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AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-18 22:00:00

Lady Gaga probably wasn’t thinking that a coup would unfold in her greenhouse. Then again, she was cohosting a party there with Sean Parker, the billionaire founder of Napster and first president of Facebook. It was February 2024, and the singer had invited guests to her $22.5 million oceanside estate in Malibu to mark the launch of a skin-care nonprofit. One of the organization’s trustees was her boyfriend, whose day job was running the Parker Foundation. In the candlelit space, beside floor-t

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I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers

wired.com John Semley 2025-11-18 22:30:00

Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3 be made by AI? And, if it is, how will we know?” Schrader is well regarded not only as a director, but one of cinema’s top-she

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Ikea’s most Ikea product ever

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-18 20:35:21

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ikea is teaming up with a Swedish designer for its latest collection, and the first product being teased is a dedicated plate for Ikea’s greatest product: meatballs. The 12-piece Gustaf Westman collection that’s launching on September 9th includes a chunky blue serving dish that is shaped to fit exactly 11 of the delicious morsels “in a celebratory row.” “I love designing objects for a specific function – i

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SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks track declines in U.S. peers

cnbc.com Amala Balakrishner 2025-11-18 22:28:45

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 22, 2025. Other Japanese tech stocks also declined, with semiconductor giant Advantest falling as much as 6.27%. Meanwhile, shares in Renesas Electronics and Tokyo Electron were last seen trading 2.46% and 0.75% lower, respectively. The tech-focused investment firm saw shares drop for a second consecutive session, following its announcement of a $2 billion investment in Intel . Intel shar

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The best wireless mice for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 00:01:26

There’s a reason the MX Master 3S is right up the top of our list. The ergonomic design almost feels like a hand rest that places three customizable buttons and a second scroll wheel within easy reach of your thumb. Every button is configurable via Logitech’s Options+ software, which is a treasure trove of productivity potential. Beyond standard customization options such as click-speed and scroll direction, you can assign all manner of shortcuts and create profiles for specific apps — so the b

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The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 18:00:11

I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here. (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.) I currently hover around the upper 30s on the top 100 leader list. I’ve talked about that community with the good folks at RedMonk. After submitting thousands of stories, including over 400 with more than 100 points, here are outcomes I expect from a high ranking HN post. Traffic The first is the traffic. It’s not uncommon to get thousands of visit

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Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 20:30:06

The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and Bitbucket provide benefits of scale, as the Internet serves as a collective information repository for how to use them. Do a search for how to do X on CI platform Y a

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Type-machine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:59:27

Using Template Haskell to derive the structure of records and simulate structural subtyping Type-machine Code available on GitHub, package available on Hackage. Introduction In Haskell, we usually model data using algebraic data types, like this: 1 data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a Here we defined a Maybe type, which has two constructors, Nothing and Just . The Just constructor has one argument, while Nothing as none. It is common to consider these constructors’ arguments as fields, which c

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Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 23:03:03

I have recently installed this extension on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authorit... and yesterday I visited this website: https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network. Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it. Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list "Block Outsi

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US in talks over 10% Intel stake, White House confirms

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-19 02:36:51

US in talks over 10% Intel stake, White House confirms The White House press secretary said the move was important for national security and the economy The highly unusual move could help Intel as it struggles to compete with rivals like Nvidia, Samsung and TSMC, particularly in the booming artificial intelligence (AI) chip market. Intel has been contacted by the BBC for comment. The potential deal could involve swapping government grants for Intel shares, according to US Commerce Secretary H

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SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks decline

cnbc.com Amala Balakrishner 2025-11-19 02:02:42

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 22, 2025. The Japanese tech-focused investment firm saw shares drop for a second consecutive session, following its announcement of a $2 billion investment in Intel . Intel shares rose 6.97% to close at $25.31 Tuesday stateside. Shares of SoftBank Group plunged as much as 9.17% Wednesday, as technology stocks in Asia declined, tracking losses in U.S. peers overnight. Other Japanese tech

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The White House now has a TikTok account

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:24:20

The White House has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump wanted to ban during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump in various events with Kendrick Lamar's track playing in the background. The New York Times notes that it references a popular video edit of Creed, a boxing movie starring Michael B. Jordan, on the app. In the TikTok post, Trump could be heard saying "I am your voice," while the caption reads "America we are BACK! What's up TikTok?" Trump's admini

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AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 22:15:03

# Sample AGENTS.md file ## Dev environment tips - Use `pnpm dlx turbo run where <project_name>` to jump to a package instead of scanning with `ls` . - Run `pnpm install --filter <project_name>` to add the package to your workspace so Vite, ESLint, and TypeScript can see it. - Use `pnpm create vite@latest <project_name> -- --template react-ts` to spin up a new React + Vite package with TypeScript checks ready. - Check the name field inside each package's package.json to confirm the right nam

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 20 #535

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 23:45:00

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. It helps to know a little something about different currencies, but there was one on there that was completely new to me. If you need hints and answers for today's Strands puzzle, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Aug. 20

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 00:13:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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9to5Mac Daily: August 19, 2025 – iOS 26 beta 7 new features

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-19 03:36:54

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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CarPlay just arrived as a free OTA update for one of the fastest-growing EVs

