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Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:02:47

Trying to understand how to move objects in 3D space MOVING OBJECTS IN 3D SPACE tap/click the right side of the screen to go forward → Have you ever wondered how to move objects along a spherical helix path? Okay… probably not, right? But one morning, this question popped into my head. It stuck with me long enough that I ended up diving into a few articles about it. From there, it spiraled into lots of explorations, trying to figure out how to move objects in 3D space. From a simple circ

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This ‘Elio’ Deleted Scene Hints at an Alternate Version of the Movie

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-15 11:00:50

Pixar’s latest film, Elio, may not have been a box office success, but once it comes home, audiences are going to discover they missed something special. The story of a young boy who travels to space and is forced to save his planet by befriending a group of aliens is funny, exciting, and extremely heartfelt. Yes, it had a long trip to the finish line, but once it got there, it stuck the landing. Elio is coming to digital download on Tuesday, August 19, ahead of its physical release on Septembe

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AT&T Promo Code: Get Up to $300 in August

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-12-15 11:30:00

Major wireless carriers: A necessary evil if you travel a lot, have a family, or are just interested in coverage that’s reliably consistent and widespread. AT&T is the third-largest provider in the US (first for 5G), with the largest coverage map. I’ve had various AT&T plans for more than a decade, first for just myself and now for my whole family, even though I only get one cell bar at my house and have to stand in one 5-square-foot patch of yard to make a phone call. And have lost entire days

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Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services for 2025, Tested by a Plant-Based Eater

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 03:52:00

When trying to find a vegan meal delivery service, several factors should be considered to find your perfect fit. Prepared meals versus meal kits: Prepared meals come ready to heat in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. Meal kits, on the other hand, provide all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to prepare the meals yourself. Though prepared meals are easier and take less time, meal kits may be good for those who like cooking or want to learn to cook. Fresh versus frozen: On t

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The Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services for 2025, Tested by a Plant-Based Eater

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 15:52:00

When trying to find a vegan meal delivery service, several factors should be considered to find your perfect fit. Prepared meals vs meal kits: Prepared meals come ready to heat in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. Meal kits, on the other hand, provide all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to prepare the meals yourself. Though prepared meals are easier and take less time, meal kits may be good for those who like cooking or want to learn to cook. Fresh vs frozen: On this list

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5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-18 11:06:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Immutable Linux distributions are the future. There are several reasons why immutable is the way to go. From security to predictability, you can't go wrong with immutable. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Immutable Linux distributions sound complicated, right? You'd be surprised to know that it's actually quite simple. Essentially, an immutable distri

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Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

news.ycombinator.com Brian Martucci 2025-12-18 10:34:06

Dive Brief: Data centers and other large, non-critical power consumers connected to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas transmission grid must accept curtailment during firm load shed events under a landmark law Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed Friday. Senate Bill 6 pairs mandatory curtailment with a voluntary demand response procurement program under which loads of 75 MW or more could ramp down or switch to backup generation at utilities’ request. It also includes new interconnection

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U.S. seizes $2.8 million in crypto from Zeppelin ransomware operator

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:36:48

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the seizure of more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency from suspected ransomware operator Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko. Antropenko, indicted in Texas for computer fraud and money laundering, was linked to Zeppelin ransomware, a now-defunct extortion operation that ran between 2019 and 2022. Apart from the digital asset seizure, the authorities also confiscated $70,000 in cash and a luxury vehicle. “Antropenko used Zeppelin ransomware to targe

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ChatGPT's Boss Says You Still Shouldn't Trust It as Your Main Source of Information

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 12:24:19

When you start a conversation with ChatGPT, you might notice some text at the bottom of the screen: "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info." That's still the case with the new GPT-5 model, a senior OpenAI executive reiterated this week. "The thing, though, with reliability is that there's a strong discontinuity between very reliable and 100 percent reliable, in terms of the way that you conceive of the product," Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, said on The Verge's Decoder podca

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Acer Predator Helios 16S AI Review: Great Performance, Annoying Crashes

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-12-18 11:30:00

Keeping up with the intricacies of Acer’s Predator Helios gaming laptop line isn’t easy. The long-running series (dating back to 2017) now commands 12 different models, distinguished by screen size, the inclusion of AI acceleration (models with an “AI” suffix), and general affordability (denoted by the “Neo” suffix)—in every possible combination. Today, I’m reviewing the Predator Helios 16S AI, which boasts high-end specs and performance—especially in graphics-intensive tasks—but manages to kee

