Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

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Apple has introduced M6 and M5 Ultra chips in the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, offering significant performance gains and AI capabilities. The chips provide industry-leading power efficiency, enabling users to run demanding workloads with ease.

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

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Apple has announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips for AI performance and graphics. The Mac Studio offers up to 4.3x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and 1.8x faster graphics compared to previous models.

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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Researchers estimate that over 8,000 underwater explosives are detonated annually off Indonesia's coast, destroying coral reefs. The practice of blast fishing is a major threat to the world's most biologically diverse marine ecosystem, known as the Coral Triangle.

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Apple has released the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, offering improved performance and versatility in its compact design. The new models feature up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and graphics capabilities.

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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The center of a black hole is not a single point, but rather a surface where two observers who fall in at different angles lose contact with each other. This surface, which exists even for rotating black holes, marks the boundary beyond which nothing can escape and has implications for our understanding of quantum gravity.

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

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ModelScope——汇聚各领域先进的机器学习模型,提供模型探索体验、推理、训练、部署和应用的一站式服务。在这里,共建模型开源社区,发现、学习、定制和分享心仪的模型。

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

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The author built a backyard office in Portland, Oregon, to improve their remote work experience and stay productive with their toddler at home. They chose a 8x10 foot shed conversion using Tuff Shed's Premier Pro Tall Ranch model and added features like windows, electricity, flooring, and AC for an overall cost of under $20k.

Don't Wordle

Don't Wordle is a free daily word game where you try to avoid guessing the hidden word. You get six tries, using green (correct letter), yellow (correct letter wrong place), and gray (incorrect letters) clues to eliminate possibilities.

My Friend Aaron

The author recounts his friendship with Aaron, who struggled academically but found success in prediction markets and eventually created his own exchange. However, the platform became a massive success due to bots that bet on Aaron's daily life, making him an internet celebrity.

Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

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Data centers' significant water use stems largely from electricity generation, not cooling. Over 3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater annually are used for power in seven U.S. states hosting half of all data centers.

Nitter project received cease and desist

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Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War (2019)

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Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It

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The author discusses a tooltip interaction issue where tooltips became sluggish when moving between logos. They introduce a "warm window" technique using a 300ms cooldown to maintain smooth transitions.

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

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The goal is to create a tiny executable with specific features, and users should be aware that the process may trigger virus scanners. The code can be built using either MASM32 or Yasm assembler.

Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Sign in with Apple addresses will shift from privaterelay.appleid.com to private.icloud.com later this year. Existing privaterelay.appleid.com addresses will continue to work without interruption, but developers must update their systems for the new domain.

MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it

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MySQL Change Data Capture (CDC) captures all changes, including deletes and intermediate updates, by reading from the binary log. To land CDC reliably in BigQuery, ensure MySQL settings like binlog_row_image and replication are correct.

SpaceX – Starbase, LA

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Researchers reverse-engineered Paint and Photos to discover that they embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images. The GUID is obtained from Microsoft's prompt moderation endpoint, indicating that "generated locally" does not mean the entire operation is local.

Visualizing Binary Files

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The author wants to add color visualization to their binary file viewer, bine, similar to Vim's xxd feature. They're considering using a Portable Graymap format instead of ncurses for better performance and usability.

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

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AI is causing significant entry-level job losses for younger workers in some fields, with employment levels 19% below those of their peers in less exposed occupations. The impact is mainly through lower hiring rates and not increased firings or employees quitting.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Xiaomi's new CPU, Xring O3, matches Apple cores in single-threaded tasks and outperforms them in multithreaded execution. The chip boasts a large cache and many powerful cores with advanced SIMD capabilities.

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

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Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995, and it marked a significant improvement over its predecessors with better multitasking capabilities. However, it required higher-end hardware to run smoothly, leading to widespread upgrades and sales of new computers.

Solving the 1+N Query Problem

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Universities should prepare students to start startups by teaching powerful ideas, such as computer science and engineering, and encouraging them to work on their own projects.

Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

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Anthropic staff were told to work from home due to a possible strike by security workers, but the union said they were not notified. The Service Employees International Union is in contract negotiations with Allied Universal, which represents the security workers.

SiFive's First Server Platform

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SiFive has released the BigSky SF-2U870, a new RISC-V platform with improved capabilities and support for the RVA23 standard. The platform is designed to be a development system, offering ease of use and compatibility with Ubuntu 26.04 out of the box.

What's new in Emacs 31.1

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Emacs 31.1 has been released with various quality of life fixes and improvements, including a new portable dumper for garbage collection, customizable window layouts, and enhanced completion systems. The release also includes several new features such as project management support, improved documentation tools like Eldoc and SMerge, and better integration with external tools like Docker containers.

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

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The EU's new packaging rules threaten makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs and innovation at risk. The regulations require producers to take responsibility for packaging waste, but the fragmented national model creates a disproportionate barrier to entry for small businesses.

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff