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Comparing the Climate and Productivity Impacts of a Shrinking Population

news.ycombinator.com Mark Budolfson 2026-02-02 23:39:44

All authors are affiliates of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin. This paper subsumes the working paper “Population Decline: Too Small and Too Slow to Influence Climate Change” by the same authors. We thank Jared Bernstein, Maya Eden, Frank Errickson, Jim Feyrer, Chad Jones, Peter Kruse-Andersen, Kyle Meng, Marta Prato, John Podesta, Noah Scovronick, Robert Socolow, Phil Trammell, Sam Trejo, David Weil, Anson Zhou, Stéphane Zuber, Valeria Zurla and participants at the NBER’s confer

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Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful

news.ycombinator.com Florian Krämer 2026-02-03 03:04:36

When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style as a framework for designing scalable, performant, and maintainable networked systems, particularly web services. The paper aims to analyze architectural styles for network-based systems, id

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Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-02-03 03:00:00

Hugging Face is ready for developers to start tinkering and testing its latest robotics release. The AI development platform announced Wednesday that it’s now accepting orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots. The company initially unveiled the prototypes of these devices back in May, alongside a larger humanoid robot named HopeJR. Hugging Face said it plans to release two versions of the Reachy Mini. The first, called the Reachy Mini Wireless, is wireless and costs $449 and runs on a Raspbe

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Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 06:31:24

Hi, I’m Julien, co-founder of Plakar. Before we built this, I spent years as an engineer and later as a manager of infra teams. We handled backups, compliance, and recovery. In every place, startups, big companies, regulated sectors, I saw the same routine: tar -czf archive.tgz /some/folder We all love that command. But in 2025, it can cause trouble. What’s changed since .tgz was invented Back when tar came out in 1979 or even gzip came out in 1994, things were simple: Data was small, jus

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Best Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals: Our top picks on headphones, TVs, robot vacuums and more

engadget.com Valentina Palladino 2026-02-03 10:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Amazon Prime Day 2025 has arrived and it has brought a slew of discounts across the entirety of Amazon’s online storefront. As expected, Amazon’s site is pretty overwhelming at the moment and will continue to be throughout the duration of the four-day event. Even if you came prepared w

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Chinese researchers unveil MemOS, the first ‘memory operating system’ that gives AI human-like recall

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-03 15:57:16

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 A team of researchers from leading institutions including Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zhejiang University has developed what they’re calling the first “memory operating system” for artificial intelligence, addressing a fundamental limitation that has hindered AI systems from achieving human-like persistent memory and learning. The sy

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M&S confirms social engineering led to massive ransomware attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-03 20:39:53

M&S confirmed today that the retail outlet's network was initially breached in a "sophisticated impersonation attack" that ultimately led to a DragonForce ransomware attack. M&S chairman Archie Norman revealed this in a hearing with the UK Parliament's Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security regarding the recent attacks on the retail sector in the country. While Norman did not go into details, he stated that the threat actors impersonated one of the 50,000 people working with the

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NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 23:40:12

NuxtLabs is joining Vercel From the start, our mission at NuxtLabs has been to create the best possible developer experience for building fast, beautiful applications. We built Nuxt as an open source framework under the MIT license because we believed that great tools should be accessible, transparent, and community-driven. We’ve spent years pouring our time, energy, and resources into Nuxt. And through that, we’ve built not just a product, but also a community. One I’m proud of every single d

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Apple cleared in case tied to two union-busting allegations at NYC retail store

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-04 20:29:52

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that found Apple in violation of federal labor law at its World Trade Center retail store in New York. Here’s what that means. A bit of background The case centers on events from 2022, during an organizing campaign by Apple store employees in coordination with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). One employee, Jordan Vasquez, testified that a senior manager asked him

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Wayve CEO Alex Kendall brings the future of autonomous AI to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-02-04 20:15:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, bringing together more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders for a deep dive into the future of technology. One of the most compelling conversations on one of the AI Stages will feature a panel of innovators redefining what intelligent systems can do — and among them is Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve. From research breakthrough to real-world autonomy Kendall founded Wayve in 2017 with a bold vision: to unloc

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The best Amazon Prime Day camera deals you can get right now for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-05 08:45:02

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Amazon's Prime Day is always a good time to buy a camera as it helps make a major purchase far more palatable. If you've been looking to upgrade your current equipment or get one as a gift, there are a large number of stellar deals available. Many of those deals come from the major br

