GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 08:55:28

Marco Giancotti , August 21, 2025 Cover image: Photo by Rebecca Freeman, Unsplash TL;DR is the part in bold below. The field of psychology had a big crisis in the 2010s, when many widely accepted results turned out to be much less solid than previously thought. It's called the replication crisis, because labs around the world tried and failed to replicate, in new experiments, previous results published by their original "discoverers". In other words, many reported psychological effects were ei

Topics: claimed did effect replicate replication

Shop Amazon

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 13:24:23

Post by minki » 2025-09-16 IMG_20250916_224553.jpg (81.99 KiB) Viewed 26683 times Two and a half years ago, I started my now longest real-world software experiment. I had read an article about how DOOMs engine works and noticed how a variable for tracking the demo kept being incremented even after the next demo started. This variable was compared with a second one storing its previous value. The issue here being, each incrementation would cause the variable to slowly get closer to an overflow,

Topics: did game overflow real variable

Shop Amazon

Costco Recalls Prosecco That Could Shatter, Even Without Being Touched

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 23:43:00

If you recently purchased a bottle of prosecco at Costco, check the brand immediately. The massive warehouse-club retail chain has issued a recall for certain bottles of its Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene, reporting that the bottles could shatter without even being touched. Costco sent a letter to customers who bought the product between April 25 and Aug. 25 this year in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and W

Topics: bottle bottles costco did letter

Shop Amazon

The Casting Rumors for the ‘Gundam’ Movie Are Only Getting Weirder

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-25 13:00:07

Greg Nicotero teases a Jason Voorhees-inspired zombie on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Na Hong-jin’s alien invasion movie gets a poster, and Matt Reeves teases new ground for Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight in The Batman, Part II. Spoilers, away! Mobile Suit Gundam The latest edition of Jeff Sneider’s newsletter, the InSneider, alleges that Legendary is eyeing singer Benson Boone to join the cast of its adaptation of the mecha anime legend, in an undisclosed role alongside the previously rumor

Topics: astronaut batman did movie way

Shop Amazon

Hypershell Pro X Series Review: An Exoskeleton You Can Actually Buy

wired.com Chris Haslam 2025-09-28 07:00:00

WIRED Editor Amit Katwala has traveled far and wide for a hands-on look at the future of robotic artificial limbs, and the technological progress he witnessed is beyond impressive. But in truth, his quest to become Superhuman is still stuck in the prototype phase. I, on the other hand, have been galavanting around the English countryside wearing the Hypershell Pro X, the first readily available leg-boosting, mile-eating, powered exoskeleton. As a broader product category, exoskeletons have the

Topics: 10 did hypershell power pro

Shop Amazon

Nvidia and OpenAI to back major investment in UK AI infrastructure

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-30 14:14:46

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, at the London Tech Week exposition in London, UK, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Nvidia and OpenAI are in discussions about backing a major investment in Britain focused on boosting artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country. The two tech firms are discussing a sizable deal to support data center development in the country which could ultimately be worth billions of dollars, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC, confir

Topics: comment country did discussions nvidia

Shop Amazon

Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 11:26:45

Ben-Hur on a computer screen 05 Set, 2025 Ben-Hur, 1925 I kept looking, completely mesmerized. The teacher hit the key again, and a scene from a movie played. It was a chariot race from Ben-Hur. On a computer screen. It felt wrong. It felt like magic. The clip was less than five seconds. "One day, everyone will watch movies on computers", he said. In the 1990s, in Brazil, computers were suddenly all the rage. Fernando Henrique Cardoso's "Plano Real" had managed to do what everyone thought i

Topics: ben computer computers did didn

Shop Amazon

Canada Raids Compound of QAnon-Inspired Cult Leader, ‘Queen of Canada’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-13 17:00:05

The cultural curse of QAnon may have largely dissipated in the U.S., but an alleged offshoot of the cult has been festering in a remote region of Canada. This week, police say they busted the group in a raid on a compound in a small village in southwest Saskatchewan. Authorities in Canada say they arrested 17 people in the village of Richmound on Wednesday. The arrests took place at a building where the group—which calls itself “The Kingdom of Canada”—had been living for approximately two years

Topics: canada didulo government group wednesday

Shop Amazon

Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-21 06:42:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon had a very eventful August, thanks mainly to the unpopular decision to cut loyalty discounts. The company had to resort to damage control by offering new discounts instead of the old ones, but some customers felt tricked into accepting lower discounts. If you were willing to look past all of this, the carrier just bounced back after a rough weekend where it suffered a service outage. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a pre

Topics: did issue service users verizon

Shop Amazon

My Failures Onboarding at Splunk

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 03:38:35

In the fall of 2021, I found myself burnt out both professionally and personally. I was ready for a change. At NCR I was proud of what our team had accomplished - we built a group of over seventy people across four timezones, leading the journey to the cloud, and adopting better incident response and observability. The pandemic, however, had taken a great toll on me and my family. I spent much of it working long hours making sure restaurants could continue to conduct business and survive, at the

