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Home Depot now has an app-controlled version of its viral Halloween skeleton

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-26 20:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The summer isn’t halfway over, and Home Depot already wants you to start thinking about Halloween. After introducing a limited-edition animated version of its 12-foot-tall skeleton decoration last year, the hardware company is hoping for more viral fame this year with a new Ultra Skelly. At 6.5 feet tall, it’s much smaller than the original tower

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Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 18:34:15

What is Pony?¶ Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language. If you are looking to jump in and get started with Pony right now, you can try it in your browser using the Pony Playground. Keep reading if you are interested in what makes Pony different and why you should consider using it. If you are interested in the early history of Pony and how it came into existence, you’re in luck: “An Early History of Pony”.

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-27 04:17:40

EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner in the smart glasses market and owner of brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, just reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven in part by rising demand for the Ray-Ban Meta. Here’s the breakdown. In its quarterly results, EssilorLuxottica reported a 7.3% revenue increase, beating a Bloomberg-compiled analyst estimate of 5.9%. It is worth mentioning that at current exchange rates, however, revenue rose by just 3.2%, reflecting the impact of a stronger

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James Cameron Wants to Do an ‘Avatar’ Animated Anthology Movie

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-27 09:15:18

The lush new Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer just dropped today—the movie’s in theaters December 19—but James Cameron is already thinking about what’s next for Pandora. Not just Avatar 4 and beyond; though the films are famously on the cutting edge of motion-capture technology, Cameron would like to dig deeper into their world using a more traditional form of animation. Speaking to Empire Magazine, Cameron revealed he’s had conversations with Disney about further expanding the reach of stories rev

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Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:57:06

Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE: A Deep Dive into ByteDance's VSCode Fork Executive Summary This analysis examines concerning performance and privacy issues discovered in Trae IDE, ByteDance's fork of Visual Studio Code. Key findings include excessive resource consumption (33 processes vs 9 in VSCode), persistent telemetry transmission despite user settings, and concerning community management practices. 1. Background and Methodology During evaluation of development environmen

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National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:31:39

Many reports by pilots and aviation professionals of observations and incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, include aviation safety factors. NARCAP documents and researches these reports and advocates for education and further research by the aviation and science community. All photographs provided by Ted Roe or NARCAP.org and are Copyrighted, all rights reserved

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GPT might be an information virus (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 09:23:21

Obligatory: the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the views and opinions of my employer. In light of all the hype going around about ChatGPT, I wanted to offer my “hot take” on what the next 2-5 years of the web look like. One aspect of the rise of generative models that isn’t getting the right amount of attention is the long-term effects on the information economy. I think that being able to automatically produce arbitrary content that is indistinguisha

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Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode Fork

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:57:06

Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE: A Deep Dive into ByteDance's VSCode Fork Executive Summary This analysis examines concerning performance and privacy issues discovered in Trae IDE, ByteDance's fork of Visual Studio Code. Key findings include excessive resource consumption (33 processes vs 9 in VSCode), persistent telemetry transmission despite user settings, and concerning community management practices. 1. Background and Methodology During evaluation of development environmen

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Premier League Summer Series: Stream Man United vs. West Ham From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 05:00:06

The second match of this year's Premier League Summer Series sees Man United and West Ham face off, with both sides set to field new signings as they look to move on from disappointing campaigns last term. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Having flirted with the wrong end of the EPL table last season, Ruben Amorim has made two major signings a

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How logic can help AI models tell more truth, according to AWS

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-12-28 23:00:00

AWS distinguished scientist Byron Cook makes the case for "automated reasoning." Amazon AWS The term "reasoning" is a familiar metaphor in today's artificial intelligence (AI) technology, often used to describe the verbose outputs generated by so-called reasoning AI models such as OpenAI's o1 or DeepSeek AI's R1. Another kind of reasoning is quietly taking root in the most advanced applications, perhaps closer to actual reasoning. Also: Will AI think like humans? We're not even close - and we

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Why I do programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 16:57:20

This piece was inspired by this post by Aaron Boodman. I remember myself as a calm, quiet kid, happiest when I had a bunch of wires in my hands. My parents used to give them to me as toys along with a screwdriver and an old cassette player I could take apart and try to put back together. I was three years old. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I loved the feeling of exploring the insides of a machine, trying to understand how it works. In first grade, I was introduced to MS-DOS and Logo with

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Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 09:48:17

We’re excited to announce a new integration that will bring Instapaper to all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. The integration will provide Kobo readers with a seamless way to save and read web articles directly on their Kobo eReaders. In close partnership with Kobo, we’re working diligently on the integration, and we’re aiming to launch at the end of this summer. The new Kobo Instapaper integration will replace Kobo’s previous integration with Pocket which shut down earlier this month. Since the Pocket

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Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:53:20

Before we start with the implementation, let's talk about why would you actually need an inverted index in a real life. Why would anyone need inverted index at all Imagine you need to create a system that would quickly look up a document, given several words from it - something like a wiki search. Simplest option I can think of would be to scan through each document, marking ones that have all the necessary words. That might work at first, but such solution wouldn't scale,

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Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 09:58:08

As someone without a STEM degree and who is largely self-taught, I'm interested in hearing about similar experiences. What is your story? What are you doing now? How long have you been doing it? etc, etc.

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Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 23:26:44

In December 2010, a study led by a NASA astrobiology fellow claimed to have found an alien-like microbe in a salty, alkaline lake in California. This extraordinary bacterium could reportedly thrive using the toxic element arsenic in place of phosphorus—otherwise thought essential for life on Earth. It even incorporated arsenic, instead of phosphorus, into the backbone of its DNA, according to the study, which was published online by the prestigious journal Science. If true, the claims were grou

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Ted Lasso’s return could bring three additional new seasons

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-30 04:58:46

Ted Lasso season 4 is being filmed right now, and with the start of production has come a strong hint that Apple TV+ and Jason Sudeikis are planning for much more than just one final season for Lasso. Cast for Ted Lasso reportedly signed three-season deals to match Jason Sudeikis’ new planned arc After lots of speculation and rumors since Ted Lasso season 3 ended, it’s now finally official that season 4 is on the way. But as production kicked off this week, we got word that there’s probably a

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Never write your own date parsing library

news.ycombinator.com Zach Leatherman 2025-12-30 08:36:25

Never write your own date parsing library. Never. No exceptions. Never have I ever… So… I’ve written my own date parsing library. Why? Our story begins seven years ago in the year 2018. I made the very sensible choice to adopt luxon as the Date Parsing library for Eleventy. This parsing behavior is used when Eleventy finds a String for the date value in the Data Cascade (though YAML front matter will bypass this behavior when encountering a YAML-compatible date). This choice was good for El

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How to configure X11 in a simple way

news.ycombinator.com Eugene Andrienko 2025-12-30 14:02:37

Speaking about xrandr . I tried some GUI applications, like arandr, to switch between various multimonitor configurations — but found that they all are using just a limited subset of xrandr features. For example, I can't use mixed DPI settings or scale some outputs with arandr, but I can do it with xrandr: https://mas.to/@evgandr/114394277310057344. Yes, the X can do that! The well-known rumors (usually spreaded by Wayland fans) that only Wayland can do such things — looks like a fake. There a

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Cricket revamps its lineup and unlike some competitors, its an improvement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-31 09:30:42

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cricket Wireless has refreshed its plan lineup with four new options starting at $30 a month, featuring lower pricing and a few other tweaks. Taxes and fees remain included in Cricket’s advertised prices, unlike some competitors. Overall, these plans appear to be an improvement, assuming network priority and other factors remain the same. This has been a big year for prepaid shakeups, with several brands refreshing their lineups, including Metro by T

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We Smashed Around While Waiting for ‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-31 09:45:04

