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I Found the Pixel 9 Pro to Be a More Streamlined Android Experience, and It’s 20% Off Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 05:39:00

CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $200 off I've been using Google's Pixel 9 Pro for months. I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. Android phones often get a bad rap for being overly convoluted. And to be fair, that's often well justified. Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for example, has deep menu systems for messing about with nearly every aspect of the phone, along with featu

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Meet Ultra Skelly: Skelly the Skeleton Gets a High-Tech Edition This Halloween

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-12-25 05:02:00

I know you've seen Skelly at some point in the past five years. Maybe it was driving around your neighborhood during Halloween, or on a viral post about Halloween decorations. Maybe both! Maybe it's in your friend's yard year-round, wearing a Santa hat for Christmas and rocking 2025 glasses with a bottle of champagne for the new year. (Maybe that's just my friend's yard.) The popular 12-foot skeleton, aptly named Skelly, has become a Halloween classic (and a permanent yard mainstay for the Hall

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Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 23:57:21

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C++: "model of the hardware" vs. "model of the compiler" (2018)

news.ycombinator.com No Bugs 2025-12-20 14:36:36

Author: “No Bugs” Hare Follow: Job Title: Sarcastic Architect Hobbies: Thinking Aloud, Arguing with Managers, Annoying HRs, Calling a Spade a Spade, Keeping Tongue in Cheek Recently, I have run into [P1063R0], and was literally stunned with a way those guys (mis)interpret certain fundamental aspects of C++ philosophy. By today, I found what I don’t like about their position – and am able to articulate it, so here it goes. Disclaimer: THIS POST IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT C++; other programming la

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Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI

venturebeat.com Roman Eloshvili 2025-12-25 00:05:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now As AI continues to take on more and more new competencies, junior coding, as we knew it, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Tasks that used to be the bread and butter for junior developers — such as repetitive scripting, HTML layout or simple DevOps setups — are now being reliably handled by AI assistants like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot

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Leak claims the PS6 could have triple the performance as the PS5 for the same price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 00:38:01

We're nearly five years out from the release of the original PlayStation 5 and rumors of Sony's next-gen console are starting to bubble up to the surface. In a YouTube video from Moore's Law is Dead, the leaker shares extensive information about the PlayStation 6's possible specs, starting price and release timing. It's always important to take these early leaks with a large grain of salt and Moore's Law is Dead even adds a disclaimer in the video that the info was sourced from a leaked AMD pres

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Tokens are getting more expensive

news.ycombinator.com Ethan Ding 2025-12-24 14:01:37

note: i’m kinda tired of the “levered beta” metaphor, i have one more topic i want to cover on this topic related to cognition, and then i’ll go back to my normal writing imagine you start a company knowing that consumers won't pay more than $20/month. fine, you think, classic vc playbook - charge at cost, sacrifice margins for growth. you've done the math on cac, ltv, all that. but here's where it gets interesting: you've seen the a16z chart showing llm costs dropping 10x every year. so you t

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If you're remote, ramble

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-12-24 12:32:51

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion. People typically post short updates 1-3 times per week. Common topics include: ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, artic

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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:38:06

Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” and “moods,” but these traits are highly fluid and liable to change unexpectedly. Sometimes these changes are dramatic. In 2023, Microsoft's Bing chatbot famously adopted an alter-ego called "Sydney,” which declared love for users and made threats of blackmail. More recently, xAI’s Grok chatbot would for a brief period sometimes identify as “MechaHitler” and make antisemitic comments. Other personali

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I Played Battlefield 6: Hands-On With the Return To Big Battle Warfare

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 21:00:03

After a few hours playing the upcoming Battlefield 6, it's clear the game is designed to be a mea culpa to fans: Trust us, we're bringing back the Battlefield you remember. At a massive preview event in Los Angeles, I sat down to play a slice of the game's multiplayer mode -- and came off it suitably whelmed with a mix of raucous moments and tedious deaths. Ultimately, it feels like it will deliver the kind of big team battles players have been craving, with technical flourishes that amplify the

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 4, #1507

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 00:00:05

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Figma CEO's path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-24 21:00:01

In this article FIG Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, signs the guestbook on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech-billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest, after his design startup Figma soared in its stock market debut this week. The two entrepreneurs have something else in common: close ties to Pete

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Zuckerberg Says Meta Is Now Seeing Signs of Advanced AI Improving Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:30:31

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making some very grandiose statements amid his ludicrously expensive quest to gain a lead in the AI industry. It's easy to get caught up in the human drama of his talent hunt. But in the very first lines of a new public letter about his so-called Superintelligence Lab, the tech founder made a claim that's either a staight-up fib, a very generous reading of a situation, or a clue that he's closer to enacting profound change in the world than almost anyone realizes. S

