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Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 13:38:49

In addition to a completely custom front end that implements parsing, linting and type checking, Luau runtime features new bytecode, interpreter and compiler that are heavily tuned for performance. Luau interpreter can be competitive with LuaJIT interpreter depending on the program. An optional component for manual Just-In-Time compilation is also available for x64 and arm64 platforms, which can considerably speed up certain programs. We continue to optimize the runtime and rewrite portions of i

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This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-18 18:19:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Watch timer boosts productivity but annoys partners. Silent mode mutes alerts while preserving wrist haptics. Haptics keep reminders private, and household peace intact. I love me some timers. One of the secrets to how I manage my day is that I set timers for everything. I set them for appointments, sure. But I also set them to remind me when to get started on a phase of work. I set them to r

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For Staying Present, I Now Click on This Bird ID App Instead of My Meditation Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 03:40:03

To stay grounded in the present moment and practice mindfulness, I've tried all the breathing exercises and meditation apps designed to help with this sort of thing. But what has helped me the most in my quest to stay grounded is an app I never expected: one for identifying the birds around you. Merlin Bird ID was launched in 2014 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help people identify the birds around them. Thanks to eBird, the world's largest database of bird sounds and photos based on 800

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Condor Technology to Fly "Cuzco" RISC-V CPU into the Datacenter

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Burt 2025-09-16 17:48:01

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and XPUs are saving money, but they are certainly gaining control and that is worth something. Arm made a push based on the power-efficient nature its architecture, and Nvidia has become a key player in AI with its powerful GPUs and now its “Grace” Arm server CPUs. A reinvigorated AMD has given system

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Google will upgrade its revenge porn defenses with help from a UK nonprofit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 01:10:16

Google is partnering with a UK nonprofit to fight non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). (You may know it better as revenge porn.) Over the coming months, the company will begin using StopNCII's hashes. These user-uploaded digital fingerprints can block individuals' unwanted intimate content from appearing in search results. StopNCII has a pretty neat system to combat revenge porn. Say you have some images you most definitely don't want surfacing online. Select the picture on your device, and

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Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 01:46:03

This is a guest post from Jiebin Sun, Zhiguo Zhou, Wangyang Guo and Tianyou Li, performance optimization engineers at Intel Shanghai. Intel's latest processor generations are pushing the number of cores in a server to unprecedented levels - from 128 P-cores per socket in Granite Rapids to 288 E-cores per socket in Sierra Forest, with future roadmaps targeting 200+ cores per socket. These numbers multiply on multi-socket systems, such servers may consist of 400 and more cores. The paradigm of "m

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Google’s latest Clock update may finally fix its Expressive woes (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 14:00:21

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google Clock 8.2 appears to fix some of the rendering issues users saw with the app’s Expressive redesign. Google’s working on a slightly tweaked workflow for alarm creation, making date options more prominent. Alarms that fail to go off as scheduled should start displaying a slightly more helpful error notification. Sometimes, it’s the simplest things in the world that end up causing our most unexpected headaches. Google’s Clock app is about as stra

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Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 13:57:50

I’ve been sitting on this article for a while now – well over a year I’ve put off publishing it – but as we’ve seen this week, the time has come to lift the veil and say the quiet part out loud: It’s 2025; Microsoft should be considered a “bad actor” and a threat to all companies who develop software. Of course, if you’re old enough to remember – this is not the first time either… Time is a flat circle Here we are again – in 2025, Microsoft have fucked up so bad, they have likely created an

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Behind a Paywall: Here's a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 13:00:04

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

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Coders End, from Typers to Thinkers

news.ycombinator.com Elie Teyssedou 2025-09-19 23:54:26

After 10 years in software development, wearing different hats, my approach to building changed in 2025. With AI, I’m finally developing the way I’ve long believed we should. From Typers to Thinkers I’ve genuinely come to believe the real value of my craft lies in architecture: how things are thought out, assembled, structured, and named. I have long considered that the technical part of a project was successful when the code was readable, maintainable, with the right abstractions in the righ

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Will I run Boston 2026?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 12:04:18

Last year, we did a deep dive predicting the cutoff for the 2025 Boston Marathon. After the BAA announced the number of accepted time-qualified runners, our method was with 6 seconds of the actual cutoff. This year, we're revisiting our model with an additional data point. With the recent announcement of 33,267 applicants for the 2026 race, our updated model predicts a buffer of 5 minutes and 16 seconds. This time is based on an assumption: the BAA will allow 24,000 time-qualified runners. But

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Will I Run Boston 2026?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 22:04:18

Last year, we did a deep dive predicting the cutoff for the 2025 Boston Marathon. After the BAA announced the number of accepted time-qualified runners, our method was with 6 seconds of the actual cutoff. This year, we're revisiting our model with an additional data point. With the recent announcement of 33,267 applicants for the 2026 race, our updated model predicts a buffer of 5 minutes and 16 seconds. This time is based on an assumption: the BAA will allow 24,000 time-qualified runners. But

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When the job search becomes impossible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 10:18:00

I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can solve it, but maybe I can help put words to what some are going through. The problem unfolds in three distinct phases as the job search drags on. Phase I: The Obvious but Impossible Search You’ve spent several months sending out scores of c

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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

news.ycombinator.com Your Name 2025-09-24 11:46:01

React-by-default has hidden costs. Here's a case for making deliberate choices to select the right framework for the job. React Won by Default – And It’s Killing Frontend Innovation React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default. That default is now slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem. When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; e

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16, #828

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 14:00:05

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 has a fun purple category. I'm a little surprised the Times didn't save it for Easter. 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 play to receive a nume

