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Slowing down programs is surprisingly useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:38:35

Most research on programming language performance asks a variation of a single question: how can we make some specific program faster? Sometimes we may even investigate how we can use less memory. This means a lot of research focuses solely on reducing the amount of resources needed to achieve some computational goal. So, why on earth might we be interested in slowing down programs then? Slowing Down Programs is Surprisingly Useful! Making programs slower can be useful to find race conditions

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3 Things James O’Donnell is into right now

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-12-01 08:00:00

Overthink This is a podcast in which two very smart people (who happen to be young and hilarious professors of philosophy) draw unexpected philosophical connections between facets of modern life. Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán have done hour-long episodes on everything from mommy issues to animal justice, with particularly sharp segments on tech-adjacent issues like biohacking and the relationship between AI and art. Whenever I think society is dealing with a brand-new problem, these two

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How to Slow Down a Program? and Why It Can Be Useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 09:38:35

Most research on programming language performance asks a variation of a single question: how can we make some specific program faster? Sometimes we may even investigate how we can use less memory. This means a lot of research focuses solely on reducing the amount of resources needed to achieve some computational goal. So, why on earth might we be interested in slowing down programs then? Slowing Down Programs is Surprisingly Useful! Making programs slower can be useful to find race conditions

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Reimagining sound and space

technologyreview.com Mackenzie White 2025-12-02 04:00:00

“It would be very difficult to teach biology or engineering in a studio designed for dance or music,” Jay Scheib, section head for Music and Theater Arts, told MIT News shortly before the building officially opened. “The same goes for teaching music in a mathematics or chemistry classroom. In the past, we’ve done it, but it did limit us.” He said the new space would allow MIT musicians to hear their music as it was intended to be heard and “provide an opportunity to convene people to inhabit the

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Listen to the ‘Tron: Ares’ Soundtrack the Way It’s Meant to Be Heard: On Tape

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-02 18:45:04

Along with the digital release of the Tron: Ares soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails is playing up the nostalgic music tech sensibilities of the franchise with its score on physical media. Collectors will be able to snag not only multiple vinyl variants of the music from the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures release but also a special edition cassette tape, which, for us ’90s NIN fans, is how we first listened to the industrial rock act. The analog release will only be available through the Nine Inch Nails

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Beat-driven puzzler Lumines Arise will overload your senses on November 11

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 18:00:08

Fans of music-driven puzzlers loved 2018's block-dropping puzzle game Tetris Effect . The same publisher behind it, Enhance, revived another Tetris-inspired game called Lumines and created indie darling Lumines Remastered . Now Lumines is getting the full Enhance treatment a la Tetris Effect, in the form of Lumines Arise, a new title set to be released on November 11. We got a chance to go hands-on with the music-driven, block-dropping puzzle game earlier this summer. The game's sensory-rich ef

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Easily switch from Spotify to Apple Music in the US; Spotify DMs

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-03 22:37:50

Earlier this year, we saw an Apple Music tool intended to make it easier to switch from Spotify, and that tool is now available in more countries, including the US. But wait! Are you sure you really want to do that when Spotify has just rolled out its very latest feature? Direct messages … Spotify to Apple Music transfer tool First seen in beta last year, Apple started a slow roll out of the transfer tool this year, beginning with Australia and New Zealand. The feature has now come to the US

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Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 08:54:44

I'm what you might call a "Stone Age" programmer. Not because I code with rocks and sticks, but because my toolkit is filled with ancient relics like LISP and OCaml - functional programming languages that are about as popular in today's enterprise world as flip phones at a tech conference. I spent three glorious years in the industry writing functional code, and let me tell you, it was like being a minimalist artist in a world of reality TV. Those languages taught me to appreciate the elegance

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YouTube Music just copied one of Spotify's best features - what's new

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-08 04:15:08

YouTube Music / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways YouTube Music is 10, and it's introducing new features. Taste Match will work just like Spotify Blend. The music streaming service has more than 300 million tracks. YouTube Music is 10, and it's dropping some new features to celebrate. Also: How to download YouTube videos for free - 2 ways, including my favorite In a blog post about its 10th birthday, YouTube revealed

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For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 04:44:44

“I was talking with my colleagues at a conference 10 years ago and I just casually said that everyone loves music,” recalls Josep Marco Pallarés, a neuroscientist at the University of Barcelona. But it was a statement he started to question almost immediately, given there were clinical cases in psychiatry where patients reported deriving absolutely no pleasure from listening to any kind of tunes. So, Pallarés and his team spent the past 10 years researching the neural mechanisms behind a condit

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Build Log: Macintosh Classic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 06:14:26

