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Interview with Francine Prose on early-1970s San Francisco [audio]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:51:44

play pause 00:00 00:00 Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin “I really loved it,” Francine Prose says of Nixon-era San Francisco in this episode of The World in Time, “but I also knew I wasn’t going to live there forever. Everyone I knew was living in these group houses in Berkeley, and then in the city itself,

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2025 Alonzo Church Award: Paul Blain Levy for Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 10:51:19

The 2025 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is presented to Paul Blain Levy for his fundamental study of effectful λ-calculi through the Call-by-Push-Value calculus. The awardee book and paper are: Paul Blain Levy. Call-By-Push-Value: A Functional/Imperative Synthesis. Semantics Structures in Computation 2, Springer 2004, ISBN 1-4020-1730-8 Paul Blain Levy. Call-by-Push-Value: Decomposing call-by-value and call-by-name. High.-Order Symb. Comput. 19(4): 3

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Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-11 16:27:21

Adobe launched its own take on how smartphone cameras should work this week with Project Indigo, a new iPhone camera app from some of the team behind the Pixel camera. The project combines the computational photography techniques that engineers Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz popularized at Google, with pro controls and new AI-powered features. In their announcement of the new app, Levoy and Kainz style Project Indigo as the better answer to typical smartphone camera complaints of limited controls

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Cross-Account and Cross-Region Backups with AWS Backup (and Friends)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 02:40:14

Reading Time: 30 minutes In today’s edition of “don’t trust LLMs”, we learn that despite what AI tells you, AWS Backup doesn’t support Cross-Account and Cross-Region backups. It supports Cross-Account copying and Cross-Region copying, but apparently not together. As part of Masset’s Data Protection and Disaster Recovery policies, we determined that having backups separated by both region and OU account was a good idea. This follows fairly closely to AWS’s recommended best practice of using a s

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Radio Garden

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 00:28:54

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Encounters with Reality on Christine Rosen's the Extinction of Experience

news.ycombinator.com Regina Munch 2026-03-11 06:52:38

When I was fourteen, my family went on a Caribbean cruise. I have always been allergic to the idea of going somewhere for the explicit purpose of “having a good time.” But that’s exactly what a cruise—at least this particular kind of cruise—is: a never-ending parade of convenient entertainment and diversion. Gorge yourself at breakfast; use the coupon in your welcome bag for a mid-morning massage; have lunch brought to your table at the pool; shop luxury brands on the promenade in the afternoon;

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) – Founding Back End Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser

news.ycombinator.com Isledecomp Isle.Pizza 2026-03-14 02:03:00

← Back Read Me Welcome to the LEGO Island web port project! This is a recreation of the classic 1997 PC game, rebuilt to run in modern web browsers using Emscripten. This incredible project stands on the shoulders of giants. It was made possible by the original decompilation project, which was then adapted into a portable version. This represents a year-long effort, involving thousands of hours of work from many awesome contributors dedicated to preserving this piece of gaming history. Our g

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Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:42:34

🎮Game 🧩Puzzle 🤖Algorithm 🎲PCG 💻Game Dev Background Logic Islands, released by sublevelgames on June 20, 2025, is a game where players place islands and walls according to predefined rule sets. The game features 6 different rule sets, and WFC was used to create stages for 3 of these rules. Today, I’d like to share the story behind this implementation. WFC WFC (Wave Function Collapse) is a type of PCG (Procedural Contents Generation) algorithm that analyzes the connectivity patterns of source

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The Tandy Corporation

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2026-03-11 17:52:23

In 1919, a small leather company was founded in Fort Worth by David Lewis Tandy and Norton Hinckley. The Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company specialized in leather show laces, shoe soles, leather and rubber heels, and other shoe-findings. Tandy focused on sales and marketing while Hinckley managed the internal business operations and inventory. The company did well, bought a larger location in 1923 and expanded to Beaumont in 1927. The company scaled back during the Depression, but they survived. Ch

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Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU): Reconfigurable, Near-Memory, High-Throughput AI

news.ycombinator.com Zhou 2026-03-14 04:43:11

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigation Boosts GPU Compute Performance 20%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 10:01:20

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance.I haven't looked at the Intel graphics security mitigation cost

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New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-11 12:05:20

Attackers can exploit two newly discovered local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities to gain root privileges on systems running major Linux distributions. The first flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-6018) was found in the configuration of the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) framework on openSUSE Leap 15 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, allowing local attackers to gain the privileges of the "allow_active" user. The other security bug (CVE-2025-6019) was discovered in libblockdev, and it enab

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Show HN: Ariadne – A Rust implementation of aperiodic cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 06:54:06

Ariadne Suite ariadne.ciphernomad.org This repository contains the Ariadne Suite, our canonical Rust implementation of the Ariadne Protocol. The protocol is a novel cryptographic architecture we designed around the Labyrinth Construction to provide aperiodic, or non-repeating, cryptographic transformations. The project mission is to create resilient, open-source tools for digital sovereignty. This is independent research, released as a public good. Its continuation, development, and future s

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Best Internet Providers in Anaheim, California

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 09:31:00

What is the best internet provider in Anaheim? AT&T Fiber is CNET's top pick for the best internet service provider in Anaheim. The internet service provider is the best option for most households in the city because of its fast, symmetrical speeds that come with straightforward plan terms and reasonable pricing. Not every address in Anaheim is served by AT&T Fiber. For those outside the coverage area, options like Spectrum or T-Mobile Home Internet are also solid picks, depending on what’s ava