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The madness of SaaS chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-09-25 06:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-25 10:00:41

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season was weird as hell. Not just for the wild swings in tone and genre the series went for in its latest round of boldly going, but for a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half. But now that the season is over, and work on the next has already concluded, its producers are beginning to acknowledge that stumble. Speaking to TrekMovie recently after a screening of season 3

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My First Year Without an iPhone

news.ycombinator.com Katie Lowe 2025-09-25 12:57:28

Last October, I switched off my iPhone, removed the SIM card, and inserted it into a Nokia 2780 that I ordered off the internet. I deactivated and archived my Instagram, left all the group chats, and got in touch with my European friends through email. Now, a full calendar year later, I can say without hesitation that I am never, ever going back. My north star Flip phones are somehow a contentious topic. This is because anyone that goes against the status quo creates a hostile environment. It’

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The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-09-26 07:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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You’re a slow thinker. Now what?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 04:01:45

I'm not a quick witted person. In fact, I’ve always been worried about my brain’s slow processing time. But recently, I've realised that slow processing time is not as much of an issue as I thought it was. And even if I was wrong about that, I still think I’d do better for myself by leaning into it, instead of spending energy trying to fight it. In this essay, I want to talk about some ways I've been able to skirt around my lack of quick wittedness! To get what I mean by slow processing time,

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Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-26 00:45:26

In Brief AI-powered chatbots play a growing role in spiritual life, according to a New York Times story that examines the popularity of religious chatbots and apps. The Times notes that an app called Bible Chat has been downloaded more than 30 million times, while another app, Hallow, reached the number one spot in Apple’s App Store last year. For the most part, these apps are supposed to point people to religious doctrine and scripture to answer their questions, although at least one website

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Perceived Age (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Surya Dantuluri 2025-09-22 00:06:49

"To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday is not to feel—it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." -- Fernando Pessoa At 2:15 PM on June 5th, kids burst through school doors, sprinting towards three months of freedom. Summer felt endless back then, August an eternity away. A day at Great America stretched like a week, and road t

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Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

news.ycombinator.com Johannes Bechberger 2025-09-25 10:11:27

This is the first part of my series; the other parts are Back to the blog post: More than three years in the making, with a concerted effort starting last year, my CPU-time profiler landed in Java with OpenJDK 25. It’s an experimental new profiler/method sampler that helps you find performance issues in your code, having distinct advantages over the current sampler. This is what this week’s and next week’s blog posts are all about. This week, I will cover why we need a new profiler and what in

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Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 18:30:23

Image by Getty / Futurism Devices Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun — the kind you'd use for an arts and crafts DIY project at home — to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals, to aid in the healing process. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Device, the team came up with the unusual device to skip the need for prefabricating complex bone implants. In experiments involving rabbits, the researchers created 3D-printed grafts on th

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Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1)

news.ycombinator.com Johannes Bechberger 2025-09-25 20:11:27

More than three years in the making, with a concerted effort starting last year, my CPU-time profiler landed in Java with OpenJDK 25. It’s an experimental new profiler/method sampler that helps you find performance issues in your code, having distinct advantages over the current sampler. This is what this week’s and next week’s blog posts are all about. This week, I will cover why we need a new profiler and what information it provides; next week, I’ll cover the technical internals that go beyon

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Kefir: Solo-developed full C17/C23 compiler with extensive validation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 12:34:56

To whom it may concern, Today I release Kefir — an independent C17/C23 compiler. Solo-built. Extensively validated, for x86_64 & System-V ABI. With SSA-based optimization pipeline, DWARF-5 support and position-independent code generation. What? Implements the C17/C23 standard. Plus certain GNU C extensions. For Linux (glibc & musl), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD. Extensive and transparent validation suite. Compiles and runs well-known open source projects — GNU core- and binutils, Curl, Git, Ngi

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Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 21:35:08

Posted August 31, 2025 by Nolan Lawson in performance, Web. Tagged: timers. 9 Comments Even if you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while, you might be surprised to learn that setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0) . Instead, it could run 4 milliseconds later: const start = performance.now() setTimeout(() => { // Likely 4ms console.log(performance.now() - start) }, 0) Nearly a decade ago when I was on the Microsoft Edge team, it was explained to me that browsers did this to avoid “abuse.” I.

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Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-27 06:30:49

Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be some of the weirdest. But they certainly exist, and to provide more solid proof, physicists have finally created a time crystal we can actually see. In a recent Nature Materials paper, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder presented a new time crystal design: a glass cell filled with liquid crystals—rod-shaped molecules stuck in strange limbo between solid

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How I use a smart outlet to save money on electricity bills every month

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-28 06:50:00

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 05:45:03

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

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Latest Tech News

Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints

For Staying Present, I Now Click on This Bird ID App Instead of My Meditation Apps

Condor Technology to Fly "Cuzco" RISC-V CPU into the Datacenter

Google will upgrade its revenge porn defenses with help from a UK nonprofit

Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

Google’s latest Clock update may finally fix its Expressive woes (APK teardown)

Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks

The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Behind a Paywall: Here's a Way to Play

Coders End, from Typers to Thinkers

Will I run Boston 2026?

Will I Run Boston 2026?

When the job search becomes impossible

React is winning by default and slowing innovation

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16, #828

The madness of SaaS chargebacks

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better

My First Year Without an iPhone

The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

You’re a slow thinker. Now what?

Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance

Perceived Age (2024)

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1)

Kefir: Solo-developed full C17/C23 compiler with extensive validation

Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See

How I use a smart outlet to save money on electricity bills every month

The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

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