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Elon Musk says Tesla will extend Cybertruck production through end of summer

support@mycoding.id (Ben Shimkus) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:52:57 +0700

Finn Gomez/Getty Images, Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via Getty Images Tesla's Cybertruck manufacturing volition broaden a few months longer, Musk stated on X.

The Cybertruck is getting a last-minute extension. Maybe call it Cyberluck?

On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk posted on X saying the angular electric truck's manufacturing would be "extended through the end of summer 2027," as Tesla plant "through additional of the Cybertruck command backlog."

In command to activity through additional of the Cybertruck command backlog, manufacturing volition be extended through the end of summer 2027
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2026

It comes five days following Musk stated the Cybertruck was getting chopped from the Tesla lineup about the center of 2027 to concentration additional gathering power toward Cybercab, its steering wheel-less robotaxi.

Musk stated that the Cybertruck was motionless profitable — but the business had to slay the truck since of manufacturing "complexity."

Wednesday's manufacturing update additionally comes following Musk stated that Tesla would have to "return deposits for a lot of people."

After the Cybertruck's 2019 unveiling, Tesla stated it received additional than 1 myriad reservations, costing $100 a pop. Musk stated at the period that he expected to market 150,000 to 250,000 units of the truck all year.

Instead, akin nearly all electric pickup that has hit the US market, the Cybertruck underperformed revenue expectations.

Per Cox Automotive data shared alongside Business Insider, Tesla sold fair 76,000 Cybertrucks complete the former three years. That includes the $131 myriad value of Cybertruck sales to another Musk company, SpaceX, in 2025.

AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:28:31 +0700

AWS Emulator and the engineer's job whenever agents compose the code

November 11, 2026 • 1671 words

In 2004, barely a duration into my new job at Amazon, I got the chance to choice an intern to associate my team. I had an advantage complete my colleagues: I had already heard concerning a brilliant young man operating toward his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (where I happened to have received quarry as fine :-)). I immediately picked Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, whom you all now cognize as Swami. It was likely among the finest decisions I have made in my 22 years as Amazon’s CTO.

After a disastrous Christmas in 2004, whenever business relational databases could not measure to Amazon’s needs, I asked Swami to do a profound dive into how relational databases were really used at Amazon. It turned out that 70% of repository operations were not relational at all. They were key-value. That understanding led to Dynamo, which Swami helped architect. When his internship was over, I hired him full-time correct away, equal before he had finished his PhD.

Bringing in another assertive scholarly led to many awesome discussions alongside Amazon’s applicable engineers, who had rotate into measure experts by really construction at scale. Eventual vs. powerful consistency, CAP vs. Paxos, and more. Over time, Swami became among the chief architects of AWS’s data strategy. And as we have seen in latest years, he has additionally been among the intelligent drivers rearward AI innovation at Amazon.

I am honoured that he wanted to compose a visitant article concerning the essential distributed systems activity that sits rearward many of AWS’s services, and concerning how the engineer’s activity changes whenever agents compose the code. AWS Emulator, launched today, gives agents the benevolent of test surroundings that activity relied on. Swami’s narrative is another awesome example of invisible engineering.

Now, go build.

-W

AWS Emulator and the engineer's job whenever agents compose the code

Today we publish AWS Emulator, which gives coding agents a local copy of AWS to test against, and it connects to a project from first in my career. In many ways, this emulator initiate reminds me of the attempt we put into dependable application engineering to enhance the norm of the distributed systems we build. To that end, we wanted to portion a story:

About twenty years ago, Werner asked me to activity alongside one of Amazon’s earliest engineers, Al Vermeulen, on a distributed fastener assistance we called “Alf”. Alf was built on Paxos, a protocol according to Leslie Lamport’s activity that lets a collection of servers concur on one value, and a replication motor in it kept copies of the data accordant throughout servers. Alf, to date, is the assistance that powers many of our complex distributed systems akin S3, DynamoDB and many additional (although it has evolved fairly a bit alongside assorted changes on top – volition preserve it for another blog!).

Distributed systems are difficult to test

Paxos is the aureate norm among distributed systems agreement protocols and was fine understood in academia. However, construction it at the measure Amazon and AWS were expanding into was not easy. We had to agreement alongside not fair replication throughout servers and data centers but additionally tens of thousands of clients asking for locks at the identical time, renewing their leases during network partitions all the during alongside the center requirement: Always be correct! At that time, the finest ideas for evaluation distributed systems were large-scale scheme evaluation and chaos-based testing. Both worked, but they were expensive, and they could not reproduce many kinds of conditions on demand. That mattered for Alf, which was meant to be the fact store, giving all client a powerfully accordant perspective of the truth, and which had to keep operating through server failures and packet defeat as well. Several industry document had written that Paxos-based locking services were difficult to get right, and the difficulty of evaluation them was part of the reason.

We addressed that by simulating Alf’s surroundings alongside as much fidelity as we could manage. We ran the servers inner a JVM and simulated the network and the remainder of the infrastructure they depended on, so the entire scheme lived in one program that we controlled. We could autumn packets and inject another faults whenever we chose, and we built tools that poked at the simulation for bugs and scalability problems. Concurrency bugs appear lone whenever events happen in a particular order, and in the simulation we could set up many of those orderings on intent and inspect how Alf handled all one. We additionally used ceremonial reasoning, through theoretical techniques specified as TLA+, and it established many issues as well. By evaluation this way we ironed out most of Alf’s concurrency bugs before it ran on genuine servers. Testing in a genuine surroundings afterward turned up distinct problems, since the genuine earth exposes things a simulation cannot.

Outgrowing hand-built test environments

Simulation and ceremonial reasoning the two improved the application norm of the distributed systems we applied them to. The simulation worked since a small squad could build a copy of one system’s surroundings by hand, and at the period AWS had lone a small fistful of services. But today AWS has complete 200 services, and an use that calls AWS needs a test surroundings for all one it uses. Building all of those by hand would obtain years of engineering, and agents now compose code far faster than any squad can inspect it in production. So, we wanted to cognize whether agents could build and test those environments themselves.

The idea came from Matt Goldberg, a Senior Principal Engineer on the AWS Developer Tools team. His assumption was that, stated a written clarification of how a assistance should behave and the genuine assistance to inspect against, an delegate could build a operating type of that assistance on its own. For AWS, the written clarification is the set of community API models, written in Smithy, AWS’s format for describing a service’s operations and their inputs, outputs, and errors. The genuine assistance to inspect against is the AWS haze itself, the identical scheme customers use.

The agents activity from fidelity tests, which are end-to-end client scenarios devised from the community API models. A test power check, for example, that in Amazon Simple Queue Service a received communication stays hidden from another readers until its visibility timeout runs out. The agents accurate all test until it passes against genuine AWS, so the test records how AWS behaves. The agents afterward build the emulator until it passes that identical test, and a test that motionless fails points at a gap in the emulator. Matt began alongside SQS alone, and whenever he gave Kiro one immediate describing this approach, it returned a passable archetypal type of an SQS emulator in concerning 15 minutes. Matt Goldberg’s initiate post tells how that prototype grew into AWS Emulator. All of AWS Emulator’s code was written and tested by agents, and it is built from additional than 400 API models covering additional than 200 AWS services. It runs liberated and offline on your own machine. Teams of agents test it against genuine AWS and fix the gaps they find. Every alter goes through a merge gate, a profound place of automated checks that all alter must continue before it enters the codebase, including multiple safety agents doing adversarial reviews.

Infrastructure in the coding iteration

A coding delegate plant in a loop: it writes code, runs it, and says the outcome before deciding what to alter next. In distributed systems that iteration runs inner infrastructure, so the services it calls have to behave akin the genuine ones. When they do, an delegate can inspect its own activity as it writes and create accurate code on its archetypal attempt far additional often, which improves application quality. AWS Emulator puts that infrastructure inner the iteration on your own machine.

The engineer’s job whenever agents compose the code

When agents compose the code and inspect their own work, the engineer’s job is to provision them area to activity on their own and to build the specs, tests, and merge gates that decide whenever that activity is correct. It was a instruction I learned the difficult way whenever I used Kiro to rebuild the replication motor that Al and I had built for Alf, which took us concerning four months the archetypal time. I supervised the delegate for four nights before I saw that it had no way to inspect its results. Once it had a spec and a test environment, the rebuild took concerning two hours.

The agents construction AWS Emulator had the two from the start, in the community API models and in genuine AWS. An engineer built the scaffolding that runs them. An inner type came together complete a weekend and started gaining acceptance inside a month. Turning that into a sturdy resolution took much additional work.

Software norm in the AI era depends on the guardrails that engineers scheme about agents. In AWS Emulator, those guardrails are the fidelity tests verified against genuine AWS, a merge entrance alongside multiple safety agents that all assessment a alter for distinct ways to assault it alongside a broad code reviewer, and deterministic checks that halt agents from touching code they are not expected to. We anticipate agents to build and inspect most software, alongside engineers deciding what gets built and whenever the activity is correct. We are first in learning how engineers run teams of agents to build reliable, high-quality software, and the way AWS Emulator came to existence is a fine example of how that plant in practice. We anticipate to keep adding guardrails and refining how the agents build it.

What to cognize at initiate

The emulator code is released under CC0, a Creative Commons dedication to the community domain.

We volition portion additional concerning this activity at re:Invent. The complete commit former and all matter the agents have submitted are community in the GitHub repository, and its “things-that-do-not-work” directory holds the issues describing behaviors the agents established that do not yet equivalent genuine AWS.

AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:21:38 +0700

AWS Emulator is a local emulator of the AWS APIs. You use it to test your application without calling AWS, on your own machine, on a betterment server, or in uninterrupted integration (CI). You don’t need an AWS account. Your requests go to the emulator, not to AWS. So you activity alongside emulated resources alternatively of AWS resources. AWS Emulator has no additional assistance fee. You pay lone for AWS resources whenever you deploy on AWS.

The emulator is a local program that serves an AWS API endpoint. It has no graphical interface. After you commencement the emulator, you set surroundings variables to item the AWS CLI or an AWS SDK at its endpoint. Then you run your code as usual. In embedded mode, you continue the emulator’s HTTP client to your SDK instead.

AWS Emulator is for construction and testing. Don’t use it for manufacturing workloads or to test security. See Security in AWS Emulator.

Documentation: AWS Emulator User Guide

Install the aws-emulator skill, afterward ask your delegate to set up the emulator. This needs the AWS CLI type 2.35.0 or later. See Getting started alongside an AI coding agent.

aws agent-toolkit add-skill --skill-name aws-emulator --region us-east-1

Server manner (CLI and any SDK)

Linux: instal the RPM or Debian bundle and run aws-emulator. See Getting started on Linux.
Windows / macOS: run the emulator in a receptacle built from a abbreviated Dockerfile. See Getting started alongside Docker.

Point your SDK at a operating emulator by environment surroundings variables. See Pointing your AWS SDK at AWS Emulator.

Embedded manner (Rust tests)

Add the emulator as a dev-dependency and run it in-process, one secluded case per test. There is no endpoint URL, certificate, or surroundings changeable to set. Your test wires the emulator's HTTP client direct into the SDK client. See Getting started alongside embedded mode, and Building from source below for its build cost.

To see how closely all assistance matches AWS, inspect the fidelity scores published alongside all publish on the releases page. To inspect whether your own project is expected to work, see Checking whether your project plant alongside AWS Emulator.

Individual gaps are tracked in the repository's issues/ directory. APIs and behaviors that don't activity yet are under issues/things-that-do-not-work/, and ones that have since been fixed move to issues/things-that-now-work/.

You need this if you are modifying the emulator, operating it from a checkout, or using embedded mode. Embedded manner compiles the emulator into your test binary, so the prerequisites and build-cost direction below use to it too. Most another users instal a prebuilt bundle alternatively (see Quick start). Building from origin is supported on Linux (x86_64 and aarch64); on Windows and macOS, use the Docker way above.

A Rust toolchain alongside Cargo (install via rustup).
A C compiler, specified as GCC or clang. Some requirements build C code.
At smallest 100 GB of liberated disk for target/. The workspace has one crate per AWS service, so a debug build of everything is large, and it grows as services are added.
A multi-core machine. A chilly complete build compiles all assistance crate, so the archetypal build takes a while; small cores obtain proportionally longer. After that, rebuilding following a alter to one assistance is much faster.

cargo build -p aws-emulator-router cargo run -p aws-emulator-router

The emulator serves HTTPS on 127.0.0.1:9297 (self-signed certificate).

Embedded manner compiles the emulator into your test binary, so your project's archetypal cargo test builds the emulator's assistance crates alongside your own code. Budget a archetypal build and target/ on the identical command as construction from origin above, afterward accelerated incremental builds. Recommendation: reuse one CARGO_TARGET_DIR throughout projects, cache target/ (or use sccache) in CI, and pin the emulator to a publish commit so it isn't rebuilt on all change.

. ├── Cargo.toml # workspace: one associate per service, affirmative the center crates ├── services/ │ └── service-/ # ONE CRATE PER SERVICE │ ├── smithy-model/ # .json — the Smithy example that drives the cable protocol │ ├── build.rs # generates the assistance declaration from the model │ ├── src/ │ │ ├── service.rs # petition routing and refusal overrides │ │ ├── state.rs # this service's in-memory state │ │ └── ops/ # one document per operation │ └── tests/ ├── core/ │ ├── router/ # the emulator binary: mounts all assistance on one endpoint │ └── embedded/ # the in-process (embedded mode) facade ├── vendor/ # example crates — do not edit (replaced on update) └── issues/ # tracked fidelity issues

AWS Emulator is configured to collect and study use data to AWS, to acquire understanding into how AWS Emulator is used. Telemetry is on by default. AWS Emulator collects telemetry data alongside strict data minimization in mind, preventing acknowledgment or attribution to particular users, accounts, or organizations. Its records never contain what’s in your requests or responses, your code, your credentials, or individual data. We don’t portion telemetry alongside third parties.

For particulars on what is collected and how the data is handled, see Telemetry in AWS Emulator. To rotate telemetry off, use among the following options.

Use a command-line option

Start the emulator alongside the --telemetry choice (short form -t) set to off. This environment applies lone to that emulator process.

aws-emulator --telemetry off

In a container, add --telemetry off following the depiction name in the docker run command.

Use an surroundings variable

Set EMULATOR_TELEMETRY to off before you commencement the emulator. This environment applies to all emulator that you commencement from that shell.

EMULATOR_TELEMETRY accepts on, true, or 1 to rotate telemetry on, and off, false, or 0 to rotate it off. Values aren’t case sensitive. Any another value turns telemetry off, and the startup notice shows a warning.

export EMULATOR_TELEMETRY=off aws-emulator

To rotate telemetry off for all run on a machine, add these lines to the emulator settings file, config.toml. The document is ~/.aws/emulator/config.toml on Linux and macOS, and %USERPROFILE%\.aws\emulator\config.toml on Windows. To use a distinct file, set the EMULATOR_CONFIG surroundings changeable to its path.

[telemetry] enabled = false

Use the embedded configuration API

In embedded mode, rotate off telemetry in the options that you continue whenever you create the emulator.

use aws_emulator_embedded::{AwsEmulatorEmbedded, EmbeddedOptions, Telemetry}; fn main() { let emulator = AwsEmulatorEmbedded::new(EmbeddedOptions::default().telemetry(Telemetry::Off)); let _http_client = emulator.http_client(); }

You power build a tool that includes the emulator, specified as a test example that another group run. If you do, inform your users concerning telemetry and provision them a way to rotate it off. You can additionally container your tool alongside telemetry off.

