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Apple releases visionOS 26 developer beta 6

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-02 11:08:59

Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 6, Apple is also rolling out the sixth developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems. The build number for today’s visionOS 26 beta 6 release is 23M5322b. If you want to enroll in the developer beta program for Apple Vision Pro, here’s what you’ve got to do: Open the Settings app Choose “General” Choose “Software Update” Select “Beta Updates” Select “visionOS Developer Beta” What’s new? As announced on WWDC25, visionOS 26 brin

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How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

news.ycombinator.com Blake Scholl 2025-12-01 09:37:25

First in a series on lessons learned at Boom on how to develop hardware quickly and efficiently XB-1 is the world’s first independently-developed supersonic jet, breaking the sound barrier for the first time in January, 2025. It was designed, built, and flown successfully by a team of just 50 people—compared to the hundreds or even thousands that would have been employed by a traditional big aerospace company. And we did this with roughly a tenth of the budget that would traditionally be requir

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Porting to OS/2 – GitPius

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 02:14:09

from the November 1987 issue of PC Tech Journal magazine An inside look reveals how one company rapidly converted a complex data manager from DOS to the OS/2 environment. by Steven Armbrust When Microrim, Inc., became a beta site for IBM’s new Operating System/2 (OS/2) in late 1986, Microrim chairman and founder Wayne Erickson knew immediately what he and his staff had to do. Not only did they have to convert R:BASE System V, Microrim’s largest and most complex database manager, to run under

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Siri's New Features May Include Adding Voice Controls to Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 16:26:01

Apple is testing new features for its Siri assistant with popular apps -- including Uber, Facebook and YouTube -- that would make it possible to use third-party app features with voice commands, according to a report from Bloomberg. The testing is being done with the goal of releasing a revamped Siri in the spring of 2026 that uses Apple's App Intents to expand what Siri can do outside of Apple's own OS and first-party apps. For instance, people might be able to post Instagram comments or make

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Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 21:53:55

Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60 3 days ago Share Save Theo Leggett International Business Correspondent Share Save BBC Theo Leggett at the wheel of the oldest Ford Transit still in existence Climbing into a 1965 Ford Transit is like stepping into a time capsule on wheels. Forget your modern high-tech nicknacks like satnavs and touchscreens. All you get here is a steering wheel, a big chrome-lined speedometer dial and a chunky heater control. There isn't even a rad

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Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 21:30:49

Hi everyone, Jerry and Wyatt here from Halluminate ( https://halluminate.ai/ ). We help AI labs train computer use agents with high quality data and RL environments. Training AI agents to use computers, browsers, and software is one of the highest-potential opportunities for AI. To date, however, this capability is still unreliable. The emerging method to improve this is called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). However, researchers are currently bottlenecked by a lack of hi

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This 16-inch Razer Blade look-a-like laptop is $1,300 at Best Buy

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-12-02 21:08:03

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Let’s be honest, Gigabyte. Your marketing for the Aero X16 is giving Razer Blade, from the colors and font of the spec slides to the thin design of the space gray laptop itself. While we haven’t tested out this model to see how it stacks up to Razer’s gaming machine, its price is certainly a lot more attractive. A

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Sequoia's Moritz backs Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after Trump's 'artless bullying'

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-03 02:18:39

Renowned venture capitalist Mike Moritz called on Intel to stand by CEO Lip-Bu Tan after President Donald Trump demanded his resignation last week. "Trump's assault has no modern precedent," Moritz wrote, calling the attack a "vindictive political sideshow." Moritz, who spent decades at Sequoia Capital and has known Tan for nearly four decades, highlighted the CEO's previous turnaround of Cadence Design Systems . Moritz said there is "no one better equipped to transform Intel's fortunes." "No

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Show HN: 1 Million Rows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 23:14:44

Performance analysis Social Media Management Supplier and Vendor Management Quality Assurance and Control Compliance and Regulatory Management Inventory Management Networking and Relationship Building Product Development and Innovation Performance analysis Social Media Management Supplier and Vendor Management Quality Assurance and Control Compliance and Regulatory Management Inventory Management Networking and Relationship Building Product Development and Innovation

