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TBM 377: Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation

news.ycombinator.com John Cutler 2025-09-15 08:26:43

Before we jump in: September Conferences! I’m heading to Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit in Las Vegas: September 23–25, 2025. I’m a huge fan of Gene Kim’s work and the community he has created. Dotwork is sponsoring, so I’ll be “working the booth.” Drop by if you’re around. I’ll also be in Cleveland next week (9th and 10th) for Industry. Would love to meet people in person. Lately, I’ve been researching the mental models, mechanisms, and reporting practices behind ‘capacity’ allocation. At

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Nostr

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 05:49:08

There are many problems with Mastodon, mostly due to the fact that it doesn't rely on any cryptography. Because it cannot do the multi-master approach of Nostr due to lack of cryptography, identities are assumed to be "owned" by the server, which is fully trusted by its tenants. Mastodon server owners can do all the harm centralized platforms can do to their underlings, which are completely helpless in case of misbehavior or even in the normal case where a server owner loses their server or deci

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The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010)

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

Between around 1910 and 1950, England was in the grip of a genteel crime wave; a seemingly endless output of murder mysteries, generally set among the upper and upper middle classes and usually solved by a brilliant amateur detective rather than by the police. They were read enthusiastically and with an insatiable appetite by British middle-class readers. The ‘golden age’ of the English detective story during this span of 40 years or so is an important and often overlooked feature of English pop

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Best Robot Lawn Mowers: After Testing Mowers for Weeks I Discovered the 4 Worth Buying

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

Robot lawn mowers of yore started off using a boundary wire to determine where it could and could not go, and they were problematic. The boundary wire had to make a complete, unbroken circle. And if anything happened to the wire, you had problems. These days, robot mowers work via GPS, but it's GPS with a little bit extra in an RTK beacon. Scott Porteous, head of robotics for Husqvarna broke it down for me. Adam Doud/CNET GPS navigation GPS today is accurate down to a few feet. That's fine wh

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Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 05:00:37

Federal prosecutors charged a UK teenager with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other crimes in connection with the network intrusions of 47 US companies that generated more than $115 million in ransomware payments over a three-year span. A criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday (PDF) said that Thalha Jubair, 19, of London, was part of Scattered Spider, the name of an English-language-speaking group that has breached the networks of scores of companies worldwide. After obtaining data, t

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Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-09-19 04:59:44

A federal vaccine advisory committee made up of members hand-picked by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommended in an 8-3 vote on Thursday that the combined measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine should not be given before age 4, citing long-known evidence that shows a slightly increased risk for febrile seizures in that age group. Experts say that while frightening, febrile seizures—which are uncommon after vaccination—are usually short-lived and har

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Indian fintech Jar turns profitable by enabling millions to save in gold

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-09-19 08:30:00

Jar, an Indian fintech startup that allows users to invest in gold, has turned profitable by helpinghelps millions of first-time savers use its app to build digital gold holdings. While many consumer fintechs focus on affluent urban users or credit products, Jar has gained traction by offering a culturally familiar asset — gold — as a low-barrier entry point to saving. The four-year-old startup targets low- to middle-income users —a segment often underserved by traditional financial institution

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Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 03:53:51

Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes Yes, the whole 80 minutes is about cubes and their relatives, but from a variety of angles: The earlier SIGBOVIK 2025 paper Some upsetting things about shapes lets you see how far I've come in adding footnote support to BoVeX (not far) and avoids exposing you to any unknown information. Play jcreed's boring and hard video game version. See also dwrensha's soothing video version of results and his formal verification of the delicate triakis tetrahedron

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

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-19 13:00:06

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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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 19, #361

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 12:19:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. The yellow category in Connections: Sports Edition is always easy, but today's seemed like a no-brainer. The other categories aren't too tough, either, especially for midwesterners. But if you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edi

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OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-19 13:54:20

Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI agent Claudius a snack vending machine to run and it went amok, calling security on people, and insisting it was human. This week, it was OpenAI’s turn to raise our collective eyebrows. OpenAI released on Monday some research that explained how it’s stopping AI models from “scheming.” It’s a prac

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Scammers are faking cell towers now; Americans bad at spotting scams

