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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:11:26

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

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Apple announces iPhone 17 with bigger 6.3-inch always-on ProMotion screen, A19 chip

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:50:35

September means iPhones, and as expected Apple has taken the wraps off a new iPhone 17 at its event today. The updated OLED screen is the hero of the iPhone 17, bringing several features to the base iPhone that the iPhone Pro has enjoyed for years. The iPhone 17 steps up from a 6.1-inch to a 6.3-inch display, the same increase that came to the iPhone 16 Pro last year, and Apple has also added 120 Hz ProMotion support to the basic iPhone for the first time. Apple A 6.3-inch 120 Hz screen is the

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Our Favorite Budget TV Is Only $264 at Walmart

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-10 03:48:46

Don't want to shell out big bucks on a new television? Walmart is offering an $86 discount on our favorite budget TV. This 55-inch 4K panel from Vizio comes in well under $300, a downright steal for the features on offer here, which includes Dolby Vision, Variable Refresh Rate, and a great smart interface. Our reviewer Parker Hall called the picture “bright and punchy” and support for Dolby Vision sweetened the deal. It also supports HDR10+, HDR10, and HLG, so you have a wide array of options f

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Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-10 07:49:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The Plus plan will be $12/month and $120/year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. And if you hurry, you can avoid the rate increase. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained

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Blink just raised its subscription price - but you get 2 new features in return

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-10 10:08:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The new price will be $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained that "for the first time since Blink launched su

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We All Dodged a Bullet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 11:11:26

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

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US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

news.ycombinator.com Ma Is An Associated Press National Writer Who Covers Education. 2025-10-10 15:45:46

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eight

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Gemini’s improved home screen is coming soon, and it could get new tweaks (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 19:36:33

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini could be getting a refreshed home screen, as we’ve also seen before. Google has begun testing it with a small set of users using the latest beta version of the Google app. Google is also testing suggestions for queries based on your Google activity, although this is currently in the early stages of testing. For a few past months, Google has been testing visual changes to Gemini’s home screen. One of those changes, seemingly inspired by ChatGPT,

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Samsung wants to get ahead of the iPhone Fold with its own ‘Wide Fold’ (Update: Image)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 07:13:50

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is reportedly working on two Fold devices for 2026. One of these devices could be a so-called “Wide Fold” with a wider folding screen. It’s believed that this foldable is a response to Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold. Update: September 9, 2025 (6:10 AM ET): Tipster Ice Universe has posted a fan rendition of Samsung’s new “Wide Fold” device, giving people a better idea of what to expect. Check out the image below. This unofficial image suggests that

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I did not expect this $15 cordless screwdriver to be as good as it is

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-11 08:13:46

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwd

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These Climate Hacks to Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-11 06:00:23

Last year, the United Nations predicted that Earth’s average temperature could rise more than 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) by 2100 if we don’t reduce global emissions. That level of warming would cause catastrophic, irreversible damage to ecosystems, underscoring the urgent need to slow the pace of climate change. Still, the amount of greenhouse gases humans pump into the atmosphere continues to rise. Without sufficient progress on the emissions front, some scientists have suggest

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These 18 Popular VPNs Share Parent Companies and Privacy Risks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 07:00:04

The benefits of using a VPN service to protect your privacy are clear: Your ISP and other snoops won't be able to spy on your online activity. What's not always clear is which VPN service is trustworthy. A VPN, or virtual private network, is software that creates a secure connection between your device and the internet by routing your internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel to a remote server. A VPN essentially masks your IP address and helps keep some of your browsing activities private.