Topics: didn director people splunk team

Shop Amazon

A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 17:34:31

Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear? In 2011, archaeologists found something unusual in a Roman toilet. The team were excavating the ancient village of Tasgetium (now Eschenz, Switzerland), ruled by a Celtic king who was personally given the land by Julius Caesar. It was built on the banks of the river Rhine, along what was then an important trade route

Topics: ago ancient archaeologists did fruit

Shop Amazon

What Happened to Egghead Software

news.ycombinator.com Dave Farquhar 2025-10-28 15:18:18

Egghead Software was a US retail store that sold computer software from 1984 to 2001. It declared bankruptcy 24 years ago this week, on August 18, 2001, after an attempted transition to selling online failed. Egghead Software’s beginnings Egghead Software started in Bellevue, Washington in 1984 and moved eastward. Its founder, Victor D. Alhadeff, had a background in oil and gas, but when his old company went out of business in 1983, he needed a new idea. That came from shopping for software. A

Topics: didn egghead software store stores

Shop Amazon

Following Made by Google, is it time for companies to retire live smartphone launch events?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 09:34:34

Ryan Haines / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. So, yesterday, Google launched the Pixel 10 series. While the phones are intriguing if not spectacular, it’s the livestreamed event that remained seared into my brain when I woke up this morning. The Made By Google event, which was broadcast live and hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, featured

Topics: android did event google live

Shop Amazon

Poll: Was Made by Google 2025 a win or a cringe-fest?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:43:47

Google Google’s big hardware showcase looked a little different this year. Rather than the standard keynote format to introduce the Pixel 10 series and other hardware, the company leaned into a talk show vibe for Made by Google 2025, with Jimmy Fallon hosting and guest spots from Stephen Curry, Lando Norris, and the Jonas Brothers. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to support us and make sure you never miss our latest exclusive re

Topics: 2025 corporate did different google

Shop Amazon

GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 18:00:09

Position Closed Sorry, this position is no longer accepting candidates.

Topics: accepting candidates closed longer position

Shop Amazon

The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

news.ycombinator.com David Marjanović 2025-11-09 14:11:29

by Ben Lindbergh at the Ringer asks “When did jerk stop meaning ‘stupid’?” He starts with the Steve Martin movie The Jerk, saying of its protagonist: Navin is oblivious, not obnoxious. He’s ignorant, not intolerant. He’s naive, not intentionally cruel. He’s a bumpkin, a rube, and a moron, maybe, but a jerk? For the most part, no, I wouldn’t say so. There he is, of course, using the current sense of jerk: “There’s definitely been a semantic shift in ‘jerk’ over the years,” says linguist, lexi

Topics: barry did jerk meaning mom

Shop Amazon

‘Severance’ Season 3 Is Coming, but Ben Stiller Won’t Be Directing

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-13 09:15:15

When audiences return to Lumon Industries sometime in the near future, it will be without a major component. Ben Stiller, one of the producers and directors of the hit Apple TV+ show Severance, will not be directing any episodes in season three. “I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, ‘The clock is ticking,’” Stiller told the Los Angeles Times. He’s currently getting ready to star in Focker-In-Law, the latest Meet the Parents movie, and is prepping his next feature film, a World War II sur

Topics: did episodes season severance stiller

Shop Amazon

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 21:17:33

Feb 7, 2019 by Sahil Lavingia Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life's work. I thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. Needless to say, that didn't happen. Now, it may look like I am in an enviable position, running a prof

Topics: company creators didn gumroad product

Shop Amazon

Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

news.ycombinator.com Sainath Krishnamurthy 2025-11-26 16:06:04

In a world obsessed with hacks, sprints, and overnight success, I’ve been drawn to something quieter, simpler, and, at least for me, more sustaining: a daily rhythm built around four verbs. No apps. No dashboards. Just a living experiment I return to every day: Learn. Reflect. Apply. Prepare. I haven’t mastered this. Far from it. But the more I practice, the more I notice how these four verbs gently shape my days, especially when things feel chaotic or uncertain. 1. Learn Something Every Day

Topics: did isn just learning ve

Shop Amazon

I tested GPT-5's coding skills, and it was so bad that I'm sticking with GPT-4o (for now)

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-28 00:50:00

Vaselena/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's new GPT-5 flagship failed half of my programming tests. Previous OpenAI releases have had just about perfect results. Now that OpenAI has enabled fallbacks to other LLMs, there are options. So GPT-5 happened. It's out. It's released. It's the talk of the virtual town. And it's got some problems. I'm not gonna bury the lede. GPT-5 has failed half of my programming tests. That's the worst that OpenAI's flagship LLM has ever done on my caref

