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The bloat of edge-case first libraries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 07:09:43

The bloat of edge-case first libraries This is just some of what I’ve been pondering recently - particularly in terms of how we ended up with such overly-granular dependency trees. I think we’ve ended up with many libraries in our ecosystem which are edge-case-first, the opposite to what I’d expect. I’ll give a few examples and some thoughts around this, mostly in the hope we can start to trim some of it away. The problem I believe a lot of the questionably small libraries hiding in our deep

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So… is there a TikTok deal or not?

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-09-22 05:35:20

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. China and the US have “made progress” on granting permission for ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American consortium, fulfilling a nine-months-overdue legal requirement. After saying a tentative deal had been reached Monday and that approval woul

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Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-09-22 10:56:11

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has raised $10 billion from investors that puts the company's post-money valuation at $200 billion, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The valuation for Musk's AI company is the latest example of skyrocketing valuations for companies that develop foundational AI models. Earlier this month, Anthropic raised $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation. OpenAI, the largest company in the industry, held a secondary share sale that valued it at $500 billion. The fundraising c

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The Land Bridge You’ve Never Heard Of

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-23 18:30:00

For many of us, when we think of land bridges, we tend to think of the Bering Land Bridge (actually more of a swamp), which ancient humans traversed to reach North America from modern-day Siberia during the last Ice Age. But there may have been another, crucial stretch of land that aided early human migration—this time, far across the continent, on the Anatolian coast. That’s the major new finding from a team of Turkish archeologists who have uncovered over 100 stone artifacts from ten differen

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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 10:06:03

The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work. When I was new to this emerging craft of AI-assisted coding, I was getting lousy results, despite the models being rather intelligent. Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context. Andrej Karpathy, while referencing my earlier article on this topic, described the work of AI-assisted engineering as “putting AI on a tight leash”. What does a tight le

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What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 02:08:45

C# 14, coming with .NET 10, introduces null-conditional assignment, a feature that lets you safely assign values to properties or indexers without endless if statements. Learn more about this new feature in this article. What's New in C# 14 Series What's New in C# 14: User-Defined Compound Assignments What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments If you've ever developed in C#, you've likely encountered a snippet like the one below: if (config?.Settings is not null) { config.Settings.Ret

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Algebraic Types are not Scary

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 06:14:38

Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually Posted on 2025-08-30 You may have heard the term algebraic types before, which initially sounds like an advanced concept, that only someone with a PhD in programming languages can understand. Quite the contrary, algebraic types is a very simple and helpful concept about programming in general. Anyone who knows basic algebra could understand what algebraic types are. In this article I aim to provide an explanation of algebraic types for the working progra

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Apple Vision Pro gains support for digital prism correction

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-09-28 08:02:56

A longstanding limitation of Apple Vision Pro was that it did not offer support for vision prescriptions with a prism value. With visionOS 26, however, you can now enter the prism values from your prescription and visionOS will adapt through software. Since the launch of Apple Vision Pro, there has been a warning for those looking to buy the ZEISS Optical Inserts: A very small percentage of people have a prism value added to their glasses prescription. At this time, ZEISS Optical Inserts based

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LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-28 12:15:34

Mix two internet touchstones together and what do you get? We’re going to find out. LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network, announced that it won the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in an auction. The company indicated it has no plans to use the branding for a music festival, but rather bought up the name and likeness mostly for the memes. LimeWire said in a press release that it plans to “unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre — one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into r

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Viking survival sim Valheim will finally come to the PS5 in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 10:06:57

The hit survival sim Valheim will be released for the PS5 in 2026 , ending years of speculation. The year is all we got, as developer Iron Gate AB didn't announce an actual release date. Still, it's better than nothing. We do know that the PS5 version will feature full crossplay with all other platforms, so that's good. Piktiv, a company that regularly assists Iron Gate with Valheim stuff, is working on the port so the main development team can focus its efforts on updates and DLC drops. To tha

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Your Valdobbiadene Is at Risk of Shattering!

