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Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB

news.ycombinator.com Mark Tyson 2026-01-24 18:58:24

Details behind HoloMem’s holographic tape innovations are beginning to come into clearer view. The UK-based startup recently chatted with Blocks & Files about its potentially disruptive technology for long-term cold storage. HoloMem is another emerging storage idea which relies on optical technology - to enable holographic storage. However, it cleverly melds the durability and density advantage of optical formats with a flexible polymer ribbon-loaded cartridge, so it can usurp entrenched LTO mag

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Lua beats MicroPython for serious embedded devs

news.ycombinator.com Wilfred Nilsen 2026-01-24 11:16:02

Why Lua Beats MicroPython for Serious Embedded Devs In professional embedded projects, ranging from industrial automation to medical devices and commercial IoT products, developers increasingly favor high-level, lightweight, and easy-to-use environments. While MicroPython has earned praise for rapid prototyping and field deployments on microcontrollers, its active ecosystem is largely centered around hobbyist boards. It is important to note that Python’s greatest strength, its vast library eco

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A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-24 14:30:46

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underground — and by chance, it just so happened to be buried underneath the parking lot of a museum that houses similar specimens. As the Denver Museum of Nature and Science explained in Catalyst, its online magazine, the ancient bone fragment was buried some 763 feet below the institution's parking lot, making it the oldest and deepest such fossil to be discovered within city limits. Beyond the coincidence of findin

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Google Fiber Partners With Nokia. Here’s What It Could Mean for Your Home Internet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-24 11:00:00

Heads up for Google Fiber customers, you may soon have more control over your home internet connection. Just recently, Google Fiber announced its partnership with Nokia, a telecommunications company. Through this partnership, Google Fiber and Nokia have begun testing network slicing, a technology that will allow customers to personalize and have more control over their network. This technology promises many benefits, particularly for gamers. Google Fiber Head of Product Nick Saporito tells CNET

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Recovering from AI addiction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 23:28:11

Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes social media addiction, phone addiction, video addiction, television addiction, gaming addiction, news addiction, pornography addiction, dating apps, online research, online shopping, or any other digital

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Our Favorite Wireless Mouse, the Logitech MX Master 3S, Is Under $100 for Prime Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-25 18:34:00

Looking for the best wireless mouse for gaming and work? Well, you're in luck. CNET's top choice, the Logitech MX Master 3S, is available now for under $100 on Prime Day. This deal will only last until midnight on the West Coast, so act quickly to take advantage of this deal. Currently, both the "graphite" and "pale gray" colorways are on sale. Also included is an Adobe Creative Cloud free trial. According to our tests, Logitech's MX Master 3S mouse is notably quieter than its predecessor. The

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The Download: cybersecurity’s shaky alert system, and mobile IVF

technologyreview.com Charlotte Jee 2026-01-27 00:14:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Trump is seeking huge cuts to basic scientific research If he gets his way, federal science funding will be slashed by a third for the next fiscal year. (NYT $) + The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled. (MIT Technology Review) + Senators are getting ready to push back against proposed NASA cuts. (Bloomberg $) 2 Conspiracy theorists are starting

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Recovering from AI Addiction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 23:28:11

Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes social media addiction, phone addiction, video addiction, television addiction, gaming addiction, news addiction, pornography addiction, dating apps, online research, online shopping, or any other digital

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The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-26 15:10:00

2 Musk loyalists are fighting to keep DOGE running As officials seek to diminish the department’s role. (WSJ $) + DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data. (MIT Technology Review) 3 An imposter used AI to successfully impersonate Marco Rubio They were able to send voice and text messages to fellow politicians. (WP $) + It’s not the first time Rubio has been targeted like this. (FT $) 4 Terrorist groups are using AI to recruit and plan Counter-terror age

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Graphical Linear Algebra

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-28 18:02:40

Applications are open for the ACT Applied Category Theory Research School 2018! And because arithmetic science and geometric science are connected, and support one another, the full knowledge of numbers cannot be presented without encountering some geometry, or without seeing that operating in this way on numbers is close to geometry; the method is full of many proofs and demonstrations that are made with geometric figures. Fibonacci, preface to Liber Abaci (first published 1202, 1228 manuscrip

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Google Fiber Aims to Take It's Fiber Internet Game to a New Level Via Partnership With Nokia

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 18:51:00

Google Fiber customers may see an improvement in their home internet connection very soon. Just recently, Google Fiber announced its partnership with Nokia, a telecommunications company. Through this partnership, Google Fiber and Nokia have begun testing network slicing, a technology that will allow customers to personalize and have more control over their network. This technology promises many benefits, particularly for gamers. Google Fiber Head of Product Nick Saporito tells CNET that “networ

