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3031.

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

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

3032.

A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: emergency, human, opcd

3033.

x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, github, microsoft

3034.

Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: linux kernel, bpf, inlined functions

3035.

The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

3036.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: launched, project

3037.

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: alaska, coast, coast guard

3038.

Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

3039.

Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: billion, claimed, contracts

3040.

FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: drones, grade, lidar

3041.

‘What About Garmin?’ I Tested the Company’s Answer to Whoop (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: band, band offers, cirqa

3042.

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: cross, king, king cross

3043.

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: book, build, compiler

3044.

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

3045.

Myspace eyes comeback as an 'antidote' to social media fatigue — but it may be a long shot (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | tags: media, myspace, platforms

3046.

This wearable patch could get you into REM sleep 43 minutes faster (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: brain, patch, rem sleep

3047.

Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: city, council, emporia

3048.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: core, gaming, intel

3049.

USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: newspaper, palantir, publisher

3050.

Everyone thinks the iPhone Ultra will crush Samsung. They’re wrong (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: android, apple, fold

3051.

Trump’s Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: clearly, clearly getting, getting

3052.

The Fitness and Recovery Tech I Swear By as a Wellness Expert (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: apple, peloton, plus

3053.

If You’re Hoping to Collect on Apple’s $250M AI iPhone Settlement, You’ll Have to Wait a Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: apple, features, intelligence

3054.

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

3055.

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: autopilot, autopilot eyes, autopilot years

3056.

Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, endoh, image

3057.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Oskari Mantere | tags: cloud, conf, sync

3058.

Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

3059.

How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jonathan Vanian | tags: anthropic, irregular, meta

3060.

Everything you do is being recorded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ross Andersen | tags: algorithms, noise, recorded