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Tesla’s robotaxi is live: here are some of the first reactions

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-03-14 02:58:26

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. Tesla finally did the damn thing. The company launched its hotly anticipated robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 22nd — and we’re now starting to see some of the first reactions roll in. But first, we have to get a few important caveats out of the way. Tellingly, the service is not open to the general public

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SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2026-03-14 10:01:00

While funding may be scarce for some, Europe’s fastest-growing startups still have their pick. The latest beneficiary of that investor appetite is Finom, a five-year-old, Amsterdam-based challenger bank that targets small and medium-size businesses across Europe. The company, which claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, just closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million), TechCrunch learned exclusively. This comes only a few weeks after it landed $105 million in growth f

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Bitcoin briefly sinks below $99,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran trigger crypto market sell-off

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-03-14 06:59:22

Bitcoin fell to its lowest level since May over the weekend, as rising tensions in the Middle East and renewed inflation fears triggered a sharp selloff across digital assets. Bitcoin dropped below the $99,000 mark on Sunday — its lowest point in more than a month — and ether was more than 10% lower at one point, as the digital asset market became the first to react to escalating geopolitical risk. Solana , XRP , and dogecoin also posted sharp losses, dragging the entire crypto complex deep int

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Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-14 02:06:29

Perplexity is planning to open up its Comet browser that's powered by "agentic search" to Windows users, according to the company's CEO. Aravind Srinivas posted on X that the Windows build of Comet is ready and has sent out invites to early testers already. Perplexity's CEO also hinted at a potential release for Android devices, adding that it was "moving at a crazy pace and moving ahead of schedule." In May, Perplexity launched a beta version of its AI-powered Comet browser, only available to

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WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-12 22:09:19

Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme "Motors" to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. The malicious activity was spotted by Wordfence, which had warned last month about the severity of the flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-4322, urging users to upgrade immediately. Motors, developed by StylemixThemes, is a WordPress theme popular among automotive-related websites. It has 22,460 sales on the EnvatoMarket an

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Windows Snipping Tool now lets you create animated GIF recordings

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:11:22

Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting animated GIF recordings. This new capability is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels, who have updated the app to version 11.2505.21.0. "In this update, we are adding GIF export for screen recordings – designed to boost your productivity and turn quick captures into shareable moments," said Dave Grochocki, a Principal Product Manager Lead at Micros

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Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:17:28

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

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CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-14 05:47:05

CoinMarketCap, the popular cryptocurrency price tracking site, suffered a website supply chain attack that exposed site visitors to a wallet drainer campaign to steal visitors' crypto. On Friday evening, January 20, CoinMarketCap visitors began seeing Web3 popups asking them to connect their wallets to the site. However, when visitors connected their wallets, a malicious script drained cryptocurrency from them. The company later confirmed threat actors utilized a vulnerability in the site's ho

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The Void IDE, Open-Source Alternative to Cursor, Released in Beta

news.ycombinator.com Bruno Couriol 2026-03-14 05:18:29

A new open-source AI-powered code editor, Void IDE, was recently released in beta, positioning itself as a privacy-focused and free alternative to popular closed-source AI editors like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Backed by Y Combinator, Void IDE is a fork of Visual Studio Code. While Microsoft recently announced plans to open Source its GitHub Copilot Chat Extension possibly in a few months, the beta release is available now for the community to fiddle with. The primary motivation behind Void ID

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What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?

news.ycombinator.com Rj Mackenzie 2026-03-14 04:37:59

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planets–Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–and the distant ice giants of Neptune and Uranus, sit two gas giants: Saturn and Jupiter. These planets are mostly composed of hydrogen and helium gas. Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more c

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Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 03:36:18

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Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 20:43:42

I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug. It's got a switch on the side to manually toggle the switch on and off. It connects to WiFi, so you can read the state of the plug via API. When you turn the switch on, the script updates /etc/hosts to effectively block websites of your choosing: 127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 x.com 127.0.0.1 instagram.com 127.0.0.1 youtube.com 127.0.0.1 reddit.com

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I was surprised by how simple an allocator is

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-10 15:20:41

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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How to negotiate your salary package

news.ycombinator.com May 2026-03-10 06:16:53

The complete guide to salary negotiation for engineers and other professionals who think negotiating is morally questionable. Until I ran VaccinateCA my single most important career contribution might have been writing about salary negotiation. That essay has been read by millions of people. Of those people, a relatively small percentage send me email to tell me that the advice has worked for them. I previously kept a spreadsheet of the impact they shared with me, and it ticked over into eight

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The cultural decline of literary fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2026-03-14 00:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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Latest Tech News

Interview with Francine Prose on early-1970s San Francisco [audio]

2025 Alonzo Church Award: Paul Blain Levy for Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV)

Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

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Best Internet Providers in Anaheim, California

Tesla’s robotaxi is live: here are some of the first reactions

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up

Bitcoin briefly sinks below $99,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran trigger crypto market sell-off

Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users

WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts

Windows Snipping Tool now lets you create animated GIF recordings

Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup

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Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]

Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

I was surprised by how simple an allocator is

How to negotiate your salary package

The cultural decline of literary fiction

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