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HomeKit Weekly: SwitchBot’s Evaporative Humidifier gets smarter with Matter 1.4 support

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-02 13:00:00

SwitchBot released its Evaporative Humidifier last year, and it’s now even better thanks to newly upgraded firmware that includes Matter 1.4 support. The update brings faster setup and better cross-platform compatibility for a device type that is typucally stuck as a “dumb appliance” in your house. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibility. Unlike a lot of humidifiers, the SwitchBot Evaporative Humidifier uses cold

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Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 12:06:52

I host a bunch of hobby code on my server. I would think it’s really only interesting to me, but it turns out every day, thousands of people from all over the world are digging through my code, reviewing years old changesets. On the one hand, wow, thanks, this is very flattering. On the other hand, what the heck is wrong with you? This has been building up for a while, and I’ve been intermittently developing and deploying countermeasures. It’s been a lot like solving a sliding block puzzle. Lot

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Humanely Dealing with Humungus Crawlers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 17:06:52

I host a bunch of hobby code on my server. I would think it’s really only interesting to me, but it turns out every day, thousands of people from all over the world are digging through my code, reviewing years old changesets. On the one hand, wow, thanks, this is very flattering. On the other hand, what the heck is wrong with you? This has been building up for a while, and I’ve been intermittently developing and deploying countermeasures. It’s been a lot like solving a sliding block puzzle. Lot

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Apple sold me on iPhone Air with just three words

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-03 05:58:11

I always buy an iPhone Pro, but this year I opted for iPhone Air instead, and three words from Apple’s presentation—“power of Pro”—sum up why. iPhone Air is ultra-thin but has the “power of Pro” I’ve been excited about the iPhone Air since the first rumors emerged last year. Based on early reporting, I quickly proclaimed: “Air won’t be the best iPhone, but it will be the future.” I knew there would be battery and camera drawbacks. But I always expected the iPhone Air’s battery would be “good

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Google Photos could soon get its best looking Material 3 Expressive changes to date (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 13:49:28

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is getting the new album cover design that aligns with Material 3 Expressive. The redesign enhances album cover visibility and makes the title more prominent with a larger font. We’re also seeing changes to the menu options for albums In recent months, we have seen several signs of Google’s latest Material 3 Expressive design philosophy scattered around the Photos app. These instances include a refreshed homepage, new icons and progres

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How I use a smart outlet to save money on electricity bills every month

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-03 21:50:00

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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DOJ and states ask court to compel Apple to hand over documents in antitrust case

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-03 21:15:42

Apple is being accused of dragging its feet to produce important documents related to its antitrust case. Here are the details. A bit of background The DOJ brought its case against Apple in 2024, accusing it of antitrust behavior regarding multiple app categories, such as super apps, messaging apps, and cloud streaming gaming, as well as related to third-party smartwatches and third-party digital wallets. Apple, for its part, has attempted to dismiss the lawsuit, and as recently as last July,

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Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

news.ycombinator.com Stanford University 2025-10-03 21:04:25

Acknowledgement The authors would like to express their gratitude to Kaizhe Hu for assembling the second instance of ToddlerBot and assisting with keyframe animation and demo recording. We also extend our thanks to Huy Ha, Yen-Jen Wang, Pei Xu, and Yifan Hou for their insightful discussions on locomotion, and to Sirui Chen, Chen Wang, and Yunfan Jiang for valuable input on manipulation policy deployment. We are grateful to Albert Wu for his guidance on mathematical formulation and notation. Add

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Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-10-04 01:15:07

A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. Republican Senator Mike Crapo (it's pronounced Cray-poe), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the SSA's commissioner, Frank Bisignano, giving him just two weeks to provide answers to concerns raised last month by now-form

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ApeRAG: Production-ready GraphRAG with multi-modal indexing and K8s deployment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 01:06:43

ApeRAG 🚀 Try ApeRAG Live Demo - Experience the full platform capabilities with our hosted demo ApeRAG is a production-ready RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) platform that combines Graph RAG, vector search, and full-text search with advanced AI agents. Build sophisticated AI applications with hybrid retrieval, multimodal document processing, intelligent agents, and enterprise-grade management features. ApeRAG is the best choice for building your own Knowledge Graph, Context Engineering, an

