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I Spent over $31,900 on Whiteout Survival – Here's Why I Regret It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 04:34:20

Hey everyone, I’ve been debating whether to post this for a long time. It’s not easy admitting this, but after stepping back and looking at the numbers, I feel like I need to share my experience—not for myself, but to warn others who might be heading down the same path. I’m using a throwaway account for obvious reasons, but I feel it’s important to put this out there and hopefully help someone avoid making the same mistakes I did. I started playing Whiteout Survival in December 2023 and played

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How to Brush Your Pet's Teeth—Veterinarians Weigh In (2025)

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-12-07 04:07:00

As the pet tech writer here at WIRED, I know just how far we've come as a pet-obsessed society. From automatic litter boxes with built-in cameras to interactive pet cameras on wheels that shoot out treats, if a human has dreamed it, our pets have probably been subjected to it. For a while, pet influencers were all about hydration. My FYP was filled with tricks and tips to increase chronically dehydrated cats' water consumption, including via pet water fountains, which have since flooded the mar

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Wahoo Kickr Run Review: a (Mostly) Screen-Free Treadmill

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-12-07 04:32:00

Ask any serious runner and they’ll tell you that treadmills are usually the bane of their existence. Alas, for folks who don’t live in Mediterranean climates, they’re a necessary winter evil that keeps us fitter in the off-season, but not necessarily happier. The no-frills design of the Wahoo Kickr Run, plus a magical mode that allows it to track your pace without touching a button, is what makes it the most real-pavement-seeming treadmill I have ever run on. I’m admittedly 20 pounds heavier th

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OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Lora Kolodny 2025-12-07 00:18:20

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Federal Reserve's Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 22, 2025. OpenAI is detailing its plans to address ChatGPT's shortcomings when handling "sensitive situations" following a lawsuit from a family who blamed the chatbot for their teenage son's death by suicide. "We will keep improving, guided by experts and grounded in responsibility to the people who use our tools — and we hope others

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More great wallpaper in the run-up to two more Apple Stores in India

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-07 15:01:37

Apple is doubling its retail footprint in India with the imminent opening of two new stores next week, one in Bengaluru and the other in Pune. As usual, the company is offering downloadable wallpaper to celebrate the openings, this one with a peacock theme … The long road to Apple stores in India Apple had wanted to open retail stores in India for a great many years before it was finally able to do so. In a bid to boost the manufacturing sector in the country, the Indian government banned an

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Video Games Weekly: Climbing games are so hot right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-07 09:07:48

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. The climbing genre is n

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 09:44:16

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in December 2020, when Hector Martin kicked off Asahi Linux. I was working for Collabora working on Panfrost, the open source Mesa3D driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Hector put out a public call f

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Light pollution prolongs avian activity

news.ycombinator.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-03 04:32:36

If the songbirds in your neighborhood are waking you up earlier and chirping well into the evening, blame light pollution. Artificial light touches nearly every corner of Earth’s surface, and a new study shows that it’s messing with birds’ biological clocks. Researchers analyzed a global acoustic dataset of more than 60 million recorded birdsongs representing more than 580 diurnal bird species. The findings, published Thursday, August 21, in the journal Science, show that light pollution has pr

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Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 14:14:19

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification ICEBlock “is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone.” The developer of ICEBlock disclosed his identity. In addition to receiving threats of federal prosecution over the app, the developer has faced other backlash, including his wife being fired from a federal government job. This is one recent example d

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Aug. 27

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 11:36:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-07 12:02:04

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn’t rely on rows and columns like a traditional relational database, instead it uses the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. There are multiple vendors that develop document databases includi

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OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-07 11:08:38

OpenAI published a blog post on Tuesday titled "Helping people when they need it most" that addresses how its ChatGPT AI assistant handles mental health crises, following what the company calls "recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises." The post arrives after The New York Times reported on a lawsuit filed by Matt and Maria Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died by suicide in April after extensive interactions with ChatGPT, which Ars covered extensively in

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Google to verify all Android devs to block malware on Google Play

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-07 17:23:46

Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on Google Play, there was already a requirement for publishers to provide a D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) number, introduced on August 31, 2023. Google says this has had a notable effect in reducing malware on the platform. However, the system didn’t apply to the vast developer ecosystem