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Our favorite desk accessories for Prime Day

theverge.com Verge Staff 2026-01-29 00:00:00

What you have on your desk and in your workspace at home can reveal a lot about you: how you work, what you like to distract yourself with, what kind of toys and other tchotchkes you like to have around you. That is why we have the What’s On Your Desk? series, where we look at how some of our coworkers organize their spaces. It gives us — and you, our readers — a glimpse into the personality of the folks who work here. Out of curiosity, we took a look at some of our past articles to see if any

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TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for sensitive room-temperature THz sensing

news.ycombinator.com Ingrid Fadelli 2026-01-27 11:53:41

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: High-performance THz sensing based on the strong THz nonlinear electrodynamics in a layered correlated topological semimetals TaIrTe 4 . Credit: Xin (Zoe) Zou Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging between 0.1 and 10 THz, could be leveraged to develop various new technologies,

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The Last of Us Part II’s new mode puts the story in chronological order

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2026-02-03 15:32:34

With season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us in the books, and with no The Last of Us Part III coming in the immediate future, Naughty Dog has come up with an interesting way to funnel all the attention from the show into the game. The studio has released a new, free patch for The Last of Us Part II Remastered that lets you play the game in chronological order. The mode takes Abby and Ellie’s stories and interleaves them in chronological order rather than the nonlinear story of the original version of

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Running a Certificate Transparency log

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-02 21:36:54

Hear me out. If you are an organization with some spare storage and bandwidth, or an engineer looking to justify an overprovisioned homelab, you should consider running a Certificate Transparency log. It’s cheaper, easier, and more important than you might think. Certificate Transparency (CT) is one of the technologies that underpin the security of the whole web. It keeps Certificate Authorities honest, and allows website owners to be notified of unauthorized certificate issuance. It’s a big pa

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Battling next-gen financial fraud

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-02-04 05:24:29

Synthetic identity fraud now costs banks $6 billion a year, making it the fastest-growing financial crime in the US Criminals are able to exploit personal data breaches to fabricate “Frankenstein IDs.” Cheap credential-stuffing software can be used to test thousands of stolen credentials across multiple platforms in a matter of minutes. And text-to-speech tools powered by AI can bypass voice authentication systems with ease. “Technology is both catalyzing and transformative,” says John Pitts, h

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Is it possible to play doom on an oscilloscope using only lissajous figures?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 16:57:25

Getting a piece of electronics to run doom (1993) is a classic project in hobby electronics, and so far people have gotten doom to run on pretty much anything, including analog oscilloscopes. However, in all cases that I have seen, the only part of the oscilloscope that is really "running" doom is the CRT display, which is hooked directly to an external computer a la 90's game consoles.Meanwhile, people also have managed to get analog oscilloscopes to display some pretty extraordinary and dynami

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Amazon Needs to Clear Dyson V15 Stock Fast, Now at a New Record Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-05 00:10:50

Dyson has always been the crème de la crème when it comes to cordless stick vacuums and the V15 Detect Plus is one of the latest and most advanced models in their lineup. It has a reputation for having the latest technology and powerful suction force, and the V15 Detect Plus takes cleaning to new levels. Amazon is marking Prime Day with a exclusive Prime member offer that cuts the price to an all-time low of $569, down from its usual $749. That’s even lower than some of Dyson’s older models whi

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Artist in Residence on a Satellite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-02 15:15:13

On February 3, 2024, at 11:06 a.m., the first Chinese art satellite, "SCA-1" (The first satellite of the Star Chain of Arts Project), was successfully launched into orbit near the sea area of Yangjiang, Guangdong, using the Long March 3B carrier rocket. The satellite's solar panels deployed normally, and the initial telemetry is normal. Among the thousands of satellites now orbiting above us, including scientific, meteorological, communication, and military satellites, there was a missing catego

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New iPhone 17 Pro renders highlight aluminum design, repositioned Apple logo

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-02-04 10:49:38

A new image from Apple leaker Majin Bu provides a new look at the repositioned Apple logo on the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro. Last week we got our first look at what the new Apple logo placement would look like, though this new image provides a much clearer picture. One of the less talked about design elements of the new iPhone 17 Pro design is the fact that Apple will be shifting to a two-tone design of sorts, with an all aluminum frame and camera bump. However, for wireless charging, MagSafe, and

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You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 15:36:54

Hear me out. If you are an organization with some spare storage and bandwidth, or an engineer looking to justify an overprovisioned homelab, you should consider running a Certificate Transparency log. It’s cheaper, easier, and more important than you might think. Certificate Transparency (CT) is one of the technologies that underpin the security of the whole web. It keeps Certificate Authorities honest, and allows website owners to be notified of unauthorized certificate issuance. It’s a big pa

