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The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)

news.ycombinator.com I'M The Engagement 2025-11-17 03:35:15

Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace was one of the world’s most inspiring buildings. The interior of the Crystal Palace’s ‘Tropical’ end with its Winter Garden, which was destroyed by fire on 30 December 1866. © Historic England Archive. DP004607. From the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park to its final demise, its compelling glass and iron design and awe-inspiring vastness attracted the attention of photographers on the ground and in the air. Here we take a look at some of the remarkabl

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$11 Billion in 2 Weeks: AI Bets Mint Money for Masayoshi Son

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-21 23:00:08

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s fortune added $11 billion in just the first two weeks of August as his SoftBank Group’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence buoyed shares to historic highs. Son’s net worth now stands at $33.3 billion, solidifying his position as the second-richest person in Japan, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The resurgence comes amid a broader recovery at SoftBank’s flagship Vision Fund, coupled with sizable payouts from asset sales, including st

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Lenovo Legion Go S Is My New Favorite Way to Play Call of Duty Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 23:00:04

As a tech enthusiast, I do buy a lot of stuff (you know, just doing my bit!), but I believe the Lenovo Legion Go S is the best purchase I've made since the pandemic. The reason why? Sitting in bed and playing Call of Duty multiplayer is one of my new favorite things to do. It does come with some compromises, but playing my favorite game without setting foot on the floor? Worth it. I spent a lot of time trying to decide which handheld to buy, whether the Steam Deck, the Nintendo Switch 2 or any

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An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:00:58

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world's most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth's mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs

wired.com Tess Owen 2025-11-22 00:00:00

The idea of starting a book club came to Valeen Heinle late one night in July. She was having a particularly bad argument with her Trump-supporting dad over Israel’s war in Gaza and its devastating impacts on children. "I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as a pet sitter in Denver, wrote to her dad via Instagram DM after they exchanged a series of posts about Gaza. “Read a book on the his

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Spotify’s latest feature lets you add your own transitions to playlists

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-21 23:00:00

Spotify is introducing a new feature that allows subscribers to create more professional, personalized playlists. On Tuesday, the company launched a custom transitions feature that lets you either automatically add transitions between a playlist’s tracks or customize your own using preset options like fade, rise, or blend, along with other options. To use the feature, open any playlist and select “Mix” from the toolbar to begin editing. While customizing the track with different transition styl

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AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-22 00:00:00

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so animatedly that his chair tipped over. “I actually fell out of my chair. And Abhishek, as a great Investor does, caught the chair and me as I was falling,” Peffer described with a

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Shein reportedly weighs moving back to China in a bid for Hong Kong IPO approval

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-22 02:50:56

Shein is considering moving its base back to China from Singapore in a bid to convince Beijing authorities to approve the e-commerce company's Hong Kong initial public offering, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. The report said that Shein had gone so far as to consult lawyers about setting up a parent company in mainland China, citing people familiar with the matter. However, it added that there was no guarantee that Shein would act upon the preliminary discussions. Shein, which sour

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PSA: One of the biggest Google Play Store alternatives is shutting down on Android tomorrow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 22:51:09

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon is shutting down its Appstore on Android tomorrow, August 20, 2025. Today is the day to make any changes to your subscriptions via the Amazon Appstore. You can spend your remaining Amazon Coin balance, or it will be refunded to you once the store shuts down. Amazon will shut down its Appstore on Android tomorrow. The Google Play Store alternative will cease to operate on Android devices starting August 20, 2025, and all the apps that you may hav

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How to Build a Medieval Castle

news.ycombinator.com Ben O'Donnell 2025-11-21 22:49:35

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon Castle’s ornate Chapel Tower. All that remained was to install some glass. But there was a problem, and the carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, basket weavers, historians, and archaeologists who work on-site were all enlisted to figure it out. Eight years later, the matter of what to put in the wind

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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 23:05:59

I really like Ted Chiang’s writing. I think he's probably the best science fiction short story writer alive, and possibly the best short story writer, period. I've read every one of his stories at least twice, and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate more like seven times. I’ve noticed many of his readers, including some of his most positive reviewers, miss one key point or another of his works, and thus don't fully appreciate his genius. This review covers what he does extremely well, espec

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Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

news.ycombinator.com Emily Boragine 2025-11-18 00:39:24

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A small portion of the study area, zoomed in to show detail: (A) aerial imagery from NAIP RGB (red–green–blue; naked eye view); (B) visual of values in most important NAIP input for model training; (C) visual of values in most important NEON input for model training; (D–F) visuals of RF-classified models for all thre

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How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-22 04:22:14

How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals' 39 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Corbyn Technology Reporter Reporting from San Francisco Share Save 374Water 374Water can purge PFAS from water and sludge "There's a lot of destruction that needs to be done," sums up Parker Bovée of Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm. He is referring to PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), also known as "forever chemicals". These man-made chemicals can be found in items such as waterproof c

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Intel is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-22 04:50:22