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-19 08:10:56

Mobile carriers are very slowly getting better at detecting and blocking scam texts, but it seems the fraudsters may still be staying ahead of the game. Scammers are now using a technology known as SMS blasters, backpack-sized devices that can trick smartphones into thinking they are cell towers … Scammers faking cell towers Wired says the technology is not new, but there has been a marked increase in its use. Over the last year, there has been a marked uptick in the use of so-called “SMS bl

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-19 17:08:35

Star Trek‘s utopian vision for an equal society, especially in terms of gender equality, has always been a complicated aspect of its idealized vision. It’s true that the franchise has a legacy of beloved, nuanced female characters and has championed putting those characters in the spotlight over six decades of storytelling. But it’s equally true that Star Trek‘s often conservative vision of women in leadership roles, as figures of desire, and as beholden to the stories of male characters has sat

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 19, #831

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 16:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle might be tough, although I thought the blue and purple group were pretty fun, once I saw the connections. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you pla

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FTC Sues Ticketmaster Over ‘Deceptive’ Ticket Pricing Tactics

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-19 21:26:17

The FTC and seven states have sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation for allegedly “deceptive” ticket resale tactics, according to a press release Thursday. The federal regulatory agency says that Ticketmaster is “tacitly coordinating with brokers,” allowing them to buy millions of dollars worth of tickets, just to resell them at a higher cost to the person who actually wants to attend a given concert. The FTC says Ticketmaster is also aware of ticket brokers regularly bypassing s

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

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-19 21:12:50

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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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 04:42:56

Grounded in learning, built for the student Our approach is built on two key pillars that work together to augment the learning experience: (1) generating various multimodal representations of the content, and (2) taking foundational steps toward personalization. The seminal dual coding theory states that forging mental connections between different representations strengthens the underlying conceptual schema in our brain. Subsequent research indeed showed that when students actively engage wi

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We Finally Know How Much It Cost to Train China’s Astonishing DeepSeek Model

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-20 05:25:37

Remember when DeepSeek briefly shook up the entire artificial intelligence industry by launching its large language model, R1, that was trained for a fraction of the money that OpenAI and other big players were pouring into their models? Thanks to a new paper published by the DeepSeek AI team in the journal Nature, we finally know what it took to train DeepSeek 1: $294,000 and 512 Nvidia H800 chips. The reason it was able to spend less, it seems, is because of the team’s use of trial-and-error-b

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Kirby Air Riders feels more like F-Zero than Mario Kart

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-20 05:00:11

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. I got to try Kirby Air Riders this morning at a Nintendo holiday showcase, and I wasn’t prepared for how difficult it was — and how bad I am at it. The Switch 2-exclusive racer launches November 20th, and it’s full of modes, collectibles, and new characters to play as. To be clear, there’s absolutely nothing chill about Kirby Air Riders.

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Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-20 05:04:27

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is going to let apps access the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses thanks to a new Wearable Device Access Toolkit for developers. “Our first version of the toolkit will open up access to a suite of on-device sensors— empowering you to start building features withi

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US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-09-20 05:27:33

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed federal charges against British teenager Thalha Jubair, who prosecutors accuse of being involved in at least 120 cyberattacks, including the U.S. Courts system, and the extortion of dozens of U.S. companies. Jubair, 19, was arrested on Tuesday at his home in East London, according to a statement by the National Crime Agency. He appeared in court on Thursday morning in London alongside another teenager, Owen Flowers, 18. Both are accused of inv

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Steam is ending support for Windows 32-bit next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 09:10:57

Steam is officially dropping Windows 32-bit support at the end of this year, the company announced today. The only 32-bit version of Windows that is currently supported by Steam is Windows 10 32-bit. The company says 0.01 percent of systems reported through the Steam Hardware Survey are using that version of Windows. On any given day, Steam sees just over 36 million daily users , so it's safe to assume that this change will only affect a few thousand gamers. While this doesn't mean that your St

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The Day the Linter Broke My Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 03:28:08

