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Configuration files are user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:43:43

18 Sep, 2025 We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file. Yes, that’s exactly it! You rejoice knowing the software’s configuration will be trivial to version control. Your pragmatic instinct is satisfied as well; the door remains open to creating a proper UI later, since it would be merely a graphical view

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A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 17:18:28

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen. After all, people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangero

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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq raises even more than expected, hits $6.9B valuation

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-21 17:51:42

AI chip startup Groq confirmed Wednesday that it raised a fresh $750 million in funding at a post-money valuation of $6.9 billion. This topped the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that Groq was raising. At that time, reports suggested that the raise would be about $600 million, at near a $6 billion valuation. Groq, which also sells data center computing power, previously raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this more than double the valuation in about

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The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 12:54:36

The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation If You're Here, You Know The Pain You own a high-end ASUS ROG laptop perhaps a Strix, Scar, or Zephyrus. It's specifications are impressive: an RTX 30/40 series GPU, a top-tier Intel processor, and plenty of RAM. Yet, it stutters during basic tasks like watching a YouTube video, audio crackles and pops on Discord calls, the mouse cursor freezes for a split second, just long enough to be infuriating. You've likely tried a

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Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 16:24:38

At least a 256x256x256mm print volume. Needs to be enclosed or enclosable. Need to be able to print with more durable, temperature/chemical resistant materials such as PC/Nylon/ABS or infused materials. I do not need to print multi material models. I would prefer something that doesn't phone home and can work offline. Opensource firmware/software and repairability are important. I am ok assembling the machine and learning how to dial it in. I can do CAD work and make models by hand; I was a mac

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 20:57:50

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 Asus Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 19:54:36

The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation If You're Here, You Know The Pain You own a high-end ASUS ROG laptop perhaps a Strix, Scar, or Zephyrus. It's specifications are impressive: an RTX 30/40 series GPU, a top-tier Intel processor, and plenty of RAM. Yet, it stutters during basic tasks like watching a YouTube video, audio crackles and pops on Discord calls, the mouse cursor freezes for a split second, just long enough to be infuriating. You've likely tried a

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CrowdStrike Infested With "Self-Replicating Worms"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-24 00:00:07

A year after a glitch at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike triggered a global computer outage affecting millions of computers, the software vendor is being forced to contain a new threat: a swarm of self-replicating worms. As first reported by investigative cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, CrowdStrike once again became the launchpad for a potentially debilitating security hazard when some 25 code packages were compromised by a novel strand of malware. Dubbed "Shai-Hulud," the malicious so

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Team-Wide VMware Certification: Your Secret Weapon for Security

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-25 13:01:11

When one person on your IT team is VMware certified, that’s a win. But when your entire team is certified? That’s a force multiplier for innovation, retention, and your security posture. Organizations that invest in team-wide certification build high-performing environments that are more collaborative, secure, and future-ready. The result: smoother rollouts, fewer errors, faster incident response, and a workforce that’s confident, capable, and committed. Certification Is a Security Strategy

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Alienware 16 Area-51 Review: Part Desktop, Part Laptop and a Whole Lotta Lights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 10:00:00

8.6 / 10 SCORE Alienware 16 Area-51 Pros High-end gaming performance Manages heat and noise well Upgradeable RAM and 3x SSD slots Cons Big and heavy Short battery life LCD doesn't have great contrast The Alienware 16 Area-51 sets the stage for Alienware's new flagship laptop design. It certainly provides some intrigue with its looks, is quite potent and it operates without too much noise. However, thick bezels, large dimensions and considerable heft don't make it the best-designed system a

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Nothing wants to build ambitious new products, including smart glasses

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-26 03:45:52

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei has shared his vision about the company’s expansion into other product categories. The executive says the company will focus on AI-driven hardware experiences beyond smartphones. He stresses the need for hardware-agnostic operating systems that will adapt to multiple hardware interfaces, such as smart glasses, humanoid robots, EVs, and more. Over the past several months, stagnation of smartphone-related innovation has been a consta

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iOS 26 is now available. Here's how to install it on your iPhone

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 12:12:33

After a summer of beta updates, iOS 26 is here. As long as you have a compatible iPhone, you can install the new software right now. Head to Settings > General > Software Update, and get ready for a Liquid Glass makeover. iOS 26 offers Apple's biggest visual change to its software since iOS 7. (That was when Jony Ive's flat design replaced Scott Forstall's skeuomorphic one.) This time around, the software adopts a translucent material theme: Liquid Glass. Although it isn't a return to skeuomorp

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Alienware 16 Area-51 Review: An Oddity From Space With Respectable Power

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 06:00:06

8.6 / 10 SCORE Alienware 16 Area-51 Pros High-end gaming performance Manages heat and noise well Upgradeable RAM and 3x SSD slots Cons Big and heavy Short battery life LCD screen doesn't have great contrast The Alienware 16 Area-51 sets the stage for Alienware's new flagship laptop design. It certainly provides some intrigue with its looks, is quite potent and it operates without too much noise. However, thick bezels, large dimensions and considerable heft don't make it the best-designed s

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Apple explains why iOS 26 could affect your iPhone’s battery life

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-27 05:24:33

iOS 26 is now available for iPhone users to install, and a new webpage from Apple seeks to explain why software updates are important, but also their potential impact on battery life and performance. iOS 26 might impact your iPhone’s battery and performance, but for most users it will be temporary Apple has just published a new support document that explains the ins and outs of software updates, including why they’re important. It explains, for example, the difference between “major releases (

