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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 12:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-28 10:25:19

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would automatically decide how to best answer user questions. The company said this unified approach would eliminate the need for users to navigate its model picker — a long, complicated menu of AI options that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly said he hates. But it looks like GPT-5 is not the unified A

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Liquid AI wants to give smartphones small, fast AI that can see with new LFM2-VL model

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-28 16:13:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Liquid AI has released LFM2-VL, a new generation of vision-language foundation models designed for efficient deployment across a wide range of hardware — from smartphones and laptops to wearables and embedded systems. The models promise low-latency performance, strong accuracy, and flexibility for real-world applications. LFM2-VL builds o

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Starlink Just Slashed Prices to a Record Low for New Customers. Here’s How to Get It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 14:28:00

Starlink has offered plenty of carrots to entice new customers throughout 2025: a free satellite dish ($349 value), a 33% discount off the monthly price and (potentially) a community deal that lets you share the cost with your neighbors. Now, Starlink is reducing the cost of its internet plans even further. The Residential plan, which has advertised speeds between 150 and 250Mbps, is down to $99 per month from its original price tag of $120. Residential Lite, which provides download speeds betw

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What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-28 21:26:30

Since Apple’s latest earnings call, talk of a potential Perplexity acquisition has quieted down (the fact that Perplexity was once again allegedly caught red-handed sidestepping content restrictions didn’t help). Meanwhile, with the ever-increasing number of engineers from its Foundation Models team jumping ship, Apple’s need for fresh talent is getting more urgent by the day. But if Perplexity is a no-go, who else could Apple buy? I used to agree with Jason Snell’s frequent argument on the Up

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Claude can now save you more time by automatically referencing past chats

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-29 06:01:25

J Studios/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Claude can now be prompted to reference past user interactions. The feature rolls out today to Max, Team, and Enterprise users. It'll be turned on by default, but you can also switch it off. Claude just got a major memory upgrade: Anthropic's flagship generative AI chatbot can now retrieve information from past conversations, the company announced Monday. The new feature is designed to enable a more streamlined, convenient, and personalized user

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Samsung’s latest One UI 8 beta is causing a hilarious moon-related camera glitch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 10:44:14

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Galaxy devices running One UI 8 Beta 4 are experiencing a new bug. The issue turns the moon purple after you pass 30x zoom. These moon photos also appear blurrier compared to photos taken with a device running One UI 7. When it comes to betas, bugs come with the territory. Sometimes those bugs can be of the serious variety, causing crashes or other system problems. But other times, bugs can fall into the funny or weird category. The new bug that One UI 8

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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-28 08:13:08

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to say the company would keep the previous model, GPT-4o, running for Plus users. A new feature designed to seamlessly switch between models depending on the complexity of t

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A Viral Cybertruck Hoax Got So Big, Tesla Had to Break Its Silence

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-29 16:05:32

Elon Musk has always wanted the Cybertruck to be the vehicle everyone talks about. After a bizarre video went viral over the weekend, he got his wish, just not in the way he intended. The rumor grew so outlandish and spread so far that Tesla, a company that famously doesn’t have a public relations department, was forced to do something it rarely does: publicly deny it. The incident highlights the Cybertruck’s strange and precarious position. It’s a vehicle so polarizing and so relentlessly hype

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Do We Have to Bring Johnny Depp Back to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, Actually?

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-29 16:15:56

Back in 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl first hit theaters, it was a pleasant surprise. A movie based on a Disney ride—in a time when pirate movies weren’t exactly riding high—it was highly entertaining, made a zillion dollars, and earned Johnny Depp his first Oscar nomination. Four sequels of varying quality followed, but despite many rumblings since Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017, Pirates has yet to relaunch. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is now saying there migh

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1,600-Year-Old Depiction of Roman Flip-Flops Look So Real It Makes You Want to Wear Them

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-29 16:50:25

The ancient estate of Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily is known for featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Roman mosaics preserved in their original location. As if the site wasn’t already famous enough, researchers and students have uncovered a mosaic of sandals so modern-looking they could be straight out of a Havaianas commercial. The sandals, part of a larger mosaic decorating the floors of the villa’s southern thermal area, consist of two pale flip-flops with slightly elongated

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Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:10:03

Hi HN, I’m Grace from Design Arena ( https://www.designarena.ai/ ) - we’re building a crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated visuals (websites, images, video, and more). We put AI models and builder tools in head-to-head comparisons that get voted on by real users from around the world. Think “Hot or Not” for the AI era :) (Btw, when we say real users we mean real users, so you may get a captcha on the site. Sorry, but we have to use every bot protection available! We only want human ratings,