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-01 02:20:37

Did you buy any Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene at Coscto in the past year? You might want to be careful with that bottle. It could shatter for absolutely no discernible reason. Costco has sent out a warning to consumers who’ve purchased the Prosecco Valdobbiadene, a sparkling white wine, because the company says, “there is a risk of unopened bottles shattering, even when not handled or in use.” Unlike many other food recalls, this one specifically states that consumers shouldn’t ret

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A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 21:51:28

In this write-up, I will walk you through an implementation of a string formatting library for C++ I came up with for my video game. The end result came out really compact, at only 65 lines of code—providing a skeleton that can be supplemented with additional functionality at low cost. Usage Given a format buffer… char buffer [ 64 ] ; String_Buffer buf = { str , sizeof str } ; …the fmt::format function provided by this library can be called with a format string parameter, containing the char

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Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

wired.com Joseph Winters 2025-10-02 10:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s foremost authority on the topic. But only some types of carbon removal are actually effective—and these are largely not the kind that major companies are investing in. A new report from the NewClimate Institute, a European think

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Float Exposed

news.ycombinator.com Bartosz Ciechanowski 2025-10-04 17:11:15

half bfloat float double Value Position within Significand–Exponent Range Evaluation in Base-2 (−1 2 ) 2 × 10 2 ( 2 − 2 ) × . 2 Evaluation in Base-10 × 2 × . Exact Base-10 Value Delta to Next/Previous Representable Value Delta to Next Representable Value

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How to Get Free Marvel Rivals Skins With the College Perks Program in Season 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 05:12:08

You might be subsisting off ramen noodles and Red Bull, but that doesn't mean you need to look broke while you're playing your games. NetEase has introduced Marvel Rivals perks for college and university students that let them wear some of the coolest in-game costumes for free. All you need is a valid student email and the know-how to navigate the in-game menus. Linking your NetEase account with your college's domain is a simple process that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes. Most US s

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Formally verifying a floating-point division routine with Gappa – part 1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 22:35:41

We have recently released a set of optimized assembly-language routines for basic floating-point arithmetic, in Arm Optimized Routines, under an open-source license. These functions perform the same operations as hardware floating point instructions, for example addition, multiplication, and division. However, they are implemented using only integer 32-bit Arm instructions, for Arm CPUs without hardware floating point. Existing open-source libraries such as libgcc and compiler-rt offer similar

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The PS Plus Game Catalog additions include Persona 5 Tactica and WWE 2K25

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:10:06

On Wednesday, Sony rolled out its September Game Catalog additions for PS Plus subscribers. This month's entries run the gamut from turn-based tactics to survival horror and pro wrestling. Persona 5 Tactica (PS5/ PS4) may be the most critically acclaimed title in the batch. The 2023 Persona spinoff takes the mainline games' battles and shifts them into grid-based tactics. Think XCOM with Phantom Thieves. The Invincible (PS5) is an adaptation of the 1963 sci-fi novel by Stanisław Lem. As its in

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Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 22:22:54

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging People do or do not use debuggers for a variety of reasons. For one thing, they are hard to setup in many codebases. Second, you can’t use them when your application is running on remote environments (such as kuberenetes). So, anecdotally, I have seen way more people using Print/ log.Debug compared to a debugger. Which is a shame, because while debug logging is convenient at times, debuggers can do some things which you can’t easil

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Yet Another TypeSafe and Generic Programming Candidate for C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 11:06:31

MisraStdC A modern C11 library designed to make programming in C less painful and more productive, written in pure C. MisraStdC provides generic containers, string handling, and formatted I/O inspired by higher-level languages while maintaining C's performance and control. Disclaimer: This library is not related to the MISRA C standard or guidelines. The name "MisraStdC" comes from the author's name, Siddharth Mishra, who is commonly known as "Misra" among friends. Table of Contents Features

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Linus Torvalds warns Linux devs: Stop cluttering patches with automated, useless links

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-11 06:42:00

Leonid Korchenko/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linus Torvalds doesn't like non-informative links in proposed Linux code changes. Useless links are from AI dev programs and automated tools. Torvalds thinks links should lead to useful info about a patch. It all started with a single fix to a resource node rewrite in the Linux kernel. The more Linus Torvalds looked at it, the more puzzled he became. You see, the fix didn't "act

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Linus Torvalds is sick and tired of your 'pointless links' - and AI is no excuse

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-11 11:22:49

Maximusnd/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linus Torvalds is annoyed by non-informative links in proposed Linux code changes. Many of these useless links come from AI dev programs and other automated tools. Torvalds doesn't want to see links unless they take him to useful info about a patch. It all started with a single fix to a resource node rewrite in the Linux kernel. The more Linus Torvalds looked at

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Valve’s Steam Deck for Your Face Is Way More Interesting Than a Quest Clone

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-13 14:46:50

The consensus is clear. Regular folk and gamers alike couldn’t give a hoot for yet another Meta Quest-like VR headset. Hell, even the “metaverse is the future” company Meta seems more interested in smart glasses than headsets nowadays. That may change if Valve has anything to say about it. Even if you’re not a VR gaming enthusiast, there’s more than one reason you should pay attention to Valve’s long-rumored wireless XR headset. The company behind Steam could be crafting a device whose closest d

