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The Book of Shaders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 10:48:03

The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. Contents About the Authors Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York based artist and developer. He explores interstitial spaces between organic and synthetic, analog and digital, individual and collective. In his work he uses code as an expressive language with the intention of developing a better together.

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OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-10 13:16:40

In Brief With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo obtained by Wired. In response to what appears to be a Meta hiring spree, Chen said that he, CEO Sam Altman, and other OpenAI leaders have been w

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Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-10 18:24:00

Microsoft's push into custom artificial intelligence hardware has hit a serious snag. Its next-generation Maia chip, code-named Braga, won't enter mass production until 2026 – at least six months behind schedule. The Information reports that the delay raises fresh doubts about Microsoft's ability to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market and underscores the steep technical and organizational hurdles of building competitive silicon. Microsoft launched its chip program to reduce its h

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Playdate Season 2 review: Tiny Turnip and Chance's Lucky Escape

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-10 14:45:52

It's hard to believe that Playdate Season Two is almost over already, but here we are in week five with just one more drop of new games left to go after this. In the latest batch, we got the climbing metroidvania, Tiny Turnip, and Chance's Lucky Escape, a short point-and-click adventure that leans into the absurd. In line with the rest of this season's games, which have consistently been really solid, they're both pretty damn fun. Tiny Turnip Luke Sanderson Tiny Turnip is one of the standouts

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4-10x faster in-process pub/sub for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 13:19:19

Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher This package offers a high-performance, in-process event dispatcher for Go, ideal for decoupling modules and enabling asynchronous event handling. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous processing, focusing on speed and simplicity. High Performance: Processes millions of events per second, about 4x to 10x faster than channels. Processes millions of events per second, about than channels. Generic: Works with any type implementing the Event interface

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Reverse Engineering the Microchip CLB

news.ycombinator.com Reverse Engineering The Microchip Clb 2025-09-10 19:30:02

Microchip added a very cool peripheral called the Configurable Logic Block (CLB) to there new PIC16F13145 microcontroller family. It’s essentially a small FPGA (32 LUTs) that can connect to the internals of the chip. However, they don’t document how to configure it yourself, only referring you to their online configurator tool that submits jobs to an API that places and routes to LUTs. The [CLB] Interface does not appear as an SFR in the Register Map and is not directly user-accessible; it is

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12 New Summer Anime Releases to Add to Your Watch List Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 18:30:03

It's time to relax into some deliciously good summer anime, with the return of titles like Dan Da Dan, Sakamoto Days and Kaiju No. 8, as well as some fresh arrivals. Can you believe Grand Blue Dreaming is back on TV after all this time? We don't blame you if you get excited or if your downloads go crazy. To help you prep your watch list this season, we've highlighted a selection of TV series on various streaming services, such as Crunchyroll and Netflix. Monsters, drama and more stories await y

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NASA Continues Testing Multi-Billion Dollar Rocket While Trump Is Actively Trying to Cancel It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-10 14:30:17

Despite president Donald Trump's plans to phase out Boeing's mega-expensive Space Launch System rocket for NASA, the agency is currently trundling ahead with the original plan. As Ars Technica reports, NASA and Northup Grumman tested an experimental hydrogen-based propulsion engine this week that's slated to launch the world's first crewed trip to the Moon as part of the agency's long-awaited Artemis mission. Unfortunately, this week's SLS engine test — the second such test launch in a week —

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-10 16:00:19

Image by Getty / Futurim Developments Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses luminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the brain metabolizes energy, it releases super-faint traces of visible light. Called ultra-weak photon emissions (UPEs), the flashes of light are emitted when electrons break

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I spent a week living like it was 1993 — here’s how it went

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 14:00:07

Nathan Drescher / Android Authority Last week, I embarked upon an experiment. I wanted to know what it would feel like to live as if it were 1993 again. That year was the tail end of the analog era, just before the internet and Windows 95 and the first dot com bubble. I was a kid then, so I had some memory of how things were. But could I still function in that world today? For one week, I lived without modern technology unless it was absolutely necessary for work and emergencies. I carried a D

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Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-10 19:03:19

Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information. Researchers confirmed that 29 devices from Beyerdynamic, Bose, Sony, Marshall, Jabra, JBL, Jlab, EarisMax, MoerLabs, and Teufel are affected. The list of impacted products includes speakers, earbuds, headphones, and wireless microphones. The security problems could be leveraged to take over a vulnerable product and on

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1500W Portable Power Station Is Cheaper Than on Black Friday, And You’ll Get a Free 200W Solar Panel Too

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-10 14:40:03

Amazon is kicking off Prime Day deals earlier this year, and the sale isn’t exclusive to Prime members: Perhaps one of the best deals of the moment is on the Jackery bundle which includes the portable power station and a 200W solar panel. Normally the power station alone is selling for $799, but here you’re getting the Jackery Explorer 1000 V2 and 200W solar panel combination for just $698. That’s a staggering 46% off the normal bundle price of $1,299, which is an all-time low for this setup.

