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Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 02:13:48

Creating good-looking user interfaces has always been a struggle for me. If you’re in the same camp, this might help. I recently redesigned Lighthouse, and during that process built a system that helped me create much better designs than I ever did before. This system is about achieving the best possible design with the least amount of effort. There’s no need to know about the psychological impact of colors, which fonts are best for which purpose, golden ratios, etc. This is expert-level desig

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Meta's live staged demo fails; the "AI" recording plays before the actor acts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 05:50:33

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Hyundai CEO distances company from ICE raid: ‘not our facility’

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-23 10:12:50

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today, the CEO of Hyundai sought to distance his company from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid earlier this month at the company’s battery factory in Georgia, which resulted in the arrest of hundreds of South Korean workers.

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iPhone 18 Pro might fix iPhone 17 Pro’s most polarizing design choice

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-23 10:03:44

iPhone 18 Pro rumors have already started, including one that says Apple may be changing the most polarizing design element of iPhone 17 Pro: the glass cutout on the back of the device. Rear glass cutout design might be changing with iPhone 18 Pro Apple made some bold design changes with this year’s iPhone lineup. The iPhone Air (read our review) offers a futuristic look, while the iPhone 17 Pro (review here) stands out with three main features: The full-width camera plateau Bold new color op

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The New ‘Critical Role’ Trailer Ushers in Campaign 4

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-23 18:15:24

Change is coming to Critical Role with its fourth major campaign: a new setting, more cast members, and Dimension 20‘s Brennan Lee Mulligan at the helm make things more different than they’ve been in some time for the decade-old Actual Play series. Ahead of Campaign 4’s debut in three weeks, the first real trailer gives an idea of what to expect with this new dynamic. It largely consists of Mulligan narrating as the assembled players actually play the game—it’s Dungeons & Dragons again, the go-

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 09:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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iOS 26 lets you reduce Liquid Glass to be more like iOS 18, here’s how

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-28 05:06:13

iOS 26 is packed with major changes for the iPhone, including a new Liquid Glass design. But if you’re not a fan of the fresh design, here’s how to make iOS 26 look and feel more like iOS 18 again. You can’t turn Liquid Glass off, but you can scale it way back in iOS 26 Apple’s software has a new look across all devices, with Liquid Glass at the center. So far based on social media, Liquid Glass seems to understandably be getting a wide variety of responses, ranging from positive, to negative

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Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 14:20:00

A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day. The ad fraud campaign was discovered by HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence team, which reported that the apps were downloaded over 38 million times and employed obfuscation and steganography to conceal the malicious behavior from Google and security tools. The campaign was worldwide, with users installing the apps from 228 co

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Development of the MOS Technology 6502: A Historical Perspective (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Jason Sachs 2025-09-28 11:59:47

One ubiquitous microprocessor of the late 1970s and 1980s was the MOS Technology MCS 6502. I included a section on the development of the 6502 in Part 2 of Supply Chain Games, and have posted it as an excerpt here, as I believe it is deserving in its own right. (Note: MOS Technology is pronounced with the individual letters M-O-S “em oh ess”,[1] not “moss”, and should not be confused with another semiconductor company, Mostek.) Semiconductor Fabrication and the 6502 The 6502 was first deliver

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1975 Sep 16 MOS Technology samples 6502 at WESCON, here's how they designed it

news.ycombinator.com Jason Sachs 2025-09-28 16:59:47

One ubiquitous microprocessor of the late 1970s and 1980s was the MOS Technology MCS 6502. I included a section on the development of the 6502 in Part 2 of Supply Chain Games, and have posted it as an excerpt here, as I believe it is deserving in its own right. (Note: MOS Technology is pronounced with the individual letters M-O-S “em oh ess”,[1] not “moss”, and should not be confused with another semiconductor company, Mostek.) Semiconductor Fabrication and the 6502 The 6502 was first deliver

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Samsung patches zero-day security flaw used to hack into its customers’ phones

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-09-28 18:20:09

Samsung says it has fixed a zero-day security vulnerability that is being used to hack into its customers’ phones. The phone maker said the security flaw, discovered in a software library for displaying images on Samsung devices, allows hackers to remotely plant malicious code on Samsung devices running Android 13 through the most recent version, Android 16. Samsung’s advisory said security teams from Meta and WhatsApp privately notified the company on August 13 and was told that “an exploit f

