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Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

news.ycombinator.com Katie Hunt 2025-10-06 23:25:45

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a bizarre natural phenomenon that involves fungal p

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 22:21:28

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?

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Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

news.ycombinator.com Lauren Groff 2025-10-08 01:54:29

Another aunt, a parsimonious busybody, married a Reverend Norris, and Fanny’s own mother rather too hastily married one Price, a lieutenant of marines, who has become an out-of-work heavy drinker by the time we meet him. To her great misfortune, soon after her marriage, Mrs. Price has nine children in 11 years, with not nearly enough money to support them, and in desperation she agitates for a rapprochement among the sisters, and the rich Bertram family at last deigns to help. Thus, the oldest P

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NativeJIT: A C++ expression –> x64 JIT

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 04:59:52

NativeJIT NativeJIT is an open-source cross-platform library for high-performance just-in-time compilation of expressions involving C data structures. The compiler is light weight and fast and it takes no dependencies beyond the standard C++ runtime. It runs on Linux, OSX, and Windows. The generated code is optimized with particular attention paid to register allocation. The compiler was developed by the Bing team for use in the Bing search engine. One important use is scoring documents contai

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The Book of Shaders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 19:48:03

The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. Contents About the Authors Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York based artist and developer. He explores interstitial spaces between organic and synthetic, analog and digital, individual and collective. In his work he uses code as an expressive language with the intention of developing a better together.

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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:49:39

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our subscribers have been able to put reliable automation into place for certificate renewal. Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses c

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Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 05:37:21

Gridfinity could be your workshop's ultimate modular storage system to keep you productive, organized, and safe. It is free, open source, and almost 100% 3D printable. Alexander Chappels Assortment System, licensed under CC-A-NC-SA, partly inspired Zack Freedman's initial designs of Gridfinity. The Gridfinity designs were first released in the video "Gridfinity: Your Ultimate Modular Workshop is FREE!" as a framework for the community to extend, released under the MIT license. Now Gridfinity i

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Bought an Ampere Altra System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:38:49

In the hunt for a development machine, I got to the next phase. I did some shopping, and there it is: my own Ampere Altra-based system. Why? As you may have read in my previous post, I used several AArch64 systems for local development. And the latest one, an Apple MacBook Pro, is nice and fast but has some limits — does not support 64k page size. Which I need for my work. Let’s go cheap So I have decided to buy myself an Ampere Altra system. As cheap as possible. AArch64 server parts The

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Is Crypto in a Bubble (Again)?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-10-10 05:32:48

The crypto world is buzzing. If you ask a true believer, they’ll say this is just the beginning. Ask a skeptic, and they’ll swear we’re watching a bubble inflate in real time. One that could pop any second. I saw the excitement firsthand at a crypto event in Brooklyn last week. The bar was packed. People were animated. It felt like a flashback to 2020 and 2021, when crypto fever gripped everyone from twenty-something retail traders to grandparents. Back then, it was all about Bitcoin, flashy NF

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, June 30

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 07:04:16

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? 2-Down was the stumper for me today, since it was one of those clues that could be answered in many ways. Read on for the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tip

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OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-09 22:16:40

In Brief With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo obtained by Wired. In response to what appears to be a Meta hiring spree, Chen said that he, CEO Sam Altman, and other OpenAI leaders have been w

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Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-10 06:10:16

Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, law, and accounting. The veteran investor, whose wins include Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp, recently discussed at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Menlo Park why he believes “AI teammates” can create software-like margins in traditionally labor-intensive sectors, and why startups should right now target neglected markets

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Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-10-10 03:24:00

Microsoft's push into custom artificial intelligence hardware has hit a serious snag. Its next-generation Maia chip, code-named Braga, won't enter mass production until 2026 – at least six months behind schedule. The Information reports that the delay raises fresh doubts about Microsoft's ability to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market and underscores the steep technical and organizational hurdles of building competitive silicon. Microsoft launched its chip program to reduce its h

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Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-10 01:52:21

Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok 4 hours ago Share Save Laura Blasey BBC News, Washington DC Share Save Future Publishing via Getty Images President Donald Trump has said he has a buyer for TikTok, the video-sharing app that was banned in the US amid claims it posed a national security risk. In a Fox News interview, Trump said he had a group of "very wealthy people" willing to acquire the platform. "I'll tell you in about two weeks," he teased. A sale would nee

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Nvidia insiders dump more than $1 billion in stock, according to report

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-10-10 01:07:32

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote, part of the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair, held at the Dôme de Paris in the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Insiders at artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia have dumped more than $1 billion in stock over the last year, according to a report from the Financial Times. About $500 million worth of sales occurred over the last month as the market

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Melania Trump's Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 23:45:26

Let's get one thing straight: it's hard to be married to the president. From coming up with epoch-defining slogans like "Be Best" to decking the White House halls with bizarre Christmas decor, it's a tougher gig than most of us can imagine. Our current first lady, Melania Trump, is well aware of the challenge after her previous four-year stint in the White House. Notoriously private — or perhaps just too busy to make public appearances — the first lady's life has been shrouded in mystery. Howe

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:15:29

Finally, science has an answer! The Good Stuff Wondering whether snorting Moon dust will kill you? Don't worry: science is on it. A recent study conducted by a team of Australian researchers and published in the journal Life Sciences in Space Research found that lunar dust is probably way less dangerous than space science previously feared — and, actually, might be less dangerous for humans than Earthborne air pollution. (Or, if you will: Earth dust.) For the study, the scientists focused on

