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Finally, a $699 Windows laptop that I wouldn't mind putting my MacBook Air away for

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-20 14:01:16

Acer Aspire 16 AI ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Aspire 16 AI is currently on sale for $699. It's a reliable, lightweight workhorse with a marathon battery that's ideal for long days. However, its hardware has performance limitations. View now at Acer View now at Amazon more buying choices Acer's new Aspire 16 AI is a humble laptop. It isn't flashy or over-the-top, it doesn't house high-end hardware or an OLED screen. Instead, it focuses on being a reliable work device with a midrange price t

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5 ways volunteer work pays off - even for the busiest executive

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-09-20 15:00:27

fstop123/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Going beyond your own business boosts your knowledge. You can build networks and create useful contacts. Giving something back also helps you feel good. Senior executives are so busy transforming their businesses that it's difficult to make room for experiences beyond the firewall. However, evidence suggests that non-executive director positions can help leaders t

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Wi-Fi router vs. mesh system: I compared both - and here's what I'd choose

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-20 15:58:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Routers are cheaper, faster, and easier to set up. Mesh systems fix dead zones with wider coverage. Choose based on budget, home size, and connection needs. With the adoption of remote and hybrid working, having a reliable internet connection at home is imperative -- not just for one device, but for several. If you have a family, maybe even dozens. So what's better, one single access point, or a me

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If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 09:59:10

Using AI agents correctly is a process of reviewing code. If you’re good at reviewing code, you’ll be good at using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or the Copilot coding agent. Why is that? Large language models are good at producing a lot of code, but they don’t yet have the depth of judgement of a competent software engineer. Left unsupervised, they will spend a lot of time committing to bad design decisions. AI agents and bad design Last week I built VicFlora Offline: an offline-friendly PW

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LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:59:54

Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of parameters can encode the essential patterns from terabytes of text. However, what’s less obvious is that this process can be reversed: we can systematically extract structured datasets from trained models that reflect their internal knowledge representation. I’ve been working on this problem, and the results are promising. We’ve successfully applied

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High-performance read-through cache for object storage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 09:13:17

Cachey High-performance read-through cache for object storage. Simple HTTP API Hybrid memory + disk cache powered by foyer Designed for caching immutable blobs Works with any S3-compatible backend, but has its own /fetch API requiring a precise Range API requiring a precise Fixed page size (16 MiB) – maps requested byte range to page-aligned lookups Coalesces concurrent requests for the same page Makes hedged requests to manage tail latency of object storage Can attempt redundant bucket

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Compiling with Continuations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 08:56:39

Compiling with Continuations September 16, 2025 A review of the book Compiling with Continuations, Appel (1992). Table of Contents Overview MiniML Lambda CPS Conclusion References Overview Compiling with Continuations is an excellent book for learning Standard ML beyond what’s normally taught or discussed. It’s an excellent book for learning about practical applications of continuations beyond what’s normally taught or discussed. But who would want to do that? Was it influential to the f

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Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

news.ycombinator.com Mike Dodds 2025-09-17 17:30:58

Let me get right to the point without any nonsense about aliens: Claude Code, the new AI coding agent from Anthropic, is pretty good at interactive theorem proving (ITP). I find this very surprising, and you probably should too. Interactive theorem proving tools such as Lean are the most powerful and trustworthy kind of formal methods tool. They have been used to formally verify important things such as cryptographic libraries, compilers, and operating systems. Unfortunately, even experts find

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Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 12:25:03

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Moon Helium Deal Is the Biggest Space Resource Grab Yet

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-20 15:00:11

For billions of years, solar winds have bombarded the Moon. Over time, this constant onslaught of charged particles has caused helium-3 to accumulate in the lunar surface. This isotope is rare on Earth, and rising demand from several industries—including quantum computing—has incentivized some companies to explore the possibility of lunar mining. One such company is Interlune, a Seattle-based startup that aims to extract natural resources—primarily helium-3—from the lunar surface. Interlune eve

