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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-23 21:00:00

There’s never been a shortage of hot takes about what really makes the United States and China so different: Capitalism versus socialism; democracy as opposed to authoritarianism; Christianity or Confucianism; equity versus efficiency. In his highly anticipated new book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Hoover Institution fellow Dan Wang proposes a fresh lens for looking at the world’s two largest superpowers: the US is a “lawyerly society,” he argues, while China is an “engineer

Topics: china city engineering new wang

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My Apple Watch still beats Oura Ring - except for one killer feature I wish Apple would steal

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-24 01:52:00

Apple Watch Ultra and Oura Ring Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've been wearing an Apple Watch every day for the past decade and I've been using it to track my sleep every night since 2019. Over the past few years, I've known more and more friends, family, and colleagues opting for smart rings instead of smart watches to track their health. I've also personally tested the Oura Ring, the Samsung Galaxy Ring, and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. But eventually,

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Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-24 04:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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Two subscription-free smart rings were just banned in the US - here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-24 18:00:21

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

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I still prefer Apple Watch over Oura Ring for 3 key reasons - but there is one big drawback

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-25 01:43:02

Apple Watch Ultra and Oura Ring Jason Hiner/ZDNET I've been wearing an Apple Watch every day for the past decade and I've been using it to track my sleep every night since 2019. Over the past few years, I've known more and more friends, family, and colleagues opting for smart rings instead of smart watches to track their health. I've also personally tested the Oura Ring, the Samsung Galaxy Ring, and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. But eventually, I keep taking off the rings and coming back to the App

Topics: apple ring rings sleep watch

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Is Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring an Ethical Lab-Grown Diamond, or a Horrible Blood-Soaked Conflict Diamond?

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:17:07

After so many years searching for someone to fill the "Blank Space" in her heart, billionaire chanteuse Taylor Swift has, it seems, finally found her person in Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. After two years of dating, the celebrity couple announced this week that they're engaged to be married in an Instagram post that featured, as seen below, a beautiful photoshoot in a rambling English garden, complete with the caption "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married." Almo

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SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 04:27:59

Simple Dynamic Strings Notes about version 2: this is an updated version of SDS in an attempt to finally unify Redis, Disque, Hiredis, and the stand alone SDS versions. This version is NOT binary compatible* with SDS verison 1, but the API is 99% compatible so switching to the new lib should be trivial. Note that this version of SDS may be a slower with certain workloads, but uses less memory compared to V1 since header size is dynamic and depends to the string to alloc. Moreover it includes

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Antirez/sds: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 14:27:59

Simple Dynamic Strings Notes about version 2: this is an updated version of SDS in an attempt to finally unify Redis, Disque, Hiredis, and the stand alone SDS versions. This version is NOT binary compatible* with SDS verison 1, but the API is 99% compatible so switching to the new lib should be trivial. Note that this version of SDS may be a slower with certain workloads, but uses less memory compared to V1 since header size is dynamic and depends to the string to alloc. Moreover it includes

Topics: function printf sds string strings

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The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-25 21:40:38

In Brief Elon Musk’s The Boring Company is finally testing Full Self-Driving (Supervised), the advanced driver assistance system created by Tesla, in the tunnels that connect Las Vegas’ Convention Center to a few nearby hotels, according to Fortune. Steve Hill, the CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, told the outlet that The Boring Company has been doing tests of the software for a few months now in Tesla vehicles with only safety drivers onboard. But any widespread use of

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Elehear Beyond Pro Review: Big Hearing Aids

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-10-26 13:00:00

In the world of hearing aids, size is second only to audio quality. Manufacturers regularly tout when they shave a few hundredths of a gram off a model, and many jockey for top position as “the smallest hearing aid on the market.” Never mind any of that, Elehear said in 2024 when it released its Elehear Beyond. At 4.75 grams, the devices were some of the largest I’ve ever tested (nearly double the weight of some competing models), which made them cumbersome and uncomfortable, a major theme in m

Topics: audio elehear hearing hz new

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Das Problem mit German Strings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:59:35

German strings are everywhere I look. The impression I’ve gotten from working in the Rust Arrow/Datafusion ecosystem and related file formats for the last couple of months is that StringViews (the implementation of German strings in Arrow) are becoming, if they have not already, the canonical form of representing string columns at execution time. This is generally a good idea. German strings are a fantastic innovation rooted in simplicity that greatly improves most string processing use-cases i

