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If you have 90 minutes to spare, play the cyberpunk horror game s.p.l.i.t

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 12:00:33

s.p.l.i.t is the most badass typing game I’ve ever played. It’s actually more of a hacking simulator, cyberpunk thriller and puzzle experience than a typing game, but its core loop is bookended by sequences of high-intensity letter pecking with gruesome consequences — think Mavis Beacon as designed by Ted Kaczynski — and the final scenes have a way of searing themselves into your psyche. Not to mention, the whole thing takes place on a keyboard, no mouse or gamepad. So I guess it’s technically o

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Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-12-26 05:25:23

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier quantum encryption schemes, which only work for a few special tasks,

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Dwl: Dwm for Wayland

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 15:40:19

dwl - dwm for Wayland Join us on our IRC channel: #dwl on Libera Chat Or on the community-maintained Discord server. dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is: Easy to understand, hack on, and extend with patches One C source file (or a very small number) configurable via config.h Tied to as

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Vanishing home field advantage in English football

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 00:05:19

Do clubs playing at home win more? Home field advantage is well-known to fans of different sports and is well-supported by the data. How prevalent is it in English football? That’s what I’m going to explore in this blog post. A few years ago, I did a similar analysis, but with a much smaller data set (see https://blog.engora.com/2021/01/covid-and-soccer-home-team-advantage.html). This time, I have complete English football league data from 1888 to the 2024-2025 season, so my analysis is going

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‘Panty & Stocking’ Just Did Its Own ‘Mandalorian’ Spoof

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-30 21:00:14

Despite it being over 14 years since anime fans first saw the series, Trigger, the studio behind Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, has reignited the cult classic raunchy New Panty & Stocking with Gartebelt without missing a beat, comedic or otherwise. Much of the Prime Video series’ side-splitting success is owed to its sharp timing with a volley of pop culture references. Its third episode is particularly packed with references, poking fun at popular shows like The Mandalorian. In the third episode of P

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How to increase your surface area for luck

news.ycombinator.com Cate Hall 2025-12-31 11:55:28

This post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book (and builds on a couple of paragraphs in my original post on agency). I’ll be running a few excerpts here in the coming months, in hopes of getting feedback on the kinds of content people are excited to see in the book (which is a signal about what to expand or scale back). Let me know what you think! One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff — socially, intellectually,

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Tram Trains

news.ycombinator.com Benedict Springbett 2026-01-01 00:37:12

We’re hiring someone in London to help grow Works in Progress's audience and sell Stripe Press books (and, soon, Works in Progress magazine subscriptions). If this could be you, please apply here! Many cities face the following problem. They have railway lines that go where people live. But these railway lines end at the edge of the city center, and don’t go out the other side. For cities with this problem, the solution is through running. Terminating a train and turning it around takes a lot

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Waymo Is Crushing Tesla in the Robotaxi Race

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-01 02:57:09

The future of getting from A to B without touching the steering wheel is finally here. And it’s a fight between two of Silicon Valley’s biggest names. On one side: Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving division that has spent over a decade perfecting robotaxis and just crossed 100 million driverless miles on public roads. On the other: Tesla, with Elon Musk promising a future where your car earns money for you while you sleep. Waymo Expands While Tesla Launches Big (and a Little Vulgar) In Austin, Te

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2025 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: A-M’s ultimate GT goes topless

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 06:01:05

We live in the era of the electric car—lightning that can't be put back in its bottle. This is important to keep in mind when we talk about new cars like the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante, because on paper, it seems hard to justify its half-million-dollar price tag and 800-plus horsepower twin-turbo V12 when things like Rivian's Quad-motor R1 vehicles and Lucid's Air can top its numbers for half the price. I say this not to suck the air out of the room but to put things in perspective, as this w

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Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope

news.ycombinator.com June 2025-12-30 23:24:46

Go behind the scenes with the dedicated NASA team and its partners to uncover the untold story of the James Webb Space Telescope. “Cosmic Dawn” unveils the immense challenges, groundbreaking innovations, and extraordinary efforts behind humanity’s most powerful eye on our universe, from its complex development to its nail-biting deployment a million miles away.

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Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

theverge.com Jon Fortt 2026-01-06 21:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. I’m guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich, a newsletter and forthcoming book about the shifting politics of Silicon Valley and the rise of tech authoritarianism.