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No, the Galaxy S25 FE doesn’t have this key security upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:15:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has confirmed to Android Authority that the Galaxy S25 FE has an optical-based fingerprint scanner. This comes after unofficial claims that the phone has an ultrasonic scanner. An ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is faster, more accurate, and works with wet fingers. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 FE last week, and it brings a couple of notable upgrades. We also heard rumors that the phone would have an upgraded in-display fingerprint sensor, bu

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I was wrong about this $15 cordless screwdriver - here's how it fared in my workshop

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-11 09:45:18

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwd

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50% Off LG Promo Codes & Coupons

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2025-10-11 08:00:00

LG makes some of the best TVs you can buy. Its OLED TVs in particular are perennial favorites at WIRED, with C-series models like the C4 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) providing among the best performance for your dollars on the market. LG is about way more than TVs of course. The Korean brand offers multiple products across the A/V landscape, from soundbars to Bluetooth speakers, along with a host of other products like home appliances, laptops, and more. Save over 40% with LG promo codes and online

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OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-11 08:00:44

In Brief OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, though the company says it has no plans to leave. California’s attorney general is investigating whether OpenAI’s restructuring violates state charitable trust law, while a coalition of nonprofits, labor groups, philanthropies, and even rival Meta are pushing back against the c

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Our Pixel 10 Pro XL has also run into the infamous screen snow issue (Updated: Fix incoming)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 17:27:54

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Multiple Google Pixel 10 series users are experiencing a “screen snow” issue. The display freezes and shows a static-like image, but recovers automatically after about ten minutes. We have also faced the issue on our own Pixel 10 Pro XL. Google has acknowledged the bug publicly and says a fix started rolling out on September 3. Update: September 8, 2025 (10 PM ET): Google has confirmed to Android Authority that it started rolling out a fix for the screen

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Google is already shoveling out a fix for Pixel 10’s screen snow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:59:00

Google is now rolling out a fix for the so-called “screen snow” bug affecting some Pixel 10 devices. The company confirmed the development in a statement to Android Authority: We’re aware of an issue impacting a small number of Pixel 10 devices. We began rolling out fixes on Sept. 3 with more to follow in the coming weeks. Google began pushing the September 2025 security update on September 3, which included a slate of bug fixes and improvements. While the official changelog didn’t explicitly

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Includes a Secret Konami Code Easter Egg

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 06:15:03

Hollow Knight: Silksong isn't an easy game, but that difficulty is one of the reasons why fans love it. There are likely some in the fanbase who might even feel it's too easy, and for them, developer Team Cherry added the most famous of cheat codes to the game, although it doesn't give you 30 lives. The famous Konami Code, best known for its inclusion in the NES game Contra, does work in Silksong, but it will make the game far harder, not easier. The secret was found not long after the game cam

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Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:44:50

Large network scans have been targeting Cisco ASA devices, prompting warnings from cybersecurity researchers that it could indicate an upcoming flaw in the products. GreyNoise has recorded two significant scanning spikes in late August, with up to 25,000 unique IP addresses probing ASA login portals and also Cisco IOS Telnet/SSH. The second wave, logged on August 26, 2025, was largely (80%) driven by a Brazilian botnet, using roughly 17,000 IPs. In both cases, the threat actors used overlappi

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Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?

news.ycombinator.com Timothy Prickett Morgan 2025-10-08 21:27:24

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed with accelerators account for half of the money spent on systems worldwide. There is no law anywhere that says that accelerator has to be a GPU, although that has been the accelerator of choice by far because GPUs are, like CPUs, general purpose processors that are explicitly designed to support vario

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Bob Stein and Voyager (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-10-11 04:32:42

Voyager tends to be overlooked in almost every survey because we didn’t really fit into anybody’s category. Librarians didn’t really pay much attention. The computer world never cared. Hollywood never really cared. We touched all these industries, but because we weren’t central to any of them and didn’t really ally with any of them in particular, we were in fact always an outlier. — Bob Stein In 1945, Vannevar Bush, an advisor to the American government on the subjects of engineering and techno

