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A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-09-23 19:00:00

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that instead of being destroyed, it was transformed, incorporating the mass of that foreign body to become the planet we know. Recent research adds another layer of relevance to that hypothesized cosmic event: Scientists believe that without that other body, the basic conditions for life to emerge on Ear

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iOS 26: Here's How to Change Your iPhone's New Liquid Glass Design

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 13:00:04

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. The update introduces a handful of new features to your iPhone, like call screening, new ringtones and more. And the biggest change iOS 26 brings to your device is a new Liquid Glass design. Liquid Glass is the biggest visual update Apple has brought to your iPhone since the company released iOS 7 in 2013. The redesign makes menus and other visual elements appear transluc

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iOS 26 officially launches today, but some developers aren’t sure it should

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-30 06:20:08

Today is the day that iOS 26 finally emerges from beta and is officially launched. The headline feature is of course the Liquid Glass look, which has proved almost as controversial as the minimalist look of iOS 7 back in 2013. Apple has made some pretty substantial changes to the look of the operating system after beta testers complained about poor legibility and confusing design elements. Even so, some developers are not at all convinced that Liquid Glass is ready to be unleashed … Wired’s Cr

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The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown

news.ycombinator.com Deane Barker 2025-11-29 16:16:56

The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown I love Markdown. I write faster and more natively in it than any other format or tool. If we zoom way out, here’s the most basic philosophy of Markdown: replace complicated stuff with simpler stuff. That’s all it does, really. It replaces some tedious nested taggy stuff with way simpler stuff that makes more visual sense and is faster to type. At its core, Markdown is really just a bunch of macros. This website runs on 6,000-ish

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Rethinking DOM from first principles

news.ycombinator.com Steven Wittens 2025-12-07 22:51:13

In either case, there are also some roadblocks. I'll just mention three: text-ellipsis can only be used to truncate unwrapped text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. can only be used to truncate text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. position: sticky lets e

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HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML

news.ycombinator.com Steven Wittens 2025-12-08 22:51:13

In either case, there are also some roadblocks. I'll just mention three: text-ellipsis can only be used to truncate unwrapped text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. can only be used to truncate text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. position: sticky lets e

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HTML-in-Canvas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:26:47

We propose new HTML Canvas APIs for rendering HTML content into the canvas for Canvas 2D and WebGL. Status Authors: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson, Khushal Sagar, Vladimir Levin, Fernando Serboncini Champions: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson This proposal is a subset of a previous proposal covering APIs to allow live HTML elements. Motivation There is no web API to easily render complex layouts of text and other content into a <canvas> . As a result, <canvas> -based content suffers in a

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macOS Icon History

news.ycombinator.com Https 2026-02-06 05:25:41

With macOS 26, Apple has announced a dramatically new look to their UI: Liquid Glass. Solid material icon elements give way to softer, shinier, glassier icons. The rounded rectangle became slightly more rounded, and Apple eliminated the ability for icon elements to extend beyond the icon rectangle (as seen in the current icons for GarageBand, Photo Booth, Dictionary, etc.). With this release being one of the most dramatic visual overhauls of macOS's design, I wanted to begin a collection chroni

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Show HN: Fast Thermodynamic Calculations in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 08:48:12

Gaspype provides two main classes: fluid and elements . A fluid object can have multiple compositions. A multidimensional fluid object can be created for example by multiplication with a numpy array: In some cases not the molecular but the atomic composition is of interest. The elements class can be used for atom based balances and works similar: el = gp . elements ({ 'N' : 1 , 'Cl' : 2 }) el . get_mass () np . float64 ( 0.08490700000000001 ) A elements object can be as well instantiated fr

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Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2026-02-11 16:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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That XOR Trick (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 14:32:41

There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of XOR in a seemingly hard to understand way. While it seems unreasonable to expect the XOR solutions in interviews, it is quite fun to figure out how they work. As it turns out, they are all based on the same fundamental trick, which we will derive in a bottom-up way in this post. Afterwards we will lo

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Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2026-02-12 10:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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Alternative Layout System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:31:29

This script imitates a method used in certain manuscripts, where the space between the last word of a line and the end of the text block is filled with various elements ― such as a simple or wavy pen stroke, repetition of the last letter, punctuation marks, embellished slashes, full stops, etc. It allows you to fill this space with one or more glyphs of your choice, or by repeating the last letter of the line.

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Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-05 18:35:05

Linear algebra is typically explained using matrices. But matrix theory is just one possible perspective. Below, I describe an alternative approach to linear algebra. Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882–1954), a Polish astronomer living in Krakow, was passionate about calculating machines. From the 1920s, Banachiewicz developed a method for computations on tables of numbers, which was particularly easy to perform with arithmometers. In honor of Krakow, Banachiewicz named these computational objects crac

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Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]

news.ycombinator.com Apple Inc. 2026-03-13 21:48:47

Liquid Glass is a significant new step and evolution of the look and feel of Apple software. It introduces a flexible, dynamic layer to apps and system experiences across Apple’s ecosystem of products. It builds on learnings from all the way from the Aqua user interface of Mac OS X, through to the realtime blurs of iOS 7, to the fluidity of iPhone X, the flexibility of the Dynamic Island, and the immersive interface of visionOS. Building off these learnings, rather than trying to simply recreat

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Latest Tech News

A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

iOS 26: Here's How to Change Your iPhone's New Liquid Glass Design

iOS 26 officially launches today, but some developers aren’t sure it should

The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown

Rethinking DOM from first principles

HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML

HTML-in-Canvas

macOS Icon History

Show HN: Fast Thermodynamic Calculations in Python

Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

That XOR Trick (2020)

Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

Alternative Layout System

Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]

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