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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 10, #321

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 20:05:35

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition counts on you knowing a little bit about European soccer venues, so that could help or hurt some puzzle-solvers. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign

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An engineer's perspective on hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 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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A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:17:22

A Simple CPU on the Game of Life - Part 4 by Nicholas Carlini 2021-12-30 This is the fourth article in a series of posts that I've been making on creating digital logic gates in the game of life. The first, couple of articles started out with how to create digital logic gates and use them in order to construct simple circuits. In this post we're going to actually build a first real computer: a (2-stage pipelined) unlimited register machine. And later on ([5]) we'll make an even better computer

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 10, #791

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 17:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features a fun blue category, especially for bookworms like me. That purple category, though -- no one does those random "look for a word inside of a word" categories like the Times. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Tim

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Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-07 14:15:54

As if suspiciously AI-generated descriptions of real estate listings weren't enough, agents are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties. The Register spotted a dubious listing of a fully renovated 3-bedroom in the UK with a photo — which has since been deleted, but can still be viewed in an archived version — that shows the tell-tale signs of generative AI, including awnings that don't line up, hedges that inexplicably turn into walls, and a f

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A magical farming sim, cat museum exploration and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-07 14:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. This week, Nintendo held its latest Indie World showcase to spotlight titles that are coming to Switch and Switch 2, as well as some that arrived on the eShop on the day of the presentation. One of the latter was UFO 50, which featured on many best of 2024 lists after it debuted on PC. Another was Is This Seat Taken?, which is about placing picky people in the right seats. This chill puzzle game from Poti Poti Studio and pu

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Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight

news.ycombinator.com Zhila Semnani-Azad 2025-12-07 15:14:57

This meta-analysis concurrently and comprehensively evaluates the association of intermittent fasting, CER, and ad-libitum diets on cardiometabolic risk factors. Our findings showed a trivial to small reduction in body weight for all diet strategies compared with ad-libitum, and trivial reductions for ADF compared with CER, TRE, and WDF. These associations, however, were only significant among comparisons with ad-libitum diet in moderate-to-long term follow-up durations of at least 24 weeks. ADF

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Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 12:58:52

If you search the Web for the history of fitted sheets, you’re going to find a reference to exactly two patents: 1959 - Bertha Berman of New York: FITTED BED SHEET CONSTRUCTION (PDF, 355Kb) 1992 - Gisele Jubinville of Alberta: MATTRESS COVER/FITTED BED SHEET (PDF, 492Kb) Now, if you actually look at the patents, what you’ll see is that Berman’s was a more complex design that consisted of multiple pieces (but does feature elastic!) And Jubinville’s design, indeed, has the stitched-in elastic d

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Accessibility and the Agentic Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 18:44:01

Accessibility and the agentic web Posted on Friday, 8 August 2025 by Léonie Watson in Strategy, User experience Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy. As a blind person, that's about the only way it's possible to go clothes shopping, independently at least, but few stores offer such a service, so you resort to shopping online. Except that retail websites are rarely acce

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Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 23:18:53

// 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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Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 15:01:31

Dementias such as Alzheimer's disease are estimated to affect more than 57.4 million people worldwide, a number that is expected to almost triple to 152.8 million cases by 2050. The impacts on the individuals, families and caregivers and society at large are immense. While there are some indications that the prevalence of dementia is decreasing in Europe and North America, suggesting that it may be possible to reduce the risk of the disease at a population level, elsewhere the picture is less p

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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-12-07 15:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

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A New ‘Final Destination’ Is Already in the Works

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-07 15:45:40

After the success of Final Destination Bloodlines, New Line is now on track to dole out more horrible ways to die in another upcoming installment. People can’t seem to get enough as Bloodlines grossed $286 million at its global box office, with a domestic tally of $138.1 million. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Lori Evans Taylor, co-writer of the recent rebootquel, has been hired to write the script to continue Death’s serial killing spree. Bloodlines was co-written by Guy Busick (Re

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You Can Turn Your Pet Pictures Into Emoji on Your iPhone. Here's How

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 11:00:03

I love my dog, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. She's brown and white and precious, and I take every opportunity to show her to the world. With an iPhone feature called Live Stickers, I can turn photos of her into emoji and stickers, and then text them to others. Apple introduced Live Stickers in iOS 17 as an evolution of the tap-and-lift feature from iOS 16, which lets you cut out subjects from photos and Live Photos. Now, by saving those cutouts as emoji and stickers of pets, family and friends, you ca

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Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-07 12:18:47

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world–that made any communication secured with the algorithm vulnerable to eavesdropping. When the researchers publicly disclosed the issue in 2023, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which developed the algorithm, advised anyone using it for

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Matter and Form Three 3D Scanner Review: Easy Scans

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-12-07 14:00:00

As a chronic tinkerer, I’ve always wished there was a simple, efficient, and effective way to get a full-resolution 3D model of a part without spending hundreds of hours learning 3D modeling or thousands of dollars on a high-resolution 3D scanner. This is the problem Matter and Form wanted to solve with the Three, a 3D scanner that claims to be simple, intuitive, and inexpensive. It’s important to emphasize that 3D scanners are not the end-all, be-all of creating 3D models. They are a tool to b

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A SPARC makes a little fire

news.ycombinator.com Leaded Solder 2025-12-03 05:11:52

Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we’d have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did. A few weekends later, I decided to go

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An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 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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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 12:06:56

Installing apps on Sandstorm is as easy as installing apps on your phone. Find any app you want on the App Market and start using it with a few clicks. Every app comes with automatic updates.

