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The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:24:58

One of the most memorable events in my career so far was being selected as a host for the Fulbright Program. When Emily (Simons) approached me with her idea of applying for this type of scholarship, I was already blown away by her enthusiasm—but little did I imagine how immensely enriching her visit to the lab would turn out to be! We initially discussed a project aligned with our shared interest in healthcare topics; specifically, I proposed making Emily part of a planned project with cardiolo

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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:38:06

Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” and “moods,” but these traits are highly fluid and liable to change unexpectedly. Sometimes these changes are dramatic. In 2023, Microsoft's Bing chatbot famously adopted an alter-ego called "Sydney,” which declared love for users and made threats of blackmail. More recently, xAI’s Grok chatbot would for a brief period sometimes identify as “MechaHitler” and make antisemitic comments. Other personali

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5 productivity apps I swear by, and one of them unlocks the rest

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:00:04

Joe Maring / Android Authority Productivity apps are the bane of the app world. On one end of the spectrum are the total nerds who could shame a cyborg with their organizing skills, and on the other are those who dump everything into Google Keep just to have everything in one place. I live somewhere in the middle. I’m not pedantic enough to run the most complex Notion server and flex about it on Reddit, nor am I a simpleton who relies solely on a notes app. I use a bunch of apps every day to i

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How to get another 15GB of Gmail storage for free (and without losing old files)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-16 20:00:13

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Every new Google email account comes with 15GB of free storage -- a solid offer at no cost. However, that space can fill up fast, especially since it also covers files in Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox is cluttered with unread newsletters and sneaky spam, there's a way to clean house without losing important messages. With the right approach, you can preserve what matters while giving yourself a fresh start. Also: Gmail is making it a whole lot easi

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LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 16:56:46

LangExtract Table of Contents Introduction LangExtract is a Python library that uses LLMs to extract structured information from unstructured text documents based on user-defined instructions. It processes materials such as clinical notes or reports, identifying and organizing key details while ensuring the extracted data corresponds to the source text. Why LangExtract? Precise Source Grounding: Maps every extraction to its exact location in the source text, enabling visual highlighting for

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Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 20:59:41

Fermat's Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. Until September 2029 it is being funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the EPSRC. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstandard research. General

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 3, #314

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 22:24:34

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. The yellow category came together right away for me, but the others...not so much. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 3, #784

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 23:00:34

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. But the purple category is pretty fun, at least if you're fascinated with musical groups and their names. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go the

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NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 18:50:04

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, but a scientific investigation from the Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the US-based company Space Tango with the goal of better understanding how bacteria spread and behave under extreme conditions. The experiment includes E. coli, along with bacteria that cause diseases like typhoid fever and the infe

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Fired by video: Atlassian terminates 150 workers using pre-recorded video, sparking criticism

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-16 18:31:00

Cutting corners: Receiving a layoff notice is always hard, but the way the message is delivered can make the experience even more painful. The latest example: Atlassian's termination notification to 150 employees through a pre-recorded video. The restructuring not only highlights concerns about impersonal layoff announcements but also reflects the increasing influence of AI on jobs in the technology industry. Australian software giant Atlassian has eliminated 150 jobs as part of a major restruc

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CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 14:00:22

Pink Slip Pride Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling; instead, CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in AI. As the Wall Street Journal reports, CEOs are now bragging about shrinking their companies' staff, highlighting a cooling job market and an unwavering commitment to automation at all costs. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told investors last week that the telecom had been "very, very good" on headcount, meaning that "it's going down all t

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Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001

news.ycombinator.com Mass Werk 2025-12-16 17:36:21

Character Bitmap Graphics on the PET 2001 July 30, 2025 How to impress with bitmaps from nothing. In 2022, Genesis Project (that is: Elder0010 and LRNZ) released a very impressive demo for the Commodore PET 2001 (the original machine and the upgraded PET 2001-N), “A Bright Shining Star”. Among a few other experiments, it showed high-res graphics (in animation) and static bitmap graphics in a vertical strip spanning over 10 characters or 80 pixels. As readers of this blog may be aware of alre

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Processing: Mattie Lubchansky Wrote and Illustrated Simplicity

news.ycombinator.com Lincoln Michel 2025-12-12 16:33:07

Author photo by Sylvie Rosokoff On a semi-regular basis, I interview authors about their writing processes and the craft behind their books. You can find previous entries here. This week, I’m excited to share an interview with the author and illustrator Mattie Lubchansky, whose new gorgeous new graphic novel Simplicity is out today! Like Lubchasnky’s previous book, Boy’s Weekend—and her regular comic strips—Simplicity combines lush illustrations and science fiction settings to examine very real

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JavaScript retro sound effects generator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 14:30:26

jsfxr Generator Pickup/coin Laser/shoot Explosion Powerup Hit/hurt Jump Blip/select Random Tone Mutate Sound Play To save the sound, right- or control-click the following link, select "Save As..." and choose a name with a ".wav" extension. sfx.wav File size: Samples: Clipped:

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Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 16:15:42

🍃 Ethersync Multiplayer mode for your text editor! Ethersync enables real-time collaborative editing of local text files. You can use it for pair programming or note-taking, for example. It's the missing real-time complement to Git! Features 👥 Edit files at the same time, across different text editors 📍 See your peers' cursors and selections 🗃️ Work on entire projects, the way you're used to 🔒 Encrypted peer-to-peer connections, no need for a server ✒️ Local-first: You always have full a

