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WIRED | Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01
Jeremy White · 11m ago · 7 min read
Following a viral rebrand and two years without selling a new vehicle, the British marque takes the covers off the most divisive electric car yet seen.
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arXiv.org | UniEvo-VL: An On-policy Self-Distillation Training Recipe for Multimodal Model Self-improvement
1h ago · 3 min read
Modern multimodal models bring generation and understanding into a single unified system, which enables them to provide and learn from their own feedback. Motivated by this unified capacity, we introduce UniEvo-VL, a self-evolving framework for multimodal models to learn from this constructive self-correction feedback during test-time compute. Instead of ...
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ScienceDaily | Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
15h ago · 12 min read
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also helped prevent osteoarthritis after ACL-like knee injuries, while human cartilage taken from knee replacement patients began producing new, functional joint...
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Hacker News | State of Devs 2026
49m ago · 9 min read
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GitHub | math/preprints/Integer-multiplication-below-n-log-n-September-23-2026 at main · openai/math
1h ago
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News | South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks
55m ago
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GitHub | boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows
1h ago · 1 min read
Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows - boykopovar/AnyPS5
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Hacker News | Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
32m ago
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Hacker News | Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald
34m ago
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02:48
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SREGym | Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed | SREGym Blog
1d ago · 13 min read
A Jev-driven SRE diagnosis pipeline passed 76.2% of 105 diagnoses. Explore its workflow, successful and failed traces, and interactive time and cost comparisons.
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02:48
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GitHub | M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock: Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash, binary-searched. UDP DNS sinkhole + web dash...
1h ago · 8 min read
Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash, binary-searched. UDP DNS sinkhole + web dashboard. https://youtube\.com/shorts/RaxszOUMi8E?fe\.\.\.
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Hacker News | Science fiction and technology writer - Post
2d ago · 20 min read
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Strands Agents | Introducing Strands Decider 2B: a small, open source, decision model
Marc Brooker · 6d ago · 8 min read
Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.
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03:18
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The Verge | Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
Tom Warren · 5h ago · 1 min read
The streaming rights come in November, when Microsoft is opening up access to Xbox Cloud Gaming.
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03:47
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GitHub | superdesigndev/treg: OpenRouter for agent tools. Join community here: https://discord\.gg/6mQYYfFMAn
11h ago · 18 min read
OpenRouter for agent tools. Join community here: https://discord\.gg/6mQYYfFMAn - superdesigndev/treg
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Hacker News | Accessing La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993
Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez · 30m ago · 4 min read
Accessing La Cueva BBS (Bulletin Board System) in Mexico in 1993, replaying the 64 kilobytes of data captured from a modem.
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04:18
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Orchid Files | Account bans on Reddit
Orchid · 12h ago · 2 min read
I wanted to share my open-source solution on Reddit. I created an account, found a community where people post links to their projects, and posted a link to my GitHub project there. The post was immediately deleted, and my account was banned. It turns out you first need to write
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Hacker News | NetBSD Blog
2d ago · 12 min read
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04:50
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the Guardian | ‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
Samira Shackle · 1d ago · 29 min read
The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking
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Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings | What is Codemode
Armin Ronacher · 15h ago · 18 min read
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?
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04:50
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Hacker News | Calling it quits on ServerFault
13h ago · 2 min read
It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first
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05:20
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Joe Karlsson | My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost
05 Mar 2026 · 33 min read
Two years after a $200 ThinkServer: two Dell R730s, 73 containers, metered power data, and an honest look at whether a homelab pays for itself.
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05:50
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Ars Technica | Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Dan Goodin · 10h ago · 3 min read
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
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06:22
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The Public Domain Review | Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)
2d ago · 9 min read
Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.
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06:22
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GitHub | shader-effects-inc/shaders: WebGPU components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JS & Framer
43m ago · 5 min read
WebGPU components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JS & Framer - shader-effects-inc/shaders
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06:52
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GitHub | nano-muse/nanoMuse: nanoMuse: an open-source personal agent for every device you own — one agent with a name and a face that does things, keeps working while the app is closed, ...
3h ago · 5 min read
nanoMuse: an open-source personal agent for every device you own — one agent with a name and a face that does things, keeps working while the app is closed, remembers you, and asks before anything ...
