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Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'

news.ycombinator.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-21 03:37:07

Debian / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The latest Debian Linux comes with multiple improvements. Debian will no longer support old 32-bit x86 architectures. Debian supports essentially all Linux desktop interfaces. Debian Linux is everywhere. Debian may only be ranked fifth on the DistroWatch list of Linux distributions, but other Linux distros, such as Mint, MX Linux, and Ubuntu, are built on its strong foundation. The latest release, Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, rele

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‘Weird Looking’ Otter Poo Reveals an Unexpected Role in Parasite Control

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-23 22:00:17

Receiving an unsolicited photo of worm-infested animal poop would make anyone cringe, unless you’re a parasite expert like Katrina Lohan. When a colleague sent her a snapshot of a watery pile of feces with a fire-engine red worm inside, she was instantly intrigued. “She sent this to me and was like, ‘I think this is a parasite, are you interested in studying river otters?’ And I was like, ‘Ooh, I think that’s a parasite too. And yes, I am,’” Lohan, a parasite ecologist who leads the Coastal Dis

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US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

news.ycombinator.com Hussein Reports On The U.S. Treasury Department For The Associated Press. She Covers Tax Policy 2025-11-24 10:31:19

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s gross national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, a record number that highlights the accelerating debt on America’s balance sheet and increased cost pressures on taxpayers. The $37 trillion update is found in the latest Treasury Department report issued Tuesday which logs the nation’s daily finances. The national debt eclipsed $37 trillion years sooner than pre-pandemic projections. The Congressional Budget Office’s January 2020 projections had gross fede

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Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

news.ycombinator.com Voyage Ai 2025-11-22 15:12:32

TL;DR – We are excited to introduce the rerank-2.5 series, which significantly improves upon rerank-2 ’s performance while also introducing instruction-following capabilities for the first time. On our standard suite of 93 retrieval datasets spanning multiple domains, rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite improve retrieval accuracy by 7.94% and 7.16% over Cohere Rerank v3.5. Furthermore, the new instruction-following feature allows users to steer the model’s output relevance scores using natural langua

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Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-24 18:39:15

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Stripe, a financial services company that acts as a payment processor for millions of businesses including itch.io, has issued an apology following reports that members of its support team told callers the business does not support the s

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rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

news.ycombinator.com Voyage Ai 2025-11-23 03:12:32

TL;DR – We are excited to introduce the rerank-2.5 series, which significantly improves upon rerank-2 ’s performance while also introducing instruction-following capabilities for the first time. On our standard suite of 93 retrieval datasets spanning multiple domains, rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite improve retrieval accuracy by 7.94% and 7.16% over Cohere Rerank v3.5. Furthermore, the new instruction-following feature allows users to steer the model’s output relevance scores using natural langua

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Polestar sets production car record for longest drive on a single charge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-25 04:51:17

Ars recently reviewed the Polestar 3, the large electric SUV from the performance-oriented Volvo spinoff. There is a lot to like about the big Polestar, particularly the way it drives: sharp enough to give Porsche cause for concern. Among the handful of things I wasn't so keen on was its reluctance to drive slowly. Like a racehorse champing at the bit, the twin-motor Polestar 3 wanted to deliver lots of power with not much pedal travel, and it took a while, and some conscious effort, to adapt.

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Here’s how Google Find Hub satellite location sharing is going to work (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 23:26:52

TL;DR Google announced back in May that the newly renamed Find Hub would be adding support for satellite-based location sharing. That’s still not here yet, but a recent app update reveals text strings that hint at how things will work. Users will be able to share their location once every 15 minutes, with a daily limit on maximum shares. Satellite support is changing the rules of the game when it comes to mobile connectivity, and we are still right now only in the early days of its evolution.

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Antarctica’s Ghost Hunters: Inside the World’s Biggest Neutrino Detector

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-25 23:25:22

Neutrinos are strange little things. This tiny, enigmatic particle with no charge exists in virtually every corner of the universe, but without powerfully sensitive, sophisticated instruments, physicists would have no way of knowing they exist. In fact, trillions are passing through you every second. Physicists devise all sorts of ways to coax neutrinos into the detection range. But IceCube—which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year—stands out in particular for its unique setup: 5,160 digi

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Over 3,000 NetScaler devices left unpatched against CitrixBleed 2 bug

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-28 18:31:49

Over 3,300 Citrix NetScaler devices remain unpatched against a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass authentication by hijacking user sessions, nearly two months after patches were released. Tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and referred to as CitrixBleed 2, this out-of-bounds memory read vulnerability results from insufficient input validation, enabling unauthenticated attackers to access restricted memory regions remotely on devices configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Pro