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Survey shows Android 16’s Expressive redesign is a big hit

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 10:23:16

Google launched the stable Android 16 update back in June, but we had to wait a few months for the promised Material 3 Expressive redesign to appear. Fortunately, this visual overhaul landed in early September, giving us a fresh coat of paint. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? We recently asked what you thought of this visual redesign. Now that the dust has settled and you’ve had time to explore the update, here’s how you answered that question. Over 3,000 votes were tallied

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 19:00:04

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: How to change Safari toolbar design on iPhone

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-30 10:02:14

The iOS 26 Safari browser on iPhone evokes the new design system featuring Liquid Glass, with floating toolbars and buttons that shine through the web page content behind them as you scroll. But Apple has also taken the opportunity to revamp the design of the toolbar UI. By default, iOS 26 now uses a Compact layout which hides away some of the commonly used buttons. However, there’s a way to change it back if you prefer something that looked like the iOS 18 design … For iOS 26, the new default

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Death to type classes

news.ycombinator.com Jappie J. T. Klooster 2025-09-27 21:46:57

Death ( XIII ) Symbolizes significant change, transformation, and endings, rather than literal physical death. Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the fields? Or a Functor chirping in the trees? No? That’s because they’re LIES. LIES told by the bourgeoisie to keep common folk down. But I say NO, no longer shall we be kept down by deceit! Come brothers and sisters, come and let us create a system of values. Where values are no longer constrained by their type class, but instead merged as a si

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Death to Type Classes

news.ycombinator.com Jappie J. T. Klooster 2025-09-29 08:46:57

Death ( XIII ) Symbolizes significant change, transformation, and endings, rather than literal physical death. Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the fields? Or a Functor chirping in the trees? No? That’s because they’re LIES. LIES told by the bourgeoisie to keep common folk down. But I say NO, no longer shall we be kept down by deceit! Come brothers and sisters, come and let us create a system of values. Where values are no longer constrained by their type class, but instead merged as a si

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The Stop Killing Games movement is nearing an official meeting with EU lawmakers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 21:15:35

The Stop Killing Games campaign is continuing to gain momentum after hitting more than a million signatures in July. After a July 31st deadline, the movement secured around 1.45 million signatures, which the organizers are currently in the process of verifying. The initiative aims to enact legislation that preserves access to video games, even when developers decide to end support, as seen with Ubisoft when it delisted The Crew and revoked access to players who already purchased the game. There

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Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype

news.ycombinator.com Wojciech Kaczmarski 2025-09-28 04:38:28

The future is here: LinHT booted up successfully for the first time. We believe that Software Defined Transceivers will be the next big trend in amateur radio. LinHT is the most important hardware project in Amateur Radio today. Bruce Perens, K6BP https://perens.com/2025/08/12/whats-wrong-with-ardc/ The test device has no RF amplifier (although we will include GRF5604 RF amplifier in the next revision, see this). The output power of this test setup is around 5dBm. Frequency range: 420-450MHz

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This Wearable Isn't Telepathic, but It Knows What You Want to Say

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 18:00:05

Telepathy is, until proven otherwise, still science fiction. But a new wearable announced this week aims to bring the world closer to silent communication, though it's more about using brain signals than the X-Men superpower. Alterego, developed by the MIT Media Lab, is a peripheral neural interface that allows us to converse with machines, artificial intelligence assistants and humans, without using our voice or externally observable movements. We first saw the Alterego as a prototype in 2018

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Legal win

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:55:23

Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization, and extortion have been knocked out! These were by far the most significant and far-reaching allegations in the case and with today’s decision the case is narrowed significantly. This is a win not just for us but for all open source maintainers and contributors. Huge thanks to the folks at Gibson and Automattic who have been working on this. With respect to any remainin

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Wysiwid: What you see is what it does

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Jackson 2025-09-28 16:54:09

Full paper Dividing labor with LLMs. As LLMs get better at writing code, it seems inevitable that there will be less work for human programmers. Thomas Dohmke is right that low-level coding skills will matter less and that “the future belongs to developers who can model systems, anticipate edge cases, and translate ambiguity into structure—skills that AI can’t automate.” Dohmke says “We need to teach abstraction, decomposition, and specification not just as pre-coding steps, but as the new cod

