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NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-16 10:55:13

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space. With a background as a US Congressman, reality TV star, and television commentator, Duffy did not come to the position with a deep well of knowledge about spaceflight. He also already had a lot on his plate, serving as the secretary of transportation, a Cabinet-level position that oversees 55,000 employees across 13 agencies. Nevertheless, Duffy is putting his imprin

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Best Lunch Boxes and Backpacks for the 2025 School Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 03:00:00

Back-to-school is just around the corner, and with the start of the new school year right around the corner, you may be looking for the perfect backpack and lunch box for your kids. As kids start a new grade, these items can inspire excitement and even motivation. Picking out a backpack and lunch box used to be simple. These days, the options (and price points) seem to be limitless. The good news is that at least lunch boxes have gotten a major upgrade in recent years -- they can actually keep

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OpenAI's Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-20 14:09:30

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, according to a report from The Verge published Friday. "When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth," Altman told a small group of reporters last week. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes," he was quoted as saying. Altman appeared to compare this

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After using the Galaxy Watch 8, there’s one feature I hope Google steals for the Pixel Watch 4

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:00:50

Joe Maring / Android Authority It’s a damn good time right now to be a smartwatch fan. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 series recently launched, the Pixel Watch 4 is right around the corner, Wear OS 6 is chock-full of impressive changes, and Gemini has finally replaced Google Assistant on our wrists. The Pixel Watch 4 is expected to arrive on August 20, and it’s shaping up quite nicely. We’ve seen leaks teasing a bigger battery, brighter display, and faster charging (with a funky new charging mechani

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Google Wallet is about to make adding passes effortless: Here’s how it’ll work (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:31:53

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet is getting ready to launch a new feature that’ll automatically scan and add eligible passes from your photos. We have managed to get the feature working in the latest version of the app. Wallet won’t just blindly add every pass or ticket in finds in your image gallery; it’ll let you review and approve the selected items. In September last year, we spotted hints of a new Google Wallet feature that could make it much easier to find and st

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The tablet that made me ditch my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy follow-up

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-20 10:15:16

TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is available for $249. This tablet can switch from full color to an E Ink-like display with the press of a button, it has 256GB of storage, and an eye-catching matte display with 120Hz refresh rate. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus can get heavy when you use it one-handed and doesn't include a case or stylus, though you can buy them separately. $249 at Walmart Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on

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Ars Technica System Guide: Four sample PC builds, from $500 to $5,000

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 14:00:25

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging through dozens of near-identical parts, the lack of updates usually correlates with "times when building a desktop PC is actually a pain in the ass." Through most of 2025, fluctuating and inflated graphics card pricing and limited availability have once again conspired to make a normally fun hobby a

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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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A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 21:11:48

Left: Gigantic Jet Event from the International Space Station, taken by NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers. (Credit: Ayers) Right: Sprite event appearing over a lightning strike, seen from space. This photo was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 44. Credit: NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44 Did you see that gorgeous photo NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took on July 3, 2025? Originally thought to be a sprite, Ayers confirmed catching an even rarer form of a

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Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 03:13:06

Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain <textarea> was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can'

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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-19 03:58:36

Judy Faulkner, founder and chief executive officer of Epic Systems Corp., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. These are the first three of the 10 commandments splashed across bathrooms and breakrooms at Epic Systems' sprawling 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin, just southwest of Madison. It's not the wackiest part of working at the health-care software gi

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Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-20 02:30:42

Cars aren't just cars, these days. They have to be stuffed with smartphone-like tech. Maybe it was inevitable, then, that they'd start using the subscription model of a phone app. As Electrek reports, drivers of several Volkswagen EV models will have to pay a monthly fee to unlock the full horsepower of their cars — at least in the UK, though we wouldn't rule out the scheme expanding to other markets. The affected models are the Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4, which start at 201 horsepower. But if

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Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare "Superpower" Genetic Mutation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-20 04:00:05

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics A rare genetic mutation that causes a deficiency in an immune regulator called ISG15 is known to make people more vulnerable to some bacterial infections and cause persistent inflammation — but it can unlock some unexpected antiviral "superpowers" as well. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a team of scientists led by Columbia University professor of pediatric immunology, Dusan Bogunovic, has developed a new an

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5 password managers you should use instead of LastPass

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 02:00:30

Joe Hindy / Android Authority There was a time when LastPass was THE password manager everyone should be using. That statement still stands, but with one small twist: LastPass is now the number one password manager everyone should stay far away from. The reason for this? Multiple rounds of leaks and a series of security vulnerabilities. Give LastPass a hard pass, because there are so many better options available — ones that are both more secure and convenient — you’ll wonder why you didn’t sw

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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-20 09:34:17

