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Google Maps sucks on unpaved roads, so I use this open source app instead

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 05:30:16

Andy Walker / Android Authority Google Maps was primarily designed for inner-city travel, where roads are well-marked and relatively smooth. I doubt the app’s developers envisioned users navigating gravel roads in the heartland of South Africa. So, it’s unsurprising that the app becomes far less useful once you hit the dirt. However, where Google Maps falls short, OsmAnd excels. OsmAnd is a free, open-source app on the Play Store and F-Droid. It draws data from various sources, primarily relyi

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I answered the million-dollar question about buying laptops - here's the ultimate guide

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-11 03:30:18

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Choosing the right laptop can feel overwhelming -- even for someone like me who's lived and breathed laptops for years. You get all these options, configurations, and feature lists that it's impossible not to know up from down. So, to make things easier for you, I'll be breaking down laptops and their essentials using three broad usage categories: school, work, and gaming. Also: The best laptops you can buy: Expert tested Most laptops fall into one of these buckets, and w

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I tried Lenovo's new rollable ThinkBook and can't go back to regular-sized screens

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-11 04:30:17

ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable ZDNET's key takeaways The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is available now, starting at $3,300. The 120Hz, OLED, portrait-style 16.7-inch display delivers an expansive workspace, supported by a haptic touchpad. It has limited I/O, has some visible creasing on the rollable display, and has a sky-high price. View now at Lenovo Lenovo unveiled its "rollable" laptop at CES two years ago as a wild proof of concept that turned heads, but left consumers skeptical. Well, the compan

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Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 18:39:09

This blog is adapted from our talk at PyCon 2025. marimo is free and open source, available on GitHub. For a free online experience with link sharing, try molab. marimo is a new kind of open-source Python notebook. While traditional notebooks are just REPLs, marimo notebooks are Python programs represented as dataflow graphs. This intermediate representation lets marimo blend the best parts of interactive computing with the reproducibility and reusability of Python software: every marimo notebo

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An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 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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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 00:06:56

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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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-11 04:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-12-11 05:30:00

If rumors are correct, Apple's annual iPhone event will take place exactly a month from today, on September 9. That's according to a German website citing internal documents from German mobile phone providers, but the date was also previously suggested by Bloomberg's Apple whisperer, Mark Gurman. Leaks about Apple's upcoming smartphone lineup have heated up in recent weeks. Apple is expected to debut four iPhones as usual, with one key distinction. The “Plus” iPhone no longer exists, replaced b

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This digital graffiti project is making the internet fun again, pixel by pixel - see for yourself

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-11 08:00:00

Screenshot by David Grober/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Wplace is a site that lets you paint one pixel anywhere in the world every 30 seconds. Even though it's fairly new, it's exploded in popularity. You'll find artwork all over the world, warring groups, alliances, and more. If you miss Reddit's annual r/place experiment -- part collaborative project, part social experiment -- there's good news: It's back. At least a form of it is back on a website called Wplace. Like r/place, Wplace lets

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How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements

news.ycombinator.com Jon Surrell 2025-12-11 03:42:42

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I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2025-12-08 05:12:04

Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours. My idiocy is a quest to make sure all my portable electronics can recharge using USB-C. Modern smartwatches are tiny and they do a lot. As a consequence, their battery life is generally poor. The industry's attempts to fix this are either to replace the charging standard every year hoping to find something mag

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James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 06:28:04

James Lovell, a member of humanity's first trip to the moon and commander of NASA's ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97. Lovell's death on Thursday was announced by the space agency. "NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspired millions of people across the decades," said acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a statement on Friday. "Jim's character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the moon and turned a potential t

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Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro plummets to its record-low price, saving you $120

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:38:39

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’ve always been a huge fan of the iPad Mini series. These are much more portable, but usually more capable than the larger standard iPad. That said, they are also more expensive than an iPad, so it’s always good to wait for the right deal. We have a good one for you, today. The Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro is at its record-low price of $379! Buy the Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro for just $379 ($120 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The discount applies to all c

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Rumor Replay: Apple Watch Ultra 3 screen size, iPhone 17 event date, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-10 08:09:53

