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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

news.ycombinator.com David Leadbeater 2026-03-05 09:13:02

Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output. At least provided they aren't overused, just like colour. $ important-command Lots of output... ‼️ Something went wrong! Some more output... But bigger emojis are better, right? The VT100, introduced in 1978 has a way to do bigger text. You can even play with this due to the wonderful PCjs VT100 implementation. The way it works is you use the DECDHL (DEC Double-Height Line) escapes

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A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails

news.ycombinator.com Hans-Jörg Schnedlitz 2026-03-01 11:31:09

Our previous article in this series established that Solid Queue is an excellent choice if you need a system for processing background jobs. It minimizes external dependencies — no need for Redis! — by storing all jobs in your database. Despite that, it is incredibly performant. But just being performant is not enough for a production-ready background job system. Rails developers have come to expect a lot over the years. We don't just want to enqueue jobs to run in the background. We want to sc

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150 Million Americans Under Life-Threatening Heat Dome This Week

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-03-05 21:15:52

More than 150 million Americans from Texas to Maine are under extreme heat advisories as dangerously high temperatures bake the nation. Meteorologists warn that this heat dome could expand to affect an additional 20 million people by mid-week. In more than three dozen states from the Plains to New England, daytime temperatures could reach and exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) through at least Tuesday, AccuWeather reports. In an advisory issued Monday, June 23, the National Weat

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Goldman Sachs Makes a Huge AI Bet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-03-05 21:45:56

Goldman Sachs has just launched its generative AI assistant across the entire firm, making it available to all employees in what the bank calls a major milestone in its technology strategy. The move follows more than a year of internal development and testing that involved over 10,000 employees piloting the tool. The GS AI Assistant is a conversational AI interface that allows employees to safely interact with large language models like GPT and Gemini, firewalled within Goldman’s own secure com

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Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-05 21:34:11

For many species, producing an embryo is a bit of a contest between males and females. Males want as many offspring as possible, and want the females to devote as many resources as possible to each of them. Females are better at keeping their options open and distributing resources in a way to maximize the number of offspring they can produce over the course of their lives. In mammals, this plays out through the chemical modification of DNA, a process called imprinting. Males imprint their DNA

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Your Android phone just got a major Gemini upgrade for music fans - and it's free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-03-06 06:00:40

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty The next time you can't remember the name of that song that's stuck in your head, Gemini might be able to help you. One lesser-known feature of Google Assistant was the ability to identify a song, either by letting it listen to a track that was playing or by humming the tune. Pixel phones have a similar feature built in, but if you were on another Android device, you were just left wondering since Assistant switched to Gemini (or you resorted to the Google app or a t

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Mattress Encasement vs. Mattress Protector

wired.com Julia Forbes 2026-03-06 06:02:00

Here's a hard truth: People are gross. Even the cleanliest among us cannot prevent the things that permeate a mattress nightly, oftentimes without us even knowing. This includes things like dandruff, dead skin, dust mites, sweat, and even in accidental cases, urine and blood. Have the “ick” yet? Now imagine the worst comes to pass, and you've got to contend with now cleaning your mattress to remove these things as best as you can. To that end, protecting your mattress shouldn’t even be a questi

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Ocarina of Time Randomizer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 09:08:34

Shuffle Items. Solve The Logic. This randomizer takes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and randomizes the locations of the items for a more dynamic play experience. Proper logic is used to ensure every seed is possible to complete without the use of glitches and will be safe from the possibility of softlocks with any possible usage of keys in dungeons. Depending on settings, all dungeons will always have the same number of small keys, the boss key, maps and compasses. Which chests have tho

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Gemini for Android Auto may let you manage your smart home from the driver’s seat (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-06 16:39:26

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on giving Gemini the ability to control your smart home from your car. Gemini will be able to manage all Home devices connected to your account. Google Assistant for Android Auto and Automotive is a great hands-free tool for handling a variety of tasks while on the road. One such task you can use the digital assistant for is controlling your smart home from the car. When Gemini eventually replaces Assistant on Android Auto and Automot

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House staffers can’t have WhatsApp on their devices

