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The Crisis of Professional Skepticism

news.ycombinator.com 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳 2025-12-24 16:37:01

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese.” Marley’s ghost visiting Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843), illustration by John Leech. (Public Domain Review) Friends, I am reproducing this article gratis. I have a purpose in doing so. I wish to earn nothing from the intellectual vacuity of pseudo-skepticism, even when, as here, I correct its excesses. This piece originally appeared February 27, 2023, at Medium. -M- ____________________________

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PSA: Make sure you have these privacy features enabled on your iPhone

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-24 22:34:03

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. Over the years, Apple has introduced multiple features that help preserve your privacy and curb abusive tracking and data mining f

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Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance

news.ycombinator.com Josh Katzowitz 2025-12-24 12:00:28

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Looking to supercharge the way you plan for retirement? Boldin is a financial planning platform that can help WCIers answer critical questions and model key financial issues for the future (Dr. Jim Dahle has called it “ an online retirement calculator on steroids ”). Boldin will help you build your retirement plan and keep you on track for the future you deserve. If you’re a DIY investor, Boldin is a fantastic resource. Make sure to check it out today!] By Adam Safdi, WCI Column

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ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

news.ycombinator.com Avram Piltch 2025-12-24 10:40:11

Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation. If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up

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Show HN: NaturalCron – Human-Readable Scheduling for .NET (With Fluent Builder)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 11:09:06

NaturalCron NaturalCron is a human-readable scheduling engine for .NET. It lets you write schedules in a clear and intuitive way instead of memorizing cryptic cron strings. Why? Because memorizing 0 18 * * 1-5 is harder than understanding every day between monday and friday at 6:00pm . Readable schedules reduce mistakes, write expressions that you can understand at a glance. Note: NaturalCron is not a cron converter. It’s a new expressive syntax for better readability. 💡 Why use NaturalCron

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PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 04:21:31

What is PixiEditor? Up until today, PixiEditor was known as a pixel-art editor. Version 2.0 is much more than that. It’s a Universal 2D Editor - a brand new category. It’s not yet another Photoshop alternative. We take the word “Universal” much more seriously. We built an extremely configurable raster/vector render pipeline, which you can adjust for any workflow you can think of. Our goal is to build a free and open source editor that can handle all of 2D graphics Raster Vector, Animations

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HTML-in-Canvas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 22:26:47

We propose new HTML Canvas APIs for rendering HTML content into the canvas for Canvas 2D and WebGL. Status Authors: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson, Khushal Sagar, Vladimir Levin, Fernando Serboncini Champions: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson This proposal is a subset of a previous proposal covering APIs to allow live HTML elements. Motivation There is no web API to easily render complex layouts of text and other content into a <canvas> . As a result, <canvas> -based content suffers in a

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 3 #518

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 20:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a funny one. Some of the words were easy, but others took me a little thought to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections an

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How Florida quietly surpassed California in solar growth

cnbc.com Lisa Setyon Jeniece Pettitt 2025-12-24 21:00:01

Solar energy is booming across the U.S. and, for the first time, Florida is catching up to industry powerhouses Texas and California. Despite removing climate change from its official state policy in 2024, Florida added more utility-scale solar than California last year, with over 3 gigawatts of new capacity coming online. "This is not a fluke," said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie. "Florida is now shaping national solar growth." The surge is being driven by utilities,

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Scientists Find Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:30:12

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science Anyone who makes a habit of losing their keys has a new excuse: you didn't forget — your memory just moved. That's courtesy of neuroscientists at Northwestern University, who recently published a study looking into the brain patterns of mice. The new research explores how the hippocampus — a crucial part of the brain for spatial memory — changes over time. The paper sheds new light on a phenomenon first uncovered in 2013, when a study in th

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New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo's IQ

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:30:17

The 21st century has seen startups rise from a relatively niche business approach to a multi-trillion-dollar phenomenon. Between 2021 and 2023, startups generated an estimated $7.6 trillion in global value. From 2019 to 2023 — a rocky period for the economy overall — the number of startups in the US still increased by 16 percent. But with all that success comes a whole lotta risk. It's estimated that over two-thirds of startups fail to deliver a positive return to investors. Many fail before th

