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Own a PS5? I changed 3 settings to give my console a big performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-21 11:00:20

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Google is giving Pixel 10 Pro customers a $240 bonus (including 2TB for free) - how to redeem it

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-10-21 12:15:18

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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How to Give a Good Talk

news.ycombinator.com Michael Greenberg On Mar 2025-10-17 21:42:08

How to Give a Good Talk In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conference is an incredible opportunity: for a moment, you have the community’s attention. If you can give a good talk, the community will pay more attention to your work! But what makes a good talk? I spoke at PLMW 2025 on this topic—“How to give a good talk”. You can read an edited t

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Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 14:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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He tracked his luggage with an AirTag - what he found was straight out of a movie

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-10-21 15:30:18

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads' with AI

cnbc.com Scott Budman 2025-10-21 12:59:01

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Salesforce has cut 4,000 of its customer support roles, CEO Marc Benioff recently said while discussing how artificial intelligence has helped reduce the company headcount. Benioff revealed the layoffs during an interview published Friday on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast. "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads," Benioff said while

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Indices, not Pointers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 12:21:30

Indices, not Pointers There is a pattern I’ve learned while using Zig which I’ve never seen used in any other language. It’s an extremely simple trick which - when applied to a data structure - reduces memory usage, reduces memory allocations, speeds up accesses, makes freeing instantaneous, and generally makes everything much, much faster. The trick is to use indices, not pointers. This is something I learned from a talk by Andrew Kelley (Zig’s creator) on data-oriented design. It’s used in Z

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Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 12:35:32

komplott / komplodin A tribute to: Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I (as found in paper/recursive.pdf ) A micro-subset of scheme / the original LISP in a single C file: komplott.c ! New in 2025! The LISP interpreter translated to Odin in komplodin.odin . More lines of code, but I am less familiar with the language and am translating directly from C, so there are probably ways to make it a cleaner solution. When I posted this to lobste.rs,

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Sept. 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 15:29:36

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Parallel AI agents are a game changer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 16:44:50

I’ve been in this industry long enough to watch technologies come and go. I’ve seen the excitement around new frameworks, the promises of revolutionary tools, and the breathless predictions about what would “change everything.” Most of the time, these technologies turned out to be incremental improvements wrapped in marketing hyperbole. But parallel agents? This is different. This is the first time I can say, without any exaggeration, that I’m witnessing technology that will fundamentally trans

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A Lunar Eclipse and a Blood Moon Are Coming: Here's How to Stream Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 16:28:00

Fresh on the heels of August's black moon is September's full moon, which will be among the most interesting full moons of 2025. It's coming with a total lunar eclipse, making it a blood moon. Viewers in the US 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 Sept. 7, will be visible primarily in Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe and Eastern Africa. Most of the rest of Europe and Africa will see a pa

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Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 21:33:50

Hackers tried to steal $130 million from Evertec’s Brazilian subsidiary Sinqia S.A.after gaining unauthorized access to its environment on the central bank’s real-time payment system (Pix). Evertec is a public financial technology giant that stands as a major full-service transaction processor in Latin America, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. Sinqia, acquired by Evertec in 2023, is a São Paulo-based public company operating in financial software and IT services for the banking and financial in

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OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 21:36:26

Daily squirts of a safe, over-the-counter allergy nasal spray may prevent COVID-19 infections from taking hold, according to results published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a mid-staged trial, the spray appeared to reduce infections by promising 67 percent, though a larger trial will need to confirm that robust efficacy. The trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trial conducted by researchers at Germany's Saarland University between March 2023 and July 2024. T

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This man tracked his stolen luggage with an AirTag - and found himself in a bizarre scene

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-10-22 01:00:15

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Marshall’s Mid-Century-Looking Soundbar Would Make Don Draper Cry Tears of Joy

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-22 01:06:18

Marshall’s lineup of non-rockstar-grade audio gear just got a little bigger. As a part of IFA 2025, the company announced the Heston 60, a more compact soundbar that complements its previously released Heston 120. As usual, Marshall is keeping things mid-century with a design that invokes its classic amps and includes tactile controls (buttons instead of knobs like those used on the Heston 120), woven fabric, and PU leather. It also comes in either cream or black, but if you don’t buy the cream

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Apple Wallet has three new features for boarding passes in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-22 05:49:04

Using digital boarding passes on the iPhone has become common practice for many of us. But after years with no changes to the feature, iOS 26 is about to upgrade Apple Wallet’s boarding passes with several handy new features. Apple Wallet offers new reasons to use a digital boarding pass in iOS 26 One of the apps getting the most new features in iOS 26 is the Wallet app, which will soon offer more Car Key vehicle brands, AI-powered order tracking, US Passport support, full credit card details,

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Light Sleep: Waking VMs in 200ms with eBPF and snapshots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 17:25:47

At Koyeb, we run a serverless platform for deploying production-grade applications on high-performance infrastructure—GPUs, CPUs, and accelerators. You push code or containers; we handle everything from build to global deployment, running workloads in secure, lightweight virtual machines on bare-metal servers around the world. Last week, we announced a major milestone in the ongoing journey of optimizing efficiency and cold starts: Light Sleep, which reduces cold starts to around 200ms for CPU

