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Celebrating 40 Years of the Weirdest, Nerdiest Week in Movie History

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-19 05:00:33

“Don’t cannibalize the audience” is an unwritten mantra in Hollywood. If a movie that is coming out has a similar subject matter or serves a similar viewership as one you are releasing, you try and put some distance between them so as not to ruin your chances of success. If two movies come out that are too similar, it’s likely to split the audience and hurt both of them. That seems like a no-brainer point of view. And yet, 40 years ago this week, three movies were released in a seven-day span th

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The best dating apps aren’t even dating apps

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-20 00:40:05

It’s no longer taboo to meet your partner on the internet. The evidence is everywhere: it’s on your refrigerator door, where you’ve hung up the wedding invitations of friends who met on Tinder. It’s on your Instagram feed, where a friend shares a sappy post about her one-year anniversary with a woman she met on Hinge. But when Zeke Rothfels tells people that she met her husband online, she’s not talking about swiping left until she finally found the right guy. She’s talking about cultivating a

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So you're a manager now

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:48:48

Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on. Welcome to the club. You either asked for this, or someone tapped you on the shoulder and said, “Hey, you seem responsible. Wanna be in charge of other humans?” Either way, here you are. Congrats. Or condolences. Maybe both. Being a first-time manager is weird. You go from being great at your job to being a total beginner at a job that nobody really taught you how to do. There’s no “Manage

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Josh Hawley Says Trump Tariff Rebate Checks Won’t Go to ‘Biden Voters’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-21 00:40:56

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) recently introduced legislation that he claims is designed to allow Americans to “benefit” from Trump’s tariff scheme. Now, he’s giving everyone good reason to believe that his ploy to send rebate checks at a time of rising inflation is just a political stunt. The administration’s tariffs are unprecedented in modern economic history and are currently generating revenue for the U.S. government by taxing U.S. businesses on their imports. Critics have noted that the a

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The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2025-12-21 09:06:48

OpenAI has kept up a run of new releases—putting out major updates to its GPT-4 series, launching a string of generative image and video models, and introducing the ability to talk to ChatGPT with your voice. Six months ago it kicked off a new wave of so-called reasoning models with its o1 release, soon followed by o3. And last week it released its browser-using agent Operator to the public. It now claims that more than 400 million people use its products every week and submit 2.5 billion prompt

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Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Pradeep Gowda 2025-12-19 05:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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Friction and Not Being Touched

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box 2025-12-21 08:18:31

The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as solution in itself: There is nothing “AI” cannot do, if it fails we just failed it by not prompting it right or not building large enough data centers or not waiting for anot

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Attention is your scarcest resource

news.ycombinator.com Thanks 2025-12-19 11:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-21 09:44:30

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems 4 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC The other day, while I was doing some household chores, I handed my youngest child his dad's iPad to keep him entertained. But after a while I suddenly felt uneasy: I wasn't keeping a close eye on how long he had spent using it or what he was looking at. So I told him it was time to stop. A full-blown tantrum erupted. He kicked, he yelled, he

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Spotify’s terrible privacy settings just leaked Palmer Luckey’s bops and bangers

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2025-12-22 00:16:47

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Have you ever wondered what bops powerful figures are listening to on Spotify? You’d be amazed what you can get with a profile search — but just in case you want them all in one place, there’s the Panama Playlists, a newly published collection of data on the musical listening habits of politicians, journalists, and tech figures, as curated

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The hype is the product

news.ycombinator.com Michał 2025-12-22 02:50:48

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they

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Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-12-22 10:45:01

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate that owns outlets like CNET, ZDNET, PCMag, and Mashable is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, for a total of 23 people. The majority of layoffs are coming from CNET, where 19 people will lose their jobs — even as Ziff Davis goes on a shopping spree. The layoffs will hit CNET coverage areas like the finance, broadband

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The Hype is the Product

news.ycombinator.com Michał 2025-12-22 14:50:48

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they

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Mark Zuckerberg says ‘developing superintelligence is now in sight,’ shades OpenAI and other firms focused on automating work

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-23 05:11:45

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 After hiring away numerous top AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Apple and dangling multi-hundred million-dollar (or in one case, reportedly a billion-dollar) pay packages in a recruitment spree that’s shaken the tech industry, Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sharing more about his vision for “superintelligence

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Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 04:58:04

Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming The reason it's so hard to get a programming job right now is because Big Tech caused it. It's not an accident. It's not the result of regular cycles of employment or the economy. For years, companies like Google, Facebook/Meta, and Amazon hired too many developers. They knew they were hiring too many developers, but they did it anyway because of corporate greed. They wanted to control the talent pool. They wanted to make as much money as possible,

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5 ways to ensure your team gets the credit it deserves, according to business leaders

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-12-23 15:03:35

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images The world of work has changed forever, but disparate professionals still need to be inspired to contribute, whether in the office, at home, or on the road. Five business leaders explain how they ensure their team members get the credit they deserve in the modern working environment. 1. Sing the praises of your staff Madoc Batters, head of cloud and IT security at Warner Leisure Hotels, said good managers are the most visible presence of a much larger team effort.