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YouTube is testing Instagram-style collabs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:30:46

YouTube has started testing a new collaboration feature, similar to Instagram's and TikTok's. A Google employee explained on YouTube Help that it will allow creators to add collaborators to a video so that they can be recommended to each other's audiences. The test is only available to a small group of creators for now, but it sounds like YouTube has plans to expand its availability in the future. Lindsey Gamble, an influencer marketing consultant and advisor, has posted a screenshot showing how

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I bought Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025 - here's why I have buyer's remorse

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-24 15:00:13

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is on sale for $650 in four color options. Its display is vibrant and large, the battery lasts through a couple of days, and LTE is provided at no extra cost. It comes in a single 47mm size, gesture support is limited, and external sensor connections are not supported. $649.99 at Amazon Last year's Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra was my favorite Google WearOS smartwatch, so when I saw the 2025 Watch Ultra with its new

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Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001

news.ycombinator.com Mass Werk 2025-12-24 17:36:21

Character Bitmap Graphics on the PET 2001 July 30, 2025 How to impress with bitmaps from nothing. In 2022, Genesis Project (that is: Elder0010 and LRNZ) released a very impressive demo for the Commodore PET 2001 (the original machine and the upgraded PET 2001-N), “A Bright Shining Star”. Among a few other experiments, it showed high-res graphics (in animation) and static bitmap graphics in a vertical strip spanning over 10 characters or 80 pixels. As readers of this blog may be aware of alre

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ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

news.ycombinator.com Avram Piltch 2025-12-24 16:40:11

Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation. If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up

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Caches: LRU vs. Random

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 23:45:02

Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn't so bad. That random eviction isn't bad can be surprising — if your cache fills up and you have to get rid of something, choosing the least recently used (LRU) is an obvious choice, since you're more likely to use something if you've used it recently. If you have a tight loop, LRU is going to be perfect as long as the loop fits in cache, but it's going to cause a miss every t

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Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

news.ycombinator.com June 2025-12-24 20:15:27

Politics | Recovery | Current Obsessions Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis? Substack's content woes are bound up with its shaky business model in ways that are bad for all of us. I can smell the burnt coffee from here. It's Substacks All the Way Down Last week, Terry Moran announced that he’d be the latest high-profile journalist to take his brand to Substack, following his dism

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Financial Lessons from My Family's Experience with Long-Term Care Insurance

news.ycombinator.com Josh Katzowitz 2025-12-24 18:00:28

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Looking to supercharge the way you plan for retirement? Boldin is a financial planning platform that can help WCIers answer critical questions and model key financial issues for the future (Dr. Jim Dahle has called it “ an online retirement calculator on steroids ”). Boldin will help you build your retirement plan and keep you on track for the future you deserve. If you’re a DIY investor, Boldin is a fantastic resource. Make sure to check it out today!] By Adam Safdi, WCI Column

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The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:31:58

The Challenge I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else. Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com an

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-24 16:00:50

We’re talking about the birds. Great tits are small, yellowish songbirds common to the woodlands of Europe. Tit pairs are known to be monogamous during breeding season, splitting up after fully raising their offspring. But new research suggests that this “tit divorce” may be the product of complex social relationships formed during and after the breeding season. Published July 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the paper reports that not all tit pairs separate in late summer when breedi

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Flawed Tests on Earth May Explain Why NASA’s Rovers Get Stuck on Mars

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-24 18:00:28

In the spring of 2019, the six-wheeled Spirit rover was driving backwards to drag an inoperable front right wheel when it got stuck on the sandy Martian surface. Despite spending months trying to excavate its robot, NASA could not free Spirit. Now, engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison may have figured out a way to better prepare NASA’s robots for extraterrestrial environments. In a paper published in the Journal of Field Robotics, the team of engineers used computer simulations to

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The Best Smart Home Gyms, as Recommended by a Fitness Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 16:00:00

