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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 03:44:49

The perception is that model improvement seems to be stagnating. GPT-5 wasn’t the step change that people were expecting. Yet, models continue to improve on reasoning benchmarks. Recently, both OpenAI and Google models were on par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 (IMO). At the same time it’s still difficult to make AI agents work for relatively simple enterprise use cases. Why is there such a disparity in model performance between problem domains? Why are mode

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I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer

news.ycombinator.com Vadim Drobinin 2026-02-04 23:06:27

How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer 47 seconds: A villain origin story ¶ Wednesday, 11:15 AM. I'm at the PureGym entrance doing the universal gym app dance. Phone out, one bar of signal that immediately gives up because apparently the building is wrapped in aluminum foil. Connect to PureGym WiFi. Wait for it to actually connect. Open the app. "Warming up..." The entire feed loads—suggested workouts I'll never do, my "recent" activities from 2024, a motivatio

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The Original History Behind the Mandalorians’ Wars Against the Jedi

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-05 12:39:21

The world of Mandalore has a long and complicated history in Star Wars, and perhaps even more complicated than the story of its peoples’ wars among themselves are their wars united against a common foe: the Galactic Republic, and the Jedi Order that served it. But outside of allusions and artwork, the story of what defined these conflicts has gone largely untouched in contemporary Star Wars continuity, as the focus returned to Mandalore’s restoration in the post-Imperial era. In the former canon

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9 Best Pillows (2025) Tested For Side, Back, and Stomach Sleepers

wired.com Nena Farrell 2026-02-05 12:36:00

Compare the Top 5 Pillows Pillow Fill Material Shell Material Adjustable? Cooling? Sizes Available Purple Freeform Adjustable Pillow High-density memory foam and polyester fill blend, plus hyper elastic polymer gel layer Polyester stretch knit with proprietary cooling fibers Yes Yes Standard and king Coop Cool+ Adjustable Pillow Gel-infused memory foam and microfiber Nylon and polyester shell with a memory foam pad and gel, plus a pillowcase made of polyethylene, polyester, and spandex Yes Yes

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Deal: Save a whopping $800 on the Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-05 17:05:16

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station has become my go-to battery solution for most of my needs. Mainly because it is both portable and powerful enough to run all my electronics. Needless to say, I would recommend it, especially at today’s heavily discounted price. You can get it at a massive $800 discount, bringing the price down to a very amicable $599. Buy the Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station for just $599 ($800 off) This offer is available

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Report: 2026 Apple Watch lineup will bring three notable changes

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-05 17:23:42

DigiTimes Asia is out today with a new report saying Apple Watch sales in the first half of 2025 came in about 10% above expectations. Still, the more interesting part of the report touches on what to expect from a very promising 2026 lineup. Here are the details. Strong 2025 momentum heading into Series 11 launch According to the report, sales look promising for the third quarter peak season, which comes after a challenging, but successful, last few months: “Despite challenges from tariffs a

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Do yourself a favor and skip buying a Google Pixel right now - it'll be worth it

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-02-05 15:44:00

'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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Is air travel getting worse?

news.ycombinator.com Maxwell Tabarrok 2026-02-05 08:06:33

Over the past couple of years, bad personal experiences with delays, testimonies from friends, and news or reactions to air travel incidents seem to have become much more common. It’s difficult to tell if these extra anecdotes reflect a change in the true rate of airline accidents and delays or if they instead result from fluctuations in the human social layer where confirmation bias, saliency, and mimesis can draw our concern far out of proportion. Thus, I turn to the primary source data. Her

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US F-16s lose out as Thai Air Force seals US$600M deal for Swedish Gripen jets

news.ycombinator.com Agence France-Presse 2026-02-05 17:11:42

Advertisement The US$600 million agreement for the Saab JAS 39 Gripens was first announced in June as part of a long-term plan to modernise the air force’s combat capabilities. During five days of clashes with Cambodia that left more than 40 people dead, Thailand used its fleet of F-16s to strike military targets across the border. It was the deadliest border fighting between the two countries in decades. The purchase of four Swedish-built Gripen jets is part of a long-term plan to modernise

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Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 16:21:27

Introduction This blog post describes the progress of the first phase of enabling AMD Turin support in coreboot and porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 board. The project is funded by NLnet Foundation. The project was inspired by AMD’s efforts to bring open-source firmware for their most recent CPUs. Couple months ago AMD published their CPU initialization code for AMD Turin server processor family on GitHub. The OpenSIL is a new initiative to unify the silicon initialization for AMD platform across mul

