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‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-19 20:07:35

Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits. Earlier this week, Variety and other Hollywood publications reported that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things” (and wrote and directed many episodes), were in talks to sign an exclusive deal with Paramount (now under the ownership of David Ellison’s Skydance). Then on Friday evening, Puck’s Matthew Belloni posted that the Duffers had in fact “made their choice” and were going to Paramount. The

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Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:44:42

How? Enter Porffor Porffor is my JS engine/runtime that compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries. What does that actually mean? You can compile JS files to tiny (<1MB), fast (millisecond-level) binaries: ~$ bat hi.js ─────┬────────────────────────────────────── 1 │ console.log ( "hello blog!" ) ─────┴────────────────────────────────────── ~$ porf native hi.js hi [ 271ms ] compiled hi.js -> hi ( 12.9KB ) ~$ du -h hi 16K hi ~$ ./hi hello blog! Node and Bun offer “com

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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 02:08:50

FFmpeg README FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. Libraries libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility fu

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Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 06:00:33

✨ Features Feature Description 📖 Multi-Format Support Support for EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX, DOC, HTML, RTF, and Markdown with seamless format detection 👄 Modular TTS System Edge TTS (default) and Kokoro TTS (local/offline) with extensible architecture for new models 🌌 Rich Terminal UI Clean, responsive interface with customizable color themes and full mouse & keyboard support 💾 Smart Persistence Automatic progress saving, state restoration, and cross-session continuity for seamless reading 🌍 Cross-

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How to Get Offline Maps on Your iPhone in a Few Easy Steps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 04:00:10

If you're planning a trip for Labor Day, you might plan on using your iPhone's Maps app for directions. But using the app for extended periods could eat up your monthly data. Thankfully, when Apple released iOS 17 in 2023, the tech giant brought offline maps to your iPhone. With offline maps, you can designate areas you want to download from your Maps app onto your iPhone to use in case of an emergency, or so the app doesn't wreck your cellular data. Before you start using the feature, you may b

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How One Wikipedia Editor Unraveled the ‘Single Largest Self-Promotion Operation’ in the Site's History

wired.com Nate Anderson 2025-11-19 08:00:00

Quick—what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages, while the US is second with 327 and Japan is third with 324. Other common words make their appearance as one looks down the list. "Dog" (275 languages) tops "cat" (273). Jesus (274) beats "Adolf Hitler" (242). And all of them beat "sex" (122), which is also bested by "fever," "Chiang Kai

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Single Sign on for Furries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 08:42:51

Single Sign On for Furries Published Today If I were to bootstrap a furry convention today for its first year, without writing any code, I'd probably start with a square store to handle both online and in person transactions, a custom domain, a social media account, and an email address for any business communications. Check in for pre-registrations will be clunky, but for a 100-300 attendance event, it should be feasible. Disclosure: I have no personal experience with Square. I know people t

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:21:27

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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Brands might be cooling on satellite features, and that’s bad news for cheaper Androids

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:36:10

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Chinese brands are scaling back satellite communication and keeping it for top-end models only. A reliable tipster says past high-end sat-com flagships sold poorly and were dropped. This could make global brands less likely to bring the feature to affordable phones. Satellite communication has been one of the most talked-about phone features in the past couple of years, and it’s no longer just for emergencies. Just this week, our APK teardown showed h

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The Big ‘Superman’ Speech Happened After This Emotional Behind the Scenes Moment

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-20 18:45:00

Sometimes the most magical thing about a movie is seeing how it came together. We can watch the final product and feel however it makes us feel, but that’s usually disconnected from all the work that went into it. You rarely think about the different takes, different conversations, and intense work that go into every single second. Especially a film’s biggest, most important emotional moment. James Gunn’s Superman is now available to watch at home, and part of the release is a 60-minute special