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Amazon sets the date for what sounds like a big fall hardware event

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 17:08:25

Amazon TL;DR Amazon has scheduled a Devices & Services event for September 30. It’s been just about a year now since Amazon’s last major hardware launches. The invitation’s teaser imagery hints at Kindle, Fire, and Echo news. With summer rapidly drawing to a close, there’s not much time left for companies to get their 2025 hardware lineups ready to go ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. This year’s already brought us some spectacular devices from many of our favorite brands,

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Programming Deflation

news.ycombinator.com Kent Beck 2025-09-27 21:11:43

The genies are out of the bottle. Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost, skill barriers, and time needed to develop software. (Interesting debate to be had—another day.) Will this lead to fewer programmers or more programmers? Economics gives us two contradictory answers simultaneously. Substitution . The substitution effect says we'll need fewer programmers—machines are replacing human labor. Jevons’. Jevons’ paradox predicts that when something becomes c

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Microsoft fixes Windows 11 audio issues confirmed in December

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:48:05

Microsoft has removed a safeguard hold that prevented some users from upgrading their systems to Windows 11 24H2 due to compatibility issues that were causing Bluetooth headsets and speakers to malfunction. As the company explained when it acknowledged this bug in December, the issue affected systems with Dirac audio improvement software, which also triggered problems with audio device detection and caused integrated speakers to stop functioning. "The incompatibility relates to the software co

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Amazon announces fall hardware event

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-09-28 01:35:46

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally launches a slew of new products, including Echo smart speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindles, and sometimes dozens of other gadgets. The event is sc

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Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:40:17

The Irrlicht Engine supports 5 rendering APIs, which are 4 more than most other 3D engines do: Direct3D 9.0 OpenGL 1.2-4.x The Irrlicht Engine software renderer . . The Burningsvideo Software Renderer A null device. When using the Irrlicht engine, the programmer needs not know, which API the engine is using, it is totally abstracted. He only needs to tell the engine which API the engine should prefer. There are three reasons why the engine not only focuses on one API: Performance . Some gra

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Wysiwid: What you see is what it does

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Jackson 2025-09-25 03:54:09

Full paper Dividing labor with LLMs. As LLMs get better at writing code, it seems inevitable that there will be less work for human programmers. Thomas Dohmke is right that low-level coding skills will matter less and that “the future belongs to developers who can model systems, anticipate edge cases, and translate ambiguity into structure—skills that AI can’t automate.” Dohmke says “We need to teach abstraction, decomposition, and specification not just as pre-coding steps, but as the new cod

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How an over-the-air update made Quilt’s heat pumps more powerful

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-29 21:42:31

Software might be eating the world, but it’s taking some industries longer than others to realize its full potential. From iPhones to Teslas, people have grown accustomed to software updates improving the stuff they already own. But outside consumer electronics and automobiles, over-the-air updates aren’t commonplace yet. Yet that’s beginning to change, starting with an unlikely product: heat pumps. Last week, heat pump startup Quilt said that it pushed an update last week to heat pumps alread

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Apple’s latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-30 21:00:46

Buried in an ocean of flashy novelties announced by Apple this week, the tech giant also revealed new security technology for its latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices. This new security technology was made specifically to fight against surveillance vendors and the types of vulnerabilities they rely on the most, according to Apple. The feature is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is designed to help stop memory corruption bugs, which are some of the most common vulnerabilities exp

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35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 12:56:35

VMware will lose a significant chunk of business over the next three years, according to Gartner research VP Julia Palmer. Of course, some organizations have already abandoned VMware or are plotting partial or total migrations. Broadcom acquired the virtualization business in November 2023 and made sweeping changes that alienated many customers. The biggest concerns have been higher costs driven by a shift from perpetual licenses to subscriptions and the bundling of products into fewer, more ex

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Mosyle uncovers new cross-platform malware undetected by antivirus tools

9to5mac.com Arin Waichulis 2025-10-01 17:42:51

After warning 9to5Mac last month about undetectable Mac malware hidden in a fake PDF converter site, Mosyle, a leader in Apple device management and security, has now uncovered a new infostealer. Dubbed ModStealer, the malware has remained invisible to all major antivirus engines since first appearing on VirusTotal nearly a month ago. In details shared exclusively with 9to5Mac, Mosyle says ModStealer doesn’t just target macOS systems, but is cross-platform and purpose-built for one thing: steal

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The Buyer’s Guide to Browser Extension Management

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:01:11

While most enterprises lock down endpoints, harden networks, and scan for vulnerabilities, one of the riskiest vectors often slips through unmonitored: browser extensions. These small, user-installed applications can execute privileged code, access sensitive DOM elements, intercept network requests, and even exfiltrate data, all within the context of enterprise-approved browsers. Keep Aware’s new Buyer’s Guide to Browser Extension Management explores how security and IT leaders can achieve comp

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France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-02 01:32:05

In Brief Apple has notified a number of individuals that their devices were targeted in a spyware campaign, according to the French government. France’s national cybersecurity response unit said on Thursday that it was aware that Apple on September 3 sent a new notification to affected customers whose Apple devices may have been hacked. The cybersecurity unit said receiving a threat notification means that at least one of the devices linked to a customer’s iCloud account “has been targeted an

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