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25 Best Aesthetic Wallpapers for iPhone and Android [2026]http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a811174838b404dbb5fadf5902833a4&url=https%3a%2f%2ftechpp.com%2f2025%2f12%2f22%2fbest-aesthetic-wallpapers-for-iphone-and-android%2f&c=14959676882974449134&mkt=en-usFrom calm landscapes and soft sunlight to minimal builds, abstracts, pets, and dark mode-friendly designs, this curated list of 25 aesthetic wallpapers helps your iPhone or Android feel fresh, clean, ...Dec 22, 2025 8:21 AM
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As media consolidates, TV stations consider their programming optionshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ceae316464a40aa0776ac08d77022&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmoney%2Fmarkets%2Fas-media-consolidates-tv-stations-consider-their-programming-options%2Far-AA1SOC2l&c=12486596610294973190&mkt=en-usPlease login or become a TVNewsCheck Plus Member to access this page. If you need further assistance please contact help@newscheckmedia.com. Username or Email ...Dec 22, 2025 2:31 AM
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Isaacman emphasizes accelerating NASA programs as he takes agency’s reinshttps://spacenews.com/isaacman-emphasizes-accelerating-nasa-programs-as-he-takes-agencys-reins/New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he wants NASA to move faster on programs such as Artemis but acknowledged he needs time to get up to speed on NASA’s activities. The post Isaacman emphasizes accelerating NASA programs as he takes agency’s reins appeared first on SpaceNews.Dec 21, 2025 4:03 PM
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People Who Are Smarter Than They Look Do These 11 Strange Thingshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce011b577448592ee979d971608e9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yourtango.com%2Fself%2Fpeople-who-are-smarter-than-they-look-do-these-strange-things&c=6737053563087197910&mkt=en-usIntelligence is largely characterized by your ability to digest and apply information, but that doesn't mean there aren't ties to personality traits and behavioral quirks. For example, a study from ...Dec 21, 2025 1:31 PM
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Ask HN: Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341287I understand the basic arguments—YouTube’s rise in short-form content, faster dopamine hits, and lower expectations placed on creators. But even if we set short-form content aside, the contradiction still stands. You’ll find people calling the new Avatar movie boring, even if they pirated it and watched it for free, while those same people will happily spend hours watching livestreams where someone reacts to content or talks about nothing in particular, day after day, for an entire year. How can Avatar be dismissed as boring, yet that kind of content is considered engaging? I would understand if it was a Wikipedia like scenario were all those hours of User generated content just lead to better quality content being produced by process of selection but that isn't really the case with youtube.Dec 21, 2025 1:09 AM
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates says he was very wrong when he thought that ...http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d8ad6444a4c39a3abc8d5dce82dfd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-in%2Fnews%2Fother%2Fmicrosoft-founder-bill-gates-says-he-was-very-wrong-when-he-thought-that%2Far-AA1SLa8X&c=15093824137669476459&mkt=en-usMicrosoft founder Bill Gates has now acknowledged that he was ‘very wrong’ in assuming that making information widely available would naturally lead people to seek out accurate facts. Speaking in an ...Dec 20, 2025 11:10 PM
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Show HN: Skill capsules" for LLMs, a "poor man's continual learning"https://github.com/killerstorm/set_v4/blob/main/REPORT.md"Continual learning" is considered one of the "blockers" for LLMs: they can't learn on the job, don't improve over time, etc. In particular, Dwarkesh Patel describes it as a number of problem which has to be solved to get to AGI.Many academic article propose some kind of a memory system for LLM which might be considered a form of "continual learning". But most evals focus on memorizing facts which is just not very useful (it's better to fetch facts via tool use than to store it in neural memory) and these proposals might not fit well into common LLM API use patterns.In this article I'm proposing a "new" method called "skill capsules" which is highly pragmatic, easy to understand and evaluate and might integrate well into existing tooling.Skill capsule is a concrete object - it's a bunch of vectors, basically. You can insert it somewhere into a middle of LLM context and it improves performance on a particular skill, e.g. get tool calls more reliable, use particular writing style, codingDec 20, 2025 9:46 PM
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Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337608Hey YCJumping in here because we've been building something we think is pretty cool and are looking for some founders to test it out and give us some honest feedback.We're technical founders. We hated content marketing. But we needed organic growth, so we built a cohesive system to handle it for us.Researched trending keywords & competitors. Proactively queued topics. Drafted SEO & LLM optimized content. Published directly to CMS. Tracked what ranked. Doubled down on what worked.It's led to 6,000% traffic growth in 6 months for us.Now we're packaging that entire workflow into Averi — a content engine for founders who'd rather be focused on shipping product than writing blogs.What it does: → Researches and queues topics for you → Drafts content optimized for Google + LLM citations → Publishes to your CMS → Tracks rankings and performance → Recommends what to create nextYou approve (and edit collaboratively with your team if you'd like). It runs. Visibility compounds.We're looking for ~5Dec 20, 2025 5:04 PM
