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I couldn’t find an ideal pet app, so I used Notion instead

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 12:00:48

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A lot of things have been falling by the wayside as I deal with work and life, including my chores, plans to make scheduled appointments, and other general tasks I need to complete in my daily life. I even nearly lost my phone number of 20 years. But as my garden turns to shambles and that cupboard remains unsorted and overflowing, one thing that I don’t want to compromise on is my pets’ health. I have two cats that I absolutely adore, so when I overestimate

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Notion’s offline mode might just make me ditch Obsidian

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 16:00:56

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Notion is one of my favorite tools. From databases to to-do lists, tracking restaurants I wanted to check out, and so much more, I’ve dabbled in it for years until I finally made the switch to Obsidian. That’s mostly because of Notion’s one fatal flaw. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. I’ve learned that the hard way on flights, cafes with rocky Wi-Fi, even when

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You might get a secret discount offer when you go to cancel Apple TV+

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-06 12:25:42

Apple TV+ just announced a 30% price rise, which may convince some subscribers to cancel and churn out for a while. However, the company seems to be prepared to mitigate for that somewhat. Users on Reddit discovered that when they went to cancel their subscription in the Apple TV app, they were presented with a 54% discount offer for two months. This limited time offer brings the price down from $12.99 to $5.99. After the two months price reduction, the subscription would return to the standar

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Turning Claude Code into my best design partner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 09:06:03

Published on August 18, 2025 When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about

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Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

news.ycombinator.com Stefan Krempl 2025-11-06 14:06:17

After more than four years of work, the Copyright Clearing House for the Internet (Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet, CUII), established in 2021, has declared itself "successful in the fight against criminal business models on the Internet." At the same time, it is responding to one of the main points of criticism, namely that a private body imposes restrictions on websites that are sensitive in terms of fundamental rights, largely unchecked and behind closed doors. The procedure is now to

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A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 12:15:03

A Short Introduction to Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distance These notes provide a brief introduction to optimal transport theory, prioritizing intuition over mathematical rigor. A more rigorous presentation would require some additional background in measure theory. Other good introductory resources for optimal transport theory include: Why Optimal Transport Theory? A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to come up with useful measures of “distance” between pairs o

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Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

news.ycombinator.com Eric J. Ma 2025-11-06 14:28:52

written by Eric J. Ma on | tags: In this blog post, I share how I discovered a powerful Python trick: dynamically changing a function's source code at runtime using the compile and exec functions. This technique enabled me to build more flexible AI bots, like ToolBot, that can generate and execute code with access to the current environment. While this opens up exciting possibilities for LLM-powered agents and generative UIs, it also raises serious security concerns. Curious how this hack can s

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A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-06 14:00:14

When searching for the unknown, classic physics wisdom holds that a bigger detector boosts the chances of discovery. A physicist is taking that advice to heart, advancing a bold plan to use none other than Ganymede—Jupiter’s largest moon—as a dark matter detector on an astronomical scale. Dark matter refers to the “invisible” mass that supposedly constitutes 85% of the universe. There’s considerable evidence that dark matter exists, but it’s “dark,” meaning it doesn’t respond to light and very

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Vibration Plates: Fitness Experts Explain the Best Way to Use This Workout Tool

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 15:00:00

When you're trying to lose weight or build muscle, figuring out what actually works can be frustrating. There are plenty of options, from lifting weights to cardio classes, and now vibration plates are part of the conversation. But does standing on a shaking platform really help you get stronger or shed pounds, or is it just another short-lived trend? To find out, we talked to personal trainers and other fitness experts. They explained how vibration plates are supposed to work, the benefits you

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-11-06 12:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-11-06 14:00:00

The Nintendo 64 was a fantastic console, home to generation-defining games such as Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. With its four built-in controller ports, it revolutionized multiplayer gaming in front of the TV, and it was the first mainstream console to introduce an analog stick, essential for navigating the burgeoning 3D worlds the medium was starting to deliver. Unfortunately, the controller it did all that with was an abomination, an unholy three-pronged monstrosity that earned my lifelo

