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Turgot Map of Paris

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 13:36:09

18th-century map of Paris The Turgot map in its assembled form The Turgot map of Paris (French: Plan de Turgot) is a highly accurate and detailed map of the city of Paris, France, as it existed in the 1730s. The map was commissioned by Parisian municipality chief Michel-Étienne Turgot, drawn up by surveyor Louis Bretez, and engraved by Claude Lucas. Description [ edit ] The Turgot map was published in 1739 as an atlas of twenty non-overlapping sectional bird's-eye-view maps (at a scale of ap

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GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

news.ycombinator.com Frank Heyen 2025-10-04 08:45:45

TVCG 2023 Tiffany Luong, Yi Fei Cheng, Max Moebus, Andreas Fender, Christian Holz Virtual Reality (VR) systems have traditionally required users to operate the user interface with controllers in mid-air. More recent VR systems, however, integrate cameras to track the headset's position inside the environment as well as the user's hands when possible. This allows users to directly interact with virtual content in mid-air just by reaching out, thus discarding the need for hand-held physical contr

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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

news.ycombinator.com Your Name 2025-10-04 11:46:01

React-by-default has hidden costs. Here's a case for making deliberate choices to select the right framework for the job. React Won by Default – And It’s Killing Frontend Innovation React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default. That default is now slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem. When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; e

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HBO Will Really Test How Much ‘Game of Thrones’ You Want Next Year

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-04 14:00:07

We did already know that Game of Thrones spin-offs A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon season three would arrive in 2026. But now we have more concrete details on when we’ll be heading back to Westeros—and the time between visits could be surprisingly short. As Deadline reports, HBO and HBO Max head Casey Bloys offered some morsels for George R.R. Martin fans as part of an interview celebrating the outlet’s many Emmy wins. (Hell yeah, The Penguin star Cristin Milioti!) Accor

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OpenAI Reveals How (and Which) People Are Using ChatGPT

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-04 14:00:57

Large language models largely remain black boxes in terms of what is happening inside them to produce the outputs that they do. They have also been a bit of a black box in terms of who is using them and what they are doing with them. OpenAI, with some help from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), set out to figure out what exactly its growing user base is getting up to with its chatbot. It found a surprising amount of personal use and a closing “gender gap” among its frequent users.

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Just Can’t Stop Breaking Billboard Records

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-04 14:45:41

The shine hasn’t worn off KPop Demon Hunters or its music quite yet. According to Variety, the film’s soundtrack has hit #1 on the Billboard Top 200, and the Huntr/x song “Golden” has held at #1 in the Hot 100 for the fifth week in a row. As a result, it’s now the longest-running song by an animated band in charting history. That can be owed to a recently released deluxe edition that features the movie’s songs combined with sing-along, instrumental, and a cappella versions of each track. With t

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 16, #1550

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 14:00:04

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a fun word, and the letters are fairly easy to guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Word

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16, #828

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 14:00:05

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 purple category. I'm a little surprised the Times didn't save it for Easter. 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 a nume

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16 #562

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 14:00:05

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 stumped me, both in finding the answers and in unscrambling them. 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, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you

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Mullvad VPN Now Adds QUIC Protocol to Get Around Firewalls and Censorship

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 14:20:14

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

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macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 11:00:27

Game Overlay The Game Overlay in macOS Tahoe. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Tahoe's new Game Overlay doesn't add features so much as it groups existing gaming-related features to make them more easily accessible. The overlay makes itself available any time you start a game, either via a keyboard shortcut or by clicking the rocketship icon in the menu bar while a game is running. The default view includes brightness and volume settings, toggles for your Mac's energy mode (for turning on high-perfo

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What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 14:26:34

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do you actually use large language models for? Today, OpenAI's Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing ho

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Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 14:52:01

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

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WIRED Roundup: How Charlie Kirk Changed Conservative Media

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-10-04 14:26:01

Zoë Schiffer: So where does that leave traditional right-wing media, like Fox News, for example? Is this a replacement of that or is it working in tandem? Jake Lahut: I think it's more in tandem. Fox's programming was dominated by Kirk's assassination last night. I think that for a lot of the mainstay Fox personalities, people like Charlie Kirk, and I guess in the Turning Point USA broader cinematic universe, these younger figures are really important, actually, for I think a lot of the more es

