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Do LLMs identify fonts?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 03:56:24

Spoiler: not really dafont.com is a wonderful website that contains a large collection of fonts. It’s more comprehensive and esoteric than Google Fonts. One of its features is a forum where users can ask for help identifying fonts – check out this poor fellow who’s been waiting for over two years and bumped his thread. I thought it would be interesting to see if an LLM could do this task, so I scraped the forum and set up a benchmark. I implemented this as a live benchmark. By this I mean that

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KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2026-02-14 18:22:25

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works One of the most interesting things about Wayland is how it handles window focus, unlike X11, where focus stealing can be frustrating and even a security risk. Its main advantage is a mechanism that prevents focus stealing. The protocol that plays a role in this is known as "XDG Activation." Here's how it works: Say you double-click a PDF file in your file manager. The file manager first asks t

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Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?

news.ycombinator.com Uğur Erdem Seyfi 2026-02-14 20:49:30

Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? Around a year ago, I published a blog post explaining my overall experience Switching from Arch to NixOS. You can read it if you’re interested in my early experiences, but, to give you a spoiler, that post ends with me saying: Unfortunately, though, I don’t think the benefits I’ve gotten in this one month of using NixOS so far justified the cost I’ve initially spent and continue to spend learning Nix and NixOS. — Ultimately, whether the benefits of learnin

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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

news.ycombinator.com Emma Burleigh 2026-02-14 15:04:20

The next time you get buttoned-up and sit down for a long-awaited job interview, you might not find a human on the other end of the call. Instead, job-hunters are now joining Zoom meetings only to be greeted by AI interviewers. Candidates tell Fortune they’re either confused, intrigued, or straight-up dejected when the robotic, faceless bots join the calls. “Looking for a job right now is so demoralizing and soul-sucking, that to submit yourself to that added indignity is just a step too far,”

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My Ideal Array Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 21:05:08

2025-07-20 What do I think the ideal array language should look like? The fundamental units of computation available to users today are not the same as they were 20 years ago. When users had at most a few cores on a single CPU, it made complete sense that every program was written with the assumption that it would only run on a single core. Even in a high-performance computing (HPC) context, the default mode of parallelism was (for a long time) the Message Passing Interface (MPI), which is a

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Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head

news.ycombinator.com Velvet Wu 2026-02-14 21:07:18

For the most part, anyone who wants to see what’s going on inside someone else’s brain has to make a tradeoff when it comes to which tools to use. The electroencephalograph (EEG) is cheap and portable, but can’t read much past the outer layers of the brain, while the alternative, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is expensive and the size of a room, but can go deeper. Now, a research group in Glasgow has come up with a mechanism that could one day provide the depth of fMRI using equi

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How we built Bluey’s world

news.ycombinator.com Catriona Drummond 2026-02-11 05:33:20

We finally ended up back in each other’s orbits in 2017 working on a few different projects at Ludo Studio, a Brisbane production company that had started producing some 2D shows. All the while bubbling away in the background was this little show called Bluey that Ludo and Joe were trying to get funding for. Somewhere amongst all this, Joe sent me the pilot he’d made, asking whether I’d be interested in hopping on board as art director. Against all odds, I would be getting to do what I’d always

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Margot Robbie May Be Our New Attacking 50 Foot Woman

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-12 11:00:43

In 2024, we learned Tim Burton was being eyed to direct a remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman for Warner Bros. from a script by Gillian Flynn. Now, the director may have found his lead in fellow WB alum Margot Robbie. Per Variety, the Barbie actress is in “early conversations” to headline the film, which tells the story of a wealthy heiress who becomes giant-sized after meeting an alien. Her next move, upon realizing her new stature, is to enact some payback on her cheating husband. Should sh

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Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ May Be Ready for Testing Just Before the 2028 Election: Report

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-14 21:00:36

As far as I know, spending over a hundred billion dollars to build a giant, missile-guided protective “dome” that will probably never work is not something many Americans have ever asked the government to do. Nevertheless, Trump has made it a point to do just this. In January, Trump initially announced the “Golden Dome,” a project to protect Americans from the “threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks.” The project, which is intended to u

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Tom Holland Gives Us a Sneaky Look at Spider-Man’s New Web Shooters in ‘Brand New Day’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-14 21:00:43

Has the Buffy reboot found its new slayer? Strange New Worlds‘ Henry Alonso Meyers talks puppet shop with Angel‘s Jeffrey Bell about how to bring puppets to the world of Star Trek. Plus, rumors of Hannibal‘s return are back on the menu. Spoilers get! Spider-Man: Brand New Day To mark the film entering production, Tom Holland shared a few more pictures from set featuring Spider-Man atop a large armored vehicle—and revealing the new spider-suit’s large, rectangular chrome web shooters. Sanatori