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-25 20:10:42

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights on his next target. More than a dozen people at Mira Murati’s 50-person startup, Thinking Machines Lab, have been approached or received offers from the tech giant. (Murati, for those who don’t remember, was previously the chief technology officer at OpenAI.) One o

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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-12-25 20:52:21

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific study, published this month in Nature Communications, has revealed that the pandemic may have accelerated brain aging in people even if they were never infected with the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK analyzed brain im

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Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-27 02:28:07

Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage 33 minutes ago Share Save Kate Whannel Political reporter Share Save PA Media Nigel Farage has urged Technology Secretary Peter Kyle to "do the right thing and apologise" after he suggested that by opposing the government's online safety law, the Reform UK leader was on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. Reform has said it would scrap the new law, arguing it does not protect children and suppresses free speech. Kyle told Sky New

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Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 09:26:05

Having his subjects sit for him allowed him to hone his skill for observation, resulting in wittily accurate portrayals that seemed to nail their personality and character traits. His genuine fascination for those he depicted would prove invaluable when he turned to photography in 1854, having first installed his artist brother Adrien in the profession. “He had figured out that people were willing to pay for images of famous people and this was a great tool as the images were quickly replicable

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Google launches new AI search feature in UK

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-27 05:01:34

Google launches new AI search feature in UK 59 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Getty Images Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world's most popular search engine. Instead of a list of search results showing links to other websites in blue type, people who choose "AI Mode" will be given an answer written in a conversational style, containing far fewer

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A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas’ New Museum

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-27 10:00:33

To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn’t a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during unprecedented times, at the Lucas Museum opening next year in Los Angeles. Fanboys, fret not, though—during a quick sizzle reel of featured works, eagle-ey

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Google Revises Android Earthquake Alerts After Major Miss in Turkey

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 08:45:44

Google says it has updated its Android Earthquake Alerts System after the tool failed to deliver its most urgent warnings to millions of people during the devastating earthquakes in Turkey in 2023. The system, which turns Android phones into "mini seismometers," is designed to detect earthquakes quickly and push alerts to people nearby seconds before strong shaking hits, according to Google. But when two massive quakes struck southern Turkey and Syria in February 2023, the alerts system didn't

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FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

news.ycombinator.com Bronwyn Has Always Loved Words 2025-12-27 20:06:00

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

news.ycombinator.com Patricia Hernandez 2025-12-28 04:53:52

In the wake of storefronts like Steam and itch.io curbing the sale of adult games, irate fans have started an organized campaign against the payment processors that they believe are responsible for the crackdown. While the movement is still in its early stages, people are mobilizing with an eye toward overwhelming communication lines at companies like Visa and Mastercard in a way that will make the concern impossible to ignore. On social media sites like Reddit and Bluesky, people are urging on

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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

news.ycombinator.com Bronwyn Has Always Loved Words 2025-12-28 14:06:00

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Getting the KIM-1 to talk to my Mac

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:12:19

It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down t...

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ChatGPT can be a disaster for lawyers — Robin AI says it can fix that

theverge.com Jon Fortt 2025-12-29 00:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Jon Fortt — CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. This is the last episode I’ll be guest-hosting for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. We have an exciting crew who will take over for me after that, so stay tuned. Today, I’m talking with Richard Robinson, who is the cofounder and CEO of Robin AI. Richard has a fascinating resume: he was a corporate lawyer for high-profile firms in Lo

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What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

news.ycombinator.com Emil Rosendahl 2025-12-29 04:27:17

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

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Google admits Android alert failure during 2023 Turkey earthquake

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-29 21:15:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: Google has admitted that its early earthquake alert system failed to inform millions of people about the severity of Turkey's 2023 quake. The highest level "TakeAction" warnings were only sent to 469 Android users for the 7.8 magnitude event. On 6 February 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Gaziantep in southern Turkey, close to the Syrian border. It was followed by a second maj

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Celebrating 40 Years of the Weirdest, Nerdiest Week in Movie History

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Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019)

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