The Day the Linter Broke My Code Another Story… Imagine you were given a task to design errors for your service. DataEOFError should contain the name of the data file and be considered equal to io.ErrUnexpectedEOF . should contain the name of the data file and be considered equal to . ProcessingFailedError should contain a processing ID as a string and wrap a failure Reason error. should contain a processing as a string and wrap a failure error. Two different ProcessingFailedError instances

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Google Launches AI-ified Chrome Browser

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-20 09:00:37

Earlier this month, Google avoided having to sell off its Chrome browser as a penalty for operating an illegal monopoly in its search business, and now it’s going all in on features that will keep users further ingrained in the Google ecosystem. On Thursday, the company announced a reimagined version of the Chrome browser that will be littered with AI features, including Gemini integration throughout the browser and an agentic AI that can navigate the web and complete tasks on behalf of the user

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NordVPN vs. Surfshark: See How These Sister Services Stack Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 08:00:00

James Martin/CNET NordVPN and Surfshark are two of the best virtual private network providers on the market, and while they share some similarities -- including the same parent company -- each packs unique offerings. NordVPN is our pick for the fastest VPN, based on our hands-on testing, while Surfshark earns our vote for the best value VPN. Both VPNs deliver fast speeds, user-friendly apps, handy privacy features and excellent streaming service content unblocking. Overall, I’d recommend Surfs

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Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome and letting it do stuff for you

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-09-20 09:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is stepping things up in the AI agent browser wars. The company is launching a suite of new features deeply embedding Gemini into Chrome. That starts with the announcement that Gemini in Chrome will no longer require a membership fee

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The FTC is suing Ticketmaster for illegally ‘coordinating’ with brokers

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-20 09:37:40

The latest targets in the White House’s on-again-off-again antitrust war are Ticketmaster and Live Nation, two villains that everyone appears to agree on. The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Ticketmaster (which owns Live Nation) of allowing ticket brokers to illegally exceed limits on purchases and then profiting off the inflated resale value. Customers often pay significantly more than the face value because resellers have snatched up all the tickets. And when a ticket is resold through Ti

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Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:03:59

Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Since then, they've been using powerful telescopes to study the mysterious object, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. Most agree that it's probably a comet, albeit an unusual one, though at least one has posited that it could be a remnant of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization — a colorful claim, but o

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I wore the viral $2,000 Hypershell X Ultra exoskeleton, and it supercharged my legs

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-09-20 13:09:00

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Ultra X offers 1000 watts of power, which is the most for a Hypershell exoskeleton. It is made for people with an active lifestyle. The Hypershell is now available to purchase for $1,999. This year, IFA 2025 was mostly about smart home innovations, but I also got a refreshingly new demo at the Berlin tradeshow that hasn't left my mind since I returned home. I wore the Hypershell X Ultra exo

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Tesla is looking to redesign its door handles following trapped-passenger report

news.ycombinator.com Chris Isidore 2025-09-20 12:28:42

Tesla is looking into redesigning the way to open its car doors in an emergency following several accidents where passengers were reportedly trapped in burning vehicles because rescuers could not open them. Even without an accident, other Tesla owners have reported having to break their own car windows after buckling their children in and then being unable to get in the car again, according to an investigation launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, citing owner complai

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TBM 377: Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation

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The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010)

Best Robot Lawn Mowers: After Testing Mowers for Weeks I Discovered the 4 Worth Buying

Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization

Indian fintech Jar turns profitable by enabling millions to save in gold

Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes

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

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 19, #361

OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

Scammers are faking cell towers now; Americans bad at spotting scams

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 19, #831

FTC Sues Ticketmaster Over ‘Deceptive’ Ticket Pricing Tactics

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

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

We Finally Know How Much It Cost to Train China’s Astonishing DeepSeek Model

Kirby Air Riders feels more like F-Zero than Mario Kart

Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developers

US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks

Steam is ending support for Windows 32-bit next year

The Day the Linter Broke My Code

Google Launches AI-ified Chrome Browser

NordVPN vs. Surfshark: See How These Sister Services Stack Up

Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome and letting it do stuff for you

The FTC is suing Ticketmaster for illegally ‘coordinating’ with brokers

Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

I wore the viral $2,000 Hypershell X Ultra exoskeleton, and it supercharged my legs

Tesla is looking to redesign its door handles following trapped-passenger report

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