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UFC Boss Says Cage Fight Is Seriously Coming to the White House

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-29 21:40:30

An absurd UFC cage fight on the Southern Lawn of the White House looks like it might actually happen. UFC CEO Dana White told The Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay on Monday that plans for the match are moving forward and he is already picturing fighters “warming up in the White House.” President Donald Trump first floated the idea back in July, saying it would be one of many celebrations planned for the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026. “This is so monumental and historical an

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Are Gesture-Enabled AirPod Live Translations Incoming? iOS 26 Beta Suggests Yes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 20:56:00

Some models of Apple's popular AirPods may soon be able to do live, in-person language translations when you squeeze both stems at the same time. According to an image posted by websites including 9to5Mac, the touch gesture is featured in a system asset that's part of Apple iOS 26 developer beta 6. In the image, the gesture is shown on a pair of AirPods with words in languages including English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese. In June, Apple showed off AI-powered live translations featu

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They’re golden: Fictional band from K-Pop Demon Hunters tops the charts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:25:10

The fictional band Huntr/x, from K-Pop Demon Hunters, has a real-world hit with "Golden." Netflix has a summer megahit on its hands with its animated musical feature film, K-Pop Demon Hunters. Since its June release, the critically acclaimed film has won fans of all ages, fueled by a killer Korean pop soundtrack featuring one earworm after another. The biggest hit is "Golden," which just hit No. 1 on Billboard's Top 100 chart. (The last time a fictional ensemble topped the charts was in 2022 wi

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T-Mobile wants you to stay hydrated with its latest Tuesday giveaway

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:51:40

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile’s latest T-Mobile Tuesdays promo includes a free magenta-accented water bottle, which arrives just in time for the Midwest heat wave. Customers can claim the free bottle by visiting a T-Mobile corporate store and redeeming via the T-Life app. You’ll have until July 29th to claim your water bottle. T-Mobile’s status as the beloved Uncarrier may not be as strong as it once was, but the carrier still manages to set itself apart from competitors in s

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Forget the Steam Deck, this 12.5-inch handheld can play games at 4K 100FPS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:58:24

TL;DR A modder has created a handheld gaming PC with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. The handheld’s display is 12.5 inches with a 4K resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels. It’s capable of running God of War (2016) in 4K resolution at 100FPS. Handheld gaming PCs are getting more powerful all the time. However, they still can’t replace the level of performance you get from a full-on gaming laptop. Or can they? One modder has taken that idea and put it to the test. A Bilibili creator who go

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Deals: 32GB M4 MacBook Air $200 off, Black/Natural Apple Watch Ultra 2 $150 off, AirPods 4 $99, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-11-30 02:45:00

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break deals are now ready to roll starting with the M4 MacBook Air. Alongside entry-level models from $799, we are also still tracking rare $200 price drops on a 24GB model with 1TB of storage an heavily upgraded variant with 32GB of RAM today. Moving over to Apple Watch Ultra 2 – we have both the Natural and Black Titanium models at $150 off the list price as well as ongoing deals on AirPods 4, Apple chargers, iPad A16, and more. Scope it all out down below. Rare price d

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Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 00:41:12

Today, we're excited to introduce Nexus - a powerful AI router designed to optimize how AI agents interact with multiple MCP tools and Large Language Models. Nexus serves as a central hub that aggregates Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers while providing intelligent LLM routing, security and governance capabilities. Nexus is an AI router that solves two critical challenges in the AI ecosystem: MCP Server Aggregation: Instead of managing connections to multiple MCP servers individually, Nexus

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Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:19:35

What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how much freedom is offered to players of text adventures, this is a difficult test. It’s normal even for a skilled human player to immerse themselves in their surrounding rather than make constant progress. I wouldn’t be su

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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 18:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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James Cameron Wants to Remind You That Generative AI Is a Threat

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-30 02:45:33

As the industry behind generative AI keeps touting its evolution, Hollywood stands on a precipice to see just who’s going to be first to break ground leveraging the controversial technology in film production (although, reportedly, not for a lack of trying and failing behind the scenes). But for James Cameron, at least, the current will-they-won’t-they approach is untenable—and the filmmaker believes that studios have to start getting a grip with the technology now, before it irrevocably damages

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With this final change, T-Mobile now charges taxes and fees on everything

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:48:26

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has removed tax and fee-inclusive pricing from all new 5G Home Internet plans as of August 6th. Existing customers are grandfathered in, though it’s certainly possible that T-Mobile will do what it can to get its customer base to slowly switch away to newer plans. This move effectively ends T-Mobile’s inclusive pricing policy for new customers across all services. T-Mobile introduced brand new mobile plans earlier this summer, and with it came a