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Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 02:00:30

"This has profound implications..." DJ Earth Scientists have discovered a heartbeat-like pulse emanating from inside the Earth beneath the continent of Africa, which they believe will one day rip the continent into pieces. In a new study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of European and African scientists explain how they used chemical signatures to examine this inner-Earth heartbeat, explaining that molten chunks of mantle — the rocky layer found between the Earth's su

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Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

venturebeat.com Anurag Dodeja 2025-10-10 01:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more From passwords to passkeys to a veritable alphabet soup of other options — second-factor authentication (2FA)/one-time passwords (OTP), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), silent network authentication (SNA) — when it comes to a preeminent or even preferred type of identity authentication, there is little consensus amo

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Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-10-10 04:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible ascent toward abundance. Intelligence will become as accessible as electricity. Robots will be performing

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The F1 movie is a cinema smash hit, on track to outperform combined box office of all previous Apple originals films

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-10 00:56:04

Whatever you think about Apple’s in-your-face advertising tactics, it seems to be paying off. The F1 movie is set to take in about $145 million in its opening weekend at the box office, with $55.6 million domestic. This easily outstrips any of Apple Original Film’s prior theatrical debuts, and sets the movie on a path to exceed the gross box office of all previous Apple films … combined. Apple releases almost all of its original films in small scale showings for some easy press attention and t

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Kuo: Apple working on 7 head-mounted products, roadmap starts in 2025

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-10 05:26:04

In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple’s headset and smart glasses markets. According to him, the company has at least seven head-worn devices in development across two product families, one coming in 2025. According to Kuo: Apple views head-mounted devices as the next major trend in consumer electronics. The company currently has at least seven projects in development, comprising three Vision series products and four smart glasses variants.

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Playdate Season 2 review: Tiny Turnip and Chance's Lucky Escape

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 23:45:52

It's hard to believe that Playdate Season Two is almost over already, but here we are in week five with just one more drop of new games left to go after this. In the latest batch, we got the climbing metroidvania, Tiny Turnip, and Chance's Lucky Escape, a short point-and-click adventure that leans into the absurd. In line with the rest of this season's games, which have consistently been really solid, they're both pretty damn fun. Tiny Turnip Luke Sanderson Tiny Turnip is one of the standouts

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Android 16 will protect users from fake cell towers and potential spying threats

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:23:37

It turns out that your smartphone could be an overlooked vulnerability that puts you at risk of being tracked. To combat this, Google is rolling out a new security feature in Android 16 that will warn users if their device is using a fake or insecure mobile network or if that network requests identifying information about a connected device. However, these features likely won't be available until the next generation of Android devices, as first reported by Android Authority. Since the current A

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Trump claims a 'very wealthy' group will buy TikTok without revealing who

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:51:26

The U.S. president said in an interview that he would reveal the buyer in two weeks. The unending saga between President Donald Trump and TikTok may finally get some closure. In an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, the US president announced that there's a buyer secured for TikTok. "We have a buyer for TikTok by the way," Trump said in the interview. "I think I'll need probably China approval and I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it." When asked to identify the buyer, Tru

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Dave the Diver's In the Jungle DLC may not arrive until 2026, but Godzilla is back

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:30:19

Dave the Diver just marked its two-year anniversary, and the team behind it has a bunch of updates to share about its future. While it's mostly good news, there is one little hiccup: the upcoming In the Jungle DLC , which was announced a few months ago and was expected to arrive later this year, now isn't likely to launch until 2026. But everything else announced in the 11-minute anniversary video should make up for it. That includes the return of the time-limited free Godzilla DLC , which is no

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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 04:43:50

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Tools I love: mise(-en-place)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:56:21

Tools I love: mise(-en-place) tools cli mise Once in a while you get introduced to a tool that instantly changes the way you work. For me, mise is one of those tools. mise is the logical conclusion to a lot of the meta-tooling that exists around language-specific version and package managers like asdf, nvm, uv, pyenv etc. It makes it exceptionally easy to install, use, and manage software. It also allows you to manage environment variables and declare tasks (run commands). The first step in g

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Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks

news.ycombinator.com Remy Sharp 2025-10-10 01:52:02

Over the years we, as a family, have been moving our purchases away from Amazon, except in one single place: Kindle ebooks. For me it's that I'm incapable of reading physical books (but my kindle unlocked my reading), and with a Kindle, I was limited as to where I buy my books. When I read that it was relatively easy to jailbreak all the Kindle models I used this as my opportunity to move to buying epub books and hopefully more of that money goes to the authors (in an ideal world…). Here's how

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Latest Tech News

Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

NativeJIT: A C++ expression –> x64 JIT

The Book of Shaders

LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

Bought an Ampere Altra System

Is Crypto in a Bubble (Again)?

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, June 30

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Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today

Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

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Nvidia insiders dump more than $1 billion in stock, according to report

Melania Trump's Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

The F1 movie is a cinema smash hit, on track to outperform combined box office of all previous Apple originals films

Kuo: Apple working on 7 head-mounted products, roadmap starts in 2025

Playdate Season 2 review: Tiny Turnip and Chance's Lucky Escape

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Trump claims a 'very wealthy' group will buy TikTok without revealing who

Dave the Diver's In the Jungle DLC may not arrive until 2026, but Godzilla is back

China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

Tools I love: mise(-en-place)

Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks

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