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UFC 319: du Plessis vs. Chimaev — Everything to Know to Watch via Livestream

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 15:00:04

After a week that has seen the premier MMA promotion company ink a new multi-billion dollar TV deal, as well as firm up plans for an event at the White House, it's back to business in the Octagon this weekend, with UFC 319 offering up an intriguing middleweight title fight in Chicago. Saturday's main event sees South Africa's Dricus du Plessis aiming for a third successful title defense in a row as he takes on unbeaten Russian challenger Khamzat Chimaev. Du Plessis claimed the title with a win

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The Folk Economics of Housing

news.ycombinator.com Elmendorf 2025-12-19 11:10:41

Abstract Why is housing supply so severely restricted in US cities and suburbs? Urban economists offer two primary hypotheses: homeowner self-interest and political fragmentation. Homeowners, who outnumber and have organizational advantages over renters, are said to lobby against development to protect their property values. The fragmentation hypothesis emphasizes that development's negative externalities are borne locally while most of the benefits accrue regionally or nationally, leading local

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Best Travel Headphones for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 14:23:00

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds: Bose has released its improved QC Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen), which means you'll be able to find discounts on the original QC Ultra Earbuds. They feature excellent sound and previously best-in-class noise-canceling performance. Jabra Elite 8 Active Gen 2: Jabra billed these earbuds, which have unfortunately been discontinued, as the "world's toughest earbuds," and based on our tests (they survived several drops without a scratch), that may very well be true. While

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TikTok’s new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-19 15:17:48

TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed. While the update largely rewrites the original text for simplicity’s sake, there are a few items that jump out in the new revision — notably how TikTok prioritizes its marketplace, how deeply it personalizes the experience per user, and a small change to the type of

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I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked

news.ycombinator.com Isaak Tsalicoglou 2025-12-20 05:02:25

This post documents how I built a cross-platform Elixir NIF in C to get on-demand up-to-date disk-usage stats without relying on os_mon and its disksup service. I had Grok 3 generate the initial C code and Makefile, then iterated through multiple code reviews by Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-5 to make it work on Linux, macOS, Windows, and the BSDs (except DragonFlyBSD). Along the way, I ran into typical LLM hiccups that speak volumes about the breathless hyperbole often peddled by LLM vendors, comput

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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 06:54:14

Since launching Bluesky two years ago, we’ve grown tremendously. As our community has expanded, feedback on our terms of service, community guidelines, copyright, and privacy policies has surfaced opportunities to improve clarity. With more experience under our belt and an evolving regulatory landscape, we’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail. For our Community Guidelines, we’re asking for input from the community. The propose

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Great Myths #16: The Conflict Thesis

news.ycombinator.com Tim O'Neill 2025-12-20 02:21:29

The “Conflict Thesis” forms a kind of underlying historial metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial amount of historical assumptions by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervasive

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Amazon Is Expanding Same-Day Grocery Delivery to Over 2000 Cities

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-25 00:50:59

Amazon wants people to shop for eggs, milk, and other fresh groceries on its online shop. The e-commerce giant announced on Wednesday that same-day delivery for perishable grocery items, including meat and seafood, is now available in more than 1,000 cities, including Phoenix, Orlando, Raleigh, and Milwaukee. It plans to expand the service even further to over 2,300 U.S. cities by the end of the year and even more towns in 2026. “We’re continuously innovating to make grocery shopping simpler,

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India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-25 10:08:08

Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India, has quietly begun beta testing its food delivery service in Bengaluru, marking its first serious move to challenge market leaders Swiggy and Zomato in one of the world’s fastest-growing delivery markets. The 10-year-old startup has started testing its food delivery service in three primary localities in the southern city of Bengaluru, namely Byrasandra, Tavarekere, and Madiwala (BTM) Layout, Hosur Sarjapura Road (HSR) Layout, and Koramangala, Ra

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Amazon adds perishable food to same-day delivery

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 20:21:44

Amazon is expanding its same-day grocery delivery service with the addition of perishable food items in over 1,000 US cities. Shoppers can now add fresh grocery items like produce, dairy, meat, seafood and frozen foods to their orders. Grocery and non-grocery items can be combined into one order, checked out from one cart and received together on the same day. The company had trialed this service in the Phoenix area last year. Prime members continue to get free same-day delivery where available

