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A GPL-licensed tool that turns the physical act of burning optical media into a drawing process gains traction on Hacker News and tech…
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“辅助标定算法将可确定的盘面物理数据精确度从 10 -6 提升到了 10 -14 。”— DiscImageStudio README, Project documentation · GitHub · full quotes →
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The read-it-later startup unveils Readwise Books, a combined ebook store and "Strava for reading" tracker aimed at Amazon's dominant Kindle…
began Oct 28now
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“The desire to read books, like exercising and eating well, is laden with guilt. Many people feel like they should be reading more, but feeling bad about it…”— Readwise co-founders, company blog post · full quotes →
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Developers can now embed peer-to-peer file sharing directly into their apps without requiring users to open the system share sheet.
began Nov 2now
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“When you want to share something, you'll be able to do it directly in the app. That means you won't have to go through the process of bringing up the share…”— Google · full quotes →
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The analytics company switched to DuckDB to escape ClickHouse scaling issues but underestimated customer workload complexity.
began Nov 2now
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“We love DuckDB. It's probably the best single-node tool for analyzing heaps of data… The same features that are great locally gave us problems in the cloud.”— PostHog · full quotes →
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A Microsoft engineer's firsthand account of discovering Patrick Stewart would host the 1990s software event.
began Nov 2now
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“Patrick Stewart had such a commanding presence. If he had come out on stage and announced, "It is the dawn of a new era: The era of lime Jell-O", people would…”
— Raymond Chen · full quotes →
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Creator builds 3D explorer using open datasets, Minecraft-inspired visuals, and dynamic time/weather controls.
began Nov 2now
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“Works best on desktop, but I tried to make it usable on mobile too. The initial load can take a while. It's based on several open datasets, including: -…”— stared · full quotes →
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The text editor first launched at MIT in 1976 marks a half-century of active use and development, influencing modern free software…
began Oct 27now
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“EMACS first ran on the early video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976, but its core concepts were so powerful that it was…”— Technology Review · full quotes →
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PlayStation is sending app notifications to users offering to buy back standard PS5s with controllers, a rare direct outreach from a…
began Oct 28now
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“Although trade-in programs, particularly around the holiday season, aren't uncommon for retailers like GameStop, it isn't as normal to see platform holders…”— Cade Onder, IGN reporter · full quotes →
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Epic Games signals major architectural shift away from traditional Unreal development frameworks.
began Nov 2now
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“I feel my time last year learning Unreal 5 was a waste of time now. I never felt this before with any other tech even when it went away.”— @djlink · full quotes →
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Musk posts a meme declaring "The people deserve to have their RAM too!" as backlash grows over Altman's comments on consumer memory.
began Nov 2now
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“The people deserve to have their RAM too!”
— Elon Musk · full quotes →
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Readers debate whether a new literary piece is human-written or machine-generated, citing both stylistic red flags and defense of its…
began Nov 2now
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“I liked it, felt the translation "ate" something."For now" is more organic in the original language.”— oxag3n · full quotes →
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ERMIS-3 successfully demonstrates optical communications from orbit, validating high-bandwidth technology for small satellites.
began Nov 2now
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“This achievement is opening new capabilities and opportunities for secure communications for small satellites within the European ecosystem.”— Professor Vaios Lappas and Antonis Paschalis · full quotes →
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A blogger discovered the navigation system requires an official map SD card just to access time settings, prompting reverse-engineering to…
began Nov 2now
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“They mentioned that the car apparently needs this SD card just to change the time on the clock, but I didn't really find that believable”— Developer (nns.ee blogger) · Lobsters · full quotes →
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The all-in-one creative suite arrives on Apple's tablet with touch-optimized tools and Apple Pencil Pro support, free for individuals.
began Oct 26now
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“Affinity for iPad delivers the full power of Affinity, together with the versatility and portability of iPad. Every development decision was made by people who…”— Neil Ladkin, Affinity product design head · full quotes →
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New, unannounced restrictions stop Claude from modding, decompiling or porting games and devices, catching legitimate developers in the net…
began Oct 30now
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“highlights the irony of frontier AI companies that copied the world's information and art for their training sets and are now concerned with copyright…”— Bruno Ferreira, Tom's Hardware reporter · Tom's Hardware (via Mashable) · full quotes →
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Software engineer demand has collapsed 42% since 2022 while AI-related positions jump, widening inequality in the Bay Area.
began Nov 2now
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“$180k/yr doesn't go very far in San Francisco specially if you want to have a family. Dual income becomes pretty much mandatory.”— lnkdinsuxs, Hacker News commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A DIY e-paper panel built jointly by Seeed Studio and TRMNL lets owners run it on a hosted service, a local ecosystem, or their own server.