Continuing the retro computer series, I've recently completed the first part of a restoration of my Aunt's old Macintosh Classic. This Classic was handed to me alongside my Uncle Mark's Apple II, which I'll probably cover later (we've played a game of whack-a-mole with issues on that machine! Well worth it but I haven't hit a point where enough things are working to cover it well, heh). The Classic is a strange Mac—it was introduced in 1990 as a budget version of the 1986 Macintosh Plus, with

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X pulls the ability to like and follow from its developer API’s free tier

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-08 18:57:03

In an effort to cut down on abuse and fake engagement, Elon Musk’s X is removing access to two key features of its developer API for those on the free plan. Now, free users will no longer be able to use the API to like posts on behalf of a user, nor follow other users. The company says these changes will help protect X’s platform from “spam, bots, and manipulative activities” that degrade the user experience. Developers on paid plans like the Basic, Pro, or Enterprise tiers will be unaffected.

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YouTube’s new integration lets you discover live concerts nearby, with a sweet Premium perk

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 15:38:51

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has partnered with Bandsintown to bring concert listings and notifications for nearby shows on the platform. While the new concert discovery integration has also been announced for YouTube Music, it’s actually rolling out first on YouTube. Bandsintown users also get an exclusive bonus in the form of a free two-month trial of YouTube Premium. YouTube is making it easier for fans of live music to discover upcoming concerts. While the new concer

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Spotify gets deeper Instagram integration

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-09 22:13:55

Spotify is expanding how users can share their music on Instagram with two new features rolling out globally today. Audio previews in Stories Audio previews are now included when posting tracks to Stories, while Instagram Notes gets real-time music updates that show what you are currently listening to. Sharing songs to Instagram Stories now includes a short audio clip automatically. Friends can listen to the preview directly in the Story and tap the music sticker to open the full track in Spo

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YouTube Music at 10 wants to make fandom more interactive

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 14:03:14

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is celebrating 10 years with new features, including playlist comments. The update also brings daily refreshed “taste match” playlists and more concert info via Bandsintown. Fans will be able to earn more badges and help push official videos to milestone view counts. Just yesterday, we dug through the YouTube Music app and found evidence that playlist comments were coming. Less than 24 hours later, YouTube has announced the feature. We’ll le

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Apple One just got harder to resist, with more coming soon

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-10 14:08:44

Bundling is fast becoming one of the big success stories for streaming services, and Apple seems to know that, making Apple One even harder to resist with its new Apple TV+ price increase and the forthcoming iOS 26 update to Apple Music. The growing power of bundles in streaming era Apple One launched in 2019, and since that time bundling has become even more of a success story than ever. Amazon Prime is the classic example, but several streaming services have recently proven the strategy a w

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Spotify adds audio previews and real-time music sharing to Instagram Stories and Notes

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-11 04:13:55

Spotify is expanding how users can share their music on Instagram with two new features rolling out globally today. Audio previews in Stories Audio previews are now included when posting tracks to Stories, while Instagram Notes gets real-time music updates that show what you are currently listening to. Sharing songs to Instagram Stories now includes a short audio clip automatically. Friends can listen to the preview directly in the Story and tap the music sticker to open the full track in Spo

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YouTube Music turns 10 and adds new ‘taste match’ playlists

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-11 04:40:11

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. YouTube Music is launching shared playlists that evolve based on the listening habits of the people who join them. The platform announced the new “taste match” playlists as part of its 10th anniversary on Thursday, and says it will refresh them with new music ev

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YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-11 04:00:00

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, which are playlists that combine multiple users’ overlapping interests, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also start notifying users of upcoming releases, merch, and concerts, and is partnering with Bandsintown to help fans discover concerts when watching videos and Shorts on YouTube itself.

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Moises app can now generate AI bandmates based on a single instrument recording

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-12 14:02:15

In an update earlier today, the 2024 iPad App of the Year, Moises, released an impressive feature called AI Studio. It takes a recording of a single instrument and generates other instruments that match the original beat and style. Here’s how it works. Moises is hands-down one of the most impressive AI music apps in recent years Last year, Apple chose the musical app Moises as iPad App of the Year, and with good reason. Moises launched in 2020 and quickly became a go-to app for AI-powered ins

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Spirit Halloween Has Made the Most Affordable ‘Jurassic Park’ Goggles Replica We’ve Seen

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-12 14:45:21

The iconic T. rex escape scene is seared into the collective core memory of Jurassic Park fans. Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster franchise is full of memorable moments, from the jiggling water to the lawyer running to the bathroom. But if you, like me, had the film as one of your earliest and most life-changing cinema-going experiences, there’s not a detail forgotten—especially not the goggles. You know the ones that Tim grabs and the lawyer tells him to put back, because if they’re heavy, “they’r

