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In the Matter of Lisa Cook

news.ycombinator.com Paul Krugman 2025-11-04 11:06:54

Yesterday Donald Trump said that he had fired Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. My wording is advisable: He “said” that he had fired her. I’m not a lawyer, but it seems clear that he does not have the right to summarily fire Fed officials, certainly on tissue-thin allegations of mortgage fraud before she even went to the Fed. Cook has said that she will not resign. So at this point the immediate onus is on Jerome Powell, the Fed chairman. He has the right — I would

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Hasselblad’s new medium format flagship comes with end-to-end HDR

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-04 11:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hasselblad has just launched the X2D II 100C, the first medium format camera capable of taking true HDR photos. Those HDR images can be instantly reviewed on the new 3.6-inch OLED touchscreen at up to 1,400 nits of peak brightness, which Hasselblad says is 75 percent brighter than the original X2D 100C. Other notable upgrades include using LiDAR to assist with autofocus, a 10-stop in-body stabilization syste

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Hasselblad X2D II: the luxury sports car of medium format cameras

theverge.com Vjeran Pavic 2025-11-04 11:00:00

is a supervising video producer who also reviews gadgets and photography gear. He has over a decade of experience as a reporter and photojournalist, previously at Recode. We’ve spent most of the year talking about gadgets getting more expensive. Thanks to US tariffs, prices are rising every few months, and even small upgrades have come with big price hikes. So I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the new Hasselblad X2D 100C II will actually be cheaper than its predecessor, coming in at “

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Google could be building a new nook for your Gemini creations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 20:00:34

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new “My Stuff” section for the Gemini interface on Android. While its purpose isn’t clear, it could be used to store media generated using Gemini, separate from your chats. A similar section for storing AI-generated media is also present in ChatGPT, and it is known as “Library.” Gemini is already quite powerful as a virtual assistant, and is raking up new features as Google prepares to replace Google Assistant with it entirely. Recent

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It’s time for Google to address this major Play Store issue

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 21:00:20

Karandeep Singh / Android Authority Google’s Play Store has a serious problem, and it’s something that’s a big source of frustration for me. While many apps on the Play Store offer subscriptions, I find it nearly impossible to figure out the exact price before I download them. Google makes it clear that an app offers “in-app purchases” right on the main page, but it never gives me the crucial pricing information I need. This might seem like a small issue, but for me, it matters a lot. Price is

Topics: app price pricing range store

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How They Make the Mario Kart-Style 'Ghost Car' for Auto Racing Broadcasts

wired.com Ben Dowsett 2025-11-04 21:30:00

If you’re within a certain age range, you may have spent weekend afternoons in your youth playing Mario Kart, the seminal Nintendo game. You may even remember passing the sticks around between friends and competing in the game’s individual time trials, one driver at a time. Among that game mode’s defining features: A translucent “ghost car” that represented the current leader in a given trial, allowing other drivers to chase after it or, ideally, pass it on the way to a faster time. Similar fea

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Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 11:50:41

Hi, My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable. I wanted a new personal laptop, and I was debating between a MacBook Air or going for a F

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Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 22:42:01

Imagine that you are given the following task, with a file like this: Name,Department,Salary,JoinDate John Smith,Marketing,75000,2023-01-15 Alice Johnson,Finance,82000,2022-06-22 Bob Lee,Sales,68000,2024-03-10 Emma Davis,HR,71000,2021-09-01 You want to turn that into a single list of all the terms in the (potentially very large) file. In other words, you want to turn it into something like this: [ { "term" : "Name" , "position" : 0 , "length" : 4 } , { "term" : "Department" , "position" : 5

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macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 20:49:36

#macOS dotfiles should not go in ~/Library/Application Support One of my pet peeves is when command-line tools look for user configuration files in ~/Library/Application Support when running on macOS. In addition to offering poor ergonomics for users, I believe this behavior is incorrect according to the documentation which is cited to justify it. Instead, command-line tools should implement the XDG Base Directory Specification and look for configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME , which defaul

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Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 10:17:44

timep timep is an efficient and state-of-the-art trap-based time profiler for bash code. timep generates a per-command execution time profile for the bash code being profiled. As it generates this profile, timep logs command runtimes+metadata hierarchically based on both function and subshell nesting depth, mapping and recreating the complete full call-stack tree for the bash code being profiled. MAJOR UPDATE RELEASED: The new timep (currently v1.3) now includes the required loadable binary as

Topics: echo flamegraph profile time timep

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Make the Easy Change Hard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 10:40:04

