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Perceived Age (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Surya Dantuluri 2025-10-05 13:06:49

"To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday is not to feel—it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." -- Fernando Pessoa At 2:15 PM on June 5th, kids burst through school doors, sprinting towards three months of freedom. Summer felt endless back then, August an eternity away. A day at Great America stretched like a week, and road t

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Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 11:10:00

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt. It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved. Inspired by the popular Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification. Vicinae is designed for developers and power users

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Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

news.ycombinator.com Johannes Bechberger 2025-10-08 23:11:27

This is the first part of my series; the other parts are Back to the blog post: More than three years in the making, with a concerted effort starting last year, my CPU-time profiler landed in Java with OpenJDK 25. It’s an experimental new profiler/method sampler that helps you find performance issues in your code, having distinct advantages over the current sampler. This is what this week’s and next week’s blog posts are all about. This week, I will cover why we need a new profiler and what in

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Safe C++ proposal is not being continued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 10:00:29

One year ago, the Safe C++ proposal was made. The goal was to add a safe subset/context into C++ that would give strong guarantees (memory safety, type safety, thread safety) similar to what Rust provides, without breaking existing C++ code. It was an extension or superset of C++. The opt-in mechanism was to explicitly mark parts of the code that belong to the safe context. The authors even state: Code in the safe context exhibits the same strong safety guarantees as code written in Rust. The

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Magical systems thinking

news.ycombinator.com Ed Bradon 2025-10-09 07:18:27

The systems that enable modern life share a common origin. The water supply, the internet, the international supply chains bringing us cheap goods: each began life as a simple, working system. The first electric grid was no more than a handful of electric lamps hooked up to a water wheel in Godalming, England, in 1881. It then took successive decades of tinkering and iteration by thousands of very smart people to scale these systems to the advanced state we enjoy today. At no point did a single

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AI Will Not Make You Rich

news.ycombinator.com Jerry Neumann 2025-10-09 13:01:35

Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors when revolutionary technologies enable waves of innovative, investable companies. Think of the railroad, the Bessemer process, electric power, the internal combustion engine, or the microprocessor—each of which, like a stray spark in a fireworks factory, set off decades of follow-on innovations, permeated every part of society, and catapulted a new set of inventors and investors into power, influence, and wealth. Yet some technological innovation

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Lessons in disabling RC4 in Active Directory (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Steve Syfuhs 2025-10-07 03:40:34

Was pulled in to a fun customer issue last Friday around disabling RC4 in Active Directory. What happened was, as you can imagine, not good: RC4 was disabled and half their environment promptly started having a Very Bad Day. — Steve Syfuhs (@SteveSyfuhs) March 1, 2021 Twitter warning: Like all good things this is mostly correct, with a few details fuzzier than others for reasons: a) details are hard on twitter; b) details are fudged for greater clarity; c) maybe I'm just dumb. RC4 is a stream

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Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness

news.ycombinator.com Author 2025-10-07 07:24:05

In Alaska’s Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink from now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning fish and wreaking havoc on ecosystems. Researcher testing murky waters in Alaska's Brooks Range. (Photo: Taylor Rhoades) As the planet warms, a layer of permafrost — permanently frozen Arctic soil that locked away minerals for millennia — is beginning to thaw. Water and oxygen creep into the

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An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 10:20:01

Reply to this post on Bluesky to join the conversation.

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My first impressions of gleam

news.ycombinator.com Michael Lynch 2025-10-09 04:15:26

I’m looking for a new programming language to learn this year, and Gleam looks like the most fun. It’s an Elixir-like language that supports static typing. I read the language tour, and it made sense to me, but I need to build something before I can judge a programming language well. I’m sharing some notes on my first few hours using Gleam in case they’re helpful to others learning Gleam or to the team developing the language. My project: Parsing old AIM logs 🔗︎ I used AOL Instant Messenger

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How Ruby executes JIT code

news.ycombinator.com Stan Lo 2025-10-05 12:01:53

Ever since YJIT’s introduction, I’ve felt simultaneously close to and distant from Ruby’s JIT compiler. I know how to enable it in my Ruby programs. I know it makes my Ruby programs run faster by compiling some of them into machine code. But my understanding around YJIT, or JIT compilers in Ruby in general, seems to end here. A few months ago, my colleague Max Bernstein wrote ZJIT has been merged into Ruby to explain how ZJIT compiles Ruby’s bytecode to HIR, LIR, and then to native code. It she

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‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 05:52:33

A baffled bride has solved the mystery of the awkward-looking stranger who crashed her wedding four years ago. Michelle Wylie and her husband, John, registered the presence of their unidentifiable guest only as they looked through photographs of their wedding in the days after the happy occasion. Who was the tall man in a dark suit, distinguished by the look of quiet mortification on his face? But their family and friends could offer no explanation, nor could hotel staff at the Carlton hotel i

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The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-09 09:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

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Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 03:02:11

We'll find it somewhere across parallel dimensions, just tell us what you want Experience a new way of shopping where imagination drives innovation. Our product concepts are delivered instantly to your device! All our products are unique concepts developed specifically for our customers. That Product Doesn't Exist Yet? Be the first to discover it! Give us a name and we'll find it somewhere

