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Recreationally overengineering my location history

news.ycombinator.com Dennis Schubert 2025-11-04 23:14:12

2025-08-19 overengineering, software It’s been a while since I published my last #overengineering blog post. That’s not because I didn’t overengineer things, I was busier starting projects as opposed to finishing projects. Today, we shall fix this lack of content. I like data. That’s about as surprising as the sun rising in the morning. A big part of that is visualizing various aspects of my life. I consider myself lucky enough to be able to travel quite a bit, so I always liked having a visua

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Optimizing our way through Metroid

news.ycombinator.com Will Wilson 2025-11-06 23:42:01

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

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‘Blade Runner 2099’ Gets Official 2026 Window by Prime Video

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-08 10:50:06

Good news: we now know Blade Runner 2099 still exists, and it’s on track to hit Prime Video sometime in 2026! The target window was revealed in an internal memo from the streamer’s TV development head Laura Lancaster. Per Deadline, the memo was to announce a pair of company promotions, and in it, Lancaster remarked new co-production head Kara Smith was “pivotal” in several upcoming shows, including 2099 and the upcoming Spider-Man: Noir, which is also due in 2026. 2099 is currently in post-prod

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-08 11:40:14

The world was abuzz with speculation just a few years ago when it came time for James Gunn to cast his new Superman. Even before the part ultimately went to David Corenswet, he was being floated around as a likely candidate, and now you can watch how he got the part. YouTube account 21Casting posted the actor’s audition tape, which he performed with his wife Julia Warner. The three-minute video features him as Clark Kent being interviewed as Superman by Lois Lane over his intervention in Biayla

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Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth's Continents Are Drying Out

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 11:30:25

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA's twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an "unprecedented" level of water loss among the planet's continents, creating "mega-drying" regions across the northern hemisphere. One of these mega regions spans Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and vast swaths of Asia. That should clue you in to the staggering scale of this phenomenon, which the scientists are calling terrestrial water storage (TWS) loss. Since 200

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MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:45:37

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 17:43:37

Introduction Readyset is designed to serve queries from cached views with sub-millisecond latency. This post focuses on the cold path—cases where a cache miss forces execution against the base tables. In these scenarios, Readyset must evaluate the query from scratch, including materializing intermediate results. The focus here is on straddled joins, where filtering predicates apply to both sides of the join in addition to the ON clause. Example: SELECT u.id, u.name, o.order_id, o.total FROM u

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Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

news.ycombinator.com Marco Mascorro 2025-11-08 14:03:13

In the era of foundation models, multimodal AI, LLMs, and ever-larger datasets, access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks for researchers, founders, developers, and engineers. While the cloud offers scalability, building a personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally. This post covers our version of a four-GPU workstation powered by the new NVIDIA

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Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-11-08 09:00:31

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

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Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

wired.com Dylan Scott 2025-11-08 08:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread. One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using t

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The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-08 14:07:30

Intel officially announced an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s statement that the government would be taking a 10% stake in the struggling chipmaker. While Intel says the government is making an “$8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock,” the administration does not appear to be committing new funds. Instead, it’s simply making good on what Intel described as “grants previously awarded, but not yet paid, to Intel.” Specifically,

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Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

news.ycombinator.com Chris Wright 2025-11-03 14:35:49

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit. Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships are associated with an increase in the frequency of lightning. For decades, ship emissions steadil

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A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 10:39:37

A visual history of Visual C++ 04 Mar 2017 Visual C++ was Microsoft's implementation of a professional Windows hosted IDE for developing Windows software. From humble beginnings, it's grown into a very versatile, popular, and powerful tool. I used every version of Visual C++ since 1.0, and thought I'd collect some Visual C++ screenshots and comments on these versions. Visual C++ 1.x Visual C++ 1.0/1.5 (16-bit) Visual C++ 1.1 (32-bit) Minimum (official) host OS version Windows 3.1 Windows NT

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Apple reportedly prepping enterprise AI support beyond ChatGPT

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-08 14:12:33

On personal iPhones, users can decide whether they want Apple Intelligence to connect to ChatGPT. But on corporate devices, things can be trickier. That’s why Apple is reportedly adding support for enterprise accounts, but in a way that extends beyond its current OpenAI partnership. Here are the details. As reported by TechCrunch, with the upcoming iOS 26 update, Apple will add “the ability to configure the use of an enterprise version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,” which offers different privacy settin

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-08 10:51:27

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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The US government is taking an $8.9 billion stake in Intel

