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We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 10:39:42

We Keep Reinventing CSS, but Styling Was Never the Problem We’ve been building for the web for decades. CSS has had time to grow up, and in many ways, it has. We’ve got scoped styles, design tokens, cascade layers, even utility-first frameworks that promise to eliminate bikeshedding entirely. And yet, somehow, every new project still begins with a shrug and the same old question: “So… how are we styling things this time?” It’s not that we lack options. It’s that every option comes with trade

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8 Common Foods That Can Contain Microplastics and How to Avoid Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 03:09:00

Microplastics aren't just an ocean pollution issue anymore. They're now a daily life, from diet to kitchen tools. Recent research shows that common foods, drinks and food storage containers may be delivering thousands of tiny plastic particles into your body without you even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as hig

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Netherlands: Citrix Netscaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 exploited to breach orgs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-15 18:19:49

The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-6543 was exploited to breach "critical organizations" in the country. The critical flaw is a memory overflow bug that allows unintended control flow or a denial of service state on impacted devices. "Memory overflow vulnerability leading to unintended control flow and Denial of Service in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway when configured as Gateway (VPN virtual

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A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 19:26:47

Whatever the cause of cognitive overload, a personal intelligence can help In my grad-school dorm there were four blind students, and they all coped in different ways. Most impressive was Jeff, whose wealthy family was able to provide him with key support technology, notably a talking computer (a bigger deal back then) and a guide dog (still a big deal today). Augmented with such technology, he did pretty well, and in some ways better than the rest of us—a golden labrador is a great tool for ma

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Gemini is ready to start dreaming up images in Google Docs on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-15 22:58:53

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Docs got started using Gemini to generate images last year, delivering a desktop tool. This month, that’s expanding to Google Docs on Android. You’ll need an AI Pro, AI Ultra, or supported Business or Education plan to take advantage. Generative AI is a reality, and while it’s probably too soon to categorically declare it “here to stay” (tastes do change, after all), this is one genie you’re going to have a bit of trouble getting back in the b

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A Global Look at Teletext

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 16:01:23

Brief explanation Teletext is a weird technology. Although often ridiculed as completely archaic, it’s very popular in many countries still today. It seems like the public broadcasters in Europe just can’t get people to stop using it, no matter what new services they provide. You most likely know teletext in the British version, with blocky text graphics in few colours, that came intertwined with the analogue TV-signal. This is called World System Teletext. But that was only the beginning. T

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ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 04:16:00

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide credentials to tasks. Here we’ll demonstrate how those mechanisms can lead to a known risk when tasks with different privilege levels share the same EC2 host. This cross-task credential exposure highlights the inherent risks of relying on per-task IAM scoping and task execution boundaries when workloads s

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PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 17:49:17

One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both. But, experimentation by the PHP Foundation's dev team suggests we may be able to get 80% of the benefit for 20% of th

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A SPARC makes a little fire

news.ycombinator.com Leaded Solder 2025-08-13 04:11:52

Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we’d have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did. A few weekends later, I decided to go

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Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-17 01:35:00

Crocs are an infamously ugly shoe style that was once named to Time's list of the 50 worst inventions. Clippy is an annoying animated paperclip from Microsoft that once made that same list. So maybe it's fate that the two much-mocked products are teaming up for a pair of limited-edition Crocs the wearer can deck out with a smiling Clippy accessory. According to The Verge, the Crocs are part of Microsoft's celebration of its 50th anniversary, and are right now only available for preorder by Micr

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Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 13:20:51

Efrit - AI-Powered Emacs Coding Assistant A sophisticated AI coding agent that leverages Emacs' native programmability through direct Elisp evaluation. Overview Efrit is a conversational AI assistant that integrates seamlessly with Emacs, providing multiple interfaces for different types of tasks: efrit-chat - Multi-turn conversational interface for complex discussions and code development - Multi-turn conversational interface for complex discussions and code development efrit-do - Natural

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IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-08-18 04:00:20

