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Amazon’s Own Tablet Costs 7X Less Than an iPad, Record Low Price for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-31 16:36:43

Prime Day is when Amazon drops incredible deals on all of its products and brands including Ring and Blink items, Kindles, Fire TV, and tablets. It’s the year’s perfect time to enjoy the best prices, even better than Black Friday. Amazon uses this event to slash margins, sometimes even selling at a loss, all to boost volume and reward its Prime members with deals that are hard to resist. This particular offer is exclusive to Prime members, so you’ll need an active subscription to take advantage

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Bitcoin Bought in 2011 Suddenly Springs to Life After 13 Million Percent Increase In Value

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-31 12:30:38

Two Bitcoin wallets that remained untouched for more than a decade just sprang back to life — and whoever owns them is now filthy rich in crypto. As MarketWatch reports, each Bitcoin was worth just 78 cents back when the unknown buyer purchased 20,000 tokens in 2011 for just under $16,000. Due to the digital currency's inexorable rise over the subsequent years, the extremely patient owner of the two "Sleeping Beauty" wallets where the Bitcoin was stored now holds more than $2 billion worth — a

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Best early Prime Day phone deals: These 14 sales are worth the upgrade

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-08-31 16:07:23

'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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How to get started with Old English poetry

news.ycombinator.com Colin Gorrie 2025-08-29 20:56:15

The Shipwreck (1805), Joseph Mallord William Turner Most people who know anything at all about Old English poetry will be aware of the existence of Beowulf. Perhaps they will even have read it. But far fewer will be aware of the 90% of Old English poetry that is not Beowulf. It’s a shame, because the back catalogue of Old English poetry — the deep cuts — are well worth reading. And, in general, these poems are much easier (and shorter) to read than Beowulf. The entire corpus of surviving poet

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Edible Microlasers Could Revolutionize Food Tracking and Safety

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-31 12:00:40

In a delicious turn of events, scientists succeeded in taking the optics of olive oil to create the first-ever microlaser made entirely from edible materials. If commercialized, they could offer an easy and safe way to monitor food or medications from inside your body. The technology, introduced earlier this month in the journal Advanced Optical Materials, exploits an interesting tendency for droplets of common cooking oils, which emit a photon of light when subjected to a certain amount of ene

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This Shark Cordless Vacuum Is Nearly Free for Prime Day, Amazon Sold 20,000 in Just a Few Hours

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-31 16:41:40

Amazon brought forward Prime Day this year by a week, and the weekend’s best deals are already out there. That doesn’t leave you much time if you want to get your hands on one of the most popular deals before they are… gone. The best-selling cordless vacuum on Amazon from Shark is currently being offered at an all-time low price. Over 20,000 units have been sold in only a few hours, reports Amazon, and with demand this high, it could be gone tomorrow. It’s a no-brainer at this price point: ther

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GameStop Might've Sold Your Purchase Data to Facebook: How to Claim a Piece of the Settlement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-31 11:00:00

There's still time to claim part of GameStop privacy settlement. Have you bought something from video game retailer GameStop in the past five years? Did you have a Facebook account when you did so? According to an email I received awhile back, that includes me. If it includes you as well, you can claim your own piece of a brewing settlement from the company, and you've still got a few weeks to do so. Last month, GameStop agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it o

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A Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to success

news.ycombinator.com Digital Writer 2025-08-31 12:56:56

A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn away from. A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown — which he later said he had no involvement with — creating a media frenzy that propelled the AI-assisted "band" to a million monthly listeners on Spotify. He spoke with CBC News over the phone Friday on condition that his r

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Yet Another Zip Trick

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 23:01:59

To delete account insert your password. After that, a e-mail with deletion confirm link will be send. Click on it to confirm account deletion. You already have a account? and to the I have read and agree to the Do you consent to our site using cookies in accordance to our Privacy Policy? You can consent either to all cookies, or accept only selected types. Reject optional Cache only Allow all cookies Advanced cookie settings