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 10:00:53

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work for your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-tim

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Amazon offers four more free games for Prime Day, including Marvel’s Midnight Suns

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-05 18:37:08

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The 2025 edition of Prime Day is upon us and, as expected, Amazon is offering Prime members an extra batch of games at no additional cost. Four more PC titles are now available to Prime Gaming subscribers, namely Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Marvel’

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The best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on Samsung, Crucial and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-05 20:36:18

Prime Day is a great time to pick up gear and upgrades you wouldn't normally think about. In case you've never used a solid-state drive (SSD) before, it's a class of add-ons that bolster a device's built-in storage. Not only will your phone, laptop or console be able to hold more data, but more of those files will be quickly accessible, which can vastly improve your speeds. If you have used an SSD before, you know what you're looking for — the best discounted drives on Amazon. We've curated a li

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The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices: Save on Kindle ereaders, Echo speakers and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-05 20:50:54

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Amazon’s own gadgets — Echo speakers, Fire tablets, Kindles and the like — are at the top of the list of tech on sale during Amazon Prime Day. While there are some (Echos, Kindles) that we like more than others (Fire tablets), there’s no question that you’ll get the best discount on al

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Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals are live: Our top picks on headphones, smartwatches, robot vacuums and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-05 22:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Amazon Prime Day 2025 is finally here, so now’s the time for members to stock up on discounted home essentials, clothing, shoes, and of course, tech. It’s safe to say that Amazon’s website will be overwhelming for the entirety of the event, so we wouldn’t blame you if you got distracte

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This portable workstation keeps me productive on the go - and it's half off

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-05 22:10:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The CaseUp Combo includes ProtoArc's wireless keyboard, mouse, and laptop stand for $50 on ProtoArc's site. The ease of use and transport make this a solid option for improving your hybrid and remote work setup. However, the mouse, while comfortable, might be too small for some people. View now at ProtoArc There is no shortage of wireless keyboards, portable monitors, and laptop mounts on the market. Remote work demands new use cases from tech to get our work done, and l

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SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 15:44:59

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# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 18:31:59

use std::sync::Arc; struct NoClone ; struct WrapArc <T>(Arc<T>); fn main () { let foo = WrapArc (Arc:: new (NoClone)); let foo_ = foo. clone (); } Do you think this code should compile? What about the following code: struct AlwaysEq <T>(T); impl <T> PartialEq for AlwaysEq <T> { fn eq (& self , _other: & Self ) -> bool { true } } impl <T> Eq for AlwaysEq <T> {} struct NotEq ; struct WrapAlwaysEq <T>(AlwaysEq<T>); fn assert_is_eq (_: impl Eq ) {} fn main () { let x = WrapAlwaysEq ( AlwaysEq (No

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A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2026-02-05 22:00:13

Mykyta Atamanchuk/Getty Images Salesforce has had over one million AI agent-customer conversations. The company launched AI agents on its Salesforce Help site in October 2024, a full-screen experience that makes getting support simpler and more intuitive. With more than 60 million visits each year, Salesforce Help offers a wide range of product content through organized directories, search, and direct support. Having handled a million support requests since the launch of AI agents, Salesforce

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Epanet-JS

news.ycombinator.com Tom Macwright 2026-02-01 16:57:19

epanet-js is a new web application that combines modern web maps with the industry-standard EPANET hydraulic simulation algorithm. It’s for people planning and updating water utility systems: connecting pipes and pressures and figuring out what will happen. It’s a problem area that I’m totally fascinated by and know very little about. It’s made by the folks from Iterating - Luke Butler and Sam Payá, who are experts in the field. If you’ve been following along with my blog and projects, you migh

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New 1.5B router model achieves 93% accuracy without costly retraining

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-02-06 00:25:31

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 Katanemo Labs have introduced Arch-Router, a new routing model and framework designed to intelligently map user queries to the most suitable large language model (LLM). For enterprises building products that rely on multiple LLMs, Arch-Router aims to solve a key challenge: how to direct queries to the best model for the job

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Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-02 15:03:31

Charles Babbage wrote an autobiography Passages from the Life of a Philosopher which was published in London in 1864 . In our biography of Babbage we have quoted several passages from the book which tell us about his life and the analytical engine. Here we quote from Chapter XVIII of the book where Babbage writes about deciphering. What we present here is only an extract. In fact we omit a more technical part which describes the considerable effort that he had put in constructing dictionaries wi

