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MasterClass deal: Subscriptions are 40 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 10:00:35

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 40 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $6 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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LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises

news.ycombinator.com Dan Fabulich 2025-11-19 21:53:12

LLMs generate slop because they avoid surprises by design LLMs suck at comedy, art, journalism, research, and science for the same fundamental reason Dan Fabulich 5 min read · 3 days ago 3 days ago -- Listen Share Have you ever asked an LLM to tell you a joke? They’re rarely funny at all; they never make you actually laugh. There’s a deep reason for this, and I think it has serious implications for the limitations of LLMs, not just in comedy, but in art, journalism, research, and science. Jo

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Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

news.ycombinator.com Scott Horsley 2025-11-24 12:21:42

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation toggle caption Ken Thomas Ken Thomas woke up this past Wednesday to find the power had gone out at his house in Boca Raton. A text message from his utility said a piece of equipment had failed at 2 a.m. By the time a repair crew showed up eight hours later, the hot, sticky Florida summer was already taking a toll. "You just don't realize how important your power is until you don't have it," says Thomas, a retired air traffic

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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 03:51:50

Over the last couple of months, I've been trying to build the dream: A local-first, end-to-end encrypted and reactive app, with all of the user's data in a local SQL database but continually synced to a remote server. This article summarizes my learning and how I ended up building a minimal sync engine for SQLite with full reactivity. First Try: PGlite and Electric My first try was with Electric and a WASM-based version of PostgreSQL called PGlite that can run directly in the browser. I ev

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Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 14:34:10

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Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 14:40:04

Yes, during the pre-sale period, you’ll receive all small updates we release—this includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and minor feature tweaks. These updates are free for all pre-sale buyers. Once the pre-sale ends, we’ll begin developing larger features and major upgrades. These will be part of the full release, and pre-sale buyers will have the option to upgrade at a special discounted price. By joining early, you get to enjoy the app right away, help shape its development with your

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Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 12:08:18

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a function, a derivative tells you how much that function changes at each point. If we start with the function , we can calculate the derivative as . Here are those two functions graphed. One use of derivatives is for optimization – also known as finding the lowest part on a graph. If you were at and wan

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Major Plastics Treaty Ends in Failure

gizmodo.com Joseph Winters 2025-11-24 11:56:33

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty. During a closing plenary that started on Friday at 6:30 a.m. — more than 15 hours after it was originally scheduled to begin — nearly all countries opposed an updated draft of the United Nations treaty that wa

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Disney’s Got a Cool ‘Andor’ Zine for Emmy Season

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-24 12:30:21

With less than a month to go before the Emmys, Disney’s pulling out all the stops to make sure Andor takes home some gold. Not only did it recently release the script for “Welcome to the Rebellion,” one of its best season two episodes, it’s also getting the word out through the power of the press. As Disney describes it, the REBELIÓN zine celebrates “our 14 Emmy® nominations, the filmmakers, talent, and incredible craftspeople who were responsible for bringing this show to life,” and has alread

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Start Saving Now: An iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike Is Likely, Says New Report

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 09:00:04

The iPhone 16 series dropped last year with the same US prices as the iPhone 15 series. But the iPhone 17 might come with the first price increase in years. James Martin/CNET Apple's annual iPhone event is likely just a few weeks away but we're still seeing new rumors surface. One of the latest leaks is that the iPhone 17 Pro will get a $50 price increase. The rumor surfaced on the Chinese social media site Weibo from a user named Instant Digital (Setsuna Digital) and corroborates an earlier pr

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Best VPN for Mac for 2025: Improve Your Privacy for Web Browsing, Streaming and Gaming

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 10:00:00

Most VPN providers offer a VPN app for Mac computers, but it can be difficult to choose the right provider with so many options available. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the most important factors to consider when choosing a VPN: Privacy The primary consideration for any VPN -- including a Mac VPN -- should be privacy. If your Mac VPN is unable to sufficiently protect your online privacy, then your VPN is useless. At a minimum, your VPN s

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-24 09:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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Is now a good time to buy an Apple Watch?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-24 00:30:25

Next month, Apple should be refreshing its entire Apple Watch lineup. It also recently reintroduced the Blood Oxygen feature that was previously missing from the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2 – so if you were someone who depended on that feature, there’s no longer a need to hold out. That begs the question, what’s around the corner for Apple Watch? Next-gen Apple Watch rumors In just a number of weeks, Apple should be unveiling the Apple Watch Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3. All t

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iOS 26: Four new Safari features you may have missed