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: Apple Watch Ultra 3’s screen bump, iPhone 17 event date, curious case leaks, an OLED MacBook Pro, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. Apple Watch Ultra 3 getting larger screen After iOS 26 beta 5 was released earlier this week, Aaron Perris discovered that it includes an Apple Watch image with a resolution not matching any existing mod

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Apple acing its latest tech stack takeover is great news for the iPhone 17 Air

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-11 03:41:00

It’s been nearly six months since Apple changed a crucial piece of technology inside the iPhone. This timeline is great news for the all-new iPhone 17 Air coming in just a few short weeks. C1 chip success That core piece of tech, of course, is the cellular modem inside the iPhone. Starting with the more affordable iPhone 16e in February, Apple began shipping its first iPhone that uses its homegrown chip for making calls and connecting to cell networks. That’s enough time to determine that Ap

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This epic Severance mural might be the coolest thing you see all week

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-11 15:07:17

LA is populated with marketing materials for all sorts of entertainment, but this giant painted Severance mural is one-of-a-kind. Apple shared photos of “The Exalted Victory of Cold Harbor” mural on display near an Apple TV+ billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles this week. The finishing touches were put on the mural at the end of July, according to passersby on social media. These are the shots shared by Apple, including a selfie by Severance lead actor Adam Scott: Meanwhile, a Facebook

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Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-11 15:53:20

A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details. The nerdy bits Traditionally, LLMs generate text one token at a time. This is slow because each step depends on all the previous ones to keep the output coherent and accurate. If the model is writing a sentence like “ The cat is black ”, it predicts each token in sequence. After writing “ The cat is ”, it looks at everything so far (plus the

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Jon Prosser answers Apple leak lawsuit with iPhone 17 Pro leak video

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-11 15:59:53

In his first new video since being sued by Apple for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information from an illegally accessed employee iPhone running unannounced software, Jon Prosser has returned with an iPhone 17 Pro video based on sources speculation. Every little detail about the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Air has basically been posted online by everyone except Apple at this point. Still, his renders are attractive as usual and it’s a good summary of what Apple is expected to announce. I doubt an

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My iPhone 17 Pro Wishlist Item Isn't a Feature: Give Me Colors Beyond Monochrome or Metal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 11:15:00

Sure, a lot of people wrap their new iPhone in a case but I've always cared a lot about how my smartphone looks. And for the iPhone Pro line, the colors have historically been muted. So when I saw rumors that the iPhone 17 Pro could arrive in colors such as orange, I started dreaming about a world where Apple's best phones exude a sense of fun like their siblings. For years, Apple has split its phones into two tiers: the "regular" iPhones and the Pro models. The former offer lower specs and pri

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Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-11 20:02:29

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook shake hands on the day they present Apple's announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. Apple shares rose 13% this week, its largest weekly gain in more than five years, after CEO Tim Cook appeared with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. Shares of the iPhone maker rose 4% to close at $229.35 per share on Friday for the com

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One of Microsoft’s best-rated mobile apps is bowing out soon

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 20:59:16

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft Lens PDF scanner will be retired on Android and iOS later this year. The phase-out begins in September, with scanning disabled after December 15, 2025. Microsoft is pushing users toward its 365 Copilot app, which lacks some Lens features. One of Microsoft’s most popular mobile utilities is heading for the chopping block. The Lens PDF scanner has long been a go-to for quickly turning documents and whiteboards into shareable files. Neverthele

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What to Stream This Weekend: 'Wednesday,' 'The Pickup,' 'Platonic' and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 18:00:04

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement What to Stream This Weekend: 'Wednesday,' 'The Pickup,' 'Platonic' and More Don't miss the latest on Netflix, Apple TV Plus and other platforms. Here's what you should binge this weekend.

