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Listen to the ‘Tron: Ares’ Soundtrack the Way It’s Meant to Be Heard: On Tape

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-27 06:45:04

Along with the digital release of the Tron: Ares soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails is playing up the nostalgic music tech sensibilities of the franchise with its score on physical media. Collectors will be able to snag not only multiple vinyl variants of the music from the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures release but also a special edition cassette tape, which, for us ’90s NIN fans, is how we first listened to the industrial rock act. The analog release will only be available through the Nine Inch Nails

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CEO Demands Employees Start Using AI, Fires Anyone Who Doesn't

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:07:50

Almost three years since the release of OpenAI's explosively popular ChatGPT, it's clear that artificial intelligence isn't exactly taking the job market by storm. Sure, AI makes a convenient cover for business executives who were already looking to downsize or outsource their labor force, but the tech's myriad hallucination issues, legal risks, and security baggage make it ill-suited to automate human jobs. That's to say nothing of the fact that 95 percent of businesses gunning for an AI overh

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The Relativity of Wrong (1988)

news.ycombinator.com Isaac Asimov 2025-11-28 05:27:55

The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, he told me he was majoring in English Literature, but felt he needed to teach me science. (I sighed a bit, for I knew very few English Lit majors who are equipped to teach me science, but I am very aware of the vast state of

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How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion

technologyreview.com Matthew Phelan 2025-11-28 09:00:00

By late January, the incoming Trump administration would assert that the entirety of the New Jersey drone wave had been benign, with each and every UAS “authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.” Their surety, however, stood in stark contrast to the warnings from top military brass, including the Air Force general at the head of NORAD, Gregory Guillot. In February, he testified to the Senate that approximately 350 drone incursions had been reported over a hundred

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Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:15:17

I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or harmful, depending on how they’re used. Most forms of direct production access are in this category: like ssh or kubectl, or a read-write prod SQL console. It’s also possible to give “dangerous advice”. Dangerous advice is dangerous because (like sharp tools) it takes competence and judgment to use well. Giving the wrong person dangerous advice is like giving the wrong person production SQL access -

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The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

news.ycombinator.com Scott Laird 2025-11-28 22:02:59

The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux Lately I’ve been trying to find (and understand) the limits of time syncing between Linux systems. How accurate can you get? What does it take to get that? And what things can easily add measurable amounts of time error? After most of a month (!), I’m starting to understand things. This is kind of a follow-on to a previous post, where I walked through my setup and goals, plus another post where I discussed time syncing in general. I’m trying to get the clock

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Would Prefer If You Moved on From Hating the Ending of ‘Game of Thrones’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-29 21:15:00

Game of Thrones was beloved for much of its run—winning awards, topping “best” lists—before it famously went off the rails in its eighth and final season. Time hasn’t softened the blow one bit, even with the subsequent success of the prequel series House of the Dragon. Fans will likely never forgive the show’s disappointing downturn, and that’s something one Game of Thrones star in particular hasn’t quite come to terms with: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who played Jaime Lannister. Of course, Coster-W

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Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 05:01:24

Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le

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Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 11:01:24

Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 11:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Brucedawson 2025-11-27 05:00:14

Over two years ago I installed Acronis True Image for Crucial in order to migrate my data to a new SSD I had just purchased. It worked. I then left True Image installed “just in case”, and what harm could that possibly cause. Well, funny you should ask. I recently noticed that whenever I plugged or unplugged my external monitor Explorer.exe would consume a lot of CPU time – dozens of seconds of it. It was enough CPU time to make my computer noticeably sluggish until things calmed down which co

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Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-01 06:15:27

There's no need to fear, for emergency drone swarms are here. To combat school shootings, three districts in Florida are set to trial a drone response system that's designed to subdue an assailant and buy time before law enforcement can arrive at the scene, Newsweek reports. It sounds like something you'd see in a satirical ad in a "Robocop" movie, but no — it's real. The drones can spring into operation within five seconds of a silent alarm being activated, and confront the shooter within fif

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‘Zipotle’: Chipotle Wants to Drop a Burrito on Your Head with New Drone Delivery

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-01 02:00:22

Chipotle says it’s jumping on the drone delivery bandwagon. This week, the company announced a new pilot program in Texas that will test the viability of airdropping customers’ orders into their backyards for them. A press release published Thursday makes the whole process sound quite easy as far as drone-robot hybrid delivery burritos go. Certain customers in the Rowlette suburb of Dallas will be able to download the app for Zipline, Chipotle’s new drone partner, and place their orders. Then,

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Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-01 15:07:21

It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits. But those who refused to try the tools when Coinbase bought enterprise licenses for GitHub Copilot and Cursor got promptly fired, CEO Brian Armstrong said this week on John Collison’s podcast “Cheeky Pint.” (Collison is the co-founder and president of the payments company Stripe.) After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocur

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Most Powerful Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected Hits Telescopes Across North America

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-02 02:25:38

For almost two decades, astronomers have detected extremely powerful, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) from beyond our galaxy—and had no clue where they came from. Now, a team of scientists has detected the brightest-ever FRB and finally pinpointed its origin to a nearby galaxy. Researchers have long suspected that FRBs are the result of highly energetic and violent events, like clashes between neutron stars. But even though they can generate more energy

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Astronomer’s New CEO Speaks—Yes, About That

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-12-03 02:00:00

The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot. They were swaying in mid-hug when the roving kiss cam, a staple at the band’s performances, zeroed in on them. You have probably seen the clip of what happened next. The two of them scrambled like kids caught raiding a cookie jar. Even Coldplay’s anodyne frontman Chris Martin couldn’t ignore their response. “They’re either having an affair

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This $1,000 Drone Is Built for the High Seas

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-03 11:52:28

Zero Zero Robotics, the makers of the HoverAir line of drones, is suddenly more taken with water than air. The upcoming $1,000 HoverAir Aqua—which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo—may be the first drone built for Atlanteans or anybody who spends their free time on open waters. The one major drawback will hinder your total flight times while reminding you of your grade school lessons about why electricity and water don’t mix. Welcome to the drone life aquatic. Now, I know what you’re proba

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Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 04:25:25

💡 This prompt will be used to initialize the game world. Be descriptive about the desired scene or environment.

