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Survey shows Android 16’s Expressive redesign is a big hit

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 13:23:16

Google launched the stable Android 16 update back in June, but we had to wait a few months for the promised Material 3 Expressive redesign to appear. Fortunately, this visual overhaul landed in early September, giving us a fresh coat of paint. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? We recently asked what you thought of this visual redesign. Now that the dust has settled and you’ve had time to explore the update, here’s how you answered that question. Over 3,000 votes were tallied

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Visual programming is stuck on the form

news.ycombinator.com Wil Chung 2025-09-24 21:53:31

Underlying great creations that you love—be it music, art, or technology—its form (what it looks like) is driven by an underpinning internal logic (how it works). I noticed this pattern while watching a talk on cellular automaton and realized it's "form follows function" paraphrased from a slightly different angle. Inventing a form is a hard task, so you must approach it obliquely—by first illuminating the underlying function. This made me realize something crucial about visual programming: it’

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Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 18:23:59

Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations This system automatically visualizes a story (chronological events, character and their actions and movements) and allows users to edit the story by manipulating these visual representations. For example: Hover over the timeline allows reviewing the chronology of events and visualizing the movements of the characters Connecting two characters suggests edits to the text to reflect the new interaction Moving a character sugge

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I took Gemini shopping with its new visual guidance on the Pixel 10: Here’s how it went

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 05:30:51

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google keeps giving Gemini more tricks on our phones, like a magician stuffing rabbits in a hat. On the Pixel 10 series, Gemini talks to apps, performs unreal voice translations, helps take better photos, and basically shows off its abilities every chance it gets. Visual guidance is also one of Gemini’s newest party tricks to debut alongside Google’s latest flagships. So last week, I grabbed my fresh-out-of-the-box Pixel 10 Pro XL and headed out for some retail

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A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 14:39:37

A visual history of Visual C++ 04 Mar 2017 Visual C++ was Microsoft's implementation of a professional Windows hosted IDE for developing Windows software. From humble beginnings, it's grown into a very versatile, popular, and powerful tool. I used every version of Visual C++ since 1.0, and thought I'd collect some Visual C++ screenshots and comments on these versions. Visual C++ 1.x Visual C++ 1.0/1.5 (16-bit) Visual C++ 1.1 (32-bit) Minimum (official) host OS version Windows 3.1 Windows NT

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Siri could get Finder-inspired new visual appearance next year, per report

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-16 22:43:24

Apple has a big future planned for Siri, as outlined by a new Bloomberg report that mentions the assistant could be in store for a complete visual overhaul, gaining an animated personality that looks like the Mac’s iconic Finder icon. Finder-inspired Siri design being considered for launch next year with AI upgrades In a wide-ranging new report on Apple’s Home device plans, Mark Gurman mentions that two upcoming devices—the rumored 2026 ‘HomePad/HomePod Touch’ and a 2027 ‘tabletop robot’—could

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Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

news.ycombinator.com Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen 2025-12-06 17:30:01

Zoom image will be displayed A man looking at the window and thinking Every Visual Workflow Tool is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen 5 min read · 3 hours ago 3 hours ago -- Listen Share There’s a saying that goes “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” But what happens when you trade your hammer for a Fisher-Price toy hammer and convince yourself it’s an upgrade? That’s exactly what’s happening with visual workflow tools, and I’m tired of pret

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Robert Wilson has died

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 04:57:27

Robert Wilson, a visionary artist best known for his highly visual and stylised approach to theatrical performances, has died, aged 83. According to a statement released by the Watermill Center, the arts organisation he founded in Water Mill, New York, Wilson died at his home there on Thursday (31 July) following “a brief but acute illness”. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, he still felt compelled to keep working and creating right up until the very end,” the state

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New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-07 17:05:20

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use. Canadian AI company Cohere is banking on its models, including a newly released visual model, to make the case that Deep Research features shoul

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Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 22:25:53

The Montana Mini-Computer / MTMC-16 Homepage The MonTana state Mini Computer is a virtual computer intended to show how digital computation works in a fun and visual way. The MTSC combines ideas from the PDP-11, MIPS, Scott CPU, Game Boy and JVM to make a relatively simple 16-bit computer that can accomplish basic computing tasks. The computer is displayed via a web interface that includes all the I/O such as console and display, visual representations of the computer state, and a built in co

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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 00:16:41

At Morphik, we build RAG tools to provide developers accurate search over complex documents. In this article, we explain why we operate over "images" of pages instead of doing OCR/ parsing. If you’ve ever tried to extract information from a complex PDF: one with charts, diagrams, and tables mixed with text, you know the pain. That invoice with a nested table showing quarterly breakdowns? The research paper whose intricate figures actually contain the key findings? The technical manual where the

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Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 20:48:35

Designing for the Eye Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography By Niko Kitsakis, June 2025 This article highlights a special aspect of both visual design and architecture: Optical corrections (or optical adjustments, if you prefer). If you found my piece about legible typefaces interesting, you’ll likely enjoy this one as well. Since I included many visual examples that are size-sensitive, make sure you read this on a big screen and not your mobile device. Optical Illusions The

