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Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001

news.ycombinator.com Mass Werk 2025-12-16 23:36:21

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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We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

news.ycombinator.com Paul Bloom 2025-12-16 20:52:36

These days, everyone seems to have an opinion about A.I. companions. Last year, I found myself joining the debate, publishing a paper—co-written with two fellow psychology professors and a philosopher—called “In Praise of Empathic A.I.” Our argument was that, in certain ways, the latest crop of A.I.s might make for better company than many real people do, and that, rather than recoiling in horror, we ought to consider what A.I. companions could offer to those who are lonely. This, perhaps unsur

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-16 22:00:50

We’re talking about the birds. Great tits are small, yellowish songbirds common to the woodlands of Europe. Tit pairs are known to be monogamous during breeding season, splitting up after fully raising their offspring. But new research suggests that this “tit divorce” may be the product of complex social relationships formed during and after the breeding season. Published July 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the paper reports that not all tit pairs separate in late summer when breedi

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Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

news.ycombinator.com Taras Buria 2025-12-16 22:52:40

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Microsoft has plenty of open-source projects, and these days, the company is much more open to community contributions. Still, plenty of code remains closed-source, and the company constantly receives more requests to open it. One of them is WinUI, Windows 11's user interface framework. While Microsoft is not opening it fully yet, the company shared details about plans for the next six months,

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Kleiner Perkins is having a very good week

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-16 23:04:04

Even while the tech industry is still fanning its face over Figma’s hot IPO on Thursday, another significant tech IPO occurred this week: Ambiq Micro. On Wednesday, the chip maker for wearable devices saw its shares climb from the initial price of $24 to over $42 on Friday. There’s one thing both companies have in common: Kleiner Perkins was a major investor. So it’s been a very good week for the venerable venture firm. Just for fun, we’ve calculated the value of Kleiner Perkins’ stake in each

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All the Biggest Theme Park News of July You May Have Missed

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-17 06:45:30

The vacation season at the theme parks is winding down as Halloween begins to creep into the dead of summer, with its fall events arriving sooner than later. Here’s a roundup of this month’s happenings at major amusement parks and immersive experiences featuring Disneyland 70, Universal Horrors, and a Wednesday x Wendy’s not-so-happy meal coming soon to a drive-thru near you. Universal Studios Resorts – Hollywood and Orlando Let’s kick things off with the biggest news: Halloween Horror Nights

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RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 04:05:25

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its operations after the White House deemed NPR and PBS a "grift" and pushed for a Senate vote that eliminated its entire budget. The vote rescinded $1.1 billion that Congress had allocated to CPB to fund public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. In a press release, CPB explained that the cuts "excluded funding for CPB for the first time in more than five deca

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Android’s Apple-inspired Handoff feature is moving closer to completion (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-17 16:25:58

Google TL;DR Android’s Handoff functionality is taking shape, with new options for cross-device file sharing now visible. We also saw glimpses of app sharing, which could allow you to access apps installed on other devices. The toggles and buttons are not active, which suggests that Google may still modify how these features function. Update, August 1, 2025 (05:25PM ET): Google still isn’t quite ready to launch Handoff, but we’ve spotted some further progress on the tool. AssembleDebug / An

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A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-14 00:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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OpenAI may be testing a cheaper paid plan for ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 21:16:00

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new plan called 'Go,' which would be cheaper than the existing $20 Plus subscription. Like every other AI chatbot, ChatGPT has two plans. One is Plus, which gives access to new models and a few features for $20, and the second is the Pro plan. The Pro plan costs $200 and provides nearly unlimited access to AI models. It also includes access to new features. But what if you have a limited use case for ChatGPT and don't need access to advanced features like Ag

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OpenAI is removing ChatGPT conversations from Google

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 02:47:35

OpenAI has removed a feature that made shared ChatGPT conversations appear in search results. The "short-lived experiment" was based on the chatbot's link creation option. After complaints, OpenAI's chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said the company is working to remove the chats from search engines. The public outrage stems from a Fast Company article from earlier this week (via Ars Technica). Fast Company said it found thousands of ChatGPT conversations in Google search result

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The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-14 12:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Hartnett 2025-12-18 10:35:40

Cairo followed this advice. In the fall of 2023, her family moved to Davis, 60 miles northeast of Berkeley. There, her older brother enrolled as a freshman at UC Davis, and her parents allowed her to commute to Berkeley on Tuesdays and Thursdays. By the spring, she was going five days a week and taking several more classes. She recalls it as a time in her life when she began to feel full of possibility. “I had started making friends, and I was feeling good,” she said. After the spring semester

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ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 11:21:54

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday, reporting that thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results and likely only represented a sample of chats "visible to millions." While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their

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WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-12-18 11:02:05

Louise Matsakis: I got to say, I think calling this a migration is maybe underselling it. This is an evacuation, no? I find this sad in a lot of ways just because I remember when Tuvalu was kind of the poster child for climate change, and it was like, we have to save places like this island nation, and it just sort of feels like, I think practical and understandable and humane, but also, I don't know, an indication that we're giving up and that there's sort of defeat of we're actually just going

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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 16:29:08

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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Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-12-18 16:10:33

I think it touches on two of the most fundamental aspects of human nature. We all like doing something constructive, where we can see that we are creating something from virtually nothing, and we all have a desire to nurture or look after things. This is what the game is all about. You spend hours painstakingly building your park and roller coasters up piece by piece, and then it becomes your own baby, which you want to look after and keep running smoothly, watching it grow in popularity and del

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-18 20:27:38

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales. As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species. However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past

