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Quirks of Common Lisp Types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 09:06:42

By Colin on 2025-08-30 "But I need types," he told me. Humans have a tendency toward binary thinking (pardon the pun). If it's not A, it's B. Perhaps because Lisps have REPLs, they are often thought of from the outside as being dynamic, interpreted languages. Our years of Python have taught us that such languages don't really have strong typing - it's all a wild guess until the interpreter calls foo on a and b and we find out who everyone really is. Yet Common Lisp is fully typed, and AOT com

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‘Clayface’ Takes Shape in Leaked Set Photos

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-11-24 10:30:30

Star Wars: Starfighter gets an Oscar-winning DP, Lady Gaga’s Wednesday character is finally revealed, and Avengers: Doomsday may introduce Steve and Peggy’s alternate-reality children. For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Morning Spoilers! Clayface Recent photos from the set of Clayface include our first looks at the film’s logo, Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, Max Minghella as the detective, “John,” Naomie Ackie’s “fringe scien

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Porsche’s next Cayenne is fully electric—we drove the prototype

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-24 10:53:07

Porsche provided flights from Albany to Barcelona and accommodation so Ars could drive a prototype Cayenne Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Curved displays in cars are increasingly common, adding a bit of shape to the increasing pixel overload we face behind the steering wheel. The designers of Porsche's upcoming Cayenne Electric, though, decided to do something more dramatic with the touchscreen that commands the center of the forthcoming SUV's dashboard. Its shape flows

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JBL's Grip Bluetooth speaker doubles as a snazzy reading light

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 15:00:33

JBL just announced a new portable Bluetooth speaker, called the Grip. This model includes a rope hook, which should make it easy to attach to backpacks, ski gear, or just about anything else. It also features customizable ambient lighting that actually looks pretty useful. The company says this lighting scheme makes the speaker a "perfect bedside companion for late-night reading." A speaker that doubles as a night light? I can see the use for that. As for the audio, JBL promises "pro sound" at

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JBL’s Grip Is the Tallboy of Portable Bluetooth Speakers

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-24 15:00:01

I’ve seen a lot of influences for wireless audio products (single-use pill packaging and cassette tapes, for example), but JBL’s Grip is a first. According to JBL, the Grip, a new smallish Bluetooth speaker announced at IFA 2025 that focuses on portability, is modeled after the proportions of a seltzer can. To be honest, my first thought was a tallboy, but maybe that says more about me than it does JBL. No matter what you think of when you see the Grip, it sounds like a solid Bluetooth speaker

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Sept. 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 04:19:00

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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Survey claims many iPhone owners will switch to Android for a foldable this year

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-25 02:36:20

A new survey of US iPhone owners claims that almost a third of them would consider switching to either Samsung or Google in order to get a folding phone this year, rather than waiting until the expected launch of the iPhone Fold next year. There’s a mix of good and bad news for Apple in the rest of the findings, but the headline claim seems a real stretch … SellCell’s survey is of 2,000 iPhone owners. The way sample sizes work, that’s a surprisingly meaningful number of respondents if they are

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Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reason why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-25 02:39:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google will restrict sideloading with developer verification. The move mirrors Apple's long-standing security approach. Android loses one of its last big differences from iOS. For years, one of the biggest talking points in the Android vs. iOS debate has been freedom of choice -- and nothing summed that up more than sideloading. "But iOS is a walled garden. Apple controls what you can

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Primitive tortureboard: Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

news.ycombinator.com Marcin Wichary 2025-11-20 09:59:33

Marcin Wichary December 2023 / 8,000 words / 33 photos The primitive tortureboard Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY This essay was originally published in December 2023 as sixth chapter of the book Shift Happens. 1 There weren’t many who hated QWERTY more. To his credit, there was a lot to hate. The layout seemed random, with letters strewn around without rhyme or reason. Watching someone type on it felt painful: fingers flailed wildly all over the place, common letter

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Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:19:31

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&A, here, starting at 6:12:10. Thanks to repression from the highest levels of the Trump administration, his app has gone viral and garnered over a million downloads from the App Store. Karoline Leavitt called it

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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-11-20 04:40:19

Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang). The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully answer vs questions that are at a level of detail where the lossiness matters. This thought sparked by a comment on Hacker News asking why an LLM couldn't "Create a boilerplate Zephyr project sk

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Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-11-25 00:30:00

In May, a group of about 40 people stood in a circle deep within the Pyramid of Khafre, the second-largest of the three pyramids looming over Egypt’s Giza Plateau, holding hands and praying for Earth. Suddenly, their tour guide, an American mathematician and author named Robert Edward Grant, collapsed. He later described the experience in an interview with WIRED as a full-body electric shock emanating from somewhere beneath the chamber’s stone floor. “I felt electricity coming through my hands,

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Small, fast, and colorful: The E-Ink tablet you’ve been waiting for might arrive tomorrow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:47:12

Clipin TL;DR Last week, reMarkable teased “something on the move” in a short YouTube clip, with an official reveal set for September 3 at 8 AM ET. Leaked images point to a portable device dubbed the Paper Pro Move. Regulatory filings mention Wi-Fi 6, NFC, Bluetooth, and wireless power transfer. Last week, we covered reMarkable’s teaser video introducing a new device with the hint that “something is on the move.” We’ve been twiddling our styli ever since, waiting to see just how much the comp

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Collecting All Causal Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:26:04

CauseNet aims at creating a causal knowledge base that comprises all human causal knowledge and to separate it from mere causal beliefs, with the goal of enabling large-scale research into causal inference. CauseNet: Towards a Causality Graph Extracted from the Web Causal knowledge is seen as one of the key ingredients to advance artificial intelligence. Yet, few knowledge bases comprise causal knowledge to date, possibly due to significant efforts required for validation. Notwithstanding this

