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Libby introduces ‘Inspire Me’ to beef up your reading list

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 02:00:24

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Libby will soon officially roll out a new AI-powered discovery tool called Inspire Me. The feature suggests five titles based on saved books or selected prompts. Some users and librarians are skeptical about privacy concerns and AI replacing human curation. Libby, the popular library app for borrowing e-books and audiobooks, has introduced a new discovery tool called Inspire Me. The AI-powered feature offers five tailored recommendations based on a re

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In a new filing, Apple fights back against court’s ‘indefensible’ Epic Games ruling

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-28 23:11:36

Earlier this evening, Apple filed a reply brief with the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing multiple points why the court should either reverse Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ 2021 decision, or vacate the new injunction and assign a new judge to the case. Here are the details. ‘Indefensible’, ‘overbroad’, and ‘flawed’ In a 42-page document, Apple minces no words to refute both Epic Games’ arguments and the district court’s ruling, particularly regarding the “improper expansion and m

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M4 MacBook Pro: One of the first worthy upgrades for Apple Silicon Mac users

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-29 00:00:56

Last October, Apple announced the M4 MacBook Pro. On the surface, it looks like yet another MacBook Pro spec bump. However, there are a number of key features that make it worth upgrading to, even if you already have an older 14″ MacBook Pro. Why M4? There’s recently been a pretty big flip in MacBook Pro pricing, which gradually took place over the past year or so: First, Apple introduced a new entry-level MacBook Pro at $1599 in 2023 with baseline M3 Then, it upped the base memory to 16GB a

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Meta will sell you refurbished Ray-Ban smart glasses for $76 off - how to find them

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-12-28 17:29:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans have often been very difficult to find in stock at both retailers and online stores for the past two years -- and they rarely go on sale. But one of the best ways to not only get a 20% discount but also find some of the styles that have been discontinued or are rarely ever in stock is to use the little-known Meta Refurbished AI Glasses online store. I recently ordered a pair of Meta Ray-Bans in the Skylar style with the Shiny Caramel finish with Polar Brown lens

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-28 23:30:18

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

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10 pocket-sized tools that make life easier - and how I use each

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-29 00:00:18

My keychain essentials. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've collected my fair share of multitools and gadgets, but I've lost track of how often I've needed one -- only to realize it's sitting at home or in the car. Carrying a full toolbox everywhere just isn't practical. What I do have with me almost all the time, though, is my keychain -- and it turns out, it's the perfect way to keep essential tools within reach. Also: Are Amazon Basics t

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How do I get into the game industry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 15:23:22

Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how they do it. So here's a blog that I can paste a link to. I don't know I've got to say first of all that I don't know if I ever got into the game industry. It's my main job but I don't know how a real game studio works. I've never worked in a proper game studio. So if you want to work on FIFA or GTA, I have no idea how you get there, sorry. But if you just want

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AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

news.ycombinator.com Rina Diane Caballar 2025-12-28 11:24:13

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the coding sphere, with AI coding tools completing source code, correcting syntax errors, creating inline documentation, and understanding and answering questions about a codebase. As the technology advances beyond automating programming tasks, the idea of full autonomy looms large. Is AI ready to be a real coder? A new paper says not yet—and maps out exactly why. Researchers from Cornell University, MIT CSAIL, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley hi

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Anatomy of a Python Loop

news.ycombinator.com Oren Cohen 2025-12-25 14:42:22

Learn Python loops the fun way by rolling dice, casting fireballs, and finally understanding what continue really does. Last time, when we built our little dice-rolling function, we learned how to package up logic into reusable blocks. One die roll at a time was cool… but any tabletop nerd knows the real action starts when you need to roll lots of dice. 3d6 for ability scores. 8d6 for a fireball spell. Or the cruel 10d10 your DM makes you roll when things go really sideways. So how do we te