began Nov 2now
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“privacy first functionality by empowering you to run your own private server, network, and devices. You own the stack and the data.”— Terminus GitHub page · full quotes →
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YC-backed startup demos smart glasses that decode mouthed words to text without audible sound, raising questions about accuracy and privacy.
began Nov 2now
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“Aren't you worried that video to text (AI lip reading) will be good enough so it can be a software only solution with any webcam?”— eranation · full quotes →
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A new configuration language aims to eliminate the trade-offs developers face between syntactic comfort and type predictability.
began Oct 27now
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“It's already powering the frontmatter of my website”— mofle (Sindre Sorhus) · full quotes →
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Cloudflare built a planner that rebuilds only affected DNS zones instead of entire zones, slashing resource consumption.
began Nov 2now
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“Cloudflare always had a pretty strong culture around optimisation. If you go back and read the blog there are a lot of blogs about reducing CPU, latency, RAM…”— jgrahamc, Former Cloudflare CTO · Hacker News · full quotes →
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New reports indicate Apple has pushed back plans to bring its long-rumored smart home robot to market.
began Nov 2now
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A homeowner replaces a failed Cat6 cable with thin apartment-grade fiber optics to avoid wall damage and contractor costs.
began Nov 2now
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“The best part is that you can get such cabling down to 0.6mm thin (akin to fishing line) and get it pre-terminated, meaning you don't have to drill holes…”— mscdex · full quotes →
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The new keyboard adapts to any song via algorithm, making it easier for beginners to focus on rhythm and timing.
began Nov 2now
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“While it certainly won't help with learning scales or anything like that, it'll be a boon for nailing rhythm, timing and expression.”— Engadget · full quotes →
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The Information reports Apple is exploring multiple robotics concepts, including a robotic arm version of its HomeView hub.
began Nov 2now
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“fully aware of its environment and act autonomously, allowing it to turn on the lights when someone walks into a room – or perhaps even try to tell a cat to…”— The Information (quoted in report) · full quotes →
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Meta will ship its last OS update for the 2020-era Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets by March 2027, pushing Quest 3 and 3S as the new baseline.
began Nov 2now
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“Quest 2 and Quest Pro laid the foundation for this platform, and millions of people still play on them.”— Meta · full quotes →
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Tech stocks plunge on disappointing earnings and investor concerns that massive AI investments won't deliver returns.
began Oct 29now
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“The 'tech wreck' from October continues. Is a bear market next?”— Joy Wiltermuth, MarketWatch reporter · full quotes →
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OpenAI says its internal monorepo now runs on a custom system designed to handle the concurrent development Codex enables.
began Nov 2now
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“OpenAI also rebuild their own Git backend”— Logical_Welder3467 · full quotes →
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Civil rights group documents multiple cases where AI misidentified innocent people, leading to store bans and shared biometric data across…
began Nov 1now
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“I was scared to go into a shop.”— Home Bargains shopper (husband of accuser), Wrongly accused shopper · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A blog post praising a decade-old second-hand ThinkPad drew hundreds of comments trading stories of long-lived laptops and diminishing…
began Nov 2now
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“the aftermarket world for these seems rife with super-sketchy knockoffs that I'm certain will not be trustworthy”— amatecha · full quotes →
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The unified design suite brings photo editing, vector graphics, and layout tools to Apple's tablet with Apple Pencil support.
began Nov 2now
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“One year after Canva made Affinity free and merged its photo, vector and layout tools into a single app, the software continues to expand.”— hitext@typo.social, Mastodon user · Mastodon · full quotes →
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The distribution will offer hibernation and two hybrid sleep modes after most Linux distros abandoned the feature.
began Nov 2now
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“Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.”— It's FOSS · full quotes →
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The recurring monthly HN job-market megathreads went live, filling within hours with company listings and candidate profiles.
began Nov 2now
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“If I was born to do one thing in this world, it's program computers.”— jesse__ · full quotes →
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Developer cites concerns about AI models being trained on unreleased game content as reason for postponing community testing.
began Nov 2now
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“'Too Big A Risk'”— Game developer · Pure Xbox · full quotes →
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guitmz updates syscall.sh with kernel selector, mobile improvements, and expanded architecture coverage from Linux 3.3 to 7.3.
began Nov 2now
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“I also made a CLI for consulting the syscall API when I originally released the website. I think I can tidy up the code and make it public too.”— guitmz, Developer · Hacker News · full quotes →
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The 96Wh LFP power bank fits in a palm, aims at carry-on travel, and hits Walmart Nov. 15 for $99.
began Nov 2now
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“engineered for up to 8 years of regular use”— Jackery, Manufacturer · The Verge · full quotes →
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