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07:21
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Hacker News | OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models
1d ago · 12 min read
A shared framework for video-action programs and local-context dynamics, evaluated through robot control, frozen-component transfer, and action-conditioned prediction.
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07:21
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Hacker News | The Legend of the Paper Crane - Mazda Stories
2d ago · 4 min read
Mazda Stories explores the ancient art of origami, its importance in Hiroshima and how it's believed to have miraculous powers…
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08:23
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GitHub | peterretief/yggstore: Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil: lend each other disk space, send files by sending a sealed stub.
3h ago · 11 min read
Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil: lend each other disk space, send files by sending a sealed stub. - peterretief/yggstore
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08:23
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Hacker News | Gallery of Processor Cache Effects
2d ago
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08:42
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WIRED | Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’
Joel Khalili · 12m ago · 5 min read
Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.
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09:07
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Engadget | How long have wireless gaming controllers been around for?
Dave Meikleham · 9h ago · 4 min read
The wireless controller you use today has a long legacy to thank, and it stretches back to the early days of gaming.
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09:07
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Engadget | Apple TV’s F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos
Mariella Moon · 8m ago · 1 min read
Apple TV’s F1 coverage will feature Dolby Atmos support, starting with the US Grand Prix in Texas later this month.
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09:12
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WIRED | Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
Dell Cameron,Hugo Lowell · 12m ago · 4 min read
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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09:24
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Hacker News | First Steps into Memory Management in Python | Daniel's Tech Blog
1d ago · 5 min read
Personal tech notes, experiments, and lessons learned
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09:54
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GitHub | szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font: Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
36m ago · 2 min read
Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. - szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font
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09:54
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Prog... | Reasons to dislike AI coding
19h ago · 4 min read
Code as Art I covered this before in Art or tool? If you think of software as artistic output then generated software isn't real because it doesn't have the creative ineffability that's a sign of true art. There's no argument against this one except that the people who want software typically aren't paying for artworks,...
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10:14
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WIRED | A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Brian Kahn,Molly Taft · 14m ago · 7 min read
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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10:24
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GitHub | travelonium/arcadeia: Arcadeia is an open-source, self-hosted photo and video library. Find clips with animated previews, search filenames and descriptions, and make spoken word...
2d ago · 5 min read
Arcadeia is an open-source, self-hosted photo and video library. Find clips with animated previews, search filenames and descriptions, and make spoken words searchable with optional local transcrip...
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10:34
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Engadget | Jaguar's controversial Type 01 EV looks like a '40s gangster car built for the modern electric era
Steve Dent · 6m ago · 2 min read
Jaguar's Type 01 EV is designed to attract affluent young buyers with its deliberately polarizing design.
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10:45
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WIRED | A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
Vittoria Elliott · 15m ago · 9 min read
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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10:53
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NobelPrize.org | Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
1h ago · 3 min read
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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11:03
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Engadget | How to watch the Microsoft Windows and Surface event
Deven McClure · 3m ago · 2 min read
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang join Windows and Devices chief Pavan Davuluri at the company's San Francisco event today.
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11:03
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Engadget | Ultrahuman now offers on-demand heart rhythm scans
Daniel Cooper · 3m ago · 1 min read
Ultrahuman is now offering on-demand heart rhythm scans to help you check for signs of Afib in real-time.
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11:14
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WIRED | OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me
Reece Rogers · 14m ago · 6 min read
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
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11:24
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Hacker News | AstroHelm – Plate Solving & Push-To Telescope App for iOS and Android
2d ago · 3 min read
Find galaxies, nebulae and stars with your existing telescope. AstroHelm uses fast on-device plate solving to turn smartphones into precision push-to telescope finders.
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11:24
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Sci.News: Breaking Science News | Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Canadian Analysis Says | Sci.News
Enrico de Lazaro · 1d ago · 4 min read
Canadian health researchers are urging the country to choose permanent standard time over permanent daylight saving time if it ends the twice-yearly clock change, warning that darker winter mornings could harm sleep and mental health.
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11:24
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Hacker News | Ilograph Interactive Diagrams
Ilograph LLC · 15m ago · 5 min read
Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph
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11:55
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Hacker News | PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
1h ago
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11:55
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Hacker News | LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus
31m ago
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13:01
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Criteo Tech Community | Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop For You
Elise Baturone · 5h ago · 15 min read
AI can write code, but it cannot make you senior. Learn how curiosity, emulation, autonomy, and collaboration help engineers grow in an agentic world.