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-06 16:06:07

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The House of Representatives has banned staff members from using WhatsApp on government devices, according to a report from Axios. In an email viewed by the outlet, the House’s chief administrative officer (CAO) tells staffers that the Office of Cybersecurity “has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk” because of a “lack of transparency in how it protects use

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Gemini’s homescreen could take this idea from its biggest rival (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-06 20:06:20

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini is taking some inspiration from ChatGPT. There are now suggestion chips on Gemini’s homescreen. Google also appears to have made a tweak to the greeting text. Save for a brief, friendly greeting and text box at the bottom, Gemini’s homescreen is fairly empty. However, Google could fill up some of that unused space by taking an idea from one of its rivals. Authority Insights story on Android Authority. Discover You're reading anstory on Android Au

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Making TRAMP go Brrrr

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 18:46:03

I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol). TRAMP is an Emacs package that let’s you treat a remote host like a local system, similar to VSCode Remote Development Extension. I had used TRAMP before and it tended to be slow. Since I would be using it all day now I figured I should take some time to make it faster.

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Ask HN: How to Get Rid of Gemini?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 00:52:22

After the google+ fiasco I thought Google had learned their lesson about ramming new products down people's throats whether they like them or not, but with Gemini it seems like this lesson has been forgotten. I usually am a pretty happy user of Google's products but they have really ruined the experience for me (and on top of that they are charging extra for the privilege of ruining the experience). Is there a way to completely and permanently get rid of Gemini in such a way that my normal work

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A more Google-y Gemini logo may be right around the corner (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-07 06:44:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google may soon replace Gemini’s current two-tone color scheme with its trademark red, blue, green, and yellow colors. We recently gave you an early look at the updated Gemini overlay featuring Google colors. We’ve now spotted similar changes for the Gemini logo and other UI elements in a teardown of the Google app. Google appears to be in the process of replacing Gemini’s existing two-tone color scheme with its signature red, blue, green, and yellow

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MSI's new Toy Story PC features Buzz Lightyear GPU, Woody motherboard, and more

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-07 16:41:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In a nutshell: Themed PC components, especially graphics cards, are nothing new these days. What we don't often see is a prebuilt PC where almost every component is based on the same subject. In this case, it's the classic Toy Story series. MSI has announced a team-up with Pixar and Disney as part of Toy Story's 30th anniversary. The limited-edition prebuilt PC in question features five themed comp

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Steel giant Nucor confirms hackers stole data in recent breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-07 16:28:42

Nucor, North America's largest steel producer and recycler, has confirmed that attackers behind a recent cybersecurity incident have also stolen data from the company's network. The steel giant employs more than 32,000 people in numerous mills across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada and reported a revenue of $30.73 billion last year. Nucor disclosed this incident last month, revealing that it took down some systems to contain the security breach and halted production at some of its facilities. It

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Show HN: Turbine – 16-bit CPU Architecture and Emulator built in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 15:59:17

Project Link: github.com/errorcodezero/turbine Please star my project. I’m trying to qualify for shipwrecked and I need a certain amount of github stars to qualify To start this off, I want to say that it’s been a while since I’ve created a new post. I quite frankly had been quite occupied with other activities and didn’t give writing anything the time it needed. However, in those months of absence, I went down all sorts of paths in my programming journey that I never would have believed that

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2026-03-04 09:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

venturebeat.com Rukmini Reddy 2026-03-07 21:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While many organizations are eager to explore how AI can transform their business, its success will hinge not on tools, but on how well people embrace them. This shift requires a different kind of leadership rooted in empathy, curiosity and intentionality. Technology leaders must guide their organizations with clarity and care. People use

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OpenAI and Jony Ive remove ‘io’ branding mentions over trademark lawsuit

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-07 23:37:10

If you recently looked up but couldn’t find OpenAI’s announcement video about its flashy partnership with Jony Ive, you are not alone. OpenAI has quietly pulled down the original blog post and the accompanying nine-minute video, just weeks after touting the $6.5 billionsc deal as a landmark step toward building new AI hardware. Here’s what happened. The deal is still happening, just with a bit less branding According to a statement given to The Verge, OpenAI says the content was taken offline

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Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-07 15:17:28