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UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-01-07 14:30:19

The UK government is reportedly set to back down from its battle with Apple to obtain back door access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption. Victory hasn’t come through the courts, or government figures changing their minds on privacy matters, but thanks to ongoing pressure from the US during the two countries’ trade talks. Multiple unnamed UK officials told the Financial Times that the UK government is working on a way out. “The Home Office is basically going to hav

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Coway Airmega 50 Review: Effective and Affordable (2025)

wired.com Lisa Wood Shapiro 2026-01-07 03:02:00

I’ve been on the air quality beat for a while here at WIRED, and I often make the argument that consumers should go big when it comes to indoor air, as a larger fan and filter surface area produce a quieter and more powerful air purifier. However, if ever there were a fun-sized air purifier that punches above its weight (all 5 pounds of it), it’s the latest from air powerhouse Coway, the Airmega 50. Standing just over a foot tall, the Airmega 50 was just launched in June and is an addition to t

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Uber Unveils Global Robotaxi Plan With Lucid and Nuro

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-10 18:09:00

Table of Contents Uber Announces Global Robotaxi Plan With Lucid and Nuro Picture ordering an Uber from the airport, but your ride is a robotaxi. That's what you can expect a year from now with Uber's new program in partnership with electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid and tech company Nuro. The partnership will combine Uber's ride-sharing platform with Lucid's new electric SUV, the Gravity, and Nuro's autonomous driving technology. It'll be launching first in an unnamed "major US city," but is

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Uber Announces Global Robotaxi Plan With Lucid and Nuro

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-11 00:09:10

Table of Contents Uber Announces Global Robotaxi Plan With Lucid and Nuro Picture ordering an Uber from the airport, but your ride is a robotaxi. That's what you can expect a year from now with Uber's new program in partnership with electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid and tech company Nuro. The partnership will combine Uber's ride-sharing platform with Lucid's new electric SUV, the Gravity, and Nuro's autonomous driving technology. It'll be launching first in an unnamed "major US city," but is

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Waymo Expands in Austin. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-11 10:03:28

Table of Contents Waymo Expands in Austin. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Thursday, the company extended into more parts of Austin, Texas, so it now drives across 90 square miles of the city. There are more than 100 Waymo vehicles in the city, with plans for further expansion. Along with Austin, Waymo currently operate

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For Nintendo, freedom means more than an open world

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2026-01-15 03:00:00

In past Donkey Kong games, like Tropical Freeze or DKC Returns, I would often find myself stuck against a particularly challenging platforming sequence. And there wasn’t much I could do. If I wanted to progress, I had to nail those jumps or avoid those spikes to move on. Donkey Kong Bananza, on the other hand, offers a different tactic: smash some shit up. While the game is a 3D platformer, it also introduces destructive gameplay that lets you find new solutions or pathways just by smashing up t

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Pixel Piranhas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 08:08:23

I really hate it when I’m exposed to some horrible news online, and feel powerless. There is nothing I can do, I am not responsible, and yet at the same time I have this feeling “this shouldn’t be happening”. There is a temptation to immediately react – if it was printed, I would crumple up the paper and throw it away – yet, reading pixels on the screen I don’t have the right gesture to express my discontent. So I made this little browser extension. Click on a button, and a horde of cursor

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Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-17 06:55:18

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Uber just announced a deal today with the company that runs one of the largest robotaxi fleets in China, as the ridehail giant nears its goal of becoming the world’s ultimate autonomous vehicle clearinghouse. Uber and Baidu said they are teaming up to deploy robotaxis in countries outside the US and China, with an initial

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Literalism plaguing today’s movies

news.ycombinator.com Namwali Serpell 2026-01-17 09:52:38

A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom. The warrior grabs it, uses his unlocked cell door to knock the guard down, and places the sword’s tip on the guard’s throat. He drives it in as one might hammer a post, a coarse and grisly death. Then, for some reason, swaying back and forth, the warrior yells down at the corpse, “Wood or steel, a point is still a point!” An ailing magnate lies in an opulent be

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Dozens of ‘Ghost Galaxies’ Are Orbiting the Milky Way, Astronomers Suspect

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-19 11:35:25

The Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) theory suggests that most galaxies are low-mass dwarf galaxies, many of which orbit larger galaxies like the Milky Way. More broadly, the LCDM represents our best understanding of how the universe works. But there’s a problem. According to the theory, the Milky Way should have significantly more satellite galaxies than scientists have observed with telescopes and predicted with computer simulations. By combining the highest-resolution supercomputer simulations

