GoKawiil - Tech News

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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: ai proctoring, lockdown browser, unam

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PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: pisiguard, personal data, browser extension

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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: meshdiff, stl, browser

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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: google, rss feeds, chromium

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Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cwbrowser, zig, acid3

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Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qr codes, browser-based transfer, decimen optical transfer

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Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: chrome, google, ai security

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Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: john kemeny, basic, internet archive

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Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: comet, perplexity, polar

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The Difference Between a Button and a Link (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: html, button actions, triptych project

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The first known cephalopod was only a millimetre long and lived about 520 million years ago (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: cephalopod, 520 million years ago, nature.com

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Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: show hn, userscript, browser tabs

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Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: tcp, wasm, browser

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Usenet Archive Toolkit – process Usenet messages into a searchable archive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: usenet, archive.org, tbrowser

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You can now play Morrowind directly in your browser, no installation required (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: morrowind, openmw, elder scrolls

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It’ll grow on you: live fungi formed into sustainable fashion (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: fungi, sustainable fashion, nature.com

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Wildfires rampaged across Europe in the dying days of the Triassic (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: european wildfires, triassic period, nature.com

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Why some wool is wavy (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: wool, css, internet explorer

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Conversational AI: align commercial incentives with public interests (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Si | tags: conversational ai, internet explorer, nature.com

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Use AI, but don’t mask it (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Branda | tags: nature.com, internet explorer, css

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Deserts face unprecedented flash flooding (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Li | tags: desert flooding, nature.com, internet explorer

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Values in science go beyond politics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Graham | tags: nature.com, internet explorer, css

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Show HN: Dowe – A full-stack language for server, web, desktop, Android, and iOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: dowe, javascript, css

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Agentic Browsers Rewind Web Security by 20 Years (darkreading.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: agentic browsers, web security, social engineering

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Agentic Browsers Rewind Web Security by 20 years (darkreading.com)

2026-07-27 | by Ericka Chickowski | tags: agentic browsers, zenity, black hat

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This AI Browser Is Building the Front End for the Dead Internet (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: ai browser, dead internet, front end

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Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: windows xp, kimi k3, browser

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Bitchat is now on Radicle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: bitchat, radicle, javascript

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Bitchat Is Now on Radicle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: bitchat, radicle, javascript

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Preventing line breaks in <code> elements (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: html, non-breaking spaces, code snippets