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 02:50:00

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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Netherlands: Citrix Netscaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 exploited to breach orgs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:19:49

The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-6543 was exploited to breach "critical organizations" in the country. The critical flaw is a memory overflow bug that allows unintended control flow or a denial of service state on impacted devices. "Memory overflow vulnerability leading to unintended control flow and Denial of Service in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway when configured as Gateway (VPN virtual

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Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Breuninger 2025-11-30 18:13:51

President Donald Trump on Monday placed the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the capital city to address what he claimed was out-of-control crime there. It is the first time that a president has federalized the Metropolitan Police Department. Trump's move drew fierce condemnation from local officials, who noted that official statistics show crime in D.C. is on the decline. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation'

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Ask HN: Do you think differently about working on open source these days?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 08:13:02

Wondering if anyone here has changed their opinion on open sourcing their projects or contributing to open source now that LLM's are a thing... I don't know yet what I think, but my latest side project I decided to create privately on github.

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Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users - what's new in 'Trixie'

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-01 23:17:00

Debian / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The latest Debian Linux comes with multiple improvements. Debian will no longer support old 32-bit x86 architectures. Debian supports essentially all Linux desktop interfaces. Debian Linux is everywhere. Debian may only be ranked fifth on the DistroWatch list of Linux distributions, but other Linux distros, such as Mint, MX Linux, and Ubuntu, are built on its strong foundation. The latest release, Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, rele

Topics: debian latest linux support trixie

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Dear String-to-Integer Parsers

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Muller 2025-11-27 20:44:32

These are very useful functions that any language with distinct string and integer types will include in their standard library. Pass in a string with decimal digits and it’ll return the equivalent in the binary integer form that you can do mathematics with. I’d like to make a modest proposal that I’d find very useful, and maybe you, dear reader, would too. “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate. He made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.” Who me? Specifically, I’m

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Musk's Tesla applies to supply power to British homes

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-02 08:17:07

Musk's Tesla applies to supply power to British homes Tesla did not immediately reply to a BBC request for comment. Tesla, which is best known as one of the world's biggest makers of electric vehicles (EV), also has a solar energy and battery storage business. If approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem, it would allow Tesla to take on the big firms that dominate the UK energy market to provide electricity to households and businesses in England, Scotland and Wales as soon as next year. Elon Mu

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Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

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

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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Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 21:50:25

The last quality of life feature we will add is the ability to show completion descriptions when tabbing on a complete word: $ foo apple<TAB> For example, the Mill build tool does this so if you’re not sure what a flag or command does, you can press <TAB> on it to see more details: Tab-completion is a common way to explore unfamiliar APIs, and just because someone finished writing a flat or command doesn’t mean they aren’t curious about what it does! But while Zsh tab-completion displays desc

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5 Best Electric Toothbrushes, Backed by Dentists and Hygienists

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-12-02 00:30:00

What About U-Shaped Toothbrushes? There are many U-shaped toothbrushes available now that use a mouthpiece full of bristles to brush one section of teeth—or sometimes the entire mouth—all at once in around 30 seconds. We've tried a few and think they're fine to use in addition to regular brushing. None of them are as effective as standard electric toothbrushes. Bill Busch of North Kansas City Dental and Joseph Salim, owner of Sutton Place Dental Associates, agree that these aren't replacements.

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P-fast trie, but smaller

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 22:18:52

Previously, I wrote some sketchy ideas for what I call a p-fast trie, which is basically a wide fan-out variant of an x-fast trie. It allows you to find the longest matching prefix or nearest predecessor or successor of a query string in a set of names in O(log k) time, where k is the key length. My initial sketch was more complicated and greedy for space than necessary, so here’s a simplified revision. (“p” now stands for prefix.) A p-fast trie stores a lexicographically ordered set of names

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Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 03:50:25

The last quality of life feature we will add is the ability to show completion descriptions when tabbing on a complete word: $ foo apple<TAB> For example, the Mill build tool does this so if you’re not sure what a flag or command does, you can press <TAB> on it to see more details: Tab-completion is a common way to explore unfamiliar APIs, and just because someone finished writing a flat or command doesn’t mean they aren’t curious about what it does! But while Zsh tab-completion displays desc

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This Monstrosity Gives Your Laptop Three Massive Monitors, but You’ll Hate Looking at It