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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

news.ycombinator.com Conroy 2026-02-04 16:32:21

A brain scan (artificially coloured) produced by magnetic resonance imaging. Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password1. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately deciphered up to 74% of imagined sentences. The system began decoding users’ internal speech — the silent dialogue in people’s minds — only when they thought of a specific keyword. This

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TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 17:26:53

TextKit 2 (NSTextLayoutManager) API was announced publicly during WWDC21, which is over 4 years ago. Before that, it was in private development for a few years and gained widespread adoption in the macOS and iOS frameworks. Promised an easier, faster, overall better API and text layout engine that replaces the aged TextKit 1 (NSLayoutManager) engine. Over the years, I gained some level of expertise in TextKit 2 and macOS/iOS text processing, which resulted in STTextView - a re-implementation of

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The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Cipriani 2026-02-05 16:07:06

If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems with large files. But Git LFS added new complications and storage costs. Meanwhile, the Git project has been quietly working on large files. And while LFS ain’t dead yet, the latest Git release shows the path towards a future where LFS is, finally, obsolete. What you can do today: replace

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As People Ridicule GPT-5, Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Need ‘Trillions’ in Infrastructure

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-05 17:15:40

People have ridiculed GPT-5, the newest large language model release from OpenAI, since the second it launched, with many users complaining that it’s dumb, boring, and not as good as the last LLM that the company released. Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, has some comforting words for those who may be concerned about the direction his company is headed: AI is a bubble, and oh, also btw, my company is about to spend the GDP of France to build out our AI infrastructure. That seems to be the gist of

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Report: Deadpool Will Make His MCU Return in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-05 17:51:24

It seems Ryan Reynolds wasn’t trolling his fans after all. Earlier this week, the Deadpool actor posted a logo from Deadpool & Wolverine teasing a connection to the Avengers. Was he joking? Was he not? Well, it turns out, he wasn’t. Deadpool will reportedly appear in some capacity in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. He just won’t be a member of the team. The Hollywood Reporter reported the news of the character’s addition and io9 has reached out to Marvel Studios for any clarity or confirmation

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Ultrahuman Calls Its Ring Air the World's Most Accurate Smart Ring for Tracking Ovulation

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-05 11:17:00

Ultrahuman has taken an algorithm designed for intravaginal fertility monitors and transformed it into a non-invasive, temperature-sensing feature that can track your cycle right from your finger. The wearable health tech company announced today that it acquired viO HealthTech, which created the OvuSense algorithm. Validated in 13 peer-reviewed clinical publications and backed by 15 years of clinical research, the algorithm draws on data from over 260,000 cycles collected with medical-grade sen

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Do Vibration Plates Actually Help You Lose Weight, Build Muscle and Get Stronger?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-05 16:30:04

When you're trying to lose weight or build muscle, figuring out what actually works can be frustrating. There are plenty of options, from lifting weights to cardio classes, and now vibration plates are part of the conversation. But does standing on a shaking platform really help you get stronger or shed pounds, or is it just another short-lived trend? To find out, we talked to personal trainers and other fitness experts. They explained how vibration plates are supposed to work, the benefits you

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Every Free Battlefield 6 Open Beta Challenges Reward You Can Earn

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-05 16:46:00

The Battlefield 6 open beta has taken the gaming world by storm, as hundreds of thousands of players have queued up to trade shots, blow up buildings and rack up killstreaks. The final beta period is in full swing: It began on Thursday, Aug. 14 and goes through Sunday, Aug. 17, so you'll want to join the playtest now if you want to experience the next era of Battlefield chaos before the full release on Oct. 10. Familiar maps and modes are making a return, as players play tug-of-war in Rush sec

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 16 #531

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-05 16:53:38

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 really stumped me. Even after I thought I understood the theme, I didn't see any obvious words to look for, and struggled to unscramble the ones I did get. Want help with today's NYT Strands puzzle? Read on for some hints and the answers. I go into

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 16, #797

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-05 17:14:21

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 was a real stumper for me. I saw construction and shellac and was trying to make a list of house products, but that went nowhere fast. Need the answers? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot,

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Leak Claims Nov. 14 Release Date, No Switch 2 Version Yet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-05 17:15:03

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be the next entry in Activision's military shooter series, which typically comes out in October every year, making it one of the last big game releases before Black Friday. A leak suggests that the new CoD might come out a little later than usual, but still in time for the big shopping day. Black Ops 7 will reportedly be released on Nov. 14, according to a leaker who goes by the name billbil-kun from a post on the French website Dealabs. Along with the supposed re

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Applied Materials sinks 14% on weak guidance due to China demand

