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SanDisk Says Goodbye To WD Blue and Black SSDs, Hello To New 'Optimus' Drives (slashdot.org)

2026-01-05 | by Posted | get Optimus → | tags: black, drives, level

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SanDisk says goodbye to WD Blue and Black SSDs, hello to new “Optimus” drives (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-05 | get Optimus → | tags: black, drives, optimus

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Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-05 | by Julia Kollewe | get Wegovy → | tags: nordisk, novo, patients

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Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Ben Stockton | get Pixel Art → | tags: diagram, disk, floppy

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Sandisk’s new Optimus SSD line-up replaces retired WD color-based models — new Optimus, GX, and GX Pro tiers for 2026 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Zhiye Liu | get Optimus → | tags: black, line, optimus

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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-04 | get Unix → | tags: directories, disk, sbin

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Behold ‘Dracula’s Chivito,’ the Largest Planet Nursery Astronomers Have Ever Seen (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-31 | get Chivito → | tags: astronomers, confounding, confounding astronomers

158.

Taiwan's iPass Releases Floppy Disk Pre-Paid Cash Card (slashdot.org)

2025-12-27 | by Posted | get Floppy Disk → | tags: card, comes, disk

159.

Exe.dev (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | get Cloudflare → | tags: dev disk, disk, disk persists

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Exe.dev/ (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | get Cloudflare → | tags: dev disk, disk, disk persists

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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

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'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-24 | by Amy C. Oliver | get Galaxy → | tags: disk, edge, hubble

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FDA Approves Pill Version of Wegovy (wired.com)

2025-12-22 | by Emily Mullin | get Fiberlo → | tags: nordisk, novo, novo nordisk

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Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-20 | get Unix → | tags: boot, conf, disk

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How to clear your Windows 11 PC cache (and put a stop to lag for good) (zdnet.com)

2025-12-19 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Cache Cleaner → | tags: cache, cleanup, disk

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These are the flying discs the government wants you to know about (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-19 | get Discs → | tags: aerospace, aerospace corporation, corporation

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The world's smallest 1TB SSD drive is the travel device I didn't know I needed (zdnet.com)

2025-12-15 | by Kyle Kucharski | get SSD Drive → | tags: drive, extremefit, just

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Learn How to Master Hardware Upgrades and Data Security for $25 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-04 | get Smartphone → | tags: diskimage, lifetime, pcmover

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Sandisk joins S&P 500 following Western Digital spinoff, replacing Interpublic (cnbc.com)

2025-11-24 | by Jordan Novet | get SanDisk → | tags: benchmark, beverly, billion

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Ask HN: Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-24 | get Memory-Mapped Address Space → | tags: coordinator, count, disk

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How to clear your Windows 11 PC cache (and put an end to slow performance) (zdnet.com)

2025-11-21 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Cache Cleaner → | tags: cache, cleanup, disk

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I tested the world's smallest 1TB SSD drive, and it's a game-changer for work travel (zdnet.com)

2025-11-21 | by Kyle Kucharski | get SSD → | tags: drive, extremefit, just

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How to clear your Windows 11 PC cache (and wipe out lag for good) (zdnet.com)

2025-11-21 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Cache cleaner → | tags: cache, cleanup, disk

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This coin-sized USB drive is the productivity gadget I didn't know I needed (and it's cheap) (zdnet.com)

2025-11-20 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Flash Drive → | tags: drive, extremefit, just

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I refused to believe this coin-sized gadget was a storage drive, until I tried it for myself (zdnet.com)

2025-11-19 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Smartwatch → | tags: drive, extremefit, just

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SanDisk debuts Type-C 'Plug and Stay' flash drive that never needs to be taken out of your laptop — get up to 1TB of extra storage for just $120, with 400MB/s transfer speeds (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-11 | by Aaron Klotz | get Flash Drive → | tags: device, drive, sandisk

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This Itty-Bitty Flash Drive Offers 1TB That Can Stay Plugged In (cnet.com)

2025-11-11 | by See Full Bio | get Flash Drive → | tags: device, drive, flash

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SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-07 | get Flash Drive → | tags: drive, flash, flash drive

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Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-04 | by Wilson Lin | get Object Store → | tags: disk, index, memory

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Floppy Disk / Diskettes // retrocmp / retro computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Thomas Brase | get productivity planner → | tags: 25, 3m, disks