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Furious Fred Durst Knocks Drone Out of Air During Live Concert

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 10:13:08

Nu metal icon — and notorious rabble-rouser — Fred Durst has a long history of weird beefs, but this latest altercation is bizarre even for him. In audience-shot videos from a recent show in Istanbul, Turkey, the 55-year-old Limp Bizkit frontman laid the smackdown on a drone whose operator dared to fly it too close to the stage, likely seeking to record unauthorized, up-close footage of the boisterous bandleader. The drone got owned, as Stereogum notes, during a "low-key breakdown" in the midd

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Cua (YC X25) is hiring design engineers in SF

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 05:01:03

Overview Cua is building the infrastructure that enables general-purpose AI agents to safely and scalably use real computers and applications. We’re a small team backed by Y Combinator and top-tier investors, and our open-source tools are already used by thousands of developers. As a Founding Engineer, UX & Design, you’ll own how developers experience Cua - shaping everything from product flows and dashboards to the open-source contributions developers see every day. We’re looking for someone

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Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Design Engineers in SF

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 11:01:03

Overview Cua is building the infrastructure that enables general-purpose AI agents to safely and scalably use real computers and applications. We’re a small team backed by Y Combinator and top-tier investors, and our open-source tools are already used by thousands of developers. As a Founding Engineer, UX & Design, you’ll own how developers experience Cua - shaping everything from product flows and dashboards to the open-source contributions developers see every day. We’re looking for someone

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HoverAir’s new floating Aqua drone can take off and land on water

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-05 16:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Zero Zero Robotics has announced a new autonomous drone that pairs the simplicity of its HoverAir X1 with the improved video capabilities of its HoverAir X1 Pro and, for the first time, complete waterproofing. The new HoverAir Aqua has an IP67 rating and is designed to float, take-off, and land on water instead of an outstretched hand. It will po

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HBO launches new Harry Potter immersive environment on Apple Vision Pro

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-06 02:10:42

HBO Max has been a strong supporter of Apple Vision Pro from the start, offering a robust native app for visionOS with a Game of Thrones immersive environment. Today, HBO has announced an update to the visionOS app with an all-new environment: Hogwarts Great Hall. The Hogwarts Great Hall immersive environment will be familiar to Harry Potter fans, as it’s one of the most iconic rooms at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the series. The environment on Apple Vision Pro offers se

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FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-08 21:00:00

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314 million in August and was co-led by Bezos Expedition, Prysm and Temasek. FieldAI’s other backers include Khosla Ventures,

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Positron, a New Data Science IDE

news.ycombinator.com Posit Team 2025-12-11 04:20:25

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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Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:02:15

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency @_fsantanna I have recently learned about Structured Concurrency (SC), which supports nested coroutines with tied lifetimes. There are a number of libraries (Dill, Trio, Effection), and even language mechanisms in Swift and Kotlin. The similarities with Esterel and derived imperative synchronous languages (ISLs) is noteworthy. However, it seems that no bridges between these worlds (ISLs & SC) have been built. Research in ISLs dates back to the early 80s, a

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The Mandarin Strikes In Hasbro’s Newest Marvel Legends Reveal

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-14 06:00:48

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s oldest foes, with a history in the comics as long as it is fraught. But while the character has been adapted multiple times over the course of the MCU—first more controversially with Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery character in Iron Man 3, then as Tony Leung’s Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings—and earned himself a few action figures from Hasbro inspired by those appearances along the way, the toymaker has yet to bring a comics version of the v

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-12-14 21:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-13 23:00:33

Now well into its third year, it's safe to say the Russo-Ukraine war has ushered in a new type of warfare fit for this decade. As resources run low and manpower becomes irreplaceable, combatants on both sides have resorted to McGuyver-esque tactics, such as jury-rigged drone cages, improvised wooden armor, and eScooter cavalry. One especially important development has been the deployment of various drones, from hobbyist models flung up to do recon flights, to drone boats in the Black Sea. But

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Deal: Save a whopping $800 on the Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 05:05:16

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station has become my go-to battery solution for most of my needs. Mainly because it is both portable and powerful enough to run all my electronics. Needless to say, I would recommend it, especially at today’s heavily discounted price. You can get it at a massive $800 discount, bringing the price down to a very amicable $599. Buy the Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station for just $599 ($800 off) This offer is available

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Listen to the ‘Tron: Ares’ Soundtrack the Way It’s Meant to Be Heard: On Tape

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Would Prefer If You Moved on From Hating the Ending of ‘Game of Thrones’

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The Mandarin Strikes In Hasbro’s Newest Marvel Legends Reveal

What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

Deal: Save a whopping $800 on the Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station

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