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Junior Peña, neutrino hunter

technologyreview.com Jessica Chomik-Morales 2025-12-07 22:00:00

After his independent study helped Peña pass AP calculus as a junior, his fascination with physics led him to the University of Southern California, the 2019 session of MIT’s Summer Research Program, and then MIT for grad school. Today, he’s working to shed light on neutrinos, the ghostly uncharged particles that slip effortlessly through matter. Particles that would require a wall of lead five light-years thick to stop. As a grad student in the lab of Joseph Formaggio, an experimental physicis

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LiteLLM (YC W23) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 22:00:46

TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source LLM Gateway with 27K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like NASA, Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe. We’re rapidly expanding and seeking a founding full-stack engineer to help scale the platform. We’re based in San Francisco. What is LiteLLM LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs (Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic) in the OpenAI format We have raised a $1.6M seed

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US‘s spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-07 22:40:17

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Agency released its latest data on how the US generated electricity during the first six months of 2025. The data suggests the notable surge in power use is flattening out a bit compared to earlier in the year, with the growth in coal use falling along with it. And despite the best efforts of the Trump Administration, the boom in solar power continues, with solar looking poised to pass hydroelectric before the year is out. Growing, but moderating For the l

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Hot speaker deal: JBL Charge 6 hits new record-low price!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-08 03:23:53

Woot has been offering the JBL Charge 6 at a very enticing discount for some time, and that deal has gotten even better. You can now take it home (or anywhere you want, as it is portable) for just $139.95. This marks a new all-time low price that is $10 cheaper than we’ve seen it lately! Buy the JBL Charge 6 for just $139.95 ($60 off) This offer is available from Woot, an Amazon-owned website that focuses on deals. The website specifically mentions the sale will end in two days or “until sold o

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Titles matter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 23:45:21

Titles matter Recently, I saw a post on Bluesky that did not sit well with me at all. I’m not going to link to it directly or mention the author, because I don’t want to direct any negativity their way. That’s not why I’m writing this. I do, however, want to respond to the core of what was said (and which some were agreeing with). That core sentiment of the post was this: Somebody who generates websites using AI prompting is also a web developer. The qualification is “do you build websites”,

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A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-08 03:20:02

The next big obesity medication coming down the pipeline will likely come in pill form. Eli Lilly has just released the latest positive Phase III trial results of its experimental oral GLP-1 drug, orforglipron. On Tuesday morning, Eli Lilly reported that orforglipron met the benchmarks of the company’s Phase III ATTAIN-2 study. People taking orforglipron experienced substantial improvements in weight loss and blood sugar control compared to those taking a placebo, the study showed. Armed with d

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Marshall's first party speaker unsurprisingly looks like a guitar amp

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 08:15:09

Marshall just introduced its very first party speaker, the Bromley 750. It looks a whole lot like a guitar amp, which makes sense given the company's pedigree. Also, instrument amps are basically just big speakers anyways. This Bluetooth speaker includes a replaceable battery that allows for more than 40 hours of use before requiring a charge. It produces 360-degree stereophonic sound that Marshall says will "find its way through any crowd." It also features a "sound character knob" that change

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Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 03:05:02

How is Smooth different from other browser agents? Smooth uses small and efficient models that make it faster and cheaper to run, while also being more reliable. It leads the leaderboard of WebVoyager (92%) while also being 5x faster and 7x cheaper than Browser Use.

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Titles Matter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 05:45:21

Titles matter Recently, I saw a post on Bluesky that did not sit well with me at all. I’m not going to link to it directly or mention the author, because I don’t want to direct any negativity their way. That’s not why I’m writing this. I do, however, want to respond to the core of what was said (and which some were agreeing with). That core sentiment of the post was this: Somebody who generates websites using AI prompting is also a web developer. The qualification is “do you build websites”,

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FCC chairman helps AT&T cement dominance with $23 billion spectrum deal

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 12:32:59

EchoStar has agreed to sell $23 billion worth of spectrum licenses to AT&T in a deal spurred by threats made by the Federal Communications Commission to revoke EchoStar's rights to use the spectrum. AT&T said it will use the spectrum to boost its 5G mobile network and expand its fixed wireless home Internet service. The AT&T/EchoStar deal, which is expected to be completed in mid-2026, could mark the beginning of EchoStar's spectrum portfolio being carved up and sold to other carriers. Starlink

