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I'm a 42-Year-Old Mom and I Tried 18 Products to Finally Sleep Better. These Are the Ones That Worked

Remember when falling asleep was easy? Even well into my 30s, I could simply close my eyes, take a few deep breaths and gently drift off to dreamland. These days, it takes a carefully curated wind-down routine, an army of sleep aids and the mental zen of a shaman for me to fall and stay asleep. Some nights it's because of the rap-tap-tap of my 4-year-old complaining of a bad dream, or the intermittent cries of my 1-year-old. Other times, it's my laundry list of deadlines or to-dos. Or maybe it'

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Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes

About the project Canine is an easy to use intuitive deployment platform for Kubernetes clusters. Requirements Docker v24.0.0 or higher Docker Compose v2.0.0 or higher Installation curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/czhu12/canine/refs/heads/main/install/install.sh | bash Or run manually if you prefer: git clone https://github.com/czhu12/canine.git cd canine/install docker compose up -d and open http://localhost:3000 in a browser. To customize the web ui port, supply the PORT e

‘Psyop’: How Far-Right Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Shooting Evolved to Protect MAGA

In the hours after Vance Boelter was named as the suspect in the fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband Mark Hortman, far-right conspiracists and Republican influencers claimed he was a violent, leftist Democrat. “The far left is murderously violent,” Elon Musk wrote on X on Saturday, a post that remains on the site and has been viewed over 50 million times. When the facts of the story emerged—that the alleged shooter had been registered

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

Everything comes at a cost — and observability is no exception. When we add metrics, logging, or distributed tracing to our applications, it helps us understand what’s going on with performance and key UX metrics like success rate and latency. But what’s the cost? I’m not talking about the price of observability tools here, I mean the instrumentation overhead. If an application logs or traces everything it does, that’s bound to slow it down or at least increase resource consumption. Of course,

How to Fight Like a ‘Ballerina’

It’s a common nightmare scenario: You’re alone—walking home at night, maybe, or waiting to meet someone at a bar—and someone approaches you, intending harm. They’re bigger than you, and you’ve (maybe, probably) never been in a fight before. What do you do? The WIRED Guide to Winning a Fight Illustration: Shirley Chong Right now, everyone seems ready to throw down. More than ever, it’s important to pick your battles—and know how to win. Turns out, even experienced brawlers worry about being ass

Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of the Universe’s Missing Matter

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes up 5% of the universe. There was just one problem—they had no idea where most of it was. Astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have tracked down the universe’s “missing” matter. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that over three-quarters of ordinary matter, officially called baryonic ma

A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite

An experimental obesity pill that works in a different way from the wildly popular Ozempic may help people lose weight, according to results from a small, preliminary human trial. Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs reduce food intake by stimulating a feeling of fullness. They act on the brain to promote satiety and on the gut to slow the movement of food through the stomach, helping people feel full longer. As a result, people on the drugs lose weight because they eat less. But a new drug may be ab

Why We Made a Guide to Winning a Fight

I don’t think there’s anything quite so satisfying as winning a fight—especially when you land that victory with a resounding and definitive punch to your opponent’s gut. In some instances, that’s a literal victory. Just ask my third-grade playground nemesis; it’s the one and only time I ever threw that kind of breathtaking slug, and yeah, she had it coming. The WIRED Guide to Winning a Fight Illustration: Shirley Chong Right now, everyone seems ready to throw down. More than ever, it’s import

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

Thanks to war, geopolitics, and climate change, Europe will have more frequent and more severe internet disruptions in the very near future. Governments and businesses need to prepare for catastrophic loss of communications. Unfortunately, the necessary changes are risky and expensive, which means they won’t do it until a crisis is already here. However, small groups of volunteers with a little bit of time and money can provide crucial initial leadership to bootstrap recovery. An Internet Resil

SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH. Just run the command below and you'll be playing in seconds: $ ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com Controls: WASD or vim keybindings to move (do not use your arrow keys). Escape or Ctrl+C to exit. Code quality disclaimer: SSHTron was built in ~20 hours at BrickHack 2. Here be dragons. Want to choose color yourself? There are total 7 colors to choose from: Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan and White $ ssh [email protected]

Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp

This post assumes some familiarity with typed functional programming, Lisp, and formal logic. Today we will attempt to write a truth oracle in Lisp. By "truth oracle," I mean a program that can determine whether arbitrary mathematical statements are true or false. This might sound impossible, due to first-order logic being undecidable, but let's try anyway. Before that, though, we need to go over some required concepts. Extracting information from proofs First, sometimes, we can extract info

Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E

Saab, in collaboration with Helsing, today announced the successful completion of the first three flights integrating Helsing’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent ‘Centaur’ into a Gripen E fighter jet. As part of Saab’s ‘Project Beyond’, the flights, where the first flight, was conducted on May 28, mark a significant advance in bringing AI capabilities to military aircraft. It is also yet another proof point of Gripen E´s unparalleled ability to rapidly update software without disregarding safet

Shaping Light – Volumetric Lighting

As I became more familiar with post-processing over the past few months, I was curious to push those newly learned techniques beyond pure stylization to achieve something more functional. I wanted to find new ways to enrich my 3D work which wouldn't be possible without leveraging effects and passes alongside custom shaders. As it turns out, post-processing is great entrypoint to enhance a 3D scene with atmospheric and lighting effects, allowing for more realistic and dramatic visuals. Because t

Wizards of the Coast and Giant Skull: ‘Gamers are telling us what they have always told us’ | The DeanBeat

Ten days, ago, Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast announced an exclusive publishing agreement with Giant Skull, the game studio started by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor game leader Stig Asmussen. They announced that Asmussen’s studio is working on a new single-player action adventure title set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. I had a chance to talk with the company leaders about the deal. At the Summer Game Fest Play Days, I sat down with John Hight, President of Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gami

Anker 5-in-1 USB-C Hub Just Dropped to Almost Free, Limited Stock Available on Amazon

If you’ve ever found yourself flipping your laptop over and over looking for a USB port that just doesn’t exist anymore, you’re not alone. Laptops keep getting thinner, and ports keep disappearing. But that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to use them at all anymore. You just need to get smarter about it. And luckily, there are products out there meant to help you do this so you can take full advantage of all the connections your laptop or Chromebook can support. And there’s a deal on one right no

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Ars Technica’s gift guide for Father’s Day: Give dad some cool things

Greetings Arsians! It's time—at least in some parts of the world—to celebrate dads. Father's Day is nearly here, and as there's a custom of gift-giving, many of us will have to choose something. Below, various Ars editors have identified a few things they've bought recently that they think could be great gifts for dads—with the caveat that there are an indefinably large spectrum of variations of what dads are like. Still, we did our best to include a few things that are pretty general, and a few

Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into "Extreme" Right-Wing Symbols

"Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right 'totems.'" The Implications Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk's EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as "extreme-right" symbols. As news agency France 24 reports, the owners are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and reimbursed for the accrued legal costs. "Because of Elon Musk's actions... Tesla branded vehicles have become strong pol

iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU

QEMU README QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulat

Pixel phones may finally get native flashlight brightness controls, years after Samsung and Apple

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google may add native flashlight brightness controls to Pixel phones in the next quarterly release of Android 16. While the hardware has long supported it, Pixel users currently need to use an app to adjust the flashlight’s intensity. The new feature, discovered in the latest beta, will likely make the Quick Settings flashlight tile expandable. Nearly every smartphone has an LED flash on the rear that you can use as a flashlight in a pinch, but most d

Startup aims to shrink particle accelerators to transform semiconductor manufacturing

Something to look forward to: In a modest laboratory tucked beneath the offices of Y Combinator in San Francisco, a young startup is working to upend one of the most entrenched technologies in chip manufacturing. Inversion Semiconductor, founded in 2024 by Rohan Karthik and Daniel Vega, is betting that shrinking particle accelerators down to tabletop size could unlock a new era of faster, more powerful semiconductor production. Today, the world's most advanced chips are made with extreme ultrav

