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This Bird App Has Grounded Me in the Present More Than My Meditation Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 06:14:03

Being mindful of our current thoughts, feelings and surroundings can be a challenge, especially in modern times. I, personally, find it difficult to ground myself in the present and have often tried using meditation apps to help. However, the app that has given me the most success when it comes to being mindful and present isn't one for breathing exercises or mental health but one for identifying the birds around me. Since 2014, Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID was launched to help p

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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 09:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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AI is not making engineers 10x as productive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 21:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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Xbox Game Pass additions for August include Assassin’s Creed Mirage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 09:44:28

Microsoft has revealed the first batch of Xbox Game Pass additions for August, and there are several tasty options in store over the next couple of weeks. The first one lands today on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass and Game Pass Standard in the form of Rain World , a difficult survival platform game. In case that’s not your tempo, though, you won’t have to wait long for other things to play. On August 7, Assassin’s Creed Mirage will hit Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. I enjoyed this tigh

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AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 09:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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14 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested for Months (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-12 04:31:00

Ipsy is likely best known for its Glam Bags, which include a cute makeup bag each month filled with five deluxe samples. It was cofounded by OG beauty guru Michelle Phan in 2011. I received some excellent deluxe samples, including Fenty Beauty mascara, a BYOD blush brush, and a Just Ximena highlighter. And unlike some other sample sizes I've received, Ipsy actually sent enough of each hair product to be useful. My mane of curly hair initially laughed at the 50-milliliter bottle of Marc Anthony l

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What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 12:34:29

According to Forbes, as of early March, 2023 there were 2,640 billionaires worldwide, 735 in the U.S. alone. These billionaires have each amassed at least one billion dollars worth of assets, including stocks, real estate, and cash — many of them much more than that. But just how big is one billion? A number that large is hard to conceive of. Well, it's 1,000,000,000; ten to the ninth power; one-thousand millions. That might help some…but not much. How big is a million? Hard to say when we're j

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Job Seekers Disgusted When They Show Up to Job Interviews and the "Interviewer" Isn't Even Human

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-12 16:14:20

Employment seekers are getting frustrated when they finally lock down a much-sought-after job interview — only to realize when they log onto the meeting that the "interviewers" isn't even human. As Fortune reports, professionals are starting to push back, noping out of interviews conducted by AI and reasoning that the company culture can't be very good if actual leadership isn't willing to take the time to meet candidates face-to-face. However, the people behind the AI interviewer tech say tha

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NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 22:20:38

Instead, Curiosity and its younger sibling Perseverance each use their MMRTG nuclear power source, which relies on decaying plutonium pellets to create energy and recharge the rover’s batteries. Providing ample power for the rovers’ many science instruments, MMRTGs are known for their longevity (the twin Voyager spacecraft have relied on RTGs since 1977). But as the plutonium decays over time, it takes longer to recharge Curiosity’s batteries, leaving less energy for science each day. The team

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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 09:02:21

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI. The new feature is part of OpenAI's ongoing attempts to get users to cultivate a healthier relationship with the frequently compliant and overly-encouraging AI assistant. The company's announcement suggests the "gentle reminders" will appear as pop-ups in chats that users will have to click or tap through to continue using ChatGPT. "Just Checking In," OpenAI's sample pop-up rea

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Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 11:01:33

Benefits include a 10-percent wage increase over two years and the elimination of crunch time. Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft . This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the company voted to unionize . Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-per

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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

news.ycombinator.com Kelly Vaughn 2025-12-13 17:01:52

A note: This is a different kind of post than I usually send from After Burnout. Instead of something raw, short, and personal, this is more of a deep-dive article. But given how much this topic connects to burnout and our relationship with productivity tools, it felt important to share. We were promised a productivity revolution. AI tools would handle the boring stuff, freeing us to focus on creative, strategic work. We’d finally have time to think, to innovate, to maybe even leave the office

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Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 23:35:13

Wasps living around a Cold War-era nuclear facility in South Carolina have built at least four radioactive nests, raising questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent of environmental contamination, according to a report by The New York Times. Last week, news broke that officials at the site—Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina—had found one radioactive nest on July 3. The discovery was documented in a July 22 report by the US Department of Energy, which own

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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

news.ycombinator.com Emma Burleigh 2025-12-14 03:04:20

The next time you get buttoned-up and sit down for a long-awaited job interview, you might not find a human on the other end of the call. Instead, job-hunters are now joining Zoom meetings only to be greeted by AI interviewers. Candidates tell Fortune they’re either confused, intrigued, or straight-up dejected when the robotic, faceless bots join the calls. “Looking for a job right now is so demoralizing and soul-sucking, that to submit yourself to that added indignity is just a step too far,”

