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California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-09-24 22:32:33

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . California lawmakers just paved the way for a whole lot more housing in the Golden State. In the waning hours of the 2025 legislative session, the state Senate voted 21 to 8 to approve Senate Bill 79 , a landmark housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to expand high-density housing near transit hubs. The controversial bill received a final concurrence vote from the Senate on Friday, a day after passin

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Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology

news.ycombinator.com Attilio Belmonte 2025-10-03 03:28:33

A novel DRAM memory cell with two IGZO-based transistors The bit cell of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the main memory within traditional compute architectures, is conceptually very simple. It consists of one capacitor (1C) and one silicon (Si)-based transistor (1T). While the capacitor’s role is to store a charge, the transistor is used to access the capacitor, either to read how much charge is stored or to store a new charge. Over the years, bit cell density scaling allowed the indust

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Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 13:47:51

In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising maintainers' accounts in a phishing attack. One of the package maintainers whose accounts were hijacked in this supply-chain attack confirmed the incident earlier today, stating that he was aware of the compromise and adding that the phishing email came from support [at] npmjs [dot] help, a domain that hosts a website imp

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Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 12:30:00

Ever wished for smooth, on-point song transitions in your music streaming playlists customized to your liking? Spotify is rolling out a new beta feature for Premium subscribers globally that lets you add tailor-made transitions between songs, the company shared Tuesday. You can opt to play DJ -- and skip the AI version -- and curate how songs flow on an existing playlist or a new one. By clicking the Mix button, you can adjust the EQ, volume, fade and other effects. If you're looking to collabo

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Spotify copies Apple Music’s AutoMix feature before iOS 26 even ships

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-06 23:27:00

One of my favorite features in iOS 26 is AutoMix for Apple Music, which uses artificial intelligence to create DJ-like transitions between songs. Ahead of iOS 26 being released to everyone next month, Spotify is looking to steal some of Apple Music’s thunder with its own new spin on creating unique transitions between songs. In a blog post, Spotify explains that the feature allows users to create unique transitions between playlist songs by customizing things like volume, EQ, and effect curves

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Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-07 09:32:00

Spotify is testing a new audio mixing feature that allows you to customize track transitions for your playlists. Now rolling out in beta for “eligible Premium users,” the Mix feature provides an option to automatically blend transitions between tracks, or manually adjust aspects like volume, EQ, and effect curves while looking at waveform and beat data to create unique transitions. This allows users to make songs flow into each other instead of just letting one track abruptly finish and another

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Spotify now lets you create seamless transitions between songs on your custom playlists

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 23:00:51

Spotify routinely debuts new playlist features for its users, but the company's latest update has the potential to dramatically alter custom mixes. Starting today, premium users will have access to a new tool for creating customized transitions within playlists. This will allow seamless progression from one track to the next, with natural-sounding changeovers and no awkward silence. Once you've created a playlist, you'll notice a Mix option on the toolbar. When selected, the tool gives you the

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Participate in Standards Development for P2807.9

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-11-22 02:07:31

“Guide for Application of Knowledge Graphs for Rail Transit,” designated by the Project Number P2807.9, is a groundbreaking standard that has significantly impacted the rail transit industry. By providing a comprehensive framework for the development and implementation of Knowledge Graphs (KG), specifically tailored for the rail transit sector, referred to as rail-transit-oriented KG (RTKG), this guide addresses the critical need for consistent knowledge patterns and unified interface standards.

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Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 03:53:55

Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60 3 days ago Share Save Theo Leggett International Business Correspondent Share Save BBC Theo Leggett at the wheel of the oldest Ford Transit still in existence Climbing into a 1965 Ford Transit is like stepping into a time capsule on wheels. Forget your modern high-tech nicknacks like satnavs and touchscreens. All you get here is a steering wheel, a big chrome-lined speedometer dial and a chunky heater control. There isn't even a rad

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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2025-11-20 21:14:15

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up. I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let’s explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a ho

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Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2025-11-22 21:14:15

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up. I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let’s explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a ho

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The Jurassic Park islands and dinos are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-30 12:07:52

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Jurassic World: Archipelago is a new expansion pack for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 that lets aspiring pilots explore the five islands of the fictional Cinco Muertes Archipelago featured in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. Created by Australian developer Orbx that’s known for its flight sim add-ons, the expansion lets you visit ma