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-11 15:45:58

Vaccination rates among the country's kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in the 2023–2024 school year to 92.5 percent in 2024–2025. The percentage changes are small across the board, but they represent thousands of children and an ongoing downward trend that makes the country more vulnerable to outbreaks. In the latest school year, an estimated 286,000 young children were not fully protected agains

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The ‘Epstein files’ implosion bleeds into foreign policy

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2026-02-12 12:00:00

While the summer doldrums have hit Washington, the MAGA influencers can never truly go on vacation, especially if they’ve spent their careers promising to reveal the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. Although their politicians are now in power, they’re getting stonewalled, and in the absence of juicy “Epstein files” to feed to their audiences, a new maelstrom of discontent is brewing, one that implicates much more than allegations about a pedophile’s sex trafficking ring. The complex rift around Dona

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Tesla hands $29B comp package to Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-02-14 18:13:55

Tesla’s board of directors has announced a new compensation package for CEO Elon Musk worth around $29 billion in shares, with the company citing the “ever-intensifying AI talent war and Tesla’s position at a critical inflection point” as reasons for the payout. The massive pay package is being allocated through a 2019 Equity Incentive Plan that is already approved by shareholders, so it won’t go to a vote, according to a regulatory filing and Ann Lipton, a professor at the University of Colora

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Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-14 21:00:00

Given the fact that social media apps these days are full of AI-generated videos, AI-native apps seem keen to cash in on the trend. The latest to jump on that bandwagon is Character.AI, which said on Monday that it is adding a social feed to its mobile apps that allow users to create AI characters and chat with them. The social feed, which first came to the company’s web platform in June, lets users share images, videos as well as their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets o

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OpenMind wants to be the Android operating system of humanoid robots

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-02-14 21:00:00

Many companies are focused on building robots, or the hardware components to help them move, grip objects, or interact with the world around them. OpenMind is focused under the hood. The Silicon Valley-based startup is building a software layer, called OM1, for humanoid robots that acts as an operating system. The company compares itself to being the Android for robotics because its software is open and hardware agnostic. Stanford professor Jan Liphardt, the founder of OpenMind, told TechCrunc

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North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-02-14 21:15:15

Researchers at security giant CrowdStrike say they have seen hundreds of cases where North Koreans posing as remote IT workers have infiltrated companies to generate money for the regime, marking a sharp increase over previous years. Per CrowdStrike’s latest threat hunting report, the company has identified over 320 incidents over the past 12 months, up by 220% from the year earlier, in which North Koreans gained fraudulent employment at Western companies working remotely as developers. The sc

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Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-02-14 21:42:00

In Brief Amazon is shutting down its Wondery podcast studio, acquired in late 2020, and cutting 110 jobs as part of a broad reorganization of its audio business, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company plans to move existing Wondery series under its Audible banner or to a new ‘creator services’ team, which will house personality-driven shows, such as Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast. “The podcast landscape has evolved significantly over the past few years,” Steve Boom, Amazon’s

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Spotify raises subscription prices

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-02-14 21:43:59

In Brief Spotify announced on Monday that its premium subscription prices will increase for users in multiple markets across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Over the next month, impacted subscribers will receive an email explaining that their monthly subscription cost will increase from 10,99 € to 11,99 €. Spotify made a similar change last year for users in the U.S., increasing prices from $10.99 to $11.99 — at the time, it marked the second insta

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7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

techspot.com Amir Shoam 2026-02-14 23:08:00

With rising graphics card prices, you may want to save on other components when building a gaming PC. If you've read our CPU reviews, which compare current processors using high-quality motherboards, memory and PSUs, you may come to the conclusion that only the graphics card matters when playing at appropriate resolutions, and that the best-value PC is one built with the cheapest modern components elsewhere. That couldn't be further from the truth. While the GPU is the most important component

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7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

techspot.com Amir Shoam 2026-02-14 23:08:00

With rising graphics card prices, you may want to save on other components when building a gaming PC. If you've read our CPU reviews, which compare current processors using high-quality motherboards, memory and PSUs, you may come to the conclusion that only the graphics card matters when playing at appropriate resolutions, and that the best-value PC is one built with the cheapest modern components elsewhere. That couldn't be further from the truth. While the GPU is the most important component

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AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to stay loyal to their mission

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-15 02:03:00

Editor's take: As industry leaders dig ever deeper into their war chests to recruit AI talent, a profound question is emerging: Can money alone win the battle for the minds building tomorrow's most powerful technologies? Recent events suggest that, for a growing number of engineers and researchers, the answer is increasingly, and resoundingly, no. While not in the majority, many engineers are choosing to pass up unprecedented offers in favor of staying loyal to their mission, values, and the ch

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Samsung unveils the Odyssey G75F: a 37-inch 4K VA monitor priced around $1,000

