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They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Boone 2026-02-21 03:03:26

Kevin Boone They don’t make ’em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: DAT players were fantastic. They offered all the advantages of an audio cassette, but with the sound quality of a CD. The compact audio cassette was a marvellous invention, in its own way; but this technology struggled to provide audio fidelity that would satisfy discerning listeners. Its frequency response was limited, and the unavoidable background hiss was very obv

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Will Mortgage Rates Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 17:32:02

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images In today's news cycle, recession headlines come and go. Amid trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict, no one is hoping for a major economic setback -- except recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates. Since the beginning of 2025, average 30-year fixed mortgage rates have been stuck in the high 6.5% to 7% range. Most housing experts,

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The second launch of New Glenn will aim for Mars

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-21 22:15:15

Blue Origin is making steady progress toward the second launch of its New Glenn rocket, which could occur sometime this fall. The company already ignited the second stage of this rocket, in a pre-launch test, in April. And two sources say the first stage for this launch is in the final stages of preparation at the company's facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Publicly, the company has said this second launch will take place no earlier than August 15. This is now off the table. One source to

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Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-22 11:30:23

Imagine you pen an erotic short story that involves two handsome men falling in love and into bed — some of your best work yet — and you publish it on a website that caters to that type of subgenre. But instead of getting kudos and gushing comments from readers, the cops haul you up to the police station for some dramatic questioning in a barren room, a process that may eventually land you in prison. That's exactly what's been happening to erotica writers in China who have run afoul of law enf

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I made my VM think it has a CPU fan

news.ycombinator.com Petr Beneš 2026-02-22 10:55:18

Why bother? Some malware samples are known to do various checks to determine if they are running in a virtual machine. One of the common checks is to look for the presence of certain hardware components that are typically not emulated in virtualized environments. One such component is the CPU fan. One of the observed ways malware checks for the presence of a CPU fan is by looking for the Win32_Fan class in WMI: wmic path Win32_Fan get * And the reason they do this is they want to avoid runnin

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Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 03:00:04

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Recession headlines come and go in today's news cycle, which is filled with trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict. No one wants to pin their hopes on a major economic setback. But since recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates, many of my clients want to know: Will buying a home become more affordable in a recession? Since the beg

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Stablecoins go mainstream: Why banks and credit card firms are issuing their own crypto tokens

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Jordan Smith 2026-02-22 04:00:01

In this article PYPL SHOP COIN CRCL V MA JPM Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A $44 billion IPO. A Senate bill with bipartisan momentum. And now, a wave of Fortune 500 firms launching crypto tokens of their own. Stablecoins — once a niche corner of the cryptocurrency world — are entering the corporate and policy mainstream, potentially reshaping how money moves in the United States and around the world. "Many of the users out there today are not aware of stablecoins, or not

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This portable battery saved my last camping trip (and goes everywhere with me)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-22 06:00:22

ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow River 3 is a new compact portable battery It is available for $239. It's portable and lightweight, making it easy to carry, it features fast charging, going from 0% to 100% in 55 minutes, and has a 245Wh output capacity Since portability is a priority for the River series of portable batteries, they're much less powerful than alternatives and best suited for smaller tasks or shorter use times. $239 at Amazon EcoFlow announced the addition of three new portab

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This EcoFlow power station just kept my lights on during an outage (and it's $1,399 off)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-23 03:24:01

ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra battery and inverter unit is available now for $6,299 while the Smart Home Panel 2 is available for $1,899. The single unit has a 6kWh capacity and supports a 7,200W output and 5.6kW solar input, allowing it to run an entire home, especially when stacked with other units for increased capacity. The Delta Pro Ultra is a decidedly expensive solution for a home backup system, and though portable, its hefty weight could affect portability. View now

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-02-23 03:59:19

Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss. Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and

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Anthropic has a plan to combat AI-triggered job losses predicted by its CEO

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-23 12:13:00

NurPhoto/Getty Images The rise and rapid adoption of advanced AI tools has led to widespread concerns about mass job displacement and other economic disruptions. Now, one of the industry's biggest players is looking ahead, hoping to understand what steps can be taken in the present to brace the world for the future. AI start-up Anthropic announced Friday that it was launching its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative devoted to studying and preparing for AI's near-term economic impac

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How Anthropic's new initiative will prepare for AI's looming economic impact

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-23 17:52:39

NurPhoto/Getty Images The rise and rapid adoption of advanced AI tools has led to widespread concerns about mass job displacement and other economic disruptions. Now, one of the industry's biggest players is looking ahead, hoping to understand what steps can be taken in the present to brace the world for the future. AI start-up Anthropic announced Friday that it was launching its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative devoted to studying and preparing for AI's near-term economic impac

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PJ5 TTL CPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 23:05:58

Well, we did it… we cracked 4MIPS on our TTL CPU. I have to admit I’m both relieved and surprised. The key parts to achieving this was to decrease the latency for the instruction decode and also the flag register writing. The time to decode an instruction, perform a bit of math and then write to the flags was at around 270nS. With the changes we made, the instruction decode had a radical reworking and the flag writing had some big changes as well, means we go this down to under 200nS. Which m

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What's driving Wall Street stablecoin interest? Trillions up for grabs in the future and banks getting ready for it

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Jordan Smith Talia Kaplan 2026-02-25 22:43:33

After a brief pullback this week, shares of stablecoin issuer and recent IPO darling Circle were in rally mode again, soaring double-digits on a percentage basis during trading on Thursday and ending the day up close to 8%, after having moved up by more than 600% percent since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month. Bitcoin and ether have led a recent crypto rise, as digital assets joined the resumption of the risk-on rally, with additional factors such as the potential for

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US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 03:23:40

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in an unexpected deterioration of earlier estimates. First-quarter growth was weighed down by a surge of imports as U.S. companies, and households, rushed to buy foreign goods before Trump could impose tariffs on them. The Commerce Department previously estimated that the economy fell 0.2% in the first qua

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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 23:55:53

Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in practice. By design, Basic Economy compels travelers to self-select based on their willingness to pay and tolerate restrictions, thus allowing airlines to maximize revenue from different

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Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 10:58:11

§Subsecond: Hot-patching for Rust Subsecond is a library that enables hot-patching for Rust applications. This allows you to change the code of a running application without restarting it. This is useful for game engines, servers, and other long-running applications where the typical edit-compile-run cycle is too slow. Subsecond also implements a technique we call “ThinLinking” which makes compiling Rust code significantly faster in development mode, which can be used outside of hot-patching.

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The Economics Behind "Basic Economy" – A Masterclass in Price Discrimination

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 11:55:53

Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in practice. By design, Basic Economy compels travelers to self-select based on their willingness to pay and tolerate restrictions, thus allowing airlines to maximize revenue from different

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Data-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-04 03:43:49

Fraudulent or misleading storage devices are, unfortunately, still easy to find via online marketplaces. It's also a common story that someone buys a shockingly cheap storage device from an unknown brand and ends up with a product that doesn’t perform as expected—or at all. With this in mind, data-recovery firm Secure Data Recovery recently bought a 500GB HDD from Amazon (the UnionSine HD2510) for $28 and tested it. The results were better than expected, but there are still reasons to avoid buy

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Why the Shortest Day of Your Life Could Happen This Summer

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-03-04 22:25:07

Earth might be about to spin out its fastest day on record. And no one knows why. On July 9, 22, or August 5, our planet might complete the fastest spin on its axis ever recorded, breaking last year’s record, according to Graham Jones, an astrophysicist writing for timeanddate.com—a website dedicated to tracking time and time zones. According to the website, Earth spins faster when the Moon’s orbit takes it significantly north or south relative to the equator (among other factors). The differe

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Central Park hits temp record last seen in 1888

news.ycombinator.com Mary Gilbert 2026-03-05 12:57:51

Extreme temperatures See all topics Follow New York’s Central Park tied a record high of 96 degrees for the date Monday, which was set in 1888. In neighboring New Jersey, 16 people were sent to the emergency room following a sweltering set of graduations. And in Baltimore, a malfunctioning Amtrak train left riders temporarily stranded without air conditioning in the depths of its tunnel system. The staggering conditions come as an extremely dangerous heat wave is underway for the eastern half

