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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

news.ycombinator.com Victor Wynne 2025-11-13 21:42:28

Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performance mysteries that eat up hours upon hours of your development time. If you’ve been developing apps for a while, this story will sound very familiar. Your app runs fine in testing, but then users complain about performance issues or excessive battery drain. You fire up Instruments,

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

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-14 16:15:04

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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Louisiana Attorney General has filed a "Child Protection" lawsuit against Roblox

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-15 02:23:55

The state of Louisiana is suing online gaming platform Roblox, alleging that it fails to adequately protect its majority underage user base from online predators. In the state’s lawsuit , they allege that Roblox is failing to "implement basic safety controls" such as biometric age verification upon account creation or checking that parental consent has been given to open an account. In an article announcing the lawsuit, the state says that 56 percent of Roblox players are 16 years of age or you

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EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 06:01:23

We want to ensure your safety and protect you from potential scams. Recently, there have been fraudulent recruitment initiatives online that impersonate our company. These scams aim to deceive unsuspecting applicants by offering nonexistent positions and requesting personal information or upfront fees. Remember that our company does not endorse any job postings outside our official channels. If you encounter a suspicious offer, report it through the job platform on which you found it or report

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Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Greg Foletta 2025-11-16 17:11:51

Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem Categories: Statistics R 34 minutes read I completed a Computer Science degree at uni, and bundled a lot of maths subjects in as electives: partial differential equations, vector calculus, discrete maths, linear algebra. For some reason however I always avoided statistics subjects. Maybe there’s a story to be told about a young person finding uncertainty uncomfortable, because twenty years later I find statistics, particularly the Bayesia

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Atlantic’s First Major Hurricane May Be Just Hours Away

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-18 06:45:44

Tropical Storm Erin is on track to reach the Caribbean this weekend, with current forecasts predicting it will curve north of the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico without making landfall. Still, Caribbean nations are bracing for severe storm impacts as Erin moves into warmer waters, increasing the risk of rapid intensification. A National Hurricane Center update issued at 5 a.m. AST Thursday, August 14, stated that Erin should gradually strengthen over the next day or so. After that, the storm w

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Cadillac’s Elevated Velocity concept could foreshadow the brand’s future in off-roading

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-11-18 21:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On the surface, Cadillac’s new Elevated Velocity looks like your typical concept car: gull-wing doors; a plush red interior; a retractable steering wheel for fully autonomous driving; and futuristic lighting scheme. But the real attenti

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LG B5 OLED Review: Subtle Luxury

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2025-11-19 02:03:00

The LG B5 is a lovely TV that you probably shouldn’t buy—at least not yet. As usual, the B-series is among the cheapest ways to get an LG OLED and its perfect black levels, rich contrast, and naturalistic colors that enhance everything you watch. Also as usual, it’s the step-up C-series that generally offers the best overall value for your OLED dollars. That includes last year’s C4 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) on sale, and even the upgraded C5 if you time it right. In fact, as I write this review,

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Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court

news.ycombinator.com Danny Bradbury 2025-11-19 11:51:40

A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from a woman’s reproductive health tracking app without consent. The app in question is called Flo Health. Developed in 2015 in Belarus to track menstrual cycles, it has evolved over the years as a tracking app for highly detailed, intimate aspects of women’s reproductive health. Flo Health user Erica Frasco bought a class action lawsuit against the company in 2021, following a damning report about its privacy infractions by the Wall St

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44 Must-Have Back-to-School College Dorm Room Essentials and Gear (2025)

wired.com Brenda Stolyar 2025-11-19 12:39:00

More Accessories to Consider All of us at WIRED have complicated desk setups that make working from home easier. You don't have to go that hard for a dorm room, and you probably only have so much space to spare anyway. See our full work-from-home guide for more options, but these are some of our favorite desk accessories worth considering—plus some more options for around your dorm room. Photograph: Kat Merck Aecooly Chic Touch Control Desk Fan for $25: I've been testing this small cordless f

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Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-11-20 16:00:00

