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Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 09:07:14

Challenge: XR2000 August 10, 2025 Today I’m releasing the XR2000: A programming challenge with extensive science fiction backstory. This is a project I’ve long wanted to make, and it has slowly come to life in the last few years. I love a good puzzle or game that involves programming. Over the years I found a couple of these games that were particularly fun. These really inspired me to start the XR2000. Before explaining more about my new challenge, I want to mention (and recommend) these game

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Apple Reportedly Planning AI Comeback, Complete With a Tabletop Robot

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 16:42:00

Apple wants a bigger place in your home, according to a report Wednesday from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. While you might think of Apple primarily as the maker of the iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook, AirPods and more, the tech giant reportedly hopes to use artificial intelligence to sell you a number of new smart home devices. Those devices may include a tabletop robot, home security cameras and a smart speaker with a screen. An Apple representative didn't immediately respond to a request for c

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Apple’s plan for AI could make Siri the animated center of your smart home

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-24 17:41:23

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple is developing a bunch of products and features to deliver its vision of AI, including multiple robots, a smart home display, and a revamped version of Siri with new technology powering it, according to an extensive report from Bloomberg. The company’s generative AI efforts lag those from other big tech companies, and it delayed some upgrades to Siri earlier this year, bu

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Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 11:22:37

Floating-point numbers are a great invention in computer science, but they can also be tricky and troublesome to use correctly. I’ve written about them already by publishing Floating-Point Formats Cheatsheet and presentation “Pitfalls of floating-point numbers” (“Pułapki liczb zmiennoprzecinkowych” – the slides are in Polish). Last year I was preparing for a more extensive talk about this topic, but it got cancelled, like pretty much everything in these hard times of the COVID-19 pandemic. So in

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Visible users won’t have to wait much longer to jump on the new Inner Circle plan

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 12:38:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Visible will roll out its new Inner Circle feature on August 21. Plus and Plus Pro members can save $5 per month when part of a Circle with two or more members. Accounts can be connected without connecting payments. A few days ago, Visible rolled out a new feature called Inner Circle in early access. Inner Circle addresses one of the service’s biggest weaknesses, the inability to manage more than one line per account. At the time, only select members coul

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The top 3 smartphone gimbals on the market right now

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-28 08:01:33

Smartphone gimbals have become a dime a dozen at this point, but who are the leaders right now? Here are our top three gimbals that you should be looking at if you are in the market for one. Who is using a smartphone gimbal? It feels like smartphone gimbals were all the rage with the rise of social media a decade or so ago. Back then, the only option was really just DJI, and they’re still the leader. However, with corporate America realizing they need a bigger social media team and being an “i

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Apple Arcade’s September lineup mixes NFL football, Jeopardy!, and fan-favorite updates

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-28 12:16:21

Apple Arcade is kicking off September with several new games and big updates, including an NFL tie-in just in time for football season. Launching September 4, NFL Retro Bowl ’26 debuts exclusively on Apple Arcade with a new Championship Leaderboard mode. The NFL- and NFLPA-licensed title uses authentic rosters and stylized retro visuals while letting players represent their favorite team in weekly matchups synced with the 2025 NFL schedule. Wins and stats contribute to live leaderboard standing

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iOS 26 brings back the iPhone calculator’s clear button

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-28 12:37:08

iOS 18 featured a major redesign to the Calculator app, including fancy features like Math Notes. Those changes included adding a back button to the keypad, replacing the traditional C/AC button. This was so frustrating for some, the real hard-core Calculator users I guess, that The Atlantic published an entire column when iOS 18 shipped, decrying the button’s removal. Apple has seemingly taken those complaints onboard. With iOS 26, the Calculator once again has a dedicated C/AC button. Apple

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All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computer

news.ycombinator.com Achim Baqué 2025-11-25 03:32:57

If nothing happens, click Loading...If nothing happens, click here Notes = location, = batch, numbers/stamps/labels, = verification status, = picture and video count, = available history, = auctions. 'More or less verified': To the best of our knowledge and belief, evidence is almost given or obvious. Many times the current owner is unknown, pictures might be old, etc.! Unlisted Apple-1: The Apple-1 Registry is in contact with some owners who wish to have no information published. We respe

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Ford Bets Big on EVs, $30,000 Electric Pickup Coming in 2027