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LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336990TL;DR: Claude Opus 4.5, Grok 4.1, and Gemini 3 scored within 2.4% of each other (96-98%). All refused to hallucinate and resisted every adversarial attack. Choose your LLM based on price and ecosystem, not benchmarks.## The ExperimentI was tired of synthetic benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval—they measure something, but not what I actually care about when using an LLM daily. So I built TRIATHLON-LLM: 50 questions across 10 cognitive dimensions including logic puzzles with tricky wording, real math problems (Bayes, combinatorics), code debugging and system design, science explanations with constraints, causal reasoning, language nuance, creativity under constraints, applied ethics, hallucination traps, and adversarial prompts. Tested December 20, 2025.## Results| Model | Score || Gemini 3 | 123/125 (98.4%) || Claude Opus 4.5 | 120/125 (96.0%) || Grok 4.1 | 120/125 (96.0%) |Range: just 3 points (2.4%).On 7/10 categories, all three scored identically—perfect parity on mathematics, code & Dec 20, 2025 3:49 PM
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Jonah Hill looks like a different person in then-and-now photos as he celebrates birthdayhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d39cb56504a7994298e7f11f99ef2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hellomagazine.com%2Fcelebrities%2F874088%2Fjonah-hill-looks-different-person-then-now-photos-celebrates-birthday%2F&c=6929696752769784206&mkt=en-usJonah Hill turned 42 on December 20 and the actor looks unrecognizable compared to the young man he once was when he first stepped onto the scene over two decades ago. The entertainer has gone through ...Dec 20, 2025 3:40 PM
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Show HN: Big Christmas Giveawayhttps://indest.ee/Hi everyone,Last giveaway of the year!I wanted to wrap up 2025 by giving back to the community. It’s been a busy year for me as a solo developer; I managed to release two brand new titles and finally finished a massive consolidation update for my puzzle series.If you are looking for something new to play over the holidays, I’d love to share some promo codes. Just let me know which game interests you!The New 2025 Releases:Trivia Player: This is for the hardcore trivia fans. I built this because I was tired of multiple-choice quizzes that hold your hand. This is authentic trivia—real-time chat battles where you have to actually type the answer. No luck, just pure knowledge.Live Events: The game is live right now with a special "Merry Quizmas" event running all week. Also, mark your calendars for "Do You Remember 2025" starting on the 26th!AI Movie Quiz: I used AI to generate unique, slightly twisted clips and images based on famous movies. You have to guess the film from the AI's "dream.Dec 20, 2025 3:00 PM
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The hierarchy problem is strictly a geometric scaling identityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336247Particles are treated as points, but reality is 3D.Electrostatics and gravity have historically been considered separate interactions with an apparently inexplicable gap. I propose this is entirely explained by the ratio between mass and volume and the ratio between mass and surface.If we define m_z = √α ⋅ m_P ≈ 1.859 × 10^–9 kg, the ratio of forces becomes identical to the geometric scaling ratio: F_e / F_g = (m_z / m)^2 This is not an approximation. It is an exact geometric identity derived from the scaling of acceleration: a_e ∼ m^−5/3 a_g ∼ m^1/3 Below m_z, surface scaling dominates. This is the electrostatic regime. Above m_z, volume scaling dominates. This is the gravitational regime.There is no hierarchy problem, only a transition between different geometric ratios.This same geometric model consistently resolves major tensions across all scales with zero free parameters:A. Proton radius (r_p): Theory: r_p = 4 · ƛ_p Calc.: 0.84123 × 10^–15 m Exp.: 0.84075 × 10^–15 m ∆: 577 ppm B.Dec 20, 2025 2:00 PM
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Ask HN: Morning gravy train discussing AI, here is my opinionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334780As great as a nicely formed prompt to a llm and its output may be, how much actual productivity are we talking compared with an experienced internet stackoverflow searcher with multitudes of completed projects in their experienced completed code archive to search on how to they did things, or perhaps those thing once known as books. Suddenly we go from the 3x to 4x to 1.5x to 2x factoring in prompt creation time and its tweaking, for ok to great llm output. It's not that llm code is lengthy, its that an expert, one that is professional must know the code to almost the point of memorization to at least total understanding of it.Dec 20, 2025 9:30 AM
