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A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2025-07-16 09:02:37

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million tonnes of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times as fast as e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue i

Topics: data pcfax security telemetry usage

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Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-07-23 10:03:19

Microsoft is building data centers as fast as it can, and that’s killing its carbon balance sheet. Since 2020, its carbon emissions have grown by nearly a quarter, undermining the pledge it made that year to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it generates by 2030. So Microsoft has been buying massive amounts of carbon-removal credits to attempt to remedy that situation, including a newly announced purchase of 4.9 million metric tons from Vaulted Deep. Neither party disclosed the financ

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AI coding may not be helping as much as you think

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-07-28 06:46:56

A significant fraction of the money that people have paid for Generative AI has been for coding assistance. When I point to the positive uses of Generative AI, I invariably point to how GenAI serves as kind of valuable autocomplete for coding. In that context, a new study from METR, an AI benchmarking nonprofit, is shocking. METR ran a randomized control trial in the first half of this year “to see whether AI tool usage at the February–June 2025 frontier (primarily Cursor Pro) sped-up experien

Topics: ai developers metr time tools

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Finally, a MagSafe wallet for my phone that feels premium (and it just got even cheaper)

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-08-17 18:47:50

ZDNET's key takeaways The UAG Metropolis Wallet is a MagSafe wallet and stand made of vegan leather for $45. It holds up to five cards and cash, has a kickstand, is RFID blocking, and features pockets. It's only available in Black. $44.95 at Amazon $44.95 at Walmart more buying choices Now until July 7, get 20% off with the code UNITED at checkout on UAG's direct website. This drops the Metropolis wallet down to $36. As ZDNET's MagSafe expert, I've tried many magnetic accessories, from walle

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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2025-08-22 09:38:43

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million metric tons of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times faster than e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The i

Topics: data pcfax security telemetry usage

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CFOs want AI that pays: real metrics, not marketing demos

venturebeat.com James Thomason 2025-08-23 22:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. Recent surveys and VentureBeat’s conversations with CFOs suggest the honeymoon phase of AI is rapidly drawing to a close. While 2024 was dominated by pilot programs and proof-of-concept demonstrations, in mid-2025, the pressure for measurable results is intensifying, even as CFO interest in AI remains high. According to a KPMG survey of 300 U.

Topics: ai cfos financial metrics value

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Metro by T-Mobile celebrates ‘Best Network’ title with more high-speed data for all

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 17:58:01

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Metro by T-Mobile is increasing the premium data limits for its most popular plans. The new, higher premium data caps will apply to Metro Flex Unlimited and Flex Unlimited Plus plans starting June 26. T-Mobile is celebrating its recently awarded “Best Network” title with a host of perks for both new and existing users. Joining in on the festivities, Metro by T-Mobile, the carrier’s prepaid wireless brand, is also giving subscribers more bang for their

Topics: data flex metro plans unlimited

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Finally, a MagSafe wallet for my phone that feels premium (without the price tag)

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-02 22:26:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The UAG Metropolis Wallet is a MagSafe wallet and stand made of vegan leather for $45. It holds up to five cards and cash, has a kickstand, is RFID blocking, and features pockets. It's only available in Black. $44.95 at Amazon $44.95 at Walmart more buying choices As ZDNET's MagSafe expert, I've tried many magnetic accessories, from wallets, grips, and stands to notebooks, battery packs, and beyond. That's why when one catches my eye or edges out something else I've trie

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OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

news.ycombinator.com Nikolay Sivko 2025-09-14 05:09:17

Everything comes at a cost — and observability is no exception. When we add metrics, logging, or distributed tracing to our applications, it helps us understand what’s going on with performance and key UX metrics like success rate and latency. But what’s the cost? I’m not talking about the price of observability tools here, I mean the instrumentation overhead. If an application logs or traces everything it does, that’s bound to slow it down or at least increase resource consumption. Of course,

Topics: app http metrics opentelemetry redis

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CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 04:42:50

In the fast-paced world of CI/CD, understanding the performance and behaviour of your pipelines is crucial. GitHub Actions has become a popular choice for automating builds and deployments, but anyone who's debugged a flaky workflow or long-running job knows how challenging it can be to get visibility into what's happening under the hood. We usually rely on build logs, timing data, or guesswork when something goes wrong. Wouldn't it be nice to trace a pipeline run step-by-step, or have metrics o

Topics: collector github metrics receiver traces

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Shaping Light – Volumetric Lighting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 01:56:03

As I became more familiar with post-processing over the past few months, I was curious to push those newly learned techniques beyond pure stylization to achieve something more functional. I wanted to find new ways to enrich my 3D work which wouldn't be possible without leveraging effects and passes alongside custom shaders. As it turns out, post-processing is great entrypoint to enhance a 3D scene with atmospheric and lighting effects, allowing for more realistic and dramatic visuals. Because t

Topics: float light scene space volumetric

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Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-04 10:06:05

Our scene representation is a hybrid of primitive and volumetric model. (a) Primitive component. We explicitly allocate voxels primitives to cover different scene level-of-details under an Octree layout. Note that we do not replicate a traditional Octree data structure with parent-child pointers or linear Octree. We only keep voxels at the Octree leaf nodes without any ancestor nodes. (b) Volumetric component. Inside a voxel is a volumetric (trilinear) density field and a (constant) spherical ha

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The new iPhone 16e is virtually free with these T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile trade-in deals

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-04 13:38:50

TL;DR T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile are offering the iPhone 16e for free with eligible trade-ins. T-Mobile users can get the iPhone 16e for free with eligible trade-ins on Magenta Max, Go5G Plus, and Go5G Next plans. On most other plans, you can get it for free when adding a new line or get up to $500 off with a trade-in. Customers can get the iPhone 16e for free when they join Metro Flex Up or Metro Flex Plus, with 12 months of service credits. Apple launched the iPhone 16e yesterday, comin

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Latest Tech News

A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

AI coding may not be helping as much as you think

Finally, a MagSafe wallet for my phone that feels premium (and it just got even cheaper)

A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

CFOs want AI that pays: real metrics, not marketing demos

Metro by T-Mobile celebrates ‘Best Network’ title with more high-speed data for all

Finally, a MagSafe wallet for my phone that feels premium (without the price tag)

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide

Shaping Light – Volumetric Lighting

Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

The new iPhone 16e is virtually free with these T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile trade-in deals

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