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Apple Is Betting Everything on a Voice-Controlled AI Siri

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-12-03 02:38:44

Liquid Glass is a detour. This fall, consumer attention will be fixated on the digital viscous and reflective properties of the new, well, liquid and glass-like design language that Apple introduced at WWDC for its software platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, etc. But behind the scenes, Apple is racing forward on what could actually move the needle for the tech giant’s future. Writing for his weekly Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Apple scoop machine, Mark Gurman, says Apple is working o

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The 4 Best Invisible Hearing Aids of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-12-03 00:01:00

Stigmas should be stigmatized. Whether we’re talking about mental health or wearing cargo pants, the world would benefit from less societal shade. For hearing aids, these often-bulky devices can age a wearer faster than gray hair or referencing Jefferson Airplane deep cuts. But despite often being associated with seniors, more than 9 million Americans between the ages of 20 and 59 have some degree of hearing loss. Still, the stigma is enough to keep most of these people from even considering an

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This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-03 02:14:40

A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm. Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team up to complete large or complex paintings. While r/Place provided its users with a blank white pixel grid, Wplace is layered over an interactive canvas of a wor

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A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 12:21:39

Sbixel Sbixel is a very simple pixel physics simulator I made to learn Rust. It uses macroquad for drawing — and I was pleasantly surprised by how simple and awesome it is! Quick demo (click for youtube link): ⚠️ This project is very basilar and doesn't have much ambition to go anywhere — it's mainly a learning sandbox. How It Works The simulation uses a "sector" system to reduce unnecessary processing by only simulating active areas of pixels. All settings related to simulation and perfo

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Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation in Algorithmic Pricing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:50:53

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against Greystar Management Services LLC as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination and other anticompetitive practices in rental markets across the country. Greystar, the largest landlord in the United States, manages almost 950,000 rental units across the country. As alleged in Plaintiffs’ complaint, Greystar and other landlords, including five co-defenda

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Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:11:01

Why is Web Performance Undervalued? Web performance is one of those things so fundamental to businesses that you would expect them to absolutely nail it. If consumers care about performance, which seems to be true, then in an efficient, competitive market you would expect businesses to be under immense pressure to optimize it. And yet, poor web performance is ubiquitous. Huge companies across the board are shipping websites and web apps so sluggish that it is killing the web. The economic upsid

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Fairphone’s new cables and chargers are both faster and tougher

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-03 06:17:06

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company says that they’re more durable and sustainably manufactured than its previous peripherals. And even for people without a Fairphone device, they should make for a more affordable entry point to its more ethical take on tech. The new USB cables are all C-to-C, but includ

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What Trump's Nvidia and AMD China deal means for the world

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-03 11:54:04

In this article NVDA AMD Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now Nvidia and AMD have agreed to share some of their revenue from sales to China with the U.S. government, according to several reports, sparking debate about whether the move could impact the chip giants' business and whether Washington might seek out similar deals. In exchange for 15% of revenues from the chip sales, the two semiconductor firms will receive export licenses to sell Nvidia's H20 and AMD's MI308 ch

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Apple is preparing a Siri upgrade that could make Gemini users really jealous

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 18:56:18

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple is reportedly preparing a major overhaul for Siri. The updated Siri is likely to be able to control a variety of third-party apps, performing very specific actions inside those apps. The update is expected to roll out in Spring next year with the iOS 26.4 update. Back in 2024, Apple promised a significant Siri upgrade that would understand voice commands better, have a more intuitive model running underneath, and be “deeply integrated” into the sys

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This $10 watch band made my Galaxy Watch 8 Classic so much better

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 20:00:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority I’ve been wearing the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic for a little over two weeks (my review is coming soon), and my experience with the smartwatch has been great so far. The Watch 8 Classic looks fantastic, it’s loaded to the brim with health features, and the rotating bezel is oh-so-good. However, throughout the majority of my time wearing the smartwatch, I haven’t been using the leather watch band that came included in the box. Instead, I’ve been wearing the Ga