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They’re trying to make deep-sea mining happen

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-06 14:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on deep-sea mining and critical minerals, follow Justine Calma. The Stepback arriv

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Scientists Say They've Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 17:00:15

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they've engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth. They call their creation "Syn57," a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make you extremely sick if you eat an undercooked hot dog — which uses seven less codons than all life on earth. A codon, put simply, is a three-letter sequence found in

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Go-away – Customizable, conditional challenges to incoming requests

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 14:00:14

Challenges Operators can choose to serve a challenge to incoming requests or client, depending on conditions or other rules. Challenges can be transparent (not shown to user, depends on backend or other logic), non-JavaScript (challenges common browser properties), or custom JavaScript (from Proof of Work to fingerprinting or Captcha is supported) The following examples are defined in policy snippets and are ready to use. Challenges can be redefined or new ones entirely can be added with diff

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Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 00:41:33

Documenting the evolution of exploitation techniques serves a crucial purpose in security engineering: it helps us understand not just individual vulnerabilities but the systemic patterns that resist conventional fixes. The story of deserialization exploits in Ruby’s Marshal module offers a uniquely well-documented case study of this phenomenon. That is, a decade-long cycle of patches and bypasses that reveals the futility of addressing symptoms rather than root causes. This history matters bec

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How to Fix Your Context

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-06 14:09:53

Mitigating & Avoiding Context Failures Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely. But before we do, let’s briefly recap some of the ways long contexts can fail: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. Context Distraction: When

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Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 15:06:03

Published on August 18, 2025 When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about

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A Treasure Trove of Key Minerals Is Being Wasted in the U.S., Study Claims

gizmodo.com Tik Root 2025-11-06 17:00:10

The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ground. The rest is typically ignored. Wasted. “We’re only producing a few commodities,” said Elizabeth Holley, a professor of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. “The question is: What else is in those rocks?” The answer: a lot. In a study published today by the journal Science, Ho

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What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-06 17:30:00

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How do physicists deal with this? We define the speed of light as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. (How do we know it’s exact? Because we define a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.) Then we measure the magnetic constant (μ 0 ) and use that value along with the speed of light to calculate the electric constant (ε 0 ). Maybe that seems like cheating, but to

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Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-11-02 14:31:14

We’ve been doing some cleaning and purging here at Chez Lefebvre and stumbled across a relic. While cleaning, my wife was going through a box of what she thought contained old folders and notebooks, but hidden inside an old Franklin Covey Planner (also a relic and popular in the 90s) was my original Palm IIIx! This particular planner actually had a slot inside to contain the Palm itself, which is why it got lost for so long! As I recall, I bought this Palm IIIx in September 1999 and I feel like

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Why was Apache Kafka created?

news.ycombinator.com Stanislav Kozlovski 2025-11-05 00:31:41

Reading Time: 13 minutes Intro - the Integration Problem We talk all the time about what Kafka is, but not so much about why it is the way it is. What better way than to dive into the original motivation for creating Kafka? Circa 2012, LinkedIn’s original intention with Kafka was to solve a data integration problem. LinkedIn used site activity data (e.g. someone liked this, someone posted this) for many things - tracking fraud/abuse, matching jobs to users, training ML models, basic feature

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

news.ycombinator.com Vinci Rufus 2025-11-06 11:18:52

Published: Aug 13, 2025 | at 11:00 AM We’ve reached an inflection point in AI development. The scaling laws that once promised ever-more-capable models are showing diminishing returns. GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini represent remarkable achievements, but they’re hitting asymptotes that brute-force scaling can’t solve. The path to artificial general intelligence isn’t through training ever-larger language models—it’s through building engineered systems that combine models, memory, context, and determ