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Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:40:21

nginx-cgi plugin Brings CGI support to Nginx and Angie webserver. OS Tested with Nginx Angie Linux AlmaLinux 9, Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04/20.04 okay okay Darwin MacOS 15.1 okay okay BSD FreeBSD 14.2 and OpenBSD 7.6 okay okay Solaris OmniOS r1510521 okay okay Windows No plan, nginx barely supports Windows Before everything CGI is neither a demon nor an angel. It is simply a tool. Just like a chef's knife in the hands of a cook or a sword in the hands of a warrior, you won't use a sword for c

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I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 03:24:13

To the surprise of literally no one, I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own Inspired by conversation at a recent Future of Coding event, I decided I’d write up a little something about the programming language I’ve been working on (for what feels like forever) before I’ve gotten it to a totally shareable state. I have a working interpreter that I’m pretty pleased with, but I don’t yet have an interactive environment for creating, exploring, debugging, and running code — I

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Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Lasker 2025-12-28 22:09:43

Olympiads are international student intellectual competitions in which students from across the world go toe-to-toe answering questions in mathematics, physics, informatics, chemistry, and more. The best performers tend to be from countries like China, the United States, India, and Japan. But, somehow, the southeastern European country of Romania also frequently tops the list. Since 2020, Romania’s performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has been nothing short of amazing. I

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Delete Tests

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-12-25 21:18:15

You should delete tests We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from wholistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to simple but mostly helpful axioms, like “include tests for your changes” and “write a new test when you fix a bug to prevent regressions”. Unfortunately, on

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15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

news.ycombinator.com Xu 2025-12-24 23:58:24

STEG output power enhancement strategies A STEG generates electrical power when there’s a ΔT across its hot and cold sides. The generated power is expressed as38 $${P}_{{STEG}}={\left({S}_{{TEG}}\varDelta T\right)}^{2}\frac{{R}_{L}}{{\left({R}_{L}+R\right)}^{2}}$$ (1) where ${S}_{{TEG}}$ is the effective Seebeck coefficient of the TEG, R is the total electrical resistance between the TEG terminals, and ${R}_{L}$ is the load resistance. For a given TE material, an effective way to increase

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Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 21:30:03

Spider-Man is one of the most recognizable superheroes in the world, with decades of comics history, multiple movie franchises, animated shows and a long list of video games, including three recent titles on PS5 and PC. And now he's crawling his way into Magic: The Gathering with September's Spider-Man set. This is the third full Universes Beyond set -- Magic's name for products based on outside properties. While Universes Beyond has introduced myriad properties from Stranger Things to Spongebo

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 30

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 00:28:15

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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Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-28 23:34:05

It’s only been since June that Meta invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling vendor Scale AI, bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang and several of the startup’s top executives to run Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). But the relationship between the two companies is already showing signs of fraying. At least one of the executives Wang brought over to help run MSL — Scale AI’s former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations, Ruben Mayer — has departed Meta after just two months with the

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Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos

news.ycombinator.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-12-28 14:01:31

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta could be scanning your camera roll right now. It's using your photos to provide AI-powered suggestions. Check Facebook settings to turn off the features. Meta could be analyzing and retaining your phone's photos without your explicit consent. Some Facebook users have noticed that, deep within their app settings, Meta has switched on two toggles that allow it to access their camera

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God created the real numbers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 17:31:15

God created the real numbers 07-14-2025 7:37PM (ET) 08-28-2025 12:03AM (ET) (edited) W. Jherek Swanger writes in his introduction to Camillo Agrippa's "A Treatise on the Science of Arms, with a philosophical Dialogue (1553)" that: "Scienzia [...] was and is often held to relate only to the study of the eternal: that which exists in nature, or was created by God. Thus theology and astronomy/astrology are held to be sciences. Indeed, Ridolfo Capoferro held that strictly speaking fencing is not

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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-12-28 20:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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Reloading Classes in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 22:12:56

