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An Odd Trio of ‘Halloween’ Movies Is Returning to Theaters

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-22 21:00:06

The latest movies to come back to theaters are the Halloween franchise, which makes sense since it’s spooky season. But instead of just the original film or the more recent trilogy, we’re getting three installments that’ve been surprisingly grouped together. Along with the original 1978 Halloween, both Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers are also coming back to the big screen. The trio’s cinematic return comes courtesy of Trancas International

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Alex Lawther Didn’t Know Just How Much His ‘Andor’ Manifesto Hit Until Season 2

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-25 09:40:29

Of many, many breakout moments in Andor‘s first season, the passionate posthumous manifesto of Alex Lawther’s Karis Nemik providing the backdrop for Cassian’s return home remains one of the series’ standouts—perhaps only matched when the recording made a surprise return in the show’s second and final season, spreading the message of the Rebellion like a fire across the galaxy. But it wasn’t until the man behind the performance himself learned about that return that he realized just how much of a

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‘Star Wars’ Actor Teases ‘Clone Wars’ Favorite May Be Poised to Return

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-05 13:08:53

The sprawling Star Wars universe is in a little bit of a “calm before the storm” moment, with a huge slate of upcoming films, shows, novels, and video games looming on the horizon like a binary sunset. And to add to the melee, an actor from the franchise’s TV darling, The Clone Wars, is teasing the return of a fan-favorite character. Speaking with The Direct, voice actor Jim Cummings appeared to confirm that his Clone Wars character, Hondo Ohnaka, will be making a return to the series. “I thin

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NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-10-12 09:37:57

Starting at September 8th, 13:16 UTC, our Aikido intel feed alerted us to a series packages being pushed to npm, which appeared to contain malicious code. These were 18 very popular packages, backslash (0.26m downloads per week) chalk-template (3.9m downloads per week) supports-hyperlinks (19.2m downloads per week) has-ansi (12.1m downloads per week) simple-swizzle (26.26m downloads per week) color-string (27.48m downloads per week) error-ex (47.17m downloads per week) color-name (191.71

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Baby's first type checker

news.ycombinator.com Austin Z. Henley 2025-10-09 14:41:06

Austin Z. Henley Associate Teaching Professor Carnegie Mellon University [email protected] @austinzhenley github/AZHenley Baby's first type checker 8/31/2025 Have you ever wondered how type checking works? Me too—let's make one! Python allows optional type annotations like this: def foobar(name: str | None) -> str: return "Fizz!" buzz: int = 42 A type checker goes through the code to make sure that the kinds of values you use match what your functions and variables expect. In the examp

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The day Return became Enter (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Marcin Wichary 2025-10-18 17:12:57

Marcin Wichary December 2023 / 3,100 words / 35 photos Originally published as a booklet accompanying Shift Happens The day Return became Enter In the popular imagination, the transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was orderly and simple: at some point in the 20th century, someone attached a CPU and a screen to a typewriter, and that turned it into a computer. But the reality is much more fascinating and convoluted. The transition was meandering and lengthy, and

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How is Ultrassembler so fast?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 06:42:43

How is Ultrassembler so fast? Ultrassembler is a superfast and complete RISC-V assembler library that I'm writing as a component of the bigger Chata signal processing project. Assemblers take in a platform-dependent assembly language and output that platform's native machine code which runs directly on the processor. "Why would you want to do this?" you might ask. First, existing RISC-V assemblers that conform the the entirety of the specification, as and llvm-mc , ship as binaries that you r

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The new Return to Silent Hill trailer gives us our first look at Pyramid Head

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:22:34

Nearly three years on from its original announcement, Return to Silent Hill finally has a proper trailer. It’s only 40 seconds long, but in that time we get a healthy supply of foggy and eerily empty street shots, terrifying monsters and a very brief glimpse of the iconic Pyramid Head. It looks like a Silent Hill movie alright. Return to Silent Hill is based on the 2001 survival horror classic Silent Hill 2, which got the remake treatment last year and remains one of the genre’s most important

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The Annotated Transformer (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 17:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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The Annotated Transformer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 22:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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A visual introduction to big O notation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 02:39:36

