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Sony is giving away free 65-inch 4K TVs right now - here's how to qualify for the deal

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-09-20 07:15:12

The Sony Bravia 5 TV. Kerry Wan Sony is most known for its high-end OLED TVs and home audio equipment, but its Mini LED and midrange LED models still offer impressive picture and audio quality, even if you opt for an older model. And right now at Sony (or Best Buy), when you buy a 98-inch Sony Bravia 5 at the regular price, you'll get a 65-inch Bravia X90L for free. That's a $1,200 TV you can use as a second screen in your home. Also: The best 98-inch TVs you can buy Here's the deal with this

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Introduction to the A* Algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Patel 2025-09-19 06:25:23

Created 26 May 2014, updated Aug 2014, Feb 2016, Jun 2016, Jun 2020, Jul 2023 Graph search algorithms let us find the shortest path on a map represented as a graph. Move the blob (start point) and cross (end point) to see the shortest path found by the A* Algorithm: A* is one of a family of related graph search algorithms: Breadth First Search[1] explores equally in all directions. Dijkstra’s Algorithm[2] takes into account movement costs. A*[3] explores more towards a single destination. In ad

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If You Were Surprised by an Amazon Refund From Years Ago, Here's Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 06:55:03

What's better than a surprise package from Amazon? A big chunk of money. After all the money you've spent at Amazon, it's only fair that the online shopping giant gives you some cash back, right? That's what some customers are discovering after learning about surprise Amazon refunds they've received, sometimes for purchases made years ago. One customer on LinkedIn said he received a refund of $1,800 for a smart TV bought in 2018. Others made similar comments about products bought long before.

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How To Fix the Most Common AI Image Errors and Hallucinations

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 09:00:04

One of the best parts of my job is laughing at the truly terrible, deeply flawed, occasionally frightening AI images that pop out while I review different AI image generators. I spend a lot of time playing around with AI in ChatGPT, Midjourney and Adobe, and I've learned that no AI generator is perfect. But there are some common patterns, things that many AIs struggle with. Every image generator is unique, but I've spent enough time with them to recognize some patterns. There are certain things

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18 of the Best Sci-Fi TV Shows to Stream on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 09:00:06

Prime Video has all of the sci-fi shows you're looking for. And I know you're looking -- why else would you be here? Let's be real, streamers like Disney Plus and Netflix are packed with genre titles, but you don't want to go that route. The Amazon-owned streaming service is your focus, and rightfully so. Prime Video has loads of sci-fi TV shows worth adding to your watch list. The entries here run the gamut from high-concept and thought-provoking to light-hearted and fun. No matter the flavor,

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The Best Motorola Phones (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-09-20 09:33:00

Motorola phones often play third (or fourth) fiddle to Samsung and Google, but the winds are changing. Motorola is now one of the fastest-growing mobile companies in the world, and the company claims its Razr folding smartphones are the number one in the flip category in North America. The company has also been experimenting with colorful Android phones and fun textures, making its devices stand out from the sea of boring glass handsets. If you’re an interested buyer, picking the best Motorola

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The best streaming deals: Get three months of Audible for only $3, plus save on Disney+, Starz and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Streaming services keep raising prices. At this point, if you subscribe to all the major services out there, you're basically paying the same price as cable — those antiquated local monopolies that streaming was supposed to save us from. But streaming still has one big advantage over t

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“Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Hynek Schlawack 2025-09-18 05:04:21

A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle. Once upon a time, I made a stupid joke on Twitter about the Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own testing principle: Only mock what you own, because mocking others is rude. — Yours Truly , Tweet While it didn’t get me fired, it led to me being tricked into giving a 5 minute-long talk about it. Given the confused replies I got to the joke Tweet,

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, June 18

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 08:18:00

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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After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-09-20 10:00:00

Sam Altman and “his tech CEO friends” have a betting pool on the year we will see the first one-person billion-dollar company. The idea of a single person reaching a billion-dollar valuation for a startup would have been unthinkable without AI. But single-person, AI-first businesses have been sprouting all over the tech industry and Birk Jernström, CEO of Polar, a “monetization platform to empower one-person unicorns,” is standing by to help them get there. Polar hopes to stand out from other

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Timescale Is Now TigerData

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 23:58:14

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Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:07:19

lstr A blazingly fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode. An interactive overview of lstr 's project structure... using lstr . Philosophy Fast: Runs directory scans in parallel by default to maximize speed on modern hardware. Runs directory scans in parallel by default to maximize speed on modern hardware. Minimalist: Provides essential features without the bloat. The core experience is clean and un

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The 56 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (June 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-09-20 04:00:00

Disney+, if you didn’t know, isn’t just for kids. With its ownership of the Lucasfilm brand and the Marvel titles, the streaming service offers plenty of grown-up content in its bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon—and we’re not just talking movies. Since launching the service, Disney has used the name recognition of Star Wars and Marvel to launch scores of TV shows, from The Mandalorian to Loki. In the list below, we’ve collected the ones we think are the best to watch, from those franchises

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-09-20 10:48:00

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. In a 68-30 vote on Tuesday evening, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support. Eighteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in passing the bill, which is the first to establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, crypto tokens that are pegged to the value of the US dollar.

