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The TTY Demystified (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 12:56:23

The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. I believe that a basic understanding of TTYs in Linux is essential for the developer and the advanced user. Beware, though: What you are about to see is not particularly elegant. In fact, the TTY subsystem — while quite functional from a user's point of view — is a twisty little mess of special cases. To und

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Google’s AI model just nailed the forecast for the strongest Atlantic storm this year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-01 16:43:41

In early June, shortly after the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, Google unveiled a new model designed specifically to forecast the tracks and intensity of tropical cyclones. Part of the Google DeepMind suite of AI-based weather research models, the "Weather Lab" model for cyclones was a bit of an unknown for meteorologists at its launch. In a blog post at the time, Google said its new model, trained on a vast dataset that reconstructed past weather and a specialized database contain

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Tech’s Heavy Hitters Are Spending Big to Ensure a Pro-AI Congress

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-02 00:45:57

Much of the American public is dubious to neutral when it comes to artificial intelligence. A recent poll found that 71 percent of Americans were concerned about the technology “permanently” displacing human workers. Since we ostensibly live in a democracy, you’d think that would be bad news for the AI industry; unfortunately, many of the folks who are central to our economy are all-in. What do you do when you can’t win in the court of public opinion? The next best thing is to work the refs, a

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Google Photos is letting you lift subjects as stickers — but only on iOS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 10:36:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is adding the popular tap-and-hold sticker creation feature to the iOS app. Users can press and hold a photo subject to quickly copy or share it as a standalone sticker. It’s unclear if Google Photos on Android will get this easy sticker creation feature. One of the smaller sticking points in the iOS vs Android debate is how easy it is to make stickers from your photos. It’s not a big deal, but it certainly enhances the experience for e

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Nvidia Unveils High-Tech ‘Brain’ for Humanoid Robots and Self-Driving Cars

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-02 09:29:17

Could humanoid robots get a lot more human? Nvidia may have made that possibility a bit realer today with a smarter robot brain that has less energy demands. The tech giant’s latest robotics offering is Jetson Thor, a super computer built for real-time AI computation on humanoid robots and smart machines alike, Nvidia announced in a press release on Monday. The new module is built to handle larger amounts of information at less energy than previous model Jetson Orin. Powered by the latest Blac

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Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

wired.com Amy Francombe 2025-11-02 17:00:00

At Meta’s Q2 2025 earnings call at the end of July, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t hold back. “If you don’t have glasses that have AI,” he warned, “you’re probably going to be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people.” Forget smartphones. According to Zuck, the real interface of the future is what’s sitting on your nose. These AI-powered specs, he argues, will “see what we see, hear what we hear, and talk to us” in real time—offering a kind of digital copilot for everyday

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Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499

news.ycombinator.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-03 23:19:36

Nvidia announced Monday that its latest robotics chip module, the Jetson AGX Thor, is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit. The company calls the chip a "robot brain." The first kits ship next month, Nvidia said last week, and the chips will allow customers to create robots. After a company uses the developer kit to prototype their robot, Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 modules that can be installed in production-ready robots. If a company needs more than 1,000 Thor chips, Nvidia will charge

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This Orange Shark Is the Result of a Rare Genetic Double Whammy

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-03 23:50:14

The depths of the Caribbean host a spectacular array of marine life—including this nurse shark featuring vivid orange scales and cloudy white eyes. Last year, anglers on a fishing trip near Costa Rica with Parisima Domus Dei, a tourist company, reeled in what looked like a giant goldfish with shark-like chompers. After snapping some photos of the creature—about 6 feet (1.8 meters)—the fishermen let it go, later describing their strange encounter to marine experts. The researchers concluded tha

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Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499 as company targets robotics for growth

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-04 04:24:46

Nvidia announced Monday that its latest robotics chip module, the Jetson AGX Thor, is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit. The company calls the chip a "robot brain." The first kits ship next month, Nvidia said last week, and the chips will allow customers to create robots. After a company uses the developer kit to prototype their robot, Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 modules that can be installed in production-ready robots. If a company needs more than 1,000 Thor chips, Nvidia will charge

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What Is the Magnetic Constant, and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-02 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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Google will soon make it easier to find out what’s wrong with your Pixel (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 03:07:26

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing new diagnostics options for Pixel devices. This new option combines discrete options into a single dashboard to test if there’s anything wrong with your phone. It also introduces a new AI-powered search option to inspect likely problems with your Pixel device. The on-device diagnostics options on Google’s Pixel phones are in for a significant overhaul. We have spotted Google testing a new menu option that combines various diagnostic

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

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-04 20:00:14

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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8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-11-04 20:00:00

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

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 23:00:15

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

gizmodo.com Tik Root 2025-11-04 23:00:10

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 2025-11-04 23:30:00

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

Topics: constant current electric field magnetic

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

news.ycombinator.com Vinci Rufus 2025-11-04 17:18:52

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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Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

news.ycombinator.com Chris Wright 2025-10-31 05:35:49

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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Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:59:07

Hi HN, we are Liam and Eoghan of Inconvo ( https://inconvo.com ), a platform that makes it easy to build and deploy AI analytics agents into your SaaS products, so your customers can quickly interact with their data. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlZL3XGWTQ and a live demo at https://demo.inconvo.ai/ (no signup required). Docs are at https://inconvo.com/docs. SaaS products typically offer dashboards and reports, which work for high-level metrics but are clunky for dr