In Brief While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,” von Ahn told The New York Times. “Externally, as a publicly traded company some people assume that it’s just for profit. Or that we’re trying to lay off humans. And that was not the intent at all.” On the contrary, von Ahn sai

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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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Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material

news.ycombinator.com Rosemary Potter 2025-11-19 14:49:49

IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy launched the first U.S. commercial-scale battery recycling facility in Chester, South Carolina, achieving a recycling yield of over 97% . . 💡 The facility, fully compliant with regulatory standards, is set to expand its capacity to 15,000 tons per annum by 2026 . tons per annum by . 🌱 PNE’s low-temperature plasma-assisted separation process reduces costs by 38% and has a 69% lower environmental footprint compared to conventional methods. and has a lower envi

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 15:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 23:04:29

Dev Compass Discover your programming philosophy through this compass that maps your preferences along two key dimensions: Abstract Style ↔ Concrete Style and Easy for Humans ↕ Easy for Computers. Answer 20 questions about your coding preferences and see where you fall on the developer compass.

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Scientists Are Using AI for Improved Gene Hacking

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:30:32

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists still fear that some snipping may lead to unwelcome surprises. However, a research team led by the University of Zurich says that artificial intelligence could help. A new study published in the journal Nature details how the researchers combined AI and the gen

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The AI Industry Is Still Light-Years From Making a Profit, Experts Warn

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:30:44

Were you to glance at the trajectory of top AI stocks — OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and the like — you'd be convinced the industry is making money hand over fist. Look a bit deeper, however, and cracks start to show in that facade, betraying one massively inconvenient truth: that the AI industry has not yet figured out how to be profitable, and possibly never will. In interviews with the New York Times, even the most enthusiastic AI proponents were unable to spin the technology (and the industr

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Apple's iPad Air M3 is cheaper than ever right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 20:05:41

For a lot of people, the iPad Air is Apple’s goldilocks tablet. It’s more powerful and available in a larger size than the entry-level iPad, but a lot less expensive than the iPad Pro, which can be overkill for some. Right now, there's a great Apple iPad Air M3 price drop on Amazon: you can get one for $150 less than usual. This deal applies to each configuration of the 11-inch and 13-inch versions of the most recent iPad Air. So, the 11-inch model is as low as $449, while the 13-inch model is

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Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 21:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Toothpaste Made From Hair Works Better Than Fluoride, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-19 17:00:15

Looking for an effective, sustainable toothpaste? It might be on top of your head. Scientists have discovered that keratin, a protein found in hair, skin, and wool, can repair tooth enamel and stop tooth decay. It might also protect teeth even better than conventional fluoride-based toothpastes, stopping tooth decay in its tracks, according to a new study. When keratin comes into contact with saliva, it forms a protective coating that mimics natural enamel, the study shows. Not only can it shi

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-19 18:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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‘Stranger Things’ Creators are Jumping Ship to Paramount

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-19 20:30:55

By the time Stranger Things wraps at year’s end, creators Matt and Ross Duffer will have taken their talents over to Paramount. Days ago, reports began to surface alleging the two brothers were potentially looking to leave the streamer to make film and TV for the Mission: Impossible studio. Now, it’s official: per industry journalist Matt Belloni, the Duffers will be over at Paramount going forward. Their decision apparently came down to the theaters; the brothers wanted their films to hit the

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Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good

wired.com Craig Grannell 2025-11-19 16:00:00

For years, Apple treated the idea of windows on the iPad as sacrilege. But with iPadOS 26 installed, today’s iPads are doing macOS cosplay, becoming touchscreen Macs in all but name. And here’s the thing: It’s actually pretty good. So how did we get here? When did this fundamental shift occur that killed off Steve Jobs’ vision of the iPad? When Jobs first revealed the iPad in 2010, it was pitched as a “third category” of device—something between a phone and a laptop. For that category to justif

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Document.write

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 12:44:20

This is really cool: ...blah... <script>writeImage("dog.jpg", "my dog")</script> ... blah blah... Under the hood it works like this: function writeImage(url, title) { document.write(` <img src="${url}"><div class="caption">${title}</div> `); } And leads to: ...blah... <img src="dog.jpg"><div class="caption">My dog</div> ...blah blah... Whoa, HTML templating? It inserts the stuff directly where the function is called, and it just works? And it's been available in browsers forever? Stop the

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Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-19 21:30:00

There's a new smartphone promising to protect your privacy: the Up Phone, from a company called Unplugged. Except it's not new. Unplugged has been around for a few years—the company was cofounded by Erik Prince, the founder of private military company Blackwater—and it originally announced the Up Phone in 2023. But this week, the company claims it's “relaunching” the phone, under new leadership. Like the original, the Up Phone's UnpluggedOS (formerly LibertOS) is built on the Android Open Sourc

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