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Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool

news.ycombinator.com Gwendolyn Rak 2025-09-20 13:50:58

On 9 September, Apple introduced its newest lineup, including the iPhone 17 series. Much of the attention went to a new ultrathin model and a bright orange color option (a shade not dissimilar to that of the IEEE Spectrum logo). The new smartphones will also ship with the latest operating system and its “Liquid Glass” software design—but the liquid in these phones goes beyond software. The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max contain thin, hermetically sealed chambers with a drop of water inside

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Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms

news.ycombinator.com Wayne Joubert 2025-09-18 01:07:26

Suppose you’re learning a new language and want to boost your vocabulary in a very time-efficient way. People have many ways to learn a language, different for each person. Suppose you wanted to improve your vocabulary by reading books in that language. To get the most impact, you’d like to pick books that cover as many common words in the language as possible. Here is a formalization. Suppose for a large set of m books of average length n words, you want to pick the one book that has the high

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In defence of swap: common misconceptions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 00:06:38

In defence of swap: common misconceptions This post is also available in Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve. Swap is not generally about getting emergency memory, it's about making memory reclamation egalitarian and efficient. In fact, using it as "emergency memory" is generally actively harmful. Disabling swap does not prevent disk I/O from becoming a prob

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AYANEO’s $70 gaming handheld plays a shocking amount of GameCube, PS2, and Saturn games

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 22:40:03

AYANEO TL;DR AYANEO held a surprise sharing session to demonstrate compatibility on the Pocket AIR Mini. The company showcased a range of GameCube, PS2, and Saturn games running at full speed. The Pocket AIR Mini will be available mid-October, starting at $70. AYANEO’s first true budget handheld, the Pocket AIR Mini, is mostly noteworthy because of its $70 starting price, but today the company gave gamers a whole new reason to get excited. Not only will it be cheap, it will play games that m

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Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 00:01:30

Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche Please consider subscribing to LWN Subscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate this content and would like to see more of it, your subscription will help to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visit this page to join up and keep LWN on the net. The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users

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Evals in 2025: going beyond simple benchmarks to build models people can use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 10:16:48

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A revolution in English bell ringing

news.ycombinator.com Veronique Greenwood 2025-09-21 00:51:36

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Apple’s Small but Powerful iPad Mini Is 20% Off Today

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-09-20 00:58:20

Feeling like your devices are in need of an update after last week's series of Apple announcements? Amazon is offering $100 off the 2024 iPad Mini with an A17 Pro chip, a healthy 20 percent discount for the most recent version of Apple's miniaturized tablet. Our reviewer gave the device an 8/10 last year. The upgraded A17 Pro processor, with six CPU cores and five GPU cores, provides a snappy experience, but more importantly, it helps power Apple's new artificial intelligence features. That inc

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Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

wired.com Jennifer Ouellette 2025-09-20 15:00:00

Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2025 recipients of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes. Yes, it’s that time of year again, when the serious and the silly converge—for science. Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they

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The 51 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-09-20 16:00:00

Netflix has plenty of movies to watch. Maybe too many. Sometimes finding the right film at the right time can seem like an impossible task. Let us help you. Below is a list of some of our favorites currently on the streaming service—from dramas to comedies to thrillers. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our collection of the best TV series on Netflix. Want more? Check out our lists of the best sci-fi movies, best movies on Amazon Prime, and the best flicks on Disney+. If

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Amazon, Google, and Microsoft warn employees to rush back to the US

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-21 01:13:28

IMPORTANT ADVISORY: New travel restriction for H-1B visa holders Hi all--We have now reviewed the actual text of today’s Presidential Proclamation on H-1B visas, which you can find here: Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers - The White House. Here’s what you need to know: First, the proclamation is structured as a travel restriction. Beginning at 12:01 am eastern time on September 21, 2025 (so, 9:01 pm Pacific time tomorrow), individuals will not be able to enter/return to the

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-21 00:01:44

In Brief Large tech companies have responded to President Donald Trump’s dramatic changes to H-1B visa applications by telling employees with those visas to remain in the United States, according to multiple media reports. The White House announced Friday that Trump had signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications. In response, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reportedly emailed their employees telling those with H-1B visas to stay in the United State

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Hands-on with the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-09-20 22:00:01

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. When it comes to the new $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, it's the device's accompanying fuzzy, gray wristband that truly dazzles. I was able to try out Meta's next-generation smart glasses that the social media company announced Wednesday at its annual Connect event. These are the first gla

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OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It's Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 22:15:46

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming" — a term the company defines as meaning "when an AI behaves one way on the surface while hiding its true goals" — but their efforts backfired in an ominous way. In reality, the team found, they were unintentionally teaching the AI how to more effectively deceive humans by covering its tracks. "A major failure mode of attempting to 'train out' scheming is simply teaching the model to scheme more carefully and covertly," OpenA

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Meta's Disastrous Smart Glasses Demo Even Worse Than We Thought

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 01:15:50

Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. The company's demos of its new artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses failed repeatedly, causing Zuckerberg to stammer his way through awkward silences. "This is, uh... it happens," the CEO stammered after his smart glasses refused to accept a WhatsApp video call on stage. "Let's try it again, I keep messing this up." Another demo involved content creator and amateur chef Jack Mancuso

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Could T-Mobile and other big carriers be heading toward an online-only future?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 20:00:59

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority It’s no secret that customer service has been slowly but surely declining as the big three carriers look to cut costs, but in-store support has arguably taken the sharpest hit. All three carriers have closed at least some of their locations and made moves to reduce their reliance on third-party stores, all while raising sales goals to nearly unachievable levels. The result has been widespread burnout and high turnover. It’s clear that carriers now view retail

