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The Switch 2’s next killer app is already here

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-07-26 18:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 90, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying cool, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a new Donkey Kong title, OpenAI’s next big AI agent, a customizable gamepad, and more. Let’s dive in. (As always, the best part of

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I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-07-26 18:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. One of the best features of Amazon’s new Alexa Plus is that I don’t have to “speak Alexa” anymore. I’ve been testing the voice assistant for about a week now, and it understands what I say, regardless of how I say it — there’s no more need for precise phrasing to get Alexa to do what I want. This big shift underpins anoth

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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is my first foldable phone, and it totally caught me off guard

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-26 21:00:10

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority I’ve handled every foldable phone Samsung has ever launched. I have admired their engineering. I have watched with jealousy as people at airport lounges and hotel lobbies dramatically unfold their devices like they were unfolding a future I have purposely denied myself. But despite my curiosity and awe, I’ve stayed far, far away from foldables, especially book-style devices. Samsung’s flip phones still felt closer to home for someone like me who’s used only sla

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Apple's latest iPad hit a new low price at Walmart - and it's available in every color

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-07-26 18:00:15

Maria Diaz/ZDNET An iPad can help with success in many areas, such as school, professional work, content creation, and more. With the new school year just around the corner, there's no better time to scoop up the most recent iPad model from Walmart. Also: Why I like the base iPad more than the Pro and Air - especially at this price Right now, the 11th-Gen 128GB iPad is on sale for $299, which is $50 off its original retail price of $350. If you need more storage space, the 256GB iPad is retai

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This Apple Watch model is my favorite and I use it daily - right now, it's over 30% off

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-07-26 19:30:16

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 01:21:20

Authoritarian regimes thrive by systematically dividing their opposition and silencing the populace, creating a crisis where citizens feel isolated and powerless. This paper proposes a technological solution: a new, secure feature within Telegram to bridge these divisions and forge a genuine national consensus. Executive Summary "The protocol is remarkably efficient, capable of distilling the views of a population of 100 million participants down to a core group of 100 in as few as six weeks.

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“Bypassing” specialization in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 18:26:22

"Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate the

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Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 01:25:42

ggc A Go Git CLI. This logo was created by gopherize.me. Demo Overview ggc is a Git tool written in Go, offering both traditional CLI commands and an interactive interface with incremental search. You can either run subcommands like ggc add directly, or launch the interactive mode by simply typing ggc. Designed to be fast, user-friendly, and extensible. Features Traditional command-line interface (CLI): Run ggc [args] to execute specific operations directly. Interactive interface: Run gg

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Async I/O on Linux in databases

news.ycombinator.com Jeremy Tregunna 2025-07-26 17:20:02

I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database. I started with the basics: A hash table in memory, a simple append-only log for persistence and durability, and the classic fsync() call after every write to the log for durability. It worked, but wasn't as fast as it could be. In Kevo, that's the approach I use, but in Klay (not public yet, but will be open sourced when ready)

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Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2025-07-26 19:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Soufi 2025-07-26 19:10:51

It’s as if the smell of burnt plastic from a dollar store has permeated the world. Things are worse: chipboard furniture, T-shirts unrecognizable after a second wash, packaged foods with more preservatives than ingredients. Airplane seats turned into backrests. Automatic restroom lights that turn off at a whim. But also newspaper articles shamelessly written with ChatGPT and its algorithmic prose. Nothing is made to be loved. Only to be bought. In a study titled The Concept and Measurement of P

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Your Recession FAQs Answered: 5 Tips to Help You Prepare, Not Panic

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 20:00:00

Recession risks are down, but keep your guard up. Getty Images/Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Early this spring, talk of a recession swirled after President Donald Trump began his chaotic tariff campaign. The likelihood of a severe economic downturn hit 66%, according to Polymarket. As Trump deferred some of his most aggressive trade proposals, those forecasts leveled out, but the contours of a potential recession are hard to ignore. Growth in the first quarter of 2025? Down. Jobless claims? Sharply h

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What Makes Cheap Earbuds a Real Value? Here's How I Find the Hidden Gems

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 21:00:07

A few months ago, Final Audio, a boutique Japanese brand, sent me its new, relatively low-priced ZE3000 SV noise-canceling earbuds to test. I was curious: Would this be a hidden gem among the dozens, even hundreds, of budget headphone options out there? Even as a full-time reviewer of these products, I can't keep up with all of them. So I did what I always do. I charged them up, then swapped out the default medium-size tips for the largest set of included ear tips and hoped I'd get a tight seal

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Renewed iPad Pros pair nicely with iPadOS 26, and they’re quite affordable right now

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-07-26 15:01:30

A short while ago, I was browsing Apple deals on Amazon (as one does) – and something stuck out to me. High-end iPad Pros, particularly 12.9-inch models, are surprisingly cheap. I saw M1 models with 1TB and cellular for nearly $600. Given the recent iPadOS 26 overhaul that makes the iPad much more Mac-like, I figured these deals would be worth a share. While renewed iPad deals are the focus here because of their affordability, new iPad deals are also mentioned at the end. Renewed M1 iPad Pro d

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"Bypassing" Specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 23:26:22

"Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate the

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The tech that the US Post Office gave us

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-07-26 16:32:58

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. When you crack open your mailbox, it’s almost as if your letters just appear. Long before the days of speedy, overnight mail deliveries, postal service workers meticulously sorted through letters by hand and transported mail on horseback. For more than 250 years, the US Postal Service has worked behind the scenes to build a faster delivery network,

