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30511.

China chipmaker SMIC raises wafer prices by about 10% as memory demand tightens capacity (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Luke James | get Memory chips → | tags: capacity, china, demand

30512.

Starlink satellite pictured ‘tumbling’ after recent ‘anomaly’ in space — it will be incinerated when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere in a few weeks (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Mark Tyson | get Starlink → | tags: anomaly, december, earth

30513.

Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Storage → | tags: array, performance, server

30514.

Pi-calculating record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Storage → | tags: array, performance, server

30515.

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | get Python 3.15 → | tags: case, interpreter, ms ms

30516.

Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows should be 15% faster (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | get Python 3.15 → | tags: case, interpreter, ms ms

30517.

7 smartphone trends I wish would die in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-25 | get Smartwatch → | tags: android, android authority, authority

30518.

Wall Street wrote off Palantir as too expensive. Retail investors can't get enough (cnbc.com)

2025-12-25 | by Alex Harring | get Palantir → | tags: investors, palantir, retail

30519.

Mesh Networks Are About to Escape Apple, Amazon, and Google Silos (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-25 | by Margo Anderson | get Smart Mesh Network → | tags: devices, mesh, mesh networks

30520.

How to transfer your games to the Nintendo Switch 2 (engadget.com)

2025-12-25 | get Nintendo Switch → | tags: advertisement, console, games

30521.

Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W power supply review: Platinum performance at Gold pricing (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by E. Fylladitakis | get Power Supply → | tags: cell, credit tom, hardware

30522.

Bitcoin Miners' Pivot To AI Has Lifted Bitcoin-Mining ETF By About 90% This Year (slashdot.org)

2025-12-25 | get Blockchain → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, data centers

30523.

TSMC’s Christmas Card evokes a retro 8-bit winter wonderland — ‘pixelated’ kids play Breakout with snowballs, carving out a festive scene (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Mark Tyson | get Pixel → | tags: black, card, greeting

30524.

How to Set Up a Smartphone for Elderly Loved Ones (wired.com)

2025-12-25 | by Simon Hill | get Smartphone → | tags: android, android phone, best

30525.

Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Mark Tyson | get Smartcard → | tags: card, cards, disk

30526.

This Two-Faced Watch Band Lets You Hide an Apple Watch Under Your Rolex (cnet.com)

2025-12-25 | by See Full Bio | get Smartwatch → | tags: fitness, smartlet, smartwatch

30527.

I don’t like wireless charging, but there’s one reason all my phones must have it (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-25 | get Phone → | tags: charging, just, phone

30528.

New $110 Intel Z790 motherboard with DDR4 support is a Christmas gift to the world amid the memory pricing crisis — an affordable home for Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Zhiye Liu | get Motherboard → | tags: lake, motherboard, onda

30529.

AMD EXPO 1.2 could supercharge Ryzen CPUs with CUDIMM support amid global DRAM crunch — full AMD CUDIMM support is on the horizon (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Zhiye Liu | get CUDIMM → | tags: cudimms, expo, lake

30530.

What’s open on Christmas Day: Holiday hours for fast-food chains, grocery stores, CVS, and more (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-25 | get Amazon → | tags: biological, biological slow, bodies

30531.

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape (techspot.com)

2025-12-25 | get Unix → | tags: al kossow, archivist, archivist al

30532.

Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | get Chatzilla → | tags: access, access appeared, access months

30533.

Giant homebuilder KB Home shifts strategy amid a housing market where it lacks pricing power (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-25 | get Framing System → | tags: believe, believe leaning, built

30534.

The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair (wired.com)

2025-12-25 | by Boone Ashworth | get Repair Kit → | tags: advocates, laws, repair

30535.

Line scan camera image processing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | by Daniel Lawrence Lu | get Line scan camera → | tags: aligned, camera, image

30536.

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | get Home security camera → | tags: changed, changed lives, chicken

30537.

How a $200 Fake Fireplace From Home Depot Soothed My Soul (wired.com)

2025-12-25 | by Lisa Wood Shapiro | get Fireplace → | tags: electric, electric fireplace, fireplace

30538.

The Christmas Present Peeker Trap uses an ESP32 Cam board, photoresistor, buzzer, and connected app to catch even the sneakiest of gift glimpsers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Mark Tyson | get ESP32 Cam board → | tags: christmas, makerinator, peeker

30539.

Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | get LED strips → | tags: constant, higher voltage, injection

30540.

We Tested 87 Face Sunscreens and These Are the Best for Year-Round Sun Protection (cnet.com)

2025-12-25 | by See Full Bio | get Face Shield → | tags: free, prone, prone skin