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Save $40 on a Handmade Dutch Coffeemaker That's Built for Life

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-04 14:48:00

One of the most prestigious honors we award products is inclusion on our Buy It for Life gear roundup. This list represents products that WIRED writers have personally used for years, and as the name implies, they should last you for the rest of your life with proper care and warranty support. There's only one coffee maker on that list, the Moccamaster KBGV Select, and you can currently pick it up from Amazon for up to $40 off its list price, depending on the color. These drip coffee makers are

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Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Founders and funders debate at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-04 14:00:00

As the startup world descends on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — happening October 27–29 at Moscone West — one question looms large: Does building in Silicon Valley still give founders an edge? With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders gathering for this milestone Disrupt, the conversation around access, geography, and opportunity has never been more timely. On the Builders Stage, Anh-Tho Chuong (Lago), David Hall (Revolution), and Tawni Nazario-Cranz (SignalFire) lead a must-attend sessi

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Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-04 14:03:09

In Brief Kering confirmed a data breach affecting customers of its luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Lauren, and others, on Monday. Hackers stole sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and the total amount of money they spent in stores all over the world. The BBC first reported the breach. Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breac

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The 9 most sought-after startups from YC Demo Day

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-04 14:11:51

Y Combinator hosted its Summer 2025 Demo Day last week, showcasing the latest batch of over 160 startups. As with recent batches, the majority of startups presented AI-centric solutions. However, a clear evolution was evident. Instead of “AI-powered” products, many companies are now building AI agents or the infrastructure and tools needed to develop them. For instance, this batch had a flurry of voice AI solutions and new businesses focused on helping others monetize the “AI economy” with ads

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Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-04 14:22:16

Robinhood announced Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a new publicly traded fund that will hold shares of startups. The idea behind the “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” is to allow every retail investor access to make money on the hottest startups before they go public. While the current version of the application is public, Robinhood hasn’t filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don’t know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other

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Tesla Engineer Quits, Roasts Elon Musk in Spectacular Fashion

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-04 17:25:05

After a tenure of eight years, a Tesla engineer has quit the company — and directed a seething missive toward his boss, Elon Musk. "I do need to address the elephant in the room: the main reason I'm leaving is that I think Elon has dealt huge damage to Tesla's mission (and to the health of democratic institutions in several countries)," Giorgio Balestrieri, a staff algorithms engineer who joined in 2017, wrote in a scathing LinkedIn post last week. "Beyond that, Elon's leadership and decision m

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HomePod 26 adds three new features to Apple’s smart speakers

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-04 18:57:58

Apple has released HomePod version 26, the latest software update for HomePod and HomePod mini. Here’s what’s new. Today Apple launched iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe, among a variety of other new OS versions. Although HomePod version 26 contains far fewer updates and new features, it does offer three improvements. Crossfade for Apple Music AirPlay improvements Wi-Fi network switching Crossfade in Apple Music has been available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac for years. But the HomePod never su

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Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 18:08:06

Valve has apparently updated its Steam Early Access policy to no longer accept games with what the company deems to be "mature themes." As first reported by Gamesmarkt earlier this month, gaming studio Dammitbird, which develops the adult adventure game Heavy Hearts, was not allowed to put the title on Steam Early Access because of its content. Payment processors like Mastercard and Visa have been mounting a pressure campaign on video game marketplaces Steam and Itch.io to remove certain adults

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Video of 'Meta Ray-Ban Display' glasses surfaces ahead of Connect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 18:47:13

Meta's smart glasses plans were already one of the worst kept secrets, as there have been more than a year of leaks and reports about its work to add a heads-up display to the product. Now, just days before their unveiling at Connect, a promotional video of the new frames seems to have leaked. The video, reported and reposted by UploadVR, shows the new "Meta Ray-Ban Display" frames as well as a new model of camera-enabled Oakley sunglasses. The clip mainly features the new Ray-Ban glasses, and

