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White Mountain Direttissima

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 21:44:57

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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WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-29 00:32:15

Jake Lahut: Oh yeah. Watch out [inaudible 00:10:47] boys. I know that's going to be a tough one. Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, exactly. I would love to know how the AI categorizes this, but it's kind of fascinating. I feel like there's a lot of age verification stuff going on in the United States, a lot of rules and regulations that are getting rolled out and each have their own kind of issue. But this is kind of the industry's response to that, or an attempt to try something new and see if it works. And

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This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-29 20:14:40

A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm. Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team up to complete large or complex paintings. While r/Place provided its users with a blank white pixel grid, Wplace is layered over an interactive canvas of a wor

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The hidden cost of living in Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-29 21:59:20

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report that details how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a pool with a movable hydrofloor that can turn the swimming area into a dance floor. The pièce de résistance: a seven-foot sta

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Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales revenues to the U.S. government, FT reports

cnbc.com Erin Doherty 2025-11-30 12:20:44

A smartphone with a displayed AMD logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the U.S. government a share of revenues from certain chips sold in China, the Financial Times reported, in an unprecedented arrangement with the White House. In exchange for 15% of revenues from the chip sales, the two chipmakers will receive export licenses to sell Nvidia's H20 and AMD's MI308 chips in China, according to th

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

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-30 12:44:46

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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The hidden cost of living amid Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-30 09:59:20

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report detailing how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a pool with a movable hydrofloor that can turn the swimming area into a dance floor. The pièce de résistance: a seven-foot statue

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Inside OS/2 (1987)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 08:15:33

by Vaughn Vernon from the December 1987 issue of Computer Language OS/2, Microsoft’s latest addition to its operating system line, could well become the operating system of the next decade for Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers. Its multitasking capabilities, full-featured application programming interface (API), and extendability to future hardware almost guarantee its success. Microsoft sees microcomputing as a platform for office automation hardware and software: The office of the future (re

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The Merlin Bird ID App Is Better Than Meditation, and It's Not Just for Birders

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 04:34:03

I've done everything I can think of to improve my mindfulness. I've tried countless meditation apps and breathing exercises to stay in the present, and I'm always working on improving my mental health. What helps me stay grounded has nothing to do with any of that. It's an app for identifying birds. Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID launched in 2014 to help people identify the birds they see and hear. Thanks to eBird, the world's largest database of bird sounds and photos based on 80

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An engineer's perspective on hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:49:11

note for my friends: this post is targeted at companies and engineering managers. i know you know that hiring sucks and companies waste your time. this is a business case for why they shouldn't do that. hiring sucks most companies suck at hiring. they waste everyone’s time (i once had a 9-round interview pipeline!), they chase the trendiest programmers, and they can’t even tell programmers apart from an LLM. in short, they are not playing moneyball. things are bad for interviewees too. some o

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Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 11:18:53

// a standard desktop window FloatingWindow { Timer { // assign an id to the object, which can be // used to reference it id : timer property bool invert : false // a custom property // change the value of invert every half second running : true ; repeat : true interval : 500 // ms onTriggered : timer . invert = ! timer . invert } // change the window's color when timer.invert changes color : timer . invert ? "purple" : "green"

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An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 04:49:11

note for my friends: this post is targeted at companies and engineering managers. i know you know that hiring sucks and companies waste your time. this is a business case for why they shouldn't do that. hiring sucks most companies suck at hiring. they waste everyone’s time (i once had a 9-round interview pipeline!), they chase the trendiest programmers, and they can’t even tell programmers apart from an LLM. in short, they are not playing moneyball. things are bad for interviewees too. some o

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Apple TV+ hit its stride just in time for new streaming wars face-off

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-01 05:56:01

Apple TV+ has existed for nearly six years, but only recently has it truly hit its stride. Fortunately for Apple, its success arrived just in time for a new wave of competition and changes in the broader streaming landscape. Streaming landscape is seeing its biggest changes in years Lots of change is afoot in the TV streaming landscape. And guess what? All of that news happened just this week. We seem to be on the brink of a new phase in the “streaming wars.” The last time I can remember so

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New iOS app takes the mystery out of HomeKit troubleshooting

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-01 15:48:12

HomeKit, Apple’s smart home framework, is great most of the time, and awfully frustrating when things go wrong. This new iOS app wants to change that. HomeCare for HomeKit HomeCare for HomeKit is designed as a complete toolkit for diagnosing and fixing smart home problems. At its core, it scans your entire setup to instantly identify devices that are unresponsive, slow, or running on low battery. Each failing device shows a “Last Time Online” timestamp to help pinpoint when trouble began. The

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A love letter to my future employer (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 02:01:30

I didn’t expect the be confronted with it so soon, but week four of the Makers pre-course has guided me down the path of starting the first draft of my CV. I wasn’t ready for this. All the underlying thoughts I have had about myself and my abilities have been strapped to a Saturn V rocket and blasted into the forefront of my mind. I know this is Becky talking, but there is a huge part of Charlotte that agrees with her. Who the hell would ever want to hire me? For the majority of people who do

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OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-02 23:23:15

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company’s Slack. “As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market,” wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a “special one-time award” to researchers and software engine

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Meta says these wild headset prototypes could be the future of VR

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 10:51:32

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. In actual stats, that's up to 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree. One of the goals