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Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-07 17:00:22

The promise of quantum computers appears to be that they will upend modern computing as we know it. With exceptional computational power, they’ll be performing feats unimaginable for any classical supercomputer. The reality of quantum computers hasn’t quite lived up to its hype, however. Claims of “quantum advantage”—problems regular computers can’t solve but quantum computers can—draw criticism from both skeptics and enthusiasts in the field. Certainly, we’ve seen genuinely impressive advancem

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How to Watch Man United vs. Fiorentina From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 15:45:03

The Red Devils' preparations for the upcoming English Premier League campaign come to a close on Saturday as Man United takes on Italian outfit Fiorentina on home turf in its final preseason friendly. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this friendly match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Ruben Amorim's team has had an encouraging couple of weeks, with three wins from thre

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The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

news.ycombinator.com Alex Kesin 2025-12-03 11:36:07

In 2002, Mark Fishman walked into a glass building in Cambridge with an unusual assignment: to turn the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, into the world’s greatest therapeutics research firm. More unusually still, Fishman was — at least on paper — precisely the wrong man for the job. The Harvard cardiologist had spent his career studying zebrafish hearts and teaching medical students. He had no pharmaceutical experience and no business training. And yet, Daniel Vasella — the physician-tur

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Technical issues of separation in function cells and value cells (1988)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 14:13:45

Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells by Richard P. Gabriel Lucid, Inc. and Stanford University Kent M. Pitman Symbolics, Inc. Copyright 2001 by Kent M. Pitman and Richard P. Gabriel. All rights reserved. 1. Preface This paper is an adaptation of a report produced for X3J13 by the authors, a technical working group engaged in standardizing Common Lisp for ANSI 2. Introduction In 1981 the emerging Common Lisp community turned to Scheme for some of its motivati

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Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 12:51:22

Loading WASM module... Width: Height: Wall Density: Learning Rate: Max Steps: Generate & Optimize This demo uses gradient descent to solve a discrete maze. Try playing with the hyperparameters to see how they affect the optimization process! No neural network involved: logits are directly optimized, from a random initialization, for each maze. This runs entirely on your local device, thanks to candle and Rust's support for WebAssembly. You can disconnect from the Internet after loading this

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‘Citizen Toxie’ Is Troma at Its Filthy, Disgusting, Overtly Offensive Best

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-08 03:00:53

Troma boss Lloyd Kaufman has been out in force talking up Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger, a spirited reimagining of the studio’s 1984 cult classic set to irradiate a whole new generation when it hits theaters this month. But when io9 got a chance to talk to Kaufman at the recent San Diego Comic-Con, we had to ask: after watching Blair’s film, which other film in the vast Troma archives should a newly minted fan turn to next? “The fourth Toxic Avenger movie, Citizen Toxie,” Kaufman said without

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KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-12-08 08:38:01

A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker recently convicted of leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online psychotherapy practice while attempting to extort the clinic and its patients. The documentary, “Most Wanted: Teen Hacker,” explores the 27-year-old Kivimäki’s lengthy and increasingly destructive career, one that was ma

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Imaging reveals 2k-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 23:10:43

As It Happens Imaging reveals 2,000-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos More than two millennia ago, a woman sat for hours on end in the ancient grasslands of a Siberian mountain range to have her body adorned with elaborate tattoos of creatures both real and mythical. When she died, her body was preserved under the permafrost for thousands of years, but her tattoos faded and became invisible to the naked eye. Now researchers have used high-resolution, near-infrared photograp

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First-Ever Look at Exploding Molecules Reveals Their Quantum Secrets

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-08 08:05:43

In the quantum world, molecules are always on the move. And for the first time ever, scientists have directly captured these tiny quantum dances in action—and they did so by blowing them up real good. Even at absolute zero, individual particles constantly vibrate without a fixed position, a phenomenon referred to as zero-point motion. In a paper published August 7 in Science, researchers at European XFEL harnessed this behavior for the 2-iodopyridine molecule, which consists of 11 atoms. By bla

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 9, #320

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 06:00:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition stumped me all over the place today. Growing up in Minnesota surrounded by ice hockey, I was able to nail the green group, but I didn't do so well otherwise. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 9, #790

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 06:00:08

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun mix. Honestly, I didn't realize that the blue category was a movie genre, but now that I think about it, sure it is. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 10, #321

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 10, #791

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A magical farming sim, cat museum exploration and other new indie games worth checking out

Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight

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Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

A New ‘Final Destination’ Is Already in the Works

You Can Turn Your Pet Pictures Into Emoji on Your iPhone. Here's How

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Matter and Form Three 3D Scanner Review: Easy Scans

A SPARC makes a little fire

An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

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The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

Technical issues of separation in function cells and value cells (1988)

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