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David Smith, “Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS”: I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away fro…
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The Final ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Clip Teases Something Major
The season two finale of the Marvel Studios show starring Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio debuts tonight.
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The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: what it was like in the room Two of the most powerful figures in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—are in the …
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★ Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice
Back in 2009, Merlin Mann and I jointly gave a talk at SxSW titled “Obsession Times Voice”. Regarding how it turned out, I wrote: My muse for the session was this quote from Walt Disney: “We don’t make movies to make money; we make money to make more movies.” To me, that’s it. Th…
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The Pentagon Pegs the Cost of the Iran War, So Far, at $25 Billion
Taegan Goddard, quoting the Financial Times last week: The Pentagon said President Trump’s Iran war has cost the United States at least $25 billion, driven primarily by the military’s use of munitions, the Financial Times reports. The New York Times had an interesting piece tryin…
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GPT-5.5 Instant shows you what it remembered — just not all of it
OpenAI updated the default model for ChatGPT to its new GPT-5.5 Instant, along with a new memory capability that finally shows which context shaped responses — at least some of them.  This limitation signals that models are starting to create a second, incomplete memory observabi…
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International tech
Meta introduces AI tool that uses bone structure and visual signals to detect underage users
Meta is introducing a new AI system that scans photos and videos… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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I’m 38 and I noticed last summer that my parents mostly ask about logistics — the drive, the weather, the dogs, the job — and rarely ask how I actually am
I drove to my parents’ house last summer for a long weekend, and somewhere on the second day I noticed something I’d been not-noticing for about thirty years. It was the Saturday morning, in the kitchen. My mother had asked me how the drive had been. I told her. Then she asked ab…
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The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.
By banning Chinese software, the U.S. risks isolating its automakers from the integrated systems, standards, and partnerships shaping the global electric vehicle market.
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Xiaomi reportedly pauses MIX Flip development as foldable strategy shifts
Xiaomi is suspending development of its MIX Flip clamshell foldable smartphone, according to Chinese tech blogger Digital Chat Station, in what appears to be a broader strategic shift in the company’s foldable device lineup. The move comes despite the MIX Flip posting relatively …
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China’s chipmakers pour revenue into R&D, outpacing US ratios
China’s chip champions channelled a larger proportion of revenue into research and development (R&D) than their US peers, first-quarter earnings show, as Beijing presses ahead with its tech self-reliance drive amid an artificial intelligence boom. Beijing-based Moore Threads spen…
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Supersized and scaling: China pushes 10,000-card computing clusters in AI race
In China, computing facilities have emerged as a new form of infrastructure over the past two years, sparking an arms race among cities and technology companies to build 10,000-card computing clusters. These clusters – which link 10,000 or more artificial intelligence accelerator…
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Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May be Hope For Us
Microplastics absolutely saturate the Earth’s environment, and that’s probably not a good thing unless you’re looking for a sediment marker for the Anthropocene period. On the other hand, environmental contamination …read more
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RGB Laser Projector Does Colorful Asteroids and Much More
Have you thought about building a galvonometer-based laser projector, but don’t know where to start? There are a lot of resources out there, but you could do worse than to …read more
hackaday.com
Write some software, give it away for free
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842 Points: 271 # Comments: 184
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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Defeating the [Works By Design]’s Unpickable Lock
Even though the very concept of an ‘unpickable lock’ is as plausible as making water not be wet, this doesn’t take away from the intellectual thrill of devising solutions to …read more
hackaday.com
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684 Points: 339 # Comments: 194
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Cutting Steel Gears with Homemade EDM
Electric discharge machining (EDM) may be slower than alternatives like laser cutting, water jets, or a milling machine, but for some applications there’s no alternative: it can cut through any …read more
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NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029114 Points: 247 # Comments: 123
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Using Hamster Power to Charge a Phone
It seems fair to say that hamsters are a somewhat divisive pet, between their fluffiness, high-strung nature, short lifespan and incessant squeaking that sounds like some electronic device is trying …read more
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