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Japan Post to temporarily suspend mail to US over end of de minimis exemption

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 06:41:48

Temporary Suspension of Acceptance of Mail to the United States Due to Changes in U.S. Customs and Regulations On July 30, 2025, the U.S. government issued an executive order titled “Termination of De Minimis Treatment for All Countries” regarding mail to the United States. Under this executive order, starting August 29, 2025, mail containing goods imported for personal use (taxable mail) will no longer be eligible for duty-free treatment, and tariffs will be imposed. On August 15, 2025, U.S.

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AirPods Pro 3 Coming in September? Here's Everything We Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 05:35:00

Recent reports suggest we probably won't see a new version of the AirPods Max this year, but many folks are predicting we will see the AirPods Pro 3 at Apple's iPhone 17 launch event this fall. Apple last updated its flagship AirPods Pro buds in 2022 and released two all-new versions of Apple's open earbuds -- the AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Canceling -- at last year's iPhone 16 event. While there's no guarantee we'll get the AirPods Pro 3 this year, Apple has announced a new model

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Don't Expect New AirPods Max 2 at Apple's iPhone 17 Event, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 10:15:00

Some of us have been waiting for Apple to announce a new second-gen version of the AirPods Max, its high-end over-ear noise-canceling headphones that were released in December 2020. They were refreshed last year with USB-C connectivity, some new color options and USB-C audio in April of this year. But if a recent report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who's usually a reliable Apple whisperer, proves accurate, we won't be seeing the AirPods Max 2 at Apple's iPhone 17 Event, which is likely to take pl

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Grocery Stores Toss About 30% of Food. This App Lets You Buy It for Cheap Before They Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 15:52:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Flashfood is an app that lets you shop discounted groceries that would otherwise be tossed due to packaging damage or looming expiration dates. Flashfood 9.2 / 10 SCORE Flashfood Buy at Flashfood Pros Shop for discounted groceries while you shop for other groceries Rescue food that would otherwise have to be tossed Heavily discounted items available acr

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Report: Don't Expect New AirPods Max 2 at Apple's iPhone 17 Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 16:15:09

Some of us have been waiting for Apple to announce a new second-gen version of the AirPods Max, its high-end over-ear noise-canceling headphones that were released in December 2020. They were refreshed last year with USB-C connectivity, some new color options and USB-C audio in April of this year. But if a recent report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who's usually a reliable Apple whisperer, proves accurate, we won't be seeing the AirPods Max 2 at Apple's iPhone 17 Event, which is likely to take pl

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Why I'm Now Running Enterprise AI on My Laptop (Without Internet)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:18:11

Beyond the Cloud: Why I’m Now Running Enterprise AI on My Laptop (Without Internet) Klaudi 6 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share For years, I’ve been skeptical of the AI revolution. Not because I don’t believe in its potential, but because the how always felt broken. The promise of “AI for everyone” came with a hidden cost: my data, my privacy, and my wallet. Every time I used a cloud based AI service, I’d ask myself: Where is my data going? Who owns it? How much will this cost me

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The great medieval water myth (2013)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-11-29 08:25:47

About Me chezjim Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is "Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food'; this follows a history of French bread - "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread" - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: "They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'. CHOICE magazine named his "A History of the Food of Paris: F

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My favorite iOS 26 feature is something Android has had for years

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 17:00:42

Ryan Haines / Android Authority The year is 2015. You plug your Android phone in to charge, and a helpful little timer tells you how long it should take. You pop on an episode of Narcos. Life is good. Your friend with an iPhone? Yeah, they plug in their phone too, waiting to fill their tiny, well-optimized cell. The difference? They have no idea how long it’ll take. Fast-forward to early 2025. You plug in your Pixel 9a and limit its charging to 80% of capacity to preserve battery health. Your

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Google tests QR code verification for text messages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 17:43:57

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, 9to5Google reports. The feature is currently available in beta. An end-to-end encryption card isn't anything new, but verifying the encryption meant seeing an 80-digit code you could compare. Now, you'll still go Google Messages, tap their name and then go to their details page. But, instead, there will

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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-11-30 15:00:00

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and NASA announced the launch of Surya, a foundation model for the sun. Having been trained on large datasets of solar activity, this AI tool aims to deepen humanity’s understanding of solar weather and accurately predict solar flares—bursts of electromagnetic radiation emitted by our star that threaten both astronauts in orbit and communications infrastructure on Earth. Surya was trained

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Pro by Déesse Pro Review: Mostly a Gimmick

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-30 17:30:00

Wearing the Pro by Déesse Pro is like cosplaying the Phantom of the Opera—if the Phantom had better LED coverage and $1,700 to spare. With 770 lights, six treatment modes, and four wavelengths, it looks like the most advanced LED mask on the market. But after six weeks of consistent use, I wouldn't recommend it. It's uncomfortable, inconvenient, and delivers results that are far less impressive than its theatrics. Missing the Basics Courtesy of Déesse Pro The Pro is a hard-shell LED mask wit

