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"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: longbets, longbets org, wins

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Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: better, better brick, blood

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: app store, astrology, dark

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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: authors, authors chatgpt, chatgpt

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The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Alice Cuddy | tags: advancing, advancing capital, angry

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Incentives Are for Losers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Adam Mastroianni | tags: fish, incentives, right

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TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: determinant, evidence, fib problem

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: adults, cognition, cognition healthy

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New leak may reveal the iPhone Ultra’s two launch colors (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Chance Miller | tags: apple, blue, colors

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Verizon mobile service restored after outage for thousands of customers in the U.S. (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terri Cullen | tags: affected, afternoon, downdetector

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Selling the Dream of SpaceX Was the Easy Part. Now Elon Musk Has to Hang On. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: biggest, biggest ipo, billion

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Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: better, better brick, blood

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: applications, drag, floppy

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Dithered QR Codes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: code, codes, error

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My server is a phone now (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: android, host, linux

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Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Sandy Ong | tags: balls, balls fidget, benign

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: callers, calls, emergency

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: amazon, carbon, carbon emissions

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iOS 27: The easiest beta to forget about (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: beta, course, phone

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: attack, beaver, department

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More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: department, flock, investigation

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: effectiveness, effectiveness mathematics, mathematics

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Google is making it easier to add new sources to Gemini Notebook (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add source, change, gemini

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Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: action, action reviving, coming

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 9, #1155 (cnet.com)

2026-08-08 | by Gael Cooper | tags: answers, books, connections

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America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: battery, energy, grid

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: beshry, beshry said, joining

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: comments

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X Introduces Big, Promising Revamp of Its Program for Paying Content Creators (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: better, better program, credit