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A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 06:21:39

Sbixel Sbixel is a very simple pixel physics simulator I made to learn Rust. It uses macroquad for drawing — and I was pleasantly surprised by how simple and awesome it is! Quick demo (click for youtube link): ⚠️ This project is very basilar and doesn't have much ambition to go anywhere — it's mainly a learning sandbox. How It Works The simulation uses a "sector" system to reduce unnecessary processing by only simulating active areas of pixels. All settings related to simulation and perfo

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7 Best Tents (2025), Tested: Camping, Family, and Outdoor Palaces

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-12-09 22:00:00

REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I've ever used. It also proved itself one of the most waterproof large tents in our testing. It's a traditional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two side poles. The tent floor is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester, while the sides are a combination of mesh and 40D nylon. There's loads of storage pockets, double doors, great vents, and huge windows, making it comfortable even in summer heat. It's also one of t

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Fairphone’s new cables and chargers are both faster and tougher

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-10 00:17:06

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company says that they’re more durable and sustainably manufactured than its previous peripherals. And even for people without a Fairphone device, they should make for a more affordable entry point to its more ethical take on tech. The new USB cables are all C-to-C, but includ

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The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 is 33 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 05:56:27

Even though the Switch 2 basically just came out, we're already starting to see discounts on some of its accessories. One of the more charming peripherals, the HORI Piranha Plant camera, is on sale right now for only $40. That's $20 off and a record-low price. It's a good deal for anyone who wants to take advantage of the Switch 2's camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World and that recently-released campfire sim. This was designed specifically for Nintendo's new console, so it's a pl

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FTC: Older adults lost record $700 million to scammers in 2024

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 21:55:10

Americans aged 60 and older lost a staggering $700 million to online scams in 2024, marking a sharp rise in fraud targeting seniors, according to the Federal Trade Commission. This figure, presented in the agency's latest Consumer Protection Data Spotlight, represents an increase over all three categories of loss compared to previous years. Most notably, the amount of losses for those who lost over $100k recorded an eightfold jump compared to 2020. Below is an analysis of the amounts: Losses

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Google Calendar invites let researchers hijack Gemini to leak user data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 15:12:22

Google fixed a bug that allowed maliciously crafted Google Calendar invites to remotely take over Gemini agents running on the target's device and leak sensitive user data. The attack unfolded without requiring any user involvement beyond typical interactions with the assistant, which occur daily for users of Gemini. Gemini is Google's large language model (LLM) assistant integrated into Android, Google web services, and Google's Workspace apps, having access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Hom

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This iOS 26 update ruined the iPhone camera app for me - then Apple saved the day

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-10 16:55:13

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways iOS 26 introduces a new gesture behavior to the iPhone camera switcher. This shift in app navigation has caused frustration among pros and casual users. On the latest dev beta, Apple has added a toggle to revert the behavior to the original. While many would say that the public development of iOS 26 has been rocky, one recent feature, introduced in the latest developer beta, has given me renewed faith in Apple. When the company first launched the iOS 2

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CMF Phone 2 Pro Review: A Budget Phone With More Camera Than You Bargained For

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-10 15:30:31

We all want more for less—or at least I do. It’s that Holy Grail of deals that makes the idea of budget gadgets so appealing, and especially so in the world of phones. The whole idea of a budget phone is pitching you what may as well be the bargain of the century. For less money, budget phones ostensibly offer you a device that does it all: browses the web, retrieves your email, makes calls and texts, gives you near-unlimited access to apps, and even captures important memories like your niece’s

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This iOS 26 Toggle 'Fixes' a Camera App Redesign Issue You Might Have Noticed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-10 15:00:03

Apple released the second public beta of iOS 26 on Thursday, and the beta brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more features to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. The beta also introduces a redesigned Camera app that simplifies some aspects of the app. The Camera app revamp also inverts how you switch between different camera modes, like video, and it's horrible. After years of swiping in one direction to get to a photo mode, imagine my surprise when I swiped and was se

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How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:00:03