The Tempo Studio is a smart home gym that resembles an armoire, meant to blend in with your home. It's an ideal smart home gym to own whether you're new or experienced with strength training. The Tempo Studio's basic package comes well-equipped with two dumbbell bars, weight collars and five sets of weight plates from 1.25 to 25 pounds. You have the option to upgrade your package to the Tempo Studio Plus or Tempo Studio Pro, which includes additional weights and accessories like a bench and a ba

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A US-Only TikTok? What We Know So Far About the Potential Replacement App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 17:17:04

A new version of the TikTok mobile app for people in the US is reportedly being developed by the vertical video social media network's owner ByteDance. It will replace the current version of TikTok being used in the US ahead of a September deadline for the Chinese company to divest ownership, according to a report last month by The Information. The new app, codenamed "M2," could launch on Sept. 5. If you're in the US, you would then be required to switch from the existing app to the new one, th

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Scottish Premiership Soccer: Stream Motherwell vs. Rangers Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 20:34:04

The Rangers campaign to win their first Scottish Premiership title in five years kicks off today with a potentially tricky trip to north Lanarkshire for a season opener against Motherwell. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Under new American ownership as well as new management following the appointment of former Southampton boss Russell

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 17:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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9 Best Indoor Security Cameras (2025): For Homes and Apartments

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-24 16:00:00

Compare Indoor Cameras Best MicroSD Cards Photograph: Amazon Many security cameras support local storage, enabling you to record videos on the camera or a linked hub. A few hubs have built-in storage, and some provide slots for hard drives, but most rely on microSD cards. Here are some details on what to look for (and a few recommendations). The microSD card you choose should have fast read and write speeds so that you can record high-quality video and play it back without delay. We recommen

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Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death

news.ycombinator.com Aarian Marshall 2025-12-24 20:16:15

A Miami jury found Tesla partially liable Friday in a 2019 crash that killed one person and injured another—all while the driver of the Model S used the automaker’s Autopilot driver assistance feature. The jury found Tesla liable for $200 million in punitive damages, plus an additional $43 million in compensatory damages. (Because of state laws, the company will likely end up paying less.) A jury found the automaker one-third responsible for the crash; it found the driver of the Tesla, who sett

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Gear News of the Week: Insta360 Debuts a Drone Company, and DJI Surprises With an 8K 360 Camera

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-12-24 18:30:00

The 360 camera company Insta360 has entered the drone market with a spin-off brand called Antigravity. This new company hasn't released a drone yet, but it's coming soon and will likely have a slightly different take from current market leaders like DJI. Antigravity's drone is expected to feature 360 cameras with 8K resolution. It will also fall under the 250-gram weight limit, meaning it won't require a license. The 360-degree camera makes sense from the company that makes our favorite 360 cam

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Robert Wilson has died

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 16:57:27

Robert Wilson, a visionary artist best known for his highly visual and stylised approach to theatrical performances, has died, aged 83. According to a statement released by the Watermill Center, the arts organisation he founded in Water Mill, New York, Wilson died at his home there on Thursday (31 July) following “a brief but acute illness”. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, he still felt compelled to keep working and creating right up until the very end,” the state

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Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Lewis 2025-12-24 22:35:56

Peak Energy shipped out its first sodium-ion battery energy storage system, and the New York-based company says it’s achieved a first in three ways: the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery storage system; the largest sodium-ion phosphate pyrophosphate (NFPP) battery system in the world; and the first megawatt-hour scale battery to run entirely on passive cooling – no fans, pumps, or vents. That’s significant because removing moving parts and ditching active cooling systems eliminates fire

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The Crisis of Professional Skepticism

PSA: Make sure you have these privacy features enabled on your iPhone

Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance

ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

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YouTube is testing Instagram-style collabs

I bought Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025 - here's why I have buyer's remorse

Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001

ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

Caches: LRU vs. Random

Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

Financial Lessons from My Family's Experience with Long-Term Care Insurance

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

Flawed Tests on Earth May Explain Why NASA’s Rovers Get Stuck on Mars

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Robert Wilson has died

Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

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