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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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MKBHD reviews CarPlay Ultra

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-03 08:06:27

Tech’s favorite YouTuber MKBHD has reviewed CarPlay Ultra for the first time. We’ve seen a few CarPlay Ultra walkthroughs since Aston Martin shipped the first instance of next-gen CarPlay earlier this year. MKBHD always has an approachable and understandable take on tech, of course. His latest video on his cleverly named Auto Focus channel is no exception. CarPlay Ultra in the wild is incredibly rare as it’s only supported in select Aston Martin vehicles for now. There are currently no EVs wi

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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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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 11

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 20:09:11

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Thanks, today's Mini Crossword! You were pretty simple again, and I love that. Almost got tripped up on 5-Down, but was able to fill in the other letters and move on. Need answers? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Min

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 20:32:31

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 wasn't terribly tough. It helps to be a fan of college football rivalry games, and of a certain legendary baseball player who sadly died young. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl

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Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

news.ycombinator.com Sam Meredith 2025-12-03 17:19:06

A firefighting helicopter flies near as a home burns from the Mountain Fire on November 6, 2024 in Camarillo, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images Top insurers fear the climate crisis could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable. Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz , one of the world's biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will n

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Open Lovable

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 04:10:54

Chat with AI to build React apps instantly. # Required E2B_API_KEY = your_e2b_api_key # Get from https://e2b.dev (Sandboxes) FIRECRAWL_API_KEY = your_firecrawl_api_key # Get from https://firecrawl.dev (Web scraping) # Optional (need at least one AI provider) ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = your_anthropic_api_key # Get from https://console.anthropic.com OPENAI_API_KEY = your_openai_api_key # Get from https://platform.openai.com (GPT-5) GROQ_API_KEY = your_groq_api_key # Get from https://console.groq.com (Fa

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 14:14:38

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

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ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 23:16:00

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide credentials to tasks. Here we’ll demonstrate how those mechanisms can lead to a known risk when tasks with different privilege levels share the same EC2 host. This cross-task credential exposure highlights the inherent risks of relying on per-task IAM scoping and task execution boundaries when workloads s

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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 12:19:25

About Type and the Role Type is an AI-native document editor. Our mission is to help people communicate confidently. We believe that writing is and will always be the backbone of clear thinking and effective communication, especially in the AI era. Tools like Type free writers up to do more high-level thinking – exploring more ideas before coming to a conclusion, testing lots of approaches to expressing a message, and arguing with the AI about the oxford comma. We're backed by Y Combinator a

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 11, #1514

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 16:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle isn't that tough but it still took me a while to put the fairly common letters in the right order. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wor

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #792

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 16:00:05

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 is a tough one. I grabbed on to "chocolate" and ran it through every connection I could with the other words, so I landed the purple category first, which is rare. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connec

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #526

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 16:00:07

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. Oof, today's NYT Strands puzzle was really hard for me. It was hard to figure out the theme, hard to find the answers and hard to unscramble the letters. And one of the answers relates more to travel gifts in my head than to this puzzle's theme. If you need hints and answers,

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EFL Championship Soccer: Stream Leicester vs. Sheffield Wednesday Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 15:00:06

Leicester City kicks off its campaign for an immediate return to the Premier League on Sunday with this opening weekend EFL Championship clash against a Sheffield Wednesday team looking to put its off-the-field turmoil aside. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Tasked with returning the Foxes back to the top tier is Spanish coach Martí Cif

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Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 10:56:14

abogen Abogen is a powerful text-to-speech conversion tool that makes it easy to turn ePub, PDF, or text files into high-quality audio with matching subtitles in seconds. Use it for audiobooks, voiceovers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or any project that needs natural-sounding text-to-speech, using Kokoro-82M. Demo demo.mp4 This demo was generated in just 5 seconds, producing ∼1 minute of audio with perfectly synced subtitles. To create a similar video, see the demo guide. How to install?