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Wild Video Captures Alien-Like Creatures Thriving in the Deepest Ocean Ecosystem

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-18 21:25:42

Researchers recently dove more than 6 miles beneath the surface of the northwest Pacific Ocean to explore the bottom of two submarine trenches. In this harsh marine environment, they discovered flourishing communities of chemosynthesis-based sea creatures—the deepest and most extensive ones ever found. The groundbreaking findings, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, July 30, include photos and footage of the alien-like organisms going about their business in two of the most unforgivin

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The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 02:50:31

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The HORI Piranha Plant camera for the Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale for just $40 , which is a discount of $20 and a record-low price. This is a great deal for those who own a Switch 2 and want to take advantage of the camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World and that recently

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This unexpected robot vacuum made me forget about my $2,000 Roborock

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-19 02:49:00

Mova P50 Pro Ultra ZDNET's key takeaways The Mova P50 Pro Ultra is available for only $799, down $200 from its regular price. This is one of the strongest robot vacuums on the market with 19,000Pa of suction, with reliable edge cleaning, mop removal, and obstacle avoidance. While its obstacle avoidance far exceeds its price point, the P50 Pro Ultra doesn't always avoid loose cables on the floor. View now at Us.mova I test a lot of robot vacuums, but there's no doubt that these devices have go

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Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 03:33:09

Game icon Think You Know the NYC Market? Prove it on GuessTheRent! Every day, 3 new NYC listings challenge you to guess the rent. Compete with others and test your market knowledge.

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The $299 Halo smart glasses will remember the names of people you meet

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-19 02:36:21

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. Startup Brilliant Labs has announced a successor to its $349 open-source Frame smart glasses, which debuted early last year with features like AI-powered translations and the ability to identify what you were looking at. Its new $299 Halo smart glasses are priced closer to Meta’s entry-level Ray-Ban models and come with upgraded AI capabilities,

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TikTok launches ‘TikTok Pro’ in Europe with built-in charity program

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-19 02:30:11

In Brief TikTok is launching a new version of its app called “TikTok Pro” in Germany, Portugal, and Spain. The app features TikTok’s new “Sunshine Programme,” which allows users to support charitable organizations. Users can earn ‘virtual sunshine’ by inviting others to join and by interacting with charity-related content, such as liking or reposting videos, following charity accounts, or searching for charitable causes. They can then use this virtual sunshine on a charity, after which TikTok

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Onshape – Product Development Platform

news.ycombinator.com Onshape 2025-12-19 03:45:59

Instead of sending CAD files around, you just share a link. That’s something we’ve really leaned into as we’ve grown as a team… Onshape makes it really easy to share up-to-date information across different locations. Cole Houston Lead Mechanical Engineer Cirkul Read Case Study

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Hidden iOS 26 Features Apple Didn't Mention at WWDC

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 05:00:16

Apple's next iPhone operating system is making several big changes to the iPhone experience. iOS 26 will give everything a more transparent, bubbly look in the Liquid Glass design -- and it also adds new live language translations to your calls and offers more protections against unwanted spam. But there are a number of changes that don't make splashy headlines. These include being able to set how many minutes you want to snooze, making an easy control center shortcut for reminders and having t

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Samsung’s 60W Galaxy S26 Ultra upgrade is exciting, but I have concerns

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-19 11:00:28

As a proponent of fast charging convenience, the report that Samsung will increase the power of next year’s Galaxy S26 Ultra to 60W is music to my ears. The current 45W power level is already in a sweet spot, taking just under an hour to fully charge the phone. Still, that extra boost will undoubtedly come in handy when you need to bring the phone back from the brink quickly. More juice in fewer minutes is always welcome when you’re in a hurry. And yet, I feel a sting of hesitation — a faster-

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9 things you shouldn't use AI for at work

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-19 11:18:00

Mensent Photography / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Sometimes an AI can cause you or your company irreparable harm. Sharing confidential data with an AI could have legal consequences. Don't let an AI talk to customers without supervision. A few weeks ago, I shared with you "9 programming tasks you shouldn't hand off to AI - and why." It's full of well-reasoned suggestions and recommendations for how to avoid having an AI produce code that could ruin your whole day. Then, my editor and

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How decades-old frozen embryos are changing the shape of families

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-12-19 20:00:00

Stories like this also highlight how reproductive technologies are shaping families. Thaddeus already has a 30-year-old sister and a 10-year-old niece. Lindsey and Tim are his birth parents, but his genes came from two other people who divorced decades ago. And while baby Thaddeus is a record-breaker, plenty of other babies have been born from embryos that have been frozen for significant spells of time. Thaddeus has taken the title of “world’s oldest baby” from the previous record-holders: tw

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Pwn2Own hacking contest pays $1 million for WhatsApp exploit

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 21:40:08

The Zero Day Initiative is offering a $1 million reward to security researchers who will demonstrate a zero-click WhatsApp exploit at its upcoming Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking contest. The record bounty targets zero-click security flaws that allow code execution without user interaction on the messaging platform used by more than three billion people worldwide. Meta, alongside Synology and QNAP, is co-sponsoring the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 competition, which will take place from October 21 to Oct

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Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001

We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

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RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

Android’s Apple-inspired Handoff feature is moving closer to completion (Updated)

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The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

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ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

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

Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

Wild Video Captures Alien-Like Creatures Thriving in the Deepest Ocean Ecosystem

The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

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How decades-old frozen embryos are changing the shape of families

Pwn2Own hacking contest pays $1 million for WhatsApp exploit

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