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 8 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS), the world’s preeminent computer science and engineering member organization, today announced that its journals continue to lead the industry in Journal Impact FactorTM (JIFTM) rankings. Specifically, eight IEEE CS journals hold the coveted top impact factor status in their respective fields. “Every published paper brings value, but some rise to new heights because they provide a launching point for other work,” said Hironori

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China Opens ‘Robot Mall,’ Its First Mall for Robots

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-08-18 06:40:25

China opened its first full-scale shopping center dedicated entirely to robots on Friday, as part of a broader push to bring robotics from research labs into people’s homes. The four-story Robot Mall, located in Beijing’s high-tech E-Town district, showcases more than 100 robots from over 40 brands, including Chinese companies like Ubtech Robotics and Unitree Robotics. The store operates like a car dealership, but for robots. It follows the “4S” model common in China, offering sales, service, s

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AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators

news.ycombinator.com Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti 2025-08-18 10:04:40

AI must RTFM: Why technical writers are becoming context curators I’ve been noticing a trend among developers that use AI: they are increasingly writing and structuring docs in context folders so that the AI powered tools they use can build solutions autonomously and with greater accuracy. They now strive to understand information architecture, semantic tagging, docs markup. All of a sudden they’ve discovered docs, so they write more than they code. Because AI must RTFM now. It’s docs-driven d

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Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-19 05:58:20

Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store 3 hours ago Share Save Adam Hancock Business reporter Share Save Reuters A life-size humanoid replica of Albert Einstein at the store A new robot shop has opened in Beijing selling everything from mechanical butlers to human-like replicas of Albert Einstein. More than 100 types of products will be on sale at Robot Mall, which launched in the Chinese capital on Friday. The store is one of the first in the country to sell humanoid

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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

news.ycombinator.com Nimish Gåtam 2025-08-20 14:20:35

A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns. In fact, they’ve put quite a bit of time and effort into discussing safety, because, ostensibly, safety and ethics is at the top of people’s minds. So, the public is worried about AI ethics, and OpenAI is putting efforts into making sure the AI is ethical. Sounds like a match. Not just a match, but a

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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-21 02:40:42

imagedepotpro / Getty images ZDNET's key takeaways Linux desktop share tops 6% in Lansweeper's 15 million-system analysis. Consumer PCs hit 6% Linux vs 1.9% on AD-managed business systems. Europe outpaces North America in Linux adoption by industry. In an interview, Lansweeper, an IT asset discovery and inventory company, revealed to ZDNET that, in its analysis of over 15 million identified consumer desktop operating systems, it found that Linux desktops currently account for just over 6% o

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From tickets to brochures: Google Messages just stepped up with PDF support over RCS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-21 13:03:09

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has enabled PDF file sharing via rich cards in RCS Business Messaging through Google Messages. This addition enhances business-to-user communication by allowing flight tickets, passes, and documents to be sent through RCS, eliminating the need for email or other apps. However, the potential for an increase in spam remains a concern. PDF support has launched initially in India with a 100MiB attachment limit. Instant messaging apps took texting

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Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-08-21 16:27:51

What's new in TenFourFox, the Mozilla browser for Power Macs.

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Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 10:16:30

The first quarter of the 21st century has seen seismic shifts in the politics, society, and economy of the United Kingdom. As economics thinkers and graduates, Rethinking Economics is concerned that economics education remains out of step with these shifts. What is taught in university classrooms informs how society perceives and will tackle these challenges, from engaging in climate science to the reality of Britain’s colonial past. This report assesses the extent to which university education

Topics: climate economics education students universities

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Welcome to Regulator

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-08-23 02:46:31

You’ll often see tech policy reporting described as the intersection of technology and politics, and for years, that was a pretty accurate description: Silicon Valley existed independent of Washington politics, and every so often, they’d cross paths, discuss some regulatory concern, write a check, shake hands, and then go their separate ways. This is no longer the case. Tech and politics have violently crashed into each other, and the leaders from both sides are locked in an existential fight t

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These $80 Windows XP Crocs just made me desperate for Android footwear