I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT. There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify the change you’re trying to make before trying to make the change. This is es

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Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

news.ycombinator.com Casey Liss 2025-11-03 12:13:33

Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera Friday, 15 August 2025 I’ve recently become a Ubiquiti UniFi disciple, including replacing our builder-basic doorbell from 1998 with Ubituiti G4 Doorbell Pro. This has brought me into the UniFi Protect ecosystem. Protect is absolutely designed to work with UniFi cameras — as one would expect — but they do have some basic support for third-party cameras that support ONVIF. It occurred to me that I have a small collection of minicomput

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Saudi AI Firm Launches Halal Chatbot

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-05 11:00:45

Companies with AI chatbots love to highlight their capability as translators, but they still default to English, both in function and in the information they are trained on. With that in mind, Humain, an AI company in Saudi Arabia, has now launched an Arabic-native chatbot. The bot, called Humain Chat, runs on the Allam large language model, according to Bloomberg, which the company claims was trained on “one of the largest Arabic datasets ever assembled” and is the “world’s most advanced Arabi

Topics: arabic available government humain saudi

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Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 11:22:06

Comet, Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a blog post last week from Brave, a competing web browser company. The vulnerability has since been fixed, but it points to the challenges of incorporating large language models into web browsers. Unlike traditional web browsers, Comet has an AI assistant built in. This assistant can scan the page you're looking at, summarize its contents or perform tasks for you. The proble

Topics: ai assistant brave security web

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Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-05 16:36:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

Topics: oura ring rings smart ultrahuman

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How to make things slower so they go faster

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 17:10:10

Synchronized demand is the moment a large cohort of clients acts almost together. In a service with capacity $\mu$ requests per second and background load $\lambda_0$, the usable headroom is $H = \mu - \lambda_0 > 0$. When $M$ clients align—after a cache expiry, at a cron boundary, or as a service returns from an outage—the bucketed arrival rate can exceed $H$ by large factors. Queues form, timeouts propagate, retries synchronize, and a minor disturbance becomes a major incident. The task is to

Topics: delay headroom rate time varepsilon

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 26 #541

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 16:00:08

Looking for the most recent Strands answers? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle isn't too tough, except for the final answer, which I only associate with tea, not the theme of this particular puzzle. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today

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Pokemon TCG Pocket's Next Set Showcases Johto's Rarest Legendaries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 16:11:48

The Legendary Beasts from the second generation of Pokemon games are roaring into the digital card game Pokemon TCG Pocket when its next mini-expansion, Secluded Springs, is released on Aug. 28. The smaller subset of digital cards supplements the recent Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, which focused on the rare Pokemon Ho-Oh and Lugia. (Older fans may remember them from the box art of Pokemon Gold and Silver, released all the way back in 1999.) While the official list of digital cards in the se

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Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 15:58:07

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case filing system first came to light in a report by Politico three weeks ago, which went on to say that the vulnerabilities exploited in the hack were known since 2020. The New York Times, citing people familiar with the intrusion, said that Rus

Topics: documents federal information judiciary national

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I took this camera on 5 trips, and it is now my must-have travel essential

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-05 21:23:33

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET The Insta360 X5 is my favorite travel camera. I love it for its versatility, ease of use, and user-friendly app. It is more expensive than its predecessor but offers better video quality, replaceable lenses, improved battery backup, and more. I started using this 360-degree action camera in May, and within three months, it has earned a permanent spot in my travel backpack. And it is now on sale for Labor Day. Review: Insta360 X5 The Insta360 Labor Day sale brings a $30 di

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Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

news.ycombinator.com Chris K. W. 2025-11-04 11:34:26

If you’ve fallen far enough down the Wordle rabbit hole you may have heard of Quordle, a version of Wordle where you solve four words at once. If you’re looking for more of a challenge, Britannica has you covered with Octordle, where you solve eight words at once. And of course any Wordler worth their salt should be able to handle sixteen words, like in Sedecordle. And no, it doesn’t stop there: Sexaginta-quattuordle isn’t real, it can’t hurt yo– One logical extreme of this trend would be to

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Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-06 02:23:27

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands

Topics: oura ring rings smart ultrahuman

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Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 00:41:48

Temporary Suspension of Acceptance of Mail to the United States Due to Changes in U.S. Customs and Regulations On July 30, 2025, the U.S. government issued an executive order titled “Termination of De Minimis Treatment for All Countries” regarding mail to the United States. Under this executive order, starting August 29, 2025, mail containing goods imported for personal use (taxable mail) will no longer be eligible for duty-free treatment, and tariffs will be imposed. On August 15, 2025, U.S.

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In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-06 02:40:28

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living human body. Researchers in China reported the medical feat in a study published Monday in Nature Medicine. The gene-edited left lung survived for nine days inside a person declared to be brain dead. More work has to be done to ensure the long-term viability of these organs, the researche

Topics: human lung pig researchers xenotransplantation

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Japan Post to temporarily suspend mail to US over end of de minimis exemption

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:41:48

Temporary Suspension of Acceptance of Mail to the United States Due to Changes in U.S. Customs and Regulations On July 30, 2025, the U.S. government issued an executive order titled “Termination of De Minimis Treatment for All Countries” regarding mail to the United States. Under this executive order, starting August 29, 2025, mail containing goods imported for personal use (taxable mail) will no longer be eligible for duty-free treatment, and tariffs will be imposed. On August 15, 2025, U.S.

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Study shows which vehicles pollute the least in every US county

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:07:05

Greenhouse gas reduction is no longer a priority for the US government, but if you're looking for a new vehicle and want to buy something with the lowest life cycle carbon emissions, you're best off looking for a compact with a small battery. That's one of the findings of a comprehensive study from a group at the University of Michigan that calculates the overall cradle-to-grave carbon impact for different types of vehicles, including factors like powertrain options, location (within the country

Topics: battery mile percent pickup powertrains

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With a new Soyuz rocket, Russia seeks to break its Ukrainian dependency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:17:20

In recent comments to the Russian state-run media service TASS, the chief of Roscosmos said the country's newest rocket, the Soyuz-5, should take flight for the first time before the end of this year. "Yes, we are planning for December," said Dmitry Bakanov, the director of Roscosmos, Russia's main space corporation. "Everything is in place." According to the report, translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, the debut launch of Soyuz-5 will mark the first of several demonstration flights, with full

Topics: launch rocket russia soyuz ukraine

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Toxic Avenger gets grindhouse-style trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:49:49

The Toxic Avenger, a semi-reboot of the 1984 superhero splatter-fest, made the rounds of the festival circuit back in 2023. But all the violence and gore scared off most distributors, so the film—starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the title role—has been languishing in the vault for much of the last two years. Thanks to Cineverse, The Toxic Avenger is finally coming to select theaters this weekend. And thanks to the folks at Bloody Disgusting (a Cineverse subsidiary), we've got a trai

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Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-06 06:05:22

In Brief Tech founder Ethan Agarwal, who has raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs across two startups, is running for the 2026 California gubernatorial seat, as reported by Axios. Axios described Agarwal as a “Democrat who believes in capitalism.” He told the outlet he’s mainly concerned about the increased cost of living and doing business in the state, which has led to the departure of residents and other opportunities, such as film productions. California “could use some business an

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Meet Young Geralt of Rivia in This Exclusive Excerpt From the New ‘Witcher’ Novel

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-06 11:00:58

Fans of The Witcher may be waiting awhile for the show to return to Netflix, but something just as exciting is coming very soon: Andrzej Sapkowski‘s first new Witcher book in over a decade, Crossroads of Ravens. It’s getting a global release September 30, translated into various languages (the English version is from series veteran David French), and io9 has an exclusive excerpt to share today. Here’s a summary of what you can expect from this standalone work: “Before he was the White Wolf or

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Latest Tech News

In the Matter of Lisa Cook

Hasselblad’s new medium format flagship comes with end-to-end HDR

Hasselblad X2D II: the luxury sports car of medium format cameras

Google could be building a new nook for your Gemini creations (APK teardown)

It’s time for Google to address this major Play Store issue

How They Make the Mario Kart-Style 'Ghost Car' for Auto Racing Broadcasts

Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs

macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support

Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code

Make the Easy Change Hard

Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

Saudi AI Firm Launches Halal Chatbot

Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

How to make things slower so they go faster

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 26 #541

Pokemon TCG Pocket's Next Set Showcases Johto's Rarest Legendaries

Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

I took this camera on 5 trips, and it is now my must-have travel essential

Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

Japan Post to temporarily suspend mail to US over end of de minimis exemption

Study shows which vehicles pollute the least in every US county

With a new Soyuz rocket, Russia seeks to break its Ukrainian dependency

Toxic Avenger gets grindhouse-style trailer

Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

Meet Young Geralt of Rivia in This Exclusive Excerpt From the New ‘Witcher’ Novel

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