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offloads more AAPL shares

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-21 09:22:01

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has again scaled back its stake in Apple. In a regulatory filing this week, Berkshire disclosed that it sold 20 million shares of Apple during the June quarter. Nonetheless, Apple remains the conglomerate’s largest holding at 280 million shares, valued at over $64 billion. Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016. At its peak in 2023, Berkshire Hathaway owned over 915 million shares of Apple, accounting for over 50% of the firm’s holdings. Buffett has trimm

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UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-21 18:06:13

UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus Technology Secretary Peter Kyle wants the Alan Turing Institute to focus on defence In a letter seen by the BBC, Chair Dr Doug Gurr said the Turing Institute would "step up at a time of national need". They warned that the body - which receives £100m from the government - is at risk of collapse after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle instructed it to prioritise defence, and threatened to pull its funding if it did not. It com

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Porsche’s best daily driver 911? The 2025 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid review.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:00:44

Porsche 911 enthusiasts tend to be obsessive about their engines. Some won't touch anything that isn't air-cooled, convinced that everything went wrong when emissions and efficiency finally forced radiators into the car. Others love the "Mezger" engines; designed by engineer Hans Mezger, they trace their roots to the 1998 Le Mans-winning car, and no Porschephile can resist the added shine of a motorsports halo. I'm quite sure none of them will feel the same way about the powertrain in the new 9

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:22:04

OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. In a support document, OpenAI confirmed it has restored the older models for paid customers, so you can now use GPT4o, GPT o3, and more. You just need to use the model selector and choose one of the models under legacy models. In addition, GPT-5 automatically switches between Fast and Thinking, and you can also choose additional GPT-5 opti

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Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 14:18:06

Quick—what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages, while the US is second with 327 and Japan is third with 324. Other common words make their appearance as one looks down the list. "Dog" (275 languages) tops "cat" (273). Jesus (274) beats "Adolf Hitler" (242). And all of them beat "sex" (122), which is also bested by "fever," "Chiang Kai

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Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why Load Balancing at Scale Is Hard

news.ycombinator.com Mitendra Mahto 2025-11-19 14:05:24

This post is part of a series. Part 1 - A deep dive into connection management challenges. Part 2 - The nuances of HTTP parsing and why it’s harder than it looks. Part 3 - The intricacies of service discovery. Part 4 - Why Load Balancing at Scale is Hard. Load Balancing One of the most critical roles for a reverse proxy is load balancing requests across different upstream hosts. From a list of upstream servers, the proxy must decide where each incoming request should go. The primary goals

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-23 18:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft originally encouraged its employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak in 2020. This new flexible working arrangement then became an official “hybrid workplace” policy several months after the pandemic began, allowing managers to approve permanent remote work. Now that the pandemic has settled into endemicity, Microsoft wants employees to return to the of

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Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:44:44

Scientists have figured out how to make frozen discs of ice self-propel across a patterned metal surface, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. It's the latest breakthrough to come out of the Virginia Tech lab of mechanical engineer Jonathan Boreyko. A few years ago, Boreyko's lab experimentally demonstrated a three-phase Leidenfrost effect in water vapor, liquid water, and ice. The Leidenfrost effect is what happens when you dash a few drops of

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Passion over Profits

news.ycombinator.com Dillon Shook 2025-11-24 09:22:05

Passion Over Profits I’m a little over 4 months into the new job and I think now it’s safe to talk about a topic that’s been fermenting in my head without risk of jinxing anything at this point. This last time around finding a new job was the first time in the 15 years of my career where multiple offers have actually lined up in spacetime such that I had to decide between them. I’m sure I could have made this happen before if that was the goal but I’ve always tried to be selective with the com

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Senators Press Howard Lutnick’s Former Investment Firm Over Tariff Conflict of Interest Concerns

wired.com Louise Matsakis 2025-11-24 09:30:00

Last month, WIRED reported that the investment banking arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, was exploring creating a financial product for clients to bet on whether President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs would be struck down in court. In response to WIRED’s reporting, Democratic senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Cantor Fitzgerald chairman Brandon Lutnick on Wednesday demanding more information