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 01:44:39

Techradar TL;DR Microsoft has created Windows XP Crocs as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. The custom footwear features a sky blue design with grassy green soles that mimic the conic Bliss wallpaper from the XP era. All I want is for Google to make Android Crocs a thing! Microsoft just did the unthinkable and made Windows XP cool again after almost 25 years. The software giant has released a pair of Windows XP-inspired Crocs, and now, all I can think of is how cool it would be if G

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Apple now offers a separate Xcode 26 beta build for Apple silicon Macs

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-24 14:25:27

With today’s developer beta 5 releases, Apple also rolled out a new version of Xcode 26 beta that brings a notable change: two distinct download options, one of them being Apple silicon-specific. Yet another step beyond the Intel Macs era With today’s release of Xcode 26 beta 5 (build 17A5295f), developers can now choose between a “Universal” version, which runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and one optimized specifically for Apple silicon Macs. According to Apple’s developer downloads pag

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Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 02:18:37

One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/lz4/lz4 Zstandard is used by the new Khronos KTX2 GPU texture format specification. I propose that it be added as an option to a future version of .PNG. The possible speedups are quite significant, and for users that read and write a lot of .PNG's as part of th

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This retro camcorder upgrades Super 8 film cameras with modern conveniences

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-25 06:41:03

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Camp Snap, a brand known for its budget-friendly screen-free digital cameras, has announced its first video camera. The new Camp Snap CS-8’s design was inspired by the Super 8mm film cameras released by companies like Kodak and Canon in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Its

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These 8 Food Items Are Surprisingly Full of Microplastics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 17:00:04

Microplastics aren't just an ocean pollution issue anymore. They're now a daily part of our diet. Recent research shows that common foods and drinks, including something as routine as chewing gum, may be delivering thousands of tiny plastic particles into your body without you even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone - and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb

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Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-28 02:00:22

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member states was to address the full life cycle of plastics, from production to disposal: In short, define what counts as plastic pollution and curb the sorts of unchecked production that inevitably leads to it. But across five sessions since, countries have failed to reach a consensus on the text. What was meant to b

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7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

techspot.com Amir Shoam 2025-08-28 04:08:00

With rising graphics card prices, you may want to save on other components when building a gaming PC. If you've read our CPU reviews, which compare current processors using high-quality motherboards, memory and PSUs, you may come to the conclusion that only the graphics card matters when playing at appropriate resolutions, and that the best-value PC is one built with the cheapest modern components elsewhere. That couldn't be further from the truth. While the GPU is the most important component

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7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

techspot.com Amir Shoam 2025-08-28 04:08:00

With rising graphics card prices, you may want to save on other components when building a gaming PC. If you've read our CPU reviews, which compare current processors using high-quality motherboards, memory and PSUs, you may come to the conclusion that only the graphics card matters when playing at appropriate resolutions, and that the best-value PC is one built with the cheapest modern components elsewhere. That couldn't be further from the truth. While the GPU is the most important component

Topics: core cpu games graphics psu

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This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 05:04:05

This Old SGI Consisting of a collection of notes and memoirs on my experiences with the 4D series machines. Compiled and maintained by A. J. Corda (Email) copyright (c) 1996 Version 2.0 Visitor Number Introduction I am posting this assortment of notes and observations as a kind of "thank you" to the numerous people who have replied to my posts in the past. The free flow of information is the life-blood of the internet community, and this is my feeble attempt to maintain that flow, while at

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Latest Tech News

We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

8 Common Foods That Can Contain Microplastics and How to Avoid Them

Netherlands: Citrix Netscaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 exploited to breach orgs

A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind

Gemini is ready to start dreaming up images in Google Docs on Android

A Global Look at Teletext

ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

A SPARC makes a little fire

Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

China Opens ‘Robot Mall,’ Its First Mall for Robots

AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators

Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store

AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

From tickets to brochures: Google Messages just stepped up with PDF support over RCS

Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems

Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

Welcome to Regulator

These $80 Windows XP Crocs just made me desperate for Android footwear

Apple now offers a separate Xcode 26 beta build for Apple silicon Macs

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

This retro camcorder upgrades Super 8 film cameras with modern conveniences

These 8 Food Items Are Surprisingly Full of Microplastics

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

7 Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components

This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)

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