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Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC

wired.com Vittoria Elliott 2025-09-20 13:03:51

A controversial “Appeal to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC. On June 11, Kelly Loeffler, the former senator from Georgia and current administrator of the SBA, participated in a ceremony where a new flag of the United States was raised over the agency’s headquarters. Just beneath that flag, on what appeared to be the same halyard,

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The best instant cameras you can buy right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-20 13:30:00

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras, but their soft images and imperfections are often a big part of the allure. Yet not all instant cameras

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Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-20 13:09:59

The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it centered around “the most legendary party that never happened,” Cluely founder and CEO Roy Lee tells TechCrunch. Cluely had hoped to throw an after-party for a Y Combinator event occurring on Monday and Tuesday called AI Startup School. The event drew crowds thanks to scheduled speakers like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk. Cluely is an AI startup born of controversy and rage-bait comedy marketing. True to

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-20 17:42:59

The World Liberty Financial website arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Senate on Tuesday passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark bill that for the first time establishes federal guardrails for U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins and creates a regulated pathway for private companies to issue digital dollars with the blessing of the federal government. The bill passed with a 68-30 vote. It's a milestone day for the crypto industr

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3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power

news.ycombinator.com Sanjukta Mondal 2025-09-18 10:54:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The morphogenetical topology optimization method shapes the scattering inclusions, shown as gray material. When the ARE is excited by monopolar source emitting broad-band white noise, the radiated sound creates an acoustic rainbow. The source is positioned at the center of the emitter (illustrated using white light)

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 15:06:54

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0 , which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys , by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile. The libbz2-rs-sys crate can also be built as a C dynamic library, if you have a C project that would benefit from these improvements. Why though? Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? The thing is that many protocols and libraries still need to support bzip2 to be

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‘Ironheart’ Will Continue Tony Stark’s Legacy, and Robert Downey Jr. Approves

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-20 17:45:26

“I want to continue Stark’s legacy,” says Riri Williams, the main character in the upcoming Marvel Studios show Ironheart. Played by Dominique Thorne, Riri is a genius inventor, just like the late, great Iron Man, but without his billionaire resources. That conflict will be at the heart of the new show, which debuts on Disney+ June 24, and Tony Stark himself just endorsed it. Two fantastic Ironheart videos just came online, one of which focuses on the practical suits built for the production. E

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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-20 17:18:09

When it comes to finding a device to read ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a tablet or use your phone, but those devices are multipurpose and can be used for a ton of things, like surfing the web or doom-scrolling on X or Bluesky. If you are looking for something to strictly read books, e-readers, while niche, are designed to store all of your books in a virtual library with limited functionality. Amazon, one of the pioneers of the e-reader, has dominated the sp

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Senate confirms Trump’s FCC pick, Olivia Trusty

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-20 17:37:34

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) being the on

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Minecraft: Chase the Skies improves graphics, adds Happy Ghast mob

techspot.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:23:00

Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, players built simple structures to protect themselves from nocturnal monsters. But as the game grew, players began working together to create wonderful, imaginative things. It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sunrise over a blocky ocean. It's pretty. Brave players battle terrible creatures in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. Or, if you'd prefer something calmer, you can visit a land of giant m

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9to5Mac Daily: June 17, 2025 – Apple’s Back to School promo, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-09-20 21:03:01

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by 9to5Mac Daily Plus: Get ad-free versions of every episode by visiting 9to5mac.com/join. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are deliv

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Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:00:27

Location: San Francisco, CA Why Foundry Exists: Most of what people do at work sucks—it's manual, repetitive, and wastes time. Recruiters spend hours every day on LinkedIn, CRMs, email, and tedious data entry tasks instead of focusing on the things humans actually do well: building relationships, strategy, and decision-making. We're building tools so that AI agents can use web browsers exactly like humans, navigating enterprise apps like Salesforce, SAP, or Workday without constant manual inte

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 20:06:54

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0 , which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys , by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile. The libbz2-rs-sys crate can also be built as a C dynamic library, if you have a C project that would benefit from these improvements. Why though? Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? The thing is that many protocols and libraries still need to support bzip2 to be

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A New ‘Star Trek’ Comic Will Bring Captain Kirk Back to Life

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-20 21:17:38

Somehow, Captain Kirk returned. Wrong sci-fi franchise for that meme, but it’s true. IDW Publishing has just announced Star Trek: The Last Starship as a new addition to its line of Trek comics, and it’ll focus on a certain Starfleet hero who’s been dead since the big-screen events of 1994’s Star Trek: Generations. How is this possible? Well, beyond the long-held notion that anything is possible in sci-fi, a notion that also applies to comic books, the Hollywood Reporter—which was the first to a

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Streaming Has Overtaken Traditional TV for the First Time Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 20:35:00

Streaming became the most popular single form of TV usage years ago, but that was not its final hurdle. The juggernaut of broadcast and cable television combined meant that consumers were still using traditional TV services more than streaming overall, even if streaming was more popular than either of them individually. According to data from Nielsen, streaming just overcame this final hurdle. Nielsen says that in May, cable television accounted for 24.1% of all TV usage and broadcast TV repres

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OpenAI weighs "nuclear option" of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 23:51:17

OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company's largest investor, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two long-term AI partners. OpenAI, which develops ChatGPT, has reportedly considered seeking a federal regulatory review of the terms of its contract with Microsoft for potential antitrust law violations, according to people familiar with the matter. The potential antitr

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