Here’s a pro tip. Don’t try to film while driving a Twisted Metal bumper car. Because, A, you might drop your phone, but also B, you will get called out and made fun of. That’s what happened to me, in the most on-brand moment possible, Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con. A few blocks from the convention center, Peacock had an activation for the second season of its fun video game adaptation, returning July 31. The show is about cars that fight like warriors, so, short of actually letting you blow c

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Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-31 23:30:01

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. A US district court judge has withdrawn his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers noted that his opinion referenced fake quotes and other erroneous case information — mistakes mirroring errors in other legal cases that have been attributed to artificial intelligence tools. In a letter sent to New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier N

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Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 11:37:24

Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office, claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app operational in the US despite national security concerns. But then, he put Vice President JD Vance in charge of the deal, and after months of negotiations, the US still doesn't seem to have found terms for a sale that the Chinese government is willing to approve. Now, Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has confirmed that if China won't approve the latest version of the deal—which coul

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San Diego Comic-Con’s ‘Aztec Batman’ Trailer Explores Mythos, Culture, and Justice In a New Light

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-31 23:30:51

During San Diego Comic-Con, HBO Max finally showcased its upcoming DC Studios animated Batman movie, Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires. The film, also known as Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios, offers a new take on the Caped Crusader’s storied mythos. According to HBO Max Latin America‘s press release, its story will center on “a young Aztec boy named Yohualli Coatl, whose father, village leader Toltecatzin, is murdered by Spanish Conquistadors. Coatl flees to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma

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UnitedHealth Group Says It Is Cooperating With a DOJ Investigation

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-01 23:50:47

UnitedHealth Group, the company that owns healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth, said on Thursday that it is cooperating with the federal government as it fields criminal and civil requests from authorities. The company announced its cooperation with the feds in a statement published to its website on Thursday. “UnitedHealth Group (the “Company”) proactively reached out to the Department of Justice after reviewing media reports about investigations into certain aspects of the Company’s participa

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Josh Brolin Doesn’t Seem Enthused About a Potential ‘Goonies 2’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-02 18:15:06

Forty years have passed since The Goonies delighted audiences and captured the adventurous imaginations of a generation. In that time, talk of a sequel has never ended, but as of earlier this year, it’s more real than it ever has been. Warner Bros. has, as of a few months back, hired someone to write a Goonies 2. And while many of the original cast members have been very vocal and excited about the idea, the group’s elder statesman, Josh Brolin, seems much less enthusiastic. Brolin, who went on

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UnitedHealth says it is facing DOJ investigation over Medicare billing practices

news.ycombinator.com Annika Kim Constantino 2026-01-03 04:16:12

UnitedHealth Group revealed Thursday it is facing a Department of Justice investigation over its Medicare billing practices, adding to a string of setbacks for a company that owns the nation's largest and most powerful private insurer. In a securities filing, the company said it has started complying with formal criminal and civil requests from the DOJ, and that it reached out to the department after reports of the probes surfaced. UnitedHealth also said it has launched a third-party review of

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Writing is thinking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 05:30:21

Writing scientific articles is an integral part of the scientific method and common practice to communicate research findings. However, writing is not only about reporting results; it also provides a tool to uncover new thoughts and ideas. Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner. By writing it down, we can sort years of research, data and analysis into an actual story, thereby identifying our main messag

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Writing Is Thinking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:30:21

Writing scientific articles is an integral part of the scientific method and common practice to communicate research findings. However, writing is not only about reporting results; it also provides a tool to uncover new thoughts and ideas. Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner. By writing it down, we can sort years of research, data and analysis into an actual story, thereby identifying our main messag

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Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-01-03 22:11:07

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models. “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it— because it's not doable.” The president al

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Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-01-04 04:11:07

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models. “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it— because it's not doable.” The president al

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Home Depot now has an app-controlled version of its viral Halloween skeleton

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

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Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha

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Cricket revamps its lineup and unlike some competitors, its an improvement

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