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Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

news.ycombinator.com Associated Press 2025-08-31 13:11:48

By MICHAEL CASEY GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition. A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) document was a handwritten declaration titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,” signed by 116 New England ministers in Boston and adopted March 2, 1847. Until its discovery in May at the archives in Gr

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Operators, Not Users and Programmers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 09:41:46

This post is part 0 of a multi-part series called “the computer of the next 200 years”. the modern distinction between “programmers” and “users” is evil and destroys agency. consider how the spreadsheets grow🔗 spreadsheets are hugely successful. Felienne Hermans, who has spent her career studying spreadsheets, attributes this success to "their immediate feedback system and their continuous deployment model": the spreadsheet shows you its result as soon as you open it, and it requires no steps

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The iPad I recommend to most users is under $300 in every color at Amazon

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-08-31 11:30:15

Maria Diaz/ZDNET An iPad can help with success in many areas like school, professional work, content creation, and way more. Plus, with Prime Day just days away, there's no better time to scoop up savings on one of Apple's most popular devices. Also: Your iPad is getting 4 big upgrades for free. Here are the top features in iPadOS 26 Now, you can get the 11th Gen iPad for $299 (save $50). The tablet normally retails for $350, so a great sale this soon in the launch schedule is good news for e

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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Eric Jang 2025-08-29 12:31:17

Generalizing to what you want may be easier than optimizing directly for what you want. We might even ask for "consciousness". This blog post outlines a key engineering principle I’ve come to believe strongly in for building general AI systems with deep learning. This principle guides my present-day research tastes and day-to-day design choices in building large-scale, general-purpose ML systems. Discoveries around Neural Scaling Laws, unsupervised pretraining on Internet-scale datasets, and o

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Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types

news.ycombinator.com Rostekova 2025-08-31 11:21:51

Age-related cognitive decline is an increasingly pressing concern in public health, which may begin in early adulthood and accelerate with increasing age1,2. While much research is still investigating the precise mechanisms of cognitive ageing, previous studies have identified several contributing factors, including for example genetics, general health and lifestyle choices3,4,5,6,7. Cognitive decline is a major public health concern on both individual and societal levels due to its association

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Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 03:11:57

All examples are expected to run from the examples/<example_name> directory of the Tesseract-JAX repository . In this example, you will learn how to: Compose both Tesseracts with Tesseract-JAX to create a pipeline that can be used for differentiable shape optimization. Build a Tesseract that uses finite differences under the hood to enable differentiability of a non-autodifferentiable geometry operation (computing a signed distance field from a 3D model). In this notebook, we explore the opt

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WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 13:13:55

Major update to custom chipset emulation. Internally almost everything in main chipset emulation has been rewritten. Fastest possible/JIT mode chipset timing/sync had major changes which can cause side-effects. Bugs are very possible, especially in very rarely used features. Custom chipset rewrite Custom chipset emulation (Agnus/Alice and Denise/Lisa) almost completely rewritten. Almost every part of chipset emulation is now internally cycle accurate. Custom chipset Denise/Lisa emulation is

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Major Satellite Suddenly Disappears

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-31 07:45:58

A satellite designed to monitor human-made methane emissions has gone missing in space. Dubbed MethaneSAT, the $88 million spacecraft was launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket in March 2024 and was expected to collect data on the potent greenhouse gas for at least five years. But for the past two weeks, the satellite's operators, the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund, have been unable to establish contact. Now, in a final blow, mission control says that MethaneSAT has lost power, crus

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Add Paramount+, STARZ, and more to your Prime Video account for just $0.99 a month - here's how

zdnet.com Alison Denisco Rayome 2025-08-30 17:12:14

'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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X-Clacks-Overhead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 04:14:19

About the Signal X-Clacks-Overhead is a non-standardised HTTP header based upon the fictional work of the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett. In Terry Pratchett's science-fantasy Discworld series, "The Clacks" is a network infrastructure of Semaphore Towers, that operate in a similar fashion to telegraph - named "Clacks" because of the clicking sound the system makes as signals send. In Sir Terry's novel "Going Postal", the story explains that the inventor of the Clacks - a man named Robert Dea