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during the company's annual general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, June 27, 2025. Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will make a $2 billion investment in the embattled chipmaker. SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel's common stock, which closed on Monday at $23.66. The shares rose about 6% in extended trading to $25. The investment makes SoftBank the fifth-biggest I

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Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-21 23:15:48

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While there's been a growing consensus among astronomers that the latest object is a comet, Lo

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Severance season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-22 00:55:05

Severance’s season 2 finale left viewers reeling when it aired earlier this year, leading to a lot of questions about what’s coming for Mark S. and company in season 3. Here’s everything we know so far about Severance season 3 on Apple TV+. Severance season 3 officially greenlit by Apple Severance is the biggest hit Apple TV+ has ever had—even surpassing Ted Lasso in popularity. So it should come as no surprise that Apple has officially renewed the show for another season. Severance season 3

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Phrack 72

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 02:43:22

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X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Paul 2025-11-19 15:54:54

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. A delicate, antique Buddhist scroll crafted by Mongolian nomads has finally been unfurled after spending decades in museum storage. But the team at Germany’s Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research institute didn’t risk any damage by physically unrolling it—they peered inside using a combination of 3D X-ray tomography and AI

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The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-21 21:10:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is American psychologist B.F. Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just

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macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 4 now available, install guide

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-22 06:21:58

That was quick. Just a few days after releasing the third public beta for macOS Tahoe 26, public 4 beta is already out. Here’s how to install it. First things first: should you install the beta? You probably know the drill: Betas can be unpredictably buggy. Even if something works on one release, it is not guaranteed to work on the next. Of course, your mileage may vary. But if you decide to install the beta, strongly consider Apple’s advice to “install it on a secondary system or device, or

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Velasco 2025-11-19 08:41:57

During the two-year research for our book LOOK INSIDE we discovered many amazing illustrations and artists that, for one reason or another, did not make it into the final version of the book. It would be a pity to leave these forgotten on a drawer, so during the next few weeks we will present here some of these masters of the cutaway. A while ago we wrote here about Frank Soltesz, an American illustrator active from the 30’s to the 60’s, and author of a marvelous series of architectural cutaw

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Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 14:34:24

At the height of the Indo-Pakistan war, in mid-September 1965, Britain’s ITN broadcast a 15-minute report from what they called ‘another potential starting point for a Third World War’. The images were not of Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir. Instead, the dramatic footage showed Indian and Chinese soldiers 14,000 feet up on the other side of the Himalayas, on either side of the border between the Kingdom of Sikkim (an Indian protectorate perched between Nepal and Bhutan) and Chi

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Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Nadia Asparouhova 2025-11-22 09:27:01

Shamelessness as a strategy I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins. One of the characters you can play is Merlin. Merlin knows who the evil players are, but can’t reveal what he knows, because the evil team can kill Merlin and win the game. So Merlin relies on another character, Perc

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An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 08:45:12

As the sun continues the tumultuous peak of its 11-year cycle, more instances of aurora borealis have been expected. The most recent instance was earlier in August when auroras lit up the skies in 18 states. It seems the Earth is in for another battering of solar material as another aurora has been forecast for Monday night, and it should be a pretty decent one for states in the northern US. According to NOAA, the Earth will experience a geomagnetic storm with a Kp 5 rating. For the uninitiated

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 19, #534

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 08:58:00

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. There are only four answers, but they are all quite long and quite complicated -- and some of them just aren't used that much. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If yo

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 19, #1522

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 09:00:04

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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GEPA optimizes LLMs without costly reinforcement learning

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-22 12:41:22

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 Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and Databricks have introduced a new AI optimization method called GEPA that significantly outperforms traditional reinforcement learning (RL) techniques for adapting large language models (LLMs) to specialized tasks. GEPA removes the popular paradigm of learning

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9to5Mac Daily: August 18, 2025 – Apple Watch rumors, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-22 14:57:52

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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All-In Podcast Boys Poke Fun at Uber Founder’s ‘AI Psychosis’ (Which They Encouraged)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-22 14:15:36

Remember when the guys over at the All-In podcast talked with Uber founder Travis Kalanick about “vibe physics“? Kalanick told viewers that he was on the verge of discovering new kinds of science by pushing his AI chatbots into previously undiscovered territory. It was ridiculous, of course, since that’s not how an AI chatbot or science works. And Kalanick’s ideas got ridiculed to no end by folks on social media. But the gentlemen of All-In now seem to be distancing themselves from Kalanick’s i

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Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Say

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-22 17:15:48

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While there's been a growing consensus among astronomers that the latest object is a comet, Lo

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The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)

$11 Billion in 2 Weeks: AI Bets Mint Money for Masayoshi Son

Lenovo Legion Go S Is My New Favorite Way to Play Call of Duty Anywhere

An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

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Spotify’s latest feature lets you add your own transitions to playlists

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

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Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'

Intel is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

Severance season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

Phrack 72

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 19, #534

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9to5Mac Daily: August 18, 2025 – Apple Watch rumors, more

All-In Podcast Boys Poke Fun at Uber Founder’s ‘AI Psychosis’ (Which They Encouraged)

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Say

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