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Bad UX

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 12:48:42

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 2, #313

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 15:00:05

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. If you know which team is the "New York Yankees of Japan," you'll have a good shot at conquering the purple category for today's Connections: Sports Edition. Stuck? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. Th

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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-17 20:28:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Usually, whenever a new feature comes out for Windows, Microsoft advertises it widely in a blog post to let everyone know. Or if they don't, people discover the feature soon after an update. However, a helpful feature sometimes slips through the cracks, only to be unearthed years later. Also: Hate Windows 11? Here's how you can make it work more like Windows 10 That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post

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If you Google 'bad UX', all the results appear in Comic Sans

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 18:48:42

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Tesla partly liable in Florida Autopilot trial, jury awards $329M in damages

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-17 18:24:42

A jury in federal court in Miami has found Tesla partly to blame for a fatal 2019 crash that involved the use of the company’s Autopilot driver assistance system. The jury awarded the plaintiffs $329 million in punitive and compensatory damages. Neither the driver of the car nor the Autopilot system braked in time to avoid going through an intersection, where the car struck an SUV and killed a pedestrian. The jury assigned the driver two-thirds of the blame, and attributed one-third to Tesla. (

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Tesla partly liable in Florida Autopilot trial, jury awards $200M punitive damages

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-18 00:24:42

A jury in federal court in Miami has found Tesla partly to blame for a fatal 2019 crash that involved the use of the company’s Autopilot driver assistance system. The jury awarded the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages, along with compensatory damages. Neither the driver of the car nor the Autopilot system braked in time to avoid going through an intersection, where the car struck an SUV and killed a pedestrian. The jury assigned the driver two-thirds of the blame, and attributed one-t

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SonicWall firewall devices hit in surge of Akira ransomware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 05:28:20

SonicWall firewall devices have been increasingly targeted since late July in a surge of Akira ransomware attacks, potentially exploiting a previously unknown security vulnerability, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. Akira emerged in March 2023 and quickly claimed many victims worldwide across various industries. Over the last two years, Akira has added over 300 organizations to its dark web leak portal and claimed responsibility for multiple high-profile victims, including Nissan

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Lego’s Newest Collectible Minifigures Swing Into the Spider-Verse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-18 05:05:25

Lego’s Collectible Minifigure series has crossed with a bunch of licenses at this point, from Dungeons & Dragons to The Muppets and many more—including both Marvel Comics and the MCU. But we’ve never had an entire wave dedicated to Spider-Man before, and Lego is entering the Spider-Verse in style. Revealed today as part of the Spider-Man Day celebrations, Lego confirmed that its next wave of blind-boxed collectible minifigures will draw on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to give fans 12 dif

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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 FE is coming into focus, and here’s what to expect

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 10:29:08

TL;DR A new leak has revealed a more complete spec sheet for the Galaxy S25 FE. The phone is expected to feature a 6.7-inch AMOLED display, Exynos 2400 chip, and 45W charging. It looks like the selfie camera will be bumped to 12MP, and the device will weigh around 190g. We’ve already got a pretty solid idea of what to expect from the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, but the same leaker behind last week’s RAM and storage leak is back with a more substantial spec dump. Let’s look at what you’ll be gettin

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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-18 15:50:40

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, attending the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 9th, 2025. Palantir has inked a contract with the U.S. Army worth up to $10 billion to meet growing warfare demands over the next decade. As part of the deal, Palantir will help the military streamline efficiencies while preparing for threats, consolidating 75 total contracts into one enterprise deal, the release states. The agreement creates a "comprehensive framework for

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Nintendo won’t say it’s raising Switch prices, but it’s raising Switch prices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 15:18:00

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Prices for the original Nintendo Switch family of products will change in the US on August 3, 2025. The reason is attributed to market conditions in the US. Other products, like certain Switch 2 accessories, select amiibo, and the Alarmo clock, will also see price adjustments. Normally, after a new console launches, the previous system will see a price cut. It appears Nintendo is preparing to do the opposite with the original Switch. And it looks like

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Fast (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 15:19:43

Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. It opened in 2022, yielding a project duration of around 7,600 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project cost $346 million, i.e. $110,000 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, c

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Nvidia extends Game Ready driver support for Windows 10 users through 2026

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-18 20:01:00

In brief: Nvidia has confirmed that it will continue delivering Game Ready drivers for one year after Windows 10 reaches its end-of-life date this October, giving users more time to upgrade. Additionally, gamers who still use Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal graphics cards will receive security updates for another three years. The company explained its plans regarding Windows 10 and older GPUs in the patch notes for the 580.88 graphics driver, released July 31. Those with RTX cards can expect to rece

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Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 14:04:16

Hear me out, I can already read the descenting opinions: But I need session persistence! But I need split windows! But I need to group windows per project! But I need lots of terminals inside of a remote server! I had the exact same response whenever someone would argue against using tmux . For context, I've been a huge fan of tmux and have been using it as a daily part of my workflow for 7+ years. Whether I'm developing on my local machine or in SSH, I was using tmux . However, a couple o

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-12-18 20:24:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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