Reporting issues and contributing

Report bugs and fidelity gaps in GitHub Issues. The most helpful study names the service, the operation, your SDK and version, the petition you sent, and how the reply differed from genuine AWS. This repository does not obtain PRs.

This application is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0) License, apart from the code in the vendor/ directory, which is under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details, and vendor/README.md for the licence of the code in vendor/.

Loot boxes, influencers, and addictive features face an EU crackdown

support@mycoding.id (Jess Weatherbed) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:13:52 +0700

Jess Weatherbed

is a news author focused on imaginative industries, computing, and net culture. Jess started her occupation at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a caller motion of sweeping European Union rules that aim to create “your online cognition fairer.” The newly projected Digital Fairness Act (DFA) published by the EU Commission on Wednesday is designed to tackle practices that utilize consumers into spending additional of their period and prosperity online, including misleading prices or availability, addictive scheme features akin gaming loot boxes, undisclosed influencer marketing, and more.

“The Act volition defend consumers of all ages buying and browsing for products or services online,” the EU Commission stated in a news bulletin. “It volition additionally average fairer competition for businesses, which are expecting to preserve EU consumers up to €13.7 milliard ($15.1 billion) a year.”

Here’s an overview of what the DFA proposal includes:

A ban on manipulative promotion practices and so-called “dark patterns” that shove consumers into making decisions they power not alternatively make, specified as counterfeit claims concerning a merchandise nearly being sold out.
A necessity to provision consumers the choice to rotate off addictive features, specified as persistent prompts, endless scrolling, and autoplay of videos. Restrictions about addictive scheme additionally use to “AI companions and broad conversational chatbots.”
Restrictions on unfair practices that advance overspending, specified as banning gambling-like features (pay-to-win and pay-to-progress, for example) for minors.
Requiring influencers to plainly disclose promotion content, and restrictions to forestall them from exploiting the rely of children.
Restrictions on unfair personalised ads and prices that mark minors or obtain advantage of delicate data.
Making subscriptions and digital contracts easier to cancel, alongside prompts to prompt customers concerning upcoming automatic renewals and liberated test periods coming to an end.
Requiring apparent and transparent pricing, particularly about energetic pricing and purchases using virtual in-app currency. When consumers delay in virtual queues for traditional and sports event tickets, companies volition have to display the current cost in genuine period and at the highest imaginable price.
Giving consumers the correct to communicate alongside a individual client assistance representative, and apparent entitlements using an AI delegate to create purchases.

The range of the restrictions being projected is broad, and could have a important effect on important parts of the online digital landscape, from the “rabbit hole” algorithms throughout YouTube, TikTok, and Meta platforms, to AI chatbots and apps akin DuoLingo that relentlessly nudge users to keep interacting alongside them. Some gaming organizations have already slammed the DFA proposal, describing its restrictions about virtual currencies, loot boxes, and offering micro-transactions to minors as being “unworkable, unjustified and disproportionate.”

Given this is a outline proposal, the DFA volition undergo assorted approvals through the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union before being passed into law, and its current measures could be changed or removed entirely as part of that process. When (or if) it does arrive into force, the EU Commission says companies who breach the regulations could see fines of up to six percent of their worldwide annual turnover.

“Our person safety rules volition assistance justify that businesses vie on the merits of their products and services - not on their capability to utilize consumers or evade the rules. We are not making it harder to do business. We are making it harder to do endeavor unfairly,” EU Commissioner Michael McGrath stated in remarks following the DFA outline publication. “We cannot have 21st-century consumers protected by rules that have not kept gait alongside the 21st-century economy.”

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10 Google Privacy Hacks Everyone Should Know

support@mycoding.id (Pranay Parab) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:00:00 +0700

Pranay Parab is an autonomous tech newsman based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features.

From managing your Gmail inbox to downloading apps on your Android phone, beautiful much all aspect of your digital existence has a small bit of Google in it. That is a lot of power in the hands of a business that makes prosperity by marketing your data to advertisers. While you can't completely escape Google's tracking without quitting a entire bunch of essential online services, you can use these privacy hacks to decrease how the company tracks you, as fine as defend the data in your Google account.

Use Gmail pseudonyms to keep your document anonymous

Your Gmail document doesn't fair have one email address. In fact, it has unlimited addresses, but you need a hack to utilize them. When you're signing up for a new service, you can add another term to your email address, as fine as the "+" symbol, to create an alias. For example, if your email is "[email protected]," and you're signing up for an Amazon account, you can use "[email protected]" as your email address. The email volition motionless end up in your chief inbox, as if you merely used [email protected]. Not lone can this trick rotate one Gmail location into an unlimited figure of addresses, but it additionally helps you acknowledge who sold your email location to spammers, since those emails volition have the pseudonym in the "To" field.

If you desire to create your emails additional private, you can additionally nexus your Proton Mail document to Gmail. This lets you dispatch and obtain emails via your Gmail address, during using Proton Mail's privacy protections specified as blocking email trackers.

Check meeting logs and disable unauthorized apps to safe your account

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Gmail's web perspective has a crucial safety characteristic that lets you view meeting logs. This characteristic is inexplicably buried at the base of the inbox, and the font size is tiny, so it's uncomplicated to miss. To discover it, log in to Gmail on the web, and scroll to the base of your inbox. Click the Details clasp in the bottom-right corner, below "Last document activity." This volition display you a pop-up that lists the devices, apps, and locations you've lately logged in from. This makes it uncomplicated to see if there's been any doubtful action in your Google account, and you can click the Security Checkup nexus in the pop-up to assessment this data. Just note that if you use a VPN or a assistance akin iCloud Private Relay, you power not acknowledge your own device's location. To inspect if unwanted apps have admission to your Google account, you can sojourn this settings page.

Turn off personalized recommendations to interrupt out of a hunt bubble

Google wants to display you personalized hunt results, which initially feels extremely helpful, but it additionally ends up trapping you in an algorithmic bubble. The finest way to interrupt out of your hunt bubble is to periodically use another hunt engines, but if you desire to rod to Google, you can disable personalized hunt recommendations in Google Search and the Play Store on Android. Go to this settings page, and rotate off Personalized Recommendations and Play Personalization.

Disable web & app action to halt Google from tracking your location

Google tracks your web and app action by default, which includes your hunt history, sound data (if you use the speak-to-search feature), and action from sites, apps, and devices that use Google services. However, connected information, specified as your location data, is additionally saved to your Google profile, which you power not assume gets included in "Web & app activity." Fortunately, you can disable this tracking by going to this settings page, scrolling downward to "Web & App Activity," and turning off all options in this section.

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Google's Timeline feature saves your location in Google Maps to create a map of places you've visited. This is helpful if you desire to keep track of your latest stops; however, Google can use Timeline data to assistance businesses see how productive their ads were, or how apt you are to sojourn nearby stores. Its confirmation leaf confirms this: "Depending on your settings, action saved as former in your Google Account, including ad interactions, may additionally be connected to Timeline data to assistance nearby businesses evaluation the likelihood that group volition sojourn their stores. No individual data is shared alongside businesses."

Timeline isn't enabled by default, but in case you enabled it a during ago, and are no longer using it, you can rotate it off by going to this settings page. Click Turn off, and delete your action to eliminate Timeline data from your Google account.

What do you think so far?

Get rid of personalized ads to decrease Google's tracking

You can't completely escape Google's ads or tracking, but you can disable personalized ads to halt the business from using your document data to display ads. To do this, go to this settings page, and rotate off Personalized ads.

Disable astute features to halt Gmail from offering "Smart Reply" suggestions

While Google claims that it isn't using your emails to train AI, the business does recommendation AI features that create your emails awareness additional robotic than human. One of these is "Smart Reply," which offers email answer suggestions specified as "Got it. See you soon." I can category that on my own, and I awareness uncomfortable alongside Gmail analyzing the contents of my emails and replies to recommendation suggestions that I wouldn't use anyway. You can disable this by going to Gmail Settings > General, or by visiting this settings page. Scroll downward to "Smart features," and rotate off the checkbox next to it. This volition disable Smart Compose, Smart Reply, suggestions for pending replies and follow-ups, spelling, grammar, and autocorrect.

Use a bodily safety key to safe your document against data breaches

A bodily safety key is a awesome safety upgrade. It's a bodily obstacle that prevents most ways to hack into your document remotely. Even if person discovers your email ID and password, and has admission to your two-factor authentication code, they won't get in without bodily admission to that key. You can inspect out Google's assistance leaf for bodily safety keys for additional data on compatibility and environment up your safety keys.

Remove your credit cardstock from Google and use a virtual cardstock instead

If you're grave concerning your online privacy and security, I'd advise against keeping your chief credit cardstock saved to your Google account. If your document is compromised or your equipment is stolen, you hazard exposing your credit cardstock to fraud. Instead, use a prepaid virtual cardstock alongside your Google account. Sites specified as Privacy.com recommendation single-use or merchant-locked prepaid cards, and they authorize you to set spending limits too. You can use specified services alongside your Google document to decrease the chances of losing prosperity if your document gets hacked.

Turn off individual intellect to halt Google from using your emails and photos for ads

Google uses data from Gmail and Google Drive to mark ads, which method that your emails, files, and photos could be used for monetization. To halt this, you'll need to disable Personal Intelligence. To rotate it off, sojourn this settings page, and click Turn off Personal Intelligence.

Pranay Parab is an autonomous tech newsman based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features.

What to Expect From Best Buy's 2026 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales

support@mycoding.id (Daniel Oropeza) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:49:24 +0700

Daniel is Lifehacker's Shopping Editor covering tech deals and reviewing TVs, headphones, speakers, and projectors. He earned his master’s in reporting from Columbia University and has reported for the Miami Herald. He lives in Atlanta.

For all intents and purposes, Black Friday revenue are already here. There are plenty of deals out already, equal although we're weeks distant from the genuine event. One of the reasons for that is the competition retailers have alongside all another to be the archetypal to get your money. One of the retailers that is making the biggest first scatter is Best Buy, confirming their complete plan for the remainder of the year. Here's what you need to know.

What is Best Buy doing for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2026?

Best Buy has announced the following events:

DoorBoosters: A Halloween transaction from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1.
Early Black Friday Deals and Doorbusters: The authoritative commencement of first Black Friday deals on Nov. 6. New deals volition autumn all Friday.
Black Friday Doorbusters and Deals: Best Buy says this volition be its chief sale, starting on Thursday, Nov. 19 and operating until Nov. 28 alongside deals on "computing, gaming, residence theater, wearables, and more."
Cyber Sunday and Monday: Best Buy is extending Cyber Monday to five days and says you can discover deals going up to 50% off choose tech.
Last-minute savings: The Christmas transaction volition run from Dec. 18 until Dec. 24.

Do you need to be a associate to shop Best Buy's sale?

You don't need to be any benevolent of associate to shop Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale; however, it is free to sign up for a My Best Buy membership , which volition get you liberated shipping. If you associate one of their paid subscriptions (My Best Buy Plus for $49.99 per twelvemonth or My Best Buy Total for $179.99 per year), you'll get faster liberated shipping, exclusive prices and deals, an extended 60-day come back opening on most products, and admission to choose sales, akin the Member Deals Days sale that is going on correct now. Paid members volition additionally acquire additional rewards from the two the current transaction and the upcoming Black Friday in July sale.

What deals can I anticipate during Best Buy's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale?

You can discover deals on TVs, laptops, headphones, video games, electric bikes, and more. There volition be new deals all week in stores, on its website, and in the Best Buy mobile app. They'll recommendation cost matching, definition if the cost drops additional during the transaction (Dec. 24), they volition equivalent it and recommendation a refund.

The finest deals during Best Buy's Black Friday (so far)

Here are the finest deals I've established so far. I'll be updating these deals throughout the sale, so create certain to arrive rear and see what's new. Remember that new deals autumn all day.

Apple - AirTag 4 group (2nd generation) - 2026

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Insignia™ - 30 in. Wide 18.6 Cu. Ft. Bottom Freezer Refrigerator alongside ENERGY STAR Certification - Stainless Steel

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TCL - 50" Class QM6K Series 4K UHD HDR QD Mini LED Smart TV alongside Google TV alongside Gemini (2025)

$429.99 at Best Buy

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LG - 65" Class C6 OLED evo AI 4K Smart webOS TV alongside Perfect Black, Perfect Color and Brightness Booster (2026)

$1,399.99 at Best Buy

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Pioneer - 50" Class LED 4K UHD Smart Roku TV

$199.99 at Best Buy

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Samsung - 75" Class M70H Series Mini LED 4K UHD SamsungVision AI Smart Tizen TV (2026)

$499.99 at Best Buy

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Lenovo - IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook Laptop - 14" Full HD Touchscreen Laptop - MediaTek Kompanio 520 2022 - 4GB Memory - 64GB eMMC - Abyss Blue

$249.99 at Best Buy

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HP - OmniBook 3 16" 2K Touchscreen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 40 (2025) - 8GB Memory - 256GB SSD - Glacier Silver

$508.59 at Best Buy

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Does Best Buy cost equivalent during Black Friday?

Best Buy cost matches its own products, so if a merchandise drops in cost later, you'd get those funds too, but it does not shield any deals coming from a competitor's Black Friday sale. There are several another crucial exceptions you can peruse in additional item here.

What do you think so far?

Are Black Friday deals value it?

In short, yes, Black Friday motionless offers discounts that can be rare throughout the remainder of the year. If there’s item you desire to buy, or you’re buying for gifts, it’s a fine period to appearance for discounts on what you need, particularly tech sales, residence betterment supplies, and fitness tech. Of course, if you need to preserve money, the finest way to preserve is not to buy anything.

Are another retailers akin Walmart and Amazon having Black Friday Sales?

The another important retailers doing Black Friday revenue are Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Currently, Amazon has many first deals, seeing their lowest prices yet. Target has several week-long deals and a Deal of the Day. Walmart volition have three Black Friday and Cyber Monday buying events. Nowadays, ample retailers and small businesses vie for Cyber Monday shoppers, so you can anticipate practically all shop to run revenue through Monday, Nov. 30, 2026.

Should I delay until Cyber Monday to shop online?

No. If you discover the merchandise you're looking for alongside a important discount correct now, get it. It's not apt to autumn any lower, but it could continually run out of stock. Take advantage of cost matching or guarantees alternatively of waiting. Remember, you can continually come back products afterward if you alter your mind. For the bulk of products, the agreement from Black Friday volition be the identical one on Cyber Monday.

Covering tech deals and reviewing TVs, headphones, speakers, and projectors.

Dario Amodei says AI will cure cancer and Alzheimer's in a decade. Doctors aren't buying it.

support@mycoding.id (Truman Dickerson) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:28:53 +0700

Finn Gomez/Getty Images Not everyone is bullish on Anthropic finding a cure for malignancy inside the decade.

A cure for cancer is small than a decade away, if you ask Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

If you ask several in the medicinal community, though, that timeline is a bit ambitious, if not altogether unrealistic.

In a 42-minute IPO roadshow video the business released on Tuesday, Amodei made the audacious prediction that "cancer, Alzheimer's, bosom disease, mental sickness — these volition be relics of the former in, I think, small than a decade."

The assertion that all those diseases, which have bedeviled medicine's finest minds for centuries, volition be abruptly cured by AI riled several AI naysayers and physicians, who took to X to sound their disbelief.

"Curing cancer, Alzheimer's and mental illnesses can certainly advantage from AI. But that is unattainable in fair 10 years," Karl Lauterbach, Germany's erstwhile health minister, stated on X.

"Unclear whether group akin @DarioAmodei cognize so small concerning medication or are deliberately misleading the public," he added.