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Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-26 05:52:55

An independent contractor wearing a protective mask and gloves loads Amazon Prime grocery bags into a car outside a Whole Foods Market in Berkeley, California, on Oct. 7, 2020. Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery of fresh foods to more pockets of the U.S. as it looks to encourage shoppers to add meat and eggs to their order while they're browsing its sprawling online store. The company announced Wednesday it's bringing the service to more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns, including Raleigh

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Amazon rolls out same-day delivery of perishable groceries in 1,000 US cities

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-26 05:40:54

Amazon is now letting shoppers in 1,000 cities across the U.S. order perishable food items through its Same-Day Delivery service, as the e-commerce giant seeks to compete more directly with Instacart and Walmart+ in the growing quick-commerce space. Amazon plans to expand the option to over 2,300 cities by the end of the year. Users can now order fresh grocery items, including produce, dairy, meat, seafood, baked goods and more, alongside everyday household products, electronics, and other item

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Experimental ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Cancer Vaccine Is Already Prolonging Lives, Study Suggests

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-28 20:25:25

An experimental “off-the-shelf” vaccine for recurring pancreatic and colorectal cancer is showing great promise so far. Early results show that the vaccine appears to be safe and is potentially prolonging people’s lives. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and elsewhere are developing the vaccine, called ELI-002. In Phase I trial data released this week, people who received ELI-002 often developed an immune response t

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Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 18:45:09

How long does delivery take? After printing has completed, domestic (USA) delivery typically takes 4-6 business days via USPS First Class Mail. International delivery takes 9-13 business days. We provide tracking so you can follow your postcard's journey. Est. Delivery: Aug 21–Aug 25 How does the voice message work? After creating your postcard, you'll record up to 60 seconds of audio. We generate a unique QR code that's printed on the postcard. Recipients simply scan it with their phone camera

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BLUETTI Summer Special Brings Portable Power Station, Projectors & AR Glasses Together — With Up to 10% Off

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-12-30 10:00:00

With warm summer evenings the perfect opportunity to enjoy some backyard or garden entertainment, Bluetti has teamed up with two other brands to offer up to 10% off on their portable power, projector, or AR glasses. Pairing Yaber’s battery-powered projector with BLUETTI’s power station provides nearly ten hours of non-stop viewing under the stars, while RayNeo AR glasses deliver an immersive personal entertainment experience. In this campaign, dubbed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, customers can en

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Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-12-30 23:11:55

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

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Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:55:28

One suspects these botanical additions were meant to stage a conversation with the original manuscript. A dedicatory Latin poem wishes the princess happiness and that she continue “growing for a long time like a little blossom”, while the accompanying watercolor marginalia shows various flowers in full spring bloom. On the next page, the poem envisions the princess’s honorable name “flourishing” in the land and bringing forth flowers — verse that is framed by racemes of asphodels. There are text

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Amazon Drone Beehive Concept (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Aurambout 2026-01-01 05:43:27

Transport is one of the main pillars of modern economies comprising a spectrum of individual systems and their interconnections that are intended to cover the mobility demand of people and goods. Transport systems include an extensive series of physical and organisational elements and are being characterised by an overall intrinsic complexity. These elements can be influencing each other directly and/or indirectly, linearly or nonlinearly, having also potential feedback cycles [1]. In particular

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The Great American EV Tax Credit Rush Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-31 17:39:05

The great EV buying frenzy has officially begun. In the last 48 hours, Tesla has seen delivery times for some of its most popular models skyrocket from a few weeks to nearly six months, a clear signal that consumers are stampeding to buy an electric vehicle before a crucial federal tax credit disappears for good. This is the short-term sales boom that experts have been predicting, a last-chance gold rush for buyers. But for the EV industry, it’s also a sugar rush that could lead to a brutal cra

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Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 10:55:26

The Yuppie Button page talks about making lots of light. Now I needed to do the opposite, by "going dark" -- to vanish completely from Hyundai's data network, and avoid having the car being tracked or actively interfered with outside of my control. See, this is one of the showstopping problems I have with Tesla -- they *insist* that you have your car online all the time, talking to Tesla's cloud and sending telematic data. Thank you, NO. The range of things that Hyundai's BlueLink setup is able

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