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I Solved a 7-Day Calculation Problem in a Weekend

news.ycombinator.com Jithin Sankar 2026-03-01 14:32:43

How I Solved a 7-Day Calculation Problem in a weekend Jithin Sankar Follow 3 min read · 3 days ago 3 days ago -- Listen Share In a previous project, my team was building a SaaS application. The scenario was this: we had a slider for setting a price, from $0.00 to $10.00. When you moved the slider, the app would show you the projected sales for that price. The slider input was combined with two other attributes, Region and SKU name. The problem was performance. Each time the slider moved, it wo

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Fiserv debuts bank-friendly stablecoin as fintechs join digital dollar race

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-03-06 21:54:02

Fiserv is making a big entrance into the stablecoin market. The payments and fintech giant announced on Monday plans to roll out a new blockchain-based digital asset platform anchored by a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin called FIUSD — a product it hopes will bring thousands of banks and millions of merchants into the crypto economy by year's end. The new offering is designed to plug directly into Fiserv's sprawling global network, which already processes 90 billion transactions a year across 10

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The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2026-03-08 00:43:27

In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin’s wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins. “Stablecoins are really interesting and really important to this ecosystem to hedge against that volat

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ChatGPT can now sum up your meetings - here's how to use it (and who can)

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-03-07 17:00:13

Getty Images/Fahmi Ruddin Hidayat AI is listening -- now more than ever. Also: This free Google tool turns AI into your research assistant OpenAI announced in an X post on Thursday that users of ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Edu can now record audio by simply pressing a button. Record mode, the Otter.ai-like meeting transcription feature, was initially released through the ChatGPT MacOS desktop app earlier this month. What is Record mode? The feature allows you to record meetings and voice n

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Why I recommend this power bank to most iPhone users - especially if you travel often

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-03-09 15:26:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Nitecore NW5000 has an ultralight and ultrathin design that blends into the iPhone. It has a 5,000mAh capacity that's just enough to fully charge any iPhone model (and some more). You'll have to pay a premium for this accessory, but its build quality justifies it. $69.95 at Amazon I find that rather than complaining about the iPhone's poor battery life, I prefer to do something about it. This is why my iPhone is almost always rocking with a magnetic power bank attach

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Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 17:08:18

SnapQL cursor for data ⚡️ - explore your postgresql db in seconds demo.mp4 generate schema-aware queries in seconds with AI supports any PostgreSQL database fully local desktop app use your own OpenAI key Build SnapQL locally I will eventually ship some precompiled binaries, but that takes some setup. In the meantime, follow these steps to build a local copy:

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Circle shares extend their rally after Senate passes landmark stablecoin bill

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-03-10 00:49:30

Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Shares of Circle continued to climb on Friday as investors cheered the Senate approval of its proposed stablecoin legislation, the GENIUS Act. The stock was up nearly 17% in premarket trading as excitement continued to build. The bill passed the Senate Tuesday and now heads to the House of Representatives. Shares rose 33% on Wednesday on the news. The market was closed Thursday fo

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The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

news.ycombinator.com Gabriel Popkin 2026-03-06 10:09:17

The approach has been fruitful. In 2022, Gore and colleagues discovered that ecological communities undergo phase transitions — a core organizing principle in physics that describes, for example, water’s change from solid ice to liquid to gas. As the researchers increased either the number of species in their experimental ecosystems or the strength of the interactions between species, the ecosystems might progress through three phases. In phase one, all bacterial populations remained stable. In

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Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 14:20:59

© 2025 Marcelo Mendez RM2000 Tape Recorder works completely offline, stores all of your samples with longetivity in mind, and features a beautiful user interface. There are still many features yet to come out - stay tuned! I made this website myself with Astro. I hope you like it! Source RM2000 Tape Recorder is licensed under the Commons Clause + MIT. Source Privacy Policy Need direct support? Want to file a bug report? Please contact me: [email protected] Follow me on Ma

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They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

Will Mortgage Rates Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

The second launch of New Glenn will aim for Mars

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Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

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PJ5 TTL CPU

What's driving Wall Street stablecoin interest? Trillions up for grabs in the future and banks getting ready for it

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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination

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Data-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising results

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