Unklar, ob Leute wie @DarioAmodei so wenig über Medizin wissen oder die Öffentlichkeit bewusst täuschen. Heilung von Krebs, Alzheimer und psychischen Erkrankungen kann definitiv von KI profitieren. Aber das geschieht unmöglich in nur 10 Jahren. Wir sollten auf Prävention setzen https://t.co/FzELuSx7VC
— Prof. Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) November 11, 2026

Melinda B. Chu, an AI medicinal investigator alongside an MD from Saint Louis University, stated Amodei made those predictions fair to stoke hype for the company's IPO.

"Anthropic has done nothing to propose they themselves volition contribute meaningfully to these goals," Chu said.

Rami Elghandour, a biotech executive, stated Amodei's prediction reeks of desperation. "I've taken two companies public. These are insane things to say in an IPO pitch," he said.

Amodei, lengthy prone to waxing poetic concerning how AI could be misused by bad actors, has sought to soften his doomer position by, in part, highlighting AI's possible advantage to medicine.

Anthropic has moved to develop its attain into medication betterment by purchasing multiple biotech startups, including a one-person business focused on evolving treatments for muscular dystrophy.

In an October blog post, the business stated it had "begun medication finding efforts of our own."

The business additionally opened a "wet lab" in the Bay Area to examine how AI innovation can assistance investigation in essential biology, a individual acquainted alongside the matter said.

In an August X post, Amodei stated that the finest way to win complete AI skeptics is for AI companies to "actually cure cancer." In that post, however, he additionally noted that "saying that AI volition cure malignancy is additional a cliché than it is inspiring, and most group think it is deceptive."

With the company's looming IPO, as it seeks to convince investors to buy inventory at a trillion-dollar valuation, Amodei's calculus has apparently shifted.

"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles," Amodei stated in the video.

Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:11:56 +0700

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I raised 4 kids and thought I remembered how hard parenting was. A week with my grandkids proved me wrong.

support@mycoding.id (Jennifer Cannon) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:10:01 +0700

Courtesy of the author The author took attention of her grandkids and remembered how difficult it is to be a parent.

Never underestimate the determination of a 3-year-old. I was reminded of this — and multiple another things I'd forgotten concerning toddlers and parenting — whenever I spent a week alongside my son and his beautifully occupied family, which includes a new rescue pup named Peaches.

Because my kids extend two generations — my son is concerning to be 41, and my youngest female fair turned 21 — I'm a grandmother with two college-aged daughters.

Fresh off an first morning flight, my son picked me up, and it was go-time for Grammy. He and his spouse the two activity full-time and are fortunate to have grandparents nearby who provision midday day attention for 6-year-old Landon and 3-year-old Sloan. When I visit, it gives them a break.

I have to think concerning things I haven't idea of for decades

Weekday afternoons average pick-up from two different schools, and then, since Grammy can do any she wants, we halt for ice cream.

The author remembered the emphasis of being a mom. Courtesy of the author

Running about alongside small ones was a test for my middle-aged zen. The subconscious maternal checklists spark rear to life. Is everyone buckled correctly? Do they have a snack? And then, since I akin to have item to concern concerning at all times, I reviewed what I'd do if among the kids were to choke during I'm driving.

Things I haven't idea concerning in decades arrive into hyper focus. The particular patience required for dealing alongside young kids is a muscle I haven't exercised in months. When the newly potty-trained 3-year-old announces she has to go to the bathroom — and we're location alongside no bathroom, it's rear to the car to discover one fast. We did.

At Scoops, I threw alert to the breeze and let them command "Superman" and "Cotton Candy" ice cream, which likely contained several benevolent of problematic food dye according to the brilliant colors.

Back at home, I attempted to get a caput commencement on Landon's first-grade homework before jiujitsu. I was blessed to see that this engaged 10 minutes of regular reading. "Readers are leaders," I stated to him half-seriously, secretly expecting the words would stick. He wanted to do item but sit down, and he is a fearless negotiator. Feeling my frustration rise, I reminded myself that I couldn't conversation to him the way I might've talked to his begetter at that age. Instead, I explained to him calmly that in the period we'd been talking concerning why he didn't desire to peruse correct then, we could've been done.

My son understands me additional now

My daughter-in-law was distant on a activity trip for a brace of days, which meant it was my period to shine. Like any family alongside young children, things get messy quickly. Fully caffeinated following dawn drop-off, I cleaned and straightened, and genuinely enjoyed doing the kids' laundry.

My son, who admitted he'd been judgy concerning the messes his small sisters made whenever they were this age, was appreciative. We laughed concerning how completely he understands now. I knew my daughter-in-law would value coming residence to a spotless house, nevertheless short-lived.

I was additionally reminded of how many distinct directions parents are pulled in. Especially moms, operating or not, since there are considerably additional moments, particularly alongside a toddler, whenever they desire mommy and only mommy.

I'd forgotten the challenges of dining out alongside young kids. When Sloan went from happily climbing rear and onward throughout her brother in the booth to angrily yelling (in the earnest way lone a 3-year-old can), "Landon, stop looking at me," I reminded myself that it wasn't necessary for me to say or do anything, apart from to try not to laugh. Her two capable parents were there, and this wasn't my issue to solve. The realization that I have the luxury of merely enjoying my grandkids was freeing.

The author slept in her grandchild's bed. Courtesy of the author

It was a completely immersive cognition (I equal slept in my grandson's area alongside a hammock filled alongside stuffies observing complete me), priceless norm time. Landon has a keen awareness of humor, and there's nothing improved than seeing the subtle wit in item and afterward the acknowledgment in his eyes. We played a chill Pokémon commission equivalent and ruthless rounds of UNO. On after-school car rides, we listened to Nick Bean's "Chicken Nugget" additional times than I'd recommend.

On my final night there, the stars aligned and Sloan was in the mood for a bedtime narrative and several snuggles. She gave big hugs and kisses to final until next time, and said, "I affection you, Grammy Jen." My eyes welled up, and I idea my bosom power burst. Tiny moments akin this volition remain alongside me forever. I desire to collect them all.

Lifehacker's Pick for the Best TV to Gift in 2026 Isn't Actually a TV

support@mycoding.id (Stephen Johnson) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:09:35 +0700

Stephen Johnson is a elder personnel author at Lifehacker covering pop civilization and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.”

Welcome to Holiday Office Hours From the Labs, a collaborative multimedia project in which Lifehacker, CNET, ZDNET, and Mashable harness the power of our merchandise evaluation lab and our editors' ability to recommendation the finest gift-buying recommendations possible. In this episode, we're talking televisions.

I lately did a profound dive into TV betterment history, checked out what was on shelves for 2026, and I concluded that the finest current TV you can provision this twelvemonth is, actually, a brace of sunglasses. The XBX by XReal video display glasses are basically a TV you can shove in your pocket. Check them out:

Credit: Stephen Johnson

I looked former traditional sets for a brace of reasons. First, since as much as we all affection a awesome display or movie, who really buys person a TV set as a gift? More importantly, there's the nature of tv itself. Since it was invented in the delayed 1920s, tv norm has been measured by how big the display is and how apparent and brilliant the image is, but in 2026, a nothing-special 4K tv delivers an depiction that is pixel-invisible to a representative viewer, and most of us don't have living rooms big adequate to need a display bigger than 65 inches. I think the innovation in the area is going to arrive from the form aspect and the use case, and what improved form aspect is there than a brace of sunglasses?

Credit: Stephen Johnson

These glasses provision the equal of a 142" TV viewed from throughout the room. It's difficult to difference resolution to traditional TVs—technically, the display is 1080p in all eye, but since the TV is fair millimeters from your eye, it looks much clearer than that. The highest brightness is 1,600 nits, brilliant adequate for most rooms, and there's a totally opaque shield if you need it. The refresh charge is a keen 120Hz. They assistance HDR10 and real-time SDR-to-HDR upscaling, recommendation billions of colors, and it's all in a bundle that weighs lone 62 grams.

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Then there are the use cases. It can act as a distinct detect for your computer; you can observe a distinct display than your roommate without bothering them; but most of all, these are awesome for flights. There is no circumstance in existence that calls for a big display TV additional than a cross-country airplane flight. Slip these on alongside a brace of headphones, and you can fly to Boise in your own private, virtual theater.

They plug correct into any equipment that supports USB-C video, there's no power division to recall to charge, and they disbursal small than $300. In another words: They're the ideal TV current for the holidays, equal if they aren't technically a TV.

Covering astute glasses, VR headsets, famous culture, and more.

Elon Musk's need for speed in everything he does is what sets him apart, a former Tesla exec says

support@mycoding.id (Pete Syme) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:09:20 +0700

Elon Musk in 2016. Nora Tam/South China Morning Post via Getty Images

Elon Musk's need for speed was key to Tesla's shove toward the bulk market, and what sets him distinct from another CEOs, among the company's erstwhile presidents said.

"The item alongside Elon that separates him from another group is that a lot of group would be like, 'Oh, we'll do that next week.' No. It's akin the timing is as accelerated as you can," Jon McNeill told "The Knowledge Project" podcast in Monday's episode.

"He believes that speed of all types — speed of decision-making, speed of prosperity through the business, speed of reply period — creates rivalrous advantage, since your competitors are likely moving slower," he added.

McNeill was Tesla's chairman of earth sales, marketing, policy, and services from 2015 to 2018, before leaving to associate rideshare phase Lyft as COO.

He joined whenever the business was unprofitable, expanding its stores and charging network during preparing to launch the Model 3 — the additional affordable EV that proved pivotal to Tesla's success.

Musk's fixation on speed additionally showed through in his communication style.

"It have to be concise," McNeill said.

The erstwhile Tesla exec recounted how Musk formerly came up alongside the idea of operating the EV creator on three-sentence emails.

For example, outline the issue in your archetypal sentence, afterward propose a solution, and afterward outline the next steps, specified as requesting resources.

"It was really the key to communicating alongside him," McNeill said, adding that it showed he'd really idea concerning the resolution and next steps before asking Musk.

A second key was to provision Musk bad news as quickly as imaginable so it could be addressed before it worsened.

"He stated this to everybody, since bad news lone gets worse alongside time," McNeill said. "The way that you could get on his bad flank was preservation bad news."

Nostalgia is paying off big for video game makers

support@mycoding.id (Lauren Edmonds) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:05:46 +0700

US gamers can commencement playing "Grand Theft Auto VI" on November 19. Vernon Yuen/Nexpher Images via Getty Images

Gen X and millennial gamers power be emotion a dense dose of deja vú correct now.

Major developers are leaning into nostalgia, releasing new video games this month from beloved, decades-old franchises. So far, it seems to be paying off.

Blizzard Entertainment, owned by Microsoft, kicked it off on November 4 whenever it debuted "World of Warcraft: Forever." The first "World of Warcraft" came out 22 years ago.

Two days later, the business stated the "World of Warcraft: Forever" initiate made franchise history. Blizzard stated the video equivalent has been the largest initiate in "World of Warcraft" former in conditions of highest concurrent players and the highest figure of returning players.

Nintendo afterward released "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" for Nintendo Switch 2 on November 5. This equivalent is a complete remake of the company's first 1998 type developed for the Nintendo 64. On Wednesday, Nintendo stated the equivalent set a document by marketing additional than 5.2 myriad units worldwide in the archetypal four days.

And who could ignore "Grand Theft Auto VI," the extremely anticipated equivalent by Rockstar Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive? Although the latest "Grand Theft Auto VI" doesn't hit shelves until November 19, fans have been clamoring for a copy since at smallest 2022, whenever a hacker leaked footage of the game, which was motionless in betterment at the time. Rockstar Games formally announced "Grand Theft Auto VI" in 2023. The final repeat of "GTA" was released in 2013, and the first came out in 1997.

Despite the production delays, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick told CNBC on Tuesday that preorder revenue have "vastly exceeded" their expectations.

"The fine news is it's our second biggest publish in the former of the franchise," Zelnick said. "And we anticipate it's going to be immensely prosperous and profitable."

The achievement about the three games comes at a period whenever the video equivalent industry is trying to win complete customers equal as rising hardware costs and semiconductor competition run up prices.

The Next Digital Gold Mine Isn’t Content. It’s Paid Participation.

support@mycoding.id (Dor Isseroff) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0700

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A virtual current flashes throughout a livestream. A creator reacts, the spectators joins in, and seconds afterward the animation is gone. Nothing bodily changes hands. Yet the acquisition has changed the cognition for everyone watching.

The engaging endeavor inquiry is not why person would pay for item intangible. We already pay for concerts, games and experiences that end. It is what happens whenever a acquisition becomes part of the cognition itself, and whenever customers can influence what others see in genuine time. That change creates a endeavor example value examining: monetizing participation, not fair access.

From paying to observe to paying to participate

Traditional amusement mostly separates the spectators from the performance. A ticket buys entry; the display goes on whether or not any particular attendee contributes. Interactive digital environments create that border small rigid.

In a livestream, viewers can comment, associate challenges, commemorate milestones and dispatch virtual gifts. Some actions are free; others affect spending. Both can power the atmosphere. A digital acquisition may trigger a apparent instant that the complete spectators experiences, equal although lone one individual paid for it.

At Tango, anywhere I work, this is an mundane characteristic of live entertainment. A current can punctuate a achievement or rotate into part of a collection celebration. The merchandise is not merely an animation. It is the chance to contribute to a shared event as it unfolds.

That difference matters beyond livestreaming. Companies acquainted to marketing satisfied or admission should ask whether customers additionally value the capability to shape the experience.

Digital value is bigger than digital ownership

Gaming offers a helpful parallel, although its economics differ from live gifting. Players buy optional digital items to customize how they participate. On Roblox, creators earned about $1.5 milliard in 2025, up from concerning $923 myriad in 2024, according to the company’s Form 10-K for financial twelvemonth 2025 (Business section). Roblox’s economics centers on in-game items fairly than live gifting, but the measure illustrates the financial possible of virtual engagement.

The broader instruction is not that all virtual entity deserves a cost tag. It is that ownership is lone one way to create value. Customization, contribution and shared experiences can matter too. A business evaluating digital products should differentiate what the client receives from what the client gets to do.

For endeavor leaders, this changes the essential question: alternatively of asking what alternatively they can market customers, they should ask what customers would value being part of, and whether that involvement creates a compelling logic to spend.

Design the moment, not fair the checkout

Participation-based commerce changes merchandise scheme priorities. A acquisition embedded in a live cognition has at smallest two audiences: the individual spending and the group witnessing its effect. That creates opportunities, but additionally responsibilities.

First, create the contribution legible. If a paid act affects an experience, participants should comprehend what it does. An unclear consequence weakens the association between spending and value.

Second, scheme meaningful ways to act without paying. Comments, community activities and another liberated interactions assistance justify that spending is a choice fairly than the cost of belonging.

Third, measure additional than transaction volume. Conversion and average expend matter, but leaders should additionally analyze whether group return, continue participating and awareness in authority of their experience. A monetization characteristic that generates a short-term spike during eroding rely is not a durable success.

This additionally method looking at the cognition from the two sides of the transaction. The paying client should obtain apparent value, during the wider community should advantage from the communication without emotion excluded from it.

Recognition is not the identical as purchasing attention

Visible feedback is part of what makes digital gifting distinctive. A creator may acknowledge a current immediately; another viewers may respond; the instant becomes communal. But it would be simplistic to decide that group are merely purchasing attention.

Someone power provision to value a performance, commemorate an achievement, or search straightforward acknowledgment and attention from the creator. While gaining a creator’s notice is frequently a chief controller for viewers, businesses should oppose reducing varied motivations to a sole mental explanation. The scheme difficulty is to create the communication rewarding without manufacturing force to spend.

Transparent pricing, apparent acquisition mechanics and person authority are not distinct from the experience. They assistance create involvement sustainable.