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Patapon's spiritual successor, co-op Lego and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:00:22

Some of the year’s biggest blockbuster games have just dropped or are coming very soon. But among the likes of Borderlands 4, EA Sports FC 26 and Battlefield 6, there are a ton of neat indie games popping up. We’re here to tell you about some of 'em and what else is going on in the space with our weekly indie games roundup. There were showcases this week from Critical Reflex (which was packed with neat oddities), Game Devs of Color, Six One Indie and Convergence. There's far too much cool stuff

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Lenovo abruptly cancels some Legion Go 2 preorders due to overwhelming demand

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 02:12:50

From a disastrous AMA on Monday to disappointing Legion Go 2 preorder customers on Friday, the Lenovo team is having a hell of a week. To kick things off, the Lenovo Legion team hosted an AMA on Reddit revolving around its gaming handheld launch. The Legion Go 2 generated a ton of hype, being Lenovo's next-gen gaming handheld with more powerful specs and a higher price tag, but the team only answered 10 questions before abandoning the thread. On Wednesday, Lenovo apologized for not being prepare

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How to turn any photo on your iPhone into a trippy 3D spatial scene

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-09-20 21:00:29

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Evals in 2025: benchmarks to build models people can use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 15:16:48

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Show HN: Math2Tex – Convert handwritten math and complex notes to LaTeX text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 00:46:18

Hi HN, I’m the creator of Math2Tex. I was a PhD student, I spend a huge amount of my time working with LaTeX, especially when dealing with lecture notes, academic papers, and homework. I built *Math2Tex*, a lightweight tool that converts handwritten or printed academic content — especially math formulas — into LaTeX or text The Problem: I've always found it incredibly tedious to manually type out mathematical formulas, especially complex, multi-line equations from my handwritten notes or from

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Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-09-21 00:37:52

The UK has struck a defense deal with US spy-tech biz Palantir, which the government says will unlock £1.5 billion ($2 billion) of investment in Britain. The arrangement emerged during the fanfare of US president Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, and accompanies a string of announcements by American tech A-listers, with promises the government claimed would be worth £31 billion ($42 billion) for AI and tech infrastructure. Palantir plans to make the UK its European HQ for defense. The move

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TrumpRx: White House Considering Trump-Branded Prescription Drug Website

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-21 00:40:05

White House officials are considering launching a website that would allow Americans to purchase cheaper prescription drugs directly from pharmaceutical companies, according to a report from Bloomberg. And incredibly, officials are seriously thinking about slapping President Donald Trump’s name on the project. The potential website would reportedly let consumers search for various drugs and be “connected to platforms that sell them,” though it’s not clear how that would save patients money. One

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Not a Fan of Liquid Glass? Change These iOS 26 Settings Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 20:00:05

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, including call screening, new ringtones and more. But the biggest change iOS 26 brings to your device is its new visual design that Apple calls Liquid Glass. This 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 e

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Hands-On: Yale's High-Tech Delivery Box Is Made to Defeat Porch Pirates in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 21:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Yale's delivery box is one of the smartest I've tried. Tyler Lacoma/CNET I've written before about the new kind of home tech that's defeating porch pirates. It's a box, but a smart one, designed to keep porch pirates from stealing packages when they're dropped off (as opposed to a video doorbell, which they may not notice or care about). This mail protec

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5 Warning Signs Your Gut Is Unhealthy That You Shouldn't Ignore

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 22:00:00

The trillions of microbes that live in your gut are likened to "little pets living inside your intestinal tract." Or at least, that's how Gail Cresci, a microbiome expert at the Cleveland Clinic, describes it. But they do far more than help digest food. They also support your immune system, regulate inflammation, and produce essential compounds like vitamins and hormones that keep your body running smoothly. Because your gut plays such a big role in your overall health, it's important to recogn

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You’ll enjoy the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon even without assist

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:00:59

Two things about the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon are hard to fathom: One is how light and lithe it feels as an e-bike, even with the battery off; the other is how hard it is to recite its full name when other riders ask you about the bike at stop lights and pit stops. I’ve tested about a half-dozen e-bikes for Ars Technica. Each test period has included a ride with my regular group for about 30 miles. Nobody else in my group rides electric, so I try riding with no assist, at least pa

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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

wired.com Amos Zeeberg 2025-09-20 21:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that rivaled the performance of those from the world’s most famous AI companies, but using a fraction of the computer power and cost. As a result, the stocks of many Western tech companies plummeted; Nvidia, which

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17 Best iPhone 17 Cases and Accessories (2025)

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-09-20 21:30:00

Other Screen Protectors I've Tested ESR Armorite Pro screen protector. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu ESR Armorite Screen Protector and Privacy Protector for $20: This pack is better value than Smartish's screen protectors, because you get three tempered glass sheets instead of two. All the necessary equipment is here, from an application tool to wet wipes. While it uses a pull-tab, I found Smartish's and Dbrand's systems easier to use overall. I also tried ESR's Privacy Protector, which was eff

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How to Set Up Your New iPhone (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-09-20 22:30:00

Hey there, what a lovely new iPhone you have! Whichever one of the many iPhones in Apple's lineup you snagged, the setup experience is nearly identical. Here’s how to set up a new iPhone properly to ensure a three- to five-year lifetime, give or take, of happiness. (Or just one, if you’re an annual upgrader.) Things always go more smoothly when you're prepared, so make sure you have the following ready for the easiest possible setup: Your old phone (not essential, but it's smart to have it hand

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Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool

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