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How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

wired.com Diego Barbera 2025-12-03 16:00:00

Considering the widespread use of contactless payment systems, it's no surprise that portable point-of-sale thefts are making a comeback. This type of robbery is enjoying a new wave of popularity, and is much harder to spot given how quickly those transactions take place. But how much risk is there, really? And how can you protect yourself from POS scams? The Case of Sorrento A recent example of POS theft happened recently in Italy, when topic exploded again a few days ago when the news agency

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 10, #321

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 14:05:35

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 counts on you knowing a little bit about European soccer venues, so that could help or hurt some puzzle-solvers. 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

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A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 15:17:22

A Simple CPU on the Game of Life - Part 4 by Nicholas Carlini 2021-12-30 This is the fourth article in a series of posts that I've been making on creating digital logic gates in the game of life. The first, couple of articles started out with how to create digital logic gates and use them in order to construct simple circuits. In this post we're going to actually build a first real computer: a (2-stage pipelined) unlimited register machine. And later on ([5]) we'll make an even better computer

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 10, #791

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 11:00:05

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 features a fun blue category, especially for bookworms like me. That purple category, though -- no one does those random "look for a word inside of a word" categories like the Times. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Tim

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A Special Diamond Is the Key to a Fully Open Source Quantum Sensor

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-12-03 09:40:47

Quantum computing is either a distant dream or an imminent reality depending on whom you ask. And while much of this year's Quantum Village at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas is focused on emerging research and threat analysis, Village cofounders Victoria Kumaran and Mark Carney are also working to make a currently available quantum technology more accessible to hackers and anyone else. In a main-stage Defcon talk on Saturday, the pair will present an open source and affordable quan

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Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Jenny Peek 2025-11-28 20:50:43

If you’ve taken a drive on one of Wisconsin’s iconic scenic roads, chances are you’ve noticed a bit of alphabet soup. Signs with names like BB, CV, N and SS flank Wisconsin’s county roads, and Shelly from Marshall wanted to know why. She asked: “Why are Wisconsin’s county roads labeled with letters instead of numbers?” Stay connected to Wisconsin news — your way Get trustworthy reporting and unique local stories from WPR delivered directly to your inbox. Email Name This field is for validatio

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Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 00:37:24

The Problem We recently encountered a frustrating issue with HTTP response streaming at Mintlify. Our system uses the AI SDK with the Node stream API to forward streams, and suddenly things stopped working properly. The symptoms were confusing: streaming worked perfectly with cURL and Postman, but failed completely with node-fetch and browser fetch. ‍ Initial Investigation Our first hypothesis centered around stream compatibility issues. We suspected the problem might be related to how the AI

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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 06:06:56

Installing apps on Sandstorm is as easy as installing apps on your phone. Find any app you want on the App Market and start using it with a few clicks. Every app comes with automatic updates.

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Today's Tricky NYT Strands Answers for Aug. 8, #523, Explained

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 16:02:00

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 assumes you have deep knowledge of a very specific musical genre. Could be tough. I knew some of the answers, but not others. I did a little research and explain what the answers refer to further down in this story. If you need hints and answers to

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EFL Championship Soccer: Stream Southampton vs. Wrexham Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 09:30:03

Southampton return to life in the Championship on Saturday, as they take on newly promoted Wrexham in this intriguing opening-weekend clash at St Mary's. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. The Saints endured a torrid campaign last season, finishing rock bottom of the English Premier League after working their way through three different m

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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-03 10:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 08:41:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's Mini Crossword is the longest of the week, and it was a bit tough, too. Lots of long answers, so it took me over two minutes to solve it. Need the answers? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

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Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-03 21:53:20

A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details. The nerdy bits Traditionally, LLMs generate text one token at a time. This is slow because each step depends on all the previous ones to keep the output coherent and accurate. If the model is writing a sentence like “ The cat is black ”, it predicts each token in sequence. After writing “ The cat is ”, it looks at everything so far (plus the

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One of Microsoft’s best-rated mobile apps is bowing out soon

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:59:16

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft Lens PDF scanner will be retired on Android and iOS later this year. The phase-out begins in September, with scanning disabled after December 15, 2025. Microsoft is pushing users toward its 365 Copilot app, which lacks some Lens features. One of Microsoft’s most popular mobile utilities is heading for the chopping block. The Lens PDF scanner has long been a go-to for quickly turning documents and whiteboards into shareable files. Neverthele

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Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking

news.ycombinator.com Mass General Brigham 2025-12-04 00:22:56

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham examined the effects of policies banning flavored e-cigarettes on adults and young people. Investigators found that e-cigarette use significantly declined among young adults and adults in states that had enacted flavor bans rel

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