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19921.

How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-18 | by Sean O'Kane | get Robotics → | tags: bucket, bucket robotics, industry

19922.

Apple Intelligence Siri is over a year late, but that might be a good thing (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-18 | by Michael Burkhardt | get AI Assistant → | tags: apple, apple intelligence, features

19923.

Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-18 | get University Admissions System → | tags: admission, admission chinese, blocks

19924.

Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-18 | get Open-source blockchain → | tags: certificate, certificate enter, certificate share

19925.

Nuclear Bunker Falling Into Ocean (futurism.com)

2026-01-18 | by Frank Landymore | get Nuclear Reactor → | tags: bunker, days, erosion

19926.

China Builds 'Hypergravity' Machine 2,000X Stronger Than Earth (slashdot.org)

2026-01-18 | by Posted | get Space Elevator → | tags: china, earth, earth regular

19927.

The Ninth ‘Stranger Things’ Episode Exists…on ‘SNL’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-18 | get Streaming Service → | tags: actually, actually like, ending

19928.

You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale (theverge.com)

2026-01-18 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Podcast → | tags: cecil, night, night vale

19929.

Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-18 | by Russell Brandom | get Moxie → | tags: chatgpt, confer, disrupt

19930.

Musk’s xAI Raises Questions About Acceptable AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-18 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai job, ai tools, chip

19931.

VHS Combo TVs debut with screen, old and new I/O, and a full videotape recorder in one — ‘Binge-watch like it's 1999’ says RetroBox (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Mark Tyson | get VCR → | tags: retro, retrobox, reviews

19932.

Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping (futurism.com)

2026-01-18 | by Victor Tangermann | get Reusable cups → | tags: coffee, cups, microplastics

19933.

AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests (futurism.com)

2026-01-18 | by Joe Wilkins | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: experience, independent, online

19934.

NASA Demolishes Historic Test Stands That Built the Space Age (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-01-18 | by Mark Thompson | get Space Shuttle → | tags: engineers, launch, nasa

19935.

Return to Office Mandates Are Failing — Try This Smarter Alternative (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-18 | get Smartphone → | tags: employees, home, leaders

19936.

Here's a Way for Entrepreneurs to Read More This Year (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-18 | get E-reader → | tags: books, headway, headway premium

19937.

I Have Over 16,000 Unread Emails. Gmail’s New AI Wants to Help. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-18 | get Email Client → | tags: applying, applying google, don expect

19938.

Setting your thermostat to this temperature could save you money (and keep you cozy) (zdnet.com)

2026-01-18 | by Maria Diaz | get Smart Thermostat → | tags: affect, does, does affect

19939.

Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Microprocessor → | tags: altair, assembled, computer

19940.

What is Plan 9? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-18 | get Neon Genesis Evangelion → | tags: bell, file, labs

19941.

Government Tells Tesla That This Is Definitely the Last Time It Can Blow Off Deadline to Turn In Data On Why FSD Is Constantly Ignoring Traffic Laws (futurism.com)

2026-01-18 | by Frank Landymore | get Autonomous Driving System → | tags: automaker, crash, driving

19942.

Gamer builds ‘hardcore’ first-person shooter simulator that actually shoots back — gaming PC also has real weather effects (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Jowi Morales | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: game, gaming, machine

19943.

Microsoft releases OOB Windows updates to fix shutdown, Cloud PC bugs (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-18 | get Windows Update → | tags: group, group policy, issue

19944.

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-18 | get Technical Skills → | tags: best, claude, claude code

19945.

How does this $600 HP laptop have better battery life than some of the newest models? (zdnet.com)

2026-01-18 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Battery Life → | tags: battery, battery life, inch

19946.

It’s been 8 years of phone AI chips — and they’re still wasting their potential (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-18 | get Artificial Intelligence Chips → | tags: device, google, hardware

19947.

The SwitchBot Smart Video Doorbell Is a Smart Home Camera for Almost Nobody (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-18 | get Smart Doorbell → | tags: camera, camera ways, couple

19948.

xTool F2 Ultra Fiber Laser review: Fast metal engraving in color (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Denise Bertacchi | get Fiber Laser → | tags: hardware, image, laser

19949.

Intel's Tejas CPU aimed for a clock speed so high it was never released. What was the target? (techspot.com)

2026-01-18 | get Tejas CPU → | tags: cancelled, cancelled processor, chased

19950.

Could We Provide Better Cellphone Service With Fewer, Bigger Satellites? (slashdot.org)

2026-01-18 | by Posted | get Satellite → | tags: ast spacemobile, launch, satellite