Topics: buffer columns encoding string strings

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-27 08:23:48

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Gmail update hint at some new Google Chat features in testing. Notification summaries in Gmail might work independently of Android 16’s system-wide version, bringing the feature to more devices. Gmail may also offer auto-generated conversation summaries and finally notify you when someone reacts to your Chat messages. Little by little, Gmail is slowly turning into more of a one-stop hub than an inbox. Google has been weaving Chat i

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Health Connect prepares to track your favorite vices (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-27 20:54:04

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Health Connect gives Android users a tool to store their health and fitness data in a centralized repository. In addition to regular health metrics, Health Connect is getting ready to keep track of nicotine and alcohol consumption. Nicotine reporting will support different consumption methods, like cigarettes and vaping. Let’s be honest: Android Health Connect needs work. The system has the best of intentions, offering a tool for organizing and making

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I Wore 3 Popular Smart Rings For Several Months. This One Improved My Wellness Habits the Most.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 00:00:00

The Oura ring was my favorite smart ring because its app was easy to understand and I liked some of the newer features from its latest software update. At the steep price of $299, this smart ring is made up of aerospace-grade titanium – one of the strongest materials on earth -- according to the site. Before I received my Oura ring, I was sent a ring sizer to figure out my ring size. Other smart rings did the same since sizing varies per brand. Once I received the Oura ring, I downloaded the Ou

Topics: data oura ring sleep smart

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Manufacturing firms are using AI to fill labor shortages - but this human skill still matters

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-28 12:27:23

Hase-Hoch-2/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Manufacturers are using AI to adapt to a shifting business landscape. The technology is addressing labor shortages, among other uses. Experiments with AI are revealing new benefits and risks. Manufacturing firms are turning to AI to help them adapt to disruptions in their industry caused by tariffs, shifts in global supply chains, inflation, and other factor

Topics: ai manufacturing new report technology

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US smart rings are getting more limited. Here are the 4 best ones you can still buy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 14:00:11

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority If you’ve been thinking about buying a smart ring, your options are getting smaller. Over the weekend, Oura announced that the United States International Trade Commission (aka the ITC) ruled against RingConn and Ultrahuman for patent infringements against Oura. As a result, both RingConn and Ultrahuman have been issued cease-and-desist orders to stop selling their smart rings in the US. Although RingConn and Ultrahuman may not be the biggest names in the sma

Topics: galaxy oura ring samsung smart

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Spotify introduces an in-app messaging feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 16:44:02

My first thought when I heard Spotify had launched a messaging service was, "Why?" But, after looking into it a bit more, I'm intrigued at the idea of sharing recommendations within the app. So, what is Spotify's new Messages feature? Basically, like Instagram, TikTok and other social media platforms, Spotify is creating a way for you to share content and thoughts from within its app. You can send playlists, songs and podcasts without having to use a link on another platform. You can see the M

Topics: content feature messages sharing spotify

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Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 09:42:01

Imagine that you are given the following task, with a file like this: Name,Department,Salary,JoinDate John Smith,Marketing,75000,2023-01-15 Alice Johnson,Finance,82000,2022-06-22 Bob Lee,Sales,68000,2024-03-10 Emma Davis,HR,71000,2021-09-01 You want to turn that into a single list of all the terms in the (potentially very large) file. In other words, you want to turn it into something like this: [ { "term" : "Name" , "position" : 0 , "length" : 4 } , { "term" : "Department" , "position" : 5

Topics: array gc memory public string

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Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-29 20:36:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

Topics: oura ring rings smart ultrahuman

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Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-30 04:23:27

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands

Topics: oura ring rings smart ultrahuman

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How to Prepare for Leadership Roles in Software Engineering

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-10-30 10:35:39

Struggling between the comfort of an individual contributor (IC) role and the desire to move into software engineering leadership? It’s a tough fork in the road that many engineers face. The idea of stepping away from hands-on technical work to move into leadership requires mastering new skills, stepping into the spotlight, and strategic thinking. It feels like a major departure from their comfort zone of code development, testing, and debugging. But the truth is, growth happens outside the comf

Topics: engineering engineers leadership skills software

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Two smart ring brands will no longer be available to US shoppers (Update: Statement)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:42:37

Ultrahuman also tells Android Authority that it is fast-tracking a newly designed smart ring. You can read the full statement below: We welcome the ITC’s recognition of consumer-protective exemptions and its rejection of attempts to block the access of U.S. consumers. Customers can continue purchasing and importing Ring AIR directly from us through October 21, 2025, and at retailers beyond this date. What’s more, our software application and charging accessories remain fully available, after t

Topics: commission competition consumer patent ring

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Volunteer opportunities still open for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-30 16:00:00

Volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 isn’t just about scoring free admission (though that’s a pretty sweet perk). It’s your chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s biggest startup conferences gets built — and to meet the people shaping the future of tech while you’re at it. Whether you want to launch your own startup, build your event chops, or get inspired by real traction stories, volunteering at Disrupt 2025 is your backstage pass to see how a world-class tech con

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A lightweight TypeScript library for assertion-based runtime data validation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 10:43:34

Lightweight, zero-dependency library for validating arbitrary runtime data in TypeScript. decode-kit provides assertion-based validation that refines your types in-place — no cloning, no transformations, and minimal runtime overhead. Installation npm install decode-kit Quick Start decode-kit validates your data and narrows its type in-place. Your original values remain unchanged - only their TypeScript types are refined. The validate function runs a runtime check and, on success, asserts the

Topics: input kit number string validate

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Quick Share for iPhones is still in the works, and here’s proof (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 11:52:02

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A teardown of the latest Google Play Services app has revealed evidence that Google is still working on Quick Share for iPhones. We were also able to view a screen confirming that you need to sign in to share with iPhones. This comes almost a year after we first learned Google might be working on Quick Share for iOS and MacOS. We first heard late last year that Google could be working on Quick Share for iOS and MacOS. This would be a welcome addition, al

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Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:24:40

cascache Provider-agnostic CAS like (Compare-And-Set or generation-guarded conditional set) cache with pluggable codecs and a pluggable generation store. Safe single-key reads (no stale values), optional bulk caching with read-side validation, and an opt‑in distributed mode for multi-replica deployments. Contents Overview CAS safety: Writers snapshot a per-key generation before the DB read. Cache writes commit only if the generation is unchanged. Writers snapshot a per-key before the DB rea

Topics: bulk context key string user

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Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups

news.ycombinator.com Juli Clover 2025-10-28 07:05:37

Startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator (YC) today filed an amicus brief supporting Epic Games in Epic's continued legal fight with Apple. Y Combinator says that Apple's "anti-steering restraints" have long inhibited the growth and development of technology companies that monetize goods and services through apps. The company calls on the court to deny Apple's appeal and uphold the order that required Apple to change its App Store linking rules in the United States. Back in

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Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 03:10:32

Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust for Fun and Profit My little cousin is learning Python, and wanted to know about what kinds of questions he could expect to get in coding interviews. I started him off with good ol' FizzBuzz: obsolete for any actual coding interview today (at least, I hope), but good at his level. After a little back and forth getting reminded about how to create range iterators and fixing the order, he landed on this implementation: def basic_fizzbuzz(): for i in range(1, 101): if

Topics: 00 100 let string µs

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Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 04:39:15

Topics: #development Client-side rendering has become the dominant paradigm for building web apps. But frameworks like React can lead to major JavaScript execution bottlenecks during page load. For many web developers there’s a clear solution for this: Ship less JavaScript to the browser. Whether websites have to work without any JavaScript at all is a question almost as old as the web itself. By now, the answer is clear: No, they don’t. It’s firmly established that websites should be more tha

Topics: javascript like page rendering server

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Best Innerspring Mattress in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 04:28:00

All online brands offer a free trial, free shipping and a warranty, but some brands are more generous with their policies than others. Motion isolation, edge support and temperature are important features for couples or people who sleep hot to consider. Hot sleepers should consider a mattress that boasts special cooling features. Couples want minimal motion transfer and a strong, supportive bed perimeter. Hybrid mattresses tend to be best for people who want extra support and durability. Sleep

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Latest Tech News

Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

My Apple Watch still beats Oura Ring - except for one killer feature I wish Apple would steal

Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

Two subscription-free smart rings were just banned in the US - here's why

I still prefer Apple Watch over Oura Ring for 3 key reasons - but there is one big drawback

Is Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring an Ethical Lab-Grown Diamond, or a Horrible Blood-Soaked Conflict Diamond?

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The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

Health Connect prepares to track your favorite vices (APK teardown)

I Wore 3 Popular Smart Rings For Several Months. This One Improved My Wellness Habits the Most.

Manufacturing firms are using AI to fill labor shortages - but this human skill still matters

US smart rings are getting more limited. Here are the 4 best ones you can still buy

Spotify introduces an in-app messaging feature

Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs

Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

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Two smart ring brands will no longer be available to US shoppers (Update: Statement)

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A lightweight TypeScript library for assertion-based runtime data validation

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Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups

Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust

Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

Best Innerspring Mattress in 2025

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