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Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 17:57:21

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Tokens are getting more expensive

news.ycombinator.com Ethan Ding 2025-12-14 08:01:37

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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This Bird ID App Has Helped Me Practice Mindfulness More Than Any Meditation App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 11:07:04

Mindfulness is grounding ourselves in the present moment, which means paying attention to our inner feelings and thoughts as well as what's going on around us. Easier said than done. Like many, I struggle to keep my mind stationed in the present and often turn to meditation apps for assistance. Yet, what has helped me practice mindfulness the most came in the form of an unexpected app -- not one for breathing exercises or mental health, but one for identifying birds. Merlin Bird ID was created

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Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 10:34:51

Thermal Receipt Weather Printer Prints a daily weather forecast on an ESC/POS thermal printer, such as the "Bisofice Mini BT thermal receipt printer". Dependencies | Setup | Usage | Cron Dependencies Python 3 Pillow : The Python imaging library. : The Python imaging library. ImageMagick: For converting SVG icons to a printable format. Setup Install dependencies: On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install imagemagick python3-pil On other systems, install ImageMagick via

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Tesla found partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:36:12

A jury in Florida has found Tesla partially liable for a 2019 crash involving the company's Autopilot self-driving feature, The Washington Post reports. As a result, the company will have to pay $200 million in damages. Autopilot comes pre-installed on Tesla's cars and handles things like collision detection and emergency braking. Tesla has mostly avoided taking responsibility for crashes involving cars with the Autopilot enabled, but the Florida case played out differently. The jury ultimately

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The untold impact of cancellation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:12:04

Warning: towards the end of this post are references to suicide, which may be distressing to some readers. Discretion is advised. The Untold Impact of Cancellation I have never before been open about the impact that being cancelled had upon me. Cancellations try to silence their targets, so their stories are less often heard. This is my account. As you read about my experience over the last four years, you may come to understand why I have found it so hard to share. This is my own unique sto

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The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 15:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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The Untold Impact of Cancellation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:12:04

Warning: towards the end of this post are references to suicide, which may be distressing to some readers. Discretion is advised. The Untold Impact of Cancellation I have never before been open about the impact that being cancelled had upon me. Cancellations try to silence their targets, so their stories are less often heard. This is my account. As you read about my experience over the last four years, you may come to understand why I have found it so hard to share. This is my own unique sto

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The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 09:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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Benchmarking MicroPython

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Grinberg 2025-12-17 17:41:55

In the Q&A session following my EuroPython 2025 presentation about the Microdot web framework, a member of the audience asked me what the performance of MicroPython running on a microcontroller is. This took me a bit by surprise, because while I knew that microcontrollers are slow and underpowered devices, I really had no way to quantify this. I never questioned the supposedly low performance, because it was never a problem for me. My answer to the question was that microcontrollers cannot repl

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

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-17 23:00:33

“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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Amazon's gloomy earnings forecast overshadows better-than-expected results

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-18 04:57:49

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. Amazon shares slid more than 3% in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results that exceeded expectations, but it gave light operating income guidance for the current period. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.68 vs. $1.33 estimated $1.68 vs. $1.33 estimated Revenue: $167.7 billion vs. $162.09 billion esti

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Slow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 09:00:58

Slow What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time? And how can we build institutions that solve those problems? Below is a list of marvellous projects which human beings have undertaken over an exceptionally long time. Many examples contributed by people on Twitter. The focus is on goal-directed projects (e.g., a scientific experiment or a building), less on more decentralized or unplanned changes (e.g., languages, domestication of livestock, cities, religions). O

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The 15 best back-to-school deals for college students

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-18 23:14:59

Believe it or not, summer break is winding down and it’s almost time to head back to school. It’s sad, I know, but look at the bright side: retailers like Amazon are using the occasion as an excuse to launch yet another sale. We’re not complaining, mainly because the deals encompass a wide range of solid dorm essentials, some of which include a few of our top picks from our back-to-school shopping guide. For example, our favorite laptop — the latest MacBook Air — recently dropped to $799.99 ($20

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Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club

cnbc.com Ari Levy Jordan Novet 2025-12-19 14:56:52

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks in front of the OpenAI logo at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, Washington, on May 19, 2025. The $4 trillion club has a second member. Microsoft shares climbed more than 5% Thursday following a better-than-expected earnings report, lifting the software giant's market cap above the $4 trillion mark. The company joined chipmaker Nvidia , which hit $4 trillion for the first time earlier this month. Microsoft reported 18% revenue growth,

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Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Pradeep Gowda 2025-12-17 23:57:29

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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