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Intelligent Machines: Happy Hamburgers Towing Timmy To The Sea | TWiT.TV
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Intelligent Machines: Happy Hamburgers Towing Timmy To The Sea | TWiT.TV

TWiT.tv·5 months ago
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#news#twit#openai#google#behind#race

Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week’s candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware

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MacBreak Weekly: Ultra Expensive | TWiT.TV
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MacBreak Weekly: Ultra Expensive | TWiT.TV

TWiT.tv·5 months ago
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The panel can't stop talking about John Ternus becoming the next Apple CEO! Is the iPhone Ultra the official name of Apple's folding iPhone? Apple's product timeline for 2026

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How an MIT research project became a global programming language
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How an MIT research project became a global programming language

Hacker News·17 days ago
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Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others.…

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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Hacker News·about 1 month ago
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To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: we did it for 6+ years in my company, and it's not always a smooth sailing. We had our own runners and we made it auto-upgrade across docker images daily before business start.…

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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

Hacker News·about 1 month ago
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You are right that Cloudflare enabled these analytics by default for our free plans in Septemeber of last year.

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It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design
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It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design

Hacker News·about 2 months ago
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A new system developed at MIT CSAIL helps users design three-sided fasteners called “Y-zippers,” then 3D prints them. The devices can be attached or embedded to camping equipment, medical gear, robots, and art installations, seamlessly switching each item…

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Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep
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Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

Hacker News·about 2 months ago
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#news#whales#sperm#surface#buoyancy#resting

New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean surface.

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Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
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Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

Hacker News·about 2 months ago
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I wouldn't be surprised if "the best model" becomes a niche concept over the next few years. For most production systems the winning architecture may end up being an orchestrator that knows when to call a cheap model when to escalate to a stronger one and…

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Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?

Hacker News·2 months ago
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Unlike Germany (or most European countries), the US does not have a centralized, state-run database or federal ministry for evaluating foreign degrees. Education is highly decentralized here.

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Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
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Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database

Hacker News·2 months ago
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In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.

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Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

Hacker News·2 months ago
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Hi HN, I’m Alex Southmayd, the founder of Bloomy (https://bloomylearning.com) – an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 students. Bloomy provides students with an AI tutor alongside adaptive curriculum (right now Math, English Language Arts, and…

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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

Hacker News·2 months ago
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Awesome work! I would love to see this documented or at least a video of how everything works, not just to see the electronic setup, but to get a look at the mechanical internals of a 70 year old bowling machine.

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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Hacker News·2 months ago
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#news#variant#test#billing#tests#photo

Ive dealt with this error at AWS. It’s a unit error. In my case we _meant_ to charge like 5¢/GB, but missed the unit (GB), and then the billing system defaults to bytes.…

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Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
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Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

Hacker News·2 months ago
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Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

Hacker News·2 months ago
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My estimate was only $21M (vs ~$0.01 average bill). Wish I had checked status sooner and saved myself the panic!

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Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
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Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

Hacker News·2 months ago
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#news#life#billion#dollars#minutes#bank

Ask for some leniency. Let your account rep know about your budget difficulties and ask if you can make good faith payments of a few billion per month until you get back on your feet.

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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

Hacker News·2 months ago
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We don't allow genai text on HN itself - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079. How to enforce it is a separate question, of course, but the rule exists.

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