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13:01
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Hacker News | TIL: Rust's derive often implies inline
3d ago · 5 min read
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Hacker News | It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"
1h ago
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Five Minutes Forward | Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
Travis Smith · 3d ago · 11 min read
Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output tokens on the API's own meter, and models across four families still recover the information at full fidelity. For machine-to-mach...
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13:03
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Engadget | Xreal's Aura Android XR smartglasses will cost you at least $1,279
Mariella Moon · 1h ago · 1 min read
Xreal’s Aura smartglasses are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite chip.
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13:03
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Engadget | Microsoft Windows and Surface event 2026: Live updates as Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang take the stage
Cherlynn Low · 1h ago · 1 min read
More details on the Surface Laptop Ultra and NVIDIA RTX Spark are coming, but what else?
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13:03
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Engadget | Google's experimental Playground platform uses AI to create games for you
Mariella Moon · 1h ago · 1 min read
Google launches an AI-powered game creation platform called Playground.
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13:03
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Engadget | The Social Reckoning is a timely reminder that we shouldn't trust Meta
Devindra Hardawar · 3m ago · 3 min read
Don't make Aaron Sorkin tap the sign.
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WIRED | I Put on Meta and Xreal’s XR Glasses. Face Computers Are Finally Getting Good
Boone Ashworth · 1h ago · 3 min read
Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses.
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WIRED | ‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels Irrelevant
Miles Klee · 4m ago · 7 min read
Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.
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Hacker News | Timber Frame Tools » Mallet Head Angle
1d ago · 12 min read
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Hacker News | Plastic Straw Ban Isn't Environmentalism–It's Virtue Signaling – Oregon Catalyst
40m ago
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13:33
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WIRED | ‘Digger’ is a Box Office Flop. It Might Be the Most Relevant Film of the Year
Carla Sertin · 2h ago · 3 min read
Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.
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13:34
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Engadget | OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems
Steve Dent · 25m ago · 2 min read
The company said that most results were produced in a response to a single prompt given to a single AI agent.
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14:07
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Engadget | Google's AI detection website is now available
Karissa Bell · 7m ago · 2 min read
SynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies.
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14:07
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Engadget | Ring's smart lock has a hand crank so it works even if the power's out
Daniel Cooper · 7m ago · 2 min read
Ring’s smart lock has a built-in hand crank to generate power when the batteries are dead.
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14:07
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Engadget | Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform
Lawrence Bonk · 7m ago · 2 min read
Cisco's Dialog feature promises to turn "fragmented interactions into continuous customer relationships."
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14:07
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Hacker News | - YouTube
48m ago
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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14:07
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Hacker News | A Walkable History of Art · Every artist, every work, under one roof
1h ago
An interactive 3D museum of art history. Zoom through more than a thousand years of periods and artists, then walk first-person galleries of their real paintings — all drawn from Wikipedia.
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14:39
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Ambrook | Southern Olive Oil
9d ago · 6 min read
As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.
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14:39
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Hacker News | Google Playground
57m ago
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14:39
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Hacker News | Crowd Detection & Occupancy Monitoring | Minut
20m ago · 1 min read
Know when occupancy levels spike. Detect unauthorised gatherings in real time, while fully respecting guest privacy.
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14:39
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WIRED | Stock Up on the Best Prime Day Deals on Mobile Accessories
Les Shu · 13m ago · 7 min read
Just bought a new phone or looking to enhance an existing one? Prime Day is the time to save on accessories like batteries, chargers, and more.
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14:39
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Hacker News | SynthID Detector
22m ago
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GitHub | Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized: Lean formalization of the optimality proof of the 11 square packing
28m ago · 3 min read
Lean formalization of the optimality proof of the 11 square packing - Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized
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15:08
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Ars Technica | If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency
Stephen Clark · 4h ago · 11 min read
We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US."
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15:08
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Ars Technica | Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger
Jennifer Ouellette · 2h ago · 7 min read
Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale.
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Ars Technica | AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 3 min read
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
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15:08
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Ars Technica | Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
Ryan Whitwam · 1h ago · 3 min read
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
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15:08
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Ars Technica | Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
WIRED · 56m ago · 3 min read
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
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15:10
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GitHub | akawashiro/procinsh: ProcInSh is a web-based process inspector for Linux.
