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Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-30 14:12:45

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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My iPhone 15 Pro Max battery life went from great to awful in less than two years - what happened?

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-30 14:49:00

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways My iPhone is less than 18 months old. It now cannot make it through a day without a recharge. Nothing appears abnormal in the settings, so what gives? Rather than do my usual and upgrade my iPhone again last year with only about a year on the clock, I decided to try what most people end up having to do -- keep it going for a few years. Apple says that the battery is designed to retain

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This Page Is a Quine (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 14:52:26

Hi, I'm Pranav And this page is a quine. What is that? Well, a quine is a program that produces its source code as its output. About me I am a research enginer at Conjecture, where you can find me tinkering with LLMs. You can find my resume here I started exploring computers when I was 7, when I got my hands on a QBASIC manual. I have loved writing code and computers ever since. I was a Google Code-in 2018 Grand Prize winner for my contributions to KDE Community, and was invited to visit Go

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:48:27

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

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Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

news.ycombinator.com Aditya Athalye 2025-11-30 14:47:50

On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a bitemporal database. Because? Because laying about on a hammock, contemplating hopelessly complected objects like Current Databases isn't just for the Rich man. Don't try this at work! The "Poor Man's Bitemp

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Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple with AI-generated Metal kernels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:03:35

Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels tl;dr: Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.87x faster across 215 PyTorch modules, with some workloads running hundreds of times faster than baseline. Why use AI to generate kernels for Apple devices? AI models execute on hardware via GPU kernels that define each oper

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Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:00:04

At Svix, we are looking for smart, high-energy and fast learning individuals that enjoy having developers as their users, and share our values. You will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the company and the product. You will be trusted to take ownership, have autonomy, and be a leader. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will

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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 12:28:23

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python Posted August 30, 2023 A few months ago, I set myself the challenge of writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python , after writing my SDF donut post. How hard could it be? The answer was, pretty hard, even when dropping quite a few features. But it was also pretty interesting, and the result is surprisingly functional and not too hard to understand! There's too much code for me to comprehensively cover in a single blog post , so I'll just give an ove

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 05:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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‘Unidentified Floating Object’ Causes Confusion off Swedish Coast

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-30 14:05:47

Well, here’s something you don’t find floating in the water every day: a giant piece of metal from an offshore wind turbine. The Swedish coast guard recently identified the so-called UFO—and it’s the second rogue object spotted within a month. Last week, the Swedish Coast Guard received a tip about a mysterious UFO, in this case an “unidentified floating object,” bobbing up and down near the country’s border with Norway. The Marine Corps and the Smögen Sea Rescue Company expressed their concern

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Mophie Made the Ultimate Charging Stand for All Your AirPods

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-11-30 14:20:44

IFA 2025 is chock full of RGB-bleeding gaming laptops, cassette tape Bluetooth boomboxes, Nvidia AI computing (gotta have that), and, of course, this Max Headphones Charging Stand from reputable accessory maker Mophie. Unlike the thousands of other charging stands available to buy from every brand under the sun, this one actually does something different that I’ve not seen before: it charges both a pair of AirPods Max and a pair of AirPods or AirPods Pro. Mophie says it’s the “first dedicated c

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Watch Lady Gaga’s Tim Burton-Directed Video for Her ‘Wednesday’ Dance Jam

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-30 14:30:57

There was a lot of hype ahead of Lady Gaga’s appearance on Netflix’s Wednesday, but now that all of season two has dropped, it’s clear that her new song, “The Dead Dance,” has an equally important presence in the series. No spoilers if you haven’t binged the new episodes yet, but you can also enjoy the song on its own thanks to the Tim Burton-directed music video. Though Burton has a cinematic filmography stretching back 40 years—all the way to 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, his feature debut—

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Why Is Google Climbing Today? Here Are The Basics

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-30 14:35:48

Google investors were overjoyed on Wednesday in response to a long-awaited decision in a high-profile federal antitrust case against Google. On Tuesday, federal judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google could get to keep its Chrome browser, despite a previous ruling also by Mehta declaring that the tech giant’s search business was a monopoly. In response, Google stock had its largest upside non-earnings-related overnight gap up since it was a

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Investors Cheer As Amazon Cracks Down on Prime Accounts