Disney and Universal sue AI image company Midjourney for unlicensed use of Star Wars, The Simpsons and more

The Walt Disney logo is displayed on screen during the Walt Disney Studios presentation at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 3, 2025. Disney and Universal joined forces in a lawsuit against artificial intelligence image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement. It is the first AI copyright lawsuit from Hollywood giants. The lawsuit claims that the company used and distributed AI-generated characters from the movie studios like Star War

"Piracy Is Piracy": Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation

Disney and NBCUniversal — a pair of media behemoths behind franchises ranging from "Star Wars" and "Toy Story" to "Minions" and "Shrek" — are suing AI company Midjourney, accusing it of enabling copyright infringement on a massive scale through its AI image generator tech. In the lawsuit, which was filed in a California district court today, the two Hollywood juggernauts accused the firm of ignoring its previous requests to stop violating their intellectual property rights. "Midjourney is the

iOS 26 adds light mode icon tinting and several new ways to customize the icons on your iPhone home screen

The iPhone home screen gets a brand new look with iOS 26, thanks to a visual overhaul featuring a brand new set of icons for all of Apple’s apps, as well as glass and reflection effects throughout. There are also more ways than ever for you to customize your icons, with new tinting options and styles. Here’s everything new. On earlier versions of iOS, you could choose from Default, Dark, Automatic or Tinted icon customization styles. Tinted mode would render your icon with a highlight gradient

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macOS 26: Spotlight gets actions, clipboard manager, custom shortcuts, more

After years of incremental tweaks, Spotlight is taking center stage in macOS Tahoe 26, in what Apple calls its biggest update ever. Here’s everything that’s new. With this release, Apple wants to evolve Spotlight from a simple file and app launcher into a fully-fledged productivity layer across macOS, much like Alfred and Raycast users have used for years. A faster, more relevant Spotlight Spotlight now aims to be the fastest way to browse and interact with content on your Mac. It uses on-dev

TestFlight adds managed background assets, faster macOS app installs on Apple Silicon

Apple’s TestFlight app for distributing pre-release software has been updated with new features and performance gains. Apple released TestFlight version 3.9 today, introducing managed background asset testing and a speed boost for beta app installation on recent Macs. Introduction of managed background assets (self-hosted assets) and Apple-hosted background assets for testing Faster installation of macOS apps on Apple Silicon Stability improvements and bug fixes Apple announced Background A

Disney and Universal Studios file suit against Midjourney for copyright infringement

Disney and NBCUniversal have filed a joint suit against AI company Midjourney alleging copyright infringement on their various properties. The complaint, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, includes images created by Midjourney that feature a wide variety of protected characters from each company’s various properties, including Star Wars, Shrek, The Simpsons, Despicable Me and others. The 110-page suit alleges that the AI company “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works when tr

Apple made a haptic trailer for the F1 movie that only works on iPhones

It 'lets you feel the action of the film right in your hands.' The long-anticipated F1 film comes to theaters on June 27 . To celebrate the pending release, Apple has developed a haptic trailer exclusively for iPhones. This leverages the smartphone's Taptic Engine to let people "feel the action" right in the palm of their hands. Apple promises that viewers will "experience the power of the engines, the rumble of the curbs, and the intensity of every gear shift like never before with responsive

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Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills

Hi HN — I’m Charles from Vassar Robotics ( https://vassarrobotics.com/ - not much there but you can order the robot at https://shop.vassarrobotics.com/products/navrim-robot-that-l... Edit: the entire run sold out thanks to HN today—thank you all! And sorry to anyone who missed out. You can get in on the next batch here: https://vassarrobotics.com/newsletter. We are bringing an upgraded version of the long beloved SO-101 robot arms to a $219 price point with improved mechanical design and added

Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World

Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World There had never been an Amiga better than Amiga 4000T. The T stands for tower, but this computer did not stand out in Amiga history due to its format factor, as Commodore had already been selling the tower version of A3000. Rather, it was the ultimate Amiga in what many call today the "classic" series, and nothing better — or anything else for that matter — has ever been produced in the classic Amiga line since this model was released. Let us take a deep