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Tennis players criticize AI technology used by Wimbledon

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-02-06 00:00:00

Some tennis players are not happy with Wimbledon’s new AI line judges, as reported by The Telegraph. This is the first year the prestigious tennis tournament, which is still ongoing, replaced human line judges, who determine if a ball is in or out, with an electronic line calling system (ELC). Numerous players criticized the AI technology, mostly for making incorrect calls, leading to them losing points. Notably, British tennis star Emma Raducanu called out the technology for missing a ball th

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SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 10:16:49

The compiler keeps track of many aspects of your hardware design, and displays them in the editor. Core Philosophy The SUS HDL is meant to be a direct competitor to Synthesizeable Verilog and VHDL. Its main goal is to be an intuitive and thin syntax for building netlists, such that traditional synthesis tools can still be used to analyze the resulting hardware. SUS shall impose no paradigm on the hardware designer, such as requiring specific communication protocols or iteration constructs. In

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Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 08:45:15

7th July 2025 As a design engineer I’ve spent plenty of time mulling over what ‘good’ design is. The question is complex and is a starting point for reflecting on our role as designers, how design should interact with society and what even constitutes design! I recently visited the Glasgow Zine Festival and picked up a wee zine about one man’s hatred of James Dyson, which has inspired me to put some of my own thoughts on the topic down in words. I'm going to focus on formal design elements but

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Amazon Is Going All In For Prime Day, Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB SSD Is Cheaper Than Most Budget External SSDs

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-07 05:45:43

Prime Day is now Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year, even surpassing Black Friday, because of its traditionally low prices on everything from technology essentials to daily staples. This year, the deals are especially strong on top sellers by brand favorites like Apple and Samsung, and maybe the best discount is on the Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD. For users who desire the utmost performance for their laptop or PC, this 2TB SSD can be had for the price of just $139, down from $176, which is

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What Is Li-Fi? Here's How Connecting to the Internet May Rely on Light

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-07 05:00:00

Yes, you heard that correctly. Connecting to the internet could be as simple as turning on the light. Picture this: Using this technology to connect to the internet promises speeds that will blow Wi-Fi out of the park. The average household requires more and more bandwidth, with users spending an average of 21-plus hours streaming weekly, according to the latest OpenVault report. That makes the promise of Li-Fi convenient. Li-Fi has made plenty of headlines lately, particularly about how it coul

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Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-07 03:55:30

Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository npm i -g backlog.md or bun add -g backlog.md Backlog.md turns any folder with a Git repo into a self‑contained project board powered by plain Markdown files and a zero‑config CLI. Features 📝 Markdown-native tasks -- manage every issue as a plain .md file 🔒 100 % private & offline -- backlog lives entirely inside your repo 📊 Instant terminal Kanban -- backlog board paints a live board in your shell 🌐 Modern web interf

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Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-07 05:01:51

Single file social media - like twitter but by writing markwhen. Learn more. Login / Sign up

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Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-07 09:55:30

Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository npm i -g backlog.md or bun add -g backlog.md Backlog.md turns any folder with a Git repo into a self‑contained project board powered by plain Markdown files and a zero‑config CLI. Features 📝 Markdown-native tasks -- manage every issue as a plain .md file 🔒 100 % private & offline -- backlog lives entirely inside your repo 📊 Instant terminal Kanban -- backlog board paints a live board in your shell 🌐 Modern web interf

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A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2026-02-07 12:26:44

A blog about reverse engineering, mathematics, politics, economics and more ...

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Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB

Lua beats MicroPython for serious embedded devs

A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

Google Fiber Partners With Nokia. Here’s What It Could Mean for Your Home Internet

Recovering from AI addiction

Our Favorite Wireless Mouse, the Logitech MX Master 3S, Is Under $100 for Prime Day

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Graphical Linear Algebra

Google Fiber Aims to Take It's Fiber Internet Game to a New Level Via Partnership With Nokia

Our favorite desk accessories for Prime Day

TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for sensitive room-temperature THz sensing

The Last of Us Part II’s new mode puts the story in chronological order

Running a Certificate Transparency log

Battling next-gen financial fraud

Is it possible to play doom on an oscilloscope using only lissajous figures?

Amazon Needs to Clear Dyson V15 Stock Fast, Now at a New Record Low for Prime Day

Artist in Residence on a Satellite

New iPhone 17 Pro renders highlight aluminum design, repositioned Apple logo

You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log

Tennis players criticize AI technology used by Wimbledon

SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language

Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption

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What Is Li-Fi? Here's How Connecting to the Internet May Rely on Light

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Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

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