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TIFF 2025: Frankenstein, Knives Out 3, and all the biggest movies from Toronto

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-14 02:30:00

The Toronto International Film Festival is almost like a preview of the movie slate for the next few months — and this year I’m watching as much as possible to give you all the scoop on what’s ahead. To do that, I’ll be writing a dispatch covering every movie I’ve seen that day, which will run daily throughout most of the festival. That includes bigger movies you probably already know about, like Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man and Frankenstein, along with hopefully some great new films you maybe wer

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Valerion launches new premium projector with anti-rainbow effect technology

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 22:00:58

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Valerion is formally announcing its new premium projector, the VisionMaster Max, at IFA 2025. The boxy little projector offers improved contrast and brightness, but the feature that should be most interesting to home theater aficionados is how it tries to address the "rainbow effect" common in some cheaper projectors. Cheaper DLP projectors sometimes display stuttery strobes of color when the projector's color wheel is forced to quickly shift between col

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Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-17 06:49:47

Bret Taylor, chairman of the board of directors of OpenAI, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports a new $10 billion valuation after raising $350 million in fresh capital. Sierra is one of just a handful of AI startups, including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and Thinking M

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Stardew Valley’s creator is in Silksong

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-17 06:11:02

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. Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the indie smash hit Hollow Knight, is finally out, and according to Silksong’s credits, the game features the voice of Eric Barone, the creator of another indie smash hit, Stardew Valley. (You may also know Barone by the name ConcernedApe, which h

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DuckDuckGo Subscription: A User-Friendly Privacy Boost, but Not for Power Users

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 15:00:00

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine. Unlike rivals Google and Bing, DuckDuckGo eschews ad trackers, making it tougher for websites to gather browsing data. In addition to its search engine, the company has a web browser and mobile apps. DuckDuckGo also offers a subscription consisting of a VPN, information removal tool, identity theft restoration and now AI chat model support. I decided to take it for a spin. During my testing, I was impressed by DuckDuckGo’s VPN offering. It has bee

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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: I compared the two best data removal services, and there's a clear winner

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-18 12:30:19

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Data removal services began to appear around 15 years ago, after data brokers realized that data could become a new, valuable currency -- and one ripe for exploitation, given the lack of laws and little to no consumer data privacy protection written into legislation. Incogni and DeleteMe, founded in 2021 as part of VPN provider Surfshark and in 2010 by Abine Privacy, respectively, are two of the most widely-known data remo

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Evaluating Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 13:32:57

“Models constantly change and improve but evals persist” Look at the data No amount of evals will replace the need to look at the data, once you have a evals good coverage you’ll be able to decrease the time but it’ll be always a must to just look at the agent traces to identify possible issues or things to improve. Starting, end to end evals You must create evals for your agents, stop relying solely on manual testing. Not sure where to start? Add e2e evals, define a success criteria (

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‘Marvel Rivals’ Shakes Heaven and Earth Adding Daredevil and Angela to Its Hero Roster

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-19 06:30:14

In a sea of hero shooters, Marvel Rivals continues to be the talk of the town, be it through its glittery movie collab and comic book crossover skins, bombastic gameplay, or having gamers and comic book fans alike fiending to find out which new hero will become their main. Today, Marvel Rivals gave players a glimpse at two new heroes that will undoubtedly change the hierarchy of fan-favorite debates. Developer NetEase Games has unveiled a teaser for season four event The Heart of the Dragon, re

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Latest Tech News

The bloat of edge-case first libraries

So… is there a TikTok deal or not?

Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources

The Land Bridge You’ve Never Heard Of

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Algebraic Types are not Scary

Apple Vision Pro gains support for digital prism correction

LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

Viking survival sim Valheim will finally come to the PS5 in 2026

Your Valdobbiadene Is at Risk of Shattering!

A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

Float Exposed

How to Get Free Marvel Rivals Skins With the College Perks Program in Season 4

Formally verifying a floating-point division routine with Gappa – part 1

The PS Plus Game Catalog additions include Persona 5 Tactica and WWE 2K25

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

Yet Another TypeSafe and Generic Programming Candidate for C

Linus Torvalds warns Linux devs: Stop cluttering patches with automated, useless links

Linus Torvalds is sick and tired of your 'pointless links' - and AI is no excuse

Valve’s Steam Deck for Your Face Is Way More Interesting Than a Quest Clone

TIFF 2025: Frankenstein, Knives Out 3, and all the biggest movies from Toronto

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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: I compared the two best data removal services, and there's a clear winner

Evaluating Agents

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