United States senator Maggie Hassan is pressing major data brokers after an investigation by The Markup/CalMatters and copublished by WIRED found at least 35 firms hid opt-out information from search results, making it harder for people to take control of their own data and safeguard their privacy online. Hassan, the top Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, put five of the top firms—IQVIA Digital, Comscore, Telesign Corporation, 6sense Insights, and Findem—on notice Wednesday, demanding th

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Study: Social media probably can't be fixed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 06:26:28

Ars Technica: I was frankly surprised at the ineffectiveness of the various intervention strategies you tested. But it does seem to explain the Bluesky conundrum. Bluesky has no algorithm, for example, yet the same dynamics still seem to emerge. I think Bluesky's founders genuinely want to avoid those dysfunctional issues, but they might not succeed, based on this paper. Why are such interventions so ineffective? Petter Törnberg: We've been discussing whether these things are due to the platfor

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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-21 11:32:58

Ars Technica: I was frankly surprised at the ineffectiveness of the various intervention strategies you tested. But it does seem to explain the Bluesky conundrum. Bluesky has no algorithm, for example, yet the same dynamics still seem to emerge. I think Bluesky's founders genuinely want to avoid those dysfunctional issues, but they might not succeed, based on this paper. Why are such interventions so ineffective? Petter Törnberg: We've been discussing whether these things are due to the platfor

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Why I finally left Spotify

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-21 21:00:00

After our decade-long relationship, I’m breaking up with Spotify. It’s nothing personal. It’s just that Spotify and I have grown up, but we haven’t grown together. Over the years, I’ve been tempted to leave Spotify many times. I know that the company faces accusations of poor streaming payouts for artists, compared to its competitors, and I haven’t forgotten that it was Spotify that platformed Joe Rogan’s podcast, then exclusive to the platform, to spread misinformation about COVID-19 and othe

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Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-23 06:05:57

Social platforms like Facebook and X exacerbate the problem of political and social polarization, but they don’t create it. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands put AI chatbots in a simple social media structure to see how they interacted with each other and found that, even without the invisible hand of the algorithm, they tend to organize themselves based on their pre-assigned affiliations and self-sort into echo chambers. The study, a prep

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In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-23 21:00:00

Amid the rise of new AI-powered low code developer tools aimed at hobbyists and non-technical folks, Uno Platform is doubling down on enterprise developers instead. Montreal-based Uno Platform offers a suite of enterprise-grade tools for developers to build cross-platform .NET applications that can be supported on Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows systems. Users code an application once and Uno Platform makes it easy to ship other types of applications from the existing codebase. “If you’re c

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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Ronning 2025-11-24 02:02:03

In May 2025, during the same week Neon announced their acquisition, our databases went down four times. For hours. Database spin-ups, their entire value proposition, were completely disabled. Our "serverless" databases couldn't even start. That was the final straw in our decision to migrate to PlanetScale. Who We Are and Why Databases Matter More At OpenSecret, we're building something unique: a confidential computing platform powered by AWS Nitro Enclaves. Our flagship application, Maple AI,

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Why a new UK internet safety law is causing an outcry on both sides of the Atlantic

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-24 16:28:18

Illustration of the adult video website PornHub on June 5, 2025. Riccardo Milani | Afp | Getty Images It was well intentioned but a U.K. law mandating age verification on adult sites and a number of other platforms has sparked a backlash from both internet users in the country, as well as U.S. politicians and tech giants. Last month, new provisions in the Online Safety Act requiring large online platforms to implement age checks to prevent children from accessing pornographic and appropriate ma

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Manpower discloses data breach affecting nearly 145,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-24 16:19:30

Manpower, one of the world's largest staffing companies, is notifying nearly 145,000 individuals that their information was stolen by attackers who breached the company's systems in December 2024. Together with Experis and Talent Solutions, the company is part of ManpowerGroup, a multinational corporation with over 600,000 workers in more than 2,700 offices and serving over 100,000 clients worldwide. Last year, ManpowerGroup reported revenues of $17.9 billion and a total gross profit of $3.1 bi

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Apple @ Work Podcast: The state of Zero Trust in the enterprise

