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3D QR Codes

news.ycombinator.com Erik Demaine 2025-11-21 00:20:33

3D QR Codes Erik Demaine & Martin Demaine, 2025 In this exhibit, we're experimenting with the limits of QR (Quick Response) codes, in particular new ways to construct QR codes from physical material. Most of our QR codes are built from several layers of material (wood, paper, or acrylic), where each layer is a single color. Building in this way has an interesting constraint: each layer must be a connected piece of material. We use a greedy algorithm to find the most white pixels that can appea

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I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

news.ycombinator.com James Ambrose 2025-11-25 06:47:45

For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back contr

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Unix Conspiracy (1991)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 09:48:12

[ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from

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‘007 First Light’ Exists Thanks to Daniel Craig and ‘Hitman’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-25 08:00:21

Just yesterday, IO Interactive revealed its first gameplay from its James Bond game, 007 First Light. While it’s set in its own continuity, it’ll still have some ties to the films and books—in fact, those ties are how IO got the reins of Bond in the first place. Press like IGN got to visit the studio prior to the recent unveiling, and it was there game director Hakan Abrak revealed part of IO’s pitch for the game was sculpting Daniel Craig’s face onto Agent 47, the star of its stealth-action fr

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A Spaceship Crew Faces Doom in This Surprisingly Tender Sci-Fi Story

gizmodo.com Lightspeed Magazine 2025-11-25 08:30:08

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by Kel Coleman. Enjoy! Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by Kel Coleman Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and the gesture it represented soothed her after a long,

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Apple Music Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify Now. Here's Why You May Want To

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 05:35:00

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature last week, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It

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These Are the Catchiest Songs of All Time, According to AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 05:41:12

Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our minds is still a mystery. I recently chaperoned the all-night graduation party at my daughter's high school. After hanging out at an all-games-and-rides-free arcade until 2 a.m., we took the graduates on chartered buses to a private all-ages nightclub in downtown Seattle. It boasted free unlimited fountain soda and snacks, a photo booth with props, a trivia contest, glow necklaces and, best of all, a

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Polar Introduces the Loop, a $200 Screenless Wearable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 05:42:00

Fitness tracking company Polar has launched the Loop, a $200 screenless wearable that it says will have no subscription fees. Preorders opened on Wednesday, and the Polar Loop will start shipping on Sept. 10. Like other fitness trackers, the Polar Loop will log steps, sleep patterns and daily activity patterns. But Polar is touting the lack of a screen as "unobtrusive" and "discreet." Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. The

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AI Firm Midjourney Faces Copyright Lawsuit by Warner Bros., DC Comics and Cartoon Network

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 05:46:00

If I got a nickel every time a major entertainment company sued AI image and video company Midjourney, I'd now have 15 cents. On Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Midjourney, following Disney and Universal's similar lawsuit earlier this year. The recent lawsuit alleges the AI company violated the entertainment company's copyright protections by allowing users to create images with characters like Batman, Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny. "Midjourney thinks

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33 Unique Gifts for People Who Already Have Everything

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 06:29:00

If you know someone who appreciates a good tech gadget, they’ll be a big fan of these smart glasses. CNET’s Scott Stein says the Meta Ray-Bans are practical and, oddly, transformative. He’s gotten so used to them that sometimes he’ll start talking to himself and tapping the glasses to take pictures before realizing he’s wearing his regular ones. “I suddenly miss the extra features like a phantom limb,” he says. He also loves that AI is a "whimsical bonus" with the Meta Ray-Bans. “These are glas

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A Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon Are Coming This Weekend: How to Stream Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 06:30:05

Fresh on the heels of August's black moon is September's full moon this weekend, which will be among the most interesting full moons of 2025. It's coming with a total lunar eclipse, making it a blood moon. If you're in the US, you won't be able to see the upcoming lunar eclipse, but the moon should still appear redder than usual. The total lunar eclipse, which takes place on Sunday, will be visible primarily in Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe and Eastern Africa. Most of the rest of Europe and A

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Android's Big UI Makeover Is Official for Older Pixels in September Update

