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New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force

news.ycombinator.com Brian O'Donovan 2026-02-24 04:47:29

New EU rules come into force tomorrow which will require websites, apps and devices to be accessible for people with disabilities and older people. If companies fail to comply with the European Accessibility Act they could be hit with fines and even prison sentences for senior staff. Brian Dalton is blind and is a wheelchair user. He is also a senior accessibility test engineer who works with clients to ensure their websites are accessible. Mr Dalton relies on screen reader software to navig

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Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 00:56:02

Experimental archaeologist Greer Jarrett of Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for the last three years. If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last three years doing just that, sailing more than 5,000 kilometers along known Viking trade r

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Ex-student charged over hacking university for cheap parking, data breaches

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-25 17:24:59

New South Wales police in Australia have arrested a 27-year-old former Western Sydney University (WSU) student for allegedly hacking into the University's systems on multiple occasions, starting with a scheme to obtain cheaper parking. Specifically, the woman, identified by local media reports as Birdie Kingston, is accused of unauthorized access, data theft, and compromising university infrastructure since 2021, affecting hundreds of staff and students. "Since 2021, Western Sydney University

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Video Shows Large Crane Collapsing at Safety-Plagued SpaceX Rocket Facility

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-25 21:05:48

Elon Musk’s Texas Starbase is still reeling from its latest Starship explosion. Now, it has a crane collapse to deal with too. As eagle-eyed Starbase watchers flagged in a livestream from earlier this week, one of the cranes at the site of the explosion — which was, according to CBS News 4, powerful enough to be picked up by weather radar — collapsed in a heap in the middle of the day. "This has always been one of my biggest fears in every industry I've worked in," tweeted Zack Golden, the Spa

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After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is “made in the USA”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-27 08:39:33

The Trump phone was announced last week with a claim that the device would be made entirely in America, and people were rightly skeptical. Trump Mobile's $500 T1 Phone "is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier," the Trump Organization said in a press release. But with electronics supply chain experts casting doubt on the feasibility of designing and building an American-

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The Offline Club

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 16:42:57

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Sitch’s new dating app fuses human matchmaking and AI

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-28 12:00:00

Can AI improve the dating app market? A new dating app called Sitch aims to find out by leveraging human expertise in matchmaking to power its AI model. Today’s dating apps bank on the speed of onboarding and having millions of options. Users create profiles within seconds by uploading photos and answering simple questions. The apps then rely on basic info and feedback from users’ swipes to find them potential matches. Sitch aims to take a more thoughtful approach with its onboarding process a

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What Is 'Toxic Positivity'? We Asked an Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 11:00:00

At some point in your life, you’ve probably read or heard about the importance of being positive and always focusing on the bright side. But being positive all the time might not be the best approach in every situation. We are all humans, and because of that, we all have a variety of emotions that we experience on a daily basis. Those emotions can be happy, sad, angry, shame, pride, envy and more. It's nothing to be embarrassed about because it's just a part of being human. And we all have our g

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Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2026-02-28 03:53:25

Minimal Boolean Formulas Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. 28. That's the minimum number of AND or OR operators you need in order to write any Boolean function of five variables. Alex Healy and I computed that in April 2010. Until then, I believe no one had ever known that little fact. This post describes how we computed it and how we almost got scooped by Knuth's Volume 4A which considers the problem for AND, OR, and XOR. A Naive Brute Force Approach Any Boolean function of two variables ca

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Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-04 12:24:55

Jordan Lloyd had been praying for something big to happen. The 35-year-old screenwriter was quarantining in her apartment in North Hollywood in June 2020. Without any work projects to fill her days, she picked up the novel Roots, by Alex Haley, to reread. The novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, Haley’s ancestor, who is captured and sold into slavery in the Gambia and then brought to Virginia, where he is forced to labor on a plantation. It was adapted into an Emmy-award winning television ser

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Minimal Boolean Formulas

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2026-03-02 03:53:25

Minimal Boolean Formulas Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. 28. That's the minimum number of AND or OR operators you need in order to write any Boolean function of five variables. Alex Healy and I computed that in April 2010. Until then, I believe no one had ever known that little fact. This post describes how we computed it and how we almost got scooped by Knuth's Volume 4A which considers the problem for AND, OR, and XOR. A Naive Brute Force Approach Any Boolean function of two variables ca