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Aliens Can Detect Earth’s Airports From 200 Light-Years Away

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-21 02:00:53

Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New research shows that radar systems at commercial and military airports are inadvertently announcing our presence to any aliens with the ability to listen. Preliminary results from a study led by Ramiro Caisse Saide, an astrophysics PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, suggest extraterrestrials up to 200 light-years away could theoretically detect electromagnetic signal

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New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-21 15:05:30

Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug. The gateway drug — usually cast as weed, alcohol, tobacco, or inhalants — refers to the theory that the earlier a kid starts using drugs, the more likely they are to get into the harder stuff later in life, like heroin or cocaine. Though the idea was pioneered as early as the 1930s, the policy term wa

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Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 20:20:29

Throwaway for obvious reasons. I’m a co-founder of a venture-backed startup currently valued at ~$20M. We raised a strong pre-seed, built a team, shipped v1, generated revenue, and recently pivoted into a related idea that I think could work—but I’m no longer the right person to lead it. My co-founder is passionate about the new direction and wants to take it forward. I want to step away cleanly and with integrity. I have ~10% vested. I led our early fundraise, worked unpaid for months, and con

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Govee RGBIC Floor Lamp Hits All-Time Low for Prime Day, Make 16 Million DIY Colors for Next to Nothing

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-01-27 11:50:24

Setting the mood can be a lot of effort, but there are ways to make it easier. One of those is with some really good smart lights, but installing them and using them can be daunting. If you’re looking for an easier way to do things, then getting a Govee RBGIC Floor Lamp could well be the way forward. Plus, you just know it’s going to be cheaper right now, thanks to Prime Day deals. See at Amazon Instead of the usual price of $100, Amazon Prime members can currently pick up this fantastic smart

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As Waymo Debuts in Philadelphia, It May Want to Look Into the Time Furious Locals Tore Apart an Adorable Robot

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-27 21:09:51

The City of Brotherly Love is known for lots of things: cheesesteaks, the Liberty Bell, Paddy's Pub, and residents who don't take kindly to outsiders messing around in their business. Way back in 2015, Philadelphians' territorial nature briefly became national news when hitchBOT — a child-size hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers and had already traversed several entire countries with their help — arrived in Philadelphia and quickly got decapitated by furious locals. The

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HBO Max is back, HBO Max says

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-28 21:15:37

The re-rebranding to the name that never should have been changed is underway. The HBO Max re-rebranding is officially underway. After revealing back in May that it would change the name of its Max streaming service back to HBO Max sometime this summer, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is starting to do that as of Wednesday. In a press release , WBD simply said that "HBO Max is back. It's good to be home" and included an image of the app's new(ish) logo. Variety earlier reported that the switch ba

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Waymo is adding teen accounts for autonomous vehicle rides without parents

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-29 16:52:05

Waymo has introduced an option for teen accounts , allowing young passengers to take rides in its driverless robotaxis without adult supervision. The program is only available in metropolitan Phoenix for now, but the company said it plans to offer the service in other cities down the line. Teen riders are added to a regular Waymo account and all ride receipts go to that adult. Ride information can also be shared with a parent for real-time updates. The program is available for teens aged 14 to

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‘The Last of Us Part II’ Can Now Rob You of Its Most Brutal Moment

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-30 11:15:01

Season two of The Last of Us ended on “the” moment. The moment when a story you thought was one thing actually becomes another. It’s a moment lifted directly from the video game The Last of Us Part II, but now the game is letting players get rid of it, and we’re very curious about the timing. Tuesday, Naughty Dog announced that it’s releasing a new update to the remastered edition of The Last of Us Part II. The update will allow fans to play the game chronologically, which drastically shifts th

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Waymo offers teen accounts for driverless rides

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-30 16:03:11

Waymo announced it is now offering teen accounts for its self-driving car service Waymo One, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona. Waymo announced Tuesday that it is offering accounts for teens ages 14 to 17, starting in Phoenix. The Alphabet -owned company said that, beginning Tuesday, parents in Phoenix can use their Waymo accounts "to invite their teen into the program, pairing them together." Once their account is activated, teens can hail fully autonomous rides. Previously, users were require

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If you have 90 minutes to spare, play the cyberpunk horror game s.p.l.i.t

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For Nintendo, freedom means more than an open world

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Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app

Literalism plaguing today’s movies

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