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New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-12 00:11:10

Apple TV+ is having a big year, but the Apple TV 4K streaming box still awaits its first revision since 2022—and that update is coming. Here are four features to expect when the new Apple TV 4K arrives later this year. #1: A17 Pro or A18 chip upgrade The current Apple TV 4K model launched in late 2022 and packed what was then a pretty modern chip: the A15 Bionic. But Apple’s silicon efforts continue achieving new heights, and demanding software like Apple Intelligence and newer games require

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Microsoft will soon discontinue its excellent PDF Scanner app

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-12 00:42:01

Bad news if you rely on Microsoft’s Lens: PDF Scanner app for your PDF scanning needs. The company has announced that the app will be discontinued in the coming months, and is recommending users switch to its Copilot app instead. The app will stop working mid-December Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it will be “retiring the Microsoft Lens mobile app for iOS and Android in a phased approach starting September 15, 2025”. According to the company, it will disable new installs of the app in m

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iOS 26 public beta is available to download: Everything you need to know about the new iPhone and iPad update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 00:18:07

Gaining access to iOS 26 on your iPhone is getting closer, but the release is still over a month away, coming this fall. But you can start testing the new features now by downloading and installing Apple's public beta, which CEO Tim Cook recently said is (along with the other current beta operating systems) "by far the most popular developer betas we’ve had," 9to5Mac reports. You can also take a look at our preview of the iOS 26 public beta release, which shows off the fresh home and lock screen

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iPhone 17 release date, rumors and everything else you need to know ahead of the Apple event expected in September

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 00:43:57

Knowing the big internal changes coming to our phones with iOS 26, we're getting excited to see how Apple has revamped its newest smartphones: the iPhone 17 lineup. We still have to wait over a month to find out — assuming Apple sticks to its usual release schedule — but for now, we can speculate what the new phones will look like. As with most unreleased iPhone models, rumors and leaks have trickled in about the hardware side ahead of the official introduction. Here's what we're expecting and w

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My biggest regret after updating my iPhone to iOS 26 (and how to fix it)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-11 22:52:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways iOS 26 introduces a new gesture behavior to the iPhone camera switcher. This shift in app navigation has caused frustration among pros and casual users. On the latest dev beta, Apple has added a toggle to revert the behavior to the original. While many would say that the public development of iOS 26 has been rocky, one recent feature, introduced in the latest developer beta, has given me renewed faith in Apple. When the company first launched the iOS 2

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Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 05:09:02

Poltergeist The ghost that keeps your builds fresh 👻 A universal file watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system Poltergeist is an AI-friendly universal file-watcher that auto-detects any project and rebuilds them as soon as a file has been changed. Think npm run dev for native apps, with automatic configuration, notifications and a smart build queue. It stands on the shoulders of giants and fills the glue layer that's been missing. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Availabl

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Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Taveau 2025-12-11 23:12:18

Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell Credit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspired millions of people across the decades. Jim’s character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the Moon and turned a potential tragedy into a success from

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Apple pushes back on Fintiv’s latest litigious attempt to profit off Apple Pay

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-12 05:05:52

Fintiv, a firm you’ve probably only heard of in the context of patent litigation, is once again suing Apple over Apple Pay. Apple’s secure mobile payment solution launched over a decade ago in 2014. Fintiv has been unsuccessfully suing Apple over Apple Pay since 2018. Apple is not hiding its frustration. In a statement to 9to5Mac, the company accused the Texas-based firm of trying to “distract from their failed patent case” with a new set of allegations. “The court has repeatedly rejected Fint

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Google Maps sucks on unpaved roads, so I use this open source app instead

I answered the million-dollar question about buying laptops - here's the ultimate guide

I tried Lenovo's new rollable ThinkBook and can't go back to regular-sized screens

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An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

What Even Is Instagram Now?

Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

This digital graffiti project is making the internet fun again, pixel by pixel - see for yourself

How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died

Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro plummets to its record-low price, saving you $120

Rumor Replay: Apple Watch Ultra 3 screen size, iPhone 17 event date, more

Apple acing its latest tech stack takeover is great news for the iPhone 17 Air

This epic Severance mural might be the coolest thing you see all week

Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

Jon Prosser answers Apple leak lawsuit with iPhone 17 Pro leak video

My iPhone 17 Pro Wishlist Item Isn't a Feature: Give Me Colors Beyond Monochrome or Metal

Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit

One of Microsoft’s best-rated mobile apps is bowing out soon

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New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year

Microsoft will soon discontinue its excellent PDF Scanner app

iOS 26 public beta is available to download: Everything you need to know about the new iPhone and iPad update

iPhone 17 release date, rumors and everything else you need to know ahead of the Apple event expected in September

My biggest regret after updating my iPhone to iOS 26 (and how to fix it)

Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

Apple pushes back on Fintiv’s latest litigious attempt to profit off Apple Pay

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