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These ‘Haunted Mansion’ Figures Evoke the Spirit of the Classic Disneyland Ride

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-13 12:20:01

As summer draws to a close, The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland prepares for Jack Skellington to take over with his spooky Christmas mashup through the end of the year holidays. But the ghostly retreat evokes Halloween all year long and has become a Disney Store staple for collections inspired by the beloved attraction. With the latest Haunted Mansion merch drop, you can bring some of the spectral energy of the ride home for your seasonal fall decor. Two of the most standout pieces from the colle

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16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 08:12:35

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are example

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

news.ycombinator.com Jono Alderson 2025-12-21 12:08:00

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. The app-like fallacy “Make it feel like an app.” At some point during the scoping process, someone says the words. A CMO. A digital lead. A brand manager. And with that single phrase, the architecture is locked in: it’ll be an SPA. Probably React. Maybe Vue. Almost certainly deployed on Verce

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Google Maps crashes keeping you from planning a route home? You’re far from alone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 17:21:22

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is crashing for some users when attempting to get transit directions. Other transportation methods do not appear to be affected. Not everyone on the same version of the app is experiencing the problem, though, and we’ve reached out to Google for more information. Modern navigation software is superior to paper maps for more reasons than we can count, and one great example is how well they can integrate with mass transit systems. Instead of dr

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Low-Temp 2D Semiconductors: A Chipmaking Shift

news.ycombinator.com Samuel K. Moore 2025-12-19 14:52:33

Chipmaking giants like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC see a future where key parts of silicon transistors are replaced with semiconductors that are only a few atoms thick. Although they’ve reported progress toward that goal, that future is generally thought to be more than a decade away. Now, a startup spun out of MIT thinks it has cracked the code for making commercial-scale 2D semiconductors and expects chipmakers to have integrated them in advanced chips in half that time. CDimension has developed

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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

news.ycombinator.com Blair Lorenzo 2026-01-03 12:33:47

The New York State Legislature has just passed a bill (S4091/A04873) that would lock New York City’s transit system in the past. This bill, which would require a conductor to be on board every train operated by New York City Transit, is the technological equivalent of requiring every elevator in the city to still be staffed by an elevator operator. If you take other transit systems both across the country and around the world, you'll quickly realize that two-person train operation (TPTO) is an o

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Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 15:07:52

No worries, your data won't leave your browser. Special thanks to ansi_up and fast-string-truncated-width. Made by Code on

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Lightning Detector Circuits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 12:07:31

Here's a version I built into a "fake" book I found at an art store. The copper PCB is connected to the circuit ground to act as a counterpoise for the antenna, increasing sensitivity. The lightning bolt was cut with a sharp knife then filled with blue-dyed epoxy. The antenna connects to the pin jack. I used a cheap flashlight head for the LED - I used too much blue dye in the epoxy so I need a bright flash! The image below is with an LED and no pot (but with the 150k resistor added). I made se

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Capturing the International Space Station (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 03:32:41

ENTER YOUR EMAIL HERE FOR MY TELESCOPE BUYING GUIDE My ISS transit shots tend to get the most questions, so I put together a write-up of exactly how I get them. See the uncropped version of my latest ISS Transit shot here (you can order print there as well, get some cool space art while supporting my projects) First- I check transit-finder.com. This is a web resource that allows you to put in your location, a time frame, and how far you're willing to drive, and it will spit out results of ne

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Bay Area commuters get free rides Tuesday morning due to Clipper card outage

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2026-02-09 17:31:44

Commuters in and around San Francisco rode into work for free on Tuesday morning due to an outage in the Clipper card system, which is used to handle payments for train, bus and ferry rides. "ATTENTION: The Clipper system is experiencing an outage on all operators this morning," the Bay Area Clipper account wrote in a post on X. "Please be prepared to pay your fare with another form of payment if required by your transit agency." Many buses were waving commuters on without asking for payment,

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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

news.ycombinator.com Charles Rosenbauer 2026-02-13 09:07:03

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. This is Moore’s Law. Roughly every five years, the cost to build a factory for making such chips doubles, and the number of companies that can do it halves. 25 years ago, there were about 40 such companies and the cost to build a fab was about $2-4 billion. Today, there are either two or three such companies left (depending on your optimism toward Intel) and the cost to build a fab is in excess of $1

