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Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

news.ycombinator.com Mark Milligan 2025-11-17 00:34:27

A Viking-Age silver hoard unearthed in Bedale, North Yorkshire, is providing new insights into wealth and trading links between England and the Islamic World. First discovered in 2012 by a metal detectorist in a North Yorkshire field, the hoard (known as the Bedale hoard), consists of a deposit of necklaces, arm-bands, a sword pommel, hacksilver, and 29 silver ingots. - Advertisement - Previous studies have dated the hoard to the late 9th to early 10th centuries AD, predating both the nearby

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The End of Handwriting

wired.com Angela Watercutter 2025-11-20 12:00:00

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

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Fun with Finite State Transducers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 08:30:12

ENOSUCHBLOG Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Aug 14, 2025 Tags: devblog, programming, rust, zizmor I recently solved an interesting problem inside zizmor with a type of state machine/automaton I hadn’t used before: a finite state transducer (FST). This is just a quick write-up of the problem and how I solved it. It doesn’t go particularly deep into the data structures themselves. For more information on FSTs themselves, I strongly recommend burntsushi’s article on transducers (which is wha

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Modifying other people's software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 15:32:18

Every once in a while, we all feel the need to modify something that someone else built. Sometimes those patches make sense to upstream, but not always. Sometimes they need a bit more time to bake, before they're ready to share with the world. Sometimes they're too specific to your environment. Sometimes it's just some personal preference, that the upstream wouldn't want to force upon everyone. And sometimes, just sometimes, you just want to run it yourself now, before it has had the time t

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Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 06:55:35

Mangle Mangle is a programming language for deductive database programming. It is an extension of Datalog, with various extensions like aggregation, function calls and optional type-checking. Deductive database programming is useful for bringing data from multiple data sources together since it enables us to represent and query that data in a uniform way. It can also be used to model domain knowledge, similar to machine-readable ontology but without being restricted to binary predicates. Data

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Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 08:14:27

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

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China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 10:14:50

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to a close with some new world records, but don't expect them to beat humans in a 100-meter dash any time soon. The three-day robotics event in Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete in everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to the World Humanoid Robot Games, more than 280 teams from 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil and the host country, entered their robots into the event. A majority of th

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 04:46:04

Run an ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer. The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do! The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space. The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar pr

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The Enterprise Experience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 03:53:03

The Enterprise Experience It's the 18th of August. Today is a special day for me, as it marks my one-year anniversary of working at $ENTERPRISE. Before this I had been a professional software developer for the best part of a decade, but entirely in startups and SMEs. This time last year I made the decision to sell out and hit the big leagues for fun and financial profit. After my interview the only feedback I received was that I didn't have much exposure to enterprise software development, whi

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The DC/Marvel Teamup Adds New Hero Duos To the Mix

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-20 04:05:56

Earlier this summer, we learned DC and Marvel Comics were having their first proper crossover in decades, bringing together different pairings of characters from both publishers. So far, we’ve only known what’s coming from Marvel—now we know what DC’s bringing to the plate, and it’s a new batch of teamups featuring some of DC’s current big talents in charge of these stories. Per DC’s recent solicitations for November, DC/Marvel: Batman/Deadpool #1—written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Dan Mora

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This open-source fasting app actually helped me hit my fitness goals

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 05:00:25

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority I was never an athletic kid, and that continued through most of my 20s. That is, until I decided to change things up, drop some weight, and focus more on my health. Intermittent fasting was a big part of that journey, and I’ve been following it for several years now. In fact, it’s the one constant in my wellness journey that has actually stuck with me. Much as I’ve dabbled with workout plans, picked up the best fitness trackers, tracked macros with obsessive de

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Nuvistor Valves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 00:15:31

Innovation at the End of the Valve Era The development of the Nuvistor in the late-1950s was probably the last major innovation in receiving valve technology, coming as it did towards the end of the era of thermionic device domination. Transistors at that time weren't the full answer to all problems in electronics, and so valves still had a lot to offer. The Nuvistor is often regarded as a last desperate effort by valve manufacturers to stem the flow of 'transistorisation' which was becoming a

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Robin Lakoff, expert on language and gender, dead at 82

news.ycombinator.com Trip Gabriel 2025-11-20 08:42:20

Dr. Lakoff’s thesis that women are raised to accept a secondary role in the world, one enforced partly by the speech they are taught, sets off academic arguments to this day. Her 1973 paper “created a huge fuss,” the linguists Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet wrote in 2012. “Thus was launched the study of language and gender.” Dr. Lakoff observed that women’s speech was marked by hedging phrases (“like,” “y’know”), which convey that the speaker is uncertain; empty adjectives like “ado

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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 21:51:50

Over the last couple of months, I've been trying to build the dream: A local-first, end-to-end encrypted and reactive app, with all of the user's data in a local SQL database but continually synced to a remote server. This article summarizes my learning and how I ended up building a minimal sync engine for SQLite with full reactivity. First Try: PGlite and Electric My first try was with Electric and a WASM-based version of PostgreSQL called PGlite that can run directly in the browser. I ev

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Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 06:08:18

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a function, a derivative tells you how much that function changes at each point. If we start with the function , we can calculate the derivative as . Here are those two functions graphed. One use of derivatives is for optimization – also known as finding the lowest part on a graph. If you were at and wan

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I Prefer the Merlin Bird ID App Over Meditation Apps for Staying in the Present Moment

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 02:50:02

I've downloaded countless meditation apps and tried all the breathing exercises to stay present. Yet, the app I wasn't expecting to help me with mindfulness is the one I've had the most success with. It's an app for identifying birds. I was just as surprised as you are. Merlin Bird ID was launched in 2014 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help people identify the birds around them. Thanks to eBird, the world's largest database of bird sounds and photos based on 800 million global sightings,