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EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-22 05:00:58

The European Union has put plans to fine Google on hold. The commission in charge of doling out punishment for digital infractions is reportedly worried that fining the U.S. tech giant for allegedly abusing its dominance in online advertising could provoke U.S. President Donald Trump. Bloomberg and Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources, that E.U. officials had planned to announce the antitrust sanction on Monday; however, that deadline came and went without an announcement. The Commission h

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 3, #1537

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 05:00:04

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion, brings on CEO as applications executive

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-22 09:44:06

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. OpenAI continued its spending spree, announcing on Tuesday that it has acquired Statsig, a product development startup, for $1.1 billion. Statsig helps OpenAI and other companies test features and use real-time data in their operations. As part of the acquisition, Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji is joining OpenAI as technology chief in t

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Samsung watch running slow? This simple trick made mine feel like new again

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-22 09:46:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 07:14:51

Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior. Social credit, in its original economic definition, means distributing industry profits to consumers to increase purchasing power. But the term has evolved far beyond economics. Today, it de

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Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 08:58:00

December 2, 2024 Volume 22, issue 5 PDF Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something! IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions or participate in the process to achieve something better. Poul-Henning Kamp It's a common trope in entertainment for some character to deliver a nonlinear response to something seemingly trivial, only for that to later prove to have been a vitally important clue. So, that room the janitor won't let anybody into? Right, that isn't actually

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Physically based rendering from first principles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 08:07:22

Physically based rendering from first principles In this interactive article, we will explore the physical phenomena that create light and the fundamental laws governing its interaction with matter. We will learn how our human eyes capture light and how our brains interpret it as visual information. We will then model approximations of these physical interactions and learn how to create physically realistic renderings of various materials. Chapter 1: What is light? We are all familiar with li

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iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 09:32:46

computervision We're doing some computer vision stuff at iNat. models iNaturalist makes a subset of its machine learning models publicly available while keeping full species classification models private due to intellectual property considerations and organizational policy. We provide “small” models trained on approximately 500 taxa, including taxonomy files and a geographic model, which are suitable for on-device testing and other applications. Additionally, researchers have independently de

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Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 06:00:00

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a new flagship OLED David Katzmaier/CNET With all of the TVs available today, and all of the technical terms and jargon associated with television technology, it can be tough to figure out what's important. Here's a quick guide to help cut through the confusion. Picture quality: Broadly speaking, the type of display technology helps dictate how good a TV's picture quality is, but OLED is typically the best display technology, and this is followed by LCD (including QLED,

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Imgur's community was in revolt

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-10-22 08:33:54

The front page of Imgur, a popular image hosting and social media site, is full of pictures of John Oliver raising his middle finger and telling MediaLab AI, the site’s parent company, “fuck you.” Imgurians, as the site’s users call themselves, telling their business daddy to go to hell is the end result of a years-long degradation of the website. The Imgur story is one a classic case of enshitification , Imgur began life in 2009 when Ohio University student Alan Schaaf got tired of how hard it

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cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 12:54:34

I spend every day on the hunt for deals that save you money. And I mean genuine savings, not fake discounts. My team and I are continually tracking and handpicking offers from the biggest retailers, like Amazon and Walmart, for our CNET Deals text subscribers. We'll send the best sales to your phone to help you score the hottest deals without lifting a finger. With Apple announcing new products, we anticipate upcoming deals on older Apple products like MacBooks, iPhones and the Apple Watch. I'm

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Call of Duty is getting the movie treatment, courtesy of Paramount

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 17:14:08

Paramount has just signed a deal with Microsoft and Activision to make a movie based on the iconic Call of Duty franchise. The valuation of the deal hasn't been revealed, but CoD is a mighty lucrative IP . We don't know much about the specifics of the deal, other than it covers a live-action feature film that Paramount will develop, produce and distribute. This means we don't have any information about the cast, creative team or what game or era the film will pull from. After all, there have b

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Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Mysterious Electrical Surges on Satellites

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-22 17:40:43

In 1994, two Canadian TV satellites failed within mere hours of each other. The pair was in a geostationary orbit when a major solar storm hit, resulting in electrostatic discharges that disabled their control electronics. Anik E1 and E2 are just one example of the effects of electric charge buildup on satellites, known as spacecraft environment discharge. New findings show a direct correlation between a spacecraft’s electric discharge and peaks in the flux of electrons in space, identifying hu

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Own a PS5? I changed 3 settings to give my console a big performance boost

Google is giving Pixel 10 Pro customers a $240 bonus (including 2TB for free) - how to redeem it

How to Give a Good Talk

Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model

He tracked his luggage with an AirTag - what he found was straight out of a movie

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Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

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This man tracked his stolen luggage with an AirTag - and found himself in a bizarre scene

Marshall’s Mid-Century-Looking Soundbar Would Make Don Draper Cry Tears of Joy

Apple Wallet has three new features for boarding passes in iOS 26

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Physically based rendering from first principles

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Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

Imgur's community was in revolt

Sign Up to Get the Hottest Daily Deals Sent Directly to Your Phone

Call of Duty is getting the movie treatment, courtesy of Paramount

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Mysterious Electrical Surges on Satellites

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