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-12-02 04:00:07

I’m sitting in a coffee shop in front of four monitors. One of those screens is just my laptop, a very normal thing to have a cuppa joe next to. The other three are the portable displays of the Aura Triple Aero 15.6-inch Pro Max, a monumental contraption of aluminum and matte glass that’s looming over my computer, giving off Mr. Universe vibes. Nobody seems to care about this very conspicuous tech monstrosity, and that’s a blessing because with all of these screens in front of me, I just can’t s

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Debian 13 "Trixie"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 21:18:45

Debian 13 trixie released August 9th, 2025 After 2 years, 1 month, and 30 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 13 (code name trixie ). trixie will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team. Debian 13 trixie ships with several desktop environments, such as: GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, Xfce 4.20 This release contains over 14,100 new packag

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After the Mustang, Ford Is Teasing the Return of Another Beloved Car As an EV

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-01 20:03:50

Ford is promising a revolution. The company plans to make a big announcement on August 11 about its electric vehicle future, an event it is hyping as a “Model T moment.” In a blog post, Ford invoked the spirit of its most iconic creation, the car that “put the world on wheels” by making transportation “accessible to the masses.” The message is clear: Ford believes it is on the verge of launching a breakthrough EV that is both capable and, crucially, affordable. But what is it? A new clue, unco

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Virtual 6NF

news.ycombinator.com Alexey Makhotkin 2025-12-01 21:18:58

One of the goals of this substack is to research ways of removing historical cruft from the way relational model is taught. One thing that puzzles me particularly is why Sixth Normal Form (6NF) is historically treated so... reverently? Lots of texts on the internet consider 6NF to be “exotic”, “academic”, “never used in practice”, etc., etc. As software developers, we can solve any problem by adding one level of abstraction, and database modeling is not an exception. I’m going to show that any

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How Does an Electric Bicycle Work? (2025)

wired.com Stephanie Pearson 2025-12-03 03:00:00

An electric bicycle—it's a regular bicycle, but with a motor on it! There are enough moving pieces on these personal mobility vehicles to make buying one confusing. Even if you're pretty sure you know what an electric bicycle is—and that you're not, riding, say, an electric motorcycle from a dealership—the technology changes almost daily. Over the past 10 years, battery capacity has increased by around 50 percent, according to Joe Buckley, the e-mountain bike product manager at Specialized. In

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SoftBank reportedly bought Foxconn’s Ohio factory for the Stargate AI project

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-03 14:00:51

The mystery buyer of the former General Motors factory owned by Foxconn in Lordstown, Ohio is apparently SoftBank, according to Bloomberg News. SoftBank wants to use the factory to build AI servers as part of the Stargate data center project being spearheaded by the Japanese conglomerate, OpenAI, and Oracle. The report comes just a few days after Foxconn announced it had sold the factory, along with electric vehicle manufacturing equipment that was inside of it, to a buyer it only referred to a

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Honda Is Giving Up on the All-Electric Dream

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-04 09:15:49

Honda just dealt a huge blow to the all-electric dream. In a stunning reversal, the Japanese auto giant has announced it is rethinking its electrification strategy, signaling that battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are no longer the holy grail of its future. The move is a major setback for the EV industry, which is already reeling from the September 30 expiration of federal tax credits that made electric cars competitive with their gas-powered counterparts. For years, the auto industry, mesmerize

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Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

news.ycombinator.com Jye Cusch 2025-12-04 18:45:42

I started using Linear a couple of months ago and using it made me go down a technical rabbit hole that changed how I think about web applications. For the uninitiated, Linear is a project management tool that feels impossibly fast. Click an issue, it opens instantly. Update a status and watch in a second browser, it updates almost as fast as the source. No loading states, no page refreshes - just instant, interactions. After building traditional web apps for years, this felt wrong. Where’s th

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Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'

‘Weird Looking’ Otter Poo Reveals an Unexpected Role in Parasite Control

US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

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Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned

rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

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

Netherlands: Citrix Netscaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 exploited to breach orgs

Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

Ask HN: Do you think differently about working on open source these days?

Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users - what's new in 'Trixie'

Dear String-to-Integer Parsers

Musk's Tesla applies to supply power to British homes

Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

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Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh

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Debian 13 "Trixie"

After the Mustang, Ford Is Teasing the Return of Another Beloved Car As an EV

Virtual 6NF

How Does an Electric Bicycle Work? (2025)

SoftBank reportedly bought Foxconn’s Ohio factory for the Stargate AI project

Honda Is Giving Up on the All-Electric Dream

Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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