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Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

news.ycombinator.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-25 03:12:12

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple has removed the iPhone torrenting client, iTorrent, from AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS marketplace in the EU, showing that it can still exert control over apps that aren’t listed on the official App Store. iTorrent developer Daniil Vinogradov told

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FreeDroidWarn

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 04:01:02

FreeDroidWarn Overview This library shows an alert dialog with a deprecation warning informing that Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store from 2026/2027 which the developer is not going to provide. Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google. Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no

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My cat loves this smart air purifier that doubles as a pet bed, and it's $100 off for Labor Day

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-11-25 10:33:00

Blueair PetAir Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The BlueAir PetAirPro is an air purifier for pet hair that retails for $500 The device does a fantastic job of sucking up pet hair clumps and other dust, plus it has a pet bed on top of it for your furry friend It is expensive for an air purifier, and can be quite large for small spaces. View now at Blueair The PetAir Pro is $100 off when you apply the code PETAIR100 on Blueair's website. Also: The best Labor Day deals live now I love my cat, Norbert

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 2, #1536

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 14:00:04

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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Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect

news.ycombinator.com Nikolaos Papadopoulos 2025-11-25 23:47:21

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to create a custom shader in Three.js that simulates the look of a foil sticker, complete with angle-dependent iridescence and sparkling metallic flakes. The goal is to capture that premium, holographic effect you see on collectible stickers, trading cards, and high-end packaging, but to render it in real time directly in the browser. Iridescence If you’ve ever tilted a holographic sticker or watched sunlight catch on a soap bubble, you’ve seen iridescen

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Compiling Dinner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 08:15:21

Compiling Dinner When you read a recipe, you’re already programming. Ingredients are inputs. Actions—chop, stir, simmer—are instructions. The kitchen is your runtime environment, and you, the cook, are the processor. If you follow the recipe to the letter, you get the expected output: a finished dish. Miss a step, and you’ve introduced a bug. Burn the onions, and you’ve hit a runtime error. Seen this way, recipes are languages, and cooking is compilation. ⸻ Recipes as Grammar A recipe might

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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-11-26 12:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-11-26 18:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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Bear is now source-available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 23:17:56

Bear is now source-available 01 Sep, 2025 When I started building Bear I made the code available under an MIT license. I didn't give it much thought at the time, but knew that I wanted the code to be available for people to learn from, and to make it easily auditable so users could validate claims I have made about the privacy and security of the platform. Unfortunately over the years there have been cases of people forking the project in the attempt to set up a competing service. And it hurt

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Silksong is only $19.99

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-26 18:37:20

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sequel to Hollow Knight that has been in development for seven years, is releasing later this week for just $19.99. Silksong’s highly-anticipated launch on September 4th comes with a modest $5 bump over Hollow Knight’s original $14.99 price tag. While

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The Download: AI doppelgängers in the workplace, and using lidar to measure climate disasters

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-27 10:10:00

—James O'Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a while now: hyperrealistic video models to match your appearance, lifelike voices based on just a couple of minutes of speech recordings, and conversational chatbots increasingly capable of holding our attention. But they’re also offering something the ChatGPTs of the world cannot: an AI that’s not smart in the general sense, but that ‘thinks’ like you do.

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Is the Pixel 10 Pro XL’s speaker good enough to replace my Bluetooth speaker? I did the test

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 09:00:40

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Pixel 10 Pro-series is out, and I’ve been using the entire lineup for the last few days. But most of my time has been spent with the Pixel 10 Pro XL for a good reason. You see, while most of the attention is understandably going to the upgraded camera shenanigans or Google’s AI features, there’s a rather underrated upgrade that has my attention. This year, Google says it has seriously upped its game with the speakers on the Pixel 10 Pro, and I wanted to see

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Pixel 10 benchmarks show how little ground Google’s Tensor G5 has gained

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 10:00:32

Now that we finally know what Google’s new Tensor G5 processor is made of, it’s about time we compare it against the best in the business. For today’s benchmarking session, I’ve grabbed rival handsets to compare against the more budget-friendly $799 Pixel 10 and the top-of-the-line, $1,199 Pixel 10 Pro XL. I don’t think anyone has particularly high hopes that the Pixel 10 series is going to contend for the performance crown. Google is far more focused on AI and features than traditional perform

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OpenAI releases big upgrade for ChatGPT Codex for agentic coding

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-26 11:00:00

OpenAI has announced a big update for Codex, which is the company's agentic coding tool. The changes include new VS Code extension, sync support between web and terminal, and more. If you’ve a Plus or Pro subscription, you can now use Codex with every build, and it doesn’t matter where you use Codex. It now also works in your terminal or IDE. Codex has always supported web. Codex in Windows Terminal Source: BleepingComputer OpenAI states that your ChatGPT account connects it all, so you ca

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Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore'

news.ycombinator.com Anton Shilov 2025-11-27 09:44:56

Intel has patented a technology it calls 'Software Defined Supercore' (SDC) that enables software to fuse the capabilities of multiple cores to assemble a virtual ultra-wide 'supercore' capable of improving single-thread performance, provided that it has enough parallel work. If the technology works as it is designed to, then Intel's future CPUs could offer faster single-thread performance in select applications that can use SDC. For now, this is just a patent which may or may not become a reali

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Show HN: Blueprint: Fast, Nunjucks-like templating engine for Java 8 and beyond

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 08:46:44

I love the simplicity, expressibility and extendibility of Nunjucks. But I was not able to find something with similar for Java, especially with the same syntax. So, built one. And it's pretty fast too. https://github.com/freakynit/Blueprint

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