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MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon for faster next-gen wireless devices

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-20 12:15:00

What just happened? A team of researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a new method for integrating gallium nitride (GaN) transistors onto standard silicon chips. As the demand for faster and more efficient electronics continues to grow, this innovation represents a significant step toward bridging the gap between cutting-edge materials and mainstream technology. Gallium nitride, a semiconductor renowned for its efficiency and h

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MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon chips for faster next-gen devices

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-21 18:15:00

What just happened? A team of researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a new method for integrating gallium nitride (GaN) transistors onto standard silicon chips. As the demand for faster and more efficient electronics continues to grow, this innovation represents a significant step toward bridging the gap between cutting-edge materials and mainstream technology. Gallium nitride, a semiconductor renowned for its efficiency and h

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AutoMix on iOS 26 is going viral. Here's how to try the hottest iPhone feature yourself

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-03-05 08:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Apple Music users have often watched Spotify take the lead when it comes to innovative features and personalized listening experiences. But with the introduction of the new AutoMix feature, Apple Music may finally be closing the gap -- and even setting a new standard of its own. Also: How to install iOS 26 beta on your iPhone (and which models support it) What is AutoMix in Apple Music? At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, the company unveiled upgra

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Commuters in South Korea will soon be able to pay fares using Apple Pay

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-10 03:38:43

More than two years after landing in South Korea, Apple Pay is about to fill one of its biggest gaps in the country: public transportation support. However, the win might be short-lived. Here’s why. Transit card provider Tmoney confirmed Monday that its system will soon work with both iPhones and Apple Watches. Once live, users will be able to tap to pay for subway and bus rides across the country. As observed by Korea JoongAng Daily (via Reddit), there’s no official launch date just yet, but

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Adding public transport data to Transitous

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 23:23:09

I had mentioned a number of new Transitous features in a previous post. As those largely depend on the corresponding data being available, here’s an overview of how you can help to find, add and improve that data. Transitous Transitous is a community-run public transport routing service build on top of the MOTIS routing engine and thousands of datasets from all over the world. Transitous backs public transport related features in applications like GNOME Maps, KDE Itinerary or Träwelling. Just

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If You Own an Xbox Series X/S, You Can Buy an Official 2TB Expansion Card for 40% Off on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-13 11:25:12

If you own an Xbox Series X or S, you’re already aware of how quickly your storage fills up with new games. Expansions are inevitable and the Seagate Expansion Card SSD is designed specifically for these Microsoft consoles which makes it perfect for gamers who want to maintain their library within reach without sacrificing performance. Amazon currently has this must-have accessory on sale for a low of $219, down from a list price of $360. That’s a 39% discount (just barely within Black Friday t

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Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:22:57

Slime OS is an app launcher for the PicoVision (and soon other RP2040 and RP2350 devices). It was originally designed for the Slimedeck Zero, a mini cyberdeck project. However I hope to expand it to other devices and form factors. This README contains affiliate links which help support this project! Software Slime OS runs in a limited 32-color mode with a 400x240 internal resolution which is interlaced up to 800x480. This resolution should scale well on most HDMI displays. Setup Flash the w

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Latest Tech News

California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology

Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack

Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

Spotify copies Apple Music’s AutoMix feature before iOS 26 even ships

Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

Spotify now lets you create seamless transitions between songs on your custom playlists

Participate in Standards Development for P2807.9

Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60

Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

The Jurassic Park islands and dinos are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

These ‘Haunted Mansion’ Figures Evoke the Spirit of the Classic Disneyland Ride

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

Google Maps crashes keeping you from planning a route home? You’re far from alone

Low-Temp 2D Semiconductors: A Chipmaking Shift

New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

Lightning Detector Circuits

Capturing the International Space Station (2022)

Bay Area commuters get free rides Tuesday morning due to Clipper card outage

The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon for faster next-gen wireless devices

MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon chips for faster next-gen devices

AutoMix on iOS 26 is going viral. Here's how to try the hottest iPhone feature yourself

Commuters in South Korea will soon be able to pay fares using Apple Pay

Adding public transport data to Transitous

If You Own an Xbox Series X/S, You Can Buy an Official 2TB Expansion Card for 40% Off on Amazon

Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices

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