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Health Connect can now track your steps using your Android phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 21:52:54

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is officially adding native step tracking to Health Connect, as confirmed by Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2. The company announced the change today, and a new banner and “Devices” page within the app now explicitly state Health Connect will track your phone’s steps for other apps to use. This marks a significant shift for the platform, turning it from a simple data hub into a fitness tracking service. Last week, we reported that Google was bringing nat

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Automating Distro Updates in CI

news.ycombinator.com Neyts Zupan 2025-09-22 19:20:24

For a long time, we had a recurring TODO in our calendar: once a month, check whether any Linux distro we test against got a new stable version—or dropped support for an old one. Sounds simple. In reality, it was annoying, error-prone, and we were always late. Someone had to remember, look up release notes, update our CI matrix, and push a commit. Sometimes we missed a release for weeks, even months. Sometimes we forgot to remove an EOL version. It was busywork, not engineering. So we automate

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E Ink posters might just save my poor, bare walls from crippling indecision

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 14:40:25

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority There’s nothing on my walls. As a renter, part of that is practical, as anything I put up there is likely to leave its indelible mark despite my best efforts to the contrary — and ding my security deposit accordingly — but a hugely contributing factor is also my indecision. If I’m not absolutely in love with what I’m hanging up, why expose myself to that headache? But I’m also not a monster who actually wants to live in a featureless void, and do look to sma

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This new Linux desktop is almost a dead ringer for OS X

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-15 12:07:00

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Gershwin desktop is being developed for both BSD and Arch Linux. Gershwin is based on GnuStep and resembles MacOS. You can spin up a virtual machine and try the alpha version of Gershwin. Confession time: I don't give any of the BSD-based distributions enough attention. One reason is that I find BSD (and all its children) not really suited for people who've never used Linux. There's a reason for that issue: BSD

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Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 09:57:41

We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions. And the furry ones include at least three species: the Eurasian steppe mammoth, the Arctic-specializing woolly mammoth, and the late-evolving North America-only Columbian mammoth. Because these species inhabited the Arctic, it has been remarkably easy to obtain DNA from them, providing a genetic pict

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Hollow Knight: Silksong release date prompts another game delay as Baby Steps inches back

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 20:33:02

Fittingly enough, the team behind Baby Steps is treading cautiously. The walking simulator was previously scheduled to arrive on PS5 and Steam on September 8, but Hollow Knight: Silksong 's imminent release date of September 4 prompted publisher Devolver Digital (and developers Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch) to delay their game until September 23. They made the announcement with the help of a funny clip that sees Baby Steps protagonist Nate trying to scale a replica of Silksong's H

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On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

technologyreview.com Charlie Metcalfe 2025-11-02 08:00:00

Supported by Kutkov’s technical expertise and Stepanets’s organizational prowess, Kovalskyy’s warehouse became the major repair hub (though other volunteers also make repairs elsewhere). Over time, Kovalskyy—who co-owned a regional internet service provider before the war—and his crew have learned to perform adjustments to Starlink terminals, especially to adapt them for battlefield conditions. For example, they modified them to receive charge at the right voltage directly from vehicles, years b

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Clojure Async Flow Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:52:03

Flow Guide Getting started The flow library enables a strict separation application logic from the deployment concerns of topology, execution, communication, lifecycle, monitoring and error handling. Step fns and process launchers You provide logic to flow in the form of step-fns, which are wrapped into running processes, executing in a loop. Flow manages the life cycle of the process and handles incoming and outgoing messages by putting or taking them on channels. Step-fns do not access cha

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Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-22 15:20:58

Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC To many women in tech, myself included, Dame Stephanie Shirley, who has died aged 91, was inspirational. Her pioneering and controversial decision to hire exclusively women coders and data inputters, working from home, was way ahead of its time and changed many lives. She had a difficult life, and it made her tough. She w

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Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-23 12:20:17

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91 40 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save AFP via Getty Images Visionary tech pioneer and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley has died at the age of 91. The boundary-breaking entrepreneur arrived in London at the age of five, just weeks before the outbreak of World War Two, and went on to become a computer industry and women's rights pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s. She founded the software comp

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Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 20:44:05

The `logprobs` feature has been officially introduced in the Gemini API on Vertex AI, provides insight into the model's decision-making by showing probability scores for chosen and alternative tokens. This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to enable and interpret this feature and apply it to powerful use cases such as confident classification, dynamic autocomplete, and quantitative RAG evaluation.