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The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-12-10 11:29:54

Intro: The Ballad of Crazy Frog Sometimes, human creativity gives us The Godfather, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, and The Wire—and sometimes that same ingenuity gives us Crazy Frog. When it comes to Crazy Frog, people generally fall into three camps: Those who vividly remember this meme-turned-ringtone-turned-song and would like to forget. Those who've forgotten whether Crazy Frog is the name of a song or artist or noise, subsequently stream this track, remember it, and are regretful. Those born

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Show HN: I've made an easy to extend and flexible JavaScript logger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:20:37

Halua Package that takes control of logging, metrics and other stuff. Supports Text, JSON, Console handlers as output. Custom handlers can be easily created and used. documentation There is a short doc Tour of Halua - it describes basic concepts installation

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YouTube Music could soon let you comment on playlists, here’s what we know (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 05:09:23

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is working on bringing comments to YouTube Music playlists. YouTube Music already allows comments on audio, video, and podcast content. If it succeeds, YouTube might also bring comments to video playlists on the main app. Two years ago, Google rolled out YouTube’s most hotly debated feature to YouTube Music. The comments section, which is both a treasure chest of insights and a bottomless pit of bullying remarks, is currently available for audio,

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The Creator of ‘Severance’ Just Explained a Key Logistical Question

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-15 09:45:59

When it comes to Severance, there are rarely simple answers. Everything is wrapped in mystery and intrigue. Which, admittedly, is kind of the best part about it. We love to explore and speculate about what’s going on at Lumon. And yet, getting an answer, even a small one, here and there is nice. Which is what the creator of the show, Dan Erickson, just did. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Erickson dodged questions about big topics like the structure of season three or the ultimate length of

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Last-minute Pixel 10 leak suggests controversial change is really happening

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:22:11

Google TL;DR A new leak appears to show Pixel 10 packaging with a message about eSIM setup. The image would support earlier claims that most Pixel 10 models may drop physical SIM trays. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is still expected to support hardware SIMs. With the Google Pixel 10 series launch less than 24 hours away, one question that remains after the many leaks and rumors is whether the phones will ditch physical SIM cards. A new image from reliable leaker Evan Blass might be our biggest clue

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Spotify copies Apple Music’s AutoMix feature before iOS 26 even ships

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-16 23:27:00

One of my favorite features in iOS 26 is AutoMix for Apple Music, which uses artificial intelligence to create DJ-like transitions between songs. Ahead of iOS 26 being released to everyone next month, Spotify is looking to steal some of Apple Music’s thunder with its own new spin on creating unique transitions between songs. In a blog post, Spotify explains that the feature allows users to create unique transitions between playlist songs by customizing things like volume, EQ, and effect curves

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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

news.ycombinator.com Althoff 2025-12-16 21:02:35

Study design We conducted a countrywide, prospective, longitudinal physical activity study of US residents that evaluated their physical activity levels within the context of the walkability of their built environments before and after relocation (‘participants’). We leveraged the naturally occurring physical activity data that was captured by a health app on participants’ phones to compare each person’s physical activity levels before and after they relocated to a different area within the USA

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Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-19 23:00:34

Alan Cumming teases his time filming Avengers: Doomsday. The team behind High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is returning to Disney for a new supernatural dramedy. Plus, Frank Grillo teases Rick Flag Sr.’s arc in Peacemaker season 2. Spoilers, assemble! Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Speaking at a convention in London called For the Love of Fantasy, Ian McKellen seemingly confirmed that Frodo will appear alongside Gandalf in Andy Serkis’ Gollum prequel (although it wasn’t conf

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Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria

wired.com Elana Klein 2025-12-20 18:00:00

If you’re a parent, an educator, or just someone who’s been to school, you’ve probably developed an opinion about generative AI in classrooms. You might fear the demise of the five-paragraph essay, the ever-increasing ease of cheating, or, worse, the end of critical thinking altogether. But don’t worry: The anxiety surrounding large language models in schools is anything but unprecedented. In 1975, teachers fretted that handheld calculators would undermine students’ capacity to “handle basic sk

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Slowing down programs is surprisingly useful

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Listen to the ‘Tron: Ares’ Soundtrack the Way It’s Meant to Be Heard: On Tape

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Spotify gets deeper Instagram integration

YouTube Music at 10 wants to make fandom more interactive

Apple One just got harder to resist, with more coming soon

Spotify adds audio previews and real-time music sharing to Instagram Stories and Notes

YouTube Music turns 10 and adds new ‘taste match’ playlists

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria

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