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Passive Microwave Repeaters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 20:25:27

>>> 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters (PDF) One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T had largely abandoned their plan to build an extensive nationwide network of coaxial telephone cables. Microwave relay offered greater capacity at a lower cost. When Japan

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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 08:12:08

Being in love is one of the most profound experiences we can have, one that can powerfully move us and irrevocably change the way we see ourselves, one another, and even the wider world. Literature and film often explore romantic love’s capacity to move us and radically alter our world (think of Romeo and Juliet, for instance), but this experience is not limited to romantic love: parents sometimes speak of experiencing overwhelming love at the first sight of their children, for example. On the

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Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 15:46:15

Unsafe HTTP unsafehttp is an extremely minimal HTTP server written in C from scratch, to practice C, *nix socket programming, and C compilation. It just served this webpage to you! Yes, that's a marquee tag. Backward-compatibility is a beautiful thing. You can find the source here. Hosting It's running on a tiny Orange Pi SBC in my office: There's no HTTP proxy between you, just a port-forward through my VPS. You're connect ing right to the socket that the code is accept ing on. Fun Stuff

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Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:12:40

"I get so anxious if I want to go out to things. I live with my Mum because I don't want to live on my own. I can't do money. I wish I could." Chris Steel is 40 years old. He is remarkably friendly and engaging, and is happiest when he is on stage acting in plays such as George Orwell's Animal Farm. As a child, his caring nature led him to take to the bedside of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster, with such compassion and diligence he was given an award by former UK Prime Minister Margaret

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Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:50:07

Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law. Piracy of movies, TV shows, music, games and similar content, purely for

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Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:45:00

Rust turns 10 this year. It’s a good time to take a look at where we are and where I think we need to be going. This post is the first in a series I’m calling “Rust in 2025”. This first post describes my general vision for how Rust fits into the computing landscape. The remaining posts will outline major focus areas that I think are needed to make this vision come to pass. Oh, and fair warning, I’m expecting some controversy along the way—at least I hope so, since otherwise I’m just repeating th

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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

news.ycombinator.com Victor Wynne 2025-11-19 21:42:28

Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performance mysteries that eat up hours upon hours of your development time. If you’ve been developing apps for a while, this story will sound very familiar. Your app runs fine in testing, but then users complain about performance issues or excessive battery drain. You fire up Instruments,

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Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study

news.ycombinator.com King'S College London 2025-11-19 11:13:12

The King’s College London team of scientists discovered that keratin produces a protective coating that mimics the structure and function of natural enamel when it comes into contact with minerals in saliva. In a new study published today, scientists discovered that keratin, a protein found in hair, skin and wool, can repair tooth enamel and stop early stages of decay. Unlike bones and hair, enamel does not regenerate, once it is lost, it’s gone forever. Acidic foods and drinks, poor oral hyg

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Tversky Neural Networks

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-11-19 16:59:51

Authors: Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11035 Once a year, some interesting architecture inevitably appears where they change some fundamental building block. This happened with KAN last year, where they changed the parameterization of the neuron activation function (though it's unclear what the outcome is after a year — many follow-up works seem to have appeared, but KANs haven't displaced anyone anywhere yet). The same is

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 17:09:34

What is Raft? Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems. We hope Raft will make consensus available to a wider audience, and that this wider audience will be able to develop a variety of higher quality consensus-based systems than are available today. Hol

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This Week’s ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Hid a ‘Doctor Who’ Easter Egg in Plain Sight

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-19 18:50:15

The latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds planted the seeds for what’ll eventually become classic Star Trek by giving James Kirk (Paul Wesley) time in the captain’s chair. Along the way, it also decided to have a little crossover with Doctor Who. In this week’s “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” Kirk and the Farragut crew have to rescue the Enterprise from the tendrils of a power-draining scavenger ship. Throughout the episode, the camera cuts to the wrapped up Enterprise, and each establ

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Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-19 21:32:36

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into left-leaning advocacy group Media Matters. Back in 2023, Media Matters published research showing ads from major companies had appeared alongside antisemitic and other offensive content on Elon Musk-owned X. When major advertisers subsequently pulled back from the platform, X sued Media Matters. It also sued advertisers and advertiser groups over what it claimed was a “systematic ille

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A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Quite a few intriguing games dropped this week and some high-profile ones have been ported to more platforms. Before we get to those, though, I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite games of the year so far. I struggle to fully engage with many RPGs. By and large, I'm not interested in spending lots of time optimizing my character, speccing out a skill tree or scouring for the very best equipment to match my playstyle

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Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 16:36:57

Aug 9 2025 Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector One problem Nostr still has to deal with is the fact that web clients are "owned" by someone, because they rely so much on the domain name they're served from. Everything is fine with, say, https://coracle.social/, until npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn decides to shut it down or maybe he is threatened to include some malicious code in there, most Coracle users are going to fall for that and Nostr will feel

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Latest Tech News

Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

The End of Handwriting

Fun with Finite State Transducers

Modifying other people's software

Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

The Enterprise Experience

The DC/Marvel Teamup Adds New Hero Duos To the Mix

This open-source fasting app actually helped me hit my fitness goals

Nuvistor Valves

Robin Lakoff, expert on language and gender, dead at 82

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

I Prefer the Merlin Bird ID App Over Meditation Apps for Staying in the Present Moment

Passive Microwave Repeaters

For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules

Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi

Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)

Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study

Tversky Neural Networks

The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

This Week’s ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Hid a ‘Doctor Who’ Easter Egg in Plain Sight

Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’

A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

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