GoKawiil - Tech News

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The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by About The Author | tags: flock, alpr, deflock

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How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: jellyfish, electricite de france, gravelines nuclear

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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: comments

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Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: keeta, consensus, modeling

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Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by The Liu Family | tags: digital signal processing, ieee jack s. kilby medal, princeton university

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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

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Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: claude, thermalright, anthropic

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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Michael Stapelberg | tags: zsh, zsh_history, zsh 5.9.2

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What is a Bluetooth codec and which one offers the best audio quality? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Deven Mcclure | tags: bluetooth, ldac, aptx

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Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anthony Ha | tags: grok, xai, spacex

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VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: marvel studios, visionquest, wanda vision

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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: johns hopkins, waist circumference, visceral fat

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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Henrik Karlsson | tags: y combinator, startup incubators, sam altman

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Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $1,499, saving $600 off list price — Acer Nitro 85 prebuilt comes with 16GB of RAM, Core Ultra 7 265F, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5070, acer nitro 85, intel core ultra 7

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How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: oracle, oracle ceo, openai

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Humazon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hugh Howey | tags: stratemeyer syndicate, edward stratemeyer, ai content farms

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‘X-Men’ Director Jake Schreier Teases Comic Influences (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: x-men, jake schreier, comics

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Apple Watch battery replacement: How much does it cost and is it worth it? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Christine Persaud | tags: apple watch, watchos 27, apple watch series 9

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Notepad.exe’ is an ultra-fast, lightweight code editor for your Mac (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: notepad.exe, swift, xcode

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Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Andrej Flis | tags: super el niño, kelvin wave, westerly winds

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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: drug discovery, path forward, innovation

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AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: openai, google, meta

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An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: large language model, ground truth, verifying correctness

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Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anthony Ha | tags: anthropic, claude, watermarking

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Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Is Packed With Laughs, Flashbacks and Lots of Grogu (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Russell Holly | tags: lego star wars, the mandalorian, grogu

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X-Men Cast, VisionQuest Trailer: All the Big Marvel News Out of D23 (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Corinne Reichert | tags: x-men, marvel cinematic universe, kevin feige

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‘Lilo & Stitch 2’ Is Getting Nostalgic and Thinking Ahead (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: lilo and stitch, disney, animated film

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Disney D23 Movies and Streaming Lineup: Biggest Surprises and Everything Else (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Corinne Reichert | tags: disney, d23, bluey

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Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: anthropic, claude, watermark

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: android, wayland, compositor