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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: windborne, weather balloons, ai weather forecasting

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Honest feedback wins (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: walmart, greg cathey, leadership

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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: duckdb, clojure, jdbc

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Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: digital equity act, broadband grants, trump administration

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Blackmail Fail (2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: pastebin, satoshi nakamoto, genesis block

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Parents Horrified as Boomer Mawmaws Gift Children Blatant AI Slop Picture Books (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai-generated children’s books, wired, imagitime

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MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: mariadb, github, server log

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Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cyclospora, foodborne parasite, taylor farms

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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ray bradbury, there will come soft rains, allendale california

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Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-03 | by Russell Brandom | tags: design arena, ai models, index ventures

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Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: isbndb, ai training, printed books

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4 neuroscience-backed tips for using AI to learn more effectively (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: neuroscience, chatbot, feedback

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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: openai, hugging face, anthropic

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Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tailscale, hugging face, sandbox escape

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Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: golang, container, generic collection

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Broadband Cables Are Surprisingly Good at Detecting Earthquakes (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, broadband cables

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Slow downloads? These tweaks could speed up your router (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: speedtest, wifi router, 5ghz band

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How a Self-Published Vampire Romantasy Novel Took Over BookTok — and Made Its Author a No.1 Bestseller (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | by Dan Bova | tags: romantasy, carissa broadbent, booktok

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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Brandur Leach | tags: pgtestdb, postgresql, template databases

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Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Rusty Conover | tags: parquet, duckdb, offset

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CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: azure cosmos db, cosmosescape, gremlin api

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Bose Promo Code: 40% Off for August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-07-30 | by Molly Higgins | tags: bose, noise cancelling, wireless earbuds

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Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: duckdb, sqlite, hetzner

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Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: handbook.md, policy documents, agent governance

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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books (wired.com)

2026-07-29 | by Miles Klee | tags: ai-generated books, imagitime, storywonderbook

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AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: isbndb, generative ai, printed books

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The past is an open can of worms: a stimulated-memory exhibition (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Chand | tags: neural mapping, electrostim headband, nature futures

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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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When AI Agents Escape Sandboxes, Old Security Rules Apply (darkreading.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: openai, ai agents, sandbox escape

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Here's why you shouldn't throw away your old iPhone (engadget.com)

2026-07-28 | by Christine Persaud | tags: iphone, apple arcade, ios 17