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-19 03:56:56

CarPlay has just expanded to one of the fastest-growing EVs on the market, arriving this week through a free over-the-air update. Geely may not be a household name in the United States, but it’s a major global player with ownership ties to Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Smart. The company’s latest electric SUV, sold in China as the Galaxy E5 and internationally as the EX5, has surged in sales and ranks high among the most popular EVs. The EX5 launched in mid-2024 and reached its 100,000th unit i

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The Creator of ‘Severance’ Just Explained a Key Logistical Question

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-19 03:45:59

When it comes to Severance, there are rarely simple answers. Everything is wrapped in mystery and intrigue. Which, admittedly, is kind of the best part about it. We love to explore and speculate about what’s going on at Lumon. And yet, getting an answer, even a small one, here and there is nice. Which is what the creator of the show, Dan Erickson, just did. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Erickson dodged questions about big topics like the structure of season three or the ultimate length of

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LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-19 08:12:37

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

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Fallout season two has a teaser trailer and a December 17 release date

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:13:07

Things are ramping up for a return to the wasteland this winter. Season two of Prime Video's Fallout TV show will debut on December 17. The second season had already been loosely pegged for a December release when the news of a third season appeared earlier this year, and the studio shared a few still images of the cast in the upcoming New Vegas setting just yesterday. The announcement during the Opening Night Live show for Gamescom 2025 also included a surprisingly lengthy teaser trailer with

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The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS

news.ycombinator.com James Sinclair 2025-11-17 15:57:30

This post is based on a talk I presented at Web Directions Summit, 2024. Let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room. Why the heck am I talking about making mazes? Normally, I try to be practical when I’m writing or speaking. I want to give people tools they can use to make their coding lives better. So, I try to discuss things like creating DOM elements and processing JSON data. Because those things are practical. I would rather not waste people’s time on things they’re not going to us

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The 20 Films We’re Most Excited About to Close Out the Year

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-19 12:30:11

Guillermo del Toro. James Cameron. Edgar Wright. These are just some of the filmmakers who still have major, exciting genre films coming to your eyeballs before the end of 2025. So while the big, blockbuster-heavy summer season might be over, there is still a lot to be excited about as we look towards fall and winter. To commemorate the turning of the calendar, we decided to go through and select 20 movies we’re most excited to see in the next few months. They range from big blockbusters to offb

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 20, #1523

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 12:08:59

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:45:25

Recently, I have had some free time and started learning some low-level computer fundamentals, trying to practice and better understand the concepts in greater detail. Along the way, I learned about a modern compiler infrastructure named LLVM, which is a target-independent optimizer and code generator that has been used as a part of many compilers for different programming languages like Rust, Zig, or Haskell. While diving into LLVM’s aggressive optimization features, I have a humbling realizati

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I Asked Pro Chefs: What Are the Biggest Kitchen Blunders Most Home Cooks Make?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 16:41:00

Any culinary endeavor can feel daunting for new home cooks, between selecting ingredients, preparation work and actually cooking. Seasoned pros encounter setbacks regularly, but the kitchen serves as an ideal laboratory for experimentation -- a place where failures become valuable lessons and each attempt builds better technique and an expanded recipe repertoire. Understanding pitfalls before you begin can make all the difference. To suss out the biggest blunders to avoid in the kitchen, I spo

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Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-19 22:37:56

Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer 23 minutes ago Share Save Tom McArthur BBC News Share Save Getty Images An investigation has been launched into the death of a French streamer known for extreme challenges. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old had been subject to bouts of violence and sleep deprivation during streams, and died in his sleep during a live broadcast,

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Crypto stocks tumble as investors go into risk-off mode

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-19 22:41:09

Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin pulled back nearly 3% to just over $113,000. Ether was down more than 4% to the $4,100 level, according to Coin Metrics. Investors appeared to rotate out of tech names Tuesday. The sector had seen a boost last week as traders weighed the prospect of more interest rate cuts. Also, bitcoin touched an intraday all-time high near $125,000 last week. On Tuesday, the Nasdaq Composite was down more than 1%, weighed down by declines in Nvidia and other tech heavyweights

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Databricks says it's valued at over $100 billion in latest funding round

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-19 22:18:28

Databricks has just entered an exclusive club. The data analytics software vendor said Tuesday that it's raising a funding round that values the company at over $100 billion. That would make Databricks just the fourth private company to eclipse the $100 billion mark, following SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI, according to data from CB Insights. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told CNBC's Brian Sullivan that the total round will exceed $1 billion. The company was last valued by private investors at $62

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Palantir stock slumps 9%, falling for a fifth straight day from record

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-19 22:36:15

CEO of Palantir Technologies Alex Karp attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, 2025. Palantir 's stock slumped more than 9% on Tuesday, falling for a fifth straight day to continue its pullback from all-time highs. The artificial intelligence software provider's stock has slid more than 15% over the last five trading sessions, after a stellar earnings report earlier this month propelled shares to

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Scientists Find Evidence That You're a Hypocrite Who's Causing More Than Your Share of Climate Change

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:08:00

When it comes to personal contributions to climate change, most Americans seem to have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be. Folks who happily recycle and switch to more energy-efficient appliances, per a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus journal, likely have a far larger carbon footprint than they realize. When it comes to personal behavioral changes to mitigate climate change, not all interventions are created equal. A

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AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived

I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers

Ikea’s most Ikea product ever

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Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

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CarPlay just arrived as a free OTA update for one of the fastest-growing EVs

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Palantir stock slumps 9%, falling for a fifth straight day from record

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