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-02-15 02:46:00

What just happened? There are so many similarly specced monitors these days that we rarely see "world firsts" anymore. However, Samsung is claiming that title with yet another new Odyssey, which it says is the first-ever 37-inch 4K display. The Odyssey G7 G75F joins Samsung's increasingly long list of Odyssey monitors, but it's the first monitor ever to combine a 37-inch panel with a 4K (3840x2160) resolution, according to the company. It's rare to see a 37-inch monitor – 32 inches tends to be

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Baidu plans to expand its robotaxis to Europe with Lyft deal

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-15 02:00:07

Baidu will bring its driverless taxis to Europe next year via a partnership with U.S. ridehailing firm Lyft , as the Chinese tech giant looks to expand its autonomous vehicles globally. The robotaxis will initially be deployed in the U.K. and Germany from 2026 with the aim to have "thousands" of vehicles across Europe in the "following years," the two companies said. Lyft has had very little presence in Europe until last week when it closed the acquisition of Germany-based ride hailing company

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More is less: I can’t make myself use Nothing’s Glyph Matrix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-13 17:30:59

Nothing’s original Glyph Interface was the perfect level of gimmick — it added a bit of flair to the back of its first few phones, but always felt like it had a purpose. I trusted it for everything from following the charge of my battery to watching for an incoming phone call, and it was one cool thing I could always show off to my iPhone-toting friends. Unfortunately, the Nothing Phone 3 took everything I loved about the original Glyph Interface and sent it back to the drawing board. It replac

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Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-14 22:59:03

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is apparently thinking about adding an additional NFC antenna to the top of the Galaxy S26 series. This should make it more convenient to use tap-to-pay, as you can do so via the rear or top of the phone. The Galaxy S26 rumors are trickling in at a steady pace, even though the expected launch window is roughly six months away. The latest leak has revealed that Samsung could significantly improve NFC payments like Samsung Pay or Google Wallet.

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Music lovers aren’t happy with Android Auto’s refreshed interface

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-15 02:15:53

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google recently refreshed the Android Auto interface using Material You to match colors with your phone’s wallpaper. As part of the changes, the music player interface now uses wallpaper colors instead of album art and has smaller album art. Some users find the new design bland and unbalanced, compared to the previous dynamic album art backgrounds. Just last week, Google updated Android Auto’s head unit interface with Material You, letting your car’s dis

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Galaxy S26 Ultra charging time leak leaves us with more questions than answers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-15 02:20:56

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the Galaxy S26 Ultra can reach 75 to 80% capacity after 30 minutes of 60W charging. That isn’t really an upgrade over the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s charging time. It’s still possible that the S26 Ultra could beat the S25 Ultra when it comes to total charging time. Leaks suggest the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra could get 60W wired charging speeds. This would be a significant leap from 45W seen on previous Galaxy S Ultra handsets. What does

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New photo shows just how thin the iPhone 17 Air battery is

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-02-15 00:42:24

We’ve already had a first look at what is alleged to be the battery for the upcoming iPhone 17 Air, but a new photo gives us a really good sense of just how thin it is. The photo shows the battery side-by-side with that of the iPhone 17 Pro … The iPhone 17 Air The iPhone 17 Air is expected to be the slimmest iPhone Apple has ever made, with a reported thickness of about 5.5 mm. The sleek form factor does involve some significant compromises, including a single camera compared to the three ca

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Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-02-15 02:20:48

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed plans for paid subreddits earlier this year but now says that the initiative has been de–prioritized. However, he says that the company still believes in the opportunity, suggesting that a Reddit paywall of some kind will be introduced at some stage … Paid subreddits plan Huffman first hinted at the plan last year, but didn’t go into any details. We will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive con

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The best deals on MacBooks, AirPods, iPads and other Apple gear you can get right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-15 02:31:27

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . It’s obvious that Apple products are some of the most sought-after in the tech world — that means sales are fewer and farther between than other gadgets, and they’re often the first things to sell out when discounts do arrive. But it would be a mistake to assume you’re doomed to always

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Latest Tech News

Do LLMs identify fonts?

KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland

Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

My Ideal Array Language

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How we built Bluey’s world

Margot Robbie May Be Our New Attacking 50 Foot Woman

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ May Be Ready for Testing Just Before the 2028 Election: Report

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

The ‘Epstein files’ implosion bleeds into foreign policy

Tesla hands $29B comp package to Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

OpenMind wants to be the Android operating system of humanoid robots

North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs

Spotify raises subscription prices

7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to stay loyal to their mission

Samsung unveils the Odyssey G75F: a 37-inch 4K VA monitor priced around $1,000

Baidu plans to expand its robotaxis to Europe with Lyft deal

More is less: I can’t make myself use Nothing’s Glyph Matrix

Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

Music lovers aren’t happy with Android Auto’s refreshed interface

Galaxy S26 Ultra charging time leak leaves us with more questions than answers

New photo shows just how thin the iPhone 17 Air battery is

Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

The best deals on MacBooks, AirPods, iPads and other Apple gear you can get right now

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