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International Nuclear Watchdog Issues Stark Warning in Wake of US Iran Strikes

wired.com Molly Taft 2026-03-06 08:08:54

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in an emergency meeting on Monday that the escalating conflict in Iran “risks collapsing the global nuclear nonproliferation regime” and that if diplomacy is not pursued, “violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels.” The IAEA, the United Nations’ international nuclear watchdog, convened the emergency meeting following US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites this weekend. In remarks delivered to the organization’s boa

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Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban

news.ycombinator.com Kayla Guo 2026-03-06 11:43:22

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Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-06 16:52:43

Experimental archaeologist Greer Jarrett of Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for the last three years. If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last three years doing just that, sailing more than 5,000 kilometers along known Viking trade r

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This archaeologist built a replica boat to sail like the Vikings

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-06 22:52:43

Experimental archaeologist Greer Jarrett of Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for the last three years. If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last three years doing just that, sailing more than 5,000 kilometers along known Viking trade r

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Hawaii Highways

news.ycombinator.com Oscar Voss 2026-03-06 17:55:58

Aloha! Click the dark green buttons on the left for lists of the Interstate, state, and some county highways on the Big Island (Hawaii island), Maui, Lanai and Molokai, Kauai, and Oahu. Go to those lists for detailed information on specific routes, including route numbers, names, termini, mileages, and sometimes historical or other information and/or links to photos and other material elsewhere on this site. Also on the left is a button for detailed guides to Oahu Freeways exits and interchange

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2026-03-03 15:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-07 04:47:05

CoinMarketCap, the popular cryptocurrency price tracking site, suffered a website supply chain attack that exposed site visitors to a wallet drainer campaign to steal visitors' crypto. On Friday evening, January 20, CoinMarketCap visitors began seeing Web3 popups asking them to connect their wallets to the site. However, when visitors connected their wallets, a malicious script drained cryptocurrency from them. The company later confirmed threat actors utilized a vulnerability in the site's ho

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P-Hacking in Startups

news.ycombinator.com Lucas Da Costa 2026-03-02 12:56:28

Speed kills rigor. In startups, the pressure to ship fast pushes teams to report anything that looks like an improvement. That’s how p-hacking happens. This piece breaks down three common cases—and how to avoid them. Example 01: Multiple comparisons without correction Imagine you're a product manager trying to optimize your website’s dashboard. Your goal is to increase user signups. Your team designs four different layouts: A, B, C, and D. You run an A/B/n test. Users are randomly assigned to

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Cloudflare CEO warns AI crawlers and summaries are eroding the internet's business model

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-03-06 23:15:00

In context: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently reiterated his warning that generative AI crawlers and summaries threaten the foundations of the internet's business model. To protect publishers from a flood of artificial AI traffic that offers virtually no authentic site visits in return, the company is devising methods to combat AI scrapers. Speaking at an Axios event in Cannes last week, Prince explained that search engines and chatbots using generative AI to summarize web content have sig

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14 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I've Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2026-03-06 22:39:00

Replace Your Casters The wheels on the bottom of your chair are among the easiest parts to replace. If your current casters don't roll smoothly or are too loud, it might be worth replacing them instead of buying a whole new chair. I like these from Stealtho, a Ukrainian company. They'll work with nearly every office chair, though the company notes they don't work with Ikea chairs. The soft polyurethane material means these won't scratch or chip hardwood floors, as some plastic casters do, plus

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Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-07 12:46:32

As Apple scrambles to play catch-up in the generative AI race, a new report says the company has considered making its biggest acquisition ever. According to Bloomberg, Apple executives have held internal discussions about a potential bid for Perplexity AI, the fast-growing AI startup known for its conversational web search platform. This would mark Apple’s biggest acquisition ever As reported by Mark Gurman, the talks are still at an early stage and may not result in an actual offer, but the

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Telegram CEO Says He’ll Leave His Fortune to His 106+ Children