Big O notation is a way of describing the performance of a function without using time. Rather than timing a function from start to finish, big O describes how the time grows as the input size increases. It is used to help understand how programs will perform across a range of inputs. In this post I'm going to cover 4 frequently-used categories of big O notation: constant, logarithmic, linear, and quadratic. Don't worry if these words mean nothing to you right now. I'm going to talk about them

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Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

news.ycombinator.com Eric J. Ma 2025-11-04 20:28:52

written by Eric J. Ma on | tags: In this blog post, I share how I discovered a powerful Python trick: dynamically changing a function's source code at runtime using the compile and exec functions. This technique enabled me to build more flexible AI bots, like ToolBot, that can generate and execute code with access to the current environment. While this opens up exciting possibilities for LLM-powered agents and generative UIs, it also raises serious security concerns. Curious how this hack can s

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Without the futex, it's futile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 09:53:42

Phil Eaton’s book club is starting The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition , which is a very well regarded textbook, and pretty recently updated (2021). I’ve even heard of a couple of authors. I’ve done a lot of concurrent programming, and have always felt like I’ve still got plenty to learn, so I was excited for the topic. So far, what I’ve learned is that I would never recommend this book, despite any merits. Academia certainly struggles to find the right balance between teaching

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Without the Futex, It's Futile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:53:42

Phil Eaton’s book club is starting The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition , which is a very well regarded textbook, and pretty recently updated (2021). I’ve even heard of a couple of authors. I’ve done a lot of concurrent programming, and have always felt like I’ve still got plenty to learn, so I was excited for the topic. So far, what I’ve learned is that I would never recommend this book, despite any merits. Academia certainly struggles to find the right balance between teaching

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A Lisp in 99LOC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 00:37:17

Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself In honor of the contributions made by Church and McCarthy, I wrote this project and the accompanying article to show how anyone can write a tiny Lisp interpreter in a few lines of C or in any "C-like" programming language for that matter. I attempted to preserve the original meaning and flavor of Lisp as much as possible. As a result, the C code in this project is strongly Lisp-like in compact form. Despite being small, these tiny Lisp interpr

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In-depth analysis on Valorant's Guarded Regions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 23:00:46

This post is not meant to be an attack towards Riot Games’ Vanguard or Microsoft’s Windows, they have done an excellent job with their products and will continue to do so for the coming years, the content of this post is gathered solely by me, and I am not tied to any game hack publisher or entities. I have no intention of harming any company’s product, and everything here is constructed for educational purposes. In the cutthroat world of online gaming, there is no greater threat to the sanctit

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Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 12:31:24

I have the fortunate privilege to be part of the ISO C Standard mailing list, and recently a thread kicked off about Lambdas and what their need is in the C Community. That thread was in response to an ongoing push by Jens Gustedt’s proposal N2736, where Gustedt is building steam to put a proper function + data type into the C Standard at some point. What kicked off in that thread was a lot of talking about nested functions, blocks, statement expressions, whether we even need the ability to have

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Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 00:31:24

I have the fortunate privilege to be part of the ISO C Standard mailing list, and recently a thread kicked off about Lambdas and what their need is in the C Community. That thread was in response to an ongoing push by Jens Gustedt’s proposal N2736, where Gustedt is building steam to put a proper function + data type into the C Standard at some point. What kicked off in that thread was a lot of talking about nested functions, blocks, statement expressions, whether we even need the ability to have

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-22 12:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft originally encouraged its employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak in 2020. This new flexible working arrangement then became an official “hybrid workplace” policy several months after the pandemic began, allowing managers to approve permanent remote work. Now that the pandemic has settled into endemicity, Microsoft wants employees to return to the of

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Why tail-recursive functions are loops

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 00:10:54

One story every computing enthusiast should hear is the lesson of how loops and tail-recursion are equivalent. We like recursive functions because they’re amenable to induction, and we can derive them in a way that is in direct correspondence with the definition of the datatype over which they recur. We like loops because they’re fast and make intuitive sense as long as variables don’t change in too tricky a way. In general, recursive functions are slower than loops because they push stack fram

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Why Tail-Recursive Functions Are Loops