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Waze is dropping support for older Android versions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 22:25:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Waze is ending support for some older versions of Android. Google will soon stop updating the Waze app on devices running Android 9 Pie or older versions of Android. The app will continue to function as usual, but your device will no longer receive newer features. Although it isn’t unusual for Google to have multiple apps for the same or similar functionality, it is atypical for it to allow these multiple apps to exist — so much so that we can’t fath

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Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 20:41:13

Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig I’ve been learning a lot about low-level programming languages lately, and for a long time there has been one thing that has interested me: SIMD (or ‘single instruction, multiple data’) code. I’ve seen a lot of articles about having massive performance gains by utilizing SIMD and wanted to learn how to do it myself. This article is a journey into implementing ~60% faster substring searching compared to Zig’s std.mem.indexOf using a SIMD-friendly algorit

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-03 21:00:00

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is expansive—with some cheat websites advertising hacks for dozens of PC games—and it’s being driven by an underground economy that’s allegedly raking in millions every year. Over the last two years, a group of computer scientists has been analyzing and mapping the online cheat marketplace, observing what behavi

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Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-03 22:23:38

In Brief Apple in 2024 showed a swanky demo of what it said would be a new, intelligent Siri that would connect with different apps to fetch all kinds of information. But this new Siri has yet to see the light of day, as the company seemingly hasn’t been able to get it ready. However, Bloomberg now reports that Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version of App In

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SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant's future on AI

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-03 16:29:35

Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence. Son says artificial superintelligence (ASI) — AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans — will be here in 10 years. It's a bold call — but perhaps not surprising. He's made a career out of big plays; notably, one was a $20 million investment into Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba in 2000 that has made billions for SoftBank. Now, the billionaire is hop

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Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:14:06

Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe. Martin Uecker, 2025-08-10 I discuss the implementation of type and bounds safe generic containers in C. Previously, I discussed a span type, bounds checking using arrays. and a a vector type. This time, I will discuss maybe inspired by Haskell. This type can used to return a value that may not exist, e.g. because an error was encountered during the computation. The following examples shows for a divide function that catches division by

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Going faster than memcpy

news.ycombinator.com Dheeraj R Reddy 2025-12-03 20:59:03

Going faster than memcpy While profiling Shadesmar a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that for large binary unserialized messages (>512kB) most of the execution time is spent doing copying the message (using memcpy ) between process memory to shared memory and back. I had a few hours to kill last weekend, and I tried to implement a faster way to do memory copies. Autopsy of memcpy Here’s the dumb of perf when running pub-sub for messages of sizes between 512kB and 2MB. Children Self Shared Ob

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Apple working with these apps to prepare for next-gen Siri

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-03 18:24:04

Siri got lots of airtime at last year's WWDC – but not this year When Apple finishes developing the next generation of Siri, third-party apps will want to integrate with the new system. The App Intents system, which will connect apps with Siri and Apple Intelligence, adds to the amount of work developers are already doing to adopt Apple’s new design in iOS 26 and more. All app developers will likely have a brief window to prepare their apps for the new Siri before it launches to the public th

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An updated Siri that interacts with apps reportedly won't be here until next spring

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 14:30:00

A Siri that does way more than just setting a timer or writing down a reminder may still be nearly a year away. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple plans to release an overhauled version of Siri in the spring, which will be enhanced by the new App Intents feature. Gurman reported that the upgraded Siri will handle more complex tasks within apps, like commenting on an Instagram post, adding an item to your cart in a shopping app or editing a specific photo and sending it afterwards. Afte

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‘Helluva Boss’ Team Breaches Tumblr Containment With ‘Homestuck’ Animated Series

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-03 12:40:53

The most online of people likely remember Homestuck, Andrew Hussie’s internet fiction series. After Hussie ended the webcomic in 2016, loyal fans have kept it alive with various side projects and Hussie’s occasional guidance. Now, it’s getting its biggest side project yet in the form of an animated series. Or rather, the pilot for one. This comes courtesy of Hazbin Hotel creator Vivienne Medrano and her animation company Spindlehorse, and with some well-known voice talent attached. Video game a

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