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M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024669 Points: 77 # Comments: 29
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You might want to try being less creative

Article URL: https://blog.bawolf.com/p/you-might-want-to-try-being-less Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024927 Points: 29 # Comments: 13
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The humble Playdate has become one of gaming’s best deals

The Playdate, Panic's tiny yellow handheld that launched in 2022, has slowly but surely become a great deal - which is a good thing, because everything else in gaming has only gotten more expensive. Despite being a weird device with a black-and-white screen and a crank jutting out the side, the Playdate has managed to […]
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Meta is banning TikTok ads across its platforms

Meta has banned ads from TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social media operators heats up, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The ban, which went into effect on Thursday, restricts ads and paid marketing messages from ByteDance, along with third-party ads that link […]
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A week with Googlebooks: four notes from our testing so far

Google's new operating system is off to a rocky start. The five newly launched Googlebook laptops have hardware that ranges from great to excellent, but the software in its current state is the weak point. There are four of us on staff at The Verge actively testing Googlebooks and, frankly, our internal Slack discussions have […]
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Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?

Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet, Instinct quickly became the buzziest thing in AI, garnering praise for its straightforward, text message-based interface and its ability to […]
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Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial

President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like "Little Marco" and "Crooked Hillary"; he changed "fake news" from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press at large. Over the past few weeks, he's clearly decided […]
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The AI is in the computer

It's gadget season, and a lot of companies are launching a lot of new products. But whether it's Microsoft dropping a high-end laptop, Amazon shipping a fancy Android tablet, or Apple diving headlong into the smart home, the actual strategy appears to be almost always the same. All these companies believe AI assistants and agents […]
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Beyond TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The Side Events, Parties & Networking You Can’t Miss

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is just the beginning. From exclusive networking events and startup showcases to happy hours, dinners, and after-hours meetups, discover what’s happening across San Francisco during Disrupt Week, October 10–16. Find your next connection, your next opportunity, or your next favorite event.
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Automattic loses its interim CFO just weeks after boardroom shakeup

Automattic's interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left the company less than a month after taking the role, TechCrunch has learned. Sources say his departure followed a demotion back to his previous position, marking another executive exit amid the organization's leadership turmoil.
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48-Hour Field Notes: I Printed the Preferred Encoding. That Was Not the Open Default.

I spent the first evening sure the patch was finished, because the sample opened and the assertion printed the name I expected. Have you ever watched a text-mode read succeed on your laptop and then die the moment a clean job starts? I had a short traceback, a green local run, and a bad guess that the suggested edit had covered the real open. The bytes were valid UTF-8, so why did the clean job talk about an ASCII codec at all? What I tried before I blamed the file I started wher...
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My jobs search API returned the same posting five times — syndication broke my URL dedup

I run a Job Postings Search API ( https://x402.freeq.one/tools/jobs.html ) that queries live postings across boards and returns structured results — title, company, location, apply URL, salary, description. Building it taught me my favorite kind of lesson: the data lies in boring, predictable ways. First real test: "backend engineer, Berlin". 240 hits. 178 unique jobs. The same posting appeared five times. Companies publish through their ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday), then the listing g...
Hyper3D Rodin 3D Review 2026: The Foil Folds Turn Into a Mask
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Hyper3D Rodin 3D Review 2026: The Foil Folds Turn Into a Mask

Independent review. I ran both tools on my own accounts, free and paid, with no vendor-provided access or early access of any kind. A photograph of crumpled foil should produce an object that looks like chance made it. The blue container in my source picture has crossed ridges, different-sized recesses and no repeated central motif. I gave the same picture to Hyper3D and SupaVoxel, downloaded the textured models and took off their paint. Hyper3D had preserved folds, but arranged them li...
Java String Pool: The Memory Optimization That Can Quietly Become an OOM Trap
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Java String Pool: The Memory Optimization That Can Quietly Become an OOM Trap

Most Java developers know String.intern() exists. Far fewer think about what actually happens when millions of duplicate or unique strings start flowing through a production JVM. This visual breaks down: • how the String Pool works inside the heap • why literals and new String() behave differently • when intern() can save memory • why == and .equals() are fundamentally different • how excessive interning can increase memory pressure • where UseStringDeduplication and St...
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Dev News Digest: 9 Oct 2026, 18:00

A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest. Releases Python 3.15.0 is out : The Python core team shipped the new feature release of the language, which is available to download now. python.org Bevy 0.20 : The Rust game engine published its latest release with a new batch of engine and ECS changes. Bevy jj 0.46.0 : The Jujutsu version control system cut a new release. GitHub OpenSSH 10.6 breaks two features on purpose : The release drops compr...
Touch Grass Bingo - offline nature bingo checked by an AI that lives on your phone
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Touch Grass Bingo - offline nature bingo checked by an AI that lives on your phone

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Touch Grass Bingo is a nature bingo card that you play outside. You open it, get a seasonal card (a red leaf, an acorn, moss, a feather, a mushroom…), and put your phone away. When you find something, you take one photo. An open-weight vision model running on your phone checks it and marks the square. The center square is never free. It is "Touch grass" : a photo of your ...
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How to find AliExpress best sellers for a keyword, with sold counts and ratings

Disclosure: I build the Actor used in this tutorial. The article was written by an AI assistant from the saved results of my own runs, and every number in it was checked against those results. Which products sell most on AliExpress for a keyword? This guide pulls sold counts, ratings and prices as rows with one call to the Actor sourcing-data-studio/aliexpress-search-api , then shows how to read them without being misled. That part helps even if you never run anything. The rows were col...
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Flaky is a claim only declared inputs can back

Flaky-test detection is one of the features that usually lives behind a cloud login. Nx sells it. It is also one of the easiest things to get wrong, because "flaky" is used to mean "failed and I do not want to look," and a tool that agrees with that use is teaching a team to ignore red. vx defines it narrowly, and the narrow definition is the feature. The definition A task is flaky when one of two things is on record: its exact cache key failed after it had passed ,...
Hyper3D Hand Stand Review 2026: A Watertight Mesh Isn't a Fit Test
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Hyper3D Hand Stand Review 2026: A Watertight Mesh Isn't a Fit Test

Independent review: both products were tested on my own accounts — free where offered and paid where not — with no vendor-provided access. I wanted a hand-shaped desk piece that could hold a controller between sessions. The illustration looked promising: two fingers raised above a wrist rising out of rock. I needed to know whether I had a printable starting shape, not whether an AI could draw me another attractive hand. So I gave the identical picture to Hyper3D Rodin and SupaVoxel, downl...
Java 25 Memory Model: The Concurrency Rules Every Java Engineer Thinks They Know - Until Production Proves Otherwise
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Java 25 Memory Model: The Concurrency Rules Every Java Engineer Thinks They Know - Until Production Proves Otherwise

The Java Memory Model is not a diagram of the heap and stack. It is the contract that decides what one thread is legally allowed to observe from another thread despite CPU caches, compiler optimisation, instruction reordering and concurrent execution. This visual follows the complete reasoning path: 1 Java Code + Threads Your source code has program order, but the compiler, JIT and CPU can internally reorder operations as long as observable behaviour remains legal. 2 Per-Thread Execu...