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Harvard's new free AI tool could help treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even cancer

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-04 18:04:00

Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Harvard researchers designed a new AI model, PDGrapher. It can identify treatments to restore diseased cells to health. This could have larger impacts on drug discovery. While AI's most common use cases involve helping people with their everyday tasks, it can also go far beyond that, even helping make medical breakthroughs. Also: Can AI outdiagnose doctors? Microsoft

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Calif. construction worker unofficially broke a fabled world record

news.ycombinator.com Lester Black 2025-10-01 23:45:31

It was a muggy July day in Santa Cruz and life could not have been more mundane for Alessandro “Alo” Slebir. The 24-year-old was pounding wooden concrete forms into a missing section of sidewalk. Cars raced by on a suburban highway as a neighbor walked over, looked at Slebir and asked, “Should I move my car?” “Hey, no worries, you’re fine! You’re not in the way,” Slebir said, in his characteristically friendly demeanor before returning to his hammer. You wouldn’t know it from the work boots or

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Data Centers Are Crushing the Planet. Can Space Save Us?

gizmodo.com Sophie Hurwitz 2025-10-04 15:30:04

The companies frantically building and leasing data centers are well aware that they’re straining grids, driving emissions, and guzzling water. The electricity demand of AI data centers in particular could increase as much as 165% by 2030. Over half of the energy powering these sprawling facilities comes from fossil fuels, threatening to reverse progress toward addressing the climate crisis. Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence say they have a solution: Just stick these colossal

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Fueled by AI Hype, Google Becomes Fourth Company to Pass $3 Trillion Market Cap

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-04 18:25:38

On Monday, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, became the fourth company to reach a market value of $3 trillion, and every member of this exclusive club has something in common. All it took was a rather small 4% rise in shares for the tech giant to hit the coveted stock market benchmark. Rather unsurprisingly, the three previous winners of that title—Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple—are all titans of the tech industry that have been riding the wave of investor interest in AI, as well. Alphabet stoc

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Looks Like Meta’s First Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Be Ray-Bans After All

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-04 18:26:37

We might only be days away from Meta’s next pair of smart glasses, but there’s still time for one last leak—and this one is a doozy. Meta’s smart glasses, which are expected to roll out this week during Meta’s Connect conference, will likely bear Ray-Ban branding after all, and we may have just gotten a very official look. An unlisted video spotted on Meta’s YouTube channel and first reported on by UploadVR seems to confirm a lot of what we expected about Meta’s next pair of smart glasses. The

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5,500 Superconducting Wires Survive Intense Testing for World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-04 18:30:05

Stakeholders around the world are vying to realize nuclear fusion—a fossil fuel alternative that promises maximum energy generation with minimal environmental risk. Behind the efforts to build the world’s largest fusion reactor is an equally gigantic global collaboration: ITER, which has just announced a major advance in its quest to prove fusion’s viability. In a paper published September 11 in Superconductor Science and Technology, the ITER Collaboration reported completing a key test to vali

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iOS 26 Just Gave Your AirPods a Bunch of Free Upgrades

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-04 18:49:58

Apple’s iOS 26 is finally out, and with its release, there’s a lot to officially unpack (sorry, beta features don’t count). Naturally, most of the new stuff pertains to your iPhone; you’ve got Visual Intelligence, which allows AI to both see and interact with your screen; Live Translation in the Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps; and a new, streamlined Camera app that should make it easier to switch between video and still photo modes. But it’s not all about the iPhone. Buried in all those fea

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Turgot Map of Paris

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Mullvad VPN Now Adds QUIC Protocol to Get Around Firewalls and Censorship

macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review

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Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

WIRED Roundup: How Charlie Kirk Changed Conservative Media

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Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Founders and funders debate at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.

Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

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Tesla Engineer Quits, Roasts Elon Musk in Spectacular Fashion

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Harvard's new free AI tool could help treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even cancer

Calif. construction worker unofficially broke a fabled world record

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Looks Like Meta’s First Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Be Ray-Bans After All

5,500 Superconducting Wires Survive Intense Testing for World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

iOS 26 Just Gave Your AirPods a Bunch of Free Upgrades

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