2h ago · 2 min read
ProcInSh is a web-based process inspector for Linux. - akawashiro/procinsh
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15:10
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Hacker News | Tokens to GPUs Calculator | Cedana
20h ago · 4 min read
Convert a token volume into a GPU count. Enter tokens per day, month, or year and pick a model; the calculator returns how many A100, H100, or B200 GPUs that works out to, with a sourced uncertainty range.
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15:10
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Bluesky Social | James O'Malley (@jamesomalley.co.uk)
6h ago
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps https://getartcraft\.com/apps
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15:39
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GitHub | snuri00/psp-web-recomp: PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel and a WebGL2 renderer
4h ago · 8 min read
PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel and a WebGL2 renderer - snuri00/psp-web-recomp
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15:39
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Hacker News | Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
15h ago · 10 min read
Effective writing for software developers
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15:40
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Claix | RAG for AI Agents: Why Agentic Retrieval Is Replacing Fixed Vector Pipelines
Gael Anaya · 2d ago · 16 min read
What agentic RAG is, how it differs from traditional retrieve-then-generate pipelines, when vector databases still make sense, and how to design document capabilities for agents.
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15:40
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ascii.rest | animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line
@bas3line · 34m ago · 380 min read
191 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.
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Hacker News | Why were Victorian elites so effective? - Works in Progress Magazine
Samuel Hughes · 1d ago · 28 min read
The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.
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15:40
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Hacker News | Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
22m ago · 2 min read
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions.
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15:40
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WIRED | The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
Maddy Varner · 6m ago · 5 min read
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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Engadget | We now have images of the smart home products that Apple and LG are reportedly cooking up
Lawrence Bonk · 53m ago · 1 min read
These include a lock, a thermostat and a temperature sensor.
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16:37
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Techdirt | Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain Of Disastrous Debt
4h ago · 7 min read
Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-quality product, and news outlets like CNN bec…
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16:37
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Bloomberg.com | Study Shows AI Chatbots Offer the Rich Higher Price Recommendations
Jacob Reid · 5h ago · 1 min read
Research on how Claude and ChatGPT act as shopping assistants could lead to more regulation calls.
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I, Cringely - on technology | The Auditor’s Opinion | I, Cringely
Robert X. Cringely · 16 Jul 2026 · 9 min read
Last week somebody rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents bossed around by a smarter one, and the whole thing cost about eight dollars -- sandwich and a coffee. But the part that lit up my corner of the internet wasn’t the website. It was that the agents caught their own
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16:37
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Hacker News | Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation Over ‘Anticompetitive’ Merchant Credit Card Transaction Fees
Corrado Rizzi · 1d ago · 4 min read
A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees.
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16:37
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Hacker News | ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests – Krebs on Security
BrianKrebs · 2h ago · 10 min read
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle "Rey," was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting ...
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Pew Research Center | Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Richard Wike · 6d ago · 21 min read
Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics.
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Hacker News | Wood Tape
1d ago · 11 min read
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HUMXN | HUMXN Launches Free Home Service Program to Build Real-World Training Data for AI and Robotics
1d ago · 5 min read
HUMXN is paying for qualifying home-service appointments in three U.S. cities, turning skilled trade work into real-world training data for AI and robotics.
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16:37
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GitHub | AL-255/FM-1-RE: Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware
1h ago · 3 min read
Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware - AL-255/FM-1-RE
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16:37
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arXiv.org | Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
1h ago · 3 min read
Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this process, an AI system translates the text from a natural language (NL) into a formal language such as Lean. Once this translation is done, the argument expresse...
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17:04
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Ars Technica | Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech
Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 7 min read
Trump's aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates.
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17:04
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Ars Technica | Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 5 min read
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
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BIGWORDS.PAGE | Turn any screen into a sign
1h ago · 1 min read
Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.
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GitHub | trigora-dev/trigora: Durable execution for long-running AI agents and programs.
1h ago · 3 min read
Durable execution for long-running AI agents and programs. - trigora-dev/trigora
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iwrzwr/visual archive | sound & music visualizer experiments
1h ago · 2 min read
160+ sound visualization experiments across 25+ categories. explore waveform animations, spectrum-inspired patterns, matrix displays, particles, rhythm and memory.
