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Drunken Bishop (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 18:48:30

The OpenSSH project is a widely available tool for working with the SSH protocol in a variety of ways on a variety of operating systems. Their project description states: OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and sophisticated configuration options. On

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The Moment the AI Hype Cycle Really Kicked In

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-07 03:25:54

Does it feel like news about artificial intelligence is inescapable? You’re not just imagining it. Zach Perkel, the Principal and Director of Applied AI at enterprise AI firm Fractal, tracked the number of AI-related posts that managed to crack the top 10 stories on Y Combinator’s Hacker News, and found that we are experiencing peak AI (so far). Perkel analyzed 24,910 articles and posts that managed to crack the Hacker News top 10 from January 1st, 2019, to August 15th, 2025, to determine just

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Positron, a New Data Science IDE

news.ycombinator.com Posit Team 2025-11-07 10:20:25

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 2025-11-07 12:22:01

██ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ 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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Teenage Engineering did it again

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-10 10:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 94, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, did you hydrate today, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you some durable cables, a great new Alien show,

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PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 17:10:30

pgautoupgrade This is a PostgreSQL Docker image to automatically upgrade your database. Its whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, then automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the required version of PostgreSQL using pg_upgrade with the --link option. After this, the PostgreSQL server starts and runs as per normal. The old cluster data will be removed. The reason this Docker image is needed, is because the of

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ClickHouse matches PG for single-row UPDATEs and 4000 x faster for bulk UPDATEs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 04:52:43

TL;DR · On identical hardware and data, ClickHouse matches PostgreSQL for single-row UPDATEs and is up to 4,000× faster in our tests for bulk UPDATEs. · Why it matters: Bulk updates are common in OLTP workloads, and ClickHouse’s columnar design + parallelism make them far faster. · Caveat: PostgreSQL is fully transactional by default; ClickHouse isn’t. Results compare each engine’s native execution model, not identical transaction guarantees. PostgreSQL is the most popular open-source

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These 5 Posture Corrector Picks Will Straighten You Out (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-10 23:00:00

Compare Top 5 Posture Correctors How We Test Posture Correctors AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron We tested each posture corrector, wearing them through the routines of daily life—from sitting at a desk to running errands and working out—for both short and long periods, over several months. No one wants to feel like they’re strapped into armor, so we evaluated wearability by focusing on comfort, breathable materials, and adjustability. Material quality was a priority, and we kept an eye

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Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:34:10

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Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-11 04:30:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He’s interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a game about death. “What is it about games that is so useful for exploring the topic?” Plante asks. “I think there’s something really lovely about the way in which games invite players in,” Tremb

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-11-10 08:36:49

For all the power she wields with the White House’s affairs, Laura Loomer does not have the traditional tools that her rivals in the MAGA influencer industrial complex have — the highest follower count, the most political power, the most internet platforms, etc. But the fact remains that she’s the influencer responsible for getting Donald Trump to fire over a dozen members of his administration (and counting) for the hazily-defined crime of being disloyal to MAGA. This is something that none of

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AI is different

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 04:49:42

antirez 2 days ago. 20374 views. Regardless of their flaws, AI systems continue to impress with their ability to replicate certain human skills. Even if imperfect, such systems were a few years ago science fiction. It was not even clear that we were so near to create machines that could understand the human language, write programs, and find bugs in a complex code base: bugs that escaped the code review of a competent programmer. Since LLMs and in general deep models are poorly understood, and

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EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 06:01:23

We want to ensure your safety and protect you from potential scams. Recently, there have been fraudulent recruitment initiatives online that impersonate our company. These scams aim to deceive unsuspecting applicants by offering nonexistent positions and requesting personal information or upfront fees. Remember that our company does not endorse any job postings outside our official channels. If you encounter a suspicious offer, report it through the job platform on which you found it or report

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Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 23:14:14

December 2022 Recently I noticed that most existing “why you should write a blog” articles (e.g.) have at least one of two shortcomings, according to me: They mostly focus on counterarguments to not starting a blog, rather than positive arguments in favor of starting one—as if people’s natural state is to produce amazing blogs and the only thing holding them back is silly misconceptions. This might be true for extreme outliers like Scott Alexander, but personally, my natural state is to play l

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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 12:00:25

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. Quickstart Create a file called social.org . M-x find-file RET social.org RET Edit the file and add your basic information: #+TITLE: Bob's journal #+NICK: Bob #+DESCRIPTION: I'm a software developer and I love open source. #+AVATAR: https://my-awesome-website.com/avatar.jpg #+LINK: https://my-awesome-website.com #+FOLLOW: foo http://foo.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: jane https://jane.com/social.org * Posts ** :

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-14 21:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 23:55:35