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Apple's MacBook Air M4 drops to a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 22:00:38

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you've put off getting a new MacBook then today is your lucky day. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799,

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How to get another 15GB of Gmail storage for free (and without losing old files)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-24 20:00:13

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Every new Google email account comes with 15GB of free storage -- a solid offer at no cost. However, that space can fill up fast, especially since it also covers files in Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox is cluttered with unread newsletters and sneaky spam, there's a way to clean house without losing important messages. With the right approach, you can preserve what matters while giving yourself a fresh start. Also: Gmail is making it a whole lot easi

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:28:58

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 10:29:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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We Tested Dozens of Phones and These Have the Best Cameras

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 18:30:00

Phone makers promise varying lengths of long-term software and security support ranging from just one year to as many as seven. These updates not only ensure you get many of the latest features but also keep your phone secure. Phone cameras have gotten better over the past five years. Don’t be fooled by how many cameras a phone has ot the number of megapixels; more is not necessarily better. Phones are large in general with the smallest ones having a 6.1-inch screen and large models topping ou

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Scottish Premiership Soccer: Stream Celtic vs. St. Mirren Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 21:30:00

Celtic begins its campaign for a fifth consecutive Scottish Premier League title on Sunday with a tricky-looking season opener at home to St. Mirren. 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. Another league triumph this season would see Brendan Rodgers' men surpass their eternal Glasgow rivals, Rangers, moving ahead with 56 Scottish top-flight t

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Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

wired.com Leila Sloman 2025-12-24 20:00:00

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time. “It’s a beautiful work,” said Gregory Falkovich, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “A tour de force.” Under the Mesoscope Consider a gas whose particles are very spread out. There are many ways a physicist might model it. At a microscopic level, the gas is composed of individual

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The uproar over Vogue’s AI-generated ad isn’t just about fashion

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-24 22:00:00

Sarah Murray recalls the first time she saw an artificial model in fashion: It was 2023, and a beautiful young woman of color donned a Levi’s denim overall dress. Murray, a commercial model herself, said it made her feel sad and exhausted. The iconic denim company had teamed up with the AI studio Lalaland.ai to create “diverse” digital fashion models for more inclusive ads. For an industry that has failed for years to employ diverse human models, the backlash was swift, with New York Magazine c

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Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-24 23:00:00

Shortly after Hunter Lightman joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2022, he watched his colleagues launch ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing products ever. Meanwhile, Lightman quietly worked on a team teaching OpenAI’s models to solve high school math competitions. Today that team, known as MathGen, is considered instrumental to OpenAI’s industry-leading effort to create AI reasoning models: the core technology behind AI agents that can do tasks on a computer like a human would. “We were trying t

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As a cell phone expert, these are the 5 carriers I don’t recommend

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 23:00:34

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I’ve spent a significant portion of the past few years reporting on and testing various wireless service providers operating in the US market. As you might imagine, this has allowed me to form clear recommendations for just about every need — family plans, customer service, pricing, and more. Considering postpaid and prepaid options together, there are dozens of choices available, yet only a handful of providers truly stand out enough to recur regularly in m

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Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 12:08:02

“A lot of factors contributed to this, but speed limits are one of the most important,” said Roni Utriainen , traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division. Authorities described the milestone as exceptional and credited long-term planning, targeted infrastructure changes, and lower speed limits. Helsinki has completed an entire year without a single traffic-related fatality, according to city and police officials. The last recorded death occurred in early July 2024 in the Kontul

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If You're Remote, Ramble

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-12-25 00:32:51

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion. People typically post short updates 1-3 times per week. Common topics include: ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, artic

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Tourist Spots ‘Extinct’ Jellyfish Not Seen in 50 Years

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-25 00:00:56

Jellyfish enthusiasts rejoice: Depastrum cyathiforme—a wrinkled, barrel-shaped jelly with tiny tentacles for hair—may not actually be extinct, despite being MIA for nearly 50 years. We can thank tourist Neil Roberts, who accidentally came across the jelly while on holiday in South Uist in Scotland. This particular stalked jellyfish was much-beloved during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, appearing in exquisite detail in illustrations by famous naturalists. Historical records suggested the jell

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Writing a basic service for GNU Guix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 22:43:42

According to the Shepherd Services documentation, the start and stop fields of shepherd-service take G-Expressions. But what's a g-expression? Well, because Guix uses Scheme for both higher-level actions–like defining packages–and lower-level actions–like building derivations generated by packages– it needs a faculty for embedding lower-level code in higher-level code. So in the start field of wesnoth-shepherd-service : (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor/container (list #$(file-append package

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 2, #783

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 22:53:58

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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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 Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 3, #1506

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 20:00:05

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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