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Build durable workflows with Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 17:24:07

When we started building a durable workflows library, the most critical architectural decision we faced was what data store to use for workflow metadata. The core durable workflow operations are simple–checkpointing workflow state and recovering an interrupted workflow from its latest checkpoint. Almost any data store can handle these operations, but choosing the right one is critical to ensure workflows are scalable and performant. In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build

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We asked Gemini for a story about the Pixel 10 launch and it hallucinated a bizarre foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 08:30:44

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority Summer’s been going by so fast, it’s hard to believe that we’re already down to just two weeks to go until Google’s August 20 event, where we’re expecting to see the company introduce the Pixel 10 series, the Pixel Watch 4, and some new Pixel Buds. As that date keeps creeping up on us, we’re learning more and more about what we’re likely to get. Some of it sounds great, like the full-featured Qi2 magnetic charging support, while we’re a little bummed by other

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From Cheating Exposés to Dating Background Checks, TikTok Detectives Are Thriving

wired.com Tom Ward 2025-12-21 09:00:00

It’s a dark November night in Los Angeles. The car in front is lit by its rear lights only. After driving for 20 miles, it stops, suddenly, in the middle of the street. A man in a dark t-shirt gets out and runs towards an apartment. A woman appears and jumps up, wrapping her legs around him. They start making out before going to get tacos and, later, returning to her place. At 6 a.m. the next morning his car is still outside the woman’s apartment. A few hours later, they emerge holding hands, h

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‘First Steps’ Includes a Touching Quartet of Cameos Bridging ‘Fantastic Four’ History

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-12-24 08:00:57

As detailed in a new article over at Vanity Fair, The Fantastic Four: First Steps includes a few truly unexpected cameos outside of Paul Walter-Hauser’s Mole Man or its brief nods to other 60’s-era Marvel antagonists. As this site’s own intergalactic herald, may all who pass the purple portent below know they will be irreparably spoiled… If you’ve already seen First Steps in its early screenings today, you may have recognized appearances from the original live-action Fantastic Four. Of course,

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Fantastic Four: First Steps’ greatest superpower is its gorgeous visuals

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-12-30 17:15:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, you could see flashes of the studio’s plan to further expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After years of Marvel Studios building up the Avengers, the Fox deal put the company in a position to start telling stories about the characters who ushered in the modern superhero movie frenzy, li

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“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 15:09:07

When seeing the phrase “dynamic programming” in an algorithms class or leetcode study guide, the first question people ask is “what does ‘dynamic’ mean in this context?”. The key question is instead “what does ‘programming’ mean in this context?”, because it does not mean “computer programming”. Instead it refers to, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, programming. n. 4. Planning carried out for purposes of control, management, or administration. So really, it’s closer to “TV programmi

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“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 15:09:07

When seeing the phrase “dynamic programming” in an algorithms class or leetcode study guide, the first question people ask is “what does ‘dynamic’ mean in this context?”. The key question is instead “what does ‘programming’ mean in this context?”, because it does not mean “computer programming”. Instead it refers to, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, programming. n. 4. Planning carried out for purposes of control, management, or administration. So really, it’s closer to “TV programmi

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Concurrent Programming with Harmony

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 11:22:12

Appendix H. Peterson's Algorithm In 1981, Gary L. Peterson came up with a beautiful solution to the mutual exclusion problem, now known as ``Peterson's Algorithm'' [37]. Figure 5.6 presents the algorithm. Why does it work? We will focus here on how one might go about proving mutual exclusion for an algorithm such as Peterson's. It turns out that doing so is not trivial. You have to understand a little bit about how the Harmony virtual machine (HVM) works. In Chapter 4 we talked about the concep

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Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

news.ycombinator.com Kimm Fesenmaier 2026-01-13 09:10:37

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503003 What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic? "I think that is something that we, as a society, would be inte

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-23 12:08:27

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The 245 extensions, available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, have racked up nearly 909 million downloads, John Tuckner of SecurityAnnex reported. The extensions serve a wide range of purposes, including managing bookmarks and clipboards, boosting speaker volumes, and generating random numbers. The common

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Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-24 12:36:33

Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X Musk has posted a brief reply, saying only: "Thank you for your contributions." In a post on the platform , she said was "immensely grateful" to Musk for "entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App". Ms Yaccarino has been in the role since June, 2023. Linda Yaccarino, the boss of Elon Musk's social media site X, has announced she is stepping down. Ms Yacca

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Zorin OS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 08:37:56

Can I try Zorin OS before installing it on my computer? Absolutely! You can run Zorin OS from a USB drive to test-drive it without touching your computer's internal drive. When you're ready to install it, simply double-click on the "Install Zorin OS" icon on the desktop and follow the step-by-step instructions on the screen. How much does Zorin OS cost? You can download and use the Core edition of Zorin OS completely free. For more advanced features, additional apps, and support, you can purc

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The Sets of ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Look, Well, Fantastic

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-06 22:45:37

The decision to set The Fantastic Four: First Steps in a retro, 1960s-inspired world couldn’t have come easy. For one, it meant the entire film would take place in a multiverse away from the traditional Marvel Cinematic Universe. Also, it meant the production would have to build all of these sets from the ground up. We still don’t know much about the multiversal madness of Fantastic Four, but in a new video just released by Marvel, we do know about its sets. Director Matt Shakman, along with pr

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Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 15:38:47

AI Coffee Tracker built for the future Track your Coffee Beans & Recipes with just a snap  Download on the App Store 📸 Snap your bean bags, build your own coffee shelf. From messy drawers to a digital archive of flavor. Your browser does not support the video tag. One click, one recipe Turn any YouTube, blog, or Reddit post into a step-by-step brew guide—instantly. Save every bean that matters A photo or URL is all you need. Save every recipe with step-by-step guide From YouTube, a

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Fault Tolerant Llama training – PyTorch blog

news.ycombinator.com Tristan Rice 2026-02-12 00:30:02

Collaborators: Less Wright, Howard Huang, Chien-Chin Huang, Crusoe: Martin Cala, Ethan Petersen tl;dr: we used torchft and torchtitan to train a model in a real-world environment with extreme synthetic failure rates to prove reliability and correctness of fault tolerant training Training loss across 1200 failures with no checkpoints. NOTE: Each small spike is a non-participating worker recovering which affects the metrics but not the model Introduction We want to demonstrate torchft in wo

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Modeling the World in 280 Characters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 08:02:10

Want to build websites but don’t know where to start? Scrimba's Frontend Developer Career Path is the perfect beginner-friendly course to kickstart your journey! Created with Mozilla MDN, it teaches you modern web development skills step by step. Codrops readers get 20% off Pro plans!

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The Final ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Trailer Ups the Stakes Even Further

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-21 03:05:53

We’re a month away from the arrival of the next Marvel movie in Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Marvel is reminding us in style with a brand new trailer—one that really wants you to feel the stakes that are riding on this movie, in more ways than one. Prior looks at First Steps leaned into the Silver Age retro-kitsch of its world, and then the arrival of Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer to herald the threat of the dread, Galactus. But now this final big trailer for the film really wants to remind

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Our First Look at Giganto in ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Is in… a Pizza Ad?

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-03-05 22:41:48

Ahead of the release of Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the accompanying food tie-in blitz unleashes a first look at the movie’s take on Giganto in a Little Caesars pizza ad. Currently, the chain is pushing its themed pizza with toppings (or lack thereof) representing different members of the Fantastic Four. Getting a cute little comic book nod in this ad was unexpected, to say the least. Giganto’s first appearance came in Marvel’s First Family comic book debut, which gets homa

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Health Connect can now track your steps using your Android phone

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‘First Steps’ Includes a Touching Quartet of Cameos Bridging ‘Fantastic Four’ History

Fantastic Four: First Steps’ greatest superpower is its gorgeous visuals

“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

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Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X

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Our First Look at Giganto in ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Is in… a Pizza Ad?

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