Topics: ai did gpt test zdnet

Shop Amazon

AOL is finally shutting down dial-up

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-11-28 05:32:48

As a septuagenarian, my father’s story was typical of long-time AOL dial-up subscribers. His subscription was a security blanket. He was sure he didn’t need the dial-up component, but he didn’t want to risk losing access to his stock portfolio, investor forums, and email. His setup worked, and he could afford to keep paying the subscription he had dutifully paid for over a decade. With my help, we were able to migrate everything he used on AOL to the ad-supported and open internet that was alre

Topics: aol component dial didn long

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-27 16:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” RFK Jr., our current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said this at a congressional hearing at the end of June. Wearables, he said, are key to the MAHA — Make America Healthy Agai

Topics: data didn health wearable wearables

Shop Amazon

Here's the absolutely massive Tamagotchi Paradise next to other objects in the wild, for scale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 03:20:17

No product launch excites me more than the release of a new Tamagotchi. So when it comes time to review one, I like to first give myself a little while to just live with the device — to feel that initial delight and let it die down before I try to look at it critically. That way, I can more fairly assess whether we've actually got a toy that's worth the price tag and will hold a person's attention once the novelty wears off. But Tamagotchi Paradise arrived a few days ago, and while a proper rev

Topics: device did like paradise tamagotchi

Shop Amazon

These Democrats Think the Party Needs AI to Win Elections

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-05 08:52:56

The 2024 election cycle saw artificial intelligence deployed by political campaigns for the very first time. While candidates largely avoided major mishaps, the tech was used with little guidance or restraint. Now, the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) is rolling out the first official playbook making the case that Democratic campaigns can use AI responsibly ahead of the midterms. In a new online training, the committee has laid out a plan for Democratic candidates to leverage AI to

Topics: ai campaigns candidates training use

Shop Amazon

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 09:37:00

Open source is usually seen as a win - for learning, visibility, and the community. But have you ever regretted it? Maybe it became a burden to maintain, attracted the wrong users, or got used in ways you didn’t expect. Would love to hear your experience - good or bad.

Topics: attracted bad burden community didn

Shop Amazon

Spotify Raises Premium Subscription Price Globally (but Not in the US... Yet)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-10 06:34:00

For many global customers, the cost of streaming their favorite music on Spotify is about to have a bigger impact on their wallets. The music streaming service announced that it's raising the monthly price of a premium subscription to 11.99 euros ($13.87) starting in September. Spotify said that the 1-euro price hike would affect markets in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region, but did not list the countries impacted. The price for US-based su

Topics: 11 asia did price spotify

Shop Amazon

I went on Airplane Mode for 8 days and these are the tools I missed most

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 08:00:35

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority When I boarded a cruise ship last week with roughly thirty family members, I knew I’d be off the grid, but I also figured most of the important people in my life were with me anyway. What I didn’t realize was how much I rely on my phone for everything from logistics to late-night distraction. The ship technically offered Wi-Fi, but shoddy service made messages sporadic and Google searches impossible. Here’s what I missed the most. Do you utilize Airplane Mode

Topics: apps cruise day didn wasn

Shop Amazon

Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video]

news.ycombinator.com Audrey Ash 2025-12-11 10:20:22

1. How relevant is this ad to you? Video player was slow to load content Video content never loaded Ad froze or did not finish loading Video content did not start after ad Audio on ad was too loud Other issues

Topics: ad content did finish video

Shop Amazon

Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-15 22:40:32

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves after attending a meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents. When the 50-year-old technology company released its annual report Wednesday, the 101-page document contained zero references to longtime foes Apple and IBM . Nor did it mention privately held challengers such as Anth

Topics: annual apple companies did microsoft

Shop Amazon

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 17:58:12

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work can be frustrating enough — you know you’ll have to address all those issues at some point. But it’s even worse when you experience an issue and don’t have the option to solve it. A recent example of this for me was playing the game

Topics: didn function game thread trackmania

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware

Costco Recalls Prosecco That Could Shatter, Even Without Being Touched

The Casting Rumors for the ‘Gundam’ Movie Are Only Getting Weirder

Hypershell Pro X Series Review: An Exoskeleton You Can Actually Buy

Nvidia and OpenAI to back major investment in UK AI infrastructure

Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen

Canada Raids Compound of QAnon-Inspired Cult Leader, ‘Queen of Canada’

Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

My Failures Onboarding at Splunk

A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)

What Happened to Egghead Software

Following Made by Google, is it time for companies to retire live smartphone launch events?

Poll: Was Made by Google 2025 a win or a cringe-fest?

GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

‘Severance’ Season 3 Is Coming, but Ben Stiller Won’t Be Directing

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (2019)

Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

I tested GPT-5's coding skills, and it was so bad that I'm sticking with GPT-4o (for now)

AOL is finally shutting down dial-up

RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks

Here's the absolutely massive Tamagotchi Paradise next to other objects in the wild, for scale

These Democrats Think the Party Needs AI to Win Elections

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

Spotify Raises Premium Subscription Price Globally (but Not in the US... Yet)

I went on Airplane Mode for 8 days and these are the tools I missed most

Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video]

Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising