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You Have to Feel It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 09:38:33

August 30, 2025 You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight. But you didn't feel it. You didn't feel it. We, as people, feel something with every interaction. Frustration, joy, relief, confidence. A feeling. A person interacts with our work. Our work evokes a feeling. The feeling matters. The feeling is part of the work. The desired feeling is part of the requirements. When y

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Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 16:26:35

Perhaps it is the inevitable fate of any convention, but literary history does not, it turns out, have many examples of people appreciating great chaptering. In The History of English Prose Rhythm (1912) – one of the sources for James Joyce’s virtuosic-or-unreadable parodies of the evolution of English prose in Ulysses – George Saintsbury remarks on Thomas Malory’s decision to insert a chapter break at a decisive moment in his fifteenth-century Morte d’Arthur. At the end of chapter ten of the Mo

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Cognitive load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 06:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

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Are we decentralized yet?

news.ycombinator.com Robert Ricci 2026-01-12 15:26:29

This page measures the concentration of user data on the Fediverse and the Atmosphere according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), an indicator from economics used to measure competition between firms in an industry. Mathematically, HHI is the sum of the squares of market shares of all servers. Values close to zero indicate perfectly competitive markets (eg. many servers, with users spread evenly), while values close to 10000 indicate highly concentrated monopolies (eg. most users on a si

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Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2026-01-12 11:35:44

You’ve seen them before. McDonald’s brings back the McRib. Disney rolls out a limited time only specialty menu. Starbucks uses social media codes to “unlock” new drinks and combinations. And of course, there was Burger King’s Whopperito. Now, Taco Bell is once again getting back into the game, saying Friday that it will bring back a special “Y2K” menu with nostalgia-based items from the ’60s to the ’90s. That includes the Cool Ranch Doritos locos tacos, the 7-layer burrito, tostada, meximelt, a

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Is AI Running the Government? Here’s What We Know

gizmodo.com Sophia Chen 2026-01-12 11:47:50

The Trump administration is letting the generative AI chatbots loose. Federal agencies such as the General Services Administration and the Social Security Administration have rolled out ChatGPT-esque tech for their workers. The Department of Veterans Affairs is using generative AI to write code. The U.S. Army has deployed CamoGPT, a generative AI tool, to review documents to eliminate references to diversity, equity, and inclusion. More tools are coming down the line. The Department of Educati

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What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2026-01-12 14:20:51

Workers who live in states where cannabis is legal often face a conundrum. Can they continue using a substance deemed by lawmakers to be fit for public consumption, even if they may have an employer who might drug test? Or do they avoid it all together, because they don’t know what their employer’s drug policy is? And does that policy include only “hard” drugs like cocaine, opioids or methamphetamines, or does it test for cannabis too? These days, the answer is a lot more flexible than it was

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The First ‘Tron’ Movies are Finally Getting Modern Releases

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-12 14:50:26

If Tron: Ares has you wanting to watch the first two movies again, you’re in luck: they’re getting new and improved versions on September 16. During its Destination 23 showcase, Disney announced full remasters of the original Tron and its 2010 sequel Legacy are coming to Ultra 4K HD and digital. (It’s been a long time since either had physical versions, the last edition was a two-movie Blu-Ray bundle back in 2014.) Physical versions of the two films will come with fancy new steelbook editions s

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Disney Gives New Looks at ‘Toy Story 5,’ ‘Zootopia 2,’ and More

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-12 15:15:20

Originality is still alive at Disney, and it’s taking the form of 2026’s Hexed. Unveiled during the studio’s Destination 23 event, the Walt Disney Animation Studios film from Zootopia and Raya and the Last Dragon artist Josie Trinidad and Moana 2 co-director Jason Hand centers on “an awkward teenage boy and his Type – A mom,” per the logline. When they discover his oddness is actually magic powers manifesting, they learn of a secret world of magic that’ll forever transform their lives. (A premi

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Massive Recall Doesn’t Affect 15% Leap in Company Share Price

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2026-01-12 16:12:41

The stock price of a company that is in the middle of a major recall still managed to see a 15% gain by the time the market closed Friday. That recall has been issued for nearly 760,000 power tools following reports of explosions and fire hazards. The move is one to watch because some companies in the power washer market are beginning to integrate into their devices. These AI-powered pressure washers can analyze the surface being cleaned and optimize their own performance to provide a better r

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Man United vs. Burnley From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 05:00:03

Manchester United will look to ease the pressure on beleaguered manager Ruben Amorim on Saturday as it faces newly promoted Burnley at Old Trafford in the English Premier League. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Amorim's role as the Red Devils' boss has come under increased scrutiny following its shock penalty shoot-out defeat in the

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 31, #1534

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 16:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31, #812

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 16:00:04

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 has a fun mix of categories. If you played a lot of Monopoly then you'll ace the green group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31 #546

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 16:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle might be the easiest the Times has ever offered. I hardly needed any clue words to unlock in-game hints. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Conne

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No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2026-01-12 11:57:19

For the last week or two, reports have been circulating that recent Windows 11 updates (specifically KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. Tech influencers on YouTube and TikTok were quick to jump on the reports of corrupted data and disappearing drives, laying the blame squarely at Microsoft’s feet. We’re not saying any company is above lying to the public, and Microsoft has a history of rocky update rollouts, but both Microsoft and Phison claim they’

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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2026-01-12 17:54:13

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM

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Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-12 17:40:49

Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two customers, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On Wednesday, the chipmaker reported record revenue of $46.7 billion during the quarter that ended on July 27 — a 56% year-over-year increase largely driven by the AI data center boom. However, subsequent reporting highlighted how much of that growth seems to be coming from just a handful of customers. Specifically, Nvidia said that a single customer

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Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 10:00:46

If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally published a story claiming that watermelons had been found on the planet Mars. "Authorities say rise of fruit aliens is to blame for glut of outer space watermelons," read the story, which the newspaper deleted less than an hour later, but is still accessible in an archived snapshot. "The FBI declined to comment on reports of watermelons raining down

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New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 11:00:22

If you're struggling to sort the AI hype from reality, you're not alone. The seemingly breakneck pace of AI development makes it tough to sort headlines from fantasy, with a constant flood of new products and incremental improvements to old ones combining into a rhetorical mess. Arguably the main economic risk of developing artificial intelligence — or its biggest draw, if you're a business owner trying to pad your bottom line — is the prospect of automating jobs. Whether or not AI is currentl

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Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 12:00:28

How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? It's one of the most longstanding questions in biology — and scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a team of biologists say they've demonstrated how RNA molecules and amino acids could combine, by purely random interactions, to form proteins — the tireless molecules that are essential for carrying out nearly all of a cell's functions. Proteins don't replicate themselves b

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As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 15:00:37

Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They're older than the first trees, the North Star, and even the rings of Saturn. They've seen and been through it all — but the mounting effects of human driven climate change could be what finally proves too much for these ancient beings. As we continue to pump astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, nearly a third of it gets absorbed by the ocean, gradually making its water more acidic. For sharks, the cons

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I tested Pixel Journal vs Apple Journal to see if AI insights can beat a mindfulness approach

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 11:00:55

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority When Apple announced the Apple Journal app in 2023, I was pretty excited. As an old-school physical journal aficionado, I’ve tried loads of journaling apps going back to the early days of smartphones and I have my favorites. However, more apps that bring new ideas and features to the mix are always welcome. To be fair, I didn’t expect to swap out my preferred app. But swap out I did. Two years later, Apple Journal is still on my iPhone 16 Pro Max and has become

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Google’s new Passwords app just made it easier for me to ditch Chrome

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 12:00:23

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been on a mission to de-Google my life as much as possible in an attempt to control how much information a single company has about me. While there are some essential Google services I will never part with, switching my browser from Chrome has been a priority. I slowly started doing this by trying out some of the best Chrome alternatives, finally settling on Brave. But I kept encountering hurdles as I tried to migrate everything to a new browser. Now that G

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Here We Go is the non-Google map app I didn’t know I needed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:00:37

Nathan Drescher / Android Authority Earlier this year, I started to become concerned about how much of my personal life was tied to the big tech companies, especially my Google account. And Google Maps was one of the biggest culprits. It had steadily changed from a clean and dependable navigation tool to a cluttered mess filled with ads. Worse, it sat at the heart of Google’s ecosystem and I knew I had to find a real alternative. I wanted something different. I went looking for a navigation ap

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I hate installing apps to save money, but this Pixel privacy feature makes it worthwhile

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 15:00:49

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Prices at fast food chains, restaurants, and even grocery stores have spiraled out of control over the past couple of years. Luckily, not all hope is lost — if you’re a savvy shopper, you might know that the best way to save real money is to check for loyalty program discounts and limited-time offers. The only problem? Most of these offers require you to download each company’s app and check into them from time to time. If installing a dozen different apps s

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Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-01-12 14:00:00

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iPad vs iPad Air: With a $150 price gap, is the Air still worth the premium?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-12 14:46:40

Apple has two great, affordable iPads that most people consider: the base iPad, and the iPad Air. Over time, these iPads have always been relatively similar, making it a rather interesting debate. With current deals, theres only $150 between these two iPads, which really begs the question: should you pay more for the iPad Air, or save some money with the base iPad? The case for iPad Air For $150 more, the iPad Air comes with a lot more tech at a sub-$500 price. To be exact, the iPad Air is cur

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It’s time for Apple to revive one of its discontinued iPad accessories

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-12 16:18:00

A few years ago, Apple used to have a much simpler iPad keyboard lineup. It just offered a Smart Keyboard for each of their iPad models, and they all essentially served as the same product. Nowadays, after the introduction of trackpad support in iPadOS and the Magic Keyboard, everything is unnecessarily convoluted – with each iPad model having a slightly different Magic Keyboard and varying features. While the keyboard lineup is a mess, that’s not what I take issue with right now – it’s the fac

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Hitman on iOS, martial arts survival and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 11:00:54

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. One very well-known indie found its way to iOS devices this week, though there are other new releases worth highlighting and plenty of other upcoming games to tell you about. First, though, there was a (paywalled) story in Game File this week that caught my eye. It's about how Google's AI Overviews feature offers up false video game tips. That's a problem the developers of a game called Trash Goblin — a cosy shopkeeping gam

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iPhone 17 rumors, prices, new features and everything else you need to know before the September 9 Apple event

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 12:45:36

Apple confirmed last Tuesday that its iPhone 17 event will be on Tuesday, September 9 at 1PM ET. We're getting excited because that means we'll finally get to put our eyes on the iPhone 17 lineup. The new smartphones will come equipped with the latest iOS 26 features preinstalled — and any new features Apple reveals that day. But since we still have to wait a couple of weeks until the iPhone event, we can only speculate what the new devices will look like. As with most unreleased iPhones, rumors

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Latest Tech News

You Have to Feel It

Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

Cognitive load is what matters

Are we decentralized yet?

Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

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What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

The First ‘Tron’ Movies are Finally Getting Modern Releases

Disney Gives New Looks at ‘Toy Story 5,’ ‘Zootopia 2,’ and More

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 31, #1534

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31, #812

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31 #546

No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

I tested Pixel Journal vs Apple Journal to see if AI insights can beat a mindfulness approach

Google’s new Passwords app just made it easier for me to ditch Chrome

Here We Go is the non-Google map app I didn’t know I needed

I hate installing apps to save money, but this Pixel privacy feature makes it worthwhile

Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

iPad vs iPad Air: With a $150 price gap, is the Air still worth the premium?

It’s time for Apple to revive one of its discontinued iPad accessories

Hitman on iOS, martial arts survival and other new indie games worth checking out

iPhone 17 rumors, prices, new features and everything else you need to know before the September 9 Apple event

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