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These 7 smart plug hacks that saved me time, money, and energy (and how I set them up)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-15 14:11:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today's smart plug -- that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voice, or a schedule. Also: Unplugging these 7 common ho

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Are smart glasses with built-in hearing aids viable? My verdict after months of testing

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-15 14:12:00

Nuance Audio Hearing Glasses ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuance Audio hearing glasses are available in two styles and colors for $1,200 at participating retailers. They provide a stylish and discreet way to aid mild to moderate hearing loss. However, they provide six to eight hours of battery life and a three-hour charging period, which might frustrate power users. View now at Nuance Audio Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Since the US Food and Drug Administration approved

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Amazon is selling the Milwaukee 9-tool kit for $200 off this Labor Day - here's what you get

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-15 14:17:00

I'm old enough to remember a time before the widespread availability of power tools. Back then, you had to drill, screw, saw, and run fasteners all by hand. Those days are gone, and we're now in a time when you can pick up cordless power tools at prices that will make you look twice! Milwaukee has a great deal on its M18 nine-tool combo kit for Labor Day at Amazon. Yes, nine power tools. In this massive kit, you get a 1/2-inch drill/driver, a 1/4-inch hex impact driver, a Hackzall reciprocatin

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The 15+ best Labor Day deals live now: Save on Apple, Samsung, Google and more

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-12-15 14:36:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Best Labor Day TV deals 2025: Save up to 50% on Samsung, LG, and more

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-12-15 14:42:00

While TVs might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Labor Day sales, retailers like Amazon and Best Buy are offering major discounts on brands like LG, Samsung, Hisense, and more. You can save up to 50% on premium-grade OLED models, cinema-sized 100-inch screens, and even ultra budget-friendly options from Insignia and TCL. And whether you're looking for a small-screen for your college dorm or bedroom, or you want to invest in a high-end OLED for the ultimate home thea

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Best Labor Day laptop deals 2025: Up to $700 off Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and more

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-15 15:00:18

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Ask HN: Best foundation model for CLM fine-tuning?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 08:08:40

Hi, I have a largish (2 GB) corpus of curated, high-quality text in some low-resource language, and I want to build a model that would provide an advanced "auto complete" service for writers. I'm thinking of taking a decoder-only model such as Llama, Mistral or Gemma, slice off the embedding layers (which are based on unneeded languages), create new ones (perhaps initialized based on a FastText model trained on the corpus), paired with a tokenizer newly created from my corpus, then train the m

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Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters (2010)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:30:48

Post by h***@bbs.cpcn.com IBM obviously "lost money" in giving out free software; I don't think they charged even for distribution tapes or documentation even in the 1970s after unbundling; if it was a legacy free item, you got the package for free. (And IIRC, some unbundled fee products were still quite cheap, esp as compared to today's software prices.) Anyway, the free software was IBM's 'loss leader' to build the utility value of its computers. IBM unbundled this partly in response to

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Bayes, Bits and Brains

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 10:51:05

Bayes, bits & brains This site is about probability and information theory. We'll see how they help us understand machine learning and the world around us. A few riddles More about the content, prerequisites, and logistics later. I hope you get a feel for what this is about by checking out the following riddles. I hope some of them nerd-snipe you! 😉 You will understand all of them at the end of this minicourse. 🧠 Intelligence test Test your intelligence with the following widget! You will be

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Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre

news.ycombinator.com Josh Bressers 2025-12-11 10:32:17

Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist community that actually produces it. The conversation reveals this isn’t a new problem, but a long-standing reality whose consequences for security, stability, and the future of software we are only now beginning to truly confront. This episode is also

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Ford and the Birth of the Model T

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-12-11 22:52:48

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Origins of Efficiency, out September 23rd. Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the capabilities of the Model N could cost so little. In 1906, the year the Model N was introduced, Ford sold 8,500 of them, making the

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What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 11:22:07

Sign up for The Nightcrawler Newsletter A weekly collection of thought-provoking articles on tech, innovation, and long-term investing from Nightview Capital’s Eric Markowitz. Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. There is a silence so profound it becomes its own kind of language. The night before my brain surgery, my wife and I sat across from each other in wordless stillness. No dramatic goodbyes. No last confessions. Just the quiet hum of time stretching between us. We sat in ou

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Show HN: Spotilyrics – See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 12:09:19

See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code while coding. ✨ Features 📌 Live lyrics sync with your Spotify playback. with your Spotify playback. 🎨 Lyrics colors auto-themed from album cover (via colorthief ). ). 🖥️ Smooth side panel view – code on the left, lyrics on the right. – code on the left, lyrics on the right. 🔑 Simple one-time login using your own Spotify Client ID. using your own Spotify Client ID. 🚪 Quick logout command to reset session. 📸 Demo ⚡️ Installation Open VS Cod

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The Qweremin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 09:45:21