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After Buying Paramount, MAGA Billionaire Larry Ellison’s Son Now Wants Warner Bros. Discovery: Report

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-04 13:15:45

Last month, Skydance Media, the entertainment giant, completed an $8 billion acquisition of one of Hollywood’s most prestigious studios, Paramount. Skydance, owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, now reportedly has its eyes set on another historic movie studio: Warner Bros. The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance is currently preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. If completed, the son of one of Donald Trump’s most powerful supporter

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If You’re a ‘Jaws’ Fan, Do Not Miss This New Exhibition

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-04 13:30:17

For 50 years, audiences all over the world have watched and marveled at the brilliance of Jaws. It’s long been one of the true masterpieces in the history of movies and, starting next week, you’ll get to experience it in a way you never have before: by actually being in its presence. On September 14, the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, CA, is opening “Jaws: The Exhibition,” an unprecedented collection of over 200 items from the development, production, and release of the Steven Spielberg classic.

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'How to Train Your Dragon' Streaming on Peacock: Release Date and Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 12:19:49

Need a live-action Night Fury in your life? The recent How to Train Your Dragon remake is hitting Peacock, so animated film fans can spend more time with the franchise's Vikings and dragons. The new version from Universal Pictures stars Mason Thames as the misfit Viking teen Hiccup, and Gerard Butler as Hiccup's dragon-loathing dad, Stoick the Vast (Butler also voices the character in the animated movie). Nico Parker plays Astrid, the tough girl Hiccup has a crush on, and Nick Frost plays the v

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Your appliances may be quietly draining electricity - this gadget stops that

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-04 17:39:10

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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Adjacency Matrix and std:mdspan, C++23

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:14:20

In graph theory, an adjacency matrix is a square matrix used to represent a finite (and usually dense) graph. The elements of the matrix indicate whether pairs of vertices are adjacent or not, and in weighted graphs, they store the edge weights. In many beginner-level tutorials, adjacency matrices are implemented using vector of vectors (nested dynamic arrays), but this approach has inefficiencies due to multiple memory allocations. C++23 introduces std::mdspan , which provides a more efficient

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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-04 16:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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The obstacles to scaling up humanoids

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ackerman 2025-10-05 00:38:58

Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at valuations that run into the billions. Delivering on these promises will require a lot of robots. Agility Robotics expects to ship “hundreds” of its Digit robots in 2025 and has a factory in Oregon capable of building over 10,000 robots per year. Tesla is planning to produce 5

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Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ackerman 2025-10-05 05:38:58

Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at valuations that run into the billions. Delivering on these promises will require a lot of robots. Agility Robotics expects to ship “hundreds” of its Digit robots in 2025 and has a factory in Oregon capable of building over 10,000 robots per year. Tesla is planning to produce 5

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‘Star Wars’ Actor Teases ‘Clone Wars’ Favorite May Be Poised to Return

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-05 13:08:53

The sprawling Star Wars universe is in a little bit of a “calm before the storm” moment, with a huge slate of upcoming films, shows, novels, and video games looming on the horizon like a binary sunset. And to add to the melee, an actor from the franchise’s TV darling, The Clone Wars, is teasing the return of a fan-favorite character. Speaking with The Direct, voice actor Jim Cummings appeared to confirm that his Clone Wars character, Hondo Ohnaka, will be making a return to the series. “I thin

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Partnering with generative AI in the finance function

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-05 17:00:00

Generative AI is also showing promise in functions like treasury, with use cases including cash, revenue, and liquidity forecasting and management, as well as automating contracts and investment analysis. However, challenges still remain for generative AI to contribute to forecasting due to the mathematical limitations of LLMs. Regardless, Deloitte’s analysis of its 2024 State of Generative AI in the Enterprise survey found that one-fifth (19%) of finance organizations have already adopted gener

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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-05 17:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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The 7 Best WIRED-Tested Handheld Vacuums (2025)

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-10-05 17:05:00

A Handheld vacuum may not be the most essential household appliance, but they sure are convenient. You don’t have to mess with heavy, cumbersome (and expensive) vacuums that require a plug-in and hazardous cords. Sure, there are cordless vacs to mitigate this problem, but those are also large and can be expensive. The handheld vacuum—compact, lightweight, and inexpensive—has come a long way in recent years. As vac technology keeps improving, handhelds are becoming more powerful and lightweight.