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The US could really use an affordable electric truck

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-24 23:00:00

But if anything can get Americans excited, it’s a truck, especially an affordable one. (There was a ton of buzz over the announcement of a bare-bones truck from Bezos-backed Slate Auto earlier this year, for example.) The big question is whether the company can deliver in this environment. One key thing to note here: This is not the first time that there’s been a big splashy truck announcement from Ford that was supposed to change everything. The F-150 Lightning was hailed as a turning point fo

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

news.ycombinator.com Sky Uk Limited 2025-11-24 00:56:50

The police's use of facial recognition technology is to be significantly expanded in an attempt to catch more offenders, ministers have announced. Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to

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Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 04:46:22

Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, "what if Emacs was a good web browser?". Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who wa

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across the UK

news.ycombinator.com Sky Uk Limited 2025-11-25 00:56:50

The police's use of facial recognition technology is to be significantly expanded in an attempt to catch more offenders, ministers have announced. Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to

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Pennsylvania attorney general's email, site down after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-26 14:25:59

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced that a recent cyberattack has taken down its systems, including landline phone lines and email accounts. As Attorney General Dave Sunday revealed on social media on Monday, the office staff is currently working to restore affected services and investigate the incident with the help of law enforcement authorities. "The network that hosts the Office of Attorney General's systems is currently down, meaning the office's website is offli

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6 Best Coffee Grinders For All Budgets, Tested & Approved (2025)

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-11-26 23:05:00

Compare Our Top 6 Grinders Grinder Wired Tired Type Grind Settings Espresso-capable? Warranty Baratza Encore ESP Innovative dial offers fine adjustments for espresso. Precise grinds, with clarity of flavor. Built like a tank. Admirable versatility for all coffee types. Best value proposition overall. Not a looker, really. Neither loud nor quiet. Conical burr 40 Y 1 year Fellow Opus Quietest grinder we've tested. Minimalist-pretty. Coaxes out wonderful sweetness, especially on drip and pour-over

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Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 17:22:37

Floating-point numbers are a great invention in computer science, but they can also be tricky and troublesome to use correctly. I’ve written about them already by publishing Floating-Point Formats Cheatsheet and presentation “Pitfalls of floating-point numbers” (“Pułapki liczb zmiennoprzecinkowych” – the slides are in Polish). Last year I was preparing for a more extensive talk about this topic, but it got cancelled, like pretty much everything in these hard times of the COVID-19 pandemic. So in

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Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-11-27 04:38:00

I don't mean to be dramatic when I say coffee grinders are both the biggest mystery in coffee, and also coffee's biggest hive of technological invention. If you find yourself in the online rabbit holes of the coffee world these days, you'll almost certainly encounter a bean geek eager to tell you a secret. The secret is that your coffee grinder is more important to how your coffee tastes than your drip brewer, and also more important than your espresso maker. This idea makes some sense. Just l

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Should we get the option of a round Apple Watch and more? [Poll]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-27 09:42:30

No, I get it: round watches are a very inefficient use of space, and there is likely a reason that the Apple Watch continues to dominate the market. But what a new piece argues for is not to replace the existing Apple Watch design, but instead to offer us a greater range of options … It’s not coincidence that Apple chose a rectangular display for the Apple Watch. This clearly offers the most efficient use of space, allowing some info-dense faces alongside simpler ones. If we ignore the frankl

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Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares

cnbc.com Christina Cheddar Berk 2025-11-28 09:17:13

Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Circle Internet Group stock tumbled more than 5% in extended trading Tuesday after it said it would offer 10 million Class A shares to the public. Of the total stock being offered, 2 million shares will be offered by Circle. The remaining 8 million shares will be sold by stockholders. The stablecoin issuer's shares have soared more than 450% since it went public on June 5. As pa

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‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

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Porsche’s best daily driver 911? The 2025 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid review.

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Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It

Should we get the option of a round Apple Watch and more? [Poll]

Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares

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