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 20:50:00

Ford Motor Company announced this morning that it is making a $5 billion bet on its electric vehicle future. The payout is a $30,000 midsize electric pickup truck arriving as soon as 2027. The investment involves overhauling its Kentucky and Michigan assembly and battery plants, reinventing the assembly line and developing a new Ford Universal EV Platform that will underpin the next generation of affordable electric vehicles of all shapes, sizes and scales. The $30K electric truck Let's start

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White Mountain Direttissima

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 09:44:57

White Mountain Direttissima I first attempted this route in 2016. While doing it in an unsupported style (carrying all my own food & gear), I did invite friends out to join me and also cached battery bricks so that I could document the effort. I finished in just under six days. I knew there was a lot of time for improvement but didn't feel the desire to return until last summer (2024). My 2024 effort would build on everything I had learned and experienced since 2016. I had better endurance, an

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Matter enhancements enable cheaper HomeKit devices and slicker control

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-01 17:53:06

The Matter standard – which brings HomeKit compatibility to a far broader range of devices – is getting a significant upgrade. The latest version will enable the production of lower cost HomeKit-compatible smart home devices, as well as slicker control over your existing ones … A quick recap on Matter and HomeKit Originally, brands wanting to offer HomeKit compatibility had to comply with an Apple-specific standard, and submit their devices for approval. The Matter standard eliminates both st

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Connex Credit Union data breach impacts 172,000 members

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 00:18:56

Connex, one of Connecticut's largest credit unions, warned tens of thousands of members that unknown attackers had stolen their personal and financial information after breaching its systems in early June. Founded in 1940, this member-owned organization is a non-profit with over $1 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, and credit card services to more than 70,000 members across eight branches throughout the greater New Haven area, including New Haven, Hartford, Middlesex, and Fairfie

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Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

wired.com Simon Cohen 2025-12-01 06:00:00

If you’re shopping for a portable Bluetooth speaker, it’s a given that you want good sound. With a budget of $75-$150, there is no shortage of great options, including WIRED favorites like the JBL Flip 7, Beats Pill, and Tribit StormBox 2. If your travel ambitions have already soaked up most of your cash, you have fewer choices. Spending less always involves a tradeoff, but Tribit’s StormBox Mini+ ($40) involves far fewer compromises than you might think, and it even throws in a few features th

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AOL's dial-up internet still exists, but not for much longer

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 21:30:05

It may have been decades since you last heard the crunching screeches of connecting with dial-up Internet, but AOL said it will discontinue its dial-up service on September 30, officially marking the end of an era in Internet history. As first spotted by PC Gamer, AOL made the surprising announcement in a post buried in its AOL Help pages. Along with the dial-up service, AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser will also be discontinued by the end of September. It may come as a shock to most

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Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 18:53:09

⚡ Bolt A lightweight, lightning-fast, type-safe embeddable language for real-time applications. import print , error , Error from core import abs , epsilon from math // The return type of safe_divide is inferred to be `Error | number` fn safe_divide ( a : number , b : number ) { if abs ( b ) < epsilon { return error ( "Cannot divide by zero!" ) } return a / b } match let result = safe_divide ( 10 , 5 ) { is Error { // The type of result is narrowed in this branch! print ( "Failed to divide:" ,

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The Real Reason You Haven’t Been Replaced by AI Yet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-02 00:44:46

It’s the ticking time bomb in the global economy, and every CEO knows it: AI is already powerful enough to replace millions of jobs. So why haven’t the mass layoffs begun? The answer has little to do with technology and everything to do with fear. Corporate leaders are quietly waiting to see who will be the first to pull the trigger. My discussions about Generative AI reveal a stark generational divide. Most people under 35 are convinced that AI is a reality, not a gimmick, and that the displac

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Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Clemens 2025-12-01 04:54:31

We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find that employment in California's fast food sector declined by 2.7 percent relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the United States from September 2023 through September 2024. Adjusting for pre-AB 1228 trends increases this di

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Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Clemens 2025-12-01 16:54:31

We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find that employment in California's fast food sector declined by 2.7 percent relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the United States from September 2023 through September 2024. Adjusting for pre-AB 1228 trends increases this di

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China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-03 02:09:57

It's no secret that China is blazing full-steam into the future, developing technological marvels like levitating bullet trains, robot boxing fights, and a supercomputer network in space. But as geopolitical tensions simmer, the People's Republic is also using its technological savvy to build cutting-edge weapons tech. The Chinese state broadcaster CCTV recently released a brief video series showing off its newly developed "robot wolves," equipped with combat rifles, in simulated combat drills