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Apple Arcade’s September lineup mixes NFL football, Jeopardy!, and fan-favorite updates

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-30 06:16:21

Apple Arcade is kicking off September with several new games and big updates, including an NFL tie-in just in time for football season. Launching September 4, NFL Retro Bowl ’26 debuts exclusively on Apple Arcade with a new Championship Leaderboard mode. The NFL- and NFLPA-licensed title uses authentic rosters and stylized retro visuals while letting players represent their favorite team in weekly matchups synced with the 2025 NFL schedule. Wins and stats contribute to live leaderboard standing

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Why AI Shouldn’t Replace Historians Anytime Soon

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-30 06:20:59

Microsoft recently released a study about the types of jobs most likely to be augmented by AI in the future. It led many people to assume those are the jobs that will soon be replaced by machines, and since “historian” ranked second highest on the list, it raised more than a few eyebrows among historians on social media. But after I tested generative AI tools with some historical facts, it seems like historians shouldn’t worry too much about the robots taking over just yet. At the very least, th

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Will Return to Theaters for a Sing-Along Special

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-30 06:45:28

If you’ve been wanting to see KPop Demon Hunters on the big screen, then good news—especially if you can’t stop singing Huntr/X’s best hits to yourself. THR reports that Netflix will return the smash hit animated movie to theaters later this month for a limited time. Tickets for Netflix’s hit film are being sold for screenings currently slated for Saturday, August 23, and Sunday, August 24. These showings will be sing-along events, meaning lyrics for the movie’s songs will pop up on screen for

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Cloud vs. Local: What’s the Best for Security Camera Footage? (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-11-30 06:00:00

Whether you want to keep tabs on your kids, package deliveries, or pets when you’re away from home, security cameras and video doorbells are an affordable and easy way to do so. But there’s one important question to settle before deciding on your ideal home security setup: Where will you store those videos? Cloud convenience can be perfect for some, while others may prefer to keep things local and subscription-free. I’ve been testing security cameras and video doorbells for many years now, and

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This Gemini UI change should’ve been the default from the start (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:58:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google could move Gemini’s AI model switcher to the bottom of your smartphone screen. This would make it easier to switch AI models with one hand compared to the current UI. Google could also bring a UI tweak to Gemini’s video menu. Google’s Gemini chatbot lets you choose between several AI models for your specific needs. You can use the flash models if you value quick, responsive answers, or the Pro models if you need more in-depth answers. Now, it

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Apple @ Work Podcast: The state of Zero Trust in the enterprise

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-12-01 02:00:00

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The Morning After: The best Switch 2 games (so far)

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:15:55

A couple of months since the Switch 2 launched, we’ve all got to grips with the new magnetic-latching Joy-Cons, the jump in graphic fidelity and (honestly) the wait for a next-gen Zelda or Mario title. With the arrival of Donkey Kong Bananza, the new console has its first entirely new breakout platformer hit, we asked the Engadget team for the must-have games on the Switch 2. TMA (CD Projekt Red) With a leap in processing power, the Switch 2 can now handle ostensibly huge games like Hitman and

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

Liquid AI wants to give smartphones small, fast AI that can see with new LFM2-VL model

Starlink Just Slashed Prices to a Record Low for New Customers. Here’s How to Get It

What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

Claude can now save you more time by automatically referencing past chats

Samsung’s latest One UI 8 beta is causing a hilarious moon-related camera glitch

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A Viral Cybertruck Hoax Got So Big, Tesla Had to Break Its Silence

Do We Have to Bring Johnny Depp Back to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, Actually?

1,600-Year-Old Depiction of Roman Flip-Flops Look So Real It Makes You Want to Wear Them

Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

UFC Boss Says Cage Fight Is Seriously Coming to the White House

Are Gesture-Enabled AirPod Live Translations Incoming? iOS 26 Beta Suggests Yes

They’re golden: Fictional band from K-Pop Demon Hunters tops the charts

T-Mobile wants you to stay hydrated with its latest Tuesday giveaway

Forget the Steam Deck, this 12.5-inch handheld can play games at 4K 100FPS

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With this final change, T-Mobile now charges taxes and fees on everything

Apple Arcade’s September lineup mixes NFL football, Jeopardy!, and fan-favorite updates

Why AI Shouldn’t Replace Historians Anytime Soon

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Will Return to Theaters for a Sing-Along Special

Cloud vs. Local: What’s the Best for Security Camera Footage? (2025)

This Gemini UI change should’ve been the default from the start (APK teardown)

Apple @ Work Podcast: The state of Zero Trust in the enterprise

The Morning After: The best Switch 2 games (so far)

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