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Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 12:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-09 09:15:54

Spotify has never been shy about the fact that the massive amount of user data it collects is a major part of its secret sauce, from its user-specific Discover Weekly playlist to the annual event that is Spotify Wrapped. But the company, which does everything it can to lock people into long listening sessions and sells ads based on user data, would really prefer it if you didn’t bottle up that sauce and resell it for your own profit. According to a report from Ars Technica, a set of users did ju

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‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ Opening Is a Game of Hide and Seek

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-09 09:50:15

You may not know it, but we’re a few weeks out from The Strangers: Chapter 2. To help drum up interest for the film, Lionsgate’s put out a clip from the first few minutes of the film, which picks up where 2024’s Chapter 1 concluded. Last we left off, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) survived the attack from the titular Strangers that left her boyfriend Ryan dead, and she ended the film recuperating in the hospital. But before she can worry about her health bill, she realizes that she’s not as free of th

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California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-09 11:15:29

Last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a wildly popular (among the public) and wildly controversial (among tech companies) bill that would have established robust safety guidelines for the development and operation of artificial intelligence models. Now he’ll have a second shot—this time with at least part of the tech industry giving him the green light. On Saturday, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 53, a landmark piece of legislation that would require AI companies to submit

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Brentford vs. Chelsea From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 07:30:03

Unbeaten Chelsea contests its fourth London derby in as many games on Saturday as it takes on a Brentford team still looking to settle after a difficult summer. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Chelsea's capital clashes have so far yielded two wins and a draw for Enzo Maresca's men, and a win here could see them move to the t

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 14, #1548

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:00:03

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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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14 #560

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. Some of the words are hard to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visi

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14, #826

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:00:04

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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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 14, #356

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:00:08

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. I lit up when I saw my favorite team's logo -- the Minnesota Vikings -- in today's Connections: Sports Edition. That helped me solve the green category. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic

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Canelo vs. Crawford Fight: What Time to Watch the Action Tonight on Netflix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 13:00:02

Saul "Canelo" Álvarez and Terence Crawford step into the ring tonight in a pro boxing matchup that will see Álvarez defending his title as super middleweight champion. As the crowd descends upon Las Vegas to watch the pair square up, the question lingers in the air of whether Crawford will beef up his weight -- and by how much -- to meet his opponent's. While Álvarez is a seasoned super middleweight contender (and current undisputed champion), Crawford has never fought in this weight class and

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Hike, once a unicorn, shuts down as India cracks down on real-money gaming

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-09 05:05:49

Hike, once one of India’s most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi’s recent real-money gaming ban, with the company — led by Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal — now shutting down. On Saturday, Hike founder Mittal (pictured above) said that the startup’s U.S. business, which launched nine months ago, was “off to a strong start.” But he said scaling it globally would require “a full recap, a reset that is not the best use

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ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 06:00:13

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its official emoji dictionary. Frail human minds have sometimes been surprised to learn that fact, in a perfect example of the Mandela Effect, in which people become convinced that they remember something that isn't actually real — like that South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela died in pris

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CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 06:45:14

There may be nobody else on Earth more excited about AI than CEOs. Driven by a compulsion to cut overhead costs — and avoid the wrath of similarly AI-fixated shareholders — executive teams across the US can’t wait to force AI onto their workforces, consequences be damned. Corporate executives have become giddy at the thought of automating their workforces, boasting about supposed productivity gains as they lay off human workers, who now face one of the worst job markets in recent history. Even

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Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 07:30:23

Image by Getty / Futurism Devices Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun — the kind you'd use for an arts and crafts DIY project at home — to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals, to aid in the healing process. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Device, the team came up with the unusual device to skip the need for prefabricating complex bone implants. In experiments involving rabbits, the researchers created 3D-printed grafts on th

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 08:15:24

Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy in mere seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifespan. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But now, astronomers say they've detected a gamma ray burst that utterly defies explanation: it repeated multiple times over the course of a single day, as if the star somehow suffered back

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Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 09:00:25

Has Sam Altman spent too much time talking with ChatGPT lately, or has he finally taken a break from his delusion-inducing chatbot and smelled the roses? We ask because the man responsible for unleashing the Automated Soulless Text Machine on the world has recently caught on that the internet has started feeling super fake, and he's now pontificating about this novel observation again on X-formerly-Twitter, seemingly mystified at how this all came to pass. Prompting his latest musing was a scr

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Latest Tech News

Perceived Age (2024)

Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

Safe C++ proposal is not being continued

Magical systems thinking

AI Will Not Make You Rich

Lessons in disabling RC4 in Active Directory (2021)

Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness

An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”

My first impressions of gleam

How Ruby executes JIT code

‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ Opening Is a Game of Hide and Seek

California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Brentford vs. Chelsea From Anywhere

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 14, #1548

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14 #560

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14, #826

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 14, #356

Canelo vs. Crawford Fight: What Time to Watch the Action Tonight on Netflix

Hike, once a unicorn, shuts down as India cracks down on real-money gaming

ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster

Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

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