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Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 20:31:54

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the same is true of desktop operating systems. The modern versions of Windows, macOS, and Linux we know and (sometimes) love today represent decades of iteration and overhauls, but much of that legacy is invisible. New design languages and interfaces show up every few years, and in the process, old applications and designs are covered up or replaced. It doesn't take long to find legacy holdovers in today's Windows 11—for example, that Windows 3.1-era file picker

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Tesla dissolves Dojo supercomputer team amid talent exodus

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-03 10:35:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models power

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Tesla shuts down the team behind its Dojo supercomputer

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-03 22:35:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models power

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Tesla Reportedly Shuts Down AI Project Weeks After Musk Called It “Spectacular”

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-04 03:12:37

Elon Musk has always thrived on bold claims and the contradictions that follow. On July 23, he joined Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call, the standard ritual in which executives talk up their company’s performance and future. Musk was in full visionary mode. That day, he painted a glowing picture of the future of Dojo, Tesla’s ultra-ambitious, custom-built supercomputer designed to train the neural networks for Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus. He called the next ge

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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-04 10:43:28

An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university's network in May. Established in 1767 as King's College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over 20,000 employees, including 4,700 academic staff, and over 35,000 enrolled students across 19 schools and special programs. The

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Save $50 on the Ember Smart Mug 2, my favorite tech gadget

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 03:47:53

I am literally sipping some amazing coffee out of my Ember Smart Mug 2 as I write this deals article. It quickly became my favorite tech gadget, and I paid much more than you will if you take advantage of today’s deal. The Ember Mug 2 10oz is $50 off right now! Buy the Ember Smart Mug 2 10oz for just $79.99 ($50 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The only caveat is that the discount only applies to the Black color version. All other variants cost more. Also, keep in mind this offer is fo

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On ‘Strange New Worlds’, What’s a Little Trauma Bonding Among Friends?

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-05 03:30:19

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season has had a bit of an awkward tone issue. Across four episodes already, we’ve switched episode-to-episode from pretty grim circumstances (a Gorn attack here, a zombie outbreak there) to lighthearted silliness (an encounter with Trelane here, a holodeck murder mystery there). Even as those individual episodes haven’t all entirely worked to varying degrees, this back-and-forth has only really helped to make the show feel a bit aimless. So while this week’s

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Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-06 08:10:07

Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to a black hole in the 1979 movie The Black Hole, an astrophysicist has released a plan for a real interstellar mission to go where no spacecraft has gone before. Outlined in a new paper published today in iScience, the proposal is a two-pronged, surprisingly simple approach. First, scientists need to find a black hole that’s relatively nearby. Second, they need to build something called a na

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When Will the iPhone 17 Be Released? We're Running Down the Possibilities

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 06:20:00

It's fun to speculate on which features the new iPhone 17 lineup will have, but what we really want to know is when we can get our hands on Apple's latest editions of its flagship smartphone. As we get closer to September and the traditional announcement date, iPhone rumors are arriving more frequently. Once the rumored iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, Pro and Pro Max are revealed, we'll be able to confirm speculation about colors, display, cameras and more. We'll also learn how much the new iPhone wi

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We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

news.ycombinator.com Pavel Panchekha 2025-12-07 20:39:20

We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today [1 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here.] all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural. [2 Though you still see RFCs use "octet", and the C standard has a CHAR_BITS macro, to handle the possibility of a different-sized byte.] As a power of two, eight is definitely nicer. But I think a series of historical coincidences would act

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Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

Apple Reportedly Planning AI Comeback, Complete With a Tabletop Robot

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Apple Arcade’s September lineup mixes NFL football, Jeopardy!, and fan-favorite updates

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Ford Bets Big on EVs, $30,000 Electric Pickup Coming in 2027

White Mountain Direttissima

Matter enhancements enable cheaper HomeKit devices and slicker control

Connex Credit Union data breach impacts 172,000 members

Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

AOL's dial-up internet still exists, but not for much longer

Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

The Real Reason You Haven’t Been Replaced by AI Yet

Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?

Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?

China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font

Tesla dissolves Dojo supercomputer team amid talent exodus

Tesla shuts down the team behind its Dojo supercomputer

Tesla Reportedly Shuts Down AI Project Weeks After Musk Called It “Spectacular”

Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

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Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole

When Will the iPhone 17 Be Released? We're Running Down the Possibilities

We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

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