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-05 22:01:10

Applied Materials shares plunged14% after the semiconductor equipment maker issued weak guidance as it faces demand pressures in China. The company forecast adjusted earnings per share of $2.11, falling short of the $2.39 per share expected by LSEG. The company projected $6.7 billion in revenue, versus the $7.34 billion estimate. During an earnings call with analysts, CEO Gary Dickerson said that the current macroeconomic backdrop and trade issues have fueled "increasing uncertainty and lower

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Opendoor CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2026-02-05 22:45:24

Opendoor CEO Carrie Wheeler said Friday that she's resigning from the online real estate company, which has seen a surge in recent interest from retail investors. The stock popped early in the day before closing up 4.3%. Pressure began building on Wheeler, who took over the top job in 2022, after the company's quarterly earnings report earlier this month failed to reassure investors that a turnaround is underway. The stock is up more than sixfold since bottoming out at 51 cents in June, a price

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Tech IPOs are roaring after 'years of Prohibition' — it may be too good

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-05 22:13:37

Brendan Blumer, Chairman of of Bullish and Tom Farley, CEO of Bullish, Bullish a cryptocurrency exchange operator, pose with staffs during the company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., August 13, 2025. The Bullish IPO this week took on added significance, perhaps because of the company name. When shares of the Peter Thiel-backed cryptocurrency exchange more than doubled out of the gate on Wednesday before finishing the day up 84%, it was the latest sign that the tech

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Melting Glacier in Alaska Floods State Capital

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-05 20:48:03

This is climate change in action. Glacier Gush Parts of Alaska's state capital, Juneau, were flooded this week, caused by a nearby melting glacier, according to The Guardian. And, yes, in case you're wondering, climate change appears to be the main culprit behind the record-breaking water levels. The Mendenhall Glacier, a vast field of ice and snow that sits north of the city in a valley, has created a natural lake that is dammed by ice, according to the news outlet. On Tuesday, local offici

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dbrand’s Joy-Con grip nightmare is coming to an end as it starts shipping replacements

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-05 22:16:50

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Accessory maker dbrand has officially started shipping its Joy-Lock Grips. The replacement grips are designed so that Joy-Cons won’t detach from the Switch 2, even when 87% of the console’s weight is put on the magnetic hinge. The replacement kit also includes a set of Dock Adapter Friction Pads. Accessory maker dbrand is well-known for its high-quality products. However, the company recently found itself embroiled in controversy shortly after releasing

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Next week’s Google event is sounding more like a late-night talk show lineup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-05 22:46:28

TL;DR The Made by Google event next week will feature celebrity guests alongside product reveals. Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Curry, Lando Norris, and the Jonas Brothers are among the teased guests. The event celebrates 10 generations of Pixel and ends with the tagline “Get outside your comfort phone.” It looks like Google’s big Pixel launch next week won’t just be about the hardware. In what appears to be a bid to draw a wider audience than tech nerds like us, Google is rolling out the red carpet

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Appfigures: ChatGPT app sees a 673% increase in global revenue in 2025

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-05 22:34:29

A new report from Appfigures shows ChatGPT firmly leading the pack in revenue per download among the top AI assistant apps. Here’s the breakdown. According to the report (via TechCrunch), since launching in May 2023, the ChatGPT app has generated $2 billion in global consumer spending across iOS and Android, with a 673% year-over-year surge in 2025 alone. Appfigures also says the app has been downloaded 318 million times so far this year, 2.8 times more than in the same period last year. Indi

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‘Foundation’ Just Smashed the Past Into the Present, and the Present Into the Future

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-05 15:00:45

You knew it wasn’t going to be a pleasant exchange when—at the very end of last week’s Foundation episode—Demerzel barged her way aboard Gaal’s spaceship. Gaal may be a psychic warrior who’s lived for over 300 years, but Demerzel is an ancient robot. They aren’t strangers, having met at the very beginning of season one. But times have changed since then, to put it mildly, and they really don’t know much about each other. That evolves in a big way in season three, episode six, “The Shape of Time.

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Louisiana AG Calls Out ‘Escape to Epstein Island’ Roblox Game in Lawsuit

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-02-05 22:15:04

The attorney general of Louisiana filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the popular online gaming platform Roblox, accusing it of failing to protect child users. Among the material with which the suit takes issue is a game on the platform called “Escape to Epstein Island” that was labeled as appropriate for all ages. Attorney General Liz Murrill alleges in the lawsuit that Roblox put user growth and profits over child safety, calling it “the perfect place for pedophiles.” “Every parent should be

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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

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Melting Glacier in Alaska Floods State Capital

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Appfigures: ChatGPT app sees a 673% increase in global revenue in 2025

‘Foundation’ Just Smashed the Past Into the Present, and the Present Into the Future

Louisiana AG Calls Out ‘Escape to Epstein Island’ Roblox Game in Lawsuit

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