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Benben: An audio player for the terminal, written in Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-17 12:19:04

Benben Benben is a fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter for Linux and other Unix-like systems with an oldschool-inspired interface. It supports multiple formats, and is especially suited to people who organize their music in folders, and for those who prefer to use terminals instead of GUIs. Starting with v0.7.0, it is written almost entirely in the Common Lisp programming language. The latest release is v0.6.1, released on December 22nd, 2024. Benben is entirely w

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Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 18:46:41

Shoggoth Mini July 14, 2025 Over the past year, robotics has been catching up with the LLM era. Pi’s π0.5 can clean unseen homes. Tesla’s Optimus can follow natural language cooking instructions. These systems are extremely impressive, but they feel stuck in a utilitarian mindset of robotic appliances. For these future robots to live with us, they must be expressive. Expressiveness communicates internal state such as intent, attention, and confidence. Beyond its functional utility as a communic

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Product of Additive Inverses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 18:50:38

Product of Additive Inverses By Susam Pal on 29 May 2025 A negative number multiplied by another negative number results in a positive number. Most of us learnt this rule during our primary or secondary school years. 'Negative times negative equals positive' was a phrase drummed into us during mathematics lessons. In this article, we will prove this rule, not just for numbers but for any algebraic structure that, in a general sense, behaves somewhat like numbers. Contents Illustration Let u

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Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

news.ycombinator.com The Qa Team 2025-08-18 13:39:12

Don't use "click here" as link text What a link means When calling the user to action, use brief but meaningful link text that: provides some information when read out of context explains what the link offers doesn't talk about mechanics is not a verb phrase An example For instance, avoid the following sentence on your page: To download W3C's editor/browser Amaya, click here. or: To download Amaya, go to the Amaya Website and get the necessary software. Both of these sentences divulg

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Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C (2010)

news.ycombinator.com The Qa Team 2025-08-18 18:39:12

Don't use "click here" as link text What a link means When calling the user to action, use brief but meaningful link text that: provides some information when read out of context explains what the link offers doesn't talk about mechanics is not a verb phrase An example For instance, avoid the following sentence on your page: To download W3C's editor/browser Amaya, click here. or: To download Amaya, go to the Amaya Website and get the necessary software. Both of these sentences divulg

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Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

news.ycombinator.com Caolán Magee 2025-08-23 17:47:54

Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told they had won life-changing sums in the country’s Eurojackpot draw after an error by the state-owned gambling operator, Norsk Tipping. In a statement on Friday, Norsk Tipping said “several thousand customers were notified of incorrectly high prizes”. The mistake has prompted the resignation of the company’s chief executive. The company receives prize amounts from Germany in euros, which are then converted to Norwegian kroner. “It is during this conv

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HP 11-in-1 USB-C Dock Is Cheaper Than Last Prime Day, Now 53% Off as Amazon Clears Out Best-Sellers

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-29 19:10:32

When you use multiple screens to get through the workday as well as multiple peripherals like a wired mouse and keyboard, external drives, and a stable internet connection, you probably know the pain of juggling cables and adapters. It’s not fun to have to unplug things over and over to put new things in their place, but Head to Amazon to get the HP USB-C Dock G5 11-in-1 Adapter for $108, down from its usual price of $230. That’s $122 and a discount of 53%. See at Amazon The easy way to suppo

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How to Clean Hearing Aids

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-09-03 22:00:00

You can also use this tool to gently brush the tip of the dome of each eartip, where wax is most likely to accumulate. If any tenacious wax is stuck to the tip of the dome, try using the wire loop on the reverse of the brush to gently scoop it out. Next, check the back of the receiver, where the wire attaches to it, and brush this area as well. You can use a microfiber cloth to remove any material that is dislodged during this step. Some very old hearing aids have a long vent that runs through

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Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 21:35:05

Linear algebra is typically explained using matrices. But matrix theory is just one possible perspective. Below, I describe an alternative approach to linear algebra. Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882–1954), a Polish astronomer living in Krakow, was passionate about calculating machines. From the 1920s, Banachiewicz developed a method for computations on tables of numbers, which was particularly easy to perform with arithmometers. In honor of Krakow, Banachiewicz named these computational objects crac

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Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-09 07:50:38

In late 2022, Noah Pepper, a former Stripe business lead for the Asia Pacific region, founded Multiplier, a startup that aimed to sell software to tax accounts. But soon after ChatGPT was released, he realized that AI can change how professional service firms use technology. “I realized I was barking up the wrong tree by trying to build a SaaS business, and instead I should figure out how to make these people more effective,” he told TechCrunch. The startup acquired Citrine International Tax,

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Complaints About Tariff Evasion Have Jumped 160 Percent Under Trump

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-09-13 03:00:00

US Customs and Border Protection experienced a sharp rise in reports about potential tariff evasion after President Donald Trump abruptly imposed new duties on over 100 countries earlier this year, according to data the agency shared with WIRED. From March through May, CBP’s official e-Allegations tipline received 542 complaints about alleged duty dodging, an almost 160 percent increase from the same three months in 2024. Importers have long tried to evade tariffs and lower their costs by misla

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Latest Tech News

Benben: An audio player for the terminal, written in Common Lisp

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

Product of Additive Inverses

Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C (2010)

Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

HP 11-in-1 USB-C Dock Is Cheaper Than Last Prime Day, Now 53% Off as Amazon Clears Out Best-Sellers

How to Clean Hearing Aids

Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups

Complaints About Tariff Evasion Have Jumped 160 Percent Under Trump

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