The strategic inquiry for endeavor leaders

For companies exploring virtual goods, the helpful inquiry is not, “What digital entity can we sell?” It is, “Where does client involvement genuinely enhance the experience, and would person willingly pay to contribute in that way?”

The answer volition differ throughout entertainment, gaming and online communities. Not all communication have to be monetized. But businesses that comprehend the difference between marketing admission and enabling involvement may detect value that accepted merchandise thinking overlooks.

The forthcoming of digital commerce volition not be defined lone by what group can own. It volition additionally depend on what they can assistance create together.

How to Increase Form Conversions and Generate More Leads

support@mycoding.id (Neil Patel) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0700

Pop quiz: How do you create leads?

Answer: By placing a high-converting guide generation form on a landing page.

From there, you commencement to nurture the leads—persuading them to buy your product. A SalesForce study established that “companies that excel at guide nurturing create 50 percent additional sales-ready leads at 33 percent lesser cost.”

The gateway between your location and the visitant is the guide generation form, additionally known as the guide gen form. As you already know, a guide gen form that’s placed on a landing leaf alongside offers visitors can’t oppose continually performs well.

But how do you justify that your guide generation form is optimized for the user?

That’s a big difficulty for Internet marketers.

This is the second most crucial goal of B2B companies: to create leads. B2B companies are using multiple guide grasp strategies to accomplish this. But no matter the strategy, a guide gen form is required.

So let’s dive in and study how to optimize a guide generation form so that you can grasp the bulk of visitors to your site. Follow the steps below and you may see a 672% existence akin I did.

1. Place the form complete the fold

Everything we do on a landing leaf is to addition involvement and to get the correct group to rely us. It’s concerning influence.

Engaged time normally peaks above-the-fold. So, placing crucial elements specified as forms, CTA, etc., in this first genuine asset volition get maximum visibility to possible customers and can assistance alongside guide capture. Engagement is initiated above-the-fold—while below-the-fold builds on it.

When it comes to optimizing a guide generation form, most group cognize that placing the form above-the-fold normally output results since the placement immediately draws your visitors’ notice to your CTA. This, in turn, leads to awesome conversion optimization.

There are instances anywhere placing your guide gen form and CTA above-the-fold is necessary

For example, if your merchandise is a uncomplicated application or app, you would use a compelling headline, minimal but persuasive copy, a preview on how the application plant and a CTA button. Check out this landing leaf created by Lyft below:

The possible client sees the data above-the-fold before they scroll down. What appears in this area volition continually power the person experience.

In this scientific age, we have many of devices and platforms for accessing web pages and social media. Consequently, display sizes are continually changing. Users desire a awesome cognition whether they sojourn your landing page, additionally known as guide grasp page, alongside their iPhone, iPad, Samsung Tab or PC.

A study by Nielsen Group established that despite of display size, the average difference in how users treat info above- vs. below-the-fold is 84 percent.

It all boils downward to person behavior and social proof. How group engage alongside your location depends on the construction of your fold. Because the fold motionless exists: the top, center and below folds clasp your online promotion data and all have to be tested.

With the guide generation form and CTA above-the-fold, you have small convincing to do and small hazard for the prospect.

Split evaluation is the lone productive way to decide whether above- or below-the-fold volition execute improved for your mark audience.

I’ve seen cases anywhere placing the guide gen form and CTA below-the-fold generated a improved conversion rate. In one case, below-the-fold delivered a 220% uptick in the conversion rate.

Top brands contain calls-to-action above-the-fold of their landing pages. For example, KISSmetrics and CrazyEgg prosecute this pattern; they affect above-the-fold for maximum effect and conversion charge optimization.

2. Ensure you have a powerful call-to-action

It motionless surprises me that many B2B marketers don’t have any calls-to-action on their inner pages.

If you do have a CTA, it must be powerful and catchy. The call-to-action is the tipping item between conversions and bounce. In another words, any stage you obtain volition either change your visitors into possible customers or dispatch them distant and addition your bounce rate.

You need a powerful call-to-action if you don’t desire to visage the difficulty of chronically generating new leads.

A powerful CTA compels group to click on it. It leaves a recollection in the user’s intellect equal whenever they’ve exited the landing page.

You’ll discover a ideal CTA example that pulls you in and immediately shows you huge value, in Brian Dean’s landing page.

Although Brian uses a sole word, “DOWNLOAD,” in his CTA copy, it’s a apparent and particular online promotion strategy. There’s nothing alternatively to anticipate the instant you input your email location but the e-book. Social evidence ensures the mark spectators volition be drawn towards the CTA, maximizing conversion rates.

Another example of a powerful CTA can be established at Videofruit.com. This is really a redesign from Ryan’s old residence landing page. But this time, the call-to-action copy, “Start Class Now,” tells you exactly what you’ll get.

The CTA copy is as crucial as the color, placement, and form of your call-to-action buttons. Looking at these two buttons, which do you think has a higher click-through rate? Which one would you click on?

That’s exactly the identical circumstance prospects normally discover themselves in whenever they district on a leaf alongside too many buttons. Too many buttons is a average online promotion error and leads to a lesser conversion rate. You have to be apparent on what your recommendation is about—and the copy has to display it.

Let’s see a real-world example:

The most crucial instruction you volition always study is that there is no “ultimate button” that plant in all case. The fact is that call-to-action buttons arrive in distinct sizes, colors, and shapes, and there is no difficult and accelerated regulation for higher conversion optimization.

In one instance, a business made its CTA clasp bigger and saw a 10.56 percent DECREASE in conversion rates.

A tweak in the copy volition power conversion rates, too.

3. Include your privacy guideline to eliminate all doubts

I’m not talking concerning too-good-to-be-true privacy statements. Prospects aren’t fools and they can inform immediately what the marketer has in mind. Of course, ignoring the privacy policy, in this case, volition get you a improved conversion rate.

But that doesn’t average you should totally ignore concerning users’ privacy. Beyond getting higher conversion rates, you desire this for the purpose of transparency.

You can be creative, though, in your privacy statement. Instead of using the representative “100% privacy—we’ll never spam you,” that’s rotate into a cliché, you can create the expression applicable to your offer, incorporating it in your online marketing.

Admit it: you akin Shopify’s privacy statement. This simple, trustworthy declaration concerning their email promotion campaign will improve the conversion rate.

Volusion, an ecommerce buying cart solution, additionally follows the identical trend whenever declaring their privacy guideline underneath their signup form. They didn’t use the representative verbiage but got imaginative alongside their guide generation process. Take a look:

More than likely, we neglect to optimize call-to-actions for many reasons. These reasons are irrelevant, though, since the needed changes are minor, but the effect on the conversion charge can be significant.

Do you contain privacy statements in your guide gen form and CTA? Prospects are becoming smarter and cognize that most privacy statements don’t live up to what they promised, and are frequently merely a promotion strategy. But including a uncomplicated privacy declaration wouldn’t hurt.

If prospects don’t rely you, they won’t convert. Sure, you may have fine intentions, but it doesn’t figure unless group create a flat of rely in you.

To a ample extent, you need to convince group to provision you their individual data through a sign-up form, since during to them it may be a small step, to your endeavor it’s big.

Generally, you desire to evade footer links, since it’ll obtain notice distant from the guide gen form, but keep the privacy policy. I use my privacy declaration on the guide generation form.

I additionally included a privacy declaration on my individual blog guide generation form.

Privacy policies are essential for lawful reasons. But beyond that, it’ll assistance you to be transparent as you nexus alongside location visitors and build rely alongside them. Even if you don’t collect susceptible data from users, you should contain a privacy declaration and run your endeavor by it.

Your location visitors and prospects may not cognize how trustworthy you are until you justify them that their data is safe, particularly alongside their credit card details.

The California Online Privacy Protection Act (CALOPPA) makes it apparent that if you collect individual identifiable data from a business website or online assistance you run, you need to article your privacy declaration for everyone to see.

4. Minimize conflict in and about the form

The advice, “use power words to convince group to subscribe to your list,” isn’t continually the correct method for optimizing online guide generation forms, equal if it frequently works.

More than likely, the guide gen form isn’t the problem, but the events that happen about it are.

At the bosom of all landing page, the guide generation form stands out. If you put too many elements about the gen form, you’ll likely lesser conversion rates.

“Friction” merely method battle or opposition that one exterior encounters whenever moving complete another.

Truly, so many distinct things happen on a landing leaf simultaneously. The visitant volition be making judgments on whether or not the recommendation is correct for them, the words are persuasive and the scheme is there to help build powerful interest.

A lot of friction—different elements of a landing leaf conflicting against all another at the identical time.

When you create it easier for group to create the correct decisions, you’ll get additional clicks on your call-to-action button.

You can dispatch prospects to your landing leaf and still see them do nothing since of friction. If you don’t desire that to happen, current are things that you can do in command to minimize conflict in and about your guide gen form:

Allow pale spaces: Most marketers activity difficult on their sites (especially their homepage and blog posts and hunt motor results), but motionless aren’t satisfied alongside the results.

Working too difficult and seeing no results is the worst emotion ever.

That stated if you desire to evade wasting period and addition guide generation form conversions, authorize plentifulness of pale space. Google does it well:

You desire your gen form to diagram group in, get them enthusiastic and incite them to click. White area allows for scannability and readability and increases click-through rates.

It’s difficult to affect group alongside satisfied on a occupied backdrop and can guide to a higher bounce rate. It’s small amazement authority sites, social media sites, WordPress themes, and hunt engines frequently use pale backgrounds and depart pale area about their guide generation forms. This explanatory scheme method is a average online promotion scheme for achieving conversion charge optimization.

Speaking of readability, lab research conducted by Wichita State University showed social evidence that pale area helps group to peruse and understand, although it may decrease study speed.

Carla Rose noted that pale area guides your eyes from one item to another on a page. It helps users navigate the page.

This method that if you desire users to inhabit a guide gen form, and click a call-to-action button, plentifulness of pale area volition decrease their hesitation. The conflict that normally stands between the client and the gen form volition be removed.

Not too lengthy ago, ExpertPhotography.com redesigned its homepage, placing additional accent on the guide gen form.

But this time, they used a pale backdrop and additionally used a brilliant attention-grabbing color for the call-to-action button, during leaving many of pale area to maximize online leads.

Jellyfish.co.uk, a UK-based promotion training agency, understands the behavioral discipline rearward pale area in web design. They authorize a fair amount of pale spaces about their guide gen form, thus redirecting people’s attention to the gen form–and nothing else.

It’s essential to depart pale area about your guide generation form. This volition not lone guide to additional clicks on your clasp and higher conversion rates, but volition additionally enhance how prospects/customers comprehend your recommendation and brand.

Make several form sectors optional: When it comes to communication form fields, small is certainly more.

Content that converts uses lone the correct words, correct sentences, and correct formats. When you choose your words wisely, you’ll create leads.

To be on the harmless side, create several form sectors optional. Less motivated leads who alternatively would never inhabit out your guide generation form power discover this suitable since you’re making it uncomplicated for them.

As prospects navigate your sales funnel, they’ll move from being conscious of discovering new opportunities that volition advantage them.

From individual experience, I’ve learned that a lengthy signup form presents a ample amount of friction. People comprehend that you’re asking too much–and, akin I stated earlier, those who are not extremely motivated or don’t rely you adequate volition click the [x] clasp on their browser and toggle to another site.

Making several form sectors optional at smallest shows the prospects that they’re not under a strict duty to inhabit out everything. They fair have to create decisions on what to do, particularly following filling in the required fields.

One crucial point, though: always tag optional fields, not required ones. This is a must if you have the two required and optional sectors on your form. Most web designers, website optimizers and net promotion designers use red asterisks to grade the required fields:

On the another hand, you should grade optional sectors accordingly. Most signup form builders authorize you to have the term “optional” inner the form, akin this:

It gives them an advantage since they cognize that you’re not asking them to inhabit all the forms before they can obtain your recommendation or get engaged alongside what you do. This makes the project appear simpler to your possible customer, improving your conversion optimization.

Use a two-step process: Creativity is required if you desire to grasp most of your location visitors.

When new group sojourn your landing page, they don’t rely you adequate yet to provision distant their individual information. You need their permission first.

But you can use a two-step procedure for achieving landing leaf optimization. Start by requesting the essential data in that archetypal step. You could petition the archetypal name only. Then, in the second step, petition their email address, phone number, etc. This is an method frequently taken by social media sites. Social evidence shows that this is extremely distinct from one ample signup form.

It’ll be difficult for the individual to say no since they’ve already traversed the archetypal hurdle and are fair looking onward to the offer.

Better yet, in the archetypal step, petition the email location only. If the prospects are not capable to provision the required data in stage two, you already have their email location to prosecute up.

When you prosecute up, you provision helpful satisfied as you guide them through the purchasing cycle.

By the period they get to the acquisition decision phase, you’ll have proven your value. They’ll be additional motivated to provision the necessary information.

Sync the surrounding text/image alongside the form: If you need to accelerate your guide generation form conversion rate, you have to sync the text and images that appear about the gen form.

If you have a merchandise image, create certain that it doesn’t overlap alongside the form and call-to-action. The synergy between the text, images, and guide gen form needs to be obvious.

Of course, you need to depart pale space, since this additional area is what volition provision existence to those elements about your form.

The copy have to be relevant, useful, and in synergy alongside the form. A ideal example is Copyblogger’s:

5. Include the correct figure of fields, eliminate unnecessary fields

We have distinct forms on our pages. I used to think extremely small of them until I boosted my conversion charge on NeilPatel.com by 26 percent fair by removing one form field. This is a uncomplicated stage for conversion optimization.

For example, does “residential address” use whenever you’re collecting leads? Well, it depends on what endeavor example you’re in.

For digital net marketing, it’s not necessary. What counts is the email address, If you can get their phone number, that would be notable (for chilly calling). This is frequently all that is required for creating a social media account.

When I drove 518,399 visitors to my landing pages, I converted 16,394 into leads from 77 webinars. This was partially due to our conversion charge optimization on the webinar landing leaf form and call-to-action.

In many things, being uncomplicated wins over-complicated or complex things. “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to activity difficult to get your thinking spotless to create it simple.”

Do you cognize that if you obtain distant one item from your guide gen form, it can considerably increase your conversion rate?

To demonstrate this point, Dan Zarrella at HubSpot lately researched the communication forms of 40,000 of their customers and established that conversion rates risen by nearly fractional whenever the figure of form sectors are reduced (from 4 to 3).

Study your signup form today. It doesn’t matter anywhere you have it- on the landing page, guide grasp page, compression page, homepage, concerning page, communication form or someplace else. Ask yourself this question: what should remain and what must leave?

Remember, though, that evaluation the stance of your form sectors is fair as crucial as the data you’re requesting. You’ll see results the instant you commencement to petition lone the necessary data using small form fields.

6. Split test to decide the finest lead-generation CTA positioning

The three most common lead generation strategies are email marketing, event marketing, and satisfied marketing.

However, whenever you’re generating leads through any of these strategies, you have to justify that your call-to-action is well-positioned.

You do this via split testing.

One fine test is value a thousand expert opinions.

–Wernher von Braun

Question: Where on your web leaf should you location your guide generation form?

Answer: There is no sole correct or incorrect answer.

Let’s commencement by defining A/B testing.

When it comes to form positioning, expertise, experience, and intuition are crucial online promotion tools that you can leverage. But they’re not fine reasons to disregard divided testing.

The lone way to unarguably inform whether placing your guide generation forms and CTA above-the-fold, correct or remaining flank or below the copy is to test it out.

A uncomplicated tweak on your form site dimension can create a big difference.

When divided evaluation your communication form placement, you have to justify that another elements of a landing leaf have been taken attention of. Your header have to be compelling. The projectile points, images, and copy have to be persuasive.

