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Optimizing our way through Metroid

news.ycombinator.com Will Wilson 2025-11-04 23:42:01

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

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‘Blade Runner 2099’ Gets Official 2026 Window by Prime Video

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-06 10:50:06

Good news: we now know Blade Runner 2099 still exists, and it’s on track to hit Prime Video sometime in 2026! The target window was revealed in an internal memo from the streamer’s TV development head Laura Lancaster. Per Deadline, the memo was to announce a pair of company promotions, and in it, Lancaster remarked new co-production head Kara Smith was “pivotal” in several upcoming shows, including 2099 and the upcoming Spider-Man: Noir, which is also due in 2026. 2099 is currently in post-prod

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-06 11:40:14

The world was abuzz with speculation just a few years ago when it came time for James Gunn to cast his new Superman. Even before the part ultimately went to David Corenswet, he was being floated around as a likely candidate, and now you can watch how he got the part. YouTube account 21Casting posted the actor’s audition tape, which he performed with his wife Julia Warner. The three-minute video features him as Clark Kent being interviewed as Superman by Lois Lane over his intervention in Biayla

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:00:19

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. The result of these efforts so far has left a lot to be desired. We've come across countless examples of publications inadvertently publishing garbled AI slop, infuriating readers and journalists alike. AI's persistent hallucinations are already infecting large swathes of our online lives, from Google's hilarious

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Surfing sand and sea, herding beasts and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 08:00:53

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. It's been a very busy week in that realm, thanks to Gamescom. Before we jam through a few of this week's new releases and some of the many, many Gamescom reveals, there's one game that has risen high above the din to the point where it's drowning out many of the smaller announcements. Yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date, and it's very, very soon. September 4, in fact. I feel for all the developers who have games

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MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 14:45:37

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25

news.ycombinator.com Matheus Mina 2025-11-06 12:21:51

Imagine the following problem: you need to process hundreds of records and generate a single output. One way to solve this is to process each record sequentially and unify the output only at the end. However, this can be extremely slow, depending on the time spent processing each record. Another way is to process them concurrently, speeding up the overall time. In my post about introduction to concurrency, I talked a bit about goroutines and channels . Now, I’ve decided to talk about waitgroups

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450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 19:43:37

Introduction Readyset is designed to serve queries from cached views with sub-millisecond latency. This post focuses on the cold path—cases where a cache miss forces execution against the base tables. In these scenarios, Readyset must evaluate the query from scratch, including materializing intermediate results. The focus here is on straddled joins, where filtering predicates apply to both sides of the join in addition to the ON clause. Example: SELECT u.id, u.name, o.order_id, o.total FROM u

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Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 08:39:15

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other, nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud prov

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Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

news.ycombinator.com Marco Mascorro 2025-11-06 14:03:13

In the era of foundation models, multimodal AI, LLMs, and ever-larger datasets, access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks for researchers, founders, developers, and engineers. While the cloud offers scalability, building a personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally. This post covers our version of a four-GPU workstation powered by the new NVIDIA

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Best Hair Dryer: Rigorous Testing in Real Apartments (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-06 11:30:00

Compare Top 7 Hair Dryers Product Weight Wattage Settings Attachments Price Dyson Supersonic Nural 1.8 pounds 1600 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Wave + curl diffuser, styling concentrator, gentle air attachment, wide tooth comb, and flyaway attachment $500 Conair SmoothWrap InfinitiPro 2.12 pounds 1,875 watts 3 heat; 2 speed Diffuser and concentrator $71 Dyson Supersonic r 0.7 pounds 1,700 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Diffuser, wide-tooth comb, professional concentrator, airflow attachment, and flyaway smooth

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What’s on your desk, Dominic Preston?

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-11-06 12:00:00

Not all of The Verge’s staff live in the US. For example, news editor Dominic Preston is based in London and is, as he says, “responsible for keeping our news coverage ticking over in UK mornings before the US team comes online.” He also curates our new Verge Daily newsletter and covers Android phones, especially all the models that don’t launch in the US. And outside of work? “I’m a bit of a food obsessive,” he says, “and run a newsletter called Braise where I review London restaurants and coo

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Bose’s compact TV Speaker is more than $100 off right now

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-11-06 14:41:24

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’re looking to upgrade your movie night, a soundbar is an easy way to beef up the audio. While there are some high-priced options out there, you don’t have to spend a lot to actually hear a movie’s dialog. Right now, the Bose TV Speaker is down to $163.45 (about $115 off) at Amazon, the lowest price we’ve seen yet. The Bose TV Speaker is a solid starter soundbar that can easily integrate into existing

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The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-06 14:07:30

Intel officially announced an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s statement that the government would be taking a 10% stake in the struggling chipmaker. While Intel says the government is making an “$8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock,” the administration does not appear to be committing new funds. Instead, it’s simply making good on what Intel described as “grants previously awarded, but not yet paid, to Intel.” Specifically,

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TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-05 10:32:06

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk 22 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs in the UK which moderate content that appears on the social media platform at risk. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthe

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Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

news.ycombinator.com Chris Wright 2025-11-01 16:35:49

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit. Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships are associated with an increase in the frequency of lightning. For decades, ship emissions steadil

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Building a computer in the 90s (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Dave Farquhar 2025-11-06 11:18:46

Last Updated on March 19, 2024 by Dave Farquhar Building a computer in the 90s was different than it is today. It wasn’t just harder or more expensive. It seemed like every new build was an adventure. I probably built a few hundred systems before the decade ended, but the first few were definitely the most memorable. One in particular stands out above the rest. It was 1996. My friend Tom wanted a modern computer that was capable of handling photography work. He was in his early 20s at the time