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Everton From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 13:30:03

The first Merseyside derby of the season sees Arne Slot's Liverpool looking to defend its unbeaten record against an Everton team looking to claim its first win at Anfield for four years. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Defending champion Liverpool has notched up five successive victories across all competitions. Each of

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Netflix: 22 of the Best Fantasy TV Shows to Stream Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 15:00:06

Netflix is a heavy-hitter when it comes to epic fantasy TV shows. I think we can all agree on that. You can probably point to other streamers like Prime Video or Disney Plus -- they've got solid genre libraries -- but Netflix has always been on top. It wasn't long ago when fantasy shows on television were all about slaying dragons and conquering thrones. The content landscape has changed a lot since the days of Game of Thrones, and there are so many cool stories and worlds we can immerse oursel

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Your AI Art Prompts Will Keep Failing Until You Learn These Core Elements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 15:00:08

If you've ever tried to create something with an AI image generator, you know the frustration. The perfect image you have in your mind comes out as a distorted, six-fingered nightmare on the screen. It's a common problem that can make you want to give up on AI art altogether. After spending the better part of a year testing every major AI image generator-from Midjourney to DALL-E-I've learned one critical lesson: the problem usually isn't the AI, it's the prompt. Getting great results isn't abo

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Meta’s Smart Glasses Might Make You Smarter. They’ll Certainly Make You More Awkward

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-09-20 15:00:00

On an earnings call this summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an ambitious claim about the future of smart glasses, saying he believes that someday people who don’t wear AI-enabled smart spectacles (ideally his) will find themselves at a “pretty significant cognitive disadvantage” compared to their smart-glasses-clad kin. Meta’s most recent attempt to demonstrate the humanity-enhancing capabilities of its face computing platform didn’t do a very good job of bolstering that argument. In a live

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Gear News of the Week: Nothing’s Latest Earbuds, Amazon’s Hardware Event, and a New Free VPN

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-09-20 15:30:00

Nothing has a new pair of earbuds for you: the Ear 3. These AirPods-style buds cost $179 and are available now, following the Nothing Phone (3) and Headphone (1) the company released this summer. While they share the stem design aesthetic of Apple's popular earbuds, the blend of aluminum and plastic sure makes them look unique. The key feature in the noise-canceling earbuds is called Super Mic. Except it's not in the earbuds at all—there are two microphones in the charging case. It supposedly c

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Security News This Week: A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-20 15:30:00

New findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed and accessible to thousands of people. Meanwhile, 15 New York officials were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York Police Department this week in or around 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. Russia c

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Anker’s latest sleep buds can silence snoring

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-09-20 12:01:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anker’s latest Soundcore Sleep A30 sleep buds do what its A20 buds promised but couldn’t deliver: mask snoring. It accomplishes this with the inclusion of Active Noise Cancellation in the buds and a microphone inside the charging case that actively

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Google isn’t kidding around about cost cutting, even slashing its FT subscription

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-09-20 10:25:49

Google is ending its enterprise subscription to the Financial Times, and it’s not the only enterprise media subscription on the chopping block, sources say. The cuts reflect broader cost-reduction efforts at the search giant, even as the company reports strong financial performance. Google has been implementing cost reductions across 2025, including eliminating 35% of managers who oversee teams of three people or fewer, and offering voluntary exit programs across multiple divisions since Janu

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Trump administration to impose a $100,000-per-year fee for H-1B visas

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 14:14:17

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: The New York Times has reported that companies will have to pay $100,000 a year for any employee it brings over to the US on the visa for up to six years. The Secretary of Homeland Security will restrict approval for visa applications unless accompanied by the fee, though the rule "allows case-by-case exemptions if [it's] in the national interest." This ne

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Trump and Xi discuss future of TikTok in US