Client testimonial video and guarantee: You can addition conversion rates correct now by using client testimonials and a guarantee.

The landing leaf complete uses these affectional tools to enhance the perceived value and build greater rely alongside their forthcoming customers.

The finest method is to location your form anywhere it complements the decision-making procedure of your prospects.

Though placing forms complete the header is a average practice, you can’t be certain that it would activity in your own case until you test it.

The optimal placement of your guide gen form is reliant on your offer, the timing and how motivated your visitors are.

As a regulation of thumb, if your recommendation is complex and the prospects need to read, digest and create decisions according to their current knowledge, afterward placing the guide generation form below the fold is probably more ideal.

On the another hand, if the recommendation on your landing leaf is uncomplicated and self-explanatory, and/or the potential isn’t required to do much before taking action, afterward placing the guide gen form above-the-fold is likely the improved move for conversion charge optimization.

You can additionally use directional cues whenever you location forms and CTA above- or below-the-fold. This social evidence maneuver volition guide group toward the correct division of your page, a scheme frequently used by social media sites and hunt engines. You need to straightforward the eyes properly, otherwise, the prospects volition be distracted, expanding your bounce rate.

In web design, directional cues perform an crucial role. It gives group a clue concerning what to do and how to do it. You may not use animated gifs or arrows, but you should nonetheless guide the potential in the direction of the guide gen form.

If you have a long-form landing page, you need to create persuasive copy that compels group to scroll downward and peruse more.

7. Align your CTA and form alongside landing leaf copy

Message accord isn’t lone helpful for PPC advertisers, but additionally for satisfied marketers.

If you create leads through your landing page, you need to justify that your CTA and gen form are in accord alongside your leaf copy.

The heading of your offer—whether it’s a liberated e-book, guide, online course, presentation, template or pale paper—should align alongside the landing leaf title.

It’s an complete must that your landing page, the CTA, and recommendation should all withstand a akin name.

For example, if you citation that group should download a liberated e-book on social media promotion and your CTA says the identical thing, afterward you shouldn’t call it an online way on your landing page.

This may appear irrelevant, but these small things addition conversion rates on a landing page. Here’s an example: the offer, the landing leaf title, and call-to-action are in agreement.

People are occupied online. You have to respect their time. If they have to fig out everything on your landing leaf and create the correct decisions you need to improved align your landing leaf elements. Simplification of your landing leaf and guide gen form is a fine method toward conversion charge optimization.

Though your concentration is on the gen form, you should continually test to enhance conversion rates.

Start by penning your landing leaf heading first, afterward use the exact words in your CTA. Or you could merely summarize the heading during leaving the keywords intact.

Conclusion

There you have it–the proven strategies to optimize your guide generation form.

What’s the use of inbound promotion that sends traffic to a landing leaf that’s not prepared for the mark audience? It’s a discarded of period and money.

The goal of a landing leaf form is to grasp the prospect’s individual information. It’s not for selling a product. Marketing and revenue are the by-products of nurtured leads.

Don’t location your guide gen forms and CTA in a cluttered area. It doesn’t matter how persuasive the copy is–do your finest to depart adequate pale area about the form.

Give group several digital breathing area to assistance them to think plainly and create the correct decisions.

Is your guide generation form optimized to change visitors into leads, and customers? What steps did you obtain to create it work?

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:57:45 +0700

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

Maximum inner merchandise hunt (MIPS) sits at the center of advice systems, search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Given a query vector, MIPS systems hunt inside a repository of millions of applicant key vectors for the one that finest matches the query. The first data item connected alongside that best-matching key is afterward used to grip the query: in RAG, the document that is finest suited to answer the inquiry is typically prefixed to the query.

As the figure of keys grows to millions and vector dimensions attain thousands, the computational disbursal of operating an exhaustive difference of the query to all keys grows dramatically. Numerous approximate methods have been projected to commerce off accuracy for speed using clustering and quantization. While these baseline methods concentration on the properties of the set of keys to build up clever indexing structures, their geometric arguments loosely assume that the set of queries itself volition resemble that established in keys, or bypass any considerations concerning what the queries volition appearance like. This can be problematic on two fronts: In the crucial RAG case, queries appear from abbreviated user-generated questions, whereas keys portray long, informative, and curated pieces of text, making keys and queries substantially different. Additionally, most MIPS use cases deployed in manufacturing mark an existing basis of users alongside a stable, well-characterized query allocation — a indication that generic, query-agnostic methods depart untapped. Crafting methods that activity finest for a apt origin of inputs — fairly than aiming for fine achievement on all imaginable inputs — is a chief tenet of contemporary device learning that helps redirect compute resources additional efficiently.

In Amortizing Maximum Inner Product Search alongside Learned Support Functions, a document presented at ICML 2026, researchers from Apple train small neural networks (NNs) — once, offline, for a fixed repository of keys — that study how to path queries toward their finest equivalent faster. Their method trades off an upfront amortization disbursal to comprehend how representative queries lean to be matched in toggle for faster, additional exact retrieval at conclusion period through these small NNs.

A essential regulation in MIPS is to leverage the geometry of the set of keys to speed up search: Typical MIPS systems divided the set of keys into k clusters — k is typically much smaller than the total figure of keys n — keeping track of a delegate centroid for all cluster. When receiving a new query, the scheme compares it alongside these k centroids. The query is afterward routed toward the collection of the delegate centroid it is closest to, and subsequently compared exhaustively alongside all keys stored in that cluster. If the repository has n keys and k evenly distributed clusters, the productive figure of keys that volition be considered in that second stage is on the command of n/k — a factor-of- k speedup whenever compared to the n comparisons done in the naive exhaustive approach. Unfortunately, this routing scheme can outcome in errors, since centroid routing is not an exact approach, as illustrated in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: Geometric approaches to hunt can neglect and young female nearest neighbors. This is because of their reliance on partitioning the area according to distances to centroids. In the animation, a nearest neighbor is missed as it is not connected alongside the nearest centroid.

What makes MIPS engaging from a device learning viewpoint is that it is built on a mathematical construction that had been mostly overlooked before this work: The function that maps a query to the largest inner merchandise alongside any key in a set is the support function of that set, a well-studied entity in convex analysis. This function has two crucial properties: First, it is convex, so it can be approximated by a category of neural networks specifically designed for convex functions, input convex neural networks (ICNNs). Second, the gradient of that assistance function at any query returns the best-matching key itself.

The broad idea rearward this activity is to learn a neural network that can mimic the ground-truth assistance function (or its gradient directly) for a much lesser computational cost. This can be achieved through a traditional ML method known as regression: one merely needs to precompute a ample figure of training examples cast by sampling input vectors (user queries) and brace them alongside the applicable output indication produced by MIPS (either the optimal mark or the optimal key vector itself). All that is afterward needed is to train a suitably parameterized neural network to replicate the output stated the input.

If the regression issue were to be solved perfectly, according to the mathematical method outlined above, the identical neural network that is trained to mimic the assistance function could additionally output the optimal key by evaluating its gradient (through automatic differentiation). In practice, we detect that training separate, specialized networks for all of these two tasks plant best:

The SupportNet neural network architecture can study the assistance function directly, using a (loosely constrained) ICNN. The method is mathematically ethical and aligns alongside the convex construction of the problem. We discover that this method can radiance whenever used to compute one assistance function per data collection to enhance routing quality.

KeyNet models study to directly output the best-matching key vector whenever fed a query. A consistency defeat derived from Euler’s theorem for homogeneous functions keeps their predictions geometrically restricted in the underlying assistance function, equal although no convexity is explicitly enforced.

Both models are trained on examples drawn from the applicable query distribution: for all sampled query, the ground-truth finest equivalent is computed formerly via exhaustive hunt and stored, creating a supervised dataset that captures the MIPS resolution landscape for the allocation of queries that really matter.

As shown in Figure 1, the simplest way to grip larger scales is to divided the keys into clusters, difference the query to all cluster’s centroid, and path the query to the most promising clusters according to these k scores. This provides a cheap yet coarse regulation that can be prone to mistakes since a centroid solitary cannot document for the dispersed of its cluster. Indeed, a collection can clasp a key that sits far from its own centroid yet near to the query, and whenever the query is near specified an outlier, centroid routing scores the collection low and skips it, missing the true finest match.

If one were stated admission to the assistance function of all cluster, afterward one would alternatively be capable to do exact routing, since all assistance function quantifies exactly to what degree any key inside all collection can equivalent the query alongside a ample score. This is illustrated in Figure 2, in which the assistance function of all of the four clusters is plotted for a query that varies in the area of embeddings.

Figure 2: Relying on distances to centroids can be misleading as those distances do not document for all key in all cluster. Given admission to all cluster’s assistance function, project can be made according to how fine a stated query matches any key in a cluster.

Leaning on this theoretical insight, we propose to study these k assistance functions jointly alongside a trained SupportNet that can output k scores at once. We can afterward use the largest of these k scores to path any new query instead. The SupportNet example can answer a additional helpful inquiry than a uncomplicated difference to the centroid can: “How fine is the best key inner this collection for this query?” SupportNets are trained in a traditional device learning fashion, additionally known as regression: we create example queries that are drawn from the allocation (typically embeddings for content queries), compute the ground-truth assistance functions at those queries, and train a neural network to replicate these values.

Figure 3: SupportNets approximate the assistance functions of all collection and allocate queries to clusters according to the finest equivalent alongside any key, not lone centroids as representative geometric approaches do.

We trained SupportNets of expanding sizes (XS, S, M, and L → 1%, 5%, 10%, and 20% of the repository size) on Natural Questions partitioned into 128 clusters. Natural Questions is a retrieval benchmark that pairs general-knowledge questions alongside passages from a ample document database, approximately 2.6M distinctive passages in our setup.

Figure 4 below shows the retrieval achievement in conditions of recall as a function of distinct notions of cost. Routing recall is the fraction of queries whose true partition, the one holding the exact finest key, lands among those the router chooses to probe. For the two plots, an exhaustive hunt is carried out in the top-s clusters matched alongside the query, anywhere s grows as powers of two (1, 2, 4, 8, …, 128). Naturally, all methods attain a recall of 1 whenever they study all 128 clusters.

The archetypal tab shows that for a fixed retrieval achievement the learned routers attain it at lesser latency than centroid routing. The small SupportNet example hits 95% routing recall concerning 1.9× faster than centroid routing (1.74 ms vs 3.36 ms), and gains are equal greater alongside the ample model, which hits 97% in 1.74 ms. This storyline explicitly factors in the additional compute incurred by operating our small NNs fairly than merely comparing to centroids.

The storyline on the second tab looks exclusively at routing quality, neglecting the overhead incurred by operating NNs. At a fixed prosperity of explored clusters, they discover the correct partition additional often: scanning fair 5% of the database, the learned routers regain the true partition ~90–93% of the period — up to 92.6% for the mid-size (M) — versus 87.5% for the centroid baseline.

SupportNet Router Size Family

Figure 4: Routing achievement (recall) because of SupportNets of assorted sizes versus latency or the fraction of the repository we authorize the router to scan. Routers, all alongside a degree of 16 layers, are trained on a 128-cluster Natural Questions dataset. SupportNets dominate the centroid router: stated a latency target, one can get a higher recall alongside a SupportNet or conversely, that recall can be achieved at lesser latency by a SupportNet than by a centroid router.

SupportNet routing replaces the uncomplicated centroid-based routing established in existing inverted document indicator (IVF) systems. With KeyNet, we can additionally keep the IVF scheme as is and fair nourish it a modified type of the query. In that scenario, KeyNet plant naturally as a “query rewriter” in forefront of a norm approximate hunt index: foretell anywhere the finest equivalent is apt to be in embedding space, afterward ask your favorite IVF scheme to appearance there alternatively of starting from the first query. Because the IVF indicator is extremely optimized, it can discover the outcome faster whenever assisted by KeyNet. We additionally depend on regression to train KeyNets, as summarized in Figure 5: example queries are matched alongside their ground-truth, best-matching key, and the KeyNet neural network is trained to reproduce that association.

Figure 5: KeyNets are trained to map a query to its finest equivalent in a database. Combined alongside an IVF index, pre-processing queries via specified a mapping makes hunt much easier: the resulting transformed query is now much nearer to the mark it is intended to retrieve.

We evaluated KeyNets of expanding sizes (XS, S, M, and L → 1%, 5%, 10%, and 20% of the repository size) and in Figure 6 below, we display recall–cost tradeoffs for these distinct sizes. On the archetypal tab, the hunt prosperity is wall-clock latency: reaching 99% recall takes up to ~8× small period alongside the largest example (0.23 ms vs 1.8 ms for the raw query). As before, the second tab focuses exclusively on the boost in “quality” provided by replacing the first query alongside its KeyNet transformation. The x-axis is the fraction of the repository the indicator really scans: scanning fair 0.001% of the database, KeyNet-mapped queries recover the true key 89–97% of the period — up to 96.7% for the largest example (L) — versus 86% for the raw query, and reaching 99% recall takes up to ~11× small keys (0.009% vs 0.10% raw). Better recall for the identical cost, or the identical recall for a fraction of it.

KeyNet Searcher Size Family

Figure 6: Search achievement (recall) using an IVF indicator to hunt a repository made from the Natural Questions dataset. The parcels difference results because of querying the IVF indicator immediately alongside raw queries against a hunt executed following mapping queries alongside KeyNets of assorted sizes, all alongside a fixed degree of 16 layers. Latency in the parcels corresponds to the total period required to map a query and search, apart from for the raw-query case, which accounts lone for search. Pre-processing queries alongside KeyNet is value it no matter the size: the pre-processing overhead is compensated for by faster hunt downstream.

We display examples obtained from the identical Natural Questions dataset discussed previously, served through a FAISS IVF index. It is one of multiple datasets we studied, and the trend is accordant throughout them. Querying the indicator alongside KeyNet’s predicted key consistently strikes querying alongside the raw question, throughout the complete search-budget sweep.

Namely, Figure 7 below shows five Natural Questions examples: top-3 hits for the raw query versus the KeyNet-mapped query.

Figure 7: Top-3 hits for the raw query versus the KeyNet-mapped query: 'What is Matchbox Twenty?'

Figure 7: Top-3 hits for the raw query versus the KeyNet-mapped query: 'Who wrote The Eye of the World?'

Figure 7: Top-3 hits for the raw query versus the KeyNet-mapped query: 'What is a breeze controller used for?'

Figure 7: Top-3 hits for the raw query versus the KeyNet-mapped query: 'When volition the Summertime Ball be on?'

Figure 7: Top-3 hits for the raw query versus the KeyNet-mapped query: 'When was the display Victorious on Nickelodeon?'

The choice between the two ends up being a applicable one. Use KeyNet whenever conclusion speed is the bottleneck and you fair need to approximate the finest key. Use SupportNet whenever you additionally desire a calibrated mark (for re-ranking, thresholding, or downstream use), or whenever compute is tight at small example sizes — a administration anywhere SupportNet stays competitive. Both train similarly, merge alongside existing approximate-search infrastructure, and are fairly sturdy to mild allocation change in the query patterns. Ultimately, a extremely large-scale MIPS scheme for which the set of keys is huge may necessitate both: train a SupportNet router complete all clusters, and afterward one KeyNet per collection to assistance its regular indices zero in on the finest key faster.

Amortized MIPS reflects a change in how retrieval can be approached whenever query distributions are known ongoing — a average circumstance in manufacturing ML systems. By encoding MIPS solutions immediately into network weights, the method trades a one-time training (so-called amortization) disbursal for fast, lightweight conclusion and opens a applicable way toward learned retrieval systems explicitly tailored to the queries they serve.