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 06:10:54

One story every computing enthusiast should hear is the lesson of how loops and tail-recursion are equivalent. We like recursive functions because they’re amenable to induction, and we can derive them in a way that is in direct correspondence with the definition of the datatype over which they recur. We like loops because they’re fast and make intuitive sense as long as variables don’t change in too tricky a way. In general, recursive functions are slower than loops because they push stack fram

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Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 03:14:06

Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe. Martin Uecker, 2025-08-10 I discuss the implementation of type and bounds safe generic containers in C. Previously, I discussed a span type, bounds checking using arrays. and a a vector type. This time, I will discuss maybe inspired by Haskell. This type can used to return a value that may not exist, e.g. because an error was encountered during the computation. The following examples shows for a divide function that catches division by

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People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 23:16:52

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say New evidence suggests people returned to live among the ruins of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city was devastated by a volcanic eruption. Archaeologists believe some survivors who could not afford to start a new life elsewhere returned to the site and may have been joined by others looking for a place to settle. Pompeii was home to more than 20,000 people before Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, burying - and preserving - much of

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 03:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

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The ISS Crew Is Returning to Earth: Here's How to Watch Online

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 20:53:00

It's time to change crews on the International Space Station. On Friday, you can tune in to NASA's live coverage of the return of Crew-10 on NASA Plus, Amazon Prime and more streaming services. Events begin with the hatch closure and undocking on Friday, and the crew returns on the following day. The return was delayed a day due to high winds at the splashdown sites off the California coast. Weather conditions will be continually monitored, and the specific splashdown location will be determine

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More shell tricks: first class lists and jq

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 00:46:14

More shell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell Preamble It’s not a secret that most common shells don’t have first class lists. Sure, you can pass a list to a program by passing each element in argv (e.g. with "$@" or "${list_variable[@]}" ), but what if you want to return a list? There are a couple of options. The challenge As a more practical example of this, let’s implement split-by-double-dash , a function (or a program) that would return two lists: args that come before --

Topics: jq list lists return sh

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Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity

news.ycombinator.com Brian Douglas 2026-01-08 05:48:34

I've been writing a lot of C. Whilst doing so I have been questioning my sanity. Am I an awful programmer? You know what, I think I might be. Kudos to all those devs that created monumental feats with C. Because it is not an easy tool to use. That said, I do enjoy writing C, just as long as I don't have a deadline or any business critical software to deliver. But when I say enjoy, I mean enjoyment in the sense of using a sycthe to cut a lawn, whilst my lawnmower watches on. It's lovely using th

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BBC Insists Its Disney Partnership Remains Strong in Wake of ‘Doctor Who’ Doubts

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-21 08:10:36

Ever since the latest season of Doctor Who came to a messy end a few months ago, the biggest question on audiences’ minds (among the many questions raised by that finale) is when, or if, we might expect to see the show return to our screens. The further we’ve moved from the season without news other than that there is no news about the BBC renewing its funding and distribution deal with Disney for the series, the more doubts have grown. But the BBC continues to stress that it is focused on worki

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A Mental Model for C++ Coroutine

news.ycombinator.com Lu'S Blog 2026-01-23 00:23:57

C++ coroutine is not a library that is ready to go (e.g. std::vector ). It is not even a trait (think of Rust’s Future trait) that library writers or users can implement (or the compiler generates for you in the case of Rust). C++ coroutine is a specification that defines a set of customization points that library writers implement in order to get a functional coroutine. A function supports two operations - call and return . A coroutine (in any language) is a generalization of a function. It su

Topics: awaitable coroutine future resume return

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An Odd Trio of ‘Halloween’ Movies Is Returning to Theaters

Alex Lawther Didn’t Know Just How Much His ‘Andor’ Manifesto Hit Until Season 2

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Baby's first type checker

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How is Ultrassembler so fast?

The new Return to Silent Hill trailer gives us our first look at Pyramid Head

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Without the futex, it's futile

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A Lisp in 99LOC

In-depth analysis on Valorant's Guarded Regions

Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks (2021)

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

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Why Tail-Recursive Functions Are Loops

Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

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Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity

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