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Type-machine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 15:59:27

Using Template Haskell to derive the structure of records and simulate structural subtyping Type-machine Code available on GitHub, package available on Hackage. Introduction In Haskell, we usually model data using algebraic data types, like this: 1 data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a Here we defined a Maybe type, which has two constructors, Nothing and Just . The Just constructor has one argument, while Nothing as none. It is common to consider these constructors’ arguments as fields, which c

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Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 16:00:03

Travel patterns are changing, with more people in the US venturing outside the country and needing to stay connected. To accommodate this surge, Verizon is boosting the international options in its prepaid Simple Mobile and Total Wireless phone brands starting Aug. 28. Most phone plans include options to call and text people in Canada and Mexico, along with some roaming options for US travelers. Depending on the plan, those options are extended to many other countries around the globe. But you

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Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-14 18:30:00

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. There’s good news if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared at the sleeker design of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the final form of its Competitor gamepad at CES 2025, Hyperkin has announced it will be available some

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The White House now has a TikTok account

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 20:24:20

The White House has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump wanted to ban during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump in various events with Kendrick Lamar's track playing in the background. The New York Times notes that it references a popular video edit of Creed, a boxing movie starring Michael B. Jordan, on the app. In the TikTok post, Trump could be heard saying "I am your voice," while the caption reads "America we are BACK! What's up TikTok?" Trump's admini

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 20 #535

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 17:45:00

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. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. It helps to know a little something about different currencies, but there was one on there that was completely new to me. If you need hints and answers for today's Strands puzzle, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands

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The White House just joined TikTok

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-11-14 17:21:13

While it was President Joe Biden who signed the law that would force ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok or face a ban, it’s his successor, Donald Trump, who has yet to fulfill his promise of arranging a deal to keep TikTok running, legally, in the United States. The current deadline for a deal is September 17th. Still, it hasn’t stopped Trump’s administration from creating @WhiteHouse on TikTok, which published its first post on Tuesday night: a video celebrating Trump’s accomplishments. The

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CarPlay just arrived as a free OTA update for one of the fastest-growing EVs

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-14 21:56:56

CarPlay has just expanded to one of the fastest-growing EVs on the market, arriving this week through a free over-the-air update. Geely may not be a household name in the United States, but it’s a major global player with ownership ties to Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Smart. The company’s latest electric SUV, sold in China as the Galaxy E5 and internationally as the EX5, has surged in sales and ranks high among the most popular EVs. The EX5 launched in mid-2024 and reached its 100,000th unit i

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LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-15 02:12:37

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 new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

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Our favorite robot vacuum is $550 off!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-15 02:52:46

Jonathan Feist / Android Authority Are you looking for the best robot vacuum around? The Narwal Freo Z Ultra is the one, at least in our book. It’s usually very pricey, too, so today’s deal is an excellent opportunity to get it at a much more enticing price. While it is usually $1,499.99, you can take it home for just $949.99 right now. Buy the Narwal Freo Z Ultra robot vacuum and mop for just $949.99 ($550 off) This offer is available from Amazon, and it comes in two stages. First, an automat

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Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live: Black Myth Wukong Sequel, Resident Evil 9 and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 05:38:00

Europe's major gaming event of the year, Gamescom 2025, has kicked off in Cologne, Germany, with Opening Night Live, an extensive trailer showcase giving early looks at the biggest games coming later this year and into 2026. Last year's Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live had a ton of reveals, including Mafia: The Old Country and trailers for then-upcoming games like Marvel Rivals, Dune Awakening and more. This year's showcase had some big reveals and some tantalizingly short teases -- like around

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Google announced the next step in its nuclear energy plans

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-15 05:45:58

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is one step closer to reaching its nuclear ambitions now that it’s working with public power utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to purchase electricity from a next-generation

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Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 03:45:25

Recently, I have had some free time and started learning some low-level computer fundamentals, trying to practice and better understand the concepts in greater detail. Along the way, I learned about a modern compiler infrastructure named LLVM, which is a target-independent optimizer and code generator that has been used as a part of many compilers for different programming languages like Rust, Zig, or Haskell. While diving into LLVM’s aggressive optimization features, I have a humbling realizati

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The Star-Studded Trailer for ‘Anniversary’ Takes a Dystopian Detour

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-15 11:30:19

The best trailers make you want to see a movie but also leave you unsure exactly what it’s about. The first trailer for Anniversary, which stars Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Dylan O’Brien, Phoebe Dynevor, and others, does just that. To start, it looks like a slick thriller about an out-of-place new girlfriend causing havoc. From there, though, a few twists and turns reveal the world of the film is much, much darker than you’d expect. Then you throw in a star of The Handmaid’s Tale, and the intrigu

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I took 500 photos with the two best Android camera phones - and the winner was obvious

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-15 21:28:00

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Oppo Find X8 Ultra performs better than its Samsung rival in almost every scenario. The Galaxy S25 Ultra comes close in ultrawide camera comparison. Oppo's flagship has unique features like XPAN mode, Hasselblad color science, and Master mode. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra houses one of the most versatile camera systems on a mainstream phone, thanks to its two telephoto cameras and an ultrawide sensor coupled with a 200MP primary camera. Also: Sams

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A Super-Energetic Neutrino That Reached Earth in 2023 Has Been Confirmed to Be Real. But Where Did It Come From?

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-15 12:00:00

In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a neutrino with approximately 20 to 30 times more energy than any other neutrino documented previously. Labelled KM3-230213A, the particle had a calculated energy of 220 petaelectronvolts (PeV), far greater than the 10 PeV of the previously most energetic neutrino. The finding generated a lot of excitement among physicists, but raised also many questions. Neutrinos are the most abundant par

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French government demands answers over streamer's death

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-16 02:08:44

French government demands answers over streamer's death The French government has launched an investigation into the death of online personality Raphaël Graven, known as "Jean Pormanove", who died in his sleep aged 46. The streamer had been livestreaming on the platform Kick prior to his death according to French media reports. France's digital affairs and artificial intelligence (AI) minister Clara Chappaz wrote in a post on X on Tuesday Pormanove had been "humiliated" and "mistreated" durin

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Howard Lutnick Calls CHIPS Act a ‘Giveaway to Rich Companies’ Like Intel

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-16 02:40:15

The U.S. government could get a 10% equity stake in Intel in exchange for more funds from the CHIPS Act, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who appeared on CNBC Tuesday. Lutnick was pressed about whether that would be a worse deal than what Intel had previously received under the Biden-era manufacturing plan, and the commerce secretary seemed more than happy to acknowledge it was. “Of course it’s worse, of course it’s worse…” Lutnick said, laughing. CNBC host David Faber asked if t

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Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 00:30:00

Ever wished for smooth, on-point song transitions in your music streaming playlists customized to your liking? Spotify is rolling out a new beta feature for Premium subscribers globally that lets you add tailor-made transitions between songs, the company shared Tuesday. You can opt to play DJ -- and skip the AI version -- and curate how songs flow on an existing playlist or a new one. By clicking the Mix button, you can adjust the EQ, volume, fade and other effects. If you're looking to collabo

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UFO 50 Review: Indie Nostalgia Arrives on the Switch 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 00:45:39

As an older gamer, you'd think I have a fondness for retro games. But I don't. I grew up when simply playing any video game was exciting, even if the game itself was bad. UFO 50 changes that. First released last year on PC and recently ported to the Switch and Switch 2 on Aug. 7, the unique indie title flips the script with a collection of 50 "retro" games that actually never existed. UFO 50 is a collection of fictional retro games designed to look like they came out in the Apple II, Amiga and

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Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-16 02:20:01

Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages so it can be viewed by a broader audience. The feature was first announced at Meta’s Connect developer conference last year, where the company said it would pilot test automatic translations of creators’ voices in reels

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Trump administration reportedly weighs 10% stake in Intel via CHIPS Act grants, making government top shareholder

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-16 06:03:22

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Trump administration is discussing taking a 10% stake in Intel , according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, in a deal that could see the U.S. government become the chipmaker's largest stakeholder. As part of a potential deal, the government is also considering converting some or all of Intel's grants f

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AirPods Pro 2 seem set for another surprise upgrade at iPhone 17 event

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-16 05:16:07

AirPods Pro 2 are three years old, but rumors indicate they’re not going anywhere just yet. In fact, in the absence of AirPods Pro 3, leaks indicate Apple could debut another big software upgrade for AirPods Pro 2 at its iPhone 17 event. Here’s what’s coming. Live Translation coming to AirPods soon, per iOS 26 leak Last week, my colleague Marcus Mendes found an image in the iOS 26 beta that revealed a new AirPods feature coming soon: Live Translation. This capability had long been anticipated