The Qweremin I invented a new instrument: The Qweremin is a qwerty theremin. Background In the summer of 2022 I built a C64-based theremin, described and explained here. The theremin, of course, is one of the oldest electronic instruments. Its main drawback—and strength—is that it's incredibly hard to master. The performer has ultimate control over volume and pitch, but it takes months of practice before you can play even a simple scale. Meanwhile, I've also developed a line of instruments f

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A Crack in the Cosmos

news.ycombinator.com Colin Wells 2025-12-14 14:11:05

Some time around the year 466 BCE – in the second year of the 78th Olympiad, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder tells us – a massive meteor blazed across the sky in broad daylight, crashing to the earth with an enormous explosion near the small Greek town of Aegospotami, or ‘Goat Rivers’, on the European side of the Hellespont in northeastern Greece. Pliny’s younger contemporary, the Greek biographer Plutarch, wrote that the locals still worshipped the scorched brownish metallic boulder, the s

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Jujutsu for everyone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 03:31:04

This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system. At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu. If you are already experienced with Git, I recommend Steve Klabnik's tutorial instead of this one. This tutoria

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A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:43:05

Process Monitor for Linux (Preview) Process Monitor (Procmon) is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system. Installation & Usage Requirements OS: Ubuntu 18.04 lts cmake >= 3.14 (build-time only) >= 3.14 (build-time only) libsqlite3-dev >= 3.22 (build-time only) Install Procmon Please see installation instructions here. B

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Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:54:26

Audio version is not yet available By Finn J.D. John January 26, 2025 AS LEWIS AND CLARK’S Corps of Discovery made its way across the continent to Oregon, the men (and woman) of the party probably weren’t thinking much about their place in history. So they weren’t taking any particular pains to document their every movement. There were, however, some particular pains they were experiencing with every movement, so to speak ... as a result of a relentlessly low-fiber diet: Everyone was constip

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 23:39:47

It appears that it was US military communications doctrine to not send the exact same message twice using different encryption ("none" counting as one type of encryption), and the term of art for changing a message to avoid that was indeed "paraphrase". I managed to dig up a US Army document on Cryptology from roughly that era that appears to discuss paraphrasing. The document in question is Department of the Army Technical Manual TM 32-220(pdf), dated 1950, titled "BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHY". It appa

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Why countries trade with each other while fighting

news.ycombinator.com Peter Dizikes 2025-12-11 11:58:28

In World War II, Britain was fighting for its survival against German aerial bombardment. Yet Britain was importing dyes from Germany at the same time. This sounds curious, to put it mildly. How can two countries at war with each other also be trading goods? Examples of this abound, actually. Britain also traded with its enemies for almost all of World War I. India and Pakistan conducted trade with each other during the First Kashmir War, from 1947 to 1949, and during the India-Pakistan War of

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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 10:46:26

Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own”. I agree entirely with this point, but within the context of this discussion it’s moot. “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own” When Google restricts y

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1 #547

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 09:00:05

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 has a neat theme, though it took me a while to hunt down some of the answers. 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, Connections and Mini Crossword an

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My Trip Through Netflix's Zodiac Hub Landed Me on a Hidden-Gem Series

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 11:00:03

Earlier this week, I received an email from the communications team at Netflix announcing the debut of a new astrology hub on the streaming platform. According to the release, these curated playlists include show and movie recommendations that "reflect the character traits and themes most associated with that sign." They don't include this week's horoscope. At least for now. Lots of people feel strongly about their zodiac sign and how it affects their lives. While I don't normally give much tho

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 1, #343

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 17:03:00

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 is pretty fun -- especially if you're into athletes who share the same first name, or know the teams that don't actually play in the city on their jerseys. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Spor

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Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-15 20:56:52

A homicide investigation has rocked the final days of Burning Man after a man was found dead “lying in a pool of blood” Saturday night at the Nevada desert festival, according to the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. According to the New York Times, the grim discovery occurred around 9:14 p.m. just as the festival’s iconic wooden “Man” effigy began its traditional burn. The victim, described as a white adult male whose identity remains unknown, was found by a festival participant who flagged do

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I tried gaming on the Pixel 10’s new GPU and… it’s fine

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 05:00:52

While there’s plenty to unpack with the Pixel 10 series and its new Tensor G5 processor, one of the biggest hardware changes this year is the adoption of a brand new GPU architecture. Google has switched from its long-running use of ARM’s Mali to Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR series. Specifically, the PowerVR DXT-48-1536, but without the ray-tracing capabilities that the series can support. Early scepticism suggested that the move might not be much of an upgrade and potentially even a down

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iPhone 17 Pro Clear Case may feature redesign and possibly tinted options

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-15 08:07:35

Apple will unveil the iPhone 17 lineup in just a few days. Before that happens, leaker Majin Bu has provided new details about a third case option from Apple with some unexpected changes. Leaker Majin Bu has been on a roll with reporting on what to expect when it comes to Apple’s iPhone 17 case options. From silicone cases with lanyard holes to a new TechWoven premium material and a Crossbody Strap attachment, we have a decent idea of what to expect from Apple’s newest accessory offerings. The

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