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Can we please keep our broadband money, Republican governor asks Trump admin

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-05 12:01:05

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has a simple request for the Trump administration: Don't take our broadband money away. Trump's Commerce Department rewrote the rules of the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program, forcing states to change how they spend money earmarked for expanding broadband access. The overhaul led states to reduce spending on fiber networks and increase spending on satellite—although not to the extent sought by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is de

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David Zaslav thinks HBO Max is ‘way underpriced’

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-06 03:57:34

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everyone’s favorite CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav, thinks HBO Max is ripe for a price hike. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference (doesn’t that sound like a fun time?) Zaslav argued that his company’s premium output can command a premium pric

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XNEdit – fast and classic X11 text editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 03:45:50

XNEdit Available on Sourceforge and Github Documentation

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Elon Musk Says Starlink Could Replace Your Cellphone Carrier

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 09:20:00

On Wednesday, just one day after SpaceX acquired $17 billion of wireless spectrum from telecommunications company EchoStar, Elon Musk made some typically bold claims for how he would put it to use. The second-richest person in the world described a vision where Starlink could be your one-stop-shop for connectivity, whether at home or when you’re away from your Wi-Fi. On the All-In podcast, Musk said Starlink could eventually combine its home internet service with mobile. But he was careful to n

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Emerging markets lead Apple’s 3% gain in premium smartphone sales [report]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-06 13:20:18

A new report by Counterpoint Research points to India and China as key drivers of Apple’s 3% year-over-year rise in global premium smartphone sales during the first half of 2025, despite a market share dip. Here are the details. For the past few months, we have covered multiple reports indicating that Apple had managed to reverse a years-long lull in iPhone sales in China, as it also strengthened its India footprint. In fact, both countries came up repeatedly during Apple’s Q3 2025 earnings cal

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WWE 2K25 Jumps From the Top Rope Onto PlayStation Plus in September

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 12:23:24

"The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes, son of one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is the current undisputed WWE champion. And PlayStation Plus subscribers can bring Rhodes down a peg or help establish a new wrestling dynasty with the champion beginning on Sept. 16 in WWE 2K25. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Ess

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‘Traumatika’ Puts a Gruesome Spin on the Idea of Facing Your Demons

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-07 01:00:16

The new indie horror film Traumatika opens with a title card informing us of the “five forms of childhood trauma,” unsubtly announcing what’s about to happen over the next 80 minutes. Then we’re in the Egyptian desert, circa 1910, watching an anguished man bury a sinister-looking figurine in the sand. Only then do we arrive in the 21st century, where terrible things are very much afoot. The flashback adds a little bit of context, but it feels unnecessary; a cursed object is a not-uncommon horro

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‘Here We Go!’: Trump Weighs in After Russian Drones Shot Down Over Poland

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-07 05:40:24

NATO fighter jets shot down at least three Russian drones in Polish airspace overnight after more than a dozen entered its eastern border, according to several reports. It was a historic action, the first time that NATO forces have shot down a Russian aircraft in a NATO country. But President Donald Trump didn’t offer much clarity about what the U.S. plans to do about it, writing a confusing Truth Social post on Wednesday that could be read several different ways. “What’s with Russia violating

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DOJ and states ask court to compel Apple to hand over documents in antitrust case

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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

The obstacles to scaling up humanoids

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Partnering with generative AI in the finance function

An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

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WWE 2K25 Jumps From the Top Rope Onto PlayStation Plus in September

‘Traumatika’ Puts a Gruesome Spin on the Idea of Facing Your Demons

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