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Ditching GitHub

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 15:18:40

This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, with side notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’s just that I never seemed to have the focus time required to solve this once and for all. But now I decided to get moving, and it is already ongoing. If you are among those few with an interest in code I publish, do read on. What? I am moving all of my public source code repositories off of GitHub. My ambition is to completely end my own usage of GitHub, in

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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

news.ycombinator.com Nimish Gåtam 2025-12-04 15:20:35

A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns. In fact, they’ve put quite a bit of time and effort into discussing safety, because, ostensibly, safety and ethics is at the top of people’s minds. So, the public is worried about AI ethics, and OpenAI is putting efforts into making sure the AI is ethical. Sounds like a match. Not just a match, but a

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Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It

news.ycombinator.com Greg Miller 2025-12-05 04:35:34

One of the biggest challenges facing Baltimore is blight. For decades, the city has grappled with population loss, leaving behind thousands of vacant homes and empty lots that scar neighborhoods. These empty spaces not only serve as a constant reminder of visible decline, but also drain city coffers and undermine community safety. Both the city and the state have launched ambitious initiatives to tackle this very problem. But what if the government’s own policies were quietly making the problem

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About AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 18:05:43

For the last 1.5 years, I have forced myself to work with and learn AI, mostly because the future of software engineering will inevitably have more AI within it. I’ve focused on optimizing my workflow to understand when AI is a genuinely useful tool versus when it’s a hindrance. Now, 1.5 years later, I feel confident enough to say I’ve learned enough about AI to have some opinions, which is why I’m writing this post. AI has become a race between countries and companies, mostly due to status. Th

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Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 21:00:02

By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voice of people the call recipient knows. Often, the result is what sounds like a grandchild, CEO, or work colleague you’ve known for years reporting an urgent matter requiring immediate action, saying wiring money, divulging login credentials, or visiting a malicious website. Researchers and government officials have been warning of the threat for years, with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency saying in

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Analyzing Control Flow More Like a Human [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 10:26:04

Time and Location Date: Wednesday, August 6 Wednesday, August 6 Time: 1:00-2:00PM 1:00-2:00PM Location: Luddy Hall 1104 Abstract Control-flow analysis has been around for over four decades. Over this time period, the typical formulation has remained essentially an exhaustive analysis over whole programs—an analyzer ingests an entire higher-order program and produces a flow fact for each point therein. An alternative approach is demand-driven. Implementing this approach, an analyzer allows t

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Comptime.ts: compile-time expressions for TypeScript

news.ycombinator.com Muthu Kumar 2025-12-03 05:11:40

⚡️ comptime.ts A dead-simple TypeScript compiler that does one thing really well: enables compile-time evaluation of expressions marked with comptime . This is useful for optimising your code by moving computations from runtime to compile time. This project was inspired by Bun macros and Zig comptime (hence the name). Warning: You are responsible for ensuring that the expressions you mark with comptime are safe to evaluate at compile time. comptime.ts does not perform any isolation. However,

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Android can now give you a heads up when your phone’s time zone changes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 00:15:20

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android can now alert you when your device’s time zone has been automatically updated. This alert will come in the form of a notification, but you have to opt-in, first. The feature is live in the July 2025 Android Canary release and may roll out in the Android 16 QPR2 stable update. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (02:15 PM ET): The “time zone change” feature described below didn’t go live in the stable release of Android 16, but it’s finally available in the J

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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Prokopov 2025-12-07 15:33:37

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa . You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3 , and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa , when writing its version 1.2.3 , needed another library: liblupa . So they did the same thing: they looked up the version, which was 0.7.8 at the time, and added it to the dependencies of libpupa 1.2.3 : "liblupa": "0.7.8" The version 0.7.8 of

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16 Golden Rules That Business Travelers Swear By

wired.com Charlie Hobbs 2025-12-07 20:30:00

Business travelers are made, not born. And almost everyone who travels frequently for work can list off at least a few things they wish they’d known when they first got into the game. It's not all obvious—like the importance of committing to a points and miles program early on; these programs literally exist because of you, dear business travelers—and some is nuanced and only learnable with time, like finding a hotel that feels like home and lets you leave a suit in the closet. To gather the ru

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NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 05:45:30

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has several goals, most of which are meant to help scientists determine whether Mars could ever have supported life in the past. And while it's still very much operational and doing science, NASA has had to make adjustments and give it new capabilities to ensure

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Show HN: FFlags – Feature flags as code, served from the edge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 16:13:35

Skip the Feature Flags infra headache Get the sub ~25ms wall-time performance and enterprise-scale reliability without months of development time. You can define the flag logic in JavaScript so the responses are consistent and predictable. The application is based on OpenFeature to ensure there's no vendor lock-in and you are free from the enterprise slop.

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This Bird App Has Grounded Me in the Present More Than My Meditation Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 12:14:03

Being mindful of our current thoughts, feelings and surroundings can be a challenge, especially in modern times. I, personally, find it difficult to ground myself in the present and have often tried using meditation apps to help. However, the app that has given me the most success when it comes to being mindful and present isn't one for breathing exercises or mental health but one for identifying the birds around me. Since 2014, Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID was launched to help p

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White Mountain Direttissima

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A love letter to my future employer (2020)

OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

Meta says these wild headset prototypes could be the future of VR

Ditching GitHub

AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It

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Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

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Comptime.ts: compile-time expressions for TypeScript

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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

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