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Positron, a New Data Science IDE

news.ycombinator.com Posit Team 2025-11-16 04:20:25

We are excited to introduce Positron, a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron brings the spectrum of exploration and production work together in one environment so you can move from ideation to insight to application without switching context. Ultimately, we have taken all the learnings from the 14+ years of building RStudio, and applied them to a new platform that treats Python and R as equals. It is a great time to start using P

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Emacs as your video-trimming tool

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 06:22:01

██ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ Marcin ‘mbork’ Borkowski has a nice post showing us how he trims video clips from our beloved editor. Trimming clips is something I do from time, specially when posting a screencast of sorts. Since I don't need much, I typically resort to QuickTime

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The Chromatic Game Boy is getting Tetris’ best multiplayer mode

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-16 06:00:00

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. ModRetro is bringing a new multiplayer mode to the modernized version of Tetris that has been shipping with its recreated Game Boy, the Chromatic, since its 2024 release. The game already features multiple head-to-head modes when two Chromatic handhelds are c

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China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 10:11:35

Over half a year into Donald Trump's second term, NASA still doesn't have a long-term head. That leadership vacuum comes as the space agency is staring down the barrel of some devastating cuts to its science budget, with the White House betting its future on space exploration alone. The chaos has raised serious questions about NASA's ambitious plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time in over half a century. The dates of its planned Artemis program launches keep

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Ever wanted to play DJ on your own Spotify playlists? Now you can

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-16 11:41:46

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify Premium is testing a new Mix feature that lets you add custom transitions between playlist tracks. You can allow it to apply automatically, choose presets like Fade or Rise, or manually line up the waveforms. The new feature is rolling out now in beta, so Premium users may need to update their app to see it. You could put together the most banging Spotify playlist for your next party, but it won’t keep the music flowing like a DJ would if you

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Spotify copies Apple Music’s AutoMix feature before iOS 26 even ships

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-16 11:27:00

One of my favorite features in iOS 26 is AutoMix for Apple Music, which uses artificial intelligence to create DJ-like transitions between songs. Ahead of iOS 26 being released to everyone next month, Spotify is looking to steal some of Apple Music’s thunder with its own new spin on creating unique transitions between songs. In a blog post, Spotify explains that the feature allows users to create unique transitions between playlist songs by customizing things like volume, EQ, and effect curves

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Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Alex Chesser 2025-11-16 09:29:58

1. Understanding Attention: Your First Step to Better Prompts If you’re human, you’re probably reading this from left to right. You might not have stopped for a moment to consider the fact that your LLM doesn’t read in the same order as you or I. Instead, it weights relationships between all tokens at once, with position and clustering dramatically changing what gets noticed. In working with an LLM the structure you choose can have a greater impact on your results than the precise words you ch

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Months After Switch 2 Launch, Most Controllers Still Lack This Vital Feature

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-16 11:09:06

Switch 2 gamers who come home bone tired after a long day of drudgery will collapse on the couch and want to take their mind off life’s worst entanglements with a few hours of gaming. These working stiffs necessarily have to reach for the now more expensive first-party controller first if they don’t want to get up and hit the Switch 2 power button. All but a paltry few third-party devices can remotely wake the console from sleep. Peripheral maker Gulikit is currently the only third-party brand w

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Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall

The White House now has a TikTok account

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 20 #535

The White House just joined TikTok

CarPlay just arrived as a free OTA update for one of the fastest-growing EVs

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

Our favorite robot vacuum is $550 off!

Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live: Black Myth Wukong Sequel, Resident Evil 9 and More

Google announced the next step in its nuclear energy plans

Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?

The Star-Studded Trailer for ‘Anniversary’ Takes a Dystopian Detour

I took 500 photos with the two best Android camera phones - and the winner was obvious

A Super-Energetic Neutrino That Reached Earth in 2023 Has Been Confirmed to Be Real. But Where Did It Come From?

French government demands answers over streamer's death

Howard Lutnick Calls CHIPS Act a ‘Giveaway to Rich Companies’ Like Intel

Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

UFO 50 Review: Indie Nostalgia Arrives on the Switch 2

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

Trump administration reportedly weighs 10% stake in Intel via CHIPS Act grants, making government top shareholder

AirPods Pro 2 seem set for another surprise upgrade at iPhone 17 event

Positron, a New Data Science IDE

Emacs as your video-trimming tool

The Chromatic Game Boy is getting Tetris’ best multiplayer mode

China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

Ever wanted to play DJ on your own Spotify playlists? Now you can

Spotify copies Apple Music’s AutoMix feature before iOS 26 even ships

Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering

Months After Switch 2 Launch, Most Controllers Still Lack This Vital Feature

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