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Belkin’s first 25W Qi2 chargers power up multiple devices

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-06 23:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After announcing certification from the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) a month ago, Belkin is now debuting its first three devices that support the Qi2.2 standard and faster 25W wireless charging speeds. The UltraCharge Pro 3-in-1 is available in sand and c

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In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author Box-Sizing Border-Box Display Flex Flex-Wrap Wrap .Wp-Block-Post-Author__Byline Font-Size Margin-Bottom Margin-Top Width 2025-11-08 02:10:39

The comfort we get when offloading our cognitive load to LLMs is bad for us. Cognitive load should exist, and if we reduce it too much – if we stop thinking – we can actually unlearn how to think. Kids who always choose the easy route and copy their homework from other students eventually find themselves completely clueless about what’s going on in school. Someone who always lets their spouse handle all the bills and banking may one day be unable to manage even a simple payment on their own. A

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Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 09:11:11

Renowned publications including Wired and Business Insider have been caught publishing what appears to be AI slop. As Press Gazette reports in a fascinating investigation, numerous outlets have removed features published under the byline of "Margaux Blanchard" after suspicion emerged that the stories were fictionalized and AI-generated. After Press Gazette reached out to the non-profit Index on Censorship over an article by the same author, for instance, the publisher concluded that the piece

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Man Experiences Joy For the First Time in Decades After Brain Stimulation Treatment

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-08 14:05:15

A man who lived with severe, treatment-resistant depression for over 30 years is now in remission, thanks to a new brain stimulation method that targets selective areas of his brain. The man reported experiencing joy for the first time in decades after the treatment. “He was crying and saying, ‘I’m not sad, I’m just happy. I don’t know what to do with these emotions’,” the study’s first author, Ziad Nahas, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Minnesota, told Gizmodo. Nahas and a t

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Google Discover wants to summarize your daily news feed (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:24:42

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing AI summaries for articles in the Discover feed. Like AI overviews in Google Search, Discover feed summaries combine information from multiple sources instead of just referencing one. Google is also testing a new button to bookmark articles that can be revisited later. Update, August 21, 2025 (08:24 AM ET): Google Discover’s AI summaries for news articles is now widely rolling out in the stable branch. Original article, July 15, 2025 (05

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This Anker 5K magnetic power bank is 30 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:40:37

The last thing anyone wants at the end of a long day is to look down at their phone and see its battery almost dead. One way to avoid that is to keep a compact power bank on you at all times, and it's arguably easiest to do that with one like Anker's 621 MagGo portable battery. This sleek, 5K magnetic brick attaches to the back of your iPhone to power it up, even while you're still using it. Now, it's on sale for 30 percent off — you can pick up any of five coloways for only $28 a pop. This is

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-10 09:00:00

And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4 billion metric tons by 2060. This chart is what really strikes me and makes the conclusion of the plastic treaty talks such a disappointment. Recycling is a great tool, and new methods could make it possible to recycle more plastics and make it easier

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TikTok parent company ByteDance releases new open source Seed-OSS-36B model with 512K token context

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-10 18:04:24

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now TikTok is making headlines again today after the White House joined the popular social media application — but its parent company ByteDance, a Chinese web giant, also had a surprise announcement up its sleeve. The company’s Seed Team of AI researchers today released Seed-OSS-36B on AI code sharing website Hugging Face. Seed-OSS-36B is new

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Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 17:31:13

A study looking into agentic AI browsers has found that these emerging tools are vulnerable to both new and old schemes that could make them interact with malicious pages and prompts. Agentic AI browsers can autonomously browse, shop, and manage various online tasks (like handling email, booking tickets, filing forms, or controlling accounts). Perplexity’s Comet is currently the primary example of agentic AI browsers. Microsoft Edge is also embedding agentic browsing features through a Copilot

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The ‘Shin Godzilla’ Black-and-White Version Is Finally Getting a U.S. Theatrical Release

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-11 18:45:42

While we wait for news on what’s to come in the wake of Godzilla Minus One‘s massive success, this summer has seen the resurgence of Toho’s prior Godzilla reimagining in Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla. It got a whole new wave of reappraisal as it stomped back into theaters last week with a brand new 4K remaster—and now, to celebrate its success, and much like Minus One did before it, the movie’s extending its theatrical return with a new black-and-white remastering. Today GKids

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Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Them in 8 Common Foods

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 17:30:00

Microplastics are all around us all the time. While these microscopic bits of plastic were once an issue for ocean pollution, now they're all around us. From kitchen tools to food storage, microplastics have infected our world. This means that each day, you are probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborn

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Latest Tech News

The TTY Demystified (2008)

Google’s AI model just nailed the forecast for the strongest Atlantic storm this year

Tech’s Heavy Hitters Are Spending Big to Ensure a Pro-AI Congress

Google Photos is letting you lift subjects as stickers — but only on iOS

Nvidia Unveils High-Tech ‘Brain’ for Humanoid Robots and Self-Driving Cars

Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499

This Orange Shark Is the Result of a Rare Genetic Double Whammy

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What Is the Magnetic Constant, and Why Does It Matter?

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

8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

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

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?

AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics

Belkin’s first 25W Qi2 chargers power up multiple devices

In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

TikTok parent company ByteDance releases new open source Seed-OSS-36B model with 512K token context

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

The ‘Shin Godzilla’ Black-and-White Version Is Finally Getting a U.S. Theatrical Release

Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Them in 8 Common Foods

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