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Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 13:11:05

Update, July 3, 2025 (11:45 AM ET): The crew behind GrapheneOS is understandably none too pleased about their good name being dragged through the mud, and members are speaking out about these reports from Spain. Over on X, the official GrapheneOS account posts: European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they’re something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose o

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Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 11:21:14

Extreme weather events like storms, flooding, and heatwaves have caused hundreds of billions of euros in damage and claimed tens of thousands of lives across Europe in the past decades. Launched on 1 July 2025, MTG-S1 will provide Europe’s national meteorological services with high-frequency data on temperature, humidity and trace gases throughout the atmosphere – enabling forecasters to detect the earliest signs of severe weather, extend the lead times of weather warnings, improve forecasting,

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Robinhood Wants to Redo Wall Street on the Blockchain

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-31 13:27:24

Robinhood, the company behind one of the most popular trading apps for everyday investors, just revealed a sweeping new vision for the future of finance. And its bold plan seems to leave traditional Wall Street institutions behind. The company announced a daring set of new products this week from Cannes, France. These offerings are designed to move traditional financial assets, like company stocks, investment funds (ETFs), and even complex trading tools called derivatives, entirely onto the blo

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Wi-Fi and Your Walls: Our Experts Share This One Secret to Optimizing Your Internet Connection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-31 09:00:00

When it comes to your home internet connection, there's one question we get asked quite a bit: Does Wi-Fi travel through walls? The short answer is yes, but the long answer is a bit more complicated. I spoke with several experts, including CNET's Laboratory Technical Project Manager, Gianmarco Chumbe, to find out everything you need to know about how your home's walls can impact your connection. It's a simple question, but it has a big impact on your Wi-Fi connection. "As with any radio signal,

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The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-31 08:00:23

Over the past few years, LG has set off a strange tech trend that’s been rolling onto devices sold across Amazon and other online electronics retailers. In 2022, the company launched the StanbyME, which is essentially a $1,000 27-inch tablet running LG's smart TV operating system (OS), webOS, but lacking a tuner. LG's press release announcing the device described it as a “wireless private TV screen with a built-in battery” that is easily portable and ideal for watching shows and movies, in addi

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This $12 gadget has become a permanent accessory on my keychain - here's why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-31 09:45:12

'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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Your iPhone can be used as a digital drivers' license - but only in these states

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-08-31 10:00:13

'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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Android May Soon Warn You About Fake Cell Towers

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-08-31 12:30:00

In recent years, North Korea has deployed thousands of so-called IT workers to infiltrate Western businesses, get paid salaries, and send money back to support the regime. As the schemes have become more successful, they have grown increasingly elaborate and employed new tactics to evade detection. But this week, the United States Justice Department revealed one of its biggest operations to tackle IT workers to date. The DOJ says it has identified six Americans who allegedly helped enable the s

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My favorite Amazon Echo speaker is perfect for small rooms, and it's only $22 with this deal

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-31 11:16:00

'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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Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 08:16:10

Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking Private Island Networks Inc. is pleased to announce that we will sponsor and support a limited number of university efforts this upcoming academic year (2025/2026) for students that desire to work with the Private Island ® open source networking stack in the areas of network security, privacy, and machine learning. We believe that this open source networking project and the Betsy™ maker board are ideal for university senior projects, master these

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Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 07:40:02

As a standard MIDI controller, AirBending works seamlessly with any digital audio workstation (DAW) including Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase, and more. Connect to external hardware synthesizers, software instruments, and effects processors. No special drivers or plugins required—just standard MIDI communication that every music production setup understands. Advanced Preset Manager AirBending offers a sophisticated preset system that allows you to customize every aspect of your gest

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Amazon’s Own Tablet Costs 7X Less Than an iPad, Record Low Price for Prime Day

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Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation

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X-Clacks-Overhead

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