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 06:35:00

Android's big UI overhaul, Material 3 Expressive, was announced earlier this year and is preinstalled on the new Pixel 10 series of smartphones. Now it's time for older Pixel devices to get the makeover treatment, thanks to the September Pixel Drop. Material 3 Expressive is now coming to Pixel 6 devices and up, including the Pixel tablet. Google's focus with the UI overhaul is to make Android more personalized, colorful and livelier overall. It's easier to identify actions you want to take with

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World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer: Stream Argentina vs. Venezuela Live From Anywhere for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 08:00:03

Already qualified Argentina could deliver a hammer blow to Venezuela's World Cup 2-26 qualification hopes as these two team's meet on Thursday in Buenos Aires. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Lionel Scaloni's defending world champs sealed their place in next summer's tournament back in March, but today's nevertheless remains significant

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Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-25 08:03:34

In Brief Rivian is laying off around 150 workers — its second small staff cut in a matter of months — as the company readies itself for the all-important launch of its more-affordable R2 SUV next year. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that the new cuts were mostly to its “commercial” team, which deals with sales and service operations, and that affected employees will be eligible for rehire and encouraged to apply for other open positions. The Wall Street Journal first reported the layoffs

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-25 08:33:40

Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer service AI agents, announced it raised a $350 million funding round on Thursday. The round, led by earlier investor Greenoaks Capital, values the startup at $10 billion, according to a company blog post that confirmed an earlier report from Axios on Wednesday. Sierra was founded in early 2024 by Taylor and longtime Google alum Clay Bavor. The compan

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Adapting to Industry Changes in an AI-Driven Future

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-11-25 11:29:10

“AI won’t take your job; someone using AI will,” according to Forbes . It’s hard to open LinkedIn or a news app without being inundated with artificial intelligence (AI) upheaval. From new large language models (LLMs) to consumer apps to flashy agents, it’s impossible to ignore that AI is drastically changing the modern workforce. Whether it’s a mid-career professional watching peers get laid off or a new graduate navigating a tough job market amid AI changes, everyone is adapting to the new pa

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Broadcom’s stock pops on mystery $10 billion AI customer

cnbc.com Kif Leswing Ari Levy 2025-11-25 12:17:30

Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations and provided robust guidance for the current quarter. The stock rose in extended trading after the company said it had secured $10 billion in orders from a new client for custom chips. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.69 adjusted vs. $1.65 expected $1.69 adjusted vs. $1.65 expected Revenue: $15.96 billion vs. $15.83 billion expected Broadcom said it expects $17.4 billion

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Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 10:44:21

For a while now, we've been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor. Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code — by making it less, well, sloppy. In an interview with NBC News, longtime freelance illustrator Lisa Carstens said fixing AI-generated logos, many of which have fuzzy lines and garbled text

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Elon Musk's New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 11:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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Strava updates Apple Watch app, introduces Live Segments

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-25 12:30:34

If you’re a Strava user, you know this has been a long time coming. The company has completely redesigned its Apple Watch app, in an update that introduces Live Segments. Here’s how it works. Every time Tim Cook discusses the Apple Watch during Apple’s quarterly earnings conference call, he says something like, “over half of Apple Watch sales were to new customers,” which is Apple’s way of saying that its user base keeps growing. Strava, for its part, is also seeing that. In a blog post detail

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Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-25 12:11:05

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports . The studio's publisher and owner 2K confirmed that the layoffs were happening as Firaxis "restructures and optimizes" for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The layoffs follow turmoil at another 2K studio , Cloud Chamber, which is supposed to be developing the next Bioshock game. Since the restructuring has yet to be publicly disclosed, it's hard to

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The new Street Fighter movie lands in theaters next October

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-25 12:27:25

The new Street Fighter movie has been given a release date of October 16, 2026. Kitao Sakurai is directing the project and a few generic plot details have been disclosed. The story will be set in 1993, a nod to the year Street Fighter II was released in arcades, and will have familiar characters from the game uncovering "a deadly conspiracy" in the midst of all their street fighting. It seems safe to expect a fair bit of camp in a Street Fighter project, and that bears out in some of the castin

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Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 12:01:11

TL;DR Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't. Introduction In part 1 I showed how some computer performance factors are scaling exponentially while others have been stagnant for decades. I then asserted, without proof, that sourcing data from disk can be faster than from memory. What follows is the proof.

