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The Steam Machine is a cool little console that's about as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to my colleague Sean Hollister's in-depth review. But one area where it lags behind is with its earlier version of AMD FSR upscaler: It's just not as good as it should be. Yes, it can sharpen low-res graphics […]

Google's DeepMind AI lab is teaming up with A24 to develop new movie production technologies that aim to help future filmmakers "expand their storytelling possibilities." As part of this new research and development collaboration, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is investing "around $75 million" into A24, marking the first time the search giant […]

It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of affordable handhelds is over, all largely due to the global RAM shortage, which has had a similarly costly impact on PC gaming, […]

The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a wide-ranging glow-up that added an always-on display, gestures like double tap and wrist flick, a […]

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

Amazon is planning to increase the footprint of its new conversational AI assistant Alexa+ to India and is inviting users in the country to test out a Hindi-language version.

Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's license, according to a privacy policy change.

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the door for hackers to unlock and break into older iPhones.

The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.

MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is having its moment. It's the "USB-C of AI": one standard plug, and suddenly your agent can read your GitHub, query your database, hit your internal APIs, post to Slack. I've built a few MCP servers myself. They're genuinely great. They're also the most casually-installed backdoor in modern dev tooling, and almost nobody talks about why . Here's the part the hype skips: an MCP server doesn't just give your AI hands. It gives whatever text flows through...

Chattr is a social platform built for the Twitch community. It's a React Native app with a Laravel backend, and over the past few months, I've published it to Google Play, the Apple App Store, and the Microsoft Store. Each store had its own set of challenges. Here's what I ran into and how I worked through it. Google Play Store: The 14-Day Testing Requirement Google requires new developer accounts to run a closed testing program with at least 12 testers for 14 consecutive days...

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Today marks Day 1 of my React journey. I've decided to document everything I learn—not because I'm an expert, but because I believe sharing the learning process can help other beginners while also helping me understand concepts better. Today's goal wasn't to build an app. It was to answer one simple question: Why was React created in the first place? 🤔 Let's dive in. 💡 Why Was React Created? Before React existed, developers built interactive websites by ...

LLM crawlers are eating your bandwidth and you can't block your way out of it. Return a 403 and the scraper shrugs, rotates the IP, swaps the user-agent, and walks back in through a residential proxy an hour later. So a growing crowd of operators stopped blocking and started building mazes instead. Here's how to stand one up, and how to do it without nuking your own search ranking. Why blocking loses A hard block is a signal. The scraper reads the 403, learns your defense, and ad...

Imaginez un employé qui pose une question à 14h un lundi : « combien de jours à l'avance je dois poser mes congés ? » Il cherche dans ses mails, dans le livret PDF envoyé il y a trois ans, dans le dossier partagé que personne n'entretient. Cinq minutes plus tard, il abandonne et va demander à la RH qui est déjà débordée. Ce problème existe dans toutes les PME. Et il a une solution technique propre, qui tourne, qui cite ses sources — et qui coûte 0€ à faire tourner. Je l'ai construit en un ...

Introduction The signal/observer pattern is a cornerstone of event-driven programming, enabling decoupled components to communicate efficiently. In JavaScript, this pattern is often implemented with libraries like RxJS or custom solutions, balancing flexibility and complexity. However, a recent 33-byte implementation challenges conventional trade-offs by prioritizing extreme brevity without sacrificing core functionality. This investigation dissects the mechanics of this compact soluti...

Every MCP metering solution I've seen requires crypto: x402 with USDC on Base, Lightning Network pre-paid API sats, Solana agent wallets. That's 3-5 steps of friction before your first paying user. nano-empire-tollbooth takes a different path: Stripe. from nano_empire_tollbooth import authorize if authorize ( request , cost_usd = 0.01 ): # serve the MCP tool call pass That's it. No wallet, no chain, no pre-paid balance. Your user hits a Stri...

In Power BI, joins are primarily used in Power Query (during the "Merge Queries" step) to combine data from two separate tables based on a common column or relationship. Power BI supports six main types of joins, each serving a specific data combination need: 1. Left Outer Join This is the most common join. It keeps all rows from the first (left) table and adds matching data from the second (right) table. If a row on the left does not have a match on the right, Power BI will return null (b...

AI coding tools are not reliable out of the box. Anyone who has used them on a real production project knows this. They work great on greenfield code. They fall apart on a codebase with history. I learned this the hard way. The Problem We have a fintech project that has been running for nearly three years. Two React frontends, an admin panel and a client-facing app, sitting on top of a FastAPI backend with a complex relational database. Multiple tables, heavy joins, financi...

Hello Devs 👋 Most code review tools are good at finding syntax problems, style issues, and missing test cases. The harder problem is finding changes that look harmless in a pull request but later break another service, API consumer, or application. A renamed field, a modified function signature, or a small schema change can easily pass review. The code itself still works, but the impact shows up after deployment. This is where AI code review becomes more interesting. Instead of lookin...

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Article URL: https://steveharrison.dev/showdirectorypicker-opens-up-a-whole-new-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629387 Points: 81 # Comments: 85

Hi HN, I'm Ahmad from the Intuned ( https://intunedhq.com ) team. Today, we're releasing and open-sourcing Selector Forge ( https://selectorforge.ai/ ), a browser extension that generates reliable CSS/XPath selectors using AI. You can use it to create a selector for a single element or for an array of elements. The selectors it creates are meant to be "semantic" and more resilient to page changes than what Chrome DevTool’s “Copy Selector” (and other similar extensions) give you. Those tend to ha...

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Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-slashes-research-programs-support-new-tech-initiative-insiders-say Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632327 Points: 115 # Comments: 49