Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725403 Points: 78 # Comments: 14
Sick! The Federal Aviation Administration is targeting gamers in its most recent job advertisement for air traffic controllers. The administration's annual hiring window opens at 12AM ET on April 17, and considering the ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers, it's calling this a period of "s...
Counterpoint Research has published its latest report on global smartphone shipments for Q1 2026, showing that strong demand for the iPhone 17 helped Apple take the top spot in the market for the first time in a first quarter. Here are the details. more…
Article URL: https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352 Points: 52 # Comments: 16
With access to great data comes great responsibility Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James ...
Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn't really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, Bloomberg reports, when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The ...
Article URL: https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724118 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back! In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carri...
Apple confirmed today that it will present three studies at the ACM Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2026 later this month, including work on AI-powered UI generation, accessibility, and the research behind the redesign of the AirPods Pro 3. Here are the details. more…
Plaintiffs say transcription tool processed confidential chats offsite.
Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
NASA's Artemis II mission has traveled farther from Earth than any mission before. Here's how to watch the crew's return landing in the Pacific Ocean.
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A 20-year-old man was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house, The New York Times reports. In a statement shared on X, SFPD wrote that it responded to a request for a fire investigation in the North Beach neighbo...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has struggled for years to have enough air traffic controllers to address shortages, with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) saying in January that the number of people in the job in the US has declined by around 6 percent "in the last decade."...
VSCO has published a new report exploring how photographers are using AI, based on responses from both professionals and enthusiasts....
XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, now has a release date. more…
This ban took place after Claude's pricing changed for OpenClaw users last week.
Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/this-spice-combo-could-slash-inflammation-hundreds-of-times-more-effectively/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723243 Points: 56 # Comments: 28
San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Friday morning, The San Francisco Standard reports. The incident was caught on surveillance cameras shortly before 7AM ET. Later that morning, someone ...