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It's one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. So when some apparently biological carbon was dated to at least 3.95 billion years ago—making it the oldest remains of life on Earth—the claim sparked interest and skepticism in equal measure, as Ars Technica reported in 2017. Whitehouse was among those skeptics. This July

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7 Best Tents (2025), Tested: Backpacking, Family, and Ultralight

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-12-10 16:00:00

REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I've ever used. It also proved itself one of the most waterproof large tents in our testing. It's a traditional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two side poles. The tent floor is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester, while the sides are a combination of mesh and 40D nylon. There's loads of storage pockets, double doors, great vents, and huge windows, making it comfortable even in summer heat. It's also one of t

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Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-10 16:52:30

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hyundai is now offering an “optional” security upgrade for the Ioniq 5 in the UK that prevents the car being stolen with a Game Boy-like device. Hyundai wants some Ioniq 5 owners to pay a £49 ($65) to upgrade hardware and software components to prevent thieves using handheld devices to unlo

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YouTube is expanding its powerful new search feature to more Premium users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 15:43:09

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI-powered search results carousel is rolling out to more Premium users in the US. According to the updated YouTube Premium page for experimental new features, the AI-powered search results carousel will be available until August 20. Google may decide to expand access to the feature once the testing period ends. YouTube is expanding access to its experimental AI-powered search results carousel to more Premium subscribers, though the feature still

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Google Pixel Buds 2a leak suggests price hike could be on the cards

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:24:20

Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR A reliable website has revealed more Pixel Buds 2a renders and apparent European pricing. The images give us a closer look at the earbuds and charging case. The Pixel Buds 2a will apparently start at €149 in Europe, making it significantly more expensive than the original model. Google is expected to launch the Pixel Buds 2a alongside the Pixel 10 phones on August 20. We’ve already seen specs and a few images showing off the earbuds, but a new leak has reve

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MKBHD reviews CarPlay Ultra

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-10 02:06:27

Tech’s favorite YouTuber MKBHD has reviewed CarPlay Ultra for the first time. We’ve seen a few CarPlay Ultra walkthroughs since Aston Martin shipped the first instance of next-gen CarPlay earlier this year. MKBHD always has an approachable and understandable take on tech, of course. His latest video on his cleverly named Auto Focus channel is no exception. CarPlay Ultra in the wild is incredibly rare as it’s only supported in select Aston Martin vehicles for now. There are currently no EVs wi

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Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 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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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-10 09:00:00

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin account that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carmaker’s centralized web portal. With this access, a m

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

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-12-10 17:11:55

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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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 06:19:25

About Type and the Role Type is an AI-native document editor. Our mission is to help people communicate confidently. We believe that writing is and will always be the backbone of clear thinking and effective communication, especially in the AI era. Tools like Type free writers up to do more high-level thinking – exploring more ideas before coming to a conclusion, testing lots of approaches to expressing a message, and arguing with the AI about the oxford comma. We're backed by Y Combinator a

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iPhone Users, Find Calls Faster With This Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-10 04:00:05

It can be frustrating to scroll through your iPhone's Recent calls tab to find the right voicemail or to remember when you talked to someone last. But when Apple introduced iOS 18 in 2024, it included a trick that let you find calls faster in your recent call history. That update brought a lot of new features, like customizable home screens and RCS messaging, as well as a search bar in your iPhone's Phone app. This lets you easily search your call history and voicemails. Before iOS 18, your Pho

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Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceries

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-10 09:00:00

It’s the lack of noise you notice first. There’s no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people. I’m at a warehouse — or customer fulfilment center (CFC) — operated by online grocery company Ocado in Luton, just outside London. You might not have heard of Ocado, but it may still have delivered your groceries. Its technology ha

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How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-10 09:15:17

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge Dart, and my grandmother had a 1988 Honda Accord — which would eventually become my first ca

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-10 06:00:00

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been targeted by a prolific scamming operation. The scam isn’t particularly complex, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages that look like genuine notifications for popular services, from postal deliveries to local government programs, unsuspecting victims click a link that loads a

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What Actually Happens If You Sign Up for One of Those Scammy "Online Jobs" Is Pretty Fascinating