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Job mismatch and early career success

news.ycombinator.com Julie Berry Cullen 2025-10-11 18:57:40

How does being over- or underqualified at the beginning of a worker's career affect skill acquisition, retention, and promotion? Despite the importance of mismatch for the labor market, self-selection into jobs has made estimating these effects difficult. We overcome endogeneity concerns in the context of the US Air Force, which allocates new enlistees to over 130 different jobs based, in part, on test scores. Using these test scores, we create simulated job assignments based on factors outside

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How RSS beat Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 13:50:01

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and fidelity, VHS was cheaper, offered longer recordings, and, most importantly, was the more open format. Not many people talk about how or why RSS won the content syndication war because few people are aware

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The story of how RSS beat Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 23:50:01

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and fidelity, VHS was cheaper, offered longer recordings, and, most importantly, was the more open format. Not many people talk about how or why RSS won the content syndication war because few people are aware

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‘Free Speech’ University in Austin Makes Freshmen Read Palantir CEO’s Deep Thoughts

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-12 07:30:04

In 2021, “intellectual dark web” OG and Israeli-government stan Bari Weiss announced the launch of her own university. In case you don’t remember, the “intellectual dark web” was a term coined by one of its own proponents (Eric Weinstein) and used to market a breed of new pundits and influencers, like Joe Rogan, who sprang up during the first Trump administration. These pundits dared to share provocative perspectives that, according to them, no one else had the courage to voice—stuff like multic

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Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 15:24:33

September 8, 2025 Have you heard of 996? It’s the demanding work schedule that calls for working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week. Apparently, it’s the new thing in the San Francisco tech scene, and it’s all anyone can talk about (search Twitter). So far, this has been a story based on vibes, not data. But I looked at Ramp transaction data and found 996 is real. San Francisco-based employees are increasingly working on Saturdays, and it’s already showing up in spend trends. The chart above

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Browser Fingerprint Detector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 19:08:56

Browser Fingerprint Detector Discover what information websites can gather about you through browser fingerprint techniques. Your privacy matters - understand your digital footprint.

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Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

news.ycombinator.com Julie Berry Cullen 2025-10-12 19:57:40

How does being over- or underqualified at the beginning of a worker's career affect skill acquisition, retention, and promotion? Despite the importance of mismatch for the labor market, self-selection into jobs has made estimating these effects difficult. We overcome endogeneity concerns in the context of the US Air Force, which allocates new enlistees to over 130 different jobs based, in part, on test scores. Using these test scores, we create simulated job assignments based on factors outside

Topics: individuals job jobs results scores

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This oddball screwdriver is one of the most ergonomic tools I own (and it's only $15)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-12 23:01:00

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwd

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We all dodged a bullet

Apple announces iPhone 17 with bigger 6.3-inch always-on ProMotion screen, A19 chip

Our Favorite Budget TV Is Only $264 at Walmart

Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

Blink just raised its subscription price - but you get 2 new features in return

We All Dodged a Bullet

US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

Gemini’s improved home screen is coming soon, and it could get new tweaks (APK teardown)

Samsung wants to get ahead of the iPhone Fold with its own ‘Wide Fold’ (Update: Image)

I did not expect this $15 cordless screwdriver to be as good as it is

These Climate Hacks to Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire

These 18 Popular VPNs Share Parent Companies and Privacy Risks

No, the Galaxy S25 FE doesn’t have this key security upgrade

I was wrong about this $15 cordless screwdriver - here's how it fared in my workshop

50% Off LG Promo Codes & Coupons

OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

Our Pixel 10 Pro XL has also run into the infamous screen snow issue (Updated: Fix incoming)

Google is already shoveling out a fix for Pixel 10’s screen snow

Hollow Knight: Silksong Includes a Secret Konami Code Easter Egg

Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?

Bob Stein and Voyager (2021)

Job mismatch and early career success

How RSS beat Microsoft

The story of how RSS beat Microsoft

‘Free Speech’ University in Austin Makes Freshmen Read Palantir CEO’s Deep Thoughts

Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

Browser Fingerprint Detector

Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

This oddball screwdriver is one of the most ergonomic tools I own (and it's only $15)

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