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-30 14:42:13

Amazon.com Inc. is cracking down on shared Prime accounts. The company says it is ending a little-known but long-standing feature of its Prime membership that allowed subscribers to extend free shipping benefits to friends and family outside their homes. The move, announced this week, will shutter the company’s “Invitee Program” on Oct. 1, redirecting members to a stricter household-sharing model known as Amazon Family. What exactly are they ending? For years, the Invitee Program quietly let

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Taylor Swift's Engagement Post Broke One Instagram Record and Is Still Climbing the Most-Liked List

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 14:00:00

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram just over a week ago, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts (though to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August). Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in the first hour. By Wednesday this week, it had topped 36 million likes, vault

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The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits no Longer Apply

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 14:04:00

Meal kits have evolved dramatically in the 13 years since Blue Apron launched in the US. Today, nine major meal kit services operate across the country and their convenient dinner packages have become comparatively cheaper and better suited to people with dietary restrictions. Increased competition has brought variety and consumer-friendly makeovers to meal delivery services, but much of the population is still skeptical. In a recent CNET survey of more than 2,600 US adults, most of those who h

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Court reinstates fired FTC Democrat, says Trump ignored Supreme Court precedent

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:05:00

A Democrat who was fired from the Federal Trade Commission by President Trump was reinstated to her position yesterday in an appeals court ruling. Trump's firing of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter violated Supreme Court precedent, said yesterday's ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A District Court judge ruled the same way in July, but Slaughter couldn't get back to work because of an administrative stay that delayed the lower-court ruling from taking

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Amazon confirms Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in live-action Tomb Raider series

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-30 14:20:52

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon announced today that its live-action Tomb Raider series will feature Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft. Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge will serve as the show’s creator, writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner, and filming will begin in January 2026, Va

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Major Amazon leak spoils the Philips Hue party

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-11-30 14:25:52

The Philips Hue store on Amazon’s UK site is hosting a number of new products that have yet to be announced as the big IFA 2025 show gets under way in Berlin, Germany. We’re seeing that rumored Hue Doorbell, a new Hue Bridge Pro (in black), a new Essential lighting sub-brand, and something called MotionAware that turns “light devices into motion sensors,” by using the bulbs’ Zigbee radios to detect motion between Hue lights.

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James Gunn’s Superman sequel is coming in 2027

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-30 14:31:50

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. James Gunn has been coy about his plans for a follow-up to this year’s excellent Superman movie, but the writer / director is finally sharing some concrete news about what’s next for the Man of Steel. Gunn announced in an Instagram post today that

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Mophie adds wireless charging to the AirPods Max with a clever new stand

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-30 14:33:29

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mophie has announced a new wireless charger for Apple’s AirPods Max called the Max Headphones Charging Stand. The AirPods Max don’t support wireless charging, so Mophie’s new stand relies on a small dongle that stays connected to the headphones’ USB-C port at

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Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-30 14:54:27

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. It’s been a tumultuous summer for Scale AI: Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company, Mark Zuckerberg hired Scale CEO Alexandr Wang and other top staff, and Scale laid off 14 percent of its workforce. Now the latest development is a lawsuit over corporate espionage in the AI industry. The AI data labeling company, w

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Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-30 12:27:08

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age-estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

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Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-30 14:22:36

The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. To help with that transition, President Donald Trump has introduced potential chip tariffs and policies in recent months meant to bring more semiconductor manufacturing stateside. In late August, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step toward that goal w

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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-30 14:29:03

Google’s AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM now lets users customize the tone of their Audio Overviews, which are podcasts with AI virtual hosts that summarize and discuss documents shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted as a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.” A Deep Dive features conversational dialogues where two AI hosts unpack the t

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Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-11-30 16:20:52

An Interview with Dr. Jiebo Luo – 2025 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award Recipient Dr. Jiebo Luo, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, is a visionary in computer vision, machine learning, and computational social science whose groundbreaking work has spanned over 600 publications, 90 patents, and numerous prestigious awards across academia and industry. Your research spans computer vision, natura

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The best of reMarkable just went pocket-sized

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 18:56:25

reMarkable TL;DR Today, reMarkable officially launched the Paper Pro Move, a 7.3-inch, pocketable version of the Paper Pro. The device weighs just 230g, offers two weeks of battery life, and adds new tools like handwriting search and Slack integration. Pricing starts at $449 with the standard Marker stylus, or $499 with the Marker Plus. Last week, we reported reMarkable’s video cryptically teasing a new product heading to shelves, as well as the inevitable leaks that followed. Today, the com

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