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 22:26:45

President Donald Trump says the US government is taking a 10 percent stake in chip maker Intel. Trump shared the news during a press conference on Friday, though an official announcement is still forthcoming, Reuters reports. News of a plan to convert Intel's previously promised CHIPS Act funding into equity in the company was first reported earlier in August. A meeting between Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Trump following the President's call for Tan to resign seems to be the source of the deal. "H

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‘Star Trek’ Journalists, Ranked

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-08 22:16:46

The potential for what journalism looks like in Star Trek is a heady idea that’s been around as long as the series itself. What does reporting the news look like in utopia? What does it mean that the Federation has its own news networks, alongside a host of interstellar media organizations? What does freedom of information mean in a universe that has Starfleet? And yet, we’ve actually had very few characters appear in the series as fully dedicated journalists and reporters. That changed a littl

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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 22:28:42

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-08 22:16:54

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 06:48:29

We’ve written about how to prevent logging sensitive information when making network requests, but that approach only works if you’re dealing with parameters. What happens when you’re dealing with free text? Filtering the entire string may not be an option if an external API needs to process the value. Think chatbots or LLMs. You could use a regex to filter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers or emails), but that won’t capture everything, since not all sensitive information can

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Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-09 03:00:36

Spider-Man 2 is widely considered one of the greatest comic book movies of all time—if not the greatest—and now you can own a piece of Hollywood history, or at least admire it in some very up-close new photos, thanks to an upcoming auction offering Tobey Maguire’s screen-used Spider-suit. As a bonus, the suit was also used in the much less-beloved Spider-Man 3, so it’s also got some genuine Hollywood notoriety attached to it, too. The suit is yet another jaw-dropping addition to Propstore’s upc

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US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-09 03:45:38

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The US is investing $8.9 billion into Intel, but most of the funds come from money that the government was supposed to pay the embattled chipmaker anyway. In an announcement on Friday, Intel said the federal government will fund its investment using the remainin

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Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-08 21:42:30

Sustainability-focused fintech Aspiration was flying high a few years ago, attracting famous investors including Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert Downey Jr. Now, its co-founder will plead guilty to helping perpetuate a $248 million fraud scheme, according to U.S. attorneys. Joseph Sanberg, who was arrested in March, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud, felony counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years each. “This so-called ‘anti-poverty’ activist has

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Cybersecurity firm Netskope files to go public on the Nasdaq

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-09 08:40:12

Sanjay Beri, chief executive officer and founder of Netskope Inc., listens during a Bloomberg West television interview in San Francisco, California. Cloud security platform Netskope will go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "NTSK," the company said in an initial public offering filing Friday. The Santa Clara, California-based company said annual recurring revenue grew 33% to $707 million, while revenues jumped 31% to about $328 million in the first half of the year. But Netskope i

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Most Powerful Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected Hits Telescopes Across North America

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-09 08:25:38

For almost two decades, astronomers have detected extremely powerful, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) from beyond our galaxy—and had no clue where they came from. Now, a team of scientists has detected the brightest-ever FRB and finally pinpointed its origin to a nearby galaxy. Researchers have long suspected that FRBs are the result of highly energetic and violent events, like clashes between neutron stars. But even though they can generate more energy

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 23, #804

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 08:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. The NYT Connections puzzle is often tough, but today's is next-level tough. The blue category went wild with long, almost archaic vocabulary. See my rant below when I spoil the blue category for you. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a C

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 23, #334

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 08:00:06

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. Not sure how many people who play this are up on Six Nations Rugby. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enou

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Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-09 08:30:49

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law. In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification f

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Apple drags ex-Apple Watch engineer to court over Oppo trade secret leak

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-09 12:15:14

Every now and then, we hear about Apple going after ex-employees who allegedly try to take trade secrets with them when they get hired by the competition. That’s the case with Chen Shi, a former Sensor System Architect for the Apple Watch team. Here are the details. According to Apple’s claim, Shi worked at the company from January 2020 until a couple of months ago, when he left to go work for Oppo, a Chinese company that also makes phones and wearables, like the Oppo Watch. Apple says that in

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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-11-09 08:06:32

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, within their app settings, Meta automatically switched on two toggles that allow it to access their d

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Recreationally overengineering my location history

Optimizing our way through Metroid

‘Blade Runner 2099’ Gets Official 2026 Window by Prime Video

See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

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MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown

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Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

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The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants

Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

Apple reportedly prepping enterprise AI support beyond ChatGPT

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

The US government is taking an $8.9 billion stake in Intel

‘Star Trek’ Journalists, Ranked

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for

Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

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Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

Apple drags ex-Apple Watch engineer to court over Oppo trade secret leak

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off

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