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You didn’t ask for it, but YouTube Music’s Now Playing redesign is here

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 18:16:29

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music has rolled out a redesign for Now Playing. The redesign relocates control buttons and features, while also introducing a dual-pane design. This redesign is a server-side update. Get ready to relearn where everything is on Now Playing in YouTube Music. After testing a redesign back in November, that new look is arriving in on the app. The redesign repositions control buttons and features, while also introducing a dual-pane design. Don’t want

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Sony’s new Xperia phone jumps on the camera bar bandwagon

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-04 03:02:52

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sony has announced the Xperia 10 VII, a midrange Android phone that’s launching in the UK, Europe, and Asia, though not the US. It’s more notable than most Sony phones because it marks the first major change to the rear design in over five years: a camera bar, just like recent Pixels, and

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Someone Finally Got the Note and Fixed This ‘Beetlejuice’ Sign

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-04 10:00:33

If you’re a movie prop replica collector, you know exactly which Beetlejuice sign we’re talking about. For years, as a Beetlejuice decor hunter, there has been one item I refused to buy on principle because it had one glaring mistake: it was not in-universe accurate. I’ve bought the Adam and Barbara monster face hanging decor, the inflatable Sandworm for my lawn, and the “Here Lies Betelgeuse” tombstone—but never the iconic light-up sign due to the fact that it always featured the ghost with th

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Nothing Ear (3) gets fully revealed with case that has a mic and ‘Talk’ button

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 18:59:26

TL;DR Nothing has revealed the full design of the Ear (3) and its charging case. The earbuds retain much of the transparent casing the company is known for, but some metal components were added for a more premium finish. The case now has a microphone and a dedicated “Talk” button. Nothing revealed earlier this week that it would launch the Ear (3) on September 18, which is next Thursday. Not one to wait for announcement events, the company has gone ahead and revealed the full design of its ne

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France confirms new Apple spyware campaign alert

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-04 18:38:23

In a threat and incidents report released today, France’s Information Security Agency confirmed that Apple issued a new wave of threat notifications earlier this month. Here are the details. The alert didn’t specify who was behind the recent campaign According to the agency’s report, Apple sent its latest round of security alerts to French citizens on September 3, 2025, marking the fourth campaign just this year. Previous notification waves were sent on March 5, April 29, and June 25. As the

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

news.ycombinator.com Caaac Team 2025-10-04 19:42:23

Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve theAI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners? We do. We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.

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Reshaped is now open source

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 09:32:49

About five years ago, I started Reshaped. I built it for myself, since I had a few projects in urgent need of a component library for both React and Figma. Having worked in the design systems space for over a decade, I had developed a clear sense of what a good design system should be — and what tends to go wrong in others. I noticed that no matter how trends evolve, around 80% of the web is still built on the same core design practices. So I set out to build a system that covers that 80%, whil

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OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-07 06:00:34

In Brief Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five years, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI would start purchasing this compute in 2027. If the WSJ’s reporting is correct, this

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A security incident that may involve your Plex account information

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:00:23

We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication

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Latest Tech News

Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer

Meta's live staged demo fails; the "AI" recording plays before the actor acts

Hyundai CEO distances company from ICE raid: ‘not our facility’

iPhone 18 Pro might fix iPhone 17 Pro’s most polarizing design choice

The New ‘Critical Role’ Trailer Ushers in Campaign 4

Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

iOS 26 lets you reduce Liquid Glass to be more like iOS 18, here’s how

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign

Development of the MOS Technology 6502: A Historical Perspective (2022)

1975 Sep 16 MOS Technology samples 6502 at WESCON, here's how they designed it

Samsung patches zero-day security flaw used to hack into its customers’ phones

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Death to type classes

Death to Type Classes

The Stop Killing Games movement is nearing an official meeting with EU lawmakers

Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype

This Wearable Isn't Telepathic, but It Knows What You Want to Say

Legal win

Wysiwid: What you see is what it does

You didn’t ask for it, but YouTube Music’s Now Playing redesign is here

Sony’s new Xperia phone jumps on the camera bar bandwagon

Someone Finally Got the Note and Fixed This ‘Beetlejuice’ Sign

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France confirms new Apple spyware campaign alert

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

A security incident that may involve your Plex account information

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