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Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:28:25

Web Compatibility Overview JSAR provides comprehensive support for modern Web standards. For a complete browser compatibility report, please visit our Browser Compatibility Data. Scripting & Modules [Completed] JavaScript - Full ES2023 support - Full ES2023 support [Completed] TypeScript - Native TypeScript compilation - Native TypeScript compilation [Completed] ECMAScript Module - Modern module system - Modern module system [Completed] WebAssembly - High-performance WASM support - Hi

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How to make almost anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:58:55

Critcl lets you easily embed C code in Tcl. A (certainly incomplete) list of packages using critcl is: Readers wishing to make their use of critcl public here are asked to file a ticket or pull request here, against branch gh-pages More notes are available on the Tclers' Wiki Slides for "Critcl - Beyond Stubs and Compilers" [ PDF ], [ HTML ] A paper from the Ninth Annual Tcl/Tk conference (2002, Vancouver). Critcl currently has two major branches, version 2, and version 3. Only version 3 i

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SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-25 09:12:51

In Brief SAP announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to acquire recruiting software company SmartRecruiters. In a press release, the European software giant said that SmartRecruiters “powerful, user-friendly interfaces and seamless workflows” will complement SAP’s existing HR tools. Muhammad Alam, the SAP executive board member who leads product and engineering, said in a statement that with this acquisition, “Customers will be able to manage the entire candidate lifecycle — from so

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Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 09:12:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! A new twist on package-related scams is drawing concern from federal authorities, as the FBI warns Americans to be vigilant when receiving unexpected parcels containing QR codes. According to a recent alert, criminals have begun exploiting the ubiquity of QR codes as a tool for financial fraud and identity theft. The scheme unfolds when an individual receives a package that's addressed to the

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Tim Cook has now been Apple CEO for longer than Steve Jobs

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-25 11:38:00

The big picture: This month marks Tim Cook's 14th year as CEO of Apple. As the company looks toward future software and hardware launches, Cook remains optimistic about the Vision Pro despite its tepid reception. Meanwhile, analysts and insiders struggle to predict who his successor might be. Cook's comments on the Vision Pro, one of the signature products of his tenure, came during Apple's earnings call for the quarter ending in June. He discussed the headset's upcoming OS update and enterpris

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Scientists transform peacock feathers into tiny biological laser beams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 14:24:00

TL;DR: Scientists have long been fascinated by the vibrant colors and intricate structures found in the feathers of birds like the Indian Peafowl (commonly known as the peacock). A new study has shed light on a surprising property of these iconic tail feathers: their ability to act as tiny laser resonators when infused with a common fluorescent dye. The research, conducted by researchers from several US universities and published in Nature, set out to explore the behavior of peacock feather bar

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Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:45:30

Once upon a time, in their startling report titled "Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains," ACLU analysts Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown "surveillance society," where advanced technology and crumbling regulation come together to create the kind of world that was previously the domain of dystopian science fiction. "The fact is, there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell," they wrote. That was in

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5 productivity apps I swear by, and one of them unlocks the rest

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:00:04

Joe Maring / Android Authority Productivity apps are the bane of the app world. On one end of the spectrum are the total nerds who could shame a cyborg with their organizing skills, and on the other are those who dump everything into Google Keep just to have everything in one place. I live somewhere in the middle. I’m not pedantic enough to run the most complex Notion server and flex about it on Reddit, nor am I a simpleton who relies solely on a notes app. I use a bunch of apps every day to i

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Update to iOS 26? We tested the public beta on our iPhones - these features are a big deal

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-25 08:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple introduced iOS 26 to the public at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference event in early June, and since then, has been polishing the software with developers for the eventual beta release. Now that it's finally available for everyone to test, you may be wondering if it's worth diving straight into or waiting for the official software launch -- likely sometime in September. That's what we're here to answer. Also: Should you buy an iPhone 16 or wait for the iPhone 17?

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Show HN: Implementation of DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 21:28:58

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How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 08:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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Here's How to Show the Volume Bar on Your iPhone's Lock Screen Again

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 06:00:08

If you're listening to music or a podcast and want to change the volume without unlocking your iPhone, then you probably press the buttons on the side of your phone. Those buttons can increase or decrease your volume a set amount, but they could leave you choosing between a volume that is slightly too loud or a bit too quiet. If you keep your iPhone up to date with the latest iOS releases, you can bring the volume bar back to your device's Lock Screen, giving you more precise control over your i

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Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 08:00:10

Looking for a smarter way to beat the summer heat without blasting your air conditioner all day? You might want to take a closer look at the houseplants sitting quietly on your windowsill. According to experts, certain indoor plants don't just brighten up a room, they can literally lower the temperature in your home. And yes, science backs it up. Thanks to a natural process called transpiration, some houseplants release moisture into the air, creating a cooling effect that can help your space f

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Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 05:34:36

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest Where to start See below for links to the 2024 winning IOCCC entries. Check out the index.html web pages for each winning entry. They have most of the information you need to compile and run the winning program. Take a look at the winning source code and try to figure out how it works. You might also want to check out the author’s remarks for even more details. You may download all winning entries in the form of a compressed tarball, for

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Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-25 12:00:27

Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon all reported quarterly earnings this week, and there was a common thread tying them together: a boom in AI spending and plans to increase it even more, beyond analyst expectations. Although capital expenditures above expectations often don’t tend to make investors particularly happy, it had pretty much the opposite effect this week, especially for Meta and Microsoft, both of which saw a pop in their stock following the releases. And for Microsoft, which poste

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"This Will Open the Floodgates": Tesla In Trouble as Jury Orders It to Pay $329 Million After Autopilot Death