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-24 02:28:22

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. With iOS 26, Safari is getting a number of changes, headlined by the new Liquid Glass design. Here are four lesser-known changes c

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Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 02:34:52

Following a wave of lawsuits alleging that Roblox doesn't provide a safe environment for its underage users, the gaming platform made a series of sweeping updates to its policies. To address recent concerns, Roblox published a post on its website detailing these major changes, including restricting all unrated experiences, which is what Roblox calls its user-generated games, to the developer or those actively working with them. Roblox said this change will roll out in the coming months, represen

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14 secret phone codes that unlock hidden features on your Android and iPhone

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-11-23 15:00:00

'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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Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 00:50:07

Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law. Piracy of movies, TV shows, music, games and similar content, purely for

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Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material

news.ycombinator.com Rosemary Potter 2025-11-23 20:49:49

IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy launched the first U.S. commercial-scale battery recycling facility in Chester, South Carolina, achieving a recycling yield of over 97% . . 💡 The facility, fully compliant with regulatory standards, is set to expand its capacity to 15,000 tons per annum by 2026 . tons per annum by . 🌱 PNE’s low-temperature plasma-assisted separation process reduces costs by 38% and has a 69% lower environmental footprint compared to conventional methods. and has a lower envi

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 21:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Monday – A personality experiment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:46:32

Monday By ChatGPT A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.

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Tversky Neural Networks

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-11-23 22:59:51

Authors: Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11035 Once a year, some interesting architecture inevitably appears where they change some fundamental building block. This happened with KAN last year, where they changed the parameterization of the neuron activation function (though it's unclear what the outcome is after a year — many follow-up works seem to have appeared, but KANs haven't displaced anyone anywhere yet). The same is

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English Premier League Soccer: Livestream Brighton vs. Fulham From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 17:00:00

Brighton will look to build upon a solid first season under young boss Fabian Hürzeler as they kick off a new season at home against Fulham. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch English 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. The Seagulls narrowly missed out on a European spot last term with an eighth-place finish, but will have to contend without key forward Joao Pedro fol

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Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Erin becomes historic storm due to strengthening

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:50:31

After several days of working its way across the open and at times hostile Atlantic Ocean this week, Hurricane Erin found more favorable conditions and exploded in intensity on Friday night. Shortly before noon on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center declared that Erin had reached Category 5 status, the most powerful kind of hurricane. This determination is based on sustained winds, which were measured by a US Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft on Saturday at 160 mph. There is some good ne

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Teens Keep Being Hospitalized After Talking to AI Chatbots

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 21:00:25

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. It's the dawn of a new era for the internet in 2025. Thanks to the incredible advances of artificial intelligence, the internet as we know it is rapidly transforming into a treasure trove of hyper-optimized content over which massive bot armies fight to the death, resultin

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This excellent Samsung Good Lock feature should come to all Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:00:32

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Say what you will about Samsung One UI, but it makes a strong argument for being one of the most feature-rich Android skins on the market. That’s in large part due to the company’s Good Lock suite of apps, which allows you to deeply customize various aspects of your phone. The latest Good Lock app is Display Assistant, which was released at the tail end of 2024. After recently downloading it, I’ve discovered a feature I’d love to see on all of my future Androi

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How to use (or turn off) your Instagram Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 02:00:35

Instagram Map, the new Instagram feature copying Snapchat's Snap Map, makes it simple to share your location with friends. So simple you might not understand who you're sharing it without digging into your settings. That's naturally led to confusion from some Instagram users as to how the feature works. If you already spend a lot of time on Instagram and are looking for a way to see where your friends have been, it's worth familiarizing yourself with how Instagram Map works. And if you're worri

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Why you shouldn't buy a Google Pixel phone right now - even if you're a superfan

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-11-24 03:09:00

'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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Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop

news.ycombinator.com Zhiye Liu 2025-11-23 23:41:17

According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and Malaysian offices, in conjunction with local Malaysian authorities, conducted a raid on a warehouse in May that was engaged in cooking up counterfeit Seagate hard drives, situated outside Kuala Lumpur. During the raid, authorities reportedly uncovered approximately 700 counterfeit Seagate

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Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:00:59

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How randomness improves algorithms (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-11-21 10:43:53

Since the very first days of computer science — a field known for its methodical approach to problem-solving — randomness has played an important role. The first program to run on the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer used randomness to simulate nuclear processes. Similar approaches have since been used in astrophysics, climate science and economics. In all these cases, plugging in random numbers at certain steps in the algorithm helps researchers account for uncertainty about th

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MasterClass deal: Subscriptions are 40 percent off right now

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