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Notorious Fungus Blamed for ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Is Now a Promising Cancer Treatment

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-10 15:00:30

In the 1920s, a number of workers on the excavation team that uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb met untimely deaths. Five decades later, 10 out of 12 scientists died after entering the tomb of the 15th-century Polish King Casimir IV. In both cases, researchers suggested that fungal spores could have played a role in the mysterious deaths, specifically identifying the fungus Aspergillus flavus within the Polish burial. A. flavus is now making a comeback, but not as a reawakened killer from ancie

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Anker Is Going All In, This 3-Port 65W USB-C Charger Is Almost Free Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-10 15:40:47

Anker’s range of chargers is known for delivering fast and safe power to just about any device. Phones, tablets, laptops – Anker always delivers fast, secure charging. The Anker USB-C charger Nano II 65W is one of the most popular models on Amazon, consistently receiving excellent reviews from thousands of users (almost 14,000 five star ratings). Right now, it’s available at its lowest price ever – just $29, down from the regular $40, just before Prime Day. This deal is available to everyone, n

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Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-09-10 17:00:04

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human genome and transform our understanding of health and disease. But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca-esque future full of designer babies. Now,

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The 2025 MacBook Air Now Costs as Much as a Budget Laptop, Amazon Clears Out Stock Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-10 17:10:48

Amazon has released its first early Prime Day deals at the weekend, and the plus point is that they are available to everyone, not just Prime members. Among the highest demand picks is the 2025 13-inch MacBook Air which is already the year’s top bestseller. With a whopping 4.8 out of 5 star rating from nearly a thousand reviews, people have fallen in love with this model. What’s even more surprising is that it’s already at its all-time lowest price: only $849 instead of the usual $999 for the 2

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CEOs Are Quietly Telling Us the Truth: AI Is Replacing You

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-10 18:52:36

The fear is real. In meetings, Slack chats, and after-work drinks, one question is quietly eating away at millions of employees: Will AI take my job? In public, CEOs like to sound reassuring. They say generative AI will “enhance productivity” or “streamline operations.” But when you actually read what they’re telling their own employees, or what slips out in investor memos, the message is chilling: virtual workers are here, and they’re not just assistants. They’re replacements. Let’s take a cl

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Are These 20 Kitchen Tools Absolutely Worthless? These Pros Think So

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 13:00:07

Kitchen space is precious, especially if you're working with limited counters and packed cabinets. The last thing anyone needs is a drawer full of gimmicky gadgets that never get used. Whether it's a strawberry huller you forget about or a banana slicer that takes up more space than it's worth, single-use tools can quickly become clutter. Professional chefs know better than anyone which tools are truly essential and which are just hype. If you're aiming for a more efficient, minimalist kitchen,

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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-10 14:00:58

Stephen Hawking, a British physicist and arguably the most famous man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicated with the world using a sensor installed in his glasses. That sensor used tiny movements of a single muscle in his cheek to select characters on a screen. Once he typed a full sentence at a rate of roughly one word per minute, the text was synthesized into speech by a DECtalk TC01 synthesizer, which gave him his iconic, robotic voice. But a lot has changed since

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10 Best Dash Kitchen Appliances (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-09-10 16:04:00

Dash is the mini-me of the kitchen world, best known for its impossibly low-cost Mini Waffle Maker ($13) and wee egg cookers. The best Dash kitchen appliances are ingenious about packing surprising functionality into a tiny package—saving both counter space and cash in your bank account. This has, of course, made Dash a viral fixture on TikTok, with scads of recipes for mini-waffles and keto-friendly chaffles. Former WIRED reviewer Brenda Stolyar found Dash to be a godsend for tiny New York apa

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I can’t believe how far Switch emulation has come in the year since Nintendo killed it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 18:30:37

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority It’s been a few weeks since the Nintendo Switch 2 hit shelves, but if we’re being perfectly honest, there’s not much reason to buy one yet. I’ve been revisiting my OG Switch to stave off the FOMO, but I was sad to learn that my left Joy-Con now drifts so badly that Link runs in circles like he’s drunk in Breath of the Wild. Instead of shelling out $40 for another Joy-Con with a ticking drift timer, I reached for something I hadn’t touched in a while: Switch e

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Google just gave its Photos app the feature upgrade it deserves - here's what's new

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-10 17:30:14

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After hitting pause three weeks ago, Google is resuming rollout of its AI-powered Ask Photos feature. This time around, the company says, things should be better. Last fall, Google slowly began rolling out a new feature that lets you ask queries to find particular pictures in your Photos app. You might ask something like, "Where was that restaurant we ate at in San Francisco?" or "Show me all the selfies I took in NYC museums," and Gemini will find what yo

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Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong station