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-10 05:18:51

Have you been getting unprompted text messages promising "high-paying jobs" or "easy money" for what sounds like suspiciously little work? If so, you're not alone. Job scam texts have proliferated over the past few years, thanks to increasingly sophisticated robotexting tech, lagging regulatory responses, and a cryptocurrency industry run amok. While the levelheaded among us tend to ignore or block these messages, one enterprising journalist decided to go down the rabbit hole and sign up with

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CarPlay connection issues? This might explain why

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-10 03:19:16

If your Apple CarPlay connection randomly drops out while driving, the cause might not be your iPhone, cable, or car. Radio interference, of all things, could be the cause of your troubles. An Axios report from this year details a peculiar phenomenon in Boston, where drivers lose their CarPlay or Android Auto connection at the exact same spots. Similar “dead zones” are likely in other cities, though they may go unreported. CarPlay units don’t handle GPS navigation on their own. Instead, they

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An engineer's perspective on hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 16:49:11

note for my friends: this post is targeted at companies and engineering managers. i know you know that hiring sucks and companies waste your time. this is a business case for why they shouldn't do that. hiring sucks most companies suck at hiring. they waste everyone’s time (i once had a 9-round interview pipeline!), they chase the trendiest programmers, and they can’t even tell programmers apart from an LLM. in short, they are not playing moneyball. things are bad for interviewees too. some o

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How I use Tailscale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 00:09:09

The Tailscale logo I’ve been using Tailscale for around four years to connect my disparate devices, servers and apps together. I wanted to talk a bit about how I use it, some cool features you might not know about, and some stumbling blocks I encountered. I’m not sure Tailscale needs an introduction for the likely audience of this blog, but I’ll give one anyway. Tailscale is basically a WireGuard orchestration service, with lots of nice features sprinkled on top. It’s a subscription product, b

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New Apple Card bonus lets you earn $75 for a limited time

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-10 04:02:37

Apple Card sign up offers used to be quite rare, but they’ve become quite regular occurrences. I’ve reported on numerous bonuses in the past year – and there’s yet another one now available for new users looking to get an Apple Card. The offer This time around, Apple is offering $75 in Daily Cash after you spend $75 in your first 30 days of being a cardholder. It isn’t the most flashy offer, but it’s better than the typical Apple Card sign up offer – which is nothing. You can get the offer at

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Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

news.ycombinator.com Frances Willick Is A Journalist With Cbc Nova Scotia. Please Contact Her With Feedback 2025-12-05 21:53:44

A Nova Scotia man is the proud owner of a 1985 Toyota Tercel. Despite being 40 years old, the car is in mint condition. But there is one thing wrong with it: the odometer doesn't go up high enough. The CBC's Frances Willick explains. If you were to spot Andy Campbell's ride on the road, you might not think too much about it. Maybe you'd think it's a bit dated — a throwback to an earlier time when cassette tapes were all the rage and backup cameras were just a glimmer in a car designer's eye.

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Best Home Security Cameras With Lights for 2025: Light up the Dark

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-10 02:00:00

Does the cam have two-way audio? Is it clear enough to be heard if the lighted cam is installed in a higher place? Does the camera have the ability to identify humans from animals and ignore vehicles? Do these features cost extra? Do you need a wired or wireless model? Are you will to manage battery charging for a wireless model? Do you have a junction box or nearby outlet for a wired cam? Does the camera have a higher resolution to capture more details? Does it have a wide enough field of vi

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A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

7 Best Tents (2025), Tested: Camping, Family, and Outdoor Palaces

Fairphone’s new cables and chargers are both faster and tougher

The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 is 33 percent off right now

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This iOS 26 update ruined the iPhone camera app for me - then Apple saved the day

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Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole

YouTube is expanding its powerful new search feature to more Premium users

Google Pixel Buds 2a leak suggests price hike could be on the cards

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Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

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An engineer's perspective on hiring

How I use Tailscale

New Apple Card bonus lets you earn $75 for a limited time

Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

Best Home Security Cameras With Lights for 2025: Light up the Dark

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