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Making Explainable Minesweeper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:56:04

🎮Game 🧩Puzzle 💣Minesweeper 🤖Algorithm 💻Game Dev Background I recently purchased and played a game called 14 Minesweeper Variants during a Steam Summer sale. It was a fun game. However, I became curious while looking at the hints provided in the game. What exactly are these? Actually, when I played Minesweeper, which was a default Windows game, I could solve cases where there was a definite answer, but I remember stepping on countless mines in ambiguous situations. For example, situations like

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QRS: Epsilon Wrangling

news.ycombinator.com Tim Bray 2025-10-14 12:45:19

I haven’t shipped any new features for Quamina in many months, partly due to a flow of real-life distractions, but also I’m up against tough performance problems in implementing Regular Expressions at massive scale. I’m still looking for a breakthrough, but have learned things about building and executing finite automata that I think are worth sharing. This piece has to do with epsilons; anyone who has studied finite automata will know about them already, but I’ll offer background for those peop

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Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:06:38

Anna's Archive MCP Server An MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive Note Notwithstanding prevailing public sentiment regarding Anna's Archive, the platform serves as a comprehensive repository for automated retrieval of documents released under permissive licensing frameworks (including Creative Commons publications and public domain materials). This software does not endorse unauthorized acquisition of copyrighted content and should be regarded solely as a util

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The Death of Partying in the USA and Why It Matters

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-10-14 12:43:43

In January, The Atlantic's Ellen Cushing published an essay with an admirably blunt title: “Americans Need to Party More.” Burrowing into the appendix tables of the American Time Use Survey, she unearthed the fact that just 4.1 percent of Americans said they “attended or hosted” a party or ceremony on a typical weekend or holiday in 2023. In other words, in any given weekend, just one in 25 US households had plans to attend a social event. The ATUS is a government questionnaire that asks a larg

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HyAB k-means for color quantization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:34:30

HyAB k-means for color quantization Color quantization in CIELAB space, visualized. The input is converted to CIELAB space and a special “HyAB” distance formula is used when clustering. This in theory should result in better image quality. I’ve been obsessing over color quantization algorithms lately, and when I learned that an image conversion app called Composite did its so-called pixel mapping step in CIELAB space, I instantly thought of the “HyAB” color distance formula I’d seen in the FLI

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Oh No, ‘Big Bang Theory’ Is Returning to Literally Destroy the Universe

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-14 11:50:45

You’d think io9—a site run by nerds—would enjoy a sitcom featuring a cast of nerd characters. Like, say, The Big Bang Theory, which ran on CBS for 12 seasons. But you’d be wrong: we loathed the show, especially for its often wrong-headed approach to geeky interests (remember how dirty it did Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples’ wonderful comic Saga?), and we cheered when it finally wrapped up in 2019. But The Big Bang Theory obviously had a crap-ton of fans; you don’t get to 12 seasons and two sp

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Judge Slaps Down FCC Rule That Would’ve Made It Easy to Cancel Your Subscriptions

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-14 13:00:37

On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited rule would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel subscriptions. Instead, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has clicked to cancel the rule entirely, leaving us all stuck suspended in the elaborate web of subscription services. The three-judge panel, which included two who were appointed to the court during Donald Trump’s first term, voted unanimously to turn back the click-to-cancel rules that were dra

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Samsung’s New Foldables Give the Keys to Google AI and Say, ‘Here, You Drive.’

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-14 13:17:47

Samsung’s newest generation of Fold and Flip folding phones is here, and this year, it has quite a bit to parade around. The Galaxy Fold 7, for example, is hella thin and almost as slim as a Galaxy S25 Ultra when it’s folded up, while the Galaxy Z Flip 7 has a bigger front-facing screen that spans 4.1 inches. However much the foldables have going on in the hardware department, there’s even more going on inside with AI. The only difference is that Samsung has almost nothing to do with those AI de

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‘Lord of the Rings Online’ Players Successfully Get Small Hobbit Army Lost Inside Mount Doom

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-14 13:25:13

MMORPG players love making challenges for themselves beyond the actual challenges offered by their games. Setting artificial level caps, soloing content designed for groups, empowering yourself through ways outside of the typical grind—you name it, someone has probably tried it in an MMO. But a group of Lord of the Rings Online players have managed an impossibility that triumphantly shows the source material’s thematic heart of hope in the face of despair so perfectly Tolkien could’ve come up wi

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SAVE Borrowers, Your Student Loans Will Start Accruing Interest Again on Aug. 1: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 11:11:00

Getty Images/Zooey Liao/CNET It looks like time has run out for the nearly 8 million student loan borrowers enrolled in SAVE. The US Department of Education announced that loans will resume accruing interest on Aug. 1. Borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education Plan, a product of the Biden administration, have been in limbo since June 2024, when Republican opponents challenged the plan and later struck down by a federal court. Since then, borrowers have had their loans placed in

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Anti-Prime Day Laptop Deal: My Go-to Acer Aspire 14 AI Laptop Is $200 Off at Costco Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 11:38:00

The Amazon Prime Day sales event is going strong, but other retailers are also offering deep discounts with their own Anti-Prime Day deals. Right now, Costco members can snag the Acer Aspire 14 AI for $500a $200 discount until July 20 or while supplies last. CNET's key takeaways The Acer Aspire 14 AI is available for $500 at Costco. The Intel Lunar Lake CPU offers good performance for the price and long battery life. The display and design won't wow you. Laptop prices are on the rise -- and

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 10 #494

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a bit tricky. There's at least one answer that seems more British than American, so think globally. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connect

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 10, #1482

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:00:05

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 10, #760

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:00:06

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. Get ready, today's NYT Connections puzzle is a crazy one. All four of the categories have a similar theme, but that doesn't mean the answers to them are similar. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordl

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Prime Day Deals: These Stylish Bluetooth Headphones Impressed Me With Their Crazy Battery Life, and They've Never Been Cheaper

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:04:00

Amazon Prime Day sale: Marshall's Major V headphones are worth it even at full price, but they're a steal right now at $100 -- or around 38% off -- during Prime Day. I might not be a true battle-tested headphone expert like CNET's own David Carnoy, but I still love headphones and I'm confident in what I like about them. My most recent pickup, the Marshall Major V on-ear bluetooth headphones, quickly became a pair that I adore. What is Marshall? Marshall is a British audio hardware company tha

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The FTC's 'Click to Cancel' Rule Is Blocked. Here's What That Means for Your Subscriptions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:11:00

The Click to Cancel rule is supposed to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. Viva Tung/Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission's "click to cancel" rule -- which would have made it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions -- has been blocked by the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The rule was set to take effect on July 14. "Click to cancel" would have required businesses to clearly disclose terms and obtain informed consent before charging for a subscriptio

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An OpenAI Web Browser Is Imminent, Report Says. That Would Really Shake Up the Web

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:41:18

OpenAI is working on an AI-powered web browser that could make its debut in the coming weeks, according to a report from Reuters on Wednesday. That would be a major incursion by OpenAI, which makes the dominant AI chatbot, ChatGPT, into a realm where Google is top dog. Google Chrome is the world's most popular web browser, with a global market share of 68%, according to Statista. Google also has its own generative AI technology, called Gemini, which it has been integrating across its range of

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How to Marvel at the Spectacular Buck Moon This Week, Along With Mars and Venus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 12:41:27

It's officially summer, and with that comes the first full moon of the season. July's full moon -- known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon -- will light up the night sky on July 10 and be at its fullest going into July 11. It'll be bright for the whole night, but will reach peak luminosity at around 4:37 a.m. local time, which is a bit late (or early) for most skygazers. According to Stellarium's sky map, the moon will rise from the southeastern horizon just after sunset on Thursday and stre

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Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:00:00

After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the plan. In particular, website owners and SEO experts wanted to know how Cloudflare planned to block Google's bot from scraping sites to fuel AI overviews without risking blocking the same bot from crawling for valuable search engine placements. Last week, a travel blogger raised questions about the bl

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ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:59:25

On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice says it developed a new feature after discovering that ChatGPT was incorrectly telling users the service could import ASCII tablature—a text-based guitar notation format the company had never supported. The incident reportedly marks what might be the first case of a business building functionality in direct response to an AI model's confabulation. Typically, Soundslice digitizes sheet music from photos or PDFs and syncs the notation with audio or video

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The ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Was Killed, but Consumer Advocates Could Revive It

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-14 13:25:31

United States residents almost escaped subscription cancellation hell, but the Federal Trade Commission's “Click to Cancel” rule was unanimously struck down by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday—just days before it was set to go into effect. What would have happened if this updated FTC rule had gone into effect on July 14 as planned? “The stated goal was that they wanted to make it as easy for you to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up,” says John Breyault, vice pre