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. Quickstart Create a file called social.org . M-x find-file RET social.org RET Edit the file and add your basic information: #+TITLE: Bob's journal #+NICK: Bob #+DESCRIPTION: I'm a software developer and I love open source. #+AVATAR: https://my-awesome-website.com/avatar.jpg #+LINK: https://my-awesome-website.com #+FOLLOW: foo http://foo.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: jane https://jane.com/social.org * Posts ** :

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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:18:55

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have an avatar in your nav, like this: When you click the avatar, you want a menu to appear right below it. The clicking interaction can be handled with just CSS using the Popover API. But once you click, where does your menu show up? Figuring this out typically requires som

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Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 12:03:57

Announcing Neki By Andres Taylor, Dirkjan Bussink, Harshit Gangal, Nick Van Wiggeren, Noble Mittal, Rohit Nayak, Roman Sodermans, Shlomi Noach, Sam Lambert | August 11, 2025 Today, we are announcing Neki — sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess. Vitess is one of PlanetScale’s greatest strengths and contemporary Vitess is the product of our experience running at extreme scale. We have made explicit sharding accessible to hundreds of thousands of people and it is time to bring this power to

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Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:45:09

How long does delivery take? After printing has completed, domestic (USA) delivery typically takes 4-6 business days via USPS First Class Mail. International delivery takes 9-13 business days. We provide tracking so you can follow your postcard's journey. Est. Delivery: Aug 21–Aug 25 How does the voice message work? After creating your postcard, you'll record up to 60 seconds of audio. We generate a unique QR code that's printed on the postcard. Recipients simply scan it with their phone camera

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Here are all the GPT-5 updates OpenAI has rolled out since launch

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-22 21:58:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways: OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 on Thursday. Some users complained GPT-5 was inferior to its predecessor, 4o. In response, the company announced a flurry of changes. OpenAI released GPT-5, the long-awaited upgrade to the model which powers ChatGPT, Thursday. In typical OpenAI fashion, the release has included plenty of twists, turns, and drama. It was almost inevitable that the new model would disappoint a significant number of pe

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Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 06:03:57

Announcing Neki By Andres Taylor, Dirkjan Bussink, Harshit Gangal, Nick Van Wiggeren, Noble Mittal, Rohit Nayak, Roman Sodermans, Shlomi Noach, Sam Lambert | August 11, 2025 Today, we are announcing Neki — sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess. Vitess is one of PlanetScale’s greatest strengths and contemporary Vitess is the product of our experience running at extreme scale. We have made explicit sharding accessible to hundreds of thousands of people and it is time to bring this power to

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 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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How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

wired.com Diego Barbera 2025-11-24 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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A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 08:17:07

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Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 06:51:22

Loading WASM module... Width: Height: Wall Density: Learning Rate: Max Steps: Generate & Optimize This demo uses gradient descent to solve a discrete maze. Try playing with the hyperparameters to see how they affect the optimization process! No neural network involved: logits are directly optimized, from a random initialization, for each maze. This runs entirely on your local device, thanks to candle and Rust's support for WebAssembly. You can disconnect from the Internet after loading this

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James Gunn Doesn’t Want You to Trust Anything About ‘The Batman Part II’ Until It Comes From Him

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-25 06:30:44

The Hollywood rumor mill is nothing new, especially when it comes to high-profile projects, but social media can encourage speculation to spiral out of control. While DC’s James Gunn is no stranger to chaos, one recent rumor prompted him to take to social media to warn against believing things that don’t come through verified channels—a position Gunn can take, being the rare studio head who’s terminally online enough to nip disinformation in the bud. Gunn put his foot down regarding the specula

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Build durable workflows with Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 11:24:07

When we started building a durable workflows library, the most critical architectural decision we faced was what data store to use for workflow metadata. The core durable workflow operations are simple–checkpointing workflow state and recovering an interrupted workflow from its latest checkpoint. Almost any data store can handle these operations, but choosing the right one is critical to ensure workflows are scalable and performant. In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-11-25 20:27:48

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offe

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn it off

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-11-26 02:27:48

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offe

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Latest Tech News

Drunken Bishop (2023)

The Moment the AI Hype Cycle Really Kicked In

Positron, a New Data Science IDE

Emacs as your video-trimming tool

Teenage Engineering did it again

PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database

ClickHouse matches PG for single-row UPDATEs and 4000 x faster for bulk UPDATEs

These 5 Posture Corrector Picks Will Straighten You Out (2025)

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

AI is different

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022)

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

Here are all the GPT-5 updates OpenAI has rolled out since launch

Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

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

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

A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM

James Gunn Doesn’t Want You to Trust Anything About ‘The Batman Part II’ Until It Comes From Him

Build durable workflows with Postgres

Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn it off

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