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 20:58:56

Tesla just got handed one of its biggest legal blows yet — one that could have seismic implications for its future operations. On Friday, a Miami jury ruled that the Elon Musk-owned automaker's Autopilot driver assistance software was partially at fault for a horrendous collision that killed a 22-year-old woman in 2019 and severely injured her boyfriend. In total, the jury ordered Tesla to pay $329 million to the surviving family of the victims, Naibel Benavides and Dillon Angulo, including $2

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LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 04:56:46

LangExtract Table of Contents Introduction LangExtract is a Python library that uses LLMs to extract structured information from unstructured text documents based on user-defined instructions. It processes materials such as clinical notes or reports, identifying and organizing key details while ensuring the extracted data corresponds to the source text. Why LangExtract? Precise Source Grounding: Maps every extraction to its exact location in the source text, enabling visual highlighting for

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Super-resolution of Sentinel-2 images (10M –> 5M)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 21:43:26

Sentinel-2 Super-Resolution GUI A simple, user-friendly desktop application to increase the resolution of Sentinel-2 satellite images. This tool takes the standard 10-meter Blue, Green, Red, and Near-Infrared (NIR) bands and uses a pre-trained AI model to create a higher-resolution, 2x upscaled image. It's designed for users who want to easily enhance their satellite imagery without complex command-line tools. TL;DR (For the Impatient) Install stuff: pip install pyqt5 torch safetensors raste

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Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 08:59:41

Fermat's Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. Until September 2029 it is being funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the EPSRC. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstandard research. General

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 3, #314

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 10:24:34

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 might be tough. The yellow category came together right away for me, but the others...not so much. 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 that the game

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 3, #784

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 11:00:34

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 could be tough. But the purple category is pretty fun, at least if you're fascinated with musical groups and their names. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go the

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NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:50:04

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, but a scientific investigation from the Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the US-based company Space Tango with the goal of better understanding how bacteria spread and behave under extreme conditions. The experiment includes E. coli, along with bacteria that cause diseases like typhoid fever and the infe

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A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2025-12-24 21:34:39

Mr. Zuckerberg wanted Mr. Deitke, a 24-year-old artificial intelligence researcher who had recently helped found a start-up, to join Meta’s research effort dedicated to “superintelligence,” a technology that could hypothetically exceed the human brain. The company promised him around $125 million in stock and cash over four years if he came aboard. The offer was not enough to lure Mr. Deitke, who wanted to stick with his start-up, two people with knowledge of the talks said. He turned Mr. Zucke

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘Expedition 33’ Are Having a Moment

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-25 04:25:08

Have you watched KPop Demon Hunters on Netflix or played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Chances are the answer is ‘yes,’ and if not, you’ve certainly heard of them: both were released earlier this year to fairly glowing reviews (if not outright critical acclaim) and performed very well commercially. The latter, a turn-based RPG from newcomer Sandfall Interactive, will likely pick up some awards at year’s end, while Netflix is planning to go all in on KPop. Along with talks of sequels and an ever-

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Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-25 08:24:00

What just happened? Numerous organizations have repeatedly warned ChatGPT users over the years never to share personal information with OpenAI's chatbot. A recent incident involving a now-removed feature reveals that potentially thousands of people disclosed deeply intimate information with ChatGPT and also inadvertently made it discoverable through Google search. OpenAI recently confirmed that it has deactivated an opt-in feature that shared chat histories on the open web. Although the functio

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CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:00:22

Pink Slip Pride Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling; instead, CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in AI. As the Wall Street Journal reports, CEOs are now bragging about shrinking their companies' staff, highlighting a cooling job market and an unwavering commitment to automation at all costs. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told investors last week that the telecom had been "very, very good" on headcount, meaning that "it's going down all t

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Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 03:28:33

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie August 2, 2025 Displaying personal names in Icelandic user interfaces is surprisingly hard. This is because of declension — a language feature where the forms of nouns change to communicate a syntactic function. In Icelandic, personal names have four forms, one for each of the grammatical cases of Icelandic nouns. Take the name “Guðmundur”: Grammatical case Form Nominative Guðmundur Accusative Guðmund Dative Guðmundi Genitive

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 05:43:10

Part of the Software Internals Email Book Club. The next book we'll read is The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition (ISBN 9780124159501) from 2020 by Herlihy, Shavit, Luchangco, and Spear. A free PDF comes up for me on a Google search of this book but it is of the 1st Edition from 2008. Make sure you grab the 2nd Edition from 2020. Date Discussion starter Chapter Title August 16th Phil 1 Introduction August 23rd TBD 2 Mutual exclusion August 30th TBD 3 Concurrent objects September 6t

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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-25 09:02:16

Welcome back to The Sunday Morning Post, this newsletter’s weekly rundown of the most interesting and important stuff I’m seeing in science, technology, economics, and beyond. Comments are open. Leave tips, papers, studies, tweets, posts, questions, and graphs in the comments, if you think they’ll serve for future editions. We’re Never Going to Invent a Drug That’s Better Than Exercise Euan Ashley has claimed that exercise is the “single most potent medical invention” ever—more broadly effecti

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Latest Tech News

Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine

How to make almost anything (2019)

Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl

SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters

Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

Tim Cook has now been Apple CEO for longer than Steve Jobs

Scientists transform peacock feathers into tiny biological laser beams

Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

5 productivity apps I swear by, and one of them unlocks the rest

Update to iOS 26? We tested the public beta on our iPhones - these features are a big deal

Show HN: Implementation of DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models)

How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

Here's How to Show the Volume Bar on Your iPhone's Lock Screen Again

Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

"This Will Open the Floodgates": Tesla In Trouble as Jury Orders It to Pay $329 Million After Autopilot Death

LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

Super-resolution of Sentinel-2 images (10M –> 5M)

Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 3, #314

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 3, #784

NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘Expedition 33’ Are Having a Moment

Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug

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