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Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-12-08 12:00:37

At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the initiative. Two of the staffers have returned to OpenAI, where they both previously worked, after less than one-month stints at Meta, WIRED has confirmed. Avi Verma was previously a researcher at OpenAI. Ethan Knight worked at the ChatGPT maker earlier in his career but joined Meta from Elon Musk’s xAI. A third researcher, Rishabh

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Sonos Era 300 Sale: The Big Sonos Speaker Is 20 Percent Off

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-12-08 12:05:29

Looking to upgrade your Sonos setup? The Sonos Era 300 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is 20 percent off from Amazon, bringing it down to just $359 and tying its lowest-ever price. That's a great deal on our editors’ favorite surround sound Sonos speaker, and it would make a perfect upgrade to your existing Sonos configuration or a place to start building your audio empire. The big draw here is spatial audio, which our team feels performs even better than Apple's Homepod (5/10, WIRED Review) when it c

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Google Translate is ready to replace Duolingo in your life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-08 16:00:25

TL;DR Google Translate is getting a new mode to help teach you a new language. The beta initially supports teaching Spanish to English speakers, and English to speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Translate is also getting some upgrades to its live translation mode, all thanks to AI. For all the controversy surrounding AI when it comes to things like content generation, or hallucinating wildly incorrect facts when attempting to answer questions, most of us would agree that it works qu

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Anonymous structavaganza in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 15:35:35

Mon Aug 25 2025 When statements disappear, what remains of good semantics? Let’s see what side effects have been introduced! To start, observe this truly primordial ‘C code; struct A {}; struct B {}; void example ( struct A e ); int main (){ example (( struct B){}); } clang output: error: passing 'struct B' to parameter of incompatible type 'struct A' example((struct B ){}); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ THE TYPES ARE UNIQUE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES! THE ARE NOMINALLY DIFFERENT. And such it is for all

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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 17:22:33

by OLIMEX Ltd in Uncategorized Starting August 29th, new regulations have come into effect. Both DHL and UPS currently have no working solution, so on their advice, we are temporarily suspending all shipments to the USA effective immediately. The issue is that we are now required to collect all taxes and tariffs on U.S. shipments in advance. However, there is no functioning calculator for this, which has created chaos. Parcels are being held in customs for weeks due to unreasonable requirement

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CRKD’s $99 Peak Design clone is great for handhelds

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-12-08 17:10:33

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Embracer Group-owned CRKD recently launched a backpack, the $99.99 Vortex 1.0. During a recent vacation, I swapped it in place of my go-to for the past eight or so years, the 20-liter Peak Design Everyday backpack, which CRKD has thoroughly cribbed t

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Show HN: My OSS P2P file transfer tool for learning Next.js (as a C++ dev)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 21:53:22

Free Secure Online Clipboard & File Transfer Tool P2P transfers that pick up where you left off. Experience truly reliable, private, and unstoppable file and text sharing—no registration, no file size or speed limits, completely free.

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Latest Tech News

I Spent over $31,900 on Whiteout Survival – Here's Why I Regret It

How to Brush Your Pet's Teeth—Veterinarians Weigh In (2025)

Wahoo Kickr Run Review: a (Mostly) Screen-Free Treadmill

OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

More great wallpaper in the run-up to two more Apple Stores in India

Video Games Weekly: Climbing games are so hot right now

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

Light pollution prolongs avian activity

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Aug. 27

AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

Google to verify all Android devs to block malware on Google Play

Junior Peña, neutrino hunter

LiteLLM (YC W23) is hiring a back end engineer

US‘s spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit

Hot speaker deal: JBL Charge 6 hits new record-low price!

Titles matter

A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

Marshall's first party speaker unsurprisingly looks like a guitar amp

Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API

Titles Matter

FCC chairman helps AT&T cement dominance with $23 billion spectrum deal

Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

Sonos Era 300 Sale: The Big Sonos Speaker Is 20 Percent Off

Google Translate is ready to replace Duolingo in your life

Anonymous structavaganza in Zig

We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

CRKD’s $99 Peak Design clone is great for handhelds

Show HN: My OSS P2P file transfer tool for learning Next.js (as a C++ dev)

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