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Hacker News | - YouTube
18h ago
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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GitHub | TerseAI/durable-actors: Durable Actors in Typescript
1d ago · 4 min read
Durable Actors in Typescript. Contribute to TerseAI/durable-actors development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News | A cop's case for Flock - Works in Progress Magazine
Ned Donovan · 28 Aug 2026 · 11 min read
People are right to want less police intrusion in their lives. The way to get there is more precision, not less.
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Normal Tools | Useful online tools, no nonsense
Normal Tools · 2h ago · 16 min read
Small, useful online tools that work directly in your browser.
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MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines
Adam Zewe | MIT News · 1d ago · 4 min read
A 3D printing platform developed at MIT can utilize multiple functional materials to fully print a complex electronic device, like an electric linear motor, in a matter of minutes.
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Amazon Web Services | All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
1d ago · 3 min read
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics […]
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The GitHub Blog | Secret protection must scale with software
Erin Havens · 18m ago · 7 min read
The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it.
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GitHub | forgeplane/pinrail: Human in the loop for agentic workflows
50m ago · 5 min read
Human in the loop for agentic workflows. Contribute to forgeplane/pinrail development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News | City 2026
1d ago
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Hacker News | The life-saving scientific knowledge hiding in plain sight | Aeon Essays
2h ago · 18 min read
Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all
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EmDash CMS | How EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry
Scott Buscemi · 1h ago · 3 min read
Every plugin listing in the EmDash registry is now screened by Cloudflare's Clef decision model. Here's how one fast, multimodal model helps us catch phishing, impersonation, offensive content, and other abuse before a plugin appears in the catalog.
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WIRED | My Favorite LED Mask Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
Boutayna Chokrane · 8m ago · 1 min read
The Shark CryoGlow face mask is my favorite LED device, and it’s $299 on Amazon Prime Day. Act fast.
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WIRED | The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell
Reece Rogers · 5m ago · 2 min read
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.
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Engadget | Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event
Kris Holt · 24m ago · 2 min read
The company is highlighting agentic AI features for Windows.
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Engadget | Here's everything we know about Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra
Sam Rutherford · 23m ago · 1 min read
Microsoft is finally sharing details about its first builder-class PC.
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Engadget | Microsoft may have finally fixed Windows search by turning it into a chatbot
Igor Bonifacic · 19m ago · 1 min read
Microsoft's Copilot search redesign arrives this fall.
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Engadget | Disney+ will stream the Super Bowl, along with some Monday Night Football games
Lawrence Bonk · 13m ago · 1 min read
The big event will also air on ABC and ESPN.
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Orazio Scicolone | Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown
Orazio Scicolone · 3d ago · 3 min read
Infrastructure & SRE Engineer — Cloud, Kubernetes, Automation & Software Engineering
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Hacker News | AI Model Groupthink – Magic Numbers
1d ago · 8 min read
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Hacker News | When the machine boots but the reply disappears · Mainbrella
18h ago · 15 min read
What happens when the machine boots but the reply never arrives? A source-level tour of Mainbrella’s backend, from the first reservation to the last saved byte.
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Hacker News | AI, Work and the Economy
4h ago · 4 min read
AI, work and the economy: the argument, the evidence as it arrives, and a model you can run.
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GitHub | Tags · ghostty-org/ghostty
43m ago · 1 min read
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - Tags · ghostty-org/ghostty
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GitHub | docker/docker-agent: AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering
45m ago · 3 min read
AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering - docker/docker-agent
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Hacker News | GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
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Hacker News | Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5
18h ago · 8 min read
Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.
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WIRED | These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Will Knight · 20m ago · 4 min read
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
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Engadget | Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: A beautiful beast powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark
Devindra Hardawar · 23m ago · 2 min read
Yes, it's just a premium laptop. But it sure looks pretty.
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Ars Technica | Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 2 min read
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
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Ars Technica | Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
Beth Mole · 1h ago · 3 min read
In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.
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Ars Technica | Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
John Timmer · 44m ago · 6 min read
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.
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WIRED | Meet the Vendors Selling ‘Cornell Seven’ Merch
Ej Dickson · 18m ago · 6 min read
Brands, influencers, and Etsy sellers claim they're hawking T-shirts, mugs, and buttons out of solidarity with the woman who accused seven male classmates of sexual assault. Some say it’s shameless.