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Show HN: HiFidelity – A native macOS offline audiophile music playerhttps://rvarunrathod.github.io/HiFidelity/- Powered by the BASS (un4seen) audio library for professional-grade audio quality and TagLib for meta-data reading- Support for 10+ audio formats including lossless and high-resolution files Lossless & Hi-Res: FLAC, OGA, WAV, AIFF, AIF, APE, WV, TTA, DFF, DSF Compressed: MP3, MP2, AAC, OGG, OPUS, M4A, M4B, M4P, MP4, M4V, MPC Specialized: CAF, WEBM, SPX- Bit-perfect playback with sample rate synchronization and Obtain Exclusive Access of audio device (Hog mode)- Gapless Playback: Seamless transitions between tracks with no silence or interruption- Built-in equalizer with customizable presets- Browse by tracks, albums, artists, or genres- Smart Recommendations: Auto play functionality, you don't have to think what to play next Lyrics Support:- Download lyrics directly within the app from lrclib- Real-time line-by-line lyrics highlighting- Mini Player: Compact floating window with integrated queue and lyrics panels- Audio device change option within UI- Advanced Search: Find tracks instaDec 20, 2025 7:11 AM
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The offline geocoder we wantedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334172What is this?This is an offline reverse geocoder written in Python. Given a latitude–longitude pair, it returns the correct administrative region such as country, state, or district without calling any external APIs. This avoids API costs, rate limits, and network dependency.Why build another reverse geocoder?Most offline reverse geocoders rely on nearest-neighbor lookups. While fast, this approach often fails near borders because the closest location is not always the correct administrative region. This project focuses on correctness over proximity by verifying which boundary a coordinate actually falls inside.How does it work?A KD-Tree is used to quickly shortlist nearby administrative boundaries. For those candidates, the system performs polygon containment checks to confirm the true region. It supports both single-process execution for small workloads and multiprocessing for large batch processing.PerformanceThe system processes 10,000 coordinates in under 2 seconds, with an averagDec 20, 2025 7:03 AM
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MyRobot, a Venture Capital Pitchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333852Wrap yourself in a personal robot called Ava (homage to Ex Machina).A perfect morning coffee is waiting as you wake up. The house robot brings it to you as you awake.Suppose you want to get breakfast at a restaurant. The car shows up. You get driven to the restaurant. As you get seated your order arrives. Ava knows that you like an omlette, lightly cooked, with ham and bacon. You like your homefries crisp. You like a small orange juice. It is all ready for you moments after you walk in the door because Ava told the restaurant what you want and when you will arrive.Ava also knows that you want to keep your weight at a certain number. She tracks your calorie intake and creates food proportions and choice to meet your calerie requirements, tuned to the day's activities based on likely calorie burn.Ava reads books to you through the embedded speaker in your ear, tuning your book choice to the day. Is the weather bad; then a nice story. Is your interest in comedy; then a newly released (LLMDec 20, 2025 5:29 AM
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Redwire Tapped to Provide Docking Mechanisms for Nyx Earth Capsulehttps://europeanspaceflight.com/redwire-tapped-to-provide-docking-mechanisms-for-nyx-earth-capsule/The Exploration Company has awarded Redwire a contract to provide two International Berthing and Docking Mechanisms (IBDM) for its Nyx cargo spacecraft. Developed by QinetiQ Space under a European Space Agency contract awarded in 2014, the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism was designed as a standardised interface to support docking and berthing for the next […] The post Redwire Tapped to Provide Docking Mechanisms for Nyx Earth Capsule appeared first on European Spaceflight.Dec 20, 2025 5:00 AM
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Mountain Bike Suspension Setup: The Complete Guidehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d629ba5104240815303e6fd5183ab&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bikemag.com%2Fhow-to%2Fmountain-bike-suspension-setup&c=5432273362430512625&mkt=en-usGuide covers sag, compression, rebound, and air volume for MTB suspension setup. Step-by-step instructions help personalize suspension through trial, error, and active riding. Manufacturer tools and ...Dec 20, 2025 2:00 AM
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Water Droplet Sciencehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/water-droplet-science/NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon. This series of overlapping frames from Feb. 19, 2025, displays the unique attraction-repulsion properties of Teflon and charged droplets, similar to how charged particles from the Sun behave when they come in contact with Earth’s magnetic field. […]Dec 19, 2025 5:43 PM
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Geometric derivation of the muon g-2 anomaly (63 ppm discrepancy)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327402The Standard Model calculation of g-2 requires thousands of Feynman diagrams. This geometric model derives it from the topology of the lepton (icosahedron, 12 vertices). It posits the muon anomaly is the sum of the surface cost (Schwinger term) and the nodal friction against the 12 vertices: α = 0.00729735256 N_v = 12 Schwinger_term = α / (2 · π) Nodal_term = α^2 / 12 a_mu = Schwinger_term + Nodal_term Schwinger_term = α / (2 · π) ≈ 0.001161409 Nodal_term = α^2 / 12 ≈ 0.000004438 Total ≈ 0.001165847 Experimental value: 0.001165920 Discrepancy: 63 ppm Source: Geometric Unification of Physical Interactions, v10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17847770Dec 19, 2025 4:14 PM