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Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a full stack engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 09:00:23

We are looking for a software engineer to help us enable interactions and automations with Piramidal’s newest technologies. We value proactive, customer-centric engineers who prioritize foundational details (data models, architecture, security) to enable excellent products. In this role you will: Build and maintain the infrastructure and backend systems for our flagship platform focused on neural data. Collaborate closely with ML engineers to iterate on applying our latest models. and Work w

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 20, #1492

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 17:00:03

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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In Court for Fatal Crash, Tesla Admits It Wasn't Even Tracking Autopilot Crashes for the First Three Years of the Program

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-26 12:00:19

With so many massive and well-publicized safety issues, nothing should surprise us about Tesla's internal culture — but new revelations from the country's first federal Autopilot crash trial have us shaken once again. As Law360 reports, an engineer at Elon Musk's car company revealed during a wrongful death trial this week that until 2018, the company didn't even keep records of Autopilot crashes — even though the assisted driving feature had been rolled out three years prior. In a taped depos

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EA's big reveal for its next Battlefield game may already be spoiled

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-26 18:43:44

Looks like we can skip the drum roll for the next Battlefield title reveal. Seen in a leak of Electronic Arts' upcoming first-person shooter, the company is shipping promotional materials to content creators for Battlefield 6. The name drop may not be all that surprising, but the highly anticipated title could be a turning point for EA that follows up on Battlefield 2042, which was released in 2021 and currently sits at a Mixed review rating on Steam. In the since-deleted post, gaming YouTuber

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ChatGPT"s GPT-5-reasoning-alpha model spotted ahead of launch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-26 14:07:22

GPT-5 might be just a few days or weeks away, as we've spotted references to a new model called gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13. As spotted on X, OpenAI is testing a model called "gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13." This model was finalised on the 13th of July, and it appears to be the final round of testing. "Models: openai/gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13: reasoning_effort: high," one of the code references read. Alexander Wei, a researcher at OpenAI, recently confirmed that GPT-5 is on it

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North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 21:02:06

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. In a paper published today, July 7, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, present the fossilized jawbone of the new species and describe the sea gu

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Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 23:43:35

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease 3 days ago Share Save James Gallagher • @JamesTGallagher Health and science correspondent Share Save Watch the moment DNA from a mum and dad is injected into the egg of another woman - the critical step in the creation of a baby made from three people Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say. The method, pioneered by UK s

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Sales Tax Holidays: 17 States Are Holding Tax-Free Back-to-School Shopping Events This Summer. Here's When

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 12:00:00

State sales tax holidays usually run for one weekend, though some states offer longer exemptions. Tharon Green/CNET If you haven't already started buying back-to-school essentials, shopping during a sales tax holiday can offer some extra savings. These tax-free shopping events typically center on back-to-school items, offering discounts on clothing, school supplies, laptops and athletic gear. This year, 17 states are participating in a tax-free event, with one starting this weekend, and two m

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My Early Time Testing the Galaxy Z Flip 7 Brought a Smashing Surprise

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 13:30:03

If you're concerned about how durable Samsung's foldable phones are, I'm here to tell you not to worry. And that's especially true when it comes to the new Galaxy Z Flip 7, which holds its own among today's best smartphones. After less than six hours with the Galaxy Z Flip 7, I accidentally performed my own informal drop test. At a catered affair in Brooklyn, I walked outside to get a view of the waterfront, and when I pulled the Z Flip 7 out of my pocket, I fumbled it. I watched helplessly as

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Best TVs I've Tested (July 2025)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 16:00:00

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a new flagship OLED David Katzmaier/CNET With all of the TVs available today, and all of the technical terms and jargon associated with television technology, it can be tough to figure out what's important. Here's a quick guide to help cut through the confusion. Picture quality: Broadly speaking, the type of display technology helps dictate how good a TV's picture quality is, but OLED is typically the best display technology, and this is followed by LCD (including QLED,

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You Shouldn't Be Using Q-Tips in Your Ears. Here's How to Clean Your Ears the Right Way

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 16:00:04

Earwax is just a fact of life. We need it to protect the inner ear and lubricate the ear canal, though honestly, excess earwax can be annoying. Not only can it make it difficult to hear what's going on around you, but no one wants to find earwax on their earbuds. Cleaning your ears regularly is a part of personal hygiene, and how you do it can have a big impact on how clean your ears are. And you definitely don't want to get it wrong if you value your hearing. Many health care professionals adv

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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

wired.com Umair Irfan 2025-07-26 13:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that by waiving permitting regulations and reviews under the California Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality A

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At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-07-26 17:54:06

When, one year ago today, a buggy update to software sold by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down millions of computers around the world and sent them into a death spiral of repeated reboots, the global cost of all those crashed machines was equivalent to one of the worst cyberattacks in history. Some of the various estimates of the total damage worldwide have stretched well into the billions of dollars. Now a new study by a team of medical cybersecurity researchers has taken the first

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How to design an actually good flash flood alert system

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-07-26 14:00:00

Flash floods have wrought more havoc in the US this week, from the Northeast to the Midwest, just weeks after swollen rivers took more than 130 lives across central Texas earlier this month. Frustrations have grown in the aftermath of that catastrophe over why more wasn’t done to warn people in advance. Local officials face mounting questions over whether they sent too many or sent too few mobile phone alerts to people. Some Texans have accused the state of sending out too many alerts for injur

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