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Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | tags: large language models, knowledge distillation, black-box models

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Are Checks Sent Through the Mail Vulnerable to Theft? (slashdot.org)

2026-06-28 | by Posted | tags: checks, mail theft, check washing

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Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-28 | tags: max planck, naturwissenschaften, retraction

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Opinion | Where Are the Trustworthy Checkers AI Needs? (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-28 | tags: checkers, campbell brown, jonathan rauch

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Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from too much convenience (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-28 | by Anthony Ha | tags: silicon valley, ian bogost, small stuff

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Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Frank Landymore | tags: pickup trucks, pedestrian deaths, new york times

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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | tags: tokenmaxxing, meta, mark zuckerberg

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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | tags: tokenmaxxing, meta, mark zuckerberg

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The Taser CEO Who Says AI Is the Future of Policing (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-28 | tags: tasers, axon, rick smith

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Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: flock safety, audio detection, roanoke

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Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by Max Miller | tags: flock security, alpr, ai surveillance

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There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: project hail mary, rocky alien, university of california

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Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (engadget.com)

2026-06-28 | by Max Miller | tags: flock security, alpr, ai surveillance

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Years of living with solar power taught me these 12 myths are simply wrong (zdnet.com)

2026-06-28 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: solar power, solar panels, jackery

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A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | tags: openai, codex, sensitive files

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Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Frank Landymore | tags: communications biology, university of warwick, primates

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Japanese firm launches hyper-realistic capsule toy PC parts ‘you can assemble and play with’ — tiny motherboards, cases, and CPUs are coming after Tarlin inks collab with the ‘big four’ PC parts makers (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-28 | by Mark Tyson | tags: asrock, gigabyte, intel

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DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by Raymond Chen | tags: shell32.dll, ntdll, stack overflow

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This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way's Center (wired.com)

2026-06-28 | by Marta Musso | tags: euclid space telescope, milky way, galactic bulge

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An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee (slashdot.org)

2026-06-28 | by Posted | tags: amazon, jack nekhala, wechat

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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | tags: wal-rus, postgresql, wal-g

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'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | by Barbara Ortutay | tags: meta, facebook, mark zuckerberg

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Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm (slashdot.org)

2026-06-27 | by Posted | tags: max planck, paper retractions, rogue algorithm

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Claude Code turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers (venturebeat.com)

2026-06-27 | tags: anthropic, claude code, stack overflow

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Ayaneo's new horizontal handheld is an even better remake of the Game Boy Micro (engadget.com)

2026-06-27 | by Jackson Chen | tags: ayaneo, pocket micro 2, game boy micro

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The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back. (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-27 | by Connie Loizos | tags: whoop band, oura ring, non-hodgkin’s lymphoma

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Running a software jam in a world of slop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | tags: hackathon, software jam, chatgpt

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How I turned my old Android phone into a streaming stick for free - in 6 easy steps (zdnet.com)

2026-06-27 | tags: android, pixel, streaming stick

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A sidescrolling roguelite platformer, Steam Deck air hockey and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)

2026-06-27 | by Kris Holt | tags: doinksoft, devolver digital, steam deck

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Uber expands US driver background checks after sexual assault lawsuits (engadget.com)

2026-06-27 | by Mariella Moon | tags: uber, background checks, sexual assault lawsuits