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What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 11:36:50

Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three. Home Menu About Documentation Download License Support Purchase Search About Documentation Download Support Purchase Search Documentation Search Changelog What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? Introduction Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include: Smaller documents Faster File/Save times Faster startup times Less memory used Document

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Rocketships and Slingshots

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Harris 2025-11-25 11:06:10

The dominant metaphor for a successful startup these days is the rocketship. The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The stories are simple, the progress is amazing, the pull of the market is irresistible. Sometimes these will be the biggest and most interesting companies of the future. Then again, as with most stories, the realities o

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What Is the Fourier Transform?

news.ycombinator.com Shalma Wegsman 2025-11-25 12:11:09

As we listen to a piece of music, our ears perform a calculation. The high-pitched flutter of the flute, the middle tones of the violin, and the low hum of the double bass fill the air with pressure waves of many different frequencies. When the combined sound wave descends through the ear canal and into the spiral-shaped cochlea, hairs of different lengths resonate to the different pitches, separating the messy signal into buckets of elemental sounds. It took mathematicians until the 19th centu

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If You’re Not Already Planning Your Halloween Costume, You’re Falling Behind

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-25 12:15:13

There’s no reason to delay getting in the spirit of Halloween as popular costume retailers begin to release this year’s slate of pop culture-inspired looks. From Spirit Halloween to BoxLunch to PetSmart, there are a ton of fandom fits across stores and online for the while family. For Squid Game fans we’re excited about the official collaboration between Spirit Halloween and the Netflix hit show. Fans can dress up as players, guards, and the Front Man and there’s an update for the Young-hee dol

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The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-25 12:29:34

Wednesday’s discovery of three mis-issued TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS lookup service generated intense interest and concern among Internet security practitioners. The revelation raised the possibility that an unknown entity had obtained the cryptographic equivalent of a skeleton key that could be used to surreptitiously decrypt millions of users’ DNS queries that were encrypted through DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS. From there, the scammers could have read queries or

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The September Pixel Drop is here with Material 3 Expressive for all!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 09:00:36

Google TL;DR The September Pixel Drop is here with fresh features for Pixel phones, the Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and the Pixel Tablet. The update brings the Material 3 Expressive redesign of older Pixel phones and the Pixel Tablet. The Pixel Watch is getting a handy Google Maps feature, while the Pixel Buds Pro 2 are being updated with Adaptive Audio and more. It’s time to hit update on your Pixel devices again as Google offloads a bunch of new features and capabilities in its latest P

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Tim Cook expected back at the White House for Trump AI event

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-24 20:31:35

Where will Tim Cook be on the Thursday before the iPhone 17 event? Back at the White House, it seems. The Apple CEO gifted President Trump a big chunk of 24k gold with a piece of glass in August after announcing plans to make all iPhone glass in Kentucky. 29 days later, their next meeting will focus on AI, according to The Hill: President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, including M

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Latest Tech News

3D QR Codes

I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

Unix Conspiracy (1991)

‘007 First Light’ Exists Thanks to Daniel Craig and ‘Hitman’

A Spaceship Crew Faces Doom in This Surprisingly Tender Sci-Fi Story

Apple Music Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify Now. Here's Why You May Want To

These Are the Catchiest Songs of All Time, According to AI

Polar Introduces the Loop, a $200 Screenless Wearable

AI Firm Midjourney Faces Copyright Lawsuit by Warner Bros., DC Comics and Cartoon Network

33 Unique Gifts for People Who Already Have Everything

A Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon Are Coming This Weekend: How to Stream Them

Android's Big UI Makeover Is Official for Older Pixels in September Update

World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer: Stream Argentina vs. Venezuela Live From Anywhere for Free

Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch

Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation

Adapting to Industry Changes in an AI-Driven Future

Broadcom’s stock pops on mystery $10 billion AI customer

Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched

Elon Musk's New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad

Strava updates Apple Watch app, introduces Live Segments

Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

The new Street Fighter movie lands in theaters next October

Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Rocketships and Slingshots

What Is the Fourier Transform?

If You’re Not Already Planning Your Halloween Costume, You’re Falling Behind

The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

The September Pixel Drop is here with Material 3 Expressive for all!

Tim Cook expected back at the White House for Trump AI event

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