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Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/meta-ai-assistant-push.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092941
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MXM: Powerful, Misused, Hackable
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2024/04/18/mxm-powerful-misused-hackable/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092916
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Colour Science Precis for the CGI Artist
Article URL: https://colour-science.github.io/colour-science-precis/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092909
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Nostalgia for a Dating Experience They've Never Had
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/04/meet-cute-nostalgia-serendipity-dating-apps/678056/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092893
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Mercedes to sell autonomous cars where drivers do not need to watch the road
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2024/04/18/mercedes-self-driving-autonomous-cars-california-nevada-level-3-drive-pilot/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092892
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Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64
Article URL: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/04/19/firefox-nightly-now-available-for-linux-on-arm64/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092886
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Live Bitcoin Halving Clock
Article URL: https://bitbo.io/halving/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092885
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The A(braham) Bomb (2023)
Article URL: https://www.hudson.org/domestic-policy/abraham-bomb-walter-russell-mead
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092881
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BugTraq Shutdown (2021)
Article URL: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092869
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Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCiXu6S6vEw
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092864
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The Dark Side of Open Source
Article URL: https://socket.dev/blog/the-dark-side-of-open-source
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092859
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Brown Danube: How Belgrade's sewers taint Europe's famous river
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-brown-danube-belgrade-sewers-taint.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092849
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Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Article URL: https://stuff.co.za/2024/04/13/could-a-video-game-developer-win-the-nobel/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092817
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Countdown experience for the 4th Bitcoin halving
Article URL: https://bitcoinhalving.club/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092812
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The civil war in the biohacking movement
Article URL: https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-civil-war-in-the-biohacking-movement/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092808
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Product Launch Sites
Article URL: https://lazyanalysis.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092804
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Show HN: Newcomer – Language Learning SIM
Hi HN!
I'm an indie dev building a language learning simulation that aims to emulate a language immersion experience, similar to studying abroad.
I'm bullish on this idea because the player has a natural context (people, places, things in the world) that they can converse about in their target language. The primary way to learn is by completing tasks, such as ordering a beer, by speaking/typing your second language.
Most apps are stuck on teaching you vocab/grammar and they try and make it "fun" through gamification. There are now many AI conversation practice apps. However, I think a language immersion environment is the end goal as learners encounter grammar and vocab in the natural context of a conversation. In addition, humans use language to affect change in the world in some capacity, and in Newcomer, the goal is the player to use and practice their new language to affect change within the game (and consequently improve speaking/typing).
If you want to see more stuff I'm posting you can check it out here: https://twitter.com/NewcomerGames
I'd love to chat more about it, feel free to reach out to me!
Thanks, Jason
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092776
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Some Volumes Were Slow and We Figured Out Why
Article URL: https://community.fly.io/t/some-volumes-were-slow-and-we-figured-out-why/19394
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092773
Points: 1
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Wine 9.7 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Article URL: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.7
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092558
Points: 2
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Xterm.js
Article URL: http://xtermjs.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092548
Points: 1
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