Oxford City Council warns it suffered a data breach where attackers accessed personally identifiable information from legacy systems. The incident has also caused an ICT service disruption, as announced on the website, and although most of the impacted systems have been brought back online, the remaining backlogs may continue to cause delays. Oxford City Council is the local government authority responsible for managing critical public services, such as housing, planning, waste collection, env

Topics: city council data oxford systems

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I was surprised by how simple an allocator is

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 14:20:41

Table of Contents Introduction Recently I was looking at an issue on mimalloc, a "state-of-the-art" memory allocator developed by Microsoft. The issue was quite simple, developers wanted a way to preallocate a piece of memory and use it as mimalloc's heap. Seeing that mimalloc does not offer this feature, I thought: "how hard can it be to write a memory allocator to manage a preallocated region?". The answer to this question is: "given enough time, even a monkey with a typewriter can write

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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 22:12:01

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst I recently submitted my PhD thesis, and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I'd write about something you (hopefully) wouldn't notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn't. Typst (https://typst.app/) is a modern take on a typesetting language that I think has a real shot at dethroning LaTeX. I would describe the language as a mix of markdown and dynamically t

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Israel urges citizens to turn off home cameras as Iran hacks surveillance systems

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-07 20:10:00

Cutting corners: As tensions between Israel and Iran escalate, Israeli authorities are urging citizens to take an unusual but crucial step: turn off their home security cameras or change their passwords. The warning comes amid growing evidence that Iran is actively attempting to tap into private surveillance devices across Israel to gather intelligence for military operations. In the aftermath of recent Iranian missile strikes on Tel Aviv, concerns about the vulnerability of internet-connected

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Fastmail replaced my Gmail and I’m never going back

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-07 17:00:31

Nathan Drescher / Android Authority I had the digital equivalent of an epiphany the other day. I opened my inbox and saw…email. Only email. There were no ads, no AI-generated summaries, and no prompts. It was a strange, yet welcome, feeling after years of using Gmail. Checking my inbox no longer felt like an argument with an algorithm. That’s because I switched to Fastmail earlier this year. It all began when I started distancing myself from American big tech platforms, where Google sits high

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I tested Gemini’s latest image generator and here are the results

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-07 20:00:34

Back in November, I tested the image generation capabilities within Google’s Gemini, which was powered by the Imagen 3 model. While I liked it, I ran into its limitations pretty quickly. Google recently rolled out its successor — Imagen 4 — and I’ve been putting it through its paces over the last couple of weeks. I think the new version is definitely an improvement, as some of the issues I had with Imagen 3 are now thankfully gone. But some frustrations still remain, meaning the new version isn

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Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 03:13:49

Researchers used the low-temperature additive manufacturing process to build the glass cups above. The optical behavior of the printed cups can be tailored by altering the chemical components of the inks. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) holds promise for fabricating complex glass structures that would be unattainable with traditional glass manufacturing techniques. Lincoln Laboratory’s innovative approach allows additive manufacturing of multimaterial glass items without the need for costl

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Mechanical Watch: Exploded View

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 20:56:44

Mechanical Watch: Exploded View In May 2022, someone posted to Hacker News Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog post explaining how mechanical watch movements work. Since then, his blog has been my absolute favorite corner of the Internet. His posts are not just well written and easy to follow, the accompanying interactive illustrations are magnificent. The first illustration in his blog post about mechanical watch movements allows you to "explode" a ticking mechanical movement and rotate it to inspe

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4 MacOS email clients that make for great alternatives to Apple Mail (and how they're better)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-07 18:09:43

Jack Wallen/ZDNET I depend on email. I not only communicate with clients, but with friends and family, and you cannot put a price on the ability to manage an overflowing inbox with ease. Although Apple Mail is a good solution, there's often something better, and I've been hunting for an option for some time. These four email apps might well fulfill your email needs in ways that Apple Mail cannot. Also: Raycast is my productivity secret weapon on MacOS - and it's free If I've piqued your curi

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Type Inference Zoo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 05:02:32

👩‍💻 Friendly to Language Implementers Code is probably less ambiguous than the notation used in the paper and more approachable.

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MSI's new Toy Story PC features Buzz Lightyear GPU, Woody motherboard, and more

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

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Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

I was surprised by how simple an allocator is

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Type Inference Zoo

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