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Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: pbs, archival tv, ozymandias

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Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Francisco Rodriguez | tags: nine pbs, iron mountain, oss

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Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nine pbs, iron mountain, open source storage

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This Medieval Skeleton Had 160 Broken Bones, and Scientists Just Figured Out What Hit Him (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: trebuchet, archaeology, 14th-century

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Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: rag, large language model, enterprise ai

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A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: risc-v, arm, stm32

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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: risc-v, arm, stm32

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TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-16 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: archeer aviation, wisk aero, boeing

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The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: intel 8088, ibm pc 5150, x86 architecture

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

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

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Grab this Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for $2,099 before it sells out —prebuilt powerhouse includes a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5070 ti, predator orion 6000

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Puerto Rico Is Rationing Water. It Could’ve Avoided It by Harvesting Rainwater (wired.com)

2026-08-15 | by Yessenia Funes | tags: rainwater harvesting, puerto rico, water rationing

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Crocodiles Evolved Backwards From Warm-Blooded Species to Cold-Blooded Killers (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: crocodiles, archosaur, fossilized bones

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High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: lru hash table, concurrent programming, numa architectures

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Architecting for Growth: The Case for Early Scalability Decisions—Q&A With Srilakshmi Bharadwaj (computer.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: scalability, systems architecture, ieee computer society

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Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives after its cloud storage provider vanished (techspot.com)

2026-08-14 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nine pbs, open source storage, iron mountain

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Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives when its data center vanished (techspot.com)

2026-08-14 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nine pbs, open source storage, iron mountain

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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: 0.mk, web links, link decay

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PBS Station Sues to Regain Access to 70 Years of Archival TV History (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: pbs, st. louis, cloud storage

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The Carbon-Aware Pipeline: Architecting Sustainable DevOps for Smart City Infrastructure (computer.org)

2026-08-13 | tags: smart city, cloud infrastructure, devops

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Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Francisco Rodriguez | tags: iron mountain, nine pbs, open source storage

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Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jowi Morales | tags: nine pbs, open source storage, iron mountain

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jowi Morales | tags: pbs, iron mountain, open source storage

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AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: meta, alibaba, ai crawlers

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Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kali | tags: ibm pc, model f/xt, x86 architecture

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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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Archaeologists Think a 2,400-Year-Old Grave Belongs to an Ancient Greek Wrestler (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ancient greek, archaeologists, greek wrestler

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Jaguar offers a first look inside the all-electric Type 01 (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Emma Roth | tags: jaguar, type 01, electric architecture

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Daily briefing: The first archaeological evidence of death by trebuchet (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Smith | tags: trebuchet, stirling castle, paleopathology

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Archaeologists Thought a Mass Grave of 79 Shackled Men Held Foreign Invaders. They Were Wrong (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: athens, archaeology, mass grave