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Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips

news.ycombinator.com Katie Tarasov 2025-11-04 22:14:56

In this article TXN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT When Texas Instruments announced a $60 billion manufacturing megaproject in July, it was a bold bet that companies would want to mass produce foundational microchips on U.S. soil. In August, Apple vowed to do just that. During the same Oval Office press conference where President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on chips from companies not manufacturing in the U.S., Apple CEO Tim Cook upped his companies' U.S. spending comm

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Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 14:52:08

This is the first post in a series about security and privacy challenges in agentic browsers. This vulnerability research was conducted by Artem Chaikin (Senior Mobile Security Engineer), and was written by Artem and Shivan Kaul Sahib (VP, Privacy and Security). The threat of instruction injection At Brave, we’re developing the ability for our in-browser AI assistant Leo to browse the Web on your behalf, acting as your agent. Instead of just asking “Summarize what this page says about London f

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I built a tiny mac app to monitor and manage my development processes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 15:08:15

🚧 Port Kill A lightweight macOS status bar app that monitors and manages development processes running on ports 2000-6000. The app provides real-time process detection and allows you to kill individual processes or all processes at once. Features Real-time Monitoring : Scans ports 2000-6000 every 5 seconds using lsof commands : Scans ports 2000-6000 every 5 seconds using commands Visual Status Bar Icon : Shows process count with color-coded center (green=0, red=1-9, orange=10+) : Shows proc

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How to Fight Food Noise if It’s Taking Over Your Life, Both IRL and Online

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 21:00:00

If you’ve ever found your mind consumed with constant thoughts about food, chances are you have experienced food noise. It's usually brought on by conflicting messages about nutrition, either through everyday conversation or content online. It could be feeling guilty because you ate a cupcake when you promised yourself you weren’t going to touch sweets for a while, or maybe you’re trying to meet your protein quota and are obsessively keeping track of it. These thoughts are common, and in some ca

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 24, #805

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 06:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a real mix. The green category reminds me that the puzzle editors love to find common words that have second meanings that are somewhat rare. Hint: "Rent" doesn't only mean money you pay to a landlord. Read on for clues and today's Connect

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 24, #335

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 08:00:03

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. I played some darts in bars back in the day, but I didn't know very much about the game, apparently. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign th

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Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference

news.ycombinator.com Roman Kashitsyn 2025-11-03 16:30:59

The curious case of adjacent difference If you have ever tried using the std::adjacent_difference algorithm in c++, I’m sure it left you puzzled. As the name suggests, this algorithm computes differences between adjacent elements of the input sequence, but it does one more thing: it copies the first element of the input sequence into the output sequence unmodified. The following example demonstrates how to apply the algorithm to delta-compress a postings list of document identifiers that contain

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Recreationally overengineering my location history

news.ycombinator.com Dennis Schubert 2025-11-02 23:14:12

2025-08-19 overengineering, software It’s been a while since I published my last #overengineering blog post. That’s not because I didn’t overengineer things, I was busier starting projects as opposed to finishing projects. Today, we shall fix this lack of content. I like data. That’s about as surprising as the sun rising in the morning. A big part of that is visualizing various aspects of my life. I consider myself lucky enough to be able to travel quite a bit, so I always liked having a visua

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Latest Tech News

I couldn’t find an ideal pet app, so I used Notion instead

Notion’s offline mode might just make me ditch Obsidian

You might get a secret discount offer when you go to cancel Apple TV+

Turning Claude Code into my best design partner

Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector

Vibration Plates: Fitness Experts Explain the Best Way to Use This Workout Tool

The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

They’re trying to make deep-sea mining happen

Scientists Say They've Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

Go-away – Customizable, conditional challenges to incoming requests

Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits

How to Fix Your Context

Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

A Treasure Trove of Key Minerals Is Being Wasted in the U.S., Study Claims

What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?

Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

Why was Apache Kafka created?

AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

I built a tiny mac app to monitor and manage my development processes

How to Fight Food Noise if It’s Taking Over Your Life, Both IRL and Online

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 24, #805

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 24, #335

Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference

Recreationally overengineering my location history

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