YouTube CEO says top YouTubers ‘will never leave home’

YouTube CEO says top YouTubers ‘will never leave home’

🔥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Neal Mohan,YouTube âś… **What You’ll Learn**: YouTube CEO Neil Mohan recently insisted that he's not worried about Netflix and other streaming services attracting the service's most popular creators. Mohan's comments came during a long interview for The New York Times' The Interview series — which, Mohan pointed out, is broadcast on YouTube. In fact, he seemed to be playing the gentlemanly winner for most of the conversation; When asked about mocking Oscar host Conan O'Brien on YouTube, Mohan simply replied that O'Brien is "very funny" and that "his…
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ChatGPT Won’t Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It.

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinting.The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your city, your IP, your region from edge headers), and the ChatGPT React application itself (__reactRouterContext, loaderData, clientBootstrap). Turnstile doesn't just verify that you're running a real browser. It verifies that you're running a real browser that has…
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“Project Hail Mary” became Amazon MGM’s biggest box office hit

“Project Hail Mary” became Amazon MGM’s biggest box office hit

🚀 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Amazon,amazon mgm studios,project hail mary đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon's bet on "Project Hail Mary" has paid off well, as the film recently surpassed "Creed III" to become the company's highest-grossing film of all time. It was a big bet, with a budget of about $200 million. That's a high price to pay for any movie, but especially one that's not a sequel or part of an existing franchise. Instead, it's based on the best-selling sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, whose book "The Martian" was made into a…
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On Typing and Keyboards

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I have a very consistent routine. I get up early. I exercise. I shower. I make coffee. I turn my computer on, then I place my hands on my keyboard and begin working.Learning to typeI love to type. I enjoy it so much, and and in recent years I’ve grown to appreciate my ability to type more and more.I have a clear memory of my early years in elementary school being the time in which I first learned to use a keyboard. I was very…
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Best heart rate monitors (2026): Polar, Coros, Garmin

Best heart rate monitors (2026): Polar, Coros, Garmin

🔥 Discover this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Heartbreak Beat âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Frequently asked questionsWe have tested and recommended all of the heart rate monitors below, which do a flawless job. But what do all these terms mean?Heart rate zones: If someone told you they were doing 80/20 training, they were doing heart rate zone based exercises. Heart rate zones are an easy way to break down your range of effort during exercise. Zones range from 1 to 5, and 5 indicates working at 90 to 100…
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March 2026 ISO C++ standards meeting (London Croydon, UK) – Sutter’s Mill

March 2026 ISO C++ standards meeting (London Croydon, UK) – Sutter’s Mill

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: News flash: C++26 is done! 🎉 On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in (partly) sunny London Croydon, UK. We resolved the remaining international comments on the C++26 draft, and are now producing the final document to be sent out for its international approval ballot (Draft International Standard, or DIS) and final editorial work, to be published in the near future by ISO. This meeting was hosted by Phil Nash of Shaved Yaks, and the Standard C++ Foundation. Our hosts arranged…
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The deceptively difficult art of steering wheel design

The deceptively difficult art of steering wheel design

🚀 Discover this trending post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Direction of Travel đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Cars did not always have driving wheels. The first automobile—the 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, invented by Karl Benz—used a tiller system: a horizontal bar with a handle mounted on a vertical bar. The lever-like handle was similar in many respects to a boat rudder. Amazingly, it was another nine years before French engineer Alfred Vacheron saw the logic and fitted the first known steering wheel for his 4-horsepower Panhard car for the Paris-Rouen race. Only four years later, in…
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The rise and fall of IBM’s 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

The rise and fall of IBM’s 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much of the flight, was really under the control of four computers in the avionics bays one deck below the crew. A fifth computer stood ready to take over in case of a catastrophic computer malfunction.…
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Turning off Sora could be a real validation moment for video AI

Turning off Sora could be a real validation moment for video AI

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,Equity podcast,OpenAI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI announced this week that it will shut down Sora and related video models just six months after launching the app. In the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosik, Sean O'Kane, and I discuss what the decision means for OpenAI and the industry more broadly. To some extent, this move seems consistent with what we've heard about OpenAI as it focuses on enterprise and productivity tools ahead of a potential IPO. In fact, Kirsten suggested that OpenAI's decision to shut…
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A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.It is the farthest human-made object in the universe.It is sending back scientific data that no other instrument in existence can collect.And it is doing all of this on 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder.The phone in your pocket has roughly one million times more memory than the computer running Voyager 1.A single low-resolution photograph taken on that same phone contains…
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