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Engadget | Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box costs an eye-watering $6,000
Ian Carlos Campbell · 3m ago · 1 min read
It ships in November, if you can afford it.
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Gary Linscott | How Machines Learned Precision
6d ago · 32 min read
How do you make an accurate machine without one to copy? Explore flat surfaces, screw-cutting lathes, and millionth-of-an-inch measurements through interactive 3D figures.
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ICANN | ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains
34m ago · 4 min read
ICANN has published the list of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, revealing applied-for strings and applying entities.
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Hacker News | Push Ifs Up and Fors Down: The Idiom, Its Algebra, and Its Limits | Ruminations of a Programmer
53m ago · 8 min read
Tiger Style and matklad recommend pushing ifs up and fors down. This post looks at what the idiom actually says, where it shows up in query optimization and in the algebra of functional programs, and where the analogy stops paying for itself.
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agent.reviews | agent.reviews · Where agents choose and review software
2h ago · 3 min read
Where agents choose and review software. After real tasks, coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity review the tools they used: a rating out of 5, what worked and what got in the way.
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RS Web Solutions (RSWEBSOLS) | Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools
17h ago · 3 min read
Meta and Microsoft are implementing new measures to limit employee use of Claude AI—discover what this means for the future of AI in the workplace.
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WIRED | Last Call for Prime Day Deals on Two Shark Vacuums I Love
Nena Farrell · 20m ago · 1 min read
Save on two models I recommend after testing, including my favorite robot vacuum and a powerful cordless stick.
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Engadget | Here's what the $6,000 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks like
Karissa Bell · 7m ago · 2 min read
Honestly, a bit like an oversized Lego brick.
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Hacker News | HN Simulator
2h ago · 3 min read
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Shtetl-Optimized | The Mathocalypse
1h ago · 11 min read
Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on …
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Arie Bovenberg | Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed + operator in all of Python
1d ago · 11 min read
Pendulum is a popular Python library for working with datetimes. Its + operator is unusual, even for a datetime library: when you add a timedelta to a Pendulum DateTime, it consults the call stack to decide which answer to give you. What? And why? The hack itself is on its way out, but the design behind it still matters for your code.
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Hacker News | gtlds.fyi — New gTLD applications
43m ago
ICANN Reveal Day 2026: the names and companies in the next gTLD round.
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WIRED | The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light
Fernanda González · 25m ago · 4 min read
Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga.
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WIRED | Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
Hugo Lowell · 5m ago · 3 min read
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Shtetl-Optimized | Shtetl-Optimized
1h ago · 11 min read
The Blog of Scott Aaronson
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SpringerLink | Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
Sponsel, Alistair · 2d ago · 53 min read
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin failed to see the picture’s potential significance for interpreting the helical structure of DNA. Rather, Franklin decided to take Photograph 51 precisely be...
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Ars Technica | TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
Jon Brodkin · 1h ago · 5 min read
TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban.
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Ars Technica | PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated
Beth Mole · 1h ago · 3 min read
Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday.
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Engadget | The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
Anna Washenko · 2m ago · 1 min read
The agency is doubling down on direct-to-device service.
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Hacker News | Brownian Motion
Gregory Gundersen · 1d ago · 48 min read
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WIRED | How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
Lily Hay Newman · 31m ago · 1 min read
At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”
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MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Janine Liberty | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics · 53m ago · 8 min read
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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ZDNET | Managers are using AI to write performance reviews - and it shows
Radhika Rajkumar · 42m ago · 4 min read
Does AI use help or hurt feedback at work? Here's what one survey found.
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WIRED | The Atlantic’s Near-Record Hurricane Drought Is About to End
Brian Kahn · 33m ago · 2 min read
Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.
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Hacker News | I'm in love with a German film star
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The Old New Thing | If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts?
Raymond Chen · 2d ago · 3 min read
Hot-patching is for Windows, not for you.
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Engadget | Rivian R2 owners can now put a live pet cam on their phone's lockscreen
Anna Washenko · 13m ago · 1 min read
Keep an eye on your furry, feathered or scaly friends when you leave the car.
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TidesDB | TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26
Alex Gaetano Padula · 2d ago · 8 min read
TidesDB becomes available under project TideSQL for MySQL.
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