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3 Best Amazon Prime Day Peloton Deals (2025): Bike, Row, Tread

wired.com Adrienne So 2025-10-14 13:34:45

Every morning when I walk my dog, I pass dozens of people in my neighborhood. They're all running at ungodly hours because it's July and it's way too hot to work out when normal people do, which is when you start feeling sleepy at 3 pm. (I'm an expert! Trust me on this!) Peloton has anticipated that we would all rather be inside in air-conditioning, which is why everything from the vaunted exercise company is currently on sale at Amazon. Don't see anything you like? Don't forget to check out th

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13 Prime Day Kindle Deals (Plus Amazon Echo Devices)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-14 13:38:51

The sale event of the summer is here, and the Amazon Prime Day Kindle deals (and other Amazon device deals!) are ones you can count on being great to shop. As someone who tests Amazon gear for a living—Echo speakers, Kindles, Amazon's smart plugs, you name it—I'm always tracking what in Amazon's lineup is worth buying. I have a ton of favorites, from the best of the best, like the Kindle Paperwhite and Echo Show 8, to the Kindle Scribe and Echo Spot. It's the perfect time to shop all of those a

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The 35 best Prime Day deals you can get for under $25

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-10-14 13:30:00

Day one of Amazon Prime Day is in the books. The good news? You have three more days to save before the event wraps up on July 11th. We’ve already highlighted hundreds of deals, ranging from Verge-approved laptops to various smart home products we use daily. You can even see what Verge readers are buying . However, if you’re sticking to a budget, don’t worry; there are also plenty of deals under $25. For instance, if you’re going on vacation this summer, you can currently save on Tile’s latest

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Nvidia briefly touched $4 trillion market cap for first time

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2025-10-14 17:25:35

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday lifting the company's market cap briefly past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant that's building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. However, Nvidia stock ended finishing the day only up 1.

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Bitcoin rises to fresh record above $112,000, helped by Nvidia-led tech rally

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-10-14 17:48:04

The logo of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin can be seen on a coin in front of a Bitcoin chart. Bitcoin hit a fresh record on Wednesday afternoon as an Nvidia -led rally in equities helped push the price of the cryptocurrency higher into the stock market close. The price of bitcoin was last up 1.9%, trading at $110,947.49, according to Coin Metrics. Just before 4:00 p.m. ET, it hit a high of $112,052.24, surpassing its May 22 record of $111,999. The flagship cryptocurrency has been trading in a tig

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Tesla on "Lane Assistance" Mode Gets Horrifically Impaled on Guardrail

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 17:37:13

While Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" features have generated more than their share of controversy, one of the company's other assisted driving modes is now in the spotlight after a nail-biting crash in California. As SFGate reports, a young Tesla driver walked away with minor injuries after his Model Y careened off the I-5 interstate and crashed directly into a guardrail in the wee hours of morning, becoming impaled all the way through. According to California Highway Pa

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Score a record deal on Samsung’s 2-in-1 Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 at $350 off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 17:30:14

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Looking for a laptop that balances versatility and power? The stunning Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 might be just the ticket. This Prime Day, you can snag the Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 for just $1,249.99, down from its regular price of $1,599.99, offering a tidy 22% discount from the recommended retail price. It’s the lowest price since launch, making this a rare opportunity. Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 for $1,249.99 (22% off) The Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 P

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This iOS 26 strategy shift could make the next year Apple’s most surprising yet

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-14 14:43:00

With iOS 26, Apple has made a key strategy shift: it’s no longer pre-announcing major new features that won’t be available for months to come. Here’s why I think that’s a great decision by Apple, and why it could make for an exciting 12 months. The iOS 26 strategy shift Apple’s change in strategy was clearly driven by what happened at WWDC 2024 and during the subsequent iOS 18 cycle. The company pre-announced major new features for Siri, but failed to actually deliver those features. But iOS

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino is now X’s ex-CEO

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-14 17:20:42

Linda Yaccarino has announced that she’s stepping down as CEO of X, a little over two years after being tapped by Elon Musk to lead the platform formerly known as Twitter. Here’s what she had to say. ‘Two incredible years’ In a post on X earlier today, Yaccarino reflected on her time at the company, thanking users, business partners, and the team for what she described as “two incredible years” at the helm: After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏. When @elonmusk a

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Making Explainable Minesweeper

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Judge Slaps Down FCC Rule That Would’ve Made It Easy to Cancel Your Subscriptions

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 10, #1482

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Prime Day Deals: These Stylish Bluetooth Headphones Impressed Me With Their Crazy Battery Life, and They've Never Been Cheaper

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