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Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 02:48:35

Designing for the Eye Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography By Niko Kitsakis, June 2025 This article highlights a special aspect of both visual design and architecture: Optical corrections (or optical adjustments, if you prefer). If you found my piece about legible typefaces interesting, you’ll likely enjoy this one as well. Since I included many visual examples that are size-sensitive, make sure you read this on a big screen and not your mobile device. Optical Illusions The

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Gmail is getting even more Material 3 Expressive UI changes (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-12 23:30:05

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown of the Gmail app has uncovered more visual changes. These changes include a redesigned search bar, no more Reply All button, and more tweaks. These tweaks are in line with Google’s Material 3 Expressive visual style, which will come to Android 16 later this year. Google is working hard to bring its Material 3 Expressive visual style to both Android 16 and its own apps. Gmail has already received some Expressive tweaks th

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I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 02:47:53

I just finished porting pigz from Unix to Windows (you can download pre-compiled binaries ). This article describes how I did it. Pigz was clearly written with Unix in mind, with no thought given to cross-platform portability. Thankfully, it’s a relatively simple, command-line program that sticks to using standard C library. Porting pthreads Pigz uses pthreads for threading. Porting pthreads code to Windows would be a nightmare. Lucky me: someone already did all the hard work and implemented

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Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-15 16:25:25

Though Izcue largely frames El arte peruano as classroom material for primary school students, contemporary commentators emphasized another equally important use for the books: revitalizing domestic craft production by grafting it to a non-European fount of influence. The second volume provides suggestions for what kinds of objects — from book covers to curtains — might be most suited to each motif and even includes visual aids for how the figures might be flipped and tessellated. The adaptation

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The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:09:32

What is Ren'Py? Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use. Where does

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Apple will finally bring a big iPhone 16 exclusive feature to an older iPhone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:15:38

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Visual Intelligence is a significant highlight feature of Apple Intelligence, but it can only be launched with the new Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 series. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max supported Apple Intelligence but not Visual Intelligence, as there was no way to launch it. In a future software update, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max will be able to launch Visual Intelligence through the Control Center and even assign it to the Action Button

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An iOS update will give iPhone 15 Pro owners Visual Intelligence

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:50:31

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . iPhone 15 Pro owners will soon have one less reason to consider upgrading to an iPhone 16 series handset. Visual Intelligence, Apple's equivalent to Google Lens, is coming to the 2023 Pro-series flagships, according to Daring Fireball. Owners of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro can trigger Vi

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This useful Apple Intelligence camera feature is coming to iPhone 15 Pro - here's how it works

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-09 12:45:00

ZDNET Apple's Visual Intelligence skill is expanding beyond the iPhone 16. The iPhone 15 Pro will soon get custody of the feature, which digs up details on objects you snap through the camera. In a post published on Wednesday, Daring Fireball's John Gruber said that Apple representatives told him that iPhone 15 Pro (and presumably iPhone 15 Pro Max) owners will be able to use Visual Intelligence on their devices. The company wouldn't reveal exactly when the feature would arrive beyond pointin

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Visual Intelligence feature coming to iPhone 15 Pro with a future iOS update

9to5mac.com Filipe Espósito 2025-11-09 17:27:21

Apple Intelligence is available for iPhone 15 Pro and later, but there’s an exclusive feature for iPhone 16 models, which is Visual Intelligence. Some believed this was because the iPhone 15 Pro lacks Camera Control, but that all changed with the iPhone 16e – which supports Visual Intelligence. Now Apple has confirmed that the feature will soon be available to iPhone 15 Pro owners too. Apple confirms Visual Intelligence is coming to iPhone 15 Pro An Apple spokesperson told Daring Fireball’s Jo

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Apple Intelligence on iPhone is now $200 cheaper — with just two small trade-offs

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-09 15:20:41

Want a new iPhone with Apple Intelligence? Before today, that would set you back about $800. After Apple’s latest iPhone announcement, however, the cost to access Apple Intelligence on iPhone is 25% less. There are just two very minor caveats. Apple Intelligence is a suite of various features powered by artificial intelligence. Apple provides its AI tools with privacy in mind, using a stateless server system called Private Cloud Compute. This privacy-centric approach is unlike other modern AI s

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Latest Tech News

Survey shows Android 16’s Expressive redesign is a big hit

Visual programming is stuck on the form

Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

I took Gemini shopping with its new visual guidance on the Pixel 10: Here’s how it went

A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

Siri could get Finder-inspired new visual appearance next year, per report

Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

Robert Wilson has died

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography

Gmail is getting even more Material 3 Expressive UI changes (APK teardown)

I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School

The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine

Apple will finally bring a big iPhone 16 exclusive feature to an older iPhone

An iOS update will give iPhone 15 Pro owners Visual Intelligence

This useful Apple Intelligence camera feature is coming to iPhone 15 Pro - here's how it works

Visual Intelligence feature coming to iPhone 15 Pro with a future iOS update

Apple Intelligence on iPhone is now $200 cheaper — with just two small trade-offs

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