For some housekeeping, if you are not signed up, also make sure to sign up for the RSS feed of my crime de-coder blog. I have not been cross posting here consistently. For the last few posts: For ASEBP, conference submissions for 2026 are open. (I will actually be going to this in 2026, submitted a 15 minute talk on planning experiments.) Today will just be a quick post on two pieces of code I thought might be useful to share. The first is useful for humans, when testing code in functions, you

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Hermes 4

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 23:58:38

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Warner Bros. Shifts ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Release Date to Summer 2026

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-29 03:20:41

Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) will have to wait for showtime just a little longer than originally anticipated, as Mortal Kombat II will bow out of 2025’s fall movie release schedule, instead opening in May 2026. The Warner Bros., New Line, and Atomic Monster production was originally slated to be released on October 24 of this year, but that is no longer the case. According to Deadline, it’s not a reflection of the film’s quality, as the trade reports the film has been testing well, but rather a piv

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Time to Save Up: iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike Appears Imminent, Says New Report

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 02:14:18

The iPhone 16 series dropped last year with the same US prices as the iPhone 15 series. But the iPhone 17 might come with the first price increase in years. James Martin/CNET Apple will announce new iPhone 17 phones at its annual fall event on Sept. 9, showing off new features of iOS 26, possible camera updates and new case designs, all leading up to a dramatic price reveal. This year, that figure could be $50 higher for the iPhone 17 Pro models, based on a rumor that surfaced on the Chinese so

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 and Galaxy S25 FE leaks are getting even better as Unpacked looms

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:21:52

TL;DR Samsung’s got an Unpacked event scheduled for September 4, where we’re expect the Tab S11 series and S25 FE to debut. This afternoon we get a look at some promo material for the phone and the Ultra tablet. Similar imagery leaked earlier this week, and now we get to see some higher-quality variants. Samsung’s second Unpacked event of the summer is coming up fast, and just a few days back the company shared its plans for a virtual announcement scheduled to take place on September 4. We’re

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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Why You Should Be Using XSLT 3.0 (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:07:11

A look at the upcoming XSLT 3.0 release, and why it matters beyond the XML community Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (ultimately XSL-FO) and the XML Stylesheet language (XSLT) for transforming XML-formatted content into th

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Peek Inside the ‘Fallout’ Vault at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-29 08:15:49

Universal Studios is rolling out its houses of horror across the country—opening three major hubs that monster fans can make their Halloween season travel destinations—in this month’s theme park news. io9 was invited by Universal to experience the very big bag of tricks and treats the theme park creatives are unleashing into the world for fandom fiends seeking thrilling frights. On the West Coast, Universal Studios Hollywood prepares to open the vault with the Fallout house inspired by the Prim

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is No Longer Free to All: Here's One Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 03:54:29

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But this Wednesday, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

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The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as “purchases” you “buy”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:51:44

Words have meaning. Proper word selection is integral to strong communication, whether it's about relaying one’s feelings to another or explaining the terms of a deal, agreement, or transaction. Language can be confusing, but typically when something is available to "buy," ownership of that good or access to that service is offered in exchange for money. That’s not really the case, though, when it comes to digital content. Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video offer customers the o

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Latest Tech News

Libby introduces ‘Inspire Me’ to beef up your reading list

In a new filing, Apple fights back against court’s ‘indefensible’ Epic Games ruling

M4 MacBook Pro: One of the first worthy upgrades for Apple Silicon Mac users

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

10 pocket-sized tools that make life easier - and how I use each

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Delete Tests

15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 30

Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI

Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos

God created the real numbers

SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

Reloading Classes in Python

Hermes 4

Warner Bros. Shifts ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Release Date to Summer 2026

Time to Save Up: iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike Appears Imminent, Says New Report

Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 and Galaxy S25 FE leaks are getting even better as Unpacked looms

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is No Longer Free to All: Here's One Way to Play

The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as “purchases” you “buy”

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