfect catalog of everything you've talked about or shared, Anthropic says the AI chatbot now has the ability to reference past chats when asked, so you don't have to re-explain yourself. The feature seems like it could help you pick up a work project after time away, or query Claude for the details of a past research session that you don't quite remember. The key point is that Claude has to be prompted: It doesn't call on

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Study Reveals ChatGPT Gives Dangerous Guidance to Teens, Despite Safety Claims

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 02:49:00

A disturbing new study reveals that ChatGPT readily provides harmful advice to teenagers, including detailed instructions on drinking and drug use, concealing eating disorders and even personalized suicide letters, despite OpenAI's claims of robust safety measures. Researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate conducted extensive testing by posing as vulnerable 13-year-olds, uncovering alarming gaps in the AI chatbot's protective guardrails. Out of 1,200 interactions analyzed, more th

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 12, #1515

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 03:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle could be difficult. The word isn't that commonly used, although the first letter does pop up in my favorite starter word. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 12, #793

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 03:00:05

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 Connections tries to pull a fast one on us. Check out all the bowling-related clues. Would you think "bowling" might be a category? Think again, this is the New York Times puzzle editors, and they love to help us toss gutterballs. Read on for hints and the answers.

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Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-01 09:11:53

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. As first spotted by Live Science, the ambitious vision recently won the team the top prize at the Project Hyperion Design Competition, which was launched last year by an international consortium of scientists, engineers, and urban planners. Unsurprisingly, Chrysalis sounds like it was yanked straight out of a sci

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Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-01 09:14:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers have published the most comprehensive survey to date of so-called “OS Agents” — artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously control computers, mobile phones and web browsers by directly interacting with their interfaces. The 30-page academic review, accepted for publication at the prestigious Association for Computatio

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Trump delays China tariff increases by another 90 days

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 09:14:43

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending lower tariffs with China for another 90 days, CNBC reports. The new executive order was signed before the previous agreement was set to end on August 12 at midnight. The extension will maintain the current 30 percent tariff on goods from China while representatives from both countries negotiate a new trade deal. The previous agreement lowered US tariffs down from 145 percent to 30 percent, and Chinese tariffs down from 145 percent t

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from Anywhere

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

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Thunderbolt 4 dock for Mac with dual 4K displays and 13 ports launches under $200

The Oura Ring Gets Its First-Ever Menopause Feature and Upgraded Pregnancy Insights

Ladies, your Oura Ring’s new tools will now cover everything from bumps to hot flashes

This designer turned the new Beats Pill into a cool art piece you can’t get everywhere

Women's health tracking features take center stage with this Oura update

New data shows AI agents invading the workplace, with mixed results

OURA Ring Introduces Its First-Ever Menopause Feature Plus Upgraded Pregnancy Insights

How to save a smart home company

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Community and Events Manager (Remote)

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A promising Sega Saturn emulator brings major improvements in a beefy update

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 12, #323

Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 12, #1515

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 12, #793

Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

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