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-03-07 10:55:17

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is so obsessed with his own jizz that he’s spent years sending it to random women so they can inseminate themselves with it. As a result, the billionaire is said to have as many as 106 biological children. Now, Durov has promised that—in the event of his death—he will bequeath his massive fortune (reputed to be some $17 billion) to all of his wayward spawn. Durov’s supposed plan was revealed during a recent interview with Le Point, a French news site. He revealed to the

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Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-09 04:00:16

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has revealed to Axios that search traffic referrals keep plummeting. Publishers are facing an existential threat, he said, because people aren't clicking through those chatbot links and are relying more and more on AI summaries without digging deeper. Prince told Axios that 10 years ago, Google sent a publ

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Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Marc B. Reynolds 2026-03-11 03:42:03

WARNING: Some numerical analysis and mathematics will be mentioned in passing. Also the number systems will not be treated like black-boxes. Risk of physical injury, however, is negligible. I like magic tricks. Watching the performer do the show and attempting to catch the “slight-of-hand” that makes the impossible seem possible. It’s fun and makes me believe in magic for a few moments. So I’m going to give a shot at doing some floating point magic tricks. Throughout my performance I’ll use

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Facebook's new passkey support could soon let you ditch your password forever

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-03-11 07:51:00

NurPhoto / Contributor/Getty For all of us who hate passwords, passkeys represent a simpler and safer way of authenticating online accounts. But adoption has been slow, with many companies and websites still relying on passwords. Now the world's biggest social media platform is jumping on the bandwagon. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it's now rolling out support for passkeys on mobile devices. This means you'll be able to use one to sign in to Facebook on an iPhone or Android device. Bu

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DuckDuckGo scam blocker detects fake stores, crypto sites, virus alerts, more

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-03-11 11:44:14

The privacy-focused web browser DuckDuckGo has boosted its anti-scam features. It can now detect and block fake ecommerce stores, crypto sites, virus alerts, and more. The new security feature is completely free for all users on both Mac and iOS browsers, with no Privacy Pro subscription needed … DuckDuckGo already had the ability to detect common phishing and malware attacks, as well as malicious ads, but these features have now been boosted and branded as Scam Blocker. There are the two new

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Facebook's new passkey support could let you ditch your password once and for all

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-03-11 21:30:18

NurPhoto / Contributor/Getty For all of us who hate passwords, passkeys represent a simpler and safer way of authenticating online accounts. But adoption has been slow, with many companies and websites still relying on passwords. Now the world's biggest social media platform is jumping on the bandwagon. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it will soon support passkeys on mobile devices. This means you'll be able to use one to sign in to Facebook on an iPhone or Android device. But the passke

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SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2026-03-11 21:03:34

On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the tenth flight test experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase. A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for. Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials. There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities, and we ask that indi

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AutoMix on iOS 26 is going viral. Here's how to try the hottest iPhone feature yourself

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-03-12 12:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Apple Music users have often watched Spotify take the lead when it comes to innovative features and personalized listening experiences. But with the introduction of the new AutoMix feature, Apple Music may finally be closing the gap -- and even setting a new standard of its own. Also: How to install iOS 26 beta on your iPhone (and which models support it) What is AutoMix in Apple Music? At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, the company unveiled upgra

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Latest Tech News

New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force

Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

Ex-student charged over hacking university for cheap parking, data breaches

Video Shows Large Crane Collapsing at Safety-Plagued SpaceX Rocket Facility

After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is “made in the USA”

The Offline Club

Sitch’s new dating app fuses human matchmaking and AI

What Is 'Toxic Positivity'? We Asked an Expert

Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011)

Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

Minimal Boolean Formulas

International Nuclear Watchdog Issues Stark Warning in Wake of US Iran Strikes

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban

Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

This archaeologist built a replica boat to sail like the Vikings

Hawaii Highways

Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup

P-Hacking in Startups

Cloudflare CEO warns AI crawlers and summaries are eroding the internet's business model

14 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I've Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them

Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

Telegram CEO Says He’ll Leave His Fortune to His 106+ Children

Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

Facebook's new passkey support could soon let you ditch your password forever

DuckDuckGo scam blocker detects fake stores, crypto sites, virus alerts, more

Facebook's new passkey support could let you ditch your password once and for all

SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground

AutoMix on iOS 26 is going viral. Here's how to try the hottest iPhone feature yourself

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