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I use a pair of PineBuds Pro with my iPhone. They have open firmware. I don't see any reason to pay more for airpods. Edit to add: Previous HN discussions about PineBuds https://hn…

I find quite a lot of it very satisfying. For example, the deep mathematical symmetries of gauge theory and how they relate to the observed forces of the universe is truly amazing.…

The device you used to make this comment relies heavily on quantum effects to make efficient transistors. The necessary theoretical understanding of semiconductors did not exist 12…

Don't miss the drawings people have made to the north of the starting place! Zoom all the way out with the mouse wheel and then click and drag.

This is fun! Took me a little while to realise that if I don't click the green tick, it doesn't save my word.

See also discussion here and non-paywalled link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503733

tldr: AI voice synthesis isn’t just a technical novelty. When male-dominated platforms and creators simulate female voices, it can obscure real female voices and reinforce existing…

I wouldn't characterize what Linus has written as "lashing out". He's just making a sensible engineering decision about what the linux kernel is and is not. For Linus, the tone is …

It's difficult to even have a conversation about unions due to people having very different perceptions and/or feelings about unionism.

If you haven't encountered Gene Ray's "Time Cube" before, you should be aware that it's likely that he had a mental health problem.

This is amazing! I remember playing some of these in the 90s. Fond memories. BTW, this site is likely not set up to handle a HN hug of death of downloads so consider throttling you…

I don't use bluesky, can you give me an example of conspiracy theories on the platform?

Don't worry, Trump always chickens out.

The attack boils down to sending phishing emails that contain a url that looks like a legitimate booking.com url but is actually this url. Note the unicode characters that can make…

That link doesn't work for me - it just redirects to www.surgehq.ai

My order is a "long black" with 3 shots. I'm in Australia so that means three espresso shots with some hot water to make it normal coffee sized. It looks like a cup of filter coffe…

The actual paper on arxiv.org ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13461 ) says that they _predict_ the ability to create gold from mercury using _simulations_.

That's quite a read! Looks like emacs has done an amazing job of handling text correctly in the face of quite a few challenges. Including cases where there perhaps is no "correct" …

Last year I decided to plan ahead for a career change to become a counselor. I started volunteering with a crisis support help line (lifeline.org.au) and did their training course …

What does "think to itself" mean? If, for example, your plan is start with some initial prompt like "Start thinking" and then simply feed the response from that back in as the next…

I definitely read through the changes in my PRs to make sure I haven't done anything obviously wrong.

This would be a lot more compelling if it addressed the obvious logical fallacy: It's written by a person who took a risk and it paid off. It might not work out the same way for th…

Discussion also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44979244

> Take more time for yourself. Make your own meals, keep in shape, spend time on that hobby that keeps you developing your talents. Walk more. This is good advice. There's not a sm…

One reason (and certainly not the only reason) is that our governments are using economic growth, specifically GDP growth as a primary measure of success. That naturally leads to u…