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EU Slaps Google With Antitrust Complaint Over AI Overviews

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 08:53:00

A group of publishers has filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google over its use of AI Overviews, according to a report from Reuters last week. AI Overviews are AI-generated results trained on content across the internet that appears at the top of Google searches. The complaint comes from a group of independent publishers who want the EU to take some action against Google scraping and repackaging their content, according to a document seen by Reuters. "Google's core search engine service

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Leak reveals Apple Maps in iOS 26 could get two unannounced new features [U]

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-06 14:31:39

Apple Maps continues to get better each year, with the variety of new iOS 26 features keeping that trend going. And according to new discoveries in iOS beta code, it seems Apple may have a couple additional Maps features on the way. [Update: See note at the bottom of the article on feature availability.] iOS 26 code reveals Apple Maps may get upgraded search and thermal management features Today in a post on X, Steve Moser shared about two new Apple Maps features that were discovered in iOS 26

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Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-06 18:27:26

Artificial intelligence use has been associated with everything from fear of judgment and loneliness to misogyny and illiteracy — a baffling array of outcomes that's often alarming, but defies easy categorization. Now the plot thickens. In a new study published in the journal BMC Psychology, South Korean scientists surveyed 504 college-level Chinese art students and found that the ones who exhibited higher rates of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism were more likely rely on ChatGPT a

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Leak reveals Apple Maps in iOS 26 could get two unannounced new features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-06 20:31:39

Apple Maps continues to get better each year, with the variety of new iOS 26 features keeping that trend going. And according to new discoveries in iOS beta code, it seems Apple may have a couple additional Maps features on the way. iOS 26 code reveals Apple Maps may get upgraded search and thermal management features Today in a post on X, Steve Moser shared about two new Apple Maps features that were discovered in iOS 26 beta code. Neither feature has been previously announced by Apple. Firs

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Google may soon let Pixel users remove the search widget’s new AI Mode shortcut (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-07 00:16:37

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google recently added a new shortcut to the Pixel Launcher’s search widget, making it easy for users to launch Search’s AI Mode from the home screen. This new shortcut hasn’t gone down well with users, with many finding it intrusive. Google may soon give users an option to remove the AI Mode shortcut from the search widget. Google recently rolled out an easier way to access Search’s AI Mode. The company added a new AI Mode shortcut to the Pixel Launch

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'Batavia' Windows spyware campaign targets dozens of Russian orgs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-07 10:48:39

A previously undocumented spyware called ‘Batavia’ has been targeting large industrial enterprises in Russia in a phishing email campaign that uses contract-related lures. The researchers believe the operation has been active since at least last year in July and is ongoing. Based on telemetry data, the phishing emails delivering Batavia have reached employees at several dozen Russian organizations have been targeted. Since January 2025, the campaign has increased in intensity and peaked toward

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Amazon Prime Day deals are already live through July 11: Here are our top picks so far

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-07 15:00:35

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Amazon Prime Day has been a summer mainstay for years at this point and 2025 is no exception. Prime Day will return on July 8 to July 11 this year, marking the first time the shopping event has been more than 48-hours long. That just means you’ll have more time to shop the deals, but r

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Comparing the Climate and Productivity Impacts of a Shrinking Population

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Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives

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M&S confirms social engineering led to massive ransomware attack

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The best Amazon Prime Day camera deals you can get right now for 2025

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher

Amazon offers four more free games for Prime Day, including Marvel’s Midnight Suns

The best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on Samsung, Crucial and more

The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices: Save on Kindle ereaders, Echo speakers and more

Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals are live: Our top picks on headphones, smartwatches, robot vacuums and more

This portable workstation keeps me productive on the go - and it's half off

SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines

# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

Epanet-JS

New 1.5B router model achieves 93% accuracy without costly retraining

Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

EU Slaps Google With Antitrust Complaint Over AI Overviews

Leak reveals Apple Maps in iOS 26 could get two unannounced new features [U]

Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy

Leak reveals Apple Maps in iOS 26 could get two unannounced new features

Google may soon let Pixel users remove the search widget’s new AI Mode shortcut (APK teardown)

'Batavia' Windows spyware campaign targets dozens of Russian orgs

Amazon Prime Day deals are already live through July 11: Here are our top picks so far

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