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Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ukrainian drones, combined resolve, us army

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Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: jcb, hydrogen combustion engine, bonneville salt flats

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YC startups are abandoning .com (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: y combinator, startups, dot com

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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: blacksmith, openai codex, peak xv partners

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The Job-Interview Tattoo Guy Everyone Got Mad at Finally Explains Himself (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kate Taylor | tags: ycombinator, lemonlime, ai-startup

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The Job Interview Tattoo Guy Everyone Got Mad at Finally Explains Himself (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kate Taylor | tags: ycombinator, lemonlime, ai startup

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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: openai, sam altman, ai lab

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Hydrogen 1,600-hp car takes aim at multiple land-speed records on Bonneville Salt Flats (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: hydrogen, bonneville salt flats, jcb

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Hydrogen-powered 1,600-hp car takes aim at multiple land-speed records on Bonneville Salt Flats this morning (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: hydrogen engines, bonneville salt flats, jcb

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Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-10 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: integrated circuits, discovered materials, anthropic

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The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: benefits, benefits retiring, climate

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Nvidia RTX 5090 ships in bizarre 8-motherboard bundle — retailers hold GPUs hostage similar to the crypto boom (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: building, combos, gaming

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Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Julie Bort | tags: robinhood, y combinator, rvii

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Score all the essentials of a great gaming PC for only $983.98 — $155 savings nets 9800X3D, 1TB Samsung 9100 SSD, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, Asus B850 motherboard, and free MSI AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Joe Shields | tags: combo, deals, fastest

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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: hacker news, helsinki, y combinator

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EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: assembly, assembly language, combines

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Stripe CEO says his ‘urgency’ to drop out of MIT ‘was a bit unnecessary’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: stripe, patrick collison, mit

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We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: ai startup, lemonlime, y combinator

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Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t. (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: y combinator, nozomio, ai agents

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A Y-Combinator startup offered job interviews in exchange for getting a tattoo—because they want employees ‘just as crazy as we are’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: y-combinator, lemonlime, tattoo

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds a Vast Sea of Strange Honeycomb Patterns on Mars (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: nasa, curiosity rover, mars

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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Russell Brandom | tags: dili, ai compliance, infrastructure projects

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Dili raises $21.7 million to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Russell Brandom | tags: dili, ai compliance, infrastructure projects

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Shipping container-launched cargo rocket promises 550-pound deliveries 750 km away in 15 minutes — $1.25M Air Force contract backs 'Rook' cargo rocket that flies into space to speed deliveries (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Luke James | tags: hop aero, rook rocket, y combinator

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Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel (engadget.com)

2026-07-29 | by Mariella Moon | tags: famicom, nintendo, famicombox

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Ace Combat 8 requires ray tracing GPU, 32GB RAM, and 125GB storage for recommended settings (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: ace combat 8, ray tracing, bandai namco

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Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off (theverge.com)

2026-07-27 | by Sheena Vasani | tags: nanoleaf, blocks combo xl, smart lighting

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Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: spacefilling curves, sierpinski, traveling salesman

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I got into YC Startup School by hacking it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | by Obaid'S Longer Thoughts | tags: yc startup school, paxel, y combinator

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I got into YC (Startup School) by hacking it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | by Obaid'S Longer Thoughts | tags: paxel, startup school, y combinator