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19 leaders on staying informed without getting overwhelmed (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: news channels, information overload, decision paralysis

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 19) (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: android, android authority, google discover

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Giovanni Lostumbo | tags: finger, stanford, saillab

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Best AirPods deals right now: Save $120 on AirPods Max 2, AirPods Pro 3 for $190, more (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Justin Kahn | tags: airpods max 2, apple, airpods pro 3

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Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: anthropic, ipo, valuation

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The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: arecibo observatory, wow signal, hipparcos

98.

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: digi-comp 1, mechanical computer, plastic computer

99.

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: ibm, simon, smartphone

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Why stability might be the smartest career move right now (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: gallup, covid-19, american psychological association

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This 50-inch 2026 Toshiba 4K QLED Fire TV is down to $199.99 at Amazon (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: toshiba, fire tv, qled

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Functioning version of 'the first arcade video game ever created' heads to auction with $200,000 estimate — green sparkle 2-player edition of Computer Space hails from 1973 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Mark Tyson | tags: computer space, syzygy engineering, atari

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Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-13 | by Julie Bort | tags: databricks, ali ghodsi, big data

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Databricks wraps $5 billion funding round at $190 billion valuation (cnbc.com)

2026-08-13 | by Samantha Subin | tags: databricks, ai agents, lakebase

105.

Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: maine forest fire maps, archie g. norcross, pdr project

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CoreWeave gains 19%, Nebius surges 34% in post-earnings neocloud rally (cnbc.com)

2026-08-12 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: coreweave, hyperscalers, ai compute

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In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Zita Ballinger Fletcher | tags: egypt, missile program, heinz krug

108.

Impulse Tracker (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Ovi Demetrian Jr | tags: impulse tracker, alan, electronic music

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Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: accel, india fund, consumer internet

110.

The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: neep, degrowth, robert bosch stiftung

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Millions of homeowners could finally get a tax break that’s been frozen since 1997 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: capital gains tax, bipartisan bill, home sellers

112.

The ‘Possession’ Remake That Nobody Asked for Now Has a Release Date (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: possession, margaret qualley, parker finn

113.

A developer got Word 1.1a from 1990 to run on Windows 11 - try it yourself (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Lance Whitney | tags: microsoft word, windows 11, github

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Intel raises $19.7 billion to help fund future projects as 14A production looms — share sale attracted $100 billion in demand, report claims (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, 14a process, tsmc

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NASA updates Voyager 2 to extend the 1977 probe's lifespan yet again (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mariella Moon | tags: voyager 2, nasa, plutonium

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Microsoft Word circa 1990 can now run on modern Windows, thanks to a new native port (techspot.com)

2026-08-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: microsoft word, windows 1990, open source

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Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jake Roach | tags: nvidia, rubin ultra, hbm4

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Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Eleanor Maslin | tags: mars, mars bar, cocoa

119.

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: change, document, file

120.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: earth, machines, planet