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Jones 2025-09-10 18:48:13

HELSINKI — Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks. Astronaut Chen Zhongrui opened the Wentian module hatch at 3:04 a.m. Eastern (0704 UTC) June 26, beginning activities, ascending to the tip of Tiangong’s robotic arm. Mission commander Chen Dong, wearing a Feitian EVA suit with blue stripes, joined his colleague two hours later. Wang Jie, formerly an engineer with the China Aerospace S

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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

news.ycombinator.com Charles Rosenbauer 2025-09-10 15:07:03

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. This is Moore’s Law. Roughly every five years, the cost to build a factory for making such chips doubles, and the number of companies that can do it halves. 25 years ago, there were about 40 such companies and the cost to build a fab was about $2-4 billion. Today, there are either two or three such companies left (depending on your optimism toward Intel) and the cost to build a fab is in excess of $1

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Infrastructure at Roblox

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 11:58:20

Throttling is a very accepted concept in computer science. But this is the most misused and misunderstood lever of computer science. When new engineers join Roblox, their first solutions often include, “If we could just tell our creators to tweak this config or slow down their events…”. Veteran Roblox engineers then gently explain our value of respecting the community and that we don’t tell our creators what to do. For example, most gaming systems have a simple solution for matchmaking when mil

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Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-09-10 13:43:54

Synthesized video from Dawid van Straaten, prompt (“Generate me a video of two men playing chess”) in which the player for black reaches across the table and, in the midst of a rather unusual position moves his opponent’s pawn horizontally, and quite illegally, several squares across the board. A few weeks ago, I had the singular honor of recording a podcast (to be released soon) with one of my heroes, Garry Kasparov, not only one of the greatest chess players of all time, but also one of the b

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Landmark deepfake law aims to give Denmark's citizens rights over their image, voice, and likeness

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-10 10:17:00

Denmark has proposed sweeping legislation to curb the rise of AI-generated deepfakes, positioning itself as a leader in European digital rights protection. The suggested amendment to Danish copyright law would grant individuals explicit ownership of their image, voice, and facial features – empowering them to demand the removal of unauthorized digital copies from online platforms. The move comes as deepfake technology grows more accessible and sophisticated. These digital forgeries convincingly

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Week in Review: Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

techcrunch.com Karyne Levy 2025-09-10 11:05:00

Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week — Travis Kalanick is possibly returning to the world of self-driving vehicles, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new “F1” movie, and much more. Quick note that we will be off next week for the July 4 holiday. Have a great weekend! And another one: Meta snagged a key OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to boost its new AI superintelligence team. He’s the same guy w

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Landmark deepfake law aims to give Danish citizens legal control over their digital identity

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-10 15:17:00

Denmark has proposed sweeping legislation to curb the rise of AI-generated deepfakes, positioning itself as a leader in European digital rights protection. The suggested amendment to Danish copyright law would grant individuals explicit ownership of their image, voice, and facial features – empowering them to demand the removal of unauthorized digital copies from online platforms. The move comes as deepfake technology grows more accessible and sophisticated. These digital forgeries convincingly

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Stablecoins go mainstream: Why banks and credit card firms are issuing their own crypto tokens

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Jordan Smith 2025-09-10 11:00:01

In this article PYPL SHOP COIN CRCL V MA JPM Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A $44 billion IPO. A Senate bill with bipartisan momentum. And now, a wave of Fortune 500 firms launching crypto tokens of their own. Stablecoins — once a niche corner of the cryptocurrency world — are entering the corporate and policy mainstream, potentially reshaping how money moves in the United States and around the world. "Many of the users out there today are not aware of stablecoins, or not

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The Book of Shaders

OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

Playdate Season 2 review: Tiny Turnip and Chance's Lucky Escape

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12 New Summer Anime Releases to Add to Your Watch List Right Now

NASA Continues Testing Multi-Billion Dollar Rocket While Trump Is Actively Trying to Cancel It

Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

I spent a week living like it was 1993 — here’s how it went

Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

1500W Portable Power Station Is Cheaper Than on Black Friday, And You’ll Get a Free 200W Solar Panel Too

Notorious Fungus Blamed for ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Is Now a Promising Cancer Treatment

Anker Is Going All In, This 3-Port 65W USB-C Charger Is Almost Free Before Prime Day

Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch

The 2025 MacBook Air Now Costs as Much as a Budget Laptop, Amazon Clears Out Stock Before Prime Day

CEOs Are Quietly Telling Us the Truth: AI Is Replacing You

Are These 20 Kitchen Tools Absolutely Worthless? These Pros Think So

A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

10 Best Dash Kitchen Appliances (2025), Tested and Reviewed

I can’t believe how far Switch emulation has come in the year since Nintendo killed it

Google just gave its Photos app the feature upgrade it deserves - here's what's new

Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong station

The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

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Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world

Landmark deepfake law aims to give Denmark's citizens rights over their image, voice, and likeness

Week in Review: Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

Landmark deepfake law aims to give Danish citizens legal control over their digital identity

Stablecoins go mainstream: Why banks and credit card firms are issuing their own crypto tokens

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