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Apple’s refurbished store might seem like a good deal, but is that actually the case?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-30 10:27:54

Apple has long offered a refurbished store on its website, where it sells recent generation products at a pretty sizable discount. Unlike other refurbished offerings, Apple guarantees a replaced outer shell, battery, and glass – ensuring no wear and tear. You also get a 1 year Apple warranty and the ability to add AppleCare if you’d like. That sounds great, but is it actually worth it? Well, it depends. We’ll be delving into Apple refurbished listings, and comparing it to other offerings on the

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AirPods Max in 2025? Same drawbacks, now ready for pros, and one killer feature

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-11-30 11:07:17

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Key takeaways The ability to switch quickly and seamlessly across an unlimited number of Apple devices is still the best feature of the AirPods Max. The low-latency upgrade in iOS 18.4 makes the AirPods Max a lot more viable for professional multimedia producers (and gamers) when using a wired connection. Comfort, battery life, and audio quality match high-end competitors from Sony, Bose, and others. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Even with their im

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 25, #336

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 15:50:22

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. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. How well do you know your Premier League teams? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players tha

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-29 22:00:35

In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which i

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 25, #806

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

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 NYT Connections puzzle was all over the place for me. I solved the blue category right away, but did not even see the purple theme coming. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there aft

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 25 #540

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 11:00:06

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Some students have been back to school for weeks, but others see that first day looming large. Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a timely related theme. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for tod

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Notion’s offline mode might just make me ditch Obsidian

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 10:00:56

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Notion is one of my favorite tools. From databases to to-do lists, tracking restaurants I wanted to check out, and so much more, I’ve dabbled in it for years until I finally made the switch to Obsidian. That’s mostly because of Notion’s one fatal flaw. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. I’ve learned that the hard way on flights, cafes with rocky Wi-Fi, even when

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You likely shouldn’t hold your breath for a new pair of AirPods Max: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-30 08:56:08

AirPods Max have had a bit of a disappointing history. After much anticipation, they finally released at the tail end of 2020. Some fans were disappointed with the high price tag and rather heavy aluminum and steel design, and have been looking forward to a revamp ever since. Despite being refreshed last year, it was merely just a USB-C port swap and new colors. The headphones still lack in features compared to Apple’s newer AirPods Pro 2, and that likely won’t be changing. Per Mark Gurman’s P

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 12:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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Turning Claude Code into my best design partner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 03:06:03

Published on August 18, 2025 When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about

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Show HN: Bicyclopedia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:15:26

Welcome! This is an interactive exploration of the parts of a bicycle. If you're reading this message, the images may still be loading. If you are using a screen reader or have Javascript disabled, unfortunately you won't be able to see the images or animations of the parts, but you can still read the descriptions and source code here and read more about this project here. Thank you for visiting!

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Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

news.ycombinator.com Eric J. Ma 2025-11-30 08:28:52

written by Eric J. Ma on | tags: In this blog post, I share how I discovered a powerful Python trick: dynamically changing a function's source code at runtime using the compile and exec functions. This technique enabled me to build more flexible AI bots, like ToolBot, that can generate and execute code with access to the current environment. While this opens up exciting possibilities for LLM-powered agents and generative UIs, it also raises serious security concerns. Curious how this hack can s

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 11:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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Vibration Plates: Fitness Experts Explain the Best Way to Use This Workout Tool

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 09:00:00

When you're trying to lose weight or build muscle, figuring out what actually works can be frustrating. There are plenty of options, from lifting weights to cardio classes, and now vibration plates are part of the conversation. But does standing on a shaking platform really help you get stronger or shed pounds, or is it just another short-lived trend? To find out, we talked to personal trainers and other fitness experts. They explained how vibration plates are supposed to work, the benefits you

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-11-30 06:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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Scientists Say They've Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-30 11:00:15

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they've engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth. They call their creation "Syn57," a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make you extremely sick if you eat an undercooked hot dog — which uses seven less codons than all life on earth. A codon, put simply, is a three-letter sequence found in

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ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 04:23:33

ThinkMesh ThinkMesh is a python library for running diverse reasoning paths in parallel, scoring them with internal confidence signals, reallocates compute to promising branches, and fuses outcomes with verifiers and reducers. It works with offline Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM/TGI, and with hosted APIs. Note: This is still in it's early development phase and breaking changes can sometimes occur Highlights Parallel reasoning with DeepConf‑style confidence gating and budget reallocation

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Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:57:19

Seed Seed is an interactive software environment. With it you can create and use computer programs in many ways. It is based on the Common Lisp language and runs inside the Web browser, allowing you to build software on a local or remote computer system, and it can present programs and their output using a wide variety of display modes. Seed depicts programs in the form of a tree grid, featuring glyphs that denote different functions and types of data. All of Seed's display modes share basic in

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Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 09:06:03

Published on August 18, 2025 When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about

Topics: approach code document implementation plan

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