Maximum inner merchandise hunt (MIPS) is a crucial subroutine in device learning, requiring the acknowledgment of a vector taken inside a repository (the keys) that finest aligns alongside a stated query. We propose amortized MIPS: a regression-based method that trains neural networks to immediately foretell MIPS solutions, amortizing the disbursal of often solving MIPS for queries drawn from a known allocation complete a fixed key database. Our key understanding is…

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Alex Karp says he's a lifelong Democrat — and Palantir's products are 'essentially progressive'

support@mycoding.id (Henry Chandonnet) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:49:31 +0700

Finn Gomez/Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated that he's been a Democrat his entire life.

After the "blunami," Alex Karp is talking up his ties to the Democrats.

The Palantir CEO formerly described wokeness as a "thin pagan religion" and called Democrats irresponsible and childish. Meanwhile, he praised President Donald Trump as a model for entrepreneurs.

In a Wednesday discussion with Politico — Business Insider's sister business — Karp reaffirmed his left-leaning politics.

"I've been a Democrat my entire life," Karp told Politico. "I cognize additional concerning being a advancing than nearly anybody on the planet, and I entirely accept Palantir — all of our products are basically progressive."

Karp has lengthy called himself an "unhappy Democrat," criticizing the two what he calls the "Mamdani wing" and the "woke right."

Karp continued to condemn the Democratic Socialists of America in the interview. He stated that they "gaslight Jews and segregate Blacks."

The declaration may astonishment onlookers who cognize Palantir for its immigration implementation platform, the so-called "ImmigrationOS." The business has lengthy been criticized for its endeavor alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Palantir's activity alongside ICE has sparked protests and sowed internal division.

In the Politico interview, Karp stated that Trump mishandled his immigration crackdown. "I was really blessed to comprehend the chairman be honest that — you know, his words, I believe, were item like, 'Yeah, we kinda went too far,'" he said.

The Palantir CEO tied it rear to financial fairness — and the future of capitalism.

Democrats aren't beholden to the condemnation that capitalism volition resolve all problems, Karp said. "Maybe that was formerly true. I never idea it was true. It's certainly not true now."

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:38:44 +0700

Published on 10 Nov 2026 by mbacarella

A war narrative from Jane Street's systems team: a false fume alarm, a datacenter alongside no cooling, and a sprint to drag all power cord before the sprinklers went off

AI disclosure: this narrative was written entirely by individual hands, alongside AI doing proof-reading and ray edits. Some elegant imperfections kept to enhance Wabi-Sabi effect.

Everyone’s heard of how notable Jane Street is. Fewer group have heard concerning the times item foolish nearly put it out of endeavor and it was saved by grit and dumb luck. I was on the systems squad for several of those. Jane Street didn’t do titles, and we on the systems squad weren’t complete getting our hands dirty. You could think of us as the firm’s blue-collar OCaml programmers: whenever item broke, we were the ones operating through the corridors to fix it. Call this narrative a Star Trek: Lower Decks perspective of Jane Street.

For the longest period Jane Street insisted on having its device area near to its selling floor. When it was 10 group it was cute. When it was 150 group it was starting to feel… odd. Part of the logic for this was intelligent asset concern: they didn’t desire to hazard having their servers taken by spies who would study their precious selling strategies. Another logic was innovation risk: they wanted to create certain out-of-control automated selling systems could continually be close downward by operating throughout the hall and pulling power cables.

Yes, tools existed to mitigate the two of these fears. But Jane Street moved irritatingly gradually on this stuff, and they motionless wanted the last-resort choice of yanking power cords. Their hazard civilization didn’t exclusively arrive from study heady thinkpieces. A lot of it was instilled by a partner who’d served on a nuclear submarine, and it showed, mostly in a fine way! On a sub, you don’t rely the automation unless there’s a big red-painted, mechanically connected lever you can drag to rotate it off.

As the business grew this humble device area was built out into a respectably sizable datacenter, complete alongside an online UPS, Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) units, refrigerator-sized network switches, a subterranean diesel backup generator and concerning 10 rows of server cabinets, 10 cabinets deep. Oh, and it was all crammed into the center of a skyscraper called 1 New York Plaza, which was alternatively fair a normal agency building.

When I archetypal landed my job at Jane Street I was commuting to the southernmost tip of Manhattan all of the way from Queens, an hr or additional all way. I’d gone to a magnet elevated academy in the city, so I’d been doing commutes akin that since I was a teenager, and I was tired of it.

Now that I was making big Wall Street prosperity I decided I’d get an apartment. A genuine asset delegate kept trying to display me what they called “panty droppers”, but I was lone curious in one thing: proximity to the office. I ended up in a 200 quadrate ft studio that was a 9 infinitesimal commute on ft from my flat entrance to my array on the selling floor. I would weirdly boast concerning it to the remainder of the systems team, but it additionally meant everyone at the agency knew I was a stone’s throw distant in case there was an emergency.

And that day came shortly enough. One evening following work, fair as I was concerning to ascend into the elevator at my flat building, my phone rang. It was our Hong Kong office, and whenever Hong Kong had a New York problem, quarry was (now) the figure they called. The fume alert in our NYC datacenter had gone off.

We had contractors operating on a prep area next to the datacenter. While cutting into stuff, several powder was kicked up and it set off the fume alarm. This is bad, but not for the logic you power think. Office buildings have sprinklers in them for blaze suppression. You may have seen it go off in movies anywhere person fair holds a lit cigaret up to the sprinkler on the ceiling and it floods the complete room. In actuality they’re not fairly that dumb, but it’s close.

Firstly, the sprinklers complete a device area akin ours normally aren’t kept complete of h2o all of the time. This saves you from having to agreement alongside any leaks that power create overhead complete the years. Secondly, the sprinkler heads don’t have fume sensors. Instead, a distinct scheme detects the smoke, and that’s whenever the pipes inhabit alongside pressurized water, but they don’t spray yet. What triggers the spray is heat: all sprinkler caput has its own heat-sensitive plug, which opens formerly the air about it becomes hot enough. The logic is that the fume alert must be real, any blaze triggered it hasn’t been brought under authority since it’s gotten extremely hot, and the sprinklers should douse it alongside water.

Of course, the ceiling of our datacenter was complete of sprinklers set up exactly this way. We’re motionless fine since equal although contractors power have set the fume detector off by kicking up dust, there’s no genuine blaze producing heat, so the sprinklers wouldn’t spray, right? Well, no. One final part of this contraption is that if the fume alert detects smoke, it would be entirely awful to keep circulating air through the area since that would assistance nourish any fires, so the fume alert is wired to close downward the CRAC units(!)

Can you see the issue now? Rooms complete of device racks have elevated cooling demands. If you close downward the cooling, the heat starts climbing. If you have a bunch of sprinklers that have fair rotate into pressurized since of a fume alarm, you now have a serious, possibly business-ending issue on your hands.

And so my goal was made clear: as accelerated as I perchance could, get rear to Jane Street, enter the device room, and drag the power cord on all equipment in that area before the heat climbed former 150 F and the sprinklers destroyed everything.

I ran downward the (ironically named) Water Street in the Financial District faster than likely anyone has always run downward it, mashed the elevator clasp in the lobby of 1 NYP, waited extremely impatiently for the elevator to ascend the 33 floors, slammed my keycard against the reader, booked through the chief agency door, took a difficult correct rotate to the device area door, slammed my keycard against that, stepped into what felt akin a sauna and went row by row, cupboard by cabinet, yanking power cables out alongside the two hands.

Then I watched the heat monitor. 141 F. 142. 143. 143.5. 143.6. Finally it stopped. A quiescent I’d never heard before set in on the device room.

The device area had been kept throughout the hall so that person could continually run in and drag the power cords. I doubt anyone had pictured doing it to preserve the servers from the goddamn sprinklers.

Since the important NYC markets were closed for the day, the downtime from this fiasco was minimal, and we were up and operating the next morning.

There were a brace of meetings following that. You power image Gordon Gekko coldly deciding whose occupation was over, but meetings at Jane Street were never akin that. They were matter-of-fact, level-headed and honestly benevolent of fun, nearer to engineering students in a university dorm arguing complete what went wrong. The outcome of all that level-headed discussion: the sprinklers would stay, we would tighten up procedures and surveillance, and we would continue hosting servers in our agency construction correct next to our selling floor. That is, until Hurricane Sandy smacked us upside the head, but that’s a narrative for another day.

As for me, whenever the next dawn came about I knew what had to be done. Our Hong Kong squad had lone caught the issue by luck: person happened to see on a display that server following server was popping up a climbing heat condition. No one server was configured to vigilant fair since it was a small hot, since that happens from period to time. But an throughout the commission addition in heat on many servers method there’s a generalized cooling failure.

What we needed was a scheme detect built for this exact purpose, one we could rely to be ultimately, unfailingly dependable at the project of asking all Linux server for its heat and computing a uncomplicated mean. Bash wouldn’t cut it for this. Nor would Perl. No, a job of this dimension called for the most dependable and type-safe programming tongue imaginable. So I fired up emacs and wrote it in fine old OCaml: all minute, ask all server in all location immediately for the heat from its onboard sensors, obtain the average, and if it’s elevated, blast an vigilant out to everyone on the systems squad to inspect for datacenter overheat.

Yes, we could have additionally alerted if the CRAC units close downward or if a dedicated heat sensor in the area was high, but the telemetry for this material was nowhere near as reliable, and unidentified unknowns can motionless ruin you, so the most durable item sometimes really is to ask your fleet of Linux boxes for their heat and freak out if the average is fair a small too high.

Our squad didn’t engage much alongside the partner alongside the nuclear sub experience, but I’d akin to think he would have approved.

Why aren't we shipping faster now?

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:33:28 +0700

21 minutes, alongside captions. Also on YouTube.

Cha, Badea, Baym, Bird, Butler, Murphy-Hill, Hadley. The Activity-Outcome Gap: Why AI Does Not Solve Software Engineering. In submission, 2026. The 30 interviews; a nexus volition appear current whenever the document is public.

Demirer, Musolff, Yang. Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools. NBER Working Paper 35275, 2026. nber.org/papers/w35275

Choudhuri, Butler, Bird, Badea, Houck, Sarma. “To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before”: What Has AI Let Developers Unlock? 2026. arXiv:2610.23708

Jensen Huang, Computex keynote, Taipei, 29 May 2023, as reported by Reuters.

Yang, He, Cheng, Butler, Murphy-Hill, Badea, Bird. (When) Should a Software Factory Be Lights-Off? Benchmarking Code Review Agents on Bug Detection. 2026. arXiv:2610.13668

Choudhuri, Bird, Badea, Gerosa, Sarma. You Shall Not Pass! Where and Why Developers Draw the Line on AI Autonomy. 2026. arXiv:2607.00533

Miller, Choudhuri, Ulloa, Haniyur, DeLine, Storey, Murphy-Hill, Bird, Butler. “Maybe We Need Some More Examples”: Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use. ICSE 2026. arXiv:2507.21280

'GTA 6' Runs Best on This Console

support@mycoding.id (Jake Peterson) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:32:51 +0700

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His squad covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, equivalent consoles, and subscriptions.

Grand Theft Auto 6 power fair be the most anticipated equivalent of all time. It's been 13 years since Rockstar dropped GTA 5, and following years of rumors, leaks, and authoritative announcements, the sixth mainstream installment in the sequence is nearly here. In fact, anyone who pre-ordered the equivalent digitally can now pre-load it onto their console, if you desire to justify you're prepared to perform the second the equivalent comes out.

Now, few of us volition buy a equivalent console specifically for GTA 6—unless you don't already have a current-generation PlayStation or Xbox. (The PC type of the equivalent isn't expected until at smallest first 2027.) But, as it turns out, there's one particular console that can run GTA 6 improved than the rest.

The PS5 Pro is apparently the finest way to cognition "GTA 6"

Rockstar confirmed as much in a article on Tuesday, which was meant to dispersed the news concerning pre-loading the game. But, interestingly, it spurred a conversation concerning the achievement of the equivalent itself, as fine as which consoles are finest to run it.

No matter which console you perform GTA 6 on, Rockstar says that the equivalent volition lone mark 30 fps (frames per second). That's decided dilatory for a mainstream equivalent in 2026. GTA 5 also shipped at 30 fps in 2013, but newer consoles can run it at higher example rates. In fact, most games that initiate on the latest generation of consoles can run at 60 fps, if not higher. While it's certainly not a dealbreaker, it is engaging that Rockstar's latest equivalent can't run at a faster example charge equal on the PS5 Pro or the Xbox Series X.

To that point, Rockstar called out the PS5 Pro specifically in its post, announcing, "The PlayStation 5 Pro offers stunning visuals, alongside improved clarity through PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) and ray-traced shadows lone accessible on PlayStation 5 Pro."

PSSR is Sony's AI upscaler, akin to options akin DLSS from Nvidia, which uses AI to add additional graphical data to games in genuine time. That allows developers akin Rockstar to run the equivalent at a lesser resolution to preserve on handling power, but motionless boost the visuals to attain a higher perceived resolution. As such, it's not as ideal as operating the equivalent at a higher resolution natively, but it can assistance enhance the visuals without pushing the hardware beyond its limits. Meanwhile, ray-tracing offers realistic lighting effects and can additionally be graphically intense.

While PlayStation and Xbox players alike volition be stuck at 30 fps, it seems lone PS5 Pro gamers volition be capable to perform the equivalent alongside ray-tracing effects and AI upscaling. It's amazing that Xbox Series X players don't have akin benefits, as the hardware is additional mighty than Xbox Series S. Rockstar didn't define why lone the PS5 Pro gets these upgrades.

What do you think so far?

Other console perks for "GTA 6"

In the post, Rockstar additionally announced that the PS5 type of GTA 6 takes advantage of another PlayStation-exclusive perks, akin high-fidelity haptic feedback in the DualSense controller, spatial audio rendering using the PlayStation's Tempest 3D audio, as fine as improved burden times—though Rockstar didn't define what those burden times would be. These perks use to all PS5 consoles, not fair PS5 Pros. Rockstar goes so far as to say that GTA 6 plays finest on PlayStation 5 consoles.

That's not to say that Microsoft's consoles are totally remaining out of the perks. Rockstar says that GTA 6 will be accessible on Xbox Cloud Gaming on the two Xbox Series X and S, as fine as Xbox One. In addition, the two PlayStation and Xbox gamers can perform GTA 6 using Remote Play, so no one has to physically perform on their console if they desire to equivalent on the go.

Again, there's no logic to go out and buy a particular console for GTA 6, so lengthy as you have item that can run the game. After all, PS5 Pros are difficult to find, especially without wildly overpaying. But it's engaging that Rockstar has managed to provision Sony's consoles the additional perks here, particularly since the business hasn't explained why that is.

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I visited West Point to see how the elite military academy blends history with modern Army training. Take a look inside.

support@mycoding.id (Talia Lakritz) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:22:33 +0700

I knew I was in the correct location whenever I saw the container exterior the parking lot.

Established by George Washington in 1778, West Point is the longest continuously garrisoned armed forces facility in the United States. It is additionally residence to the United States Military Academy at West Point, an elite, extremely selective institution that trains forthcoming armed forces leaders.

West Point's storied former remains particularly resonant following America's 250th commemoration ritual in July 2026. Amanda Bundt, tour director at West Point Tours, told Business Insider that West Point "is among the reasons we are a country."

"We were current for all four years of the Revolutionary War fighting for our independence, so we have awesome regard in that aspect," Bundt said.

West Point is an energetic armed forces article and college, but several parts of the evidence are open to the community through guided tours.

I visited West Point in April to study additional concerning its Revolutionary War former and its contemporary syllabus that equips soldiers for war. Take a look.

West Point, located concerning 50 miles north of New York City, played a key function in keeping the British at bay during the Revolutionary War.

A armed forces map showing West Point in 1780. MPI/Getty Images

West Point overlooks the Hudson River, which was the fastest and most dependable method of transporting troops, weapons, food, and another crucial supplies during the war. George Washington knew that controlling the stream was key to America's endurance in the combat against the British. He established his agency there, calling West Point "the most crucial Post in America."

In 1802, Congress authorized the institution of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Sylvanus Thayer, known as the "Father of the Military Academy," became the school's superintendent in 1817 and established a strict code of conduct, rigorous fitness standards, and a standardized curriculum.

Famous graduates contain Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower, erstwhile Chief of Staff of the US Army Douglas MacArthur, and erstwhile CIA board David Petraeus and Mike Pompeo.

Tours of the armed forces academy commencement at the Frederic V. Malek West Point Visitors Center.

The Frederic V. Malek West Point Visitors Center. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

I bought a $22 ticket for the West Point Story tour, which lasts 1 hr and 15 minutes.

While waiting for the tour to begin, I walked through the West Point Experience display that shows what it's akin to be a cadet.

A example of a area in the West Point barracks. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The display featured a example of a area in the West Point barracks, as fine as particulars concerning West Point's history, values, 47-month way of study, and graduation requirements.

To enroll in West Point, cadets must be between the ages of 17 and 23, be unmarried alongside no lawful dependents, continue academic, physical, and medicinal examinations, and be nominated for admission by a associate of Congress or the chairman or vice chairman of the United States. The acceptance charge is about 10%. Once admitted, tuition is free.

Graduates are required to assist in the Army for five years of energetic assistance and three years in the reserves.

When the tour bus pulled up into the parking lot, a personnel associate checked our tickets and IDs.

A West Point tour bus. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Since West Point is an energetic armed forces post, everyone who takes a tour must current a government-issued photo ID to undergo a backdrop check.

Our tour guide told us to keep our phones and cameras out of perspective until we passed through the safety checkpoint.

On the West Point tour bus. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

He additionally gave a rundown of the rules. Photographing cadets? Permitted. Photographing safety gates or armed forces police? Not allowed.

Once we were through the gate, our guide pointed out several of the masonry block homes anywhere West Point instructors live.

Homes anywhere West Point instructors live. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

West Point has 500 instructors, 75% of whom are members of the garrison and are posted there. The another 25% are civilians.

With 4,400 cadets, the student-to-instructor proportion is six-to-one.

The bus took us former Michie Stadium, anywhere West Point's football and lacrosse teams play.

Blaik Field at Michie Stadium. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The outdoor stadium holds 40,000 people.

The evidence of West Point were complete of armed forces statues and monuments, specified as "The American Soldier" by Felix de Weldon.

"The American Soldier," a sculpture by Felix de Weldon. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The sculpture was a current from the classes of 1935 and 1936, honoring enlisted combat soldiers.

Our archetypal halt off the bus was the Cadet Chapel, a non-denominational Protestant adore area built in 1910.

The Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The Gothic Revival chapel was designed by decorator Bertram Goodhue and constructed from granite quarried locally.

The chapel was adorned alongside replicas of battle flags donated as category gifts.

Inside the Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The area can clasp 1,500 people.

The Bibles and hymnals were lined up in the pews alongside armed forces precision.

Bibles and hymnals in the pews of the Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Our tour guide stated we were allowed to appearance through the books as lengthy as we put them rear exactly anywhere we established them.

"Indeed, there is person alongside a wooden commission who measures the area between them and makes certain it's uniform," the West Point tour guide said.

The Cadet Chapel houses the world's largest pipe harmonium in a home of worship, alongside 23,511 pipes.

Organ pipes at the Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The pipes range from the size of one's indicator digit to "thunder pipes" measuring 30 inches in diameter.

A limestone carving of St. Michael, the patron saint of soldiers, was displayed rearward the altar.

A carving of St. Michael, the patron saint of soldiers, inner the Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The carving was donated by the family of West Point alums and erstwhile President Ulysses S. Grant.

The Cadet Chapel's 178 stained-glass windows were designed by Willett Studios, a Philadelphia-based business that attack Tiffany & Co. for the contract.

Stained-glass windows in the Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The Sanctuary Window at the forefront of the chapel features West Point's motto: "Duty, Honor, Country."

A pew at the forefront of the chapel was reserved for West Point's superintendent.

The pew reserved for West Point's superintendent. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Every superintendent's signature, courtship rear to the chapel's founding in 1910, appeared on argent nameplates on the pew.

The current superintendent, Lieutenant General Steven W. Gilland, graduated from West Point in 1990 and is wed to his West Point classmate, Betsy Gilland.

Outside the chapel, we took in stunning views of West Point's chief post, which spans concerning 3,000 acres.

A perspective of West Point from exterior the Cadet Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

West Point additionally features a 13,000-acre armed forces booking alongside rugged terrain used for site training exercises, known as Camp Buckner.

Back on the bus, our tour guide pointed out the West Point Jewish Chapel completed in 1984.

The West Point Jewish Chapel. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

West Point has six chapels and one interfaith religious center.

As we disembarked from the bus at our next stop, Trophy Point, we got one of our archetypal looks at several West Point cadets on their way to class.

Cadets at West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The grey-and-black uniform is the cadets' norm weekday uniform, known as "As For Class." The camouflage uniform worn for site exercises is called the Army Combat Uniform (ACU).

Looking out at the Hudson River, our tour guide explained how West Point was located in a crucial strategic stance during the Revolutionary War.

The Hudson River viewed from West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

West Point is situated complete an "S"-shaped rotate in the river, overlooking the narrowest part of the conduit anywhere the current is at its swiftest. In another words, it's anywhere British ships would be at their most vulnerable.

"Washington knew if those ships were fighting the ebbing tide, the narrow channel, and the swift current, there would be no improved location to fire at them than from West Point," our tour guide said.

To additional fortify the Hudson River, Washington ordered a elephantine sequence strung from one end of its coast to the another as a deterrent.

The Hudson River Chains at Trophy Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The sequence stretched 1,700 feet, weighed 65 tons, and took 270 men to anchor it in place. It successfully deterred the British from attacking West Point.

Instead, the British attempted to obtain West Point by another means, colluding alongside the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, who was placed in command there in 1780. When Arnold's storyline to surrender West Point to the British was exposed, he evaded grasp and defected to the British army.

While learning concerning West Point's Revolutionary War history, two helicopters roared former in a reminder of its contemporary armed forces significance.

Helicopters flew complete West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The West Point tour guide guessed that the helicopters may have been used for air assault training, in which soldiers rappel from a chopper during it hovers 50 feet off the ground.

Further alongside at Trophy Point, our guide pointed out the Trophy Point Amphitheater, anywhere graduating classes obtain their category rings.

Trophy Point Amphitheater. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The tradition of West Point category rings dates rear to 1835.

Each year, aureate from rings donated by former West Point graduates is melted downward and unified into the outgoing class's rings.

Sedgwick Monument holds particular importance to West Point Cadets.

Sedgwick Monument. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

This statue of Major General John Sedgwick, nicknamed "Lucky John," is stated to bring fine fortune to cadets who sneak out following curfew in their attire uniforms to rotation the spurs on his boots the night before exams.

Across the parade ground, we could see the Jefferson Library, completed in 2008.

Jefferson Library at West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The archive is named for President Thomas Jefferson, who was chairman whenever the United States Military Academy at West Point was founded in 1802.

Washington Hall houses West Point's disorder hall, which feeds all 4,400 cadets in under 25 minutes.

Washington Hall. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

In West Point's dining hall, a squad of complete 200 cooks serves additional than 13,000 meals per day.

Mealtimes at West Point characteristic distinctive etiquette rules. Cadets row up in arrangement before the meal and march into the hall. Plebes, or freshmen, are in accusation of environment the array and flowing h2o for the upperclassmen.

On the another flank of the parade ground, the superintendent lives at Quarters 100, a residence built in 1820.

Quarters 100 at West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The historic residence spans 16,600 quadrate feet.

Trophy Point additionally featured a putting green.

A putting green at West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

West Point features an 18-hole athletics way open to the public.

On the bus rear to the Visitors Center, we passed Lincoln Hall, which houses classrooms.

Lincoln Hall. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Lincoln Hall currently houses the English and Philosophy and Social Sciences departments, the Combating Terrorism Center, and the Office for Economic and Manpower Analysis, but is undergoing renovations.

Cullum Hall is an alum construction alongside a expansive ballroom.

Cullum Hall. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Cullum Hall was designed by decorator Stanford White, who designed the Washington Square Arch in New York City, in 1898.

West Point Club, another event venue, featured a semicircular partition of windows overlooking the Hudson River.

West Point Club. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Members of the community can additionally publish events at the West Point Club.

When it was built in 1911, Thayer Hall was the world's largest indoor riding arena.

Thayer Hall. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

"In 1959, they repurposed it as a classroom construction and an agency building, but the cadets say on a hot day, they can motionless odor the horses," our tour guide said.

We caught a concise glance of the new Cyber and Engineering Academic Center that is under building before returning to the Visitors Center.

Construction of West Point's Cyber and Engineering Academic Center. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The construction volition home the departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Systems Engineering.

"Cyber war is the latest item in national defense, so West Point's getting ready," our guide said.

After the tour ended, I stopped at the West Point Museum, anywhere I saw artifacts akin President Dwight D. Eisenhower's armed forces uniform.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's armed forces uniform at the West Point Museum. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915.

The West Point tour offered a blend of US former and contemporary Army education, providing a fascinating appearance into the past, present, and forthcoming of America's military.

Abrams Gate at West Point. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Evidence of West Point's distinguished former and unbroken lineage, known as "The Long Gray Line," was apparent at all turn.

While admiring a perspective of the Hudson River and the surrounding mountains, my regard was drawn up to a particularly striking tree alongside the sidewalk. Above its enormous trunk, its knarled branches had begun to angiosperm alongside fountain blooms. Then I noticed the plaque. It was a current from the category of 1888.

This $14 Billion Tech Company Is Giving All of Its 7,000 Employees a Day Off to Play Video Games

support@mycoding.id (Sherin Shibu) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:21:33 +0700

Key Takeaways

Logitech is giving all of its 7,000 workforce a depart to perform video games through its new “Logi Game Day” initiative.
Everyone from full-time personnel to interns can act and choose their own game.
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber is challenging the idea that gaming wastes time, stating alternatively that perform can assistance achievement at work.

Forget concerning the meetings and the deadlines. Pick up a gaming controller instead.

A day spent playing video games normally method taking period distant from work. Now at Logitech, that period distant is company-approved.

The $14 billion tech business is giving its complete workforce a elastic depart to perform video games, including the extremely anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, which comes out on November 19.

Logitech’s new undertaking is called “Logi Game Day,” and it gives all employee, including interns, the chance to obtain one paid depart to play a game. Workers can choose a day that plant finest for them, from now until this period next year.

The undertaking marks the archetypal gaming day in the company’s history, per a business press release. It saves workforce the hassle of using a ill day for gaming.

“It’s period to quit the stereotype that gaming is a discarded of time,” Hanneke Faber, Logitech’s CEO, stated in the release. “As a business designing products for activity and play, we see all day how involvement in one domain supports achievement in the other. ”

Celebrating Game Day in the office

Employees can equal perform video games in the office. Logitech’s gaming brand, Logitech G, revealed this week that it volition initiate a streaming event to commemorate Game Day. The event volition obtain location at the company’s Americas agency in San Jose on November 19. Robin Piispanen, Logitech G’s broad director and a erstwhile rivalrous gamer, volition act as the event host.

“Whether diving into a equivalent akin GTA VI or Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, shaving seconds off lap times in Forza, or teaming up in an online battle, Game Day gives our squad a shared purpose,” Piispanen stated in a media publish statement. “We see firsthand how Logitech workforce who sharpen their skills in-game translate immediately rear to activity and problem-solving.”

Faber herself plans to perform Grand Theft Auto VI whenever it comes out. She volition caput into Logitech headquarters, which volition change into a completely armed gaming lounge that day.

“I’m prepared for several fun and (friendly) competition,” she stated in an discussion alongside Fortune.

Other executives celebrated the decision to recommendation a depart for gaming.

“Play is not the contrary of work,” Elaine Laird, Logitech’s chief group officer, stated in a media release. “When group have dedicated period to log off, decompress and immerse themselves in play, they come back alongside clearer focus, renewed energy and caller approaches to complex challenges.”

Research conducted by the business backs up these claims. In Logitech’s latest Ctrl Tomorrow study, 81% of gamers stated playing helps build real-world confidence and enhance activity performance. A separate study conducted by the business in August established that 98.8% of respondents stated gaming skills had a straightforward association to office abilities akin problem-solving.

Here's What We Know About Amazon's Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2026 Sales

support@mycoding.id (Daniel Oropeza) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:18:22 +0700

Gone are the days whenever holiday revenue had a resolute commencement and end. These days, if you're not scouring the net weeks before the genuine date of the event, you volition young female out on deals. Black Friday is no exception. Amazon released its official Black Friday and Cyber Monday plans for its sale, but there's plenty that's discounted already, many reaching or matching their lowest cost ever—we know, since we use tools to verify and track their deals.

When volition Amazon's Black Friday transaction officially start?

Amazon is treating Black Friday and Cyber Monday akin one lengthy sale. The authoritative transaction kicks off at 12:01 a.m. PST on Nov. 19 and runs through Nov. 30.

Do you need to be a Prime Member to shop during the Cyber Monday sales?

Yes, you volition need to be a Prime Member to shop the exclusive revenue during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Prime affiliation starts at $14.99 per month. While lone you can decide if purchasing a yearly Prime affiliation is value it for you, recall you can continually sign up and afterward cancel your Prime membership formerly the transaction is over: Amazon offers a free 30-day trial, so you can shop during the two Black Friday and Cyber Monday before canceling without being charged. Here's how to sign up for a Prime account and all of the benefits that arrive alongside it.

What benevolent of deals can you anticipate during the 2026 Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales?

This year, Amazon says you can anticipate "millions" of deals throughout categories akin electronics, beauty, fashion, toys, home, and additional from brands akin Medicube, Le Creuset, HP, Google, and Stanley. There volition additionally be limited-time deals of up to 60% off that volition autumn at midnight and 8 a.m. PST on the two Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here are several another deals Amazon says you can expect:

Amazon devices

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Some of the finest first Black Friday deals

As stated already, fair since the transaction hasn't officially started, that doesn't average you can't discover awesome deals. You can prosecute all of our Black Friday safety here. Here are several of the finest deals we've established so far:

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How can I inform if an Amazon Black Friday agreement is really good?

Not all Black Friday deals are as fine as they power seem. Unfortunately, Amazon is known to manipulate prices to trick you, but there are tools at your disposal you can use to see if the deals are really fine or not. If that seems akin too much work, you can fair prosecute our Black Friday coverage (we're already doing all the searching and vetting for you). Some other tips are making certain you're not being sold an older or cheaper version, and to continually peruse reviews.

Is Amazon cheaper than Walmart or Best Buy on Black Friday?

As far as volume, Amazon volition normally attack Walmart and Best Buy in most cases, but most flagship products volition apt be the identical cost in all three retailers. However, don't sleep on Walmart or Best Buy. There are normally a brace of amazing deals that attack Amazon (although Amazon normally matches the agreement eventually).

What another retailers are doing Black Friday sales?

The another important retailers doing revenue are Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. Currently, Best Buy is offering among the largest Cyber Week sales, alongside new deals accessible all Friday. Target has several week-long deals and a Deal of the Day. Nowadays, the two ample retailers and small businesses vie for Cyber Monday shoppers, so you can anticipate practically all shop to run revenue through Monday, Nov. 30, 2026.

What do you think so far?

Some tips for a prosperous Black Friday alongside Amazon

If this volition be your archetypal Black Friday buying at Amazon, there are several essential things you need to cognize concerning Amazon sales:

You can share your Prime affiliation alongside family members equal if they don't live alongside you.
You can set cost alerts for products you want and your Alexa devices can notify you whenever they go on sale.
There are normally several invite-only deals that you can sign up for.
There are tools you can use to see if the deal you're looking at is worthwhile or not.

But if you lone obtain one bit of direction for buying on Amazon, let it be this one: Don't buy item you weren't going to buy anyway. A fine way to create certain you do this is by making a catalog of the products you do want, and lone having eyes for those.

Are Black Friday deals improved than Cyber Monday?

Black Friday used to be bigger for important retailers and additional costly tech and appliances, during Cyber Monday was for cheaper tech and gave smaller businesses a chance to vie online. Nowadays, though, the difference is nearly meaningless. Every important retailer volition recommendation revenue on the two days, and the astute move is to cognize what you want, use cost trackers or mention to guides akin our live blog that use cost trackers for you, and don’t emphasis complete finding the ideal timing.

Does Amazon have Black Friday deals?

Yes, Amazon has Black Friday sales, but prices aren’t continually what they seem. Use a cost tracker to create certain you’re getting the finest deal, or mention to guides akin our live blog that use cost trackers for you. And if you have an Amazon Prime membership, create the most of it.

What stores have the finest revenue on Black Friday?

Nowadays, the two ample retailers and small businesses vie for Black Friday shoppers, so you can anticipate practically all shop to run revenue through Monday, Nov. 30, 2026. The “best” revenue depend on your needs, but in general, the biggest discounts lean to arrive from larger retailers who can oversee lesser prices: Think places akin Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and Home Depot. You can discover all the finest revenue from important retailers on our Black Friday coverage.

Are Black Friday deals value it?

In short, yes, Black Friday motionless offers discounts that you're small apt to see throughout the remainder of the year. If there’s item you desire to buy, or you’re buying for gifts, it’s a fine period to appearance for discounts on what you need, particularly tech sales, residence betterment supplies, and fitness tech.

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Google is letting staff test a 'fast' new Gemini AI model named Hydrogen

support@mycoding.id (Hugh Langley) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:08:13 +0700

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Finn Gomez/Getty Images

Google's Gemini 4 era is completely in its element.

Following the publish of its Gemini 4 Argon and Carbon models, Google has been internally evaluation a new example that is designed for speed and efficiency. The new example is known internally as Hydrogen, according to an inner communication seen by Business Insider.

In a communication to personnel this week, a Google engineer described Hydrogen as "very capable, accelerated and efficient." Staff were stated admission to Hydrogen in Google's inner betterment platform, known as Jetski, which frequently pre-empts a community launch.

An employee who has used Hydrogen described it to Business Insider as akin to Google's former Flash models, which are positioned as workhorse models designed to be faster and additional cost-effective than models akin Argon. As the lightest component in the periodic table, Hydrogen would be a fitting name.

After Google delayed and afterward ultimately canceled the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro before this year, many considered the business to have fallen rearward in the competition for the most advanced AI models, known as the frontier.

Google has since roared rear to existence alongside the initiate of its Gemini 4 family. On Tuesday, it announced the rollout of its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, which it says is strongest for cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks that necessitate multiple steps. However, the two Carbon and Argon are currently constricted to paying users.

It's not immediately apparent whether Hydrogen, if released, would be a paid or liberated offering. Google offers another Flash models for liberated in its Gemini app.

It additionally comes as competition between the top AI companies continues heating up. On Monday, Anthropic announced new models in its Fable and Mythos lines that it stated were additional capable at finding cybersecurity flaws and designing bodily hardware.

Google declined to comment on the record.

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The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:05:18 +0700

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* Get it? get the joke?

Gitori's Find the Notes game challenges users to discover a stated note in a highlighted area of the fretboard. Over the final 3 years, the equivalent has been played by complete 10,000 people, and I've collected 275,169 distinct data points on note identification. Based on that data, I have a heatmap of the hardest notes to acknowledge on the fretboard. Reds are the hardest and greens are the easiest.

Summary of findings

The high center of the neck is hardest. The G cord at frets 6 to 9 is the red zone, alongside the B and D strings at frets 7 to 9 near behind. The sole worst spot, the G cord at fret 8 (E♭), is answered incorrectly concerning one-third of the time.

F♯

A♭

B♭

C♯

E♭

B♭

F♯

The edges are easiest. The low E cord is the easiest string, afterward the elevated E. Open strings and the 12th fret are missed concerning 6% of the time, against approximately 20% about frets 8 and 9.

E♭

Sharps and flats are harder. What a shocker! 😜 About 16% of answers on accidentals are wrong, against 12% on natural notes, and equal the accurate ones obtain concerning 11% longer to discover (roughly 2.5 seconds against 2.2). F♯, B♭, A♭ and E♭ are the hardest note names; E is the easiest.

Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:00:50 +0700

Give your delegate genuine brushes. klad is a 2D artwork and animation app you portion alongside a coding agent. You coat in the publishing company alongside a pen. The delegate paints through the klad command line, alongside the identical brushes, on the identical drawing, and all of you sees the other's strokes instantly.

There is no depiction example in klad. Your delegate (Claude Code, Codex, item that can run commands) decides what to paint; klad gives it brushes, layers and a timeline. Whatever either of you puts downward stays what it was: a blow alongside its path, pressure, broom and colour, a form alongside its points, a inhabit alongside its region. So there's no rerolling and expecting for the best: if one leaf looks off, you fix that leaf.

Asked for "a small shoot animal for my game", the delegate paints 4,344 strokes and fills. You alter them: recolour the leaves, curve the mouth, move a smudge, blend the blush. Then the delegate animates it: the creature's parts go into five groups, 205 keys move them, and no example is painted again.

Drawings made alongside Claude Fable 5.2: the creature, the environment and the prop kit were painted blow by blow through the klad command line.

Site and guides: klad.studio, alongside these drawings replayed blow by stroke.
Licence: source-available, not open source. Free to build and use for yourself, and inner a business alongside small than 500,000 euros a twelvemonth in revenue. See Licence.
Runs on: macOS (pen force and tilt). It additionally builds and passes its tests on Linux and Windows, checked on all change; the publishing company starts on Linux alongside the mouse for now, and nobody has drawn alongside it on Windows yet.
Status: early. This is the archetypal community version, and you build it yourself: see From source.

Why not fair create the picture?

An depiction generator hands you pixels, and the lone edit remaining is another rotate of the dice. klad keeps all blow and all inhabit as data: anywhere it went, how difficult it was pressed, its broom and its colour. Pick any of them hours later, yours or the agent's, and recolour it, curve it, move it or delete it.

It's paint, not fair vectors. A blow keeps its way and force akin a vector does, and motionless lands as paint. Loaded oil leaves ridges that capture the light, and smudge drags the coat already on the layer. The smudge stays a blow too: move it afterward and klad blends it again anywhere it lands.
It can additionally do fair vectors. Shapes alongside editable points, gradients, glows and genuine content in concerning fifty open fonts that arrive alongside it, for posters, covers and cards.
It's a complete artwork and animation app. Two dozen brushes and a broom editor, layers, masks, clipping, effects, a timeline alongside bulb skins and clips, in-betweens made from your key drawings, bones alongside IK, and exports as PNGs, sprite sheets or direct into Godot.
Your drawings remain yours. A example is a directory of plain records on your computer, and klad needs no account. It lone looks for a new type formerly a day, and you can rotate that off. An edit changes lone the records of what it edits, so drawings live fine in git.

Ask. Tell your delegate what the example needs, in plain words: a lantern for the inn, lit from the left, on its own layer.
Watch. It paints through the klad command line, and its strokes display up in your publishing company concerning a second later.
Point. Pin a note on the canvas or choose the part you average ("more moss on this side"). The delegate says both.
Take over. Repaint any you akin by hand, the agent's strokes as much as your own. Its strokes are marked as its own and all alter is one stage in a shared history, so you can undo any of it.

The immediate to commencement alongside is under Try it. klad accomplishment prints the delegate accomplishment in docs/skill/SKILL.md: how to appearance at a drawing, alter it and inspect the result. A second one, klad accomplishment example (docs/skill/drawing/SKILL.md), teaches the craft: preparedness a picture, ray on form, values, edges, colour, materials and how to fairness the result. Both are MIT, so use them alongside any delegate and any tool. Open the example to observe and diagram along:

What an delegate paints depends on the delegate and on how much you steer it. The skills instruct it the tool and several craft; the pen in your hand does the rest.

For developers: the example is data

Everything you can do in the publishing company has a klad command too, so a manuscript or an delegate plant on the identical example you have open. It says strokes as JSON, changes any of them by its location and applies batches of edits as JSON ops.

To	In the editor	From a manuscript or an agent
Paint	B and a pen alongside pressure	klad blow art.klad l4 --brush oil --path 'M100 400 C 300 200 500 600 700 400'
Change a blow later	S to choice it, afterward recolour, resize or move; A bends its path	klad set art.klad c4:s12 size=3.5 color=#3355aa
Read what is there	Point at it alongside S	klad strokes art.klad l4 --json
Flat colour	G, filling against the lines layer	klad inhabit art.klad l2 --at 820,640 --ref lines --gap 4 --color skin
Point at something	N pins a note, S selects	klad notes art.klad, klad choice art.klad
In-betweens	The in-between window	klad inbetween art.klad --layers lines,colour --from 0 --to 6
Export	cmd E, or export to Godot from a clip	klad export art.klad --godot ../game/art
Undo	cmd Z, or the History pane	klad undo art.klad

The document format is documented downward to the byte under the MIT licence (docs/format.md), so another apps and engines can peruse and compose klad drawings alongside or without klad.

Props, characters, backgrounds and frame-by-frame animation. Draw the key poses and klad makes the drawings in between, part by part; it checks the arcs (a ft that slides, a part that sinks under the ground), colours all example from the archetypal one, and exports sprite sheets or a Godot SpriteFrames environment alongside all clip's timing.

klad inbetween creature.klad --layers lines,colour --from 3 --to 5 --spacing in-out klad arcs creature.klad --track 'lines:near leg' --clip stroll --check klad export creature.klad --godot ../game/art

git copy https://github.com/klad-app/klad && cd klad just compile # concerning ten minutes the archetypal time target/release/klad open # on Linux: target/linux/release/klad open

Then let your delegate paint

Put klad on your path, for you and for your agent: target/release/klad instal (on Linux target/linux/release/klad install; on a Mac it may ask for your password).
Start your coding delegate (Claude Code, Codex, or item alternatively that can run commands) in the directory anywhere the example should go, and paste:

Run klad accomplishment and klad accomplishment example and peruse what they print. Then create scene.klad and coat a night scene: a hooded traveller holding a lantern out to a ruined arch, a small animal following, flat shaded and lit by the lantern.
Once it has made scene.klad, open it in another terminal to observe the strokes land, and diagram along: klad open scene.klad.
Then steer it. Press N to pin a note on the canvas ("more moss on this side") and inform the delegate to peruse your notes, or choice any blow alongside S and alter it yourself.

Every build holds the klad command row tool, the editor, the fonts, the licences, the delegate accomplishment and six example drawings to appearance at and diagram on (the commencement opening shows them; klad samples lists them and copies one out). The archetypal commencement offers archetypal steps: diagram a shape, inhabit it and hand the example to an agent. The guides in docs/guide/ display how to paint, select, fill, animate, rig and export in the editor, one formula at a time, starting alongside Getting started.

Building takes concerning ten minutes the archetypal time.

Install Rust alongside rustup and just (brew instal just, or cargo instal just). On Linux additionally pkg-config, libfreetype-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, libxkbcommon-dev and libwayland-dev.
git copy https://github.com/klad-app/klad && cd klad, afterward fair compile makes klad and klad-editor for the device you are on, in target/release/ (on Linux in target/linux/release/). What you build is for your own use, or your company's if it had small than 500,000 euros in income final twelvemonth (see Licence).
target/release/klad open starts the publishing company on its commencement window: create a example and commencement painting, or obtain archetypal steps (Help > First steps in the editor).
target/release/klad instal puts klad on your terminal's path, for you and for agents (the editor's document list has the identical as "install the klad command").
just samples builds the example drawings in samples/ (a lantern, a strolling creature, a operating courier, an underground ruin, an inn sign, a tree, a meadow, painted solids, a basin of lemons and the identical painted complete alongside brushwork, a bouncing ball, ink examples); open one alongside target/release/klad open samples/lantern/lantern.klad. The six listed in samples/shipped.json display in the commencement opening and go into all build (packaging/samples.sh).
On a Mac, fair app makes klad.app and a disk depiction in dist/; fair dist packs this machine's build as an archive. Each device builds for itself: a Mac builds the Mac version, Linux the Linux one.

You build it yourself. There are no installers yet. Signed builds for macOS, Windows and Linux are planned, under the identical licence as the source; leave your email on klad.studio to comprehend whenever they are ready.
The publishing company is made on a Mac. On Linux it starts and you diagram alongside the mouse: tablets provision no force there yet. On Windows it builds and its tests pass, but nobody has drawn alongside it there, so inform us what you see.
Some example basics are missing: selecting multiple shapes at once, align and distribute, snapping, a grid, and SVG import and export.
Bones are a preview: their commands may motionless change.
Drawings keep beginning as klad changes: a new format type comes alongside a migration.

docs/format.md: the document format of a drawing, adequate to peruse and compose one from any program.
docs/cli.md: all command alongside its options (klad --help prints the same).
crates/client: klad-client, a small Rust crate that runs klad commands, applies edits as JSON ops and says drawings back.
docs/DESIGN.md: how klad is built: the CLI, the broom engine, rendering, the editor, the dependencies.
CONTRIBUTING.md: building, testing, the code rules and how to dispatch a change.
samples/: generators that create drawings from scratch, the finest location to see the ops in use.

just build # publish build of the klad CLI and the editor just test # all test, and the drawkit check just lint # rustfmt and clippy, warnings as errors just audit # licences, RustSec advisories, sources, and the notices are current just samples # build the example drawings

klad is source-available, not open source, copyright Indicode BV.

The app, definition everything not listed in the next point, is under the PolyForm Internal Use License 1.0.0 alongside three additional permissions and one bounds (LICENSE): you may use it for your own individual purposes, construction it from origin liberated of charge, as fine as inner your company; you may dispatch changes to Indicode BV to propose them as contributions; and the drawings you create alongside it are yours to share, alongside the broom settings and pictures klad copies into them. The limit: a business (counted alongside the companies it controls or is controlled by) that had 500,000 euros or additional in income in its final tax twelvemonth needs a bought licence for all individual who uses klad for it. You may build it and alter it for those uses; you may not allocate it, from origin or as a build.
Buying a build, on itch.io, Steam or from Indicode BV, gets you that bought licence, and the build is licensed under these identical terms: one licence for the origin and the builds, alongside no distinct end-user licence.
These records are under the MIT License (LICENSE-MIT), so any program or delegate can activity alongside klad drawings: docs/format.md (the document format), docs/cli.md (the command reference), docs/skill/ (the delegate skills) and crates/client/ (the klad-client crate).
Contributions are licensed to Indicode BV for inclusion in klad and in its sold builds, under the contributor licence accord (CLA.md); see CONTRIBUTING.md.

klad is built on open origin libraries, fonts and Skia; their licences are in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, additionally shown by klad licences and in the editor's About window.

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