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-11-25 02:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computer

news.ycombinator.com Achim Baqué 2025-11-20 21:32:57

If nothing happens, click Loading...If nothing happens, click here Notes = location, = batch, numbers/stamps/labels, = verification status, = picture and video count, = available history, = auctions. 'More or less verified': To the best of our knowledge and belief, evidence is almost given or obvious. Many times the current owner is unknown, pictures might be old, etc.! Unlisted Apple-1: The Apple-1 Registry is in contact with some owners who wish to have no information published. We respe

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Don't fall for AI-powered disinformation attacks online - here's how to stay sharp

zdnet.com Dan Patterson 2025-11-25 04:29:38

JuSun/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AI-powered narrative attacks, or misinformation campaigns, are on the rise. These can create real business, brand, personal, and financial harm. Here are expert tips on how to spot and protect yourself against them. Last month, an old friend forwarded me a video that made my stomach drop. In it, what appeared to be violent protesters streaming down the streets of a major city, holding signs accusing the government and business officials of "censoring

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FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 12:51:02

Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs Contact: OlivierCertner Motivation For the amd64 architecture, Intel started shipping hybrid CPUs with the rather confidential Lakefield and then more massively with Alder Lake (Gen12). Apart from some models of Alder Lake, it is now impossible to buy an Intel chip that does not have at least P (Performance) and E (Efficiency) cores. ARM first released incarnations of its big.LITTLE arrangement as soon as 2011. DynamIQ is an evolution where big and LITTLE CPUs can b

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What You Need to Know About This Week’s Looming Hurricane

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-26 16:19:42

Hurricane trackers are keeping a close eye on a storm with a 90% chance of developing into a hurricane this week. If it does, it would be the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Tropical Storm Erin, the fifth named storm of the 2025 season, formed off the coast of West Africa on Monday, August 11, according to the National Hurricane Center. As Erin treks westward across the Atlantic, NHC forecasters expect it to strengthen significantly, reaching major hurricane status northeast of Puerto R

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Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-26 21:45:56

It's easier than ever to manipulate video footage to deceive the viewer and increasingly difficult for fact checkers to detect such manipulations. Cornell University scientists developed a new weapon in this ongoing arms race: software that codes a "watermark" into light fluctuations, which in turn can reveal when the footage has been tampered with. The researchers presented the breakthrough over the weekend at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and published a scientific paper in Jun

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Ford is developing a $30,000 midsized EV pickup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 02:30:30

Despite the impending loss of federal rebates, Ford plans to give US EV production a huge boost. After hyping it last week as a "breakthrough" and "Model T moment," the company has announced a new Universal EV Platform to be shared by a new family of products. The first of those will be a midsized pickup with a starting price of around $30,000, likely similar in configuration to the popular Maverick. It will use the company's new prismatic LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries. Ford will inves

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Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 05:11:01

Why is Web Performance Undervalued? Web performance is one of those things so fundamental to businesses that you would expect them to absolutely nail it. If consumers care about performance, which seems to be true, then in an efficient, competitive market you would expect businesses to be under immense pressure to optimize it. And yet, poor web performance is ubiquitous. Huge companies across the board are shipping websites and web apps so sluggish that it is killing the web. The economic upsid

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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

news.ycombinator.com Eric Shobe 2025-11-24 14:14:33

Fourteen years ago, Dropbox took its first steps toward building its own hardware infrastructure—and as our product and user base has grown, so has our infrastructure. What started with just a handful of servers has evolved into one of the largest custom-built storage systems in the world. We've scaled from a few dozen machines to tens of thousands of servers with millions of drives. That evolution didn’t happen by accident. It took years of iteration, close collaboration with suppliers, and a p

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Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

wired.com Simon Cohen 2025-11-27 00:00:00

If you’re shopping for a portable Bluetooth speaker, it’s a given that you want good sound. With a budget of $75-$150, there is no shortage of great options, including WIRED favorites like the JBL Flip 7, Beats Pill, and Tribit StormBox 2. If your travel ambitions have already soaked up most of your cash, you have fewer choices. Spending less always involves a tradeoff, but Tribit’s StormBox Mini+ ($40) involves far fewer compromises than you might think, and it even throws in a few features th

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POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 05:26:42

POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data integration, format sensitivity, and inadequate tooling. POML provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types seamlessly, and

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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

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

Louisiana Attorney General has filed a "Child Protection" lawsuit against Roblox

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