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-20 15:34:04

Trump and Xi discuss future of TikTok in US Watch: Trump says TikTok deal approved by Chinese President Xi TikTok, which is run by Chinese firm ByteDance, was previously told it had to sell its US operations or risk being shut down. China's official state news agency Xinhua left the outcome of their discussion less clear, with Xi quoted as saying that Beijing "welcomes negotiations over TikTok". Trump wrote on Truth Social that the call was "productive" and he "appreciated" Xi's approval of

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Here’s why sideloaded books might not be working on your Kindle

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 15:22:01

If you’ve recently tried to open a sideloaded book on your Kindle and hit a wall, you’re not alone. Starting this week, users across Reddit’s r/kindle community began reporting a sudden “Invalid ASIN” error message. The alert claims the selected title is not valid for Digital purchase on the Kindle, even when the book was loaded via USB or email rather than bought through Amazon’s storefront. Notably, the error only seems to affect unread sideloaded titles. Books that had been opened previously

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Your passkeys could be vulnerable to attack, and everyone - including you - must act

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-09-20 17:00:00

Vertigo3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A researcher developed an exploit that hijacks passkey authentication. The exploit depends on a non-trivial combination of pre-existing conditions. Neither the passkeys nor the protocol was proven to be vulnerable. At this year's DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, white hat security researcher Marek Tóth demonstrated how threat actors could use a clickjack attack

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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 15:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

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Mini: Tonemaps (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 14:04:21

Good day. One of the first things you learn about shaders is that color values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This is known as 8-bit “unorm” color, because each channel has 256 color values, is unsigned (meaning no negatives) and normalized to the 0.0 to 1.0 range. Most of the time, we don’t need to think about this because 8-bits is enough for outputting colors to the screen. Sometimes, blending 8-bit colors is just not enough though. Today I want to show demonstration when you should care and what to

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A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 07:24:14

This 3D-printed contraption is by Igor Daemen, an Eindhoven-based product designer. "I designed this businesscard embosser to be modular and 3D printable without using any support and without any hardware required to assemble," he writes. "The tolerances are tight," Daemen explains. "And some materials work better then others. I have had best results using Basic PLA." You can download the files for free here.

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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 15:37:14

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 17 after the late-night host commented on the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. His monologue suggested Trump supporters were trying to reframe the shooter’s political ties, which drew backlash from the FCC and major ABC affiliates. ABC replaced the program with reruns, sparking accusations of censorship and igniting a boycott campaign against Disney, its parent company. Overwhelming public reaction The suspension triggered strong resp

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Starfront Observatories

news.ycombinator.com Starfront Observatories 2025-09-17 17:59:13

Mini Pier Up to a 32" swing diameter & only OFP2 for FP $149/month

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Things managers do that leaders never would

news.ycombinator.com Team Simon 2025-09-20 17:11:18

Picture this: Two people walk into the same crisis. The project is behind schedule, the client is furious, and the team is falling apart. The first person immediately starts assigning blame, calls an emergency meeting to “get to the bottom of this,” and sends a tersely worded email about “accountability and expectations.” The second person takes a breath, gathers the team, and says, “This is tough, but we’re in it together. Let’s figure out how to make this right.” Same crisis. Same pressure.

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If all the world were a monorepo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 23:33:45

As a software engineer raised on a traditional diet of C, Java, and Lisp, I’ve found myself downright baffled by R. I’m no stranger to mastering new programming languages, but learning R was something else: it felt like studying Finnish after a lifetime of speaking Romance languages. I’m not alone in this experience. There are piles of discussions online revealing the difficulty of using R, with some users becoming so enraged as to claim that R is “not actually a programming language”. My strug

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Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:02:29

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts. Less is safer It may sound obvious but the primary way we reduce the risk of supply chain attacks is to avoid depending on third-party code. Obsidian has a low number of dependencies compared to other apps in our category. See a list of open source libraries on our Credits page. Features like

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Finally, a $699 Windows laptop that I wouldn't mind putting my MacBook Air away for

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Meta’s Smart Glasses Might Make You Smarter. They’ll Certainly Make You More Awkward

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Anker’s latest sleep buds can silence snoring

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