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Apple reportedly prepping enterprise AI support beyond ChatGPT

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-06 14:12:33

On personal iPhones, users can decide whether they want Apple Intelligence to connect to ChatGPT. But on corporate devices, things can be trickier. That’s why Apple is reportedly adding support for enterprise accounts, but in a way that extends beyond its current OpenAI partnership. Here are the details. As reported by TechCrunch, with the upcoming iOS 26 update, Apple will add “the ability to configure the use of an enterprise version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,” which offers different privacy settin

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-06 10:51:27

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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Looking for a Vitamin D Boost? Here Are 11 Foods to Add to Your Diet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 10:30:00

If you're vitamin D deficient and are looking for natural ways to get the nutrients you need, you've come to the right place. While the summer seems to be a great time to get your vitamin D exposure because of all the fun in the sun, some people still need a bit of extra help. Vitamin D has several benefits, from supporting muscles and neurological functions to helping with calcium absorption in the bones and, of course, serving as a great defender against attacks on your immune system. If you'

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Abxylute will sell an absurd 3D handheld from Intel and Tencent Games for "under $1,700"

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:05:56

As the handheld PC boom has taken off, companies have tried to push the boundaries of the Steam Deck form factor Valve helped popularize. Lenovo tried detachable controllers. Acer is trying an 11-inch screen. And Abxylute is apparently combining them both (and then some) into the Abxylute 3D One, which The Verge reports features an 11-inch, glasses-free 3D display and detachable controllers, all for "under $1,700." The Abxylute 3D One is based on a hardware prototype co-developed by Intel and T

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Writing Micro Compiler in OCaml (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Dmitry Geurkov 2025-11-02 08:00:32

TL;DR Writing micro compiler in OCaml At one point or another every single software developer in the world comes to a realization in his career when the time is ripe and it’s time to write your own super cool programming language. However the subject of creating your own programming language with an compiler is quite a complex one and can’t be tackled without some pre-research. That’s how I’ve started reading Crafting Compiler in C, an aged but really comprehensive book about developing your o

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‘Star Trek’ Journalists, Ranked

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-06 22:16:46

The potential for what journalism looks like in Star Trek is a heady idea that’s been around as long as the series itself. What does reporting the news look like in utopia? What does it mean that the Federation has its own news networks, alongside a host of interstellar media organizations? What does freedom of information mean in a universe that has Starfleet? And yet, we’ve actually had very few characters appear in the series as fully dedicated journalists and reporters. That changed a littl

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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:28:42

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-06 22:16:54

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 03:09:33

The number of people choosing Linux as their primary operating system to play games has been slowly but steadily going up, at least according to the Steam hardware survey. This is most likely because of the Steam Deck release and the increasingly obnoxious features being added to Windows. If you switch to Linux today, you’ll probably be surprised by how many games run out of the box just fine (mostly due to the Windows compatibility layer Proton built right into Steam), except for basically all

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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:48:29

We’ve written about how to prevent logging sensitive information when making network requests, but that approach only works if you’re dealing with parameters. What happens when you’re dealing with free text? Filtering the entire string may not be an option if an external API needs to process the value. Think chatbots or LLMs. You could use a regex to filter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers or emails), but that won’t capture everything, since not all sensitive information can

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Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-07 03:00:36

Spider-Man 2 is widely considered one of the greatest comic book movies of all time—if not the greatest—and now you can own a piece of Hollywood history, or at least admire it in some very up-close new photos, thanks to an upcoming auction offering Tobey Maguire’s screen-used Spider-suit. As a bonus, the suit was also used in the much less-beloved Spider-Man 3, so it’s also got some genuine Hollywood notoriety attached to it, too. The suit is yet another jaw-dropping addition to Propstore’s upc

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Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-06 21:42:30

Sustainability-focused fintech Aspiration was flying high a few years ago, attracting famous investors including Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert Downey Jr. Now, its co-founder will plead guilty to helping perpetuate a $248 million fraud scheme, according to U.S. attorneys. Joseph Sanberg, who was arrested in March, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud, felony counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years each. “This so-called ‘anti-poverty’ activist has

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Trump confirms US government’s 10% stake in Intel, stock climbs

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-07 08:19:11

After hinting at it earlier this week, President Trump confirmed today during a World Cup press briefing, that the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Intel, capping a pretty eventful two-week stretch. Here’s how that happened. A bit of context Two weeks ago, Trump called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation due to “highly CONFLICTED” ties with China: before joining Intel, Tan led Cadence Design, a firm that recently pleaded guilty to an investigation by the Justice Department over char

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Latest Tech News

Optimizing our way through Metroid

‘Blade Runner 2099’ Gets Official 2026 Window by Prime Video

See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

Surfing sand and sea, herding beasts and other new indie games worth checking out

MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25

450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

Best Hair Dryer: Rigorous Testing in Real Apartments (2025)

What’s on your desk, Dominic Preston?

Bose’s compact TV Speaker is more than $100 off right now

The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

Building a computer in the 90s (2019)

Apple reportedly prepping enterprise AI support beyond ChatGPT

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

Looking for a Vitamin D Boost? Here Are 11 Foods to Add to Your Diet

Abxylute will sell an absurd 3D handheld from Intel and Tencent Games for "under $